Open Source at Massive Scale with Jill Rouleau
from Screaming in the Cloud Hosted by Corey Quinn
About Jill Rouleau Jill Rouleau is a member of the Ansible engineering team, focused on maintaining AWS and other Cloud modules. Prior to Ansible, they worked on OpenStack, using more than a decade of operations and SRE experience to improve deployment tooling for cloud operators. Links Referenced: Jill Rouleau's Twitter Ansible RedHat
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Jill Rouleau is a senior software engineer at Red Hat Ansible who maintains AWS and other cloud modules. Prior to working on Ansible, they worked as an OpenStack engineer on TripleO, an OpenStack deployment project. Over the years, Jill also worked as a cloud reliability engineer at Canonical Ltd.; was the owner of Bespoke Software Solutions, a consultancy specializing in open source, cloud, and emerging technologies; and served as an operations engineer for Limelight Networks. Join Corey and Jill as they discuss what it’s like to be on the Ansible engineering team, what Jill thinks about various programming languages, including Python, YAML, and XML, how familiarity with languages can help accelerate open source adoption and contributions, what Jill does to encourage first-time open source contributors to stick around, how answering the what can I do to help? question can be tricky, what Ansible is doing to increase contributions in the future, Jill’s advice on what you can do to start a career in tech, why diversity in experience and backgrounds is critical for tech companies, and more.
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