In todays episode, Ben Whitmarsh sits down with Steph Thommen, a People Operations leader. Steph is a seasoned people operations and culture expert, with over 20 years of experience spanning both corporate and high-growth startup environments.

She has been instrumental in helping startups scale effectively, building strong teams, and developing dynamic people operations strategies. Her work focuses on creating the systems that preserve and enhance a company’s unique culture while ensuring rapid and sustainable growth. Having worked with fast-growing startups, she empowers founders to align their business goals with a strong people-first approach, fostering environments where both the team and business thrive.

This podcast should give aspiring people leaders in tech some outstanding insights from somebody who has transformed multiple tech business and created highly effective teams that thrive. There are some good bits in here too for tech founders!

Steph's LinkedIn profile is here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephthommen/

Ben's socials - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benwhitmarsh/

DevOps Society LinkedIn page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-society/

DevOps Society Youtube Channel - https://youtube.com/@devopssociety

In today's episode of the We Chat Tech Podcast, Vytas Jelinskas and Ben Whitmarsh chat with Fernando Villalba. Fernando is a charismatic Principal Engineer at Civo who is a friend of the podcast and DevOps Society Ambassador for DevEx!

We capture the personality of Fernando, his journey, what he was doing before technology, tech meetups, and much more. This podcast was over an hour long, but Fernando's audio didn't save from 42 minutes onwards. (blame the podcast recording platform we use!!)

This is a relaxed chat between three people who know each other well, so get ready for some great insights along with some laughs too.

Thank you to Fernando for his time - we hope he enjoys his travels across Asia!

Fernando's socials can be found on the links below -

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nandoit/

Vytas' socials - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vytasdevops/

Ben's socials - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benwhitmarsh/

DevOps Society LinkedIn page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-society/

DevOps Society Youtube Channel - https://youtube.com/@devopssociety

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In today's episode of the We Chat Tech Podcast, Ben Whitmarsh chats with Romano Roth, the Global Chief of DevOps at Zuhlke Group, a Globally recognised technology consultancy. Romano gives us his thoughts, experience, and insights into the world of DevOps, cultural shifts, coaching, mentoring, and more!

Romano is a well-respected figure in the DevOps landscape. He is a thought leader, trainer, speaker, lecturer, and organizer of DevOpsDays Zurich & DevOps Meetup Zurich.

Romano's socials can be found on the links below -

https://www.romanoroth.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanoroth/

https://twitter.com/RomanoRoth

https://www.youtube.com/c/RomanoRoth

https://fosstodon.org/@romanoroth

https://leanpub.com/u/romanoroth

Ben's socials - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benwhitmarsh/

DevOps Society LinkedIn page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-society/

In today's episode of the We Chat Tech Podcast, Vytas Jelinskas and Ben Whitmarsh chat with Steve Wade about all things cloud-native, Kubernetes, his journey, work-life balance, contracting, and more.

Steve Wade was one of the founding engineers at KSOC, a Kubernetes security startup. Before this, Steve held Platform leadership roles at UnderWrite Me and Mettle. During these roles, he leveraged the concept of GitOps to provide self-service platforms to developers. He has also provided Kubernetes consultancy and training worldwide as a Consultant at Apprenda. Steve has held leadership roles in many verticals, including real estate, gaming, and the UK parliament. Steve has a BSc in Computer Science and is passionate about cloud-native software development and distributed computing. Please follow our podcast for more episodes weekly on Mondays!

Steve's socials can be found on the links below - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevendavidwade https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-cloud-native-club https://x.com/cloudnativeclub https://www.youtube.com/@thecloudnativeclub

Vytas' socials - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vytasdevops/

Ben's socials - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benwhitmarsh/

DevOps Society LinkedIn page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-society/