Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 231 | Damian Brady - Automation And Impact
Guest:
Damian Brady talks with Dave Rael about family influences, speaking at conferences, DevOps, and working for a great organization
Damian Brady is a Brisbane-based developer, speaker, and author specialising in DevOps, developer process, and software architecture. He loves Octopus Deploy, Visual Studio Team Services, Scrum, C#, Nancy FX, ASP.NET MVC, HTML5, JavaScript, and web development in general.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Damian Brady
- - Damian's experience at Octopus Deploy
- - Damian's history with software and with public speaking
- - How Damian got started in software
- - Damian's athleticism and family influence
- - The nature of Octopus Deploy
- - The things that "light Damian up"
- - Damian's story of failure - a humbling interview experience
- - Damian's success story - increasing impact as a conference speaker
- - The rewards of speaking to audiences
- - How Damian stays current with what he needs to know
- - Damian's book recommendation
- - The things that have Damian most excited
- - Damian's thoughts on DevOps
- - Damian's causes of pain and suffering
- - Damian's top 3 tips for delivering more value
Resources:
Damian's book recommendation:
Damian's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Focus on the stuff that's important
- Listen to other opinions as objectively as possible
- Take some time away
