GitLab Commit Virtual: Full Schedule

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09:12 PDT

Teaching the Basics About Git(Lab)

Learning how to use GitLab is great, but teaching others how to use GitLab is even better!

Feu is a technical trainer who has been giving GitLab trainings to new user of all kinds for over a year. Based on their experience, Feu will share insights, learnings, tips, and best practices for teaching others about Git and GitLab. They’ve tried out a few different strategies on how to explain the basics to beginners and will share the ones that have proven to be most successful with you!

Speakers

Feu Mourek

GitLab Trainer, NETWAYS

Feu has been working in tech for a few years now – Specialised in Web Development and Design, and a passion for data visualisation they spent a lot of time being a part of the development team of the monitoring tool Icinga Web 2.There they got to know about GitLab and started to... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 09:12 - 09:37 PDT
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GitLab How-tos/Tips/Tricks

09:38 PDT

Building an Online Store With GitLab Pages

Many businesses today find that having an online storefront is increasingly becoming a necessity if they want to maintain and grow their customer base. However, in Kenya where ecommerce is rapidly growing, entrepreneurs and small business owners are finding that many professional ecommerce platforms haven’t been designed for the local market and are either expensive and/or cannot be easily customized for their needs.

Thankfully, checkout tools such as Flutter and Stripe allow one to turn a simple static webpage into an online shop. GitLab CI/CD provides a mechanism to run tests, track changes, and deploy static websites using GitLab Pages. For many small businesses who want their own online space at a low cost and low complexity, this is an ideal solution. This solution is also helpful for projects that have associated merchandise. In this session, Benson will give an overview of how this system is being used in Kenya along with recorded a demo

Speakers

Benson Muite

Software Developer, Kichakato Kizito

Benson Muite is a software developer based in Nairobi, Kenya who isinterested in computer performance evaluation and likes open sourcesoftware. He has used and deployed GitLab for a number of projects,mostly in numerical and high performance computing. GitLab runners makelife, teaching... Read More →

Bernard Banta

CTO and Co-founder, Finplus

Currently the CTO and Co-founder at Finplus. Banta is a computer scientist and an entrepreneur. He is passionate about technology and how it can be used to leverage and transform Africa in the way we live, work, play and govern. In his spare time, he'll often preside over executive... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 09:38 - 09:50 PDT
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GitLab How-tos/Tips/Tricks

09:51 PDT

GitLab, The Go-to DevOps Tool for Non-profits and Early-stage Companies

Asad Raza currently serves as Coder in Chief @ Coder in Chief LLC, a product consulting company in Austin TX which focuses on digitally transforming non-profits and brick and mortar industries.

Asad will be going through his experience on the importance of a single DevOps tool on software development lifecycle at his company and how to set up SOPs to ship products faster.

Speakers

Asad Raza

Coder-in-Chief

Asad Raza currently serves as Coder in Chief @ Coder in Chief LLC, a product consulting company in Austin TX which focuses on digitally transforming non-profits and brick and mortar industries.Asad will be going through his experience on the importance of a single DevOps tool on software... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 09:51 - 10:03 PDT
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GitLab How-tos/Tips/Tricks

10:04 PDT

GitLab for Collaboration Beyond Code

It’s now been several years since GNOME, a free and open source desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems, switched to centralizing their contribution process on GitLab. In that time, the GNOME Foundation staff has begun using GitLab for everything from conference organizing and design to fundraising and Code of Conduct reporting. In this session, Molly de Blanc, Strategic Initiatives Manager, will share how GitLab fits into workflows; the wide range of uses; and the features they find most helpful (or wish they had).

Speakers

Molly de Blanc

Strategic Initiatives Manager, GNOME Foundation

Molly de Blanc is the Strategic Initiatives Manager at the GNOME Foundation, where she, among other things, builds partnerships with other organizations, organizes fundraising activities, and writes a lot of emails. She is a former Director of the Open Source Initiative and served... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 10:04 - 10:29 PDT
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GitLab How-tos/Tips/Tricks

10:30 PDT

To Go Where No One Has Gone Before…

What does it look like for a team to adopt Docker and GitLab CI/CD when they haven’t been using them previously?

With our first CI/CD run we decided to fully commit ourselves to the GitOps philosophy and during the upcoming years, we hit a lot of obstacles. But, these experiences welded us together even more. By using GitLab we invented a lot of new tools but the most important thing was that we have built it up together, bottom up, with us as individuals.

Follow my talk and see how we started our adventure through the endless space of the GitLab galaxy and listen how we are using our experience, our knowledge and our team friendship to build up creative innovative solutions today. You will see that together with human friendship you can go where no one has gone before.

Speakers

Mario Kleinsasser

Team Leader Cloud Solutions, STRABAG BRVZ IT

Mario Kleinsasser is the team leader of a small cloud solution operations team within the IT department of the STRABAG SE construction company. For more than 15 years he's surfing the wave of change with passion. Mario was a speaker at the DevOps Gathering 2018 and 2019 in Bochum... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 10:30 - 10:55 PDT
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GitLab How-tos/Tips/Tricks

10:56 PDT

Simple Cluster Deployments Using Nomad and GitLab CI/CD

GitLab has made full CI/CD with Kubernetes a snap! But what if you're managing clusters on-prem? Or perhaps Kubernetes feels like more than you need for a simple deployment or prototype?

In this talk, Tracey will show some simple ways to get a HashiCorp Nomad cluster up quickly, tied in to GitLab, and ready for deployment. Having been both the Kubernetes admin and Nomad admin at Archive.org Tracey will share some of her real-world experiences to highlight the similarities and differences when using each with GitLab CI/CD.

A demo will include showing how to create a simple generic nomad job template that substitutes in GitLab CI/CD variables to make nice job names and nice DNS names. The result will deploy and auto-version with each commit/push.

Speakers

Tracey Jaquith

Founding Coder, Internet Archive, Internet Archive

Tracey Jaquith, TV Architect & DevOps. Tracey was a founding coder and system architect for Internet Archive in 1996, writing multi-threaded servers, crawlers and more. In 2000, she left for four years to follow her Cornell mentor, Dan Huttenlocher, and was a technical lead and founding... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 10:56 - 11:21 PDT
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GitLab How-tos/Tips/Tricks

11:22 PDT

MLOps: DevOps for Machine Learning

While DevOps has been evolving for over a decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are just beginning to take advantage of it. This emerging art and science of MLOps is opening new possibilities for engineers and data scientists alike.

In this session Mon will provide a developer’s introduction to MLOps sharing what you need to know to start using your existing skill set to explore this exciting new field. She’ll demonstrate how to use GitLab CI/CD pipelines to bring ML models to production with speed and ease while highly how teams can leverage GitLab for collaboration throughout the process.

Speakers

Monmayuri Ray

Senior Partner Product Marketing Manager, GitLab

Monmayuri is a solutions architect , data scientist, researcher specialising in MLops/Devops at Gitlab in Sydney. She has built creative products to solve challenges for companies in industries as diverse as financial services, healthcare and human capital. Along the way, she has... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 11:22 - 11:47 PDT
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GitLab How-tos/Tips/Tricks

11:49 PDT

Continuous Delivery and Infrastructure Testing: A Perfect Fit

As cloud-native applications become the norm, it is increasingly important to test infrastructure changes as well as core logic. How can you ensure that your application can still be deployed? Or verify that networking changes won’t break access to other microservices?

It might surprise you, but you can test your infrastructure along with any other code changes.

This talk will go deep into how to add ""Infrastructure Testing"" to your Continuous Delivery process. We’ll cover:

- Infrastructure as Code, and how tools like Pulumi can radically simplify how you manage cloud infrastructure.
- Different types of Infrastructure Tests, and classes of problems you'll want to look out for.
- Running Infrastructure Tests in your GitLab Pipelines.

Speakers

Chris Smith

Software Engineer, Pulumi

Chris Smith is a Software Engineer at Pulumi, where his mission is to make it easier to program the cloud.In a former life he wrote Programming F# for O'Reilly, and may or may not have been instrumental in the unfortunate demise of Google Code Project Hosting. He also believes that... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 11:49 - 12:19 PDT
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GitLab How-tos/Tips/Tricks

14:02 PDT

GitOps-Based Ops Modernization

In this talk, Kubernets GM Bob Wise covers how to evolve DevOps to GitOps, the why, the what and where we are heading. What are the motivators, effective strategies and deployment challenges.

Speakers

Bob Wise

General Manager, AWS

Bob Wise joined AWS as General Manager for EKS January 2018 while serving on the board of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Prior to AWS, Bob served as the CTO of Cloud Native Computing Team at Samsung for 3 years. Mr. Wise also served as the CIO at MTN Satellite Communications... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 14:02 - 14:32 PDT
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Cloud Native DevOps

14:33 PDT

Google Anthos Cluster Change Control with GitOps and GitLab CI

This session focuses on using GitLab CI and GitOps practices to build an operations pipeline that can help operators confidently roll out change across their multiple Google Anthos clusters.

Google Anthos enables teams to develop and deploy Kubernetes based applications at rapid pace across multiple on-prem and cloud environments.

Anthos Config Management is a key tool in managing these diverse environments, but requires the maturity of GitOps based processes and supporting tooling such as GitLab.

Speakers

Shea Stewart

RunWhen

With the bulk of his career focused on infrastructure solution architecture and implementation, Shea now brings that knowledge into the development space. Working with software development and infrastructure teams, Shea focuses on improving technology processes through automation... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 14:33 - 14:58 PDT
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Cloud Native DevOps

14:59 PDT

Shaping a Financial Service’s Cloud Strategy Using GitLab and Terraform

Join us to learn how we helped one of the largest financial services institutions in the world shape their cloud strategy using GitLab and Terraform. Starting on a cloud journey brings so many questions around resource provisioning & management, security, compliance, how to enable the team with easy access to definitions, and keep everyone updated. As we know, the most reliable source of truth is the code, so the use of infrastructure as code paired with an inner-source process is a solid foundation.

Speakers

Diego Camizotti

Developer Master, CI&T

Diego has been working with CI&T on Solution Architecture and DevOps related projects since 2015, and has helped clients with modern software engineering practices that enabled them to improve development and deployment cycle. Recently he had the opportunity to work on a cloud migration... Read More →

Rodrigo Domingues

Principal Architect, CI&T

Rodrigo has over 15 years in experience building software solutions for enterprises with a focus on modern strategies for architecture and software development. Lead several technical teams for large global banks and financial institutions, and has served as lead architect for complex... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 14:59 - 15:24 PDT
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Cloud Native DevOps

15:25 PDT

Ship Code More Securely with GitLab and HashiCorp Vault

Come learn more about installing Vault as a GitLab managed application, directly authenticating to Vault using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs), and using the native integration with GitLab's runners and CI/CD pipelines.

GitLab and HashiCorp are partnering to bring together the scale and simplicity of GitLab CI/CD with HashiCorp Vault's superior secrets management solution.

This will be a joint session with GitLab and Hashicorp to discuss all things secrets management.

Speakers

Krasimir Angelov

Backend Engineer, Release, GitLab

Kras is a software developer interested in all things backend, ops and automation. He loves fishing and spending time outdoors with his family.

Jackie Meshell

Senior Product Manager, GitLab

Jackie has championed market-leading product development teams for the past seven year in the software-as-a-service industry. At GitLab, she is a senior product manager within Ops Section, responsible for shipping features that help our users seamless deliver products continuously... Read More →

Gideon Wulfsohn

Sr. Solutions Engineer, HashiCorp

Gideon Wulfsohn is a Senior Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp where he helps enterprises adopt modern infrastructure practices. Prior to joining HashiCorp he worked as a Solutions Architect at AWS within a patch of 150 high growth businesses while also supporting the go to market strategy... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 15:25 - 15:50 PDT
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Cloud Native DevOps

15:51 PDT

Creating Production Ready Containers with Cloud Native Buildpacks

In this session we will cover the basics of Cloud Native Buildpacks and show how they can be leveraged from GitLab pipelines. By the end of this talk you’ll understand how you can make short work of building images in a secure, repeatable way.

Building production-grade container images with confidence and ease has become a critical element to achieving productivity and success, yet presents significant challenges. Cloud Native Buildpacks make it quick and easy to go from source to container image for a variety of languages, while providing security, auditability, transparency, and control for building and patching images.

Join for live chat-box Q&A with the speakers and for the 15-minutes following their talk.

Speakers

Andreas Evers

Senior Solutions Architect, VMware

Andreas Evers works at VMware as a senior solutions architect on the Application Transformation team. He’s passionate about distributed architecture, communication protocols, microservices and software design principles. He often speaks at conferences, writes blogs and shares his... Read More →

Cora Iberkleid

Developer Advocate, VMware

Cora Iberkleid is part developer advocate, part advisory solutions engineer at VMware, helping developers and enterprises navigate and adopt modern practices and technologies including Spring, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Tanzu, and modern CI/CD.

Wednesday August 26, 2020 15:51 - 16:21 PDT
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Cloud Native DevOps

16:22 PDT

Real World DevOps with Azure Cloud and GitLab

Starting from nothing but source code, I will demo a complete deployment of a complex modern application in Azure cloud using DevOps best practices.

A typical “Hello World” DevOps demo doesn’t really help us figure out how to do DevOps in the real world. In this session, I will touch on modern technologies and techniques including Infrastructure as Code, setting up DNS, deploying a database, disaster recovery, and using API's hosted in Kubernetes clusters, all the way to mobile apps, all from within our pipelines.

All techniques shown and discussed can be used with any DevOps tooling and any cloud, but in this talk, we will be using GitLab as our DevOps tooling and Azure as our cloud.

Speakers

Abel Wang

Principal Cloud Advocate, DevOps Lead, Microsoft

Abel Wang is a Principal Cloud Advocate and DevOps Lead at Microsoft, specializing in DevOps and Azure with a background in application development. He is currently part of Donovan Brown's League of Extraordinary Cloud DevOps Advocates. Before joining Microsoft, Abel spent seven years... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 16:22 - 16:47 PDT
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Cloud Native DevOps

16:47 PDT

Cost-Efficient ML Model Training Using GitLab CICD in the Cloud

I will share the technical hurdles and lessons learned from implementing Machine Learning training with cloud-based pipelines using GitLab CICD, Docker+Machine, and GPU-powered virtual machines in the cloud.

Data Science infrastructure requirements are easily capable of racking up high costs with GPU based virtual-machines running 24/7 in the cloud, or require specialised hardware to be maintained and powered on-prem. Without huge expense, achieving agile ML model development can be hard.

Data Scientists in the organization can now quickly build their own pipelines with high agility and speed, at reduced infrastructure costs than before, and time reduced in debugging issues.

Speakers

Robbie Dyer

DevOps Consultant, Eficode

Robbie Dyer is currently based in Copenhagen, having left his native UK in 2019, and works for Eficode as a DevOps Consultant providing help and guidance to clients in the Nordic Region.Robbie graduated from The University of London with a computer science BSc. With his passion for... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 16:47 - 17:12 PDT
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Cloud Native DevOps

18:56 PDT

How To Create An Equitable And Inclusive Culture That Transcends Physical Walls

As HubSpot transitioned into a fully remote workforce, we were challenged to take what we had learned from our remote community over the past ten years and apply these lessons in order to adapt our processes, our systems, and our culture to fit our new needs. And it worked. Moving from a 'remote friendly' to a 'remote first' world of work helped us to grow our culture for the better, focusing on people over location. But... how do you avoid creating two sub-cultures, and one that favours in office behaviours?

We will share how HubSpot is thinking about the future of work, and our approach to creating an inclusive and equitable culture for all.

Speakers

Meaghan Williams

Remote Work & Inclusion Program Manager, HubSpot

Meaghan Williams is the Remote Work and Inclusion Program Manager at HubSpot. Meaghan's goal is to improve the remote employee experience and manage the rollout of a global philosophy around remote work that includes high level company-wide guidelines as well as team-based flexibility... Read More →

Eimear Marrinan

Director of Culture, HubSpot

Eimear Marrinan is Director of Culture at HubSpot. The Culture team at HubSpot is responsible for inspiring & enabling people to do their best work, how, when & where they work best. Eimear joined HubSpot this year. Prior to joining HubSpot, Eimear spent 6 years working at LinkedIn... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 18:56 - 19:08 PDT
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Remote but always connected

19:09 PDT

How To Successfully Onboard Engineers

Whether you’re bringing on one new engineer or fifty to your team, having a formalized onboarding process in place ensures that they can get up to speed quickly, and receive a fair start on the team. Whether you’re a manager, a lead, or a developer eager to help out, you’ll learn how to create your own exceptional onboarding process, and hear about my own onboarding failures and eventual success.

Speakers

Alexandra Sunderland

Engineering Manager, Fellow.app

Alexandra Sunderland is an Engineering Manager at Fellow.app, a platform where teams gather to build collaborative meeting agendas, record decisions, and keep each other accountable. Alexandra has been working as an engineer for nearly a decade, and regularly publishes articles and... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 19:09 - 19:21 PDT
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Remote but always connected

19:22 PDT

Remote Control: Helping Non-Engineering Teams To Achieve Faster Workflows

Ensuring company-wide transparency to data, plans, and strategy is especially important in a remote environment. Learn how non-engineering teams revolutionise their remote workflows using centralised tooling to manage workloads, integrate with product/engineering teams and facilitate sprint-based delivery schedules.

Speakers

Bethan Vincent

Founder, Bethan Vincent Consulting

Bethan is B2B Marketing Consultant with over 10+ years experience in technology and the digital sector. Formerly a senior manager in the cloud computing industry and founder of several start-ups, Bethan has built her career sitting at the intersection between marketing, product and... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 19:22 - 19:47 PDT
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Remote but always connected

19:48 PDT

Build Incredible Software Products With A Remote DevOps Culture

As many organisations scramble to adopt remote work, DevOps teams are turning to messaging and integrated workflows to collaborate effectively.

Usual office work practices are changing, and people are having to adapt to a remote-first approach. This demands a change to your company culture, a remote mindset and the tools to deliver it.

How can remote teams use collaboration platforms effectively to adapt the company culture whilst continuing to create their best work. Is your company ready?

Speakers

Paul Rothrock

Customer Engineer, Mattermost, Inc.

Paul Rothrock is the Customer Community Manager at Mattermost, Inc. Prior to joining Mattermost, he served as a support product manager for Oracle. Paul also worked in tech support and as a publisher advocate for AddThis and has held several other software development roles over the... Read More →

Aaron Rothschild

Senior Product Manager, Mattermost, Inc.

Aaron Rothschild is a senior product manager at Mattermost, Inc. who focuses on integrations and extensibility of the platform. Aaron brings more than 11 years of experience in B2B tech product management to the company. Prior to joining Mattermost, he held several different product... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 19:48 - 20:13 PDT
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Remote but always connected

20:14 PDT

Remote to the Rescue: How Virtual Jobs are Saving the World

The benefits of remote work extend far beyond casual wardrobe choices and commutes to the kitchen. In fact, the conversion of physical jobs into virtual roles can support at least 14 of the 17 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. If our society truly wants to capitalize on the benefits of remote work to its highest potential, employers need to be ready and willing to accept that the future of work is already here and fortify their organizations to support the virtual workforce.

This presentation covers the 5 socioeconomic benefits of virtual jobs, plus the change management process we need to globally initiate to make remote work equally accessible and permanently sustainable.

Speakers

Laurel Farrer

CEO, Distribute Consulting

As the Founder and CEO of Distribute, a virtual organizational development think tank and consulting firm, Laurel Farrer is an internationally-renowned thought leader on the topic of remote work. For the past 15 years, she has been unlocking the power of distributed workforces to... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 20:14 - 20:39 PDT
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Remote but always connected

20:40 PDT

Namaste at Home: Compassionate Culture Cures for Long-Distance Teams

The more remote your team is, the more real the conversations need to be. Join Savannah for an actionable session on cultivating compassion in your organization. We'll take lessons from Buddha, Abe Lincoln, and the Bronies, all as we learn how to iterate your way to inclusion, and delight your team along the way.

Speakers

Savannah Peterson

Founder & Chief Unicorn, Savvy Millennial

Savannah Peterson is the Founder of Savvy Millennial, an all-remote team that makes the future less scary by building community around new technology. Her specialties include community building, content strategy, thought leadership, presentation/video support, and earned media. A... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 20:40 - 21:05 PDT
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Remote but always connected

21:06 PDT

Stronger Remote Cultures: Rethink Your Work Week

Let's rethink the work week. The world is becoming well aware of how fundamentally different remote work is, both the benefits and the challenges. They are having to rethink all of their practices, from how they communicate and how they connect as teams. Understanding the phases of this transition, and how it impacts the culture of an organization, is critical to developing a successful remote workforce.

Speakers

Nick Walsh

CMO, Range

Nick leads marketing for Range, a software company on a mission to help teams work better together. Previously, he worked for Google for 12 years in marketing, creative, and brand roles across Google's product areas, most recently as the Head of Brand Studio, APAC. Before that he... Read More →

Daniel Pupius

Co-founder and CEO, Range

Dan is co-founder and CEO of Range, a software company on a mission to help teams work better together.Previously, as Head of Engineering of Medium, he oversaw platform growth to 60M monthly uniques and 600K stories published per month. And before that, a Staff Software Engineer at... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 21:06 - 21:18 PDT
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Remote but always connected

21:19 PDT

That Meeting Should Have Been An Email

People love remote work because of the flexibility that it provides, but it won't happen if you spend your day in meetings. We'll unpack specific strategies to make work more flexible, eliminating the meetings that could have been an email.

Speakers

Luke Thomas

Founder, CEO, Friday.app

Luke Thomas is the founder of Friday, an asynchronous update platform that helps distributed teams stay connected. Previously, Luke was Head of Product @ Crystal and has been working remotely since 2013. Outside of work, Luke enjoys hanging out with his family and he lives in Portland... Read More →

Wednesday August 26, 2020 21:19 - 21:31 PDT
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Remote but always connected