Carmen - Tech Industry Friendships: Leveraging Connections for Growth, Challenges, and Opportunities and DevOps!
Season 8, Episode 3 | June 21, 2023
In today's episode, Dan and Bekah talk to Carmen about the impactful role of friendships in the tech industry. We talked about how these connections positively influenced her professional journeys, helped her overcome challenges, and contributed to career growth in DevOps.

Carmen
DevOps Engineer based in Portland, Oregon. Big fan of house plants, hiking, hats and cats. Here to help build stuff, break stuff, learn stuff and make friends.
- @carmenkolohe on GitHub
- @carmenkolohe on Twitter
- @carmenkolohe on LinkedIn
Show Notes:
This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Carmen Kohole, a DevOps Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, to chat about the benefits of collaboration and the valuable opportunities you can gain just by asking for help. We also discussed the benefits of fostering strong relationships in the tech industry, and what it means to be a DevOps engineer.
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