Mark Imbriaco - Tech Director of DevOps at Epic Games (#41)
Biography
Mark Imbriaco has done everything from scaling and systems operations to starting his own company. His focus has been on an emerging part of technology: DevOps and site reliability engineering.
Mark often leads scaling (for sites and applications) and builds teams that manage those sites. Mark has held positions at AOL, Bank of America, Github, Basecamp, Heroku, DigitalOcean and now Epic Games.
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Episode Summary
“DevOps is all about how do we take the code that gets developed, and the code that lives in production, and bring them closer to being the same thing.”
“There’s a balance between following your passions and paying your bills. Finding that balance in between has been an ongoing back and forth struggle.”
—Mark Imbriaco
In this episode we’ll cover:
- What exactly is DevOps and site reliability engineering
- How Mark dropped out of college after 2 years to start a hosting company back in 1994
- The story behind 37Signals, now Basecamp, and how Mark got a job as a system administrator for them
- How Mark got connected with Epic Games after reading a blog post
Key Milestones
Past Episodes Mentioned:
Ep. 5 Design Thinking and Your Career, with Drew Farris
Chris Bouton – Biologist to CEO: Neuroscience, Deep Learning & Art (#22)
