"Big-O Ops": An Interview with Kyle Risse

About this episode

Mike and Erik interview Kyle Risse, who shares his extensive experience in networks and server operations.

This week Mike and Erik are joined by Kyle Risse. Erik met Kyle at Scale 23x in Pasadena this year while volunteering for the Tech Team. Kyle has a ton of experience in the field working on networks, infrastructure, linux server operations, and doing stressful operations stuff. In short, he has stories and he was kind enough to come on the show and share them with us! Send us Fan Mail

People in this episode

Hosts: Erik Aker, Mike Mull

Guest: Kyle Risse

Topics covered

• networking
• infrastructure
• linux
• server operations
• stressful operations
• interview

Keywords

• Big-O
• Kyle Risse
• network operations
• linux servers
• infrastructure
• Tech Team
• Scale 23x

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Scale 23x

Places: Pasadena

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