PowerShell After Dark: OnRamp, IoT, and Finding Your People.

About this episode

The episode features candid conversations with attendees of the PowerShell & DevOps Global Summit, highlighting the importance of community and career transformation through PowerShell.

It's PowerShell After Dark. Recorded live at the PowerShell & DevOps Global Summit in Bellevue, Washington, host Andrew Pla takes his mic to the hotel bar for a series of candid conversations with attendees. The episode features four guests: Josh Gratton, an OnRamp scholarship recipient whose career pivot to junior systems engineer was fueled by PowerShell and the podcast; Mark Go, a first-time Summit speaker and attendee; Craig Mileham, a fellow podcast listener and Summit first-timer working in higher ed IT; and Matt Zaske, a longtime community member, conference speaker, and IoT enthusiast who ran a Home Assistant lightning demo. What connects all four conversations is the same thread Andrew keeps pulling on: community makes everything better. Beginners belong here. Reach out. Take the risk. Start now.Key Takeaways: The OnRamp scholarship program is genuinely life-changing for early-career IT professionals. Josh Gratton's story, from service desk to systems engineer to Summit attendee, is a direct line from PowerShell to career transformation, and it started with applying for a scholarship he poured his heart into. Showing up in person changes something. Every guest in…

People in this episode

Host: Andrew Pla

Guests: Josh Gratton, Mark Go, Craig Mileham, Matt Zaske

Topics covered

• PowerShell
• community
• career transformation
• IoT
• scholarship programs
• networking

Keywords

• PowerShell
• community
• OnRamp scholarship
• career pivot
• IoT
• networking
• DevOps
• higher ed IT

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PowerShell & DevOps Global Summit, PowerShell, Home Assistant

Places: Bellevue, Washington

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