The Abdulrahman Alkhamees Show
By Abdulrahman Alkhamees
The Abdulrahman Alkhamees ShowJun 24, 2022
How to Build a Career in Open Source with John Boero
Today I had the honor to host John Boero. John is dual UK/US citizen from Chicago living in London. In his 20 years of experience he have been fortunate to consult for several of the world's largest banks and public institutions. He have helped install, harden, and tune Linux and cloud infrastructure all around the globe for customers in every vertical from finance to media streaming, energy grid infrastructure, telco, and ecommerce. Clients have included FDIC, NASA, Lockheed Martin, SWIFT, US Census Bureau, US Dept of Veteran Affairs, Healthcare.gov, Aramco, ECMWF, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, UBS, HSBC, and more.
We talked about Careers in Open Sources, Technical Sales, Building a niche skills, running Fedora on your work laptop, and so many interesting subjects.
You can reach out to John on Linkedin and Abdulrahman on LinkedIn as well.
Make sure you check other episodes on aalkhamees.show and feel free to suggest guests!
هل الشغف ترف؟ مع العنود الزهراني
كثير منا تأتيه تساؤلات حول قراراته المهنية، هل يترك؟ هل يستمر؟ هل يغير؟ ماذا لو كان هنالك خيارات أفضل تجعلنا مستمتعين أكثر بعملنا؟ هل ضروري نكون شغوفين بعملنا؟ ماذا يعني أن نكون شغوفين أصلاً؟ كل هذه التساؤلات وأكثر ناقشها في هذه الحلقة مع العنود الزهراني صاحبة مدونة مترين في متر
مصادر ذكرت في الحلقة:
- مدونة مترين في متر
- هل تمتلك عقلية «صاحب الصنعة» أم عقلية «صاحب الشغف»؟
- So good they cannot ignore you
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Chatting With Caline Malek | Journalism | Freelance | Languages And More
Today I speak with Caline Malek. A freelance journalist who wrote for The Financial Times in London, Arab News, and so many respected news outlets. I got to know Caline when she was working on a piece about tech education in Saudi Arabia. We talk about writing, journalism, freelancing, and so many interesting subjects.
@CalineMalek on Twitter
https://www.calinemalek.com/
Chatting With BipinDas | Wikipedia | Writing | Languages And More
Today I talk with Bipin Das, a friend whom I met back in 2012 when were working on a cloud computing project in Saudi Arabia. Bipin is different; he spends, on average, 2 hours a day writing and editing on. This is a random chat with a friend I always look up to. We talk about languages, living in Saudi, and so much stuff.
Chatting With Jennifer Lynn | Radio Life | Morning Show | Travel And More
Some of you know that I went on sabbatical mid of 2019, and one of the places that we visited was Marrakesh in Morroco. My friend Anass Koudies recommended a traditional cocking workshop outside the city, so I and the family went there, and it was one of the highlights of our trip to Marrakesh. One of the people that I got to know in the workshop was Jennifer Lynn, host of the Morning Edition on NPR radio. She was playing with our son and later in the day I got to know she's a professional radio host. We talked about podcasting, radio and so many stuff. When we returned to our home in Riyadh, I asked Jan to come to the show and talk about radio life. I wanted to know what it is like to wake up every day at 3:30 AM ! and boy, I was so intimidated having a professional host on my show! The voice quality is okay, but not perfect.
Chatting With Maxim Cramer | Design And Engineering | Languages | Open Source | Diversity
Today I chat with Maxim Cramer. A creative person who mingle between design and engineerings. I met Maxim back in February when I joined the AltMBA program, which is a program by Seth Godin for the people who want to level up. What was different about Maxim her take on a lot of stuff which can be explained by the way she grew up. I talked with Maxim about diversity, languages, being yourself and how a person such herself can help with “lost in translation” situations. We relate those topics to Maxim experience in working in different companies and being involved in communities such as the open source community. Enjoy the show
Links:
Maxim on twitter
Chatting With Eva-Lotta Lamm | Sketchnoting | Traveling around the world | Improv
So who’s Eva-lotta? Eva-Lotta Lamm is a User Experience Designer, illustrator, and visual thinker. She grew up in Germany, worked in Paris and London for a few years before packing up her backpack and go traveling the world for 14 months. She has over 12 years of experience working on digital products as an in-house designer for Google, Skype, and Yahoo! as well as freelancing and consulting for various agencies and her own clients. After being a (semi-)nomad for 2 years, she is now based in Berlin, helping her clients to make complex problems visual so they can ‘see’ them from a fresh perspective and work on solving them more efficiently.
We talk about how she got into art, and how she moved to Paris and then London. How one day she packed her bags to travel around the world. We chat about working for corporates vs freelancing and then we stumble upon note-taking and how she recorded her reflections through sketch noting and finally how she feels about paper vs. digital. Not just that, we talked about improv and some deep stuff like bringing awareness in the learning process which Eva-lotta call the intentional practice. Really deep stuff. I think you guys gonna enjoy this episode. So .. get a notebook ready and please enjoy my conversation with Eva-Lotta.
Links:
Eva-lotta website (blog, newsletter and links to social media accounts)
Secrets from the road
Abdul twitter
Chatting With Von Glitschka | Creativity | Creative process | Show your work | Compete with yourself
Chatting With Karim Safwat | Dahab | Slow-cooking | Decision Making
Links:
Zanooba FB page
Abdulrahman’s twitter
Chatting With Dag Vegger | Folding Bikes | Travel | Reading
Dag blog:
dagsresa.wordpress.com/
If you have any comments or feedback, feel free to hit me up on twitter @akhmees