Session: Building new career paths in an ever-changing and evolving industry market
Finding your career path sometimes it's not visible for many of us. Our career paths do not need to be linear; exploring different roles will help us develop new skills and give us a profound understanding of ourselves and self-awareness.
Bio
Valentina Rodriguez is a Principal at Red Hat, focusing on the developer journeys in Kubernetes and emerging technologies. Before this role, she worked with high-profile customers, helping them adopt new technologies, and worked closely with developers and platform engineers. Her background is in software engineering. She built software for 15 years, working in diverse roles from Developer to Tech Lead and Architect, from retail, healthcare, financial, e-commerce, telco, and many other industries.
She's very passionate about technology and has been pursuing several certifications in this space, from frameworks to Kubernetes and project management. She possesses a Master's in Computer Science and an MBA.
She loves contributing to the community and the industry and has spoken at conferences such as O'Reilly, KubeCon, Open Source Summit, Red Hat DevNation Day, and others. She’s a KCD organizer and a project member for OpenGitops.