Key takeaways:It's important for junior folks to have a breadth of experience early in their careers to understand what they like and don't like, and to help shape what they want to do in their tech careers.Developers can't work in isolation and not care about the "big picture" of the product or service that they're working on. That's like moving to a new country and not caring about the cultural differences.Being invisible is a superpower, because it allows you to quietly learn, observe, and take things in.Being a quiet listener shouldn't be confounded with not speaking up due to shyness.It's important to use your voice to speak up and provide a safe place for others to speak upWe get into tech through different ways, have different skills, and different experiences, and these differences are what make for a successful team.There's not one way to succeed and make an impact in tech (and other professions), whether you're in upper management, an engineer, or anything in-between.As a senior person, you can also learn a lot from junior engineers and mid-level engineers, bringing in a different point of viewMentoring is about helping your mentees find their own strengths, and also learning from your mentees, as they always have something interesting to bring to the table.If you're going to be a manager, you've got to be really understanding of what your organization's strategic direction is, what its vision is, what its values truly are, and decide are you aligned enough to be able to represent that as a manager?University is a humbling experience of suddenly being surrounded by way smarter people than youThere are different skills to being a student vs being an employeeThere is a distinction between FinOps for the Cloud and "traditional" FinOps!Someone who works in FinOps (within the context of Cloud) has an understanding of how cloud vendors work and how things like workload, retention policies, autoscaling thresholds, etc. affect your cloud spend.About our guest:Deana Solis is the youngest daughter of Filipino immigrants and the mom of a biracial son. She credits her decades long career in tech for teaching her how to unplug from the grid in meaningful ways, connect with her ancestors, build community where she lives, and leave places better than she found them.She is a FinOps Foundation ambassador and mentor, known for her contributions in workgroups, certification curriculum, and humanizing FinOps talks.Find our guest on:LinkedInBlueskyFind us on:All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingoutAll of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillelaShow notes:Carmen Huidobro on Geeking Out, talking about reframing nervousnessIxchel Ruiz on Geeking Out, talking about the importance of seeing people like us being representedAicha Laafia on Geeking Out (she was directly inspired by Ixchel Ruiz's talks)Charity Majors on Geeking OutKelsey Hightower on Geeking OutLiz Fong-Jones on Geeking OutWhat is FinOps?FP&AComptrollerTranscript:ADRIANA:Hey everyone, welcome to Geeking Out, the podcast in which we dive into the career journeys of some of the amazing humans in tech and geek out on topics like software development, DevOps, Observability, reliability, and everything in between. I'm your host, Adriana Villela, coming to you from Toronto, Canada.ADRIANA:And geeking out with me today I have Deana Solis. Welcome, Deana!DEANA:Thank you. Happy to be here.ADRIANA:And where are you calling from?DEANA:I'm in Vancouver, Washington.ADRIANA:Oh, cool. That's awesome. So before, before I introed you in, we were talking about pronouncing names, and, I thought it was interesting, so I wanted to bring it up on the podcast because I thought your name was pronounced “De-anna”, but it's actually “Dean-a”. And tell the story behind that, because I thought it was kind of cool.DEANA:You know, I have always blamed this on my dad because I knew the story. They were Rat Pack fans, and Dean Martin, was a favorite. My dad was a big audiophile. We had his records, so I just blamed him. It turns out that my mom was the big Dean Martin fan. She picked the name, and had I been a boy, I would have been Dean. But I wasn’t. So Deana.ADRIANA:That is so cool. I love that that's such a great name origin story.DEANA:But considering my last name and you pronounced that exactly correctly, it's perfectly acceptable to expect to pronounce it Deanna or Deanna, with all the syllables. But it's not. So.ADRIANA:Yeah. Fair, fair. Well, I mean, I think it's a it's a really great way to remember, though, in, in terms of pronouncing your name like, oh, I always think of like the Dean Martin reference. That's awesome. Well, so are you ready for our icebreaker questions?DEANA:Yes.ADRIANA:AV: Okay. First question. Are you a lefty or a righty?DEANA:Lefty.ADRIANA:Yeah, I always get... you... if you watch the show, you know, I always get excited about lefties. Were you ever, did anyone ever try to force you, to write right handed when you ...
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