Brian Jackson - Determining which technical skills you can be more flexible filtering on

Highlights from my conversation with Brian:

• Niche industry but not niche skills
• Working with other teams to partner where there is a skills gap
• Realizing which parts of the tech stack you can “let go” to broaden the candidate pool
• Software engineering foundations go a long way
• Building an ecosystem around the Windows platform

Meet: Brian Jackson ​​is a DevOps advocate currently helping create immersive Star Wars experiences at Lucasfilm. Currently, Brian is the Manager of DevOps Engineering at Lucasfilm. Previously helped Apple Pay and ESPN.com be more productive through delivery automation.

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