Kentik

<p>Bill Marantz joins Avi and Network AF to discuss how his team uses open source and automation technologies. The two also discuss mentorship and recruiting during rapid stages of company growth, and touch on problem solving in networking without a technical background.</p>

Bill Marantz has spent over twenty years designing, deploying and supporting flexible, stable and cost effective networks. He has enjoyed creativity solving infrastructure problems in the Internet service provider, managed hosting, high frequency trading, SaaS and cloud hosting industries. Bill loves a mix of technical, commercial and strategic challenges in his workday.

Bill Marantz

Director of Network Strategy and Interconnection, Linode

Bill Marantz joins Avi and Network AF to discuss how his team uses open source and automation technologies. The two also discuss mentorship and recruiting during rapid stages of company growth, and touch on problem solving in networking without a technical background.


Bill Marantz of Linode on automation, mentorship, and problem solving

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Episode overview

Bill's background and where his interest in networking began

Bill tells Avi about his interactions with open source, and being mostly based in Python

Templating interfaces, and gaining the knowledge to navigate infrastructure hardware

Avi and Bill talk about their early mentor experiences

How Bill thinks about mentorship today as someone leading teams

Tactics for problem solving, and prioritizing what could go wrong

Recruiting and getting a diverse set of people into a networking organization