Michelle Brenner

Media

Podcasts/Webcasts

Human Skills > “Taking Control of Yourself and Your Career”
Show Date: January 2, 2024

Michelle discusses the skills she had to develop to advance her engineering career.

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Tech Talks with Madona > “From Art School to Senior Software Engineer”
Show Date: November 10, 2023

Michelle discusses her career journey, her insights into career growth, and the valuable lessons she’s learned. 

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InfoQ > “Michelle Brenner Builds Netflix Workstations and Enables Artists to Create From Anywhere”
Show Date: November 1, 2021

Michelle discusses her work building Netflix Workstations, a cloud-based solution allowing artists to securely access creative tools they need to produce entertainment for Netflix.

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Platform.sh Deploy Friday > “#44: 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know”
Show Date: September 6, 2021

Michelle speaks about her contribution to the book ““97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know.”

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EUC Digest > “Netflix And The Netflix Virtual Workstations”
Show Date: September 21, 2020

Michelle discusses her work building Netflix Workstations.

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TechJr > “Salary Negotiation with Michelle Brenner”
Show Date: May 6, 2020

Michelle discusses how members of the tech community can own their career paths and better navigate salary negotiations.

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Women in Tech >Michelle Brenner”
Show Date: February 5, 2018

Michelle discussed her time at former employer Technicolor as well as her broader career experiences, work-life balance and development as a software engineer.

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Simple Leadership > “The Importance of Training Junior Developers with Michelle Brenner”
Show Date: October 28, 2018

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Stem on Fire > “Computer Science & Art – Look for a good job culture”
Show Date: November 25, 2018

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We Belong Here > “15. Michelle Brenner: How She Became a Sr. Backend Engineer”
Show Date: July 7, 2019

Michelle and Lauren discuss how she promotes diversity and inclusion and how she taught herself to code while on the job as a support engineer.

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Technical Talks

JCON Europe 2023 > Remote Workstations for Discerning Artists 

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WTF Is Cloud Native? 2021 > Remote Workstations for Discerning Artists

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Scale 17X 2019 > Using Data to Get Your Next Raise

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PyDataLA 2018 > Using Data to Get Your Next Raise

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Books and Articles

Why Every Engineer Should Be a Cloud Engineer
97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts
(1st Edition (January 12, 2021))
(Buy on Amazon)

Creating from Anywhere with an Artist-Driven Approach to Workstation Deployment
SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal (Volume: 130, Issue: 10, Nov.-Dec. 2021)

Remote Workstations for the Discerning Artists 
Netflix Technology Blog (March 8, 2021)

Using Data to Get Your Next Raise
OpenSource.com (February 26, 2019)