January 2, 2024
Taking Control of Yourself and Your Career
Michelle discusses the skills development needed to advance an engineering career.
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November 10, 2023
From Art School to Senior Software Engineer
Michelle discusses her career journey, her insights into career growth, and the valuable lessons she has learned.
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November 1, 2021
Michelle Brenner Builds Netflix Workstations and Enables Artists to Create From Anywhere
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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September 6, 2021
#44: 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know
Michelle speaks about her contribution to the book “97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know.”
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September 21, 2020
Netflix and the Netflix Virtual Workstations
Michelle discusses her work building Netflix Workstations.
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May 6, 2020
Salary Negotiation with Michelle Brenner
Michelle discusses how technology professionals can own their career paths and better navigate salary negotiations.
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July 7, 2019
15. Michelle Brenner: How She Became a Sr. Backend Engineer
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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November 25, 2018
Computer Science & Art — Look for a Good Job Culture
Michelle discusses balancing computer science and art while prioritizing workplace culture.
October 28, 2018
The Importance of Training Junior Developers with Michelle Brenner
Michelle addresses mentoring and developing junior engineering talent.
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February 5, 2018
Michelle Brenner
Michelle discusses her experiences at former employer Technicolor, work-life balance, and growth as a software engineer.
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January 1, 2023
Project Management for Engineers
Michelle speaks on the project management process, from ideation to presentation. She takes audience members through practical exercises like the Impact Effort Matrix for planning and Success Statements for reporting as well as techniques for delighting stakeholders while keeping your teammates from burning out.
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November 4, 2021
Remote Workstations for the Discerning Artist
Michelle explores cloud-native approaches to remote artist workstations.
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July 29, 2021
How Netflix Used DCV (and AWS) to Distribute Their Creative Workforce (and Saved Our Sanity)
Michelle talks with a member of Amazon's High Performance Computing (HPC) engineering team about the development of Netflix Workstations and her focus on empowering artists.
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March 10, 2019
Using Data to Get Your Next Raise
Most people dread the annual review process. It is difficult to remember everything you have done and summarize it in a concise, clear way. As engineers, there is the additional factor of translating technical achievements into a format business leaders can understand. Michelle offers a solution for tracking and reporting achievements in a way that’s simple and easy for stakeholders to understand.
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October 23, 2018
Using Data to Get Your Next Raise
Most people dread the annual review process. It is difficult to remember everything you have done and summarize it in a concise, clear way. As engineers, there is the additional factor of translating technical achievements into a format business leaders can understand. Michelle offers a solution for tracking and reporting achievements in a way that’s simple and easy for stakeholders to understand.
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November 1, 2021
Creating from Anywhere with an Artist-Driven Approach to Workstation Deployment
In this case study, Michelle details the technical rationale, architectural choices, and implementation challenges behind creating Netflix Workstations.
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March 8, 2021
Remote Workstations for the Discerning Artists
Michelle describes Netflix's cloud-workstation solution enabling remote artist creativity.
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January 12, 2021
Why Every Engineer Should Be a Cloud Engineer
Michelle contributed a chapter on why cloud engineering is relevant to every engineer.
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February 26, 2019
Using Data to Get Your Next Raise
Michelle examines success statements - concise, quantifiable statements employees can create to translate their technical accomplishments directly into business value, cost savings, or time efficiency.
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