Build vs. SaaS with Calvin Hendryx Parker
Transcript
all right you're watching another episode of the CTO advisor podcast I guess that's my official intro another episode of the CTO advisor podcast I'm joined with a good friend from the tech Field Day community and fellow CTO Calvin Hendricks Parker CTO of six feet up Calvin before we get started with the topic which is build versus buy give us a quick intro of six feet up what do you what do you folks do there sure uh then Keith it's been awesome and getting to know you and finally now being on the podcast I I love this excited to be here so six feet up is a software a cloud python consulting company where we help impactful leaders and accelerate their digital Transformations we have got very senior development resources who love working on app Dev AI Big Data Cloud orchestration you know projects and our customers are in interesting Fields I'm really working on a lot of things that are kind of climate Tech good for humankind type impactful projects is actually our most recent initiatives so in the background if people are watching this on YouTube or in video you have a a a game oh yeah back we'll we'll get to that at the end so tease people that if they stay at the end we get to talk about the game uh cabinet that you have in the background definitely so the reason why we're having a podcast together is because both of us have similar interests around events you put on an annual show uh python uh what is this pyconf no it's the python Web Conference yeah and so you you have this business challenge that you want to bring together your community virtually actually even before the the now times tell us about kind of the origin of the conference in in the goal yeah so the python Web Conference came about because the larger python Community um has kind of moved in different directions so python has become a very popular language like number one programming language in the world and a lot of folks have picked it up and use it for you know data orchestration and it's just not kind of a one-trick pony and I felt like the the current conference situation like the in-person conferences for python around like pycon or Regional python conferences weren't catering really well to some of the topics I loved um which is like maybe more advanced you know web-based topics and that was actually the original impetus for python Web Conference the secondary reason we started doing this was for folks who couldn't travel or it was in plausible or financially impractical for them to make it to a conference maybe you were in Central Asia or in Africa or some some place where maybe you can get a visa to come to one of these Regional conferences or there's not a Regional Conference near you we still wanted to bring that python Community to those folks and this was pre-pandemic 2019 was our first one yeah yeah we started off with uh three tracks over two days or and did a a basically the python conference I thought was missing from the community so I've been supporting virtual conferences actually even before the pandemic the VMware user group I consulted for the VMware user group for a number of years actually they were one of my first customers as the CTO advisor one of the things that I did with them was content uh curation and picking out uh topics and call for papers and helping them kind of curate and put on their virtual event conference which they've been doing I think since 2017 2018.
com you have questions for me or even things that you want to relate to Calvin or the his Twitter handle and all of that is in a show notes but you can shortcut at me at CTO advisor on Twitter DMS are open Calvin thanks a lot I appreciate you uh joining on yeah thanks Keith I really enjoyed it
