Dairo Ghalib is a seasoned cloud engineer who started as an infrastructure engineer with Stanbic IBTC, a national bank in Nigeria. He studied Computer Engineering at the University of Lagos and has his masters degree in Commerce, Information Systems and Technology (from where). He discovered the world of cloud engineering during his masters degree program and hasn't looked back since then. He has worked in Cloud Engineering for over 4 years now, and currently works with Daemon as a Cloud/DevOps engineer. From his wealth of experience, he shares the importance of cloud engineering and how it contributes to running tech products smoothly. If you're even vaguely interested in Cloud, this episode is for you.

Highlights of this episode:

1. How he became interested in Cloud and support engineering (03:56)
2. The contribution of cloud to the creation of tech products (06:50)
3. Explanation of what cloud engineering is (not so lay man terms) (09:37)
4. A typical day as a cloud engineer (11:52)
5. The role of support engineers (15:22)
6. Resolving conflicts as a support engineer (18:53)
7. Day-to-day tools need to function in this role (21:20)
8. Answers that will convince a recruiter that one is proficient in cloud and support engineering (24:22)
9. Explaining what cloud and support engineering is to a 7 year old (29:25)
10. Corporate culture in South Africa (31:09)

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