Replay - Navigating the Morass of the Internet with Chloe Condon

Screaming in the Cloud

On this Screaming in the Cloud Replay, we revisit our fall of 2021 conversation with Chloe Condon. At the time of recording, Chloe was a Senior Cloud Advocate for Microsoft, and today, she works for Google as a Senior Developer Relations Engineer. When we spoke to her, Chloe had recently started the Master Creep Theatre (yes, with the British spelling) which is a project to bring some more creative and artistic efforts into the tech world! Given Chloe’s non-traditional background she’s able to bring a lot of great perspective to weaving these two worlds together. Chloe also discusses the politics of navigating DMs as a woman on the internet, fun. Her and Corey discuss internet culture in general and how to make the most of it, in spite of all the baggage. Tune in for Chloe's take!

Show Highlights:

(0:00) Intro

(0:47) Sonrai sponsor read
(1:48) Master Creep Theatre
(6:16) The wide world of creepy DMs
(12:21) What's the root of the creep behavior?
(15:52) Harassment and privilege in tech
(20:00) The fight for privacy

(27:58) Backblaze sponsor read
(28:24) Designing things to be more inclusive and "jerk-free"
(37:49) Where you can find more from Chloe

About Chloe Condon:
Chloe is a Bay Area based Developer Advocate for Google Cloud and AI. Previously, she worked at Microsoft, as well as Sentry.io where she created the award winning Sentry Scouts program (a camp themed meet-up ft. patches, s’mores, giant squirrel costumes, and hot chocolate), and was featured in the Grace Hopper Conference 2018 gallery featuring 15 influential women in STEM by AnitaB.org. Her projects and work with Azure have ranged from fake boyfriend alerts to Mario Kart 'astrology', and have been featured in VICE, The New York Times, as well as SmashMouth's Twitter account. Chloe holds a BA in Drama from San Francisco State University and is a graduate of Hackbright Academy. She prides herself on being a non-traditional background engineer, and is likely one of the only engineers who has played an ogre, crayon, and the back-end of a cow on a professional stage. She hopes to bring more artists into tech, and more engineers into the arts.

Featured in the Grace Hopper Conference 2018 gallery featuring 15 influential women in STEM by AnitaB.org: https://vimeo.com/289762602/30c246c503

Links:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChloeCondon
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gitforked/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChloeCondonVideos

Sponsors
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