Mastodawn

Aug 26, 2025

Pluralsight recently published another one of my blogs: “What to emphasize on your resume as a cloud engineer.”

In it, I breakdown tips on:
• A breakdown of essential cloud skills - networking, security, scripting, DevOps, databases, & observability
• The key cloud skills hiring managers look for
• How to highlight projects, certifications, and soft skills effectively
• Ways to make your resume stand out in a competitive market

If you’re new to cloud or looking to make a move, check it out. There’s a lot of movement in tech right now, and I hope this post is helpful for anyone working to land their next role.

Find it here: https://www.pluralsight.com/resources/blog/cloud/writing-great-cloud-engineer-resume

#MNTech #TechCareer #Cloud #AWS #GCP #Azure #CloudEngineer

What to emphasize on your resume as a cloud engineer

Seasoned cloud expert and Pluralsight author Steve Buchanan shares what to have on your resume to stand out from the competition and land your next job.

buchatech

May 9, 2025

Dropped by the @mmsmoa conference yesterday to hang with Microsoft colleagues and Microsoft MVPs!

Great connecting with Steven Bucher, Kristopher Turner, Brian Wren, and others!

#MMSMOA #MMS #Microsoft #MNTech #MVP

buchatech

Apr 2, 2025

I was recently on the Tech Together Podcast by @CreateMPLS + @GenesysWorks!

We talked my journey to #Microsoft, importance of #persistence, lifelong #learning, #AI, & more.

🎧 Blog + episode: https://www.buchatech.com/2025/04/tech-together-podcast-my-journey-to-microsoft-princes-studio-the-future-of-tech-and-navigating-ai

#MnTech #TechCareers

Tech Together Podcast: My Journey to Microsoft, Prince’s Studio, the Future of Tech, and Navigating AI – Buchatech.com

Todd H. Gardner Jul 28, 2023

That's it for the week, let's get a beer. 🍻

Heading over to Keg and Case soon for #MNTech Happy Hour. I'm pretty sure @MattPacyga is buying the beers.

See you soon.

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Paul Cantrell Apr 23, 2023

There will be video of my talk (https://sessions.minnestar.org/sessions/1327) for those who are interested. In the meantime, here’s a little teaser.

#MNtech #Minnebar #Minnebar17
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What’s the Next GOTO?

In 1968, the infamously grumpy computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra published a polemic called “<a href="http://david.tribble.com/text/goto.html">Go To Statement Considered Harmful</a>” in which he made a striking argument: GOTO, a programming language feature widely considered essential at the time, was such a bad idea that not only should programmers stop using it, but it should be removed from high-level languages altogether. A decades-long fight ensued, but Dijkstra essentially won the day: new languages now rarely support GOTO, and even when they do, programmers largely pretend they don’t. The idea that removing features can make programming languages better is both surprising and exciting. What programming language features that we consider essential today might be the next GOTO, withering and vanishing from high-level languages of the future? In this talk, we’ll look at several candidates: raw memory access, inheritance, reference types, and null. Drawing on examples from several programming languages, we’ll look at some of the problems with these features, the alternatives, and the tradeoffs. This talk will be accessible to anyone with beginning programming experience. It will have some tasty tidbits for hard-core programming language nerds, but if you have some idea what variables, loops, and objects are, then you’ll be fine! And if you don’t, you can still show up for the puns.

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Paul Cantrell Apr 23, 2023

Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen!

Special shout-out to the amazing Maria Ploessl, Minnestar’s outgoing executive director. Maria, you’re fantastic. The whole community is going to miss you.

#MNtech #Minnebar #Minnebar17
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Paul Cantrell Apr 23, 2023

Yesterday was the first full-size, full-scale Minnebar since the pandemic started…and it was magical.

Seeing the familiar faces, the new faces, the sessions, the indie game arcade, and the excitement was like the sun coming out from behind the clouds.

#MNtech #Minnebar #Minnebar17
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Paul Cantrell Apr 17, 2023

Are you going to Minnebar?

⭐️ Please vote for sessions! ⭐️

https://sessions.minnestar.org
Star ✱ the sessions you want to attend in the session list, or click on that “Yes! I might attend” button next to the session description.

We generate the Minnebar schedule based on your votes. If you don’t want two sessions to be scheduled at the same time, •vote for them!•

We need your votes!

#Minnebar #MNtech
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Minnebar 18 Session Registration

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📻 Tony N0RUA 📻Mar 14, 2023

Local #mntech:

I submitted a panel session for #minnebar on Burnout in Tech - https://sessions.minnestar.org/sessions/1393

The only problem: I need some more panelists 😅

If you're local, or know someone locally willing to talk openly on a panel with me, please get in touch!

[Panel] Burnout in Tech

**Note**: I am looking for at least three other panelists, and perhaps a moderator to help lead the discussion. If you are interested, [please get in touch with me](https://sessions.minnestar.org/participants/447). Have you burned out? Do you think you might be burning out? In this panel, we'll have a conversation with a few people who have experienced burnout, and talk about what happened, how they recovered, and any other questions from the audience. Our panelists will discuss (among other topics) * How did they experience burnout? * Did they have any warning signs? * What happened when they burned out? * What did they do to recover? * How are they doing now? Panelists * [Tony Collen](https://sessions.minnestar.org/participants/447) * **Others TBD** If you are or know someone who has experienced burnout, and want to share, please get in touch with Tony!

Jenna Pederson (she/her)Mar 2, 2023

It has been an absolute dream to have Maria Ploessl lead Minnestar for the last six years. She has made a huge impact on the #MNTech and startup community in ways we couldn't have anticipated when we hired her as the first ED. While I am immensely sad to see her go, I know that she's ready to take on a new adventure and is helping create yet another opportunity for Minnestar.

https://minnestar.org/a-letter-from-minnestar-executive-director-maria-ploessl/

A Letter from Minnestar Executive Director Maria Ploessl | Minnestar

Dear Minnestar community, I’m writing to share with you something that I’ve been working on behind the scenes with the board for the past few months. TLDR

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