Gearóid Crowley is a Lead Consultant at Readify. He's from Ireland, based in Sydney these days, and passionate about helping organisation build quality products with the power of automated release management. Today I gave Gearóid a call to talk to him about his first line of code, his many years in the industry and what he enjoys most about working at Readify. In Discussion: - My first Amstrad. 1992. Ireland. - First line of code. - Building a chess game in assembly. - Solving a problem is often about how it's setup. - First job in tech. - How did Readify appear on your radar? - Life and thinking of the team at Readify. - Changing landscape of cloud computing and the resulting rise of Devops, discipline and quality. - Busy Queues. Idle Queues. - Books. The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, George Spafford, and Kevin Behr. Personal Kanban by Jim Benson. - Xmas cooking kanban board.