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> Forrest Brazeal, Head of Developer Media at Google Cloud, discusses what it will take to develop the next generation of cloud engineers.

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Educating the Next Generation of Cloud Engineers w/ Google Cloud's Head of Developer Media, Forrest Brazeal

# Educating the Next Generation of Cloud Engineers w/ Google Cloud's Head of Developer Media, Forrest Brazeal

By Forrest Brazeal

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January 3, 2023

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Happy New Year and welcome to Season 3 of Dev Interrupted! 

We couldn't think of a better way to kick off Season 3 of the podcast than with the immensely talented Forrest Brazeal. 

Not only is Forrest the Head of Developer Media at Google Cloud, but he lists being a writer, speaker, cartoonist, cloud architect and AWS Serverless Hero, among his many accolades. 

To top it all off, Forrest is an all around great guy with a passion for education and advocacy. That's why he's working to help educate, train and develop the next generation of cloud engineers. But he needs your help. 

Listen as Forrest explains why so many great engineers get overlooked by companies - and how to stop it. 

### Episode Highlights:

* (1:32) Forrest's "Cloud Bard" title
* (5:07) Google Cloud's future
* (13:45) Building the next generation of cloud engineers
* (19:40) The real reason companies can't find engineers
* (25:03) Steps to "grow" engineers at your org

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