Ship It Conversations: Rob Koch of Slalom on Accessible Cloud Native, Sign Language Recognition with Kubeflow, Overhyped AI, Conference Accessibility, and Why Teams Should Hire Deaf Engineers

Podcast: Ship It Weekly - DevOps, SRE, Platform and Cloud Engineering News · Teller's Tech - DevOps, SRE and Cloud Podcast

Opublikowano: 2026-10-19

This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps. In this Ship It Conversations episode, I talk with Rob Koch about what accessible cloud native actually looks like, why sign language is still one of the hardest problems in AI, and why the fastest way to make your tooling accessible is to hire deaf engineers. Rob is a senior principal at Slalom, an AWS Hero, and co-chair of the CNCF Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group. Rob is Deaf, and his ASL interpreter, Amelia Fruehsamer, voices his...