Venti Fried Chicken

Venti Fried Chicken is a comedic autobiography aimed to help demystify the technology industry and promote practical tech diversity through the example of an African-American Army Vet turned successful technologist. About The Author: Joshua “TechDev” Walker is a 2x AWS Certified Cloud Engineering Lead with 6+ years in technology. Joshua currently specializes in Enterprise Big Data with a focus on Healthcare and Biopharma. He prides himself on being cloud-agnostic and has experience in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Joshua is also one of the founders of Black Orlando Tech which launched in 2016. “BOT” is a hyper-localized, all-inclusive safe place for minorities to be trained and inspired by technology. Black Orlando Tech’s goal is to train 10,000 minorities to enter the technology field by 2025. He has also been highlighted by major platforms and publications for his contribution to Black Orlando Tech including the Orlando Business Journal and the Orlando Sentinel. In his spare time, he loves to do tech-talks on a wide range of subjects including Practical Diversity, DevOps, Business, Branding and Site Reliability Engineering. Joshua has spoken at the University of Central Florida, WordCamp, Postgres Conference, Digital Orlando, Nerd Nite Orlando, Downtown UX Meetup, ODevs and was featured on PBS’s program Nerd Nite spotlight. His approach has been and continues to be humorous pop culture storytelling that trains, inspires, and relates helping to activate everyday people to have an interest in technology.