Jay Faulkner
Co-Host of GR-OSS OUT Podcast
Jay Faulkner is an Open Source Developer and Advocate at G-Research Open Source Software that believes through working with others around the world to solve problems we can make the world better. Open source is a great way to do that.
Jay has been a maintainer on the OpenStack Ironic project for over a decade -- serving multiple times as PTL and two terms on the OpenStack Technical Committee. Jay is also a Gentoo developer, volunteering time for the python and proxy maintenance projects.
Jay Faulkner has hosted 21 Episodes.
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The Rust Foundation with Lori Lorusso and David Wood
June 18th, 2026 | 34 mins 57 secs
arm, borrow checker, corporate open source, david wood, devops, foundation governance, g-research, gr-oss, gr-oss out podcast, gross, lori larusso, maintainer funding, memory safety, open source, open source community, open source maintainers, open source software, oss, rust compiler, rust foundation, rust language, rust programming, rust project, rustconf, security engineering, software engineering, systems engineering, systems programming, tech podcast, technology, unsafe rustcoding
Lori LaRusso, Director of Outreach at the Rust Foundation, and David Wood, a Rust Project Director and engineer at ARM, join host Jay Faulkner to talk about what the Rust Foundation actually does behind the scenes — funding infrastructure, employing security engineers, and running a maintainer funding program for contributors who aren't backed by a sponsoring company.
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Open Source Leadership with Vicky Brasseur
May 28th, 2026 | 44 mins 22 secs
ai criticism, artificial intelligence, burnout, developer, ethical leadership, foss, g-research, gross out podcast, ironic, jay faulkner, leadership, llm, maintainer, open robotics, open source, open source business, openstack, oss, podcast, soft power, software community, succession planning, sustainability, vicky brasseur, vm brasseur
Vicky Brasseur — author, OSS strategist, and "open source minister without portfolio" — joins Jay Faulkner on the GROSS Out Podcast to discuss wielding influence without authority: ethical manipulation, director-ready business cases, and the succession planning most projects ignore until it's too late.
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The Messy Reality of Shipping Helm 4 with Andrew Block
March 24th, 2026 | 40 mins 34 secs
cncf, coding, devops, g-research, gr-oss, gross, helm, kubernetes, open source, oss, redhat, technology, techpodcast
Tabitha DiDomenico sits down with Andrew Block, Distinguished Architect at Red Hat
and maintainer of Helm — the package manager powering Kubernetes
deployments worldwide — to talk about what it really took to ship
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Making Kubernetes Work for AI and Batch Workloads with Kevin Hannon
February 19th, 2026 | 36 mins
cloudnative, cncf, coding, devops, g-research, gr-oss, gr-oss out podcast, jobset, k8s, kevin hannon, kubernetes, opensource, oss, technology, techpodcast
Jay Faulkner sits down with Kevin (GitHub: canon92), Kubernetes Contributor Award winner and maintainer of the JobSet project, to discuss the growing challenge of running AI and batch workloads on Kubernetes — a platform originally designed for web services and long-running applications.
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Security and Resilience From OpenStack to the White House with Æva Black
January 15th, 2026 | 39 mins 11 secs
coding, devcommunity, g-research, gr-oss, gross, omnibor, open source, oss, tech podcast, technology
We sit down with Æva Black as she shares her journey from creating OpenStack Ironic to leading security policy at Microsoft and CISA.
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Community Governance and Building Sustainable Open Source with Dr. Dawn Foster
December 9th, 2025 | 40 mins 43 secs
chaoss project, coding, community, devops, dr. dawn foster, g-research, governance, gr-oss, gross, linux kernel, metrics, open source, oss, software sustainability, technology
In this episode of the G Research Open Source Software Outreach Podcast (GROSS OUT), host Jay Faulkner sits down with Dr. Dawn Foster, Director of Data Science at the CHAOSS Project and veteran open source consultant, to explore the hidden infrastructure that keeps open source communities thriving.
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Memory Safety and Modernizing Python's Cryptography Ecosystem with Alex Gaynor
November 13th, 2025 | 36 mins 13 secs
alex gaynor, coding, cryptography, g-research, gr-oss, gross, open source, oss, technology
Alex Gaynor, long-time open source contributor and core developer of Django, PyPy, and Python's cryptography library, joins us to discuss the challenging transition from C to Rust in the Python ecosystem.
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Journey Through Platform Engineering From Inner Source to GitOps with Priyanka Ravi
September 15th, 2025 | 36 mins 24 secs
cncf, coding, devops, flux, g-research, gitops, gr-oss, gross, open source, oss, technology, weaveworks
In this episode of the G Research Open Source Software Outreach Podcast, host Jay Faulkner sits down with Priyanka "Pinky" Ravi, Platform Tech Advocate at G Research, to explore her unique path from full-stack developer to open source advocate.
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Transitioning From Corporate Code to Open Source with Tim Boudreau
August 4th, 2025 | 27 mins
corporate development, g-research, gr-oss, gross, oss, public repositories, technology, transition
In this episode of the G-Research Open Source Software Outreach Podcast, we sit down with Tim Boudreau, one of the early members of G-Research's open source initiative. Tim shares his unique perspective on transitioning from 30 years of writing proprietary software to working in open source communities.
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The Art of Finding and Publishing Security Bugs with David Leadbeater
June 13th, 2025 | 41 mins 56 secs
g-research, gr-oss, gross, oss, oss security, security
Security researcher David Leadbeater joins Jay Faulkner to discuss hunting for obscure terminal vulnerabilities, lessons from email security, and the art of responsible disclosure in open source.
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Open Source and Collective Intelligence with Mark Burnett
May 19th, 2025 | 26 mins 31 secs
g-research, innovation, leadership, open source, oss, technology
Mark Burnett, Head of Technology Innovation at G-Research joins us to discuss the impact of open source on enterprise software, the value of being a loud open source customer, and finding open source already aligned to business needs. Mark also provides valuable insight to other business leaders on how to engage the open source community and use open source concepts to fail fast and innovate fast.
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Building AI with Databricks with Ben Wilson
April 21st, 2025 | 31 mins 50 secs
ai, apache spark, databricks, gresearch, llm, machine learning, ml, mlflow, oss
Jay Faulkner and Ben Wilson talk about Databricks and AI