Jerod (Adrian) Goins

A strongly motivated, dynamic leader and innovator with a proven track record at Rancher, SUSE, Traefik, and Redpanda, growing communities and striking the right balance between community expectations and business needs. Excels in educational course design and video production, achieving significant subscriber and member growth in business and personal endeavors. Skills in engineering, sales, and marketing foster both community and stakeholder relationships and drive product advancements and community adoption. Well-versed in the use of LLMs and agents to accelerate productivity and automate business processes.

• My primary YouTube channel was started at the end of January 2024 and as of February 2024 has over 18.7k subscribers and more than 1,000 members. It's one of the top five YouTube channels for the Fallout 76 video game, competing with channels who have been around for years. Our offering is unique and differentiates us from the other channels. Our Discord server has grown to over 1400 members since starting it in April 2024.
• I build applications that utilize LLMs, such as an OSINT tool that streams submissions and comments from Reddit, analyzes them , extracts relevant video ideas, and generates scripts from the community's communication and emotion. I've written several bots for Discord and am working on a chat agent that uses game knowledge to communicate with users and answer questions as in-game characters. I use voice cloning and lipsyncing utilities to create videos narrated by in-game characters about the world in which they live.
• I designed, scripted, filmed, edited, and deployed the Rancher Academy, enrolling over 18k students and certifying over 2600 before SUSE shut it down a year later.
• I created dozens of YouTube videos about Rancher and Kubernetes on both Rancher's and my personal YouTube channels, adding thousands of subscribers to each.
• I delivered a weekly 2h "Intro to Kubernetes" workshop that regularly had over 100 enterprise attendees, all of whom were funneled into the Rancher sales cycle. Many of these videos went on to surpass 40k views when published to YouTube.
• I designed scripts, demos and trained staff in delivery for multiple KubeCon conferences, resulting in > 5k qualified leads from each conference.
• For six months I ran a daily live stream called "Coffee and Cloud Native" in which I used AI to process the Twitter firehose and extract "interesting" new applications from within the cloud native ecosystem. I would deploy and test them in the evening, choose three to five of them, and then demonstrate them live on the stream the following day.

• Certificated private pilot and Part 107 commercial drone operator
• Part 103 Powered Paraglider pilot
• General class amateur radio operator (N1GMA)
• Trained and taught Krav Maga for eight years