Screaming in the Cloud

About Paul OsmanPaul Osman is a Software Engineer with 20 years of experience in the industry. He's the Lead Instrumentation Engineer at Honeycomb.io and is passionate about making production a less scary word. Having spent most of his career in the ill-defined space between software development and operations, Paul spends a lot of time thinking about making on-call experiences better, responding to and learning from incidents, and improving ways for software engineers to share knowledge. Before joining Honeycomb.io, Paul worked in Platform and SRE teams at Under Armour, PagerDuty, and SoundCloud.Links Referenced:Honeycomb.ioFollow Paul on TwitterPaul’s Blog

About Brandon ShawBrandon Shaw is a senior program manager in security operations at Discovery, Inc., an entertainment company that owns several premium cable brands, including Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, and TLC. Previously, he worked as an applications manager at CRISP and a senior software applications engineer at CompuGroup Medical, among other positions. Brandon has a slew of certifications, including CISSP, CISM, CDPSE, CCSK, PMP, ITIL, and three from AWS.Links Referenced: Discovery, Inc. WebsiteConnect with Brandon on LinkedIn

About Kylie RobisonKylie Robison is a California State University, Sacramento student studying business information systems, technology reporter for the State Hornet, and proud president of her school’s Ski & Snowboard Club. She’s hoping to break into the technology industry when she graduates in May of 2021.Links Referenced:The State HornetCovered CaliforniaFollow Kylie on TwitterKylie’s Website

About Alex HidalgoAlex Hidalgo is a Site Reliability Engineer and author of the upcoming Implementing Service Level Objectives (O'Reilly Media, September 2020). During his career he has developed a deep love for sustainable operations, proper observability, and using SLO data to drive discussions and make decisions. Alex's previous jobs have included IT support, network security, restaurant work, t-shirt design, and hosting game shows at bars. When not sharing his passion for technology with others, you can find him scuba diving or watching college basketball. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner Jen and a rescue dog named Taco. Alex has a BA in philosophy from Virginia Commonwealth University.Links Referenced: Buy Implementing Service Level Objectives on bookshop.orgBuy Implementing Service Level Objectives on AmazonFollow Alex on TwitterAlex’s personal siteCorey’s landing page for Implementing Service Level Objectives

About Danyel FisherDanyel Fisher is a Principal Design Researcher for Honeycomb.io. He focuses his passion for data visualization on helping SREs understand their complex systems quickly and clearly. Before he started at Honeycomb, he spent thirteen years at Microsoft Research, studying ways to help people gain insights faster from big data analytics.Links Referenced: Danyel’s section on Honeycomb’s websiteDanyel’s Personal SiteFollow Danyel on Twitter

About Chris PorterChris Porter is the Director of Solutions Engineering at StackRox, the leader in Kubernetes-native container security. Porter has more than 20 years of experience in pre-sales engineering roles, serving and advising customers on security for email, web, cloud, and now Kubernetes and containers. Porter is a certified AWS Solutions Architect and AWS Security Specialist, is the author of a Cisco Press book on Email Security, and holds a Master’s degree from Stevens Institute of Technology.Linked Referenced:StackRoxStackRox BlogEmail Chris directly at [email protected] Chris on TwitterConnect with Chris on LinkedIn

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About Matt StrattonMatt Stratton is a Transformation Specialist at Red Hat and a long-time member of the global DevOps community. Back in the day, his license plate actually said “DevOps”. Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations, ranging from large financial institutions such as JPMorganChase to internet firms including Apartments.com. He is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and ITSM focused events, including DevOps Enterprise Summit, DevOpsDays, Interop, PINK, and others worldwide. Matt is the founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, as well as the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Doctor Who. He is currently on a mission to discover the best phở in the world. You can find him on Twitter at @mattstratton.Links Referenced: Red HatArrested DevOpsArrested DevOps podcast about DevOpsDays ChicagoFollow Matt on TwitterConnect with Matt on LinkedInSpeaking EventsDevOpsDay Chicago 2020

About Shelby SpeesShelby Spees has been developing software professionally since 2015 in a range of domains, which has made her appreciate the importance of learning how to learn and creating support systems for lifelong skill development. When she’s not helping teams level up their observability practice, you can find her at home playing on her Switch or singing karaoke with her rescue pitbull Nova.Links ReferencedFollow Shelby on TwitterConnect with Shelby on LinkedInShelby’s Personal SiteEmail Shelby directly at [email protected]

About Alfonso CabreraAlfonso Cabrera is the Director of Platform Engineering at Red Ventures, where he helps manage and optimize the extensive AWS footprint. He also spent time at AWS as a Solutions Architect and worked as a DevOps Engineer at a few startups. Alfonso enjoys fostering community and has organized DevOpsDays Charlotte for the past 5 years. Outside of work, he tries to stay in shape by playing sports of all kinds, and gets his adrenaline fix by riding motorcycles.Links ReferencedRed VenturesFollow Alfonso on TwitterConnect with Alfonso on LinkedIn

About Richard SeroterRichard Seroter is Director of Outbound Product Management at Google Cloud, with a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Colorado. He’s also an instructor at Pluralsight, the lead InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, a frequent public speaker, the author of multiple books on software design and development, and a former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.Links ReferencedConnect with Richard on LinkedInFollow Richard on TwitterRichard’s Personal Blog

About Peter CooperFounder and editor-in-chief of Cooper Press. Programmer, indexer of all the programming links, former O'Reilly conference chair, and general nerd.Links ReferencedCooper PressJavaScript WeeklyRuby WeeklyArticle, “How to use AWS SimpleDB from Ruby”Follow Peter on TwitterConnect with Peter on LinkedIn

About Divanny LamasDivanny Lamas is the CEO of Transposit, the DevOps automation company. Divanny and the Transposit team are creating a world where humans interact with machines successfully to manage today’s complex technology stacks. Divanny is also a managing director at leading venture capital firm Sutter Hill Ventures. She is passionate about working with entrepreneurs to tackle ambitious technical challenges. Prior to Transposit, she began her career at Google and spent seven years at Splunk, where she saw the rise of big data and was one of the early product managers working on building out visualizations and analytics. She was responsible for product strategy, roadmap, and execution for Splunk's marquee product, Splunk Enterprise. She also served as a senior director of customer success and the head of new product introduction at Splunk. Divanny obtained a bachelor’s degree in government and computer science at Harvard University.Links ReferencedTranspositSutter Hill VenturesFollow Divanny on TwitterConnect with Divanny on LinkedIn

About Brooke MitchellBrooke is an analytical IT professional skilled at team building, data collection and evaluation, cloud computing as well as cross-functional collaboration. She is proficient at scripting and creating CI/CD pipelines to automate workflows to increase efficiency while reducing the chance of error.Links ReferencedConnect with Brooke on LinkedInFollow Brooke on TwitterA Cloud Guru Blog post, “Automating CI/CD With AWS CodePipeline”

About Liz ZalmanLiz Zalman is the Co-Founder & CEO of strongDM. Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of the cross-device profile company Media Armor. After its acquisition, she served as VP of Analytics at the acquirer, Nomi. With over 15 years of experience leading data-driven organizations, she is an expert in analytics, data privacy, and security.Links ReferencedstrongDMConnect with Liz on LinkedIn

About Thomas DullienThomas Dullien / Halvar Flake is a security researcher / entrepreneur known for his contributions to the theory and practice of vulnerability development and software reverse engineering. He built and ran a company for reverse engineering tools that got acquired by Google; he also worked on a wide range of topics - like turning security patches into attacks turning physics-induced DRAM bitflips into useful attacks. After a few years of Google Project Zero, he is now co-founder of a startup called http://optimyze.cloud that focuses on efficient computation -- helping companies save money by wasting fewer cycles, and helping reduce energy waste in the process.Links Referencedoptimyze.cloudQuoted TweetFollow Thomas on TwitterConnect with Thomas on LinkedInThomas’ personal site

About Jam LeomiJam Leomi is a penmaker who just so happens to computer. When not found ranting on equality and equity in #infosec and beyond on twitter, they're found doing their day job as Lead Security Engineer at Honeycomb.Links ReferencedHoneycombJam's Personal BlogFollow Jam on TwitterConnect with Jam on LinkedIn

About Christie BrandaoChristie Brandao is a software engineer at Branch Insurance, a company utilizing a fully serverless infrastructure to sell home, auto, renters, and bundled insurance with just a name and address.Links ReferencedBranchTwitterChristie's portfolioConnect with Christie on LinkedIn

About Courtney WilburnCourtney's journey began in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, by hardware hacking on personal computers and lurking on Prince message boards. She loves finding unusual and efficient ways to solve problems (both human and technical alike), building tools, developing workflows, and building infrastructure almost as much as she enjoys finding ways to keep activists safe organizing online. When she’s away from her desk, she can be found running, hiking, or biking around Philadelphia, cooking, brewing beer, knitting, building keyboards, or singing karaoke duets with her wife.Links ReferencedElasticTwitterConnect with Courtney on LinkedInCourtney's personal site

About Jez HumbleJez Humble is co-author of several books on software including Shingo Publication Award winner Accelerate, The DevOps Handbook, Lean Enterprise, and Jolt Award winner Continuous Delivery. He has spent his 20 year career in software tinkering with code, infrastructure, and product development in companies of varying sizes across three continents, including working for the US Federal Government’s 18F team as part of the Obama Tech Surge, and co-founding startup DevOps Research and Assessment LLC, which was acquired by Google in December 2018. He works for Google Cloud as a technology advocate, and teaches classes on agile software engineering and product management at UC Berkeley’s School of Information.Links ReferencedDORA: https://cloud.google.com/devops/Cloud.gov: https://cloud.gov/NIST Special Publication 800-145: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-145.pdfThe Phoenix Project: https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/1942788290/ The Unicorn Project: https://www.amazon.com/Unicorn-Project-Developers-Disruption-Thriving/dp/1942788762/ Continuous Delivery: https://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automation-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321601912/The DevOps Handbook: https://www.amazon.com/DevOps-Handbook-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations/dp/1942788002/Accelerate: https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Technology-Organizations/dp/1942788339/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jezhumbleLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jez-humble/

About Ceora FordCeora Ford is a digital marketer turned software engineer based in Philadelphia. She is really into Python, AWS, education and diversifying tech. She's had the pleasure of teaching with Kode With Klossy, BSD Education, and more recently, egghead.io. When she is not coding, she's usually watching movies and pretending to be a film critic.Linksegghead.io: https://egghead.io/Eight Resources for Learning Python blog post: https://www.ceoraford.com/posts/8-resources-you-can-use-to-learn-python/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ceeoreo_Personal Blog: https://www.ceoraford.com/ LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceora-ford/Ceora’s Website: https://ceoraford.com/

About Tim BanksTim started his 20+ year career in tech quite non-traditionally. After joining the US Marine Corps to be a musician, he was reassigned into an avionics specialty based on the results of standardized testing.After learning about and working on electronic equipment in the military, Tim went on to work for hardware manufacturers and defense contractors as a civilian. Specializing in systems administration and operations for large Unix-based datastores, Tim left the government contracting world for the private sector, working both in large corporate environments and small startups.Today, Tim leverages his years in operations, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering to advise and consult with engineering groups as a Technical Account manager. Tim is also a husband and a father of five children, as well as a competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, and the reigning American National and Pan American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champion in his division.Links ReferencedCompany Site: https://www.missioncloud.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/elchefe

About Alex ChanAlex is a software developer at Wellcome Collection, a museum in London that explores the history of human health and medicine. Their role primarily focuses on preservation, and building systems to store the Collection’s digital archive. They also help to run the annual PyCon UK conference, with a particular interest in the event’s diversity and inclusion initiatives.Links ReferencedWellcome Collection: https://wellcomecollection.org/Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexwlchanBlog: https://alexwlchan.net/

About Jason McKayJason is responsible for leading Logicworks’ technical strategy including its software andDevOps product roadmap. In this capacity, he works directly with Logicworks’ senior engineers and developers, technology vendors and partners, and R&D team to ensure that Logicworks service offerings meet and exceed the performance, compliance, automation, and security requirements of our clients. Prior to joining Logicworks in 2005, Jason worked in technology in the Unix support trenches at Panix (Public Access Networks). Jason graduated Bard College with a Bachelor of Art and holds several AWS and Azure Professional certifications.Links Referenced: Logicworks: http://logicworks.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhmckay/

About Veliswa BoyaVeliswa Boya is a 2x certified AWS Cloud Engineer currently working in financial services. She works with application teams on cloud migration strategies and cloud architecture designs. Veliswa has been in the IT industry for 20+ years, starting her career as a mainframe developer working on critical systems for car manufacturers, insurance companies, and banks.Veliswa is a member of Indoni Developers, which is a platform for African women in coding/tech. She speaks at meetups and was one of the speakers at the inaugural AWS Community Day Cape Town in 2019. She especially enjoys speaking and connecting with those who are new to tech and specifically new to AWS.Veliswa mentors young people who are looking to embark on AWS certification journeys, she shares her own experiences, gives guidance and support. Veliswa also likes to write about “what she’s learned so far on AWS” and publishes on her Medium blog.For fun Veliswa enjoys the outdoors, she regularly goes hiking and loves road running.Links Referenced: AWS Community Hero: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/veliswa-boya/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vel12171LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/veliswa-boya/Dev.to blog: https://dev.to/vel12171

About Stuart MinimanStuart Miniman has been an analyst and co-host of the online video interview program theCUBE for a decade. Stu's background is in networking and virtualization, he focuses on cloud and disruptive technologies. Stu has interviewed thousands of guests on theCUBE and written on wide variety of enterprise technology topics. His past positions, including sales, product management and strategic planning provides him with perspective on how to focus on the needs of customers. Stuart's previous employers include EMC (with a primary focus on storage networking and virtualization), Lucent Technologies (now Avaya) and American Power Conversion. Stuart holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Bryant University.Links Referenced: theCUBE: http://theCUBE.net/Twitter: https://twitter.com/stutheCUBE Bio page: https://www.theCUBE.net/theCUBE-hosts

About Angela AndrewsAngela Andrews is a solutions architect at Red Hat. Prior to that, she was a systems administrator in higher education for over 15 years. With many interested in technology, she’s dived into areas like cybersecurity, where she was a substitute teacher and teaching assistant (TA) for a cybersecurity boot camp. She attended a full-stack coding boot camp and also taught and TA’d classes teaching people how to code. Angela is the organizer for #PythonForAll, an online meetup called where people learn how to program in Python. She’s given talks on topics like self-care, WordPress, AWS, and also is a contributor to Women Techmakers YouTube video series.Angela is married with two sons and a dog whom she adores, named Scout. In her spare time, she likes to read, lift weights, SPIN, swim, learn new technologies, and occasionally blog.Links Referenced: Connect with AngelaTwitter: @scooterphoenixLinkedInRed HatSponsorsCatchpointStrongDMLinode

About Spencer ViernesSpencer Viernes has been practicing law for over 15 years. His practice consists of local, national and international clients. He has advised clients regarding digital infrastructure, including cloud infrastructure, data centers and telecommunications infrastructure, technology transactions, energy and natural resources, and economic development initiatives. Spencer has provided strategic guidance, both legal and practical, related to diverse geographic business and legal issues.With a practice that includes deals across almost most major continents, Spencer has a demonstrated track record of closing deals with a savvy business mind and a sharp legal perspective. He works side by side with business and project teams to drive results that benefit his clients in a meaningful way and allow room for mutual benefit that solidifies lasting successful business partnerships between otherwise opposing parties.Links Referenced: Vierness ESQ Website: http://www.viernesesq.com/Spencer Viernes Email: [email protected]

About Ev KontsevoyEv Kontsevoy is the CEO of Gravitational, where he and other engineers build open-source tools for other developers for securely delivering cloud apps to restricted and regulated environments. Besides computers, Ev’s obsessed with trains and old film cameras.Links Referenced: Gravitational website: https://gravitational.com/ Gravitational GitHub: https://github.com/gravitational Teleport GitHub: https://github.com/gravitational/teleport

About Fredick “Flee” LeeFredrick "Flee" Lee is the CSO at Gusto, the platform that helps 100,000+ small businesses nationwide pay, insure, and provide benefits for their teams. Flee has more than 15 years of experience leading global information security and privacy efforts at large financial services companies and technology startups, most recently as Square's head of information security. He previously held senior security and privacy roles at Bank of America, NetSuite, and Twilio.Links Referenced: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredrickdlee/

About Corey Sanders:Corey Sanders is the Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Solutions, an organization dedicated to partnering with customers as they transform into successful digital businesses.He is responsible for sales strategy and corporate technical sales across Solution Areas and Teams that include Azure Applications & Infrastructure, Azure Data & AI, Business Applications, Cybersecurity Solutions Group, and Modern Workplace. His focus also includes selling the full value of Microsoft cross-cloud solutions and advancing the technical depth of the Microsoft Solutions team.Prior to this role, Corey was Head of Product for Azure Compute and the founder of Microsoft Azure’s infrastructure as a service (IaaS) business. During that time, he was responsible for products, strategy and technical vision aligned to core Azure compute services. He also previously led program management for multiple Azure services. Earlier in his career, Corey was a developer in the Windows Serviceability team with ownership across the networking and kernel stack for Windows.Corey joined Microsoft in 2004 after graduating from Princeton University and resides in New Jersey.Links Referenced: Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/coreysanderswaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corey-sanders-842b72/

Links Referenced: Honeycomb: https://www.honeycomb.io/Personal Blog: https://charity.wtf/Honeycomb Blog: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog

About Stephanie StimacStephanie is a Design Technologist and Program Manager for Microsoft Edge Developer Experiences. She comes from a background in design and after initially spending 6 years focusing on a career in web design, has spent the last 4 years working on Microsoft Edge to improve developer tools and the browser. Currently she helps run an initiative called the Web We Want that focuses on identifying problems developers face in their day-to-day work and is passionate about HTML, CSS and inspiring a new generation to get involved in the web.Links ReferencedMicrosoft company website: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/ Corey’s websites https://gaslighting.me/ and https://stop.lying.cloud/The Web We Want: https://webwewant.fyi/Smashing Conference: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/events/beyond tellerrand: https://beyondtellerrand.com/An Event Apart: https://aneventapart.com/ webhint: https://webhint.io/Stephanie’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/seaotta

About Mark NunnikhovenIs this system safe? Is my information protected? These are hard questions to answer. Mark Nunnikhoven works to make cybersecurity and privacy easier to understand.A forensic scientist and security leader, Mark has spent more than 20 years helping to defend private and public systems from cybercriminals, hackers, and nation states. A sought after speaker, writer, and technology pundit, his message is simple: secure and private systems are a requirement in today’s world, not a luxury.Links Referenced: Trend Micro: https://trendmicro.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/markncaMark’s website: https://markn.ca/

About Adithya ReddyI do everything from web and mobile to backend architecture at Branch Insurance. I started out as a purely frontend developer but after joining Branch, which was 100% serverless from day 1, I expanded across the stack and probably write as much CloudFormation today as I do JavaScript.Links Referenced: Branch Insurance Main: https://ourbranch.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheTallpantsGitHub: https://github.com/tallpants

About Christina WarrenChristina Warren is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, where she helps shape the overall video and broader content strategy for Channel 9, Docs.Microsoft.com, and the greater CA team. In this role, she hosts shows on Channel 9, Microsoft’s video channel for developer content, creates technical content snd demos, speaks at events, and interviews people within the developer community. Prior to joining Microsoft, Christina spent a decade in digital media as an editor, senior reporter, and commentator, with a focus on technology, business, and, entertainment. As a journalist, she appeared as an expert or commentator on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, Fox Business, Bloomberg, the BBC, Marketplace Radio, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and many more outlets. She also co-hosts Rocket, a popular tech news podcast, which has the distinction of being one of the only tech podcasts with an all-female hosting team.Links:This Week on Channel 9 Rocket Podcast Microsoft Build Microsoft Developer YouTube Screaming in the Cloud Episode 68

About Charles FitzgeraldCharles Fitzgerald is a Seattle-based angel investor, with a focus on developer platforms and infrastructure. Previously, he spent 20+ years working on platform businesses at Microsoft and VMware. He can see the cloud from his house.Links Referenced: Main company site: https://www.platformonomics.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/charlesfitz/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesfitzSponsorsTrend Micro Cloud OneA Cloud GuruNew Relic

About Bill StaplesBill Staples is New Relic’s chief product officer, responsible for driving the company’s market-leading platform strategy and leading New Relic’s product management, engineering and design functions. Staples is an execution-focused product and engineering leader who loves to build and scale cloud-based businesses. Previously Staples was at Adobe, where he led the 1,500+ employee global engineering team behind Adobe’s market-leading Experience Cloud. Prior to Adobe, Staples spent 17 years at Microsoft, including his last role as vice president of Microsoft’s Application platform. At both Microsoft and Adobe, he successfully led transformative product, culture and technical innovation agendas, helping both companies expand multi-billion dollar cloud portfolios with developers and IT as the customer.Links ReferencedMain company site: https://newrelic.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/bstaplesLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamstaples/

About Rodrigo FloresRodrigo Flores is Managing Director of the Accenture Cloud Platform (ACP) in charge of Architecture, Product Management and Engineering innovation. Currently he leads a team of 400 people delivering the service to 3000 clients and $400M of cloud spend. The Accenture Cloud Platform is a hybrid cloud service that delivers a variety of providers such as Amazon, Azure, Google, VMware and Microsoft-based private clouds. Additionally, Cloud Management Services such as patching, security, backup, hardening, monitoring and security. This includes cloud brokering, security and cloud optimization services.Additionally, Rodrigo frequently works with Global 2000 enterprises to help them in their cloud transformation and migration projects. These engagements include DevOps, financial, security and program reviews as well as one-on-one coaching and consulting with C-suite executives.Prior to Accenture, Rodrigo worked at Cisco in the cloud software business group as CTO. He founded newScale (acquired by Cisco) the service catalog and cloud management platform pioneer from 2000--2011.Links Referenced: Accenture main site: http://accenture.com/Rodrigo’s blog “Working Class CTO”: https://workingclasscto.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roflores/Twitter: @rfflores

About Blake StoddardBlake is Senior System Administrator on Basecamp’s Operations team who spends most of his time working with Kubernetes, and AWS, in some capacity. When he’s not deep in YAML, he’s out mountain biking.Links Referenced: Basecamp: https://basecamp.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/t3rabytesSignal v. Noise blog (author page): https://m.signalvnoise.com/author/blake/Signal v. Noise blog (main site): signalvnoise.com

About Sachin AgarwalSachin Agarwal is the Worldwide Product Management Lead at IBM Aspera where he is responsible for leading up the portfolio's strategy and roadmap. Prior to joining IBM, he held various product ownership positions including Principal Product Manager at LaunchDarkly, VP of Product and Operations at Nylas, and Director of Product Management at Oracle. Sachin's post-career goal is to retire in Hawai'i, where he plans to open a great Chicago-themed gastropub/cocktail bar.Links Referenced: IBM Aspera: https://www.ibm.com/products/asperaTwitter: https://twitter.com/sachinagLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachinag/

About Simon ElishaAs Head of Technology and Transformation at Amazon Web Services, Simon Elisha is sought after by C-Level Executives who want deep insights into combining modern technology innovations with the pragmatic lessons learned from hard-earned experience. An expert in Cloud Computing and Organizational Change needed to get the most out of it; Simon is able to demystify how technology innovation is best applied to enable organisations improve customer experience, reduce costs and adapt quickly.Simon was a leader in cloud well before it was mainstream. As the first technical staff member for Amazon Web Services in Australia, he led the charge to Public Cloud. Bringing over 30 years of industry experience in software, infrastructure and business consulting to the “brave new world”– he has guided start-ups, digital businesses, Government agencies and Enterprises alike on their journey to the cloud. He now leads the AWS Solutions Architecture team located in capital cities across Australia and New Zealand.A noted industry speaker and communicator; as host of the AWS Podcast, Simon speaks to a global audience of technology leaders and practitioners on a weekly basis. Simon has held senior roles at organisations including Pivotal Software, Cisco, Hitachi Data Systems, VERITAS Software, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and EDS. In addition, Simon earned an Honors Degree in Information Technology from Monash University and holds eight patents.Links Referenced: AWS Podcast: https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/aws-podcast/Ensuring Rollback Safety During Deployments: https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/ensuring-rollback-safety-during-deployments/

About Jaana DoganJaana Dogan is working on Spanner at Google to make state not your problem problem. She has 15+ years of experience in building infrastructure, developer platforms, and tools. Jaana's current work is focused on storage systems, observability and performance tools, and helping customers with architectural design tradeoffs.Links Referenced: Recommended book: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable/dp/1449373321Twitter: https://twitter.com/rakyllhttps://jbd.dev/https://rakyll.org/

About Jon MyerA Partner Solutions Architect for Cloud Management Tools at AWS. Jon Myer is an evangelist for all things AWS and passionate about educating, teaching, and connecting with others about new or existing services AWS releases.Links Referenced: The AWS Blogger: https://www.theawsblogger.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/_jonmyerLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-myer/

About Tim Bray:Tim is a general-purpose Internet-software geek. He specializes in Web, search, writing, speaking, business. He founded Textuality in 1996. He is available for consulting on issues of technology leadership, software construction, and distributed systems. You can follow Tim's musings on his blog ongoing and on Twitter.Links Referenced: “Working Effectively with Legacy Code”: https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052Twitter: https://twitter.com/timbrayBlog: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/Article Tim wrote about his PR FAQ: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/21/A-Cloud-PR-FAQTim Bray’s “Split AWS from Amazon” PR FAQ he wrote: https://github.com/timbray/a-cloud-prfaqTim Bray’s “Break up Google” article: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/25/Break-Up-GoogleCorey’s Fake PR FAQ: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/introducing-aws-elastic-beanstalker/

About Katie BullardAs President of A Cloud Guru, Katie leads the sales, marketing, customer success, and partnership teams for the world's largest and most trusted cloud training platform.Links Referenced: Main company site: https://acloud.guru/ and https://acloudguru.com A Cloud Guru Twitter: https://twitter.com/acloudguruA Cloud Guru LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a-cloud-guru/

About Liz Fong-JonesLiz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 16+ years of experience. She is an advocate at Honeycomb for the SRE and Observability communities, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights.Links ReferencedCompany Site: https://www.honeycomb.io/The Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/Honeycomb Liz: https://www.honeycomb.io/lizPersonal site: https://www.lizthegrey.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/lizthegrey

About Forrest BrazealForrest is an enterprise cloud architect, speaker, and community advocate. Currently a senior manager at A Cloud Guru, he spent years designing applications for the cloud at Infor and Trek10. One of the original AWS Serverless Heroes, Forrest was also named one of Jefferson Frank's Top 7 Global AWS Experts in 2019. His first book, "The Read-Aloud Cloud", is coming from Wiley in September 2020.Links ReferencedBook: https://www.amazon.com/Read-Aloud-Cloud-Innocents-Inside/dp/1119677629Cloud Irregular: https://cloudirregular.substack.com/ works. Note that this is the link behind some text that is “forrestBrazeal.com/mailinglist” which was not a working link.Twitter: https://twitter.com/forrestbrazealLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/forrestbrazeal/Personal Website: https://forrestbrazeal.com/Article “Why Central Cloud Teams Fail”: https://info.acloud.guru/resources/why-central-cloud-teams-fail-and-how-to-save-yours

About Melanie CebulaMelanie Cebula is an expert in Cloud Infrastructure, where she is recognized worldwide for explaining radically new ways of thinking about cloud efficiency and usability. She is an international keynote speaker, presenting complex technical topics to a broad range of audiences, both international and domestic. Melanie is a staff engineer at Airbnb, where she has experience building a scalable modern architecture on top of cloud-native technologies.Besides her expertise in the online world, Melanie spends her time offline on the “sharp end” of rock climbing. An adventure athlete setting new personal records in challenging conditions, she appreciates all aspects of the journey, including the triumph of reaching ever higher destinations.On and off the wall, Melanie focuses on building reliability into critical systems, and making informed decisions in difficult situations. In her personal time, Melanie hand whisks matcha tea, enjoys costuming and dancing at EDM festivals, and she is a triplet.Links Referenced: Twitter: https://twitter.com/melaniecebulaMelanie Cebula’s website: https://melaniecebula.com/

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