Screaming in the Cloud

About Jessy IrwinJessy is Founder at Amulet. She enjoys the challenge of translating complex cybersecurity problems into relatable terms, and is responsible for developing, maintaining and delivering comprehensive ecosystem security strategy that supports and enables the needs of the people who depend on Tendermint and the CosmosSDK.Links Referenced: https://twitter.com/jessysaurusrexhttps://jessysaurusrex.com

About Dwayne MonroeI've been a technologist, in some form, for most of my conscious life (starting with a Sinclair kit computer). I work as a cloud architect, focused on Azure and spend a lot of time thinking and writing about that (particularly controlling spend). Besides that, I enjoy a good Bordeaux or martini, travel and my life as a transplant to Amsterdam.Links Referenced: https://retool.com/ https://twitter.com/cloudquistadorhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/cloudquistador/http://monroelab.net/projects/cmdlet-daily/Books on Amazon

About Wes MillerWes Miller analyzes and writes about Azure infrastructure services, including Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Active Directory, and Microsoft systems management technologies.Before joining Directions on Microsoft, Wes was a product manager and development manager for several Austin, TX, start-ups, including Winternals Software, acquired by Microsoft in 2006. Prior to that, Wes spent seven years at Microsoft working as a program manager in the Windows Core Operating System and MSN divisions.Wes received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.Linkshttps://twitter.com/getwiredhttps://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/

About David BoekeDavid Boeke is the CTO and VP Services for Turbot. David has 25+ years of experience in IT and is recognized as a transformational leader that has enabled some of the world's largest enterprise organizations to make the transition to public cloud. Prior to joining Turbot, David was the Global Head of Enterprise Architecture and led the cloud transformation for a Fortune 50 life sciences company."LinksTurbot: https://turbot.com/

About Chris HillChris is a Knoxville, TN native and owner of the podcast production company, HumblePod. In addition to producing podcasts for nationally-recognized thought leaders, Chris is the co-host and producer of the award-winning Our Humble Beer Podcast. He also lectures at the University of Tennessee, where he leads courses on podcasts and marketing. He received his undergraduate degree in business at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he majored in Marketing & Entrepreneurship, and he later received his MBA from King University.Chris currently serves his community the American Marketing Association in Knoxville, where he is currently the President-Elect. In his spare time, he enjoys hanging out with the local craft beer community, international travel, exploring the great outdoors, and his many creative pursuits.Linkshttp://www.humblebeerpodcast.com/https://www.humblepod.com/ https://twitter.com/christopholies

About Miles WardAs Chief Technology Officer at SADA, Miles Ward leads SADA’s cloud strategy and solutions capabilities. His remit includes delivering next-generation solutions to challenges in big data and analytics, application migration, infrastructure automation, and cost optimization; reinforcing our engineering culture; and engaging with customers on their most complex and ambitious plans around Google Cloud.Previously, Miles served as Director and Global Lead for Solutions at Google Cloud. He founded the Google Cloud’s Solutions Architecture practice, launched hundreds of solutions, built Style-Detection and Hummus AI APIs, built CloudHero, designed the pricing and TCO calculators, and helped thousands of customers like Twitter who migrated the world’s largest Hadoop cluster to public cloud and Audi USA who replatformed to k8s before it was out of alpha, and helped Banco Itau design the intercloud architecture for the bank of the future.Before Google, Miles helped build the AWS Solutions Architecture team. He wrote the first AWS Well Architected framework, proposed Trusted Advisor and the Snowmobile, invented GameDay, worked as a core part of the Obama for America 2012 “tech” team, helped NASA stream the Curiosity Mars Rover landing, and rebooted Skype in a pinch.Earning his Bachelors of Science in Rhetoric and Media Studies from Willamette University, Miles is a three-time technology startup entrepreneur who also plays a mean electric sousaphone.LinksSADA.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milesward/Twitter: https://twitter.com/mileswardCloud N Clear Podcast: https://sada.com/insights-events/video-podcasts/

About Alex DeBrieAlex is an author and self-employed AWS trainer and consultant focused on serverless & cloud-native technologies. He has been recognized as an AWS Data Hero for his community work with DynamoDB and other database technologies. In a previous job, he worked at Serverless, Inc., creators of the Serverless Framework. If you go even further back in his employment history, you'll see Alex had a brief stint as a corporate lawyer.Links ReferencedThe DynamoDB Book: https://www.dynamodbbook.com/The DynamoDB Guide: https://www.dynamodbguide.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrieBlog: https://www.alexdebrie.com/

About Stephen O’GradyStephen O'Grady is a Principal Analyst and co-founder of RedMonk, the open source industry analyst firm. He focuses on infrastructure software such as programming languages, operating systems and databases, as well as covering horizontal industry trends such as open source and cloud computing. Before setting up RedMonk, Stephen worked as an analyst at Illuminata by drawing on his real world expertise in architecting and developing applications for leading systems integrators. Prior to joining Illuminata, Stephen served in various senior capacities with large systems integration firms like Keane and boutique consultancies like Blue Hammock. Regularly cited in publications such as the New York Times, BusinessWeek, the Boston Globe, and the Wall Street Journal, and a popular speaker and moderator on the conference circuit, Stephen's advice and opinion is well respected throughout the industry.Links ReferencedThe New Kingmakers book: https://www.amazon.com/New-Kingmakers-Developers-Conquered-World-ebook/dp/B0097E4MEU/RedMonk: redmonk.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/sogrady

About Sid RaoSid Rao is the GM of Amazon Chime. He has over 25 years of industry experience, having worked at Infosys, Nortel, Microsoft, and CTI Group.Links Referencedhttps://chime.aws“Chime after Chime” by Tim Leehane and Spencer Johnson

About Jeff SandquistJeff leads Developer Relations for the cloud at Microsoft, leading the team reinventing Microsoft's relationship with software developers around the globe. Their team is maniacal about making the world amazing for developers of all backgrounds.They are excited to support and contribute to open source platforms, tools, and processes. As Developer Advocates, they’re spreading awareness of Azure and enabling developers to do what they love; write, code, and learn. Great online content (docs, demos, videos, code) is the foundation of everything they do.They create global developer online experiences for Microsoft like docs.microsoft.com, Channel 9, and dev.microsoft.com. They connect with developer communities through their programs including Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Regional Director, their annual Build conference and third-party developer events around the globe.Links ReferencedMicrosoft.com/learnMicrosoft.com/learn/tvbronconamedsue.com

About Colin PercivalColin is the founder of Tarsnap, a secure online backup service which combines the flexibility and scriptability of the standard UNIX "tar" utility with strong encryption, deduplication, and the reliability of Amazon S3 storage. Having started work on Tarsnap in 2006, Colin is among the first generation of users of Amazon Web Services, and has written dozens of articles about his experiences with AWS on his blog.Colin has been a member of the FreeBSD project for 15 years and has served in that time as the project Security Officer and a member of the Core team; starting in 2008 he led the efforts to bring FreeBSD to the Amazon EC2 platform, and for the past 7 years he has been maintaining this support, keeping FreeBSD up to date with all of the latest changes and functionality in Amazon EC2.In his spare time, Colin serves as an alumni representative on the Senate of his alma mater, Simon Fraser University, where he frequently brings a perspective from the world of startups to the ivory tower.Links ReferencedCompany site: https://www.tarsnap.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/cpercivaBlog: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cperciva

About Prashanth ChandrasekarPrashanth Chandrasekar is Chief Executive Officer of Stack Overflow and is responsible for driving Stack Overflow’s overall strategic direction and results. Prashanth is a proven technology executive with extensive experience leading and scaling high growth global organizations. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s Cloud & Infrastructure Services portfolio of businesses, including the Managed Public Clouds, Private Clouds, Colocation and Managed Security businesses. Before that, Prashanth held a range of senior leadership roles at Rackspace including Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s high growth, global business focused on the world's leading Public Clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Alibaba Cloud, which became the fastest growing business in Rackspace’s history. Prior to joining Rackspace, Prashanth was a Vice President at Barclays Investment Bank, focused on providing Strategic and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) advice for clients in the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) industries. Prashanth was also a Manager at Capgemini Consulting where he managed Operations transformation engagements and consulting teams across the US. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an M.Eng in Engineering Management from Cornell University and a B.S. in Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Maine. Prashanth is married and has two children.Links ReferencedTwitterRackspaceStack OverflowStack Exchange

About Bryan LilesBryan Liles is a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware. He leads the Developer Experience group, which creates solutions to help developers be more productive in Kubernetes. When not working, Bryan builds and races cars and drones.Over the past 20 years, Bryan has worked around cloud technology and distributed systems. His approaches to technology are: simplify with fidelity and technology should give access to all.Links Referenced: https://vmware.com

About Jill RouleauJill Rouleau is a member of the Ansible engineering team, focused on maintaining AWS and other Cloud modules. Prior to Ansible, they worked on OpenStack, using more than a decade of operations and SRE experience to improve deployment tooling for cloud operators.Links Referenced:Jill Rouleau's TwitterAnsibleRedHat

About the Jeff SmithJeff Smith has been in the technology industry for over 15 years, oscillating between management and individual contributor. Jeff currently serves as the Director of Production Operations for Centro, an advertising software company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Before that he served as the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering at Grubhub. Jeff is passionate about DevOps transformations in organizations large and small, with a particular interest in the psychological aspects of problems in companies. He lives in Chicago with his wife Stephanie and their two kids Ella and Xander. Jeff is currently writing a book “Operational Anti-Patterns with DevOps Solutions” with Manning publishing due out in Spring of 2020. He’s also the chapter president of Blacks in TechnologyLinks Referenced: @DarkAndNerdy Article: The First DevOps Hurdle BITConBlacks in TechnologyJeff's Book: Operations Anti-Patterns with DevOps Solutions

About Yulan LinYulan is a data nerd with experience in everything from bioinformatics to NLP. She’s currently working as a Developer Advocate for Google’s Data Studio. Prior to Google, she worked in research, event management, and government data science. When not computerating, she can be found reading, hosting dinner parties, and making music.Links ReferencedDigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/CHAOSSEARCH.iohttp://do.co/screamingDataStax: http://www.datastax.comhttps://www.datastax.com/accelerateTwitter https://twitter.com/y3l2n

About Hiro NishimuraM.Ed. in Special Education from University of Maryland. Five years experience working as an IT Engineer in New York City. Now, a “Freepreneur” (Freelance Entrepreneur) in the DC suburbs.Technical Course Instructor at LinkedIn Learning. Founder of AWS Newbies and Cloud Newbies. Founder and CEO of 24 Villages, LLC. – a Writing and Consulting company.LinksDigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/ http://do.co/screaming http://CHAOSSEARCH.io AWSNewbies.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/hirokonishimura Intro to AWS: IntroToAWS.com Cloud Newbies: CloudNewbies.comScreaming in the Cloud: ScreamingintheCloud.com

About xssfoxJust a dumb fox Links Referenced: DigitalOcean https://www.digitalocean.com/ CHAOSSEARCH http://CHAOSSEARCH.io Big Buck AWS https://github.com/xssfox/bigbuckaws Corey’s talk, “Terrible Ideas in Git” https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/terrible-ideas-in-git-by-corey-quinn/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/xssfoxScreaming in the Cloud http://ScreamingintheCloud.com

About Sandy CarterSandy Carter is the AWS Vice President, Public Sector Partners and Programs. In her new role, she is responsible for driving next-generation partnering. Her responsibilities include evolving partner models to intensify partner innovation, AWS cloud adoption and creation of mission critical cloud solutions with partners across public sector. Her impact will be growing the partner ecosystem as a major driver for public sector and contributing significantly to the success of Public Sector customers.Prior to this role, Sandy built an enterprise workload team as the Vice President of Windows and Enterprise Workloads at Amazon Web Services (AWS) focused on helping companies innovate using their current technology and assets with migration and modernization through containers and serverless. She led the team to overall growth with AWS now hosting nearly two times as many Windows Server instances in the cloud as Microsoft, per IDC. She led her engineering team to optimize SQL Server on AWS which exhibited 2X+ better price/ performance than Azure per ZK Research. For her leadership on the VMware Cloud on AWS business, she led the team to deliver results of 4x the number of customers year over year, with those customers having deployed 9x the number of VMs now vs 1 year ago. Finally, she grew the number of competency partners by 3x and the number of ISV validated solutions by 4x in the last year.She is the author of Extreme Innovation: Three Superpowers for Purpose and Profit, built on her research with Carnegie Mellon. Sandy was named Lifetime Achievement Winner, 'Excellence in Cloud Achievement' for 2019, AI Innovator of the Year Nominee in 2019, Top 10 AI Influencers for 2019, Top 10 Cloud Computing Influencer, Top 39 Engineers by Business Insider 2018, Top 50 AI influencer by Onalytica 2018, Top 10 Future of Work influencer in 2018, and Top 10 Women in Technology by CNN. Sandy is the Chairman of the Board of Girls in Tech, and an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley. Last year, Girls in Tech had over 125K women participate in their “Hacking for Humanity” initiative, and trained over 90K women globally on coding through boot camps, and workshops. She was honored two times with the AIT United Nations Member of the Year award for helping developing countries with technology. She is an Advisor to startups in AI, IoT, and AR/VR.Links ReferencedDigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/, http://do.co/screamingObserve 2020 Virtual Conference: snark.cloud/observere:Invent: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ExtraHop: http://ExtraHop.com, http://ExtraHop.com/trialCoding for America: https://www.codeforamerica.org/Twitter, #techforgood: https://twitter.com/search?q=techforgoodTwitter, Sandy Carter: https://twitter.com/sandy_carterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandyacarter/Email: mailto:[email protected]

About Ben SigelmanBen Sigelman is a co-founder and the CEO at LightStep, a co-creator of Dapper (Google’s distributed tracing system), and co-creator of the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects (both part of the CNCF). Ben's work and interests gravitate towards observability, especially where microservices, high transaction volumes, and large engineering organizations are involved.Links ReferencedOpenTracing: https://opentracing.io/OpenTelemetry: https://opentelemetry.io/Twitter: https://twitter.com/el_bhsEmail: [email protected] podcast: http://ScreamingintheCloud.com

About Farrah CampbellAfter 10 years of working in healthcare management, a serendipitous 20-minute car ride with Kara Swisher inspired Farrah to make the jump into technology. She has worked at multiple startups in many different capacities, eventually working her way to being the Ecosystems Director for Stackery in Portland, Oregon.As the Stackery Ecosystems Director, Farrah has managed the Stackery relationship with AWS including Stackery as an Advanced Technology Partner, achieving the AWS DevOps Competency, a launch partner for Lambda Layers and is an AWS Serverless Hero. Farrah has cultivated the serverless community as an organizer of Portland Serverless Days, the Portland Serverless Meetup, along with numerous serverless workshops and the Portland tech community events from Techfest to bringing multiple luminaries to Portland.Links Referenced AD: DigitalOceanAD: DataStaxPortland Serverless DaysPortland Serverless Meetup Twitter: @FarrahC32LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farrahcampbell/Email: [email protected] site: https://medium.com/@FarrahC32Company site: www.stackery.io

About Tobi KnaupTobi Knaup is a Co-Founder & the Chief Technology Officer of D2iQ. Knaup is an experienced software engineer focusing on large scale systems and machine learning. Previously, he helped scale Airbnb to millions of users worldwide as technical lead. Tobi’s research work is on Internet-scale sentiment analysis using online knowledge, linguistic analysis, and machine learning. Tobi also co-founded his first company at the age of 15.HeadshotLinks ReferencedTwitter Username: superguenterLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiasknaup/Personal site: https://tobi.knaup.me/Company site: https://d2iq.com/

About Gene KimGene Kim is a multiple award-winning CTO, researcher and author, and has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He has written six books, including The Unicorn Project (2019), The Phoenix Project (2013), The DevOps Handbook (2016), the Shingo Publication Award winning Accelerate (2018), and The Visible Ops Handbook (2004-2006) series. Since 2014, he has been the founder and organizer of DevOps Enterprise Summit, studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.Links Referenced The 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/B0812C82T9The DevOps Enterprise Summit: https://events.itrevolution.com/@RealGeneKim

About Jeremy BowersJeremy Bowers is an Engineering Director for the Newsroom Engineering team at The Washington Post. Previously, Jeremy was the Senior Editor for News Applications on the Interactive News Team of The New York Times, where he led a team focused on writing software for elections, Congress and the Supreme Court. Jeremy was also a news applications developer on the NPR Visuals team and a Senior Newsroom Developer at The Washington Post.Links Referenced: Twitter: @jeremybowersLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyjbowers/Personal site: jeremybowers.comCompany site: https://www.washingtonpost.com/

About Kelsey HightowerKelsey Hightower is a principal developer advocate at Google, the co-chair of KubeCon, the world’s premier Kubernetes conference, and an open source enthusiast. He’s also the co-author of Kubernetes Up & Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure.Links ReferencedTwitter: @kelseyhightowerCompany site: Google.comBook: Kubernetes Up & Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure

About Rob ZuberRob Zuber is a 20-year veteran of software startups; a four-time founder, three-time CTO. Since joining CircleCI, Rob has seen the company through its Series B, Series C, and Series D funding and delivered on product innovation at scale. Rob leads a team of 150+ engineers who are distributed around the globe.Prior to CircleCI, Rob was the CTO and Co-founder of Distiller, a continuous integration and deployment platform for mobile applications acquired by CircleCI in 2014. Before that, he cofounded Copious an online social marketplace. Rob was the CTO and Co-founder of Yoohoot, a technology company that enabled local businesses to connect with nearby consumers, which was acquired by Appconomy in 2011.Links ReferencedTwitter: @z00bLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robzuber/Personal site: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/rob-zuber#section-overviewCompany site: www.circleci.com

About Andreas WittigAndreas Wittig and Michael Wittig are freelancers, entrepreneurs, and authors. As freelancers, they are training, coaching, and consulting their clients on all things Amazon Web Services (AWS). In their role as an entrepreneur, Andreas and Michael are building SaaS products. The brothers have published two books Amazon Web Services in Action and Rapid Docker on AWS and are blogging at cloudonaut.io.Links ReferencedTwitter: @andreaswittigLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaswittig/Company site: https://cloudonaut.ioBooks:Rapid Docker on AWSAmazon Web Services in Action

About Thomas HazelThomas Hazel is Founder, CTO, and Chief Scientist of CHAOSSEARCH. He is a serial entrepreneur at the forefront of communication, virtualization, and database technology and the inventor of CHAOSSEARCH's patent pending IP. Thomas has also patented several other technologies in the areas of distributed algorithms, virtualization and database science. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of New Hampshire, and founded both student & professional chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).Links ReferencedCompany site: http://chaossearch.ioTwitter: @ThomasHazelLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomashazel/

About Dai WakabayashiDai Wakabayashi is a tech reporter for the New York Times based in San Francisco whose primary focus is all things Google. Prior to joining the Times, Dai covered Apple and Japanese tech companies (e.g., Sony, Nintendo, Panasonic, and Sharp) for The Wall Street Journal for almost eight years. He also worked for Reuters for nine years, focusing on Microsoft during his time there.Links Referenced: Dai’s recent AWS articleNY Times hires Wakabayashi to cover techTwitter: @daiwakaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwakabayashi/Personal site: https://www.nytimes.com/by/daisuke-wakabayashiCompany site: nytimes.com

About Leon AdatoLeon Adato is a Head Geek and technical evangelist at SolarWinds®, and is a Cisco® Certified Network Associate (CCNA), MCSE and SolarWinds Certified Professional. His experience spans financial, healthcare, food and beverage, and other industries.Before he was a SolarWinds Head Geek, Adato was a SolarWinds user for over a decade. His expertise in IT began in 1989 and has led him through roles in classroom training, desktop support, server support, and software distribution.Funny:In my sordid career, I have been an actor, bug exterminator and wild-animal remover (nothing crazy like pumas or wildebeasts. Just skunks and raccoons.), electrician, carpenter, stage-combat instructor, American Sign Language interpreter, and Sunday school teacher.Oh, and I work with computers.Since 1989 (when you got a free copy of Windows 286 on twelve 5¼” floppies when you bought a copy of Excel 1.0) I have worked as a classroom instructor, courseware designer, desktop support tech, server support engineer, and software distribution expert.Then about 16 years ago I got involved with systems monitoring. I've worked with a wide range of tools: Tivoli, Nagios, Patrol, ZenOss, OpenView, SiteScope, and of course SolarWinds. I've designed solutions for companies that were extremely modest (~10 systems) to those that were mind-bogglingly large (250,000 systems in 5,000 locations). During that time, I've had to chance to learn about monitoring all types of systems – routers, switches, load-balancers, and SAN fabric as well as windows, linux, and unix servers running on physical and virtual platforms.Full LengthLeon Adato is a Head Geek and technical evangelist at SolarWinds®, and is a Cisco® Certified Network Associate (CCNA), MCSE and SolarWinds Certified Professional (he was once a customer, after all). His 27years of network management experience spans financial, healthcare, food and beverage, and other industries.Before he was a SolarWinds Head Geek, Adato was a SolarWinds user for over a decade. His expertise in IT began in 1989 and has led him through roles as a classroom instructor, courseware designer, desktop support tech, server support engineer, and software distribution expert.In the early 2000s, Adato got involved with systems monitoring and has since worked with a wide range of tools including Tivoli®, Nagios®, Patrol, ZenOss®, OpenView, SiteScope, and of course SolarWinds. He has designed solutions for companies that were extremely modest (approx. 10 systems) to those that were mind-bogglingly large (250,000 systems in 5,000 locations), through which he gained experience monitoring all types of systems – routers, switches, load-balancers, and SAN fabric – as well as Windows®, Linux®, and UNIX® servers running on physical and virtual platforms.His career includes key roles at Rockwell Automation®, Nestle, PNC, and CardinalHealth providing server standardization, support, and network management and monitoring.Links ReferencedTwitter: @leonadatoLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adatole/Personal site: www.adatosystems.comCompany site: www.solarwinds.com

About Adam JacobAdam Jacob is a co-founder of Chef Software and the creator of Chef. He has over a decade of experience designing, building, and managing large production systems. Adam is Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of The System Initiative.Before Chef Software, he founded HJK Solutions, an automated infrastructure consultancy where he built production cloud infrastructures. Adam has been responsible for large production systems, internal corporate automation, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts.Links ReferencedTwitter: @adamhjkLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjacob/Personal site: https://sfosc.orgCompany site: https://www.systeminit.com

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About Rachel StephensRachel Stephens is an industry analyst with RedMonk, the developer focused industry analyst firm, covering a broad range of developer and infrastructure products. At RedMonk she has worked with vendors such as Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft.Rachel arrived at RedMonk with a background in finance, including an MBA with a Business Intelligence specialization, along with broad exposure to a variety of enterprise database systems. Her analysis and work leverages a variety of programming and statistical modeling languages including Python and R. At RedMonk she has covered everything from Infrastructure-as-a-Service pricing patterns and trends to explorations of serverless definitions and usage.In her free time, Rachel enjoys skiing and spending time in the mountains of Colorado, where she lives with her family.Links ReferencedTwitter: @rstephensmeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelstephens/Company site: redmonk.com/rstephens

About Pete CheslockPete is Professionally Unaffiliated, but spends his time consulting and advising companies such as CHAOSSEARCH and CloudTruth.Previous he was the VP of Product for CHAOSSEARCH, and before that he has been running large scale infrastructure on Amazon Web Services since 2009Links Referencedre:Invent Expo Nature Walk Twitter ThreadTwitter Username: @petecheslockLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petecheslock/Personal site: https://pete.wtfCompany site: https://pete.wtfCHAOSSEARCH

About Chloe CondonChloe is a Bay Area based Cloud Advocate for Microsoft. Previously, she worked at Sentry.io where she was an advocate for their open-source & hosted error monitoring tool, and created the award winning "Sentry Scouts" program. Her unique demos and projects with Microsoft Azure have ranged from fake boyfriend alerts to Mario Kart "astrology", and have been featured in VICE, The New York Times, as well as SmashMouth's Twitter account. Chloe holds a BA in Drama from San Francisco State University and is a graduate of Hackbright Academy. She prides herself on being a non-traditional background engineer, is likely one of the only engineers you'll meet who has played an ogre princess, crayon, and the back-end of a cow on a professional stage (a true "triple threat"), and is passionate about bringing folks with non-traditional backgrounds into tech.LinksTwitter: @ChloeCondonLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chloecondon/Personal site: https://dev.to/chloecondonCompany site: https://azure.microsoft.com

About Cody OgdenA product designer at heart, Cody has been crafting experiences for the web since he was ten years old. He’s best known for his open source website and its cheeky Twitter account, Killed by Google, which Fast Company called “an informational fever dream,” and one netizen praised as “an ignorant meme.” His project tracks news of Google’s product decisions until they are laid to rest in the Google Graveyard.Cody works remotely as a software engineer at Cannabiz Media. He's a fan of hard cider, winters in Minnesota, and sees himself moving into a product design role at some point in the future.LinksTwitter: @killedbygoogleLinkedIn URL: https://linkedin.com/in/codyogdenPersonal site: https://codyogden.comCompany site: https://killedbygoogle.com

About Russ SavageRuss Savage is a Product Manager at InfluxData where he focuses on enabling DevOps for teams using InfluxDB and the TICK Stack. He has a background in computer engineering and has been focused on various aspects of enterprise data for the past 10 years. Russ has previously worked at Cask Data, Elastic, Box, and Amazon. When Russ is not working at InfluxData, he can be seen speeding down the slopes on a pair of skis.Links [email protected]://www.linkedin.com/in/russellsavage/https://www.influxdata.com/

About Tiffany FarrissTiffany is the CEO and co-owner of Palantir.net. Along with George DeMet, she provides the vision and values for Palantir. She has over 20 years of internet consulting and development experience and extensive experience providing information architecture and usability consulting for a wide variety of clients. Tiffany has a BA in Mathematics from Northwestern University, where she focused on mathematical modeling and human-computer interaction, and was a member of the Drupal Association Board from 2009–2017.Links ReferencedSponsors AWS SolutionsInflux DataTwitter: @farrissLinkedIn URL: www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanyfarrissCompany site: Palantir.net

About Sasha RosenbaumSasha is a Program Manager on the Azure DevOps engineering team, focused on improving the alignment of the product with open-source software.Sasha is a co-organizer of the DevOps Days Chicago and the DeliveryConf conferences, and recently published a book on Serverless computing in Azure with .NET.Links Referenced: Sponsor: Snark.cloud/AWSsolutionsTwitter Username: @DivineOpsLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-rosenbaum/Personal site: https://www.sasharosenbaum.com/Youtube channel: Azure DevOpsCompany site: microsoft.com

About Tanya JancaTanya Janca is the co-founder and CEO of Security Sidekick. Her obsession with securing software runs deep, from starting her company, to running her own OWASP chapter for 4 years and founding the OWASP DevSlop open-source and education project. With her countless blog articles, workshops and talks, her focus is clear. Tanya is also an advocate for diversity and inclusion, co-founding the international women’s organization WoSEC, starting the online #MentoringMonday initiative, and personally mentoring, advocating for and enabling countless other women in her field. As a professional computer geek of 20+ years, she is a person who is truly fascinated by the ‘science’ of computer science.LinksTwitter Username: @shehackspurpleLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-janca-60ab0998/Personal site: https://dev.to/shehackspurpleCompany site: https://securitysidekick.devSponsor: www.manifold.co

About Josh DoodyJosh is a salary negotiation coach who helps experienced software developers negotiate job offers from big tech companies like Google and Amazon.Links Referenced: Twitter: https://twitter.com/joshdoodyLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshdoody/Personal site: https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/My Coaching Site:: https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/coach/A detailed article on how to answer the salary expectations question: https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/the-dreaded-salary-question/

About Paul DixPaul Dix is the creator of InfluxDB. He has helped build software for startups, large companies and organizations like Microsoft, Google, McAfee, Thomson Reuters, and Air Force Space Command. He is the series editor for Addison Wesley’s Data & Analytics book and video series. In 2010 Paul wrote the book Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails for Addison Wesley’s. In 2009 he started the NYC Machine Learning Meetup, which now has over 7,000 members. Paul holds a degree in computer science from Columbia University.Links Referenced: Twitter Username: @pauldixLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauldix/Personal site: pauldix.netCompany site: www.influxdata.com

About Paul Chin Jr. Paul Chin Jr. is a curious human who likes to work with new technologies. His day job is at Cloudreach as a cloud solutions architect, working with enterprises to modernize their applications in the cloud. On the side, he’s a prophet for Nicolas Cage and is called to spread his message. Links ReferencedTwitter Username: @paulchinjrLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulchinjr/Personal site: https://www.paulchinjr.comCompany site: www.cloudreach.comTalk hashtag: #praisecage

About Paul JohnstonPaul Johnston is an interim CTO, CTO and strategist who has particular interests in serverless, cloud, startups and climate change. Formerly, Paul served as a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS for Serverless and CTO of multiple startups, including one of the world’s first serverless startups. Paul’s also a keynote speaker, tweets a lot at @PaulDJohnston, and blogs a lot on Medium. Right now, he may also be working in stealth mode on something (it’s probably serverless)…Links ReferencedTwitter Username: PaulDJohnstonLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/padajo/Personal site: https://medium.com/@PaulDJohnstonCompany site: http://roundaboutlabs.com/Sponsor: Manifold

About Nicole Forsgren, PhDDr. Nicole Forsgren does research and strategy at Google Cloud following the acquisition of her startup DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) by Google. She is co-author of the Shingo Publication Award winning book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps, and is best known for her work measuring the technology process and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been an entrepreneur, professor, sysadmin, and performance engineer. Nicole’s work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. Nicole earned her PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, and is a Research Affiliate at Clemson University and Florida International University.Links ReferencedTwitter Username: @nicolefvLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolefv/Personal site: nicolefv.comCompany site: cloud.google.com/devopsManifold: https://www.manifold.co/

About Andrew PetersonAndrew Peterson is the CEO and Cofounder of Signal Sciences. Under Peterson’s leadership, Signal Sciences has become the #1 and most trusted provider of next-gen WAF and RASP technology and one of the fastest growing cybersecurity companies in the world. As CEO, Peterson is responsible for overseeing all business functions, go-to-market activities, and attainment of strategic, operational and financial goals. Prior to founding Signal Sciences, Peterson has been building leading edge, high performing product and sales teams across five continents for over fifteen years with such companies as Etsy, Google, and the Clinton Foundation. In 2016, O’Reilly published his book Cracking Security Misconceptions to encourage non-security professionals to take part in organizational security. He graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Science, Technology, and Society.Links ReferencedTwitter: @ampeters06LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewmarshallpetersonSignal SciencesSponsor: X-Team

About AJ StuyvenbergAaron Stuyvenberg (AJ) is a Senior Engineer at Serverless Inc, focused on creating the best possible Serverless developer experience. Before Serverless, he was a Lead Engineer at SportsEngine (an NBCUniversal company). When he's not busy writing software, you can find him skydiving, BASE jumping, biking, or fishing.Links Referenced: Twitter: @astuyveServerless.comServerless Blog

About Josh StellaJosh Stella is co-founder and CTO of Fugue, the company delivering autonomous cloud infrastructure security and compliance. Previously, Josh was a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he supported customers in the area of national security. Prior to Fugue, Josh served as CTO for a technology startup and, for 25 years, in numerous other IT leadership and technical roles.Links ReferencedTwitter: @joshstellaLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-stella-949a9711www.fugue.co

About Matt BrobergMatt loves working with technology communities to develop products and content that invite delightful engagement. He’s a serial podcaster, best known for the Geek Whisperers podcast, is on the board of the Influence Marketing Council, co-maintains the DevRel Collective, and often shares his thoughts on Twitter and GitHub @mbbroberg. He’s also a fan of tattoos and cats, though remains unsure of Schrödinger’s.Links Referenced: Twitter Username: MbbrobergLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbbroberg/Personal site: Mbbroberg.funX-TeamCHAOSSEARCH

About Nicole Forsgren, PhDDr. Nicole Forsgren does research and strategy at Google Cloud following the acquisition of her startup DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) by Google. She is co-author of the Shingo Publication Award winning book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps, and is best known for her work measuring the technology process and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been an entrepreneur, professor, sysadmin, and performance engineer. Nicole’s work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. Nicole earned her PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, and is a Research Affiliate at Clemson University and Florida International University.Links Referenced: Twitter Username: @nicolefvLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolefv/Personal site: nicolefv.comCompany site: cloud.google.com/devopsX-Team: x-team.com/cloud