Screaming in the Cloud

About RichRich Burroughs is a Senior Developer Advocate at Loft Labs where he's focused on improving workflows for developers and platform engineers using Kubernetes. He's the creator and host of the Kube Cuddle podcast where he interviews members of the Kubernetes community. He is one of the founding organizers of DevOpsDays Portland, and he's helped organize other community events. Rich has a strong interest in how working in tech impacts mental health. He has ADHD and has documented his journey on Twitter since being diagnosed.Links:Loft Labs: https://loft.shKube Cuddle Podcast: https://kubecuddle.transistor.fmLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richburroughs/Twitter: https://twitter.com/richburroughsPolywork: https://www.polywork.com/richburroughs

About WillWill is recovering System Administrator with a decade's worth of experience in technology and management. He now embraces the never-ending wild and exciting world of Information Security.Links:Color Health: https://www.color.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/willgregorian

About CliffCliff is an Agile Consultant and self proclaimed “computer botherer.”Links:Agile Manifesto: https://agilemanifesto.orgTwitter: https://twitter.com/moonpolysoft

About JohnJohn Allspaw has worked in software systems engineering and operations for over twenty years in many different environments. John’s publications include the books The Art of Capacity Planning (2009) and Web Operations (2010) as well as the forward to “The DevOps Handbook.”  His 2009 Velocity talk with Paul Hammond, “10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation” helped start the DevOps movement.John served as CTO at Etsy, and holds an MSc in Human Factors and Systems Safety from Lund UniversityLinks:The Art of Capacity Planning: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Capacity-Planning-Scaling-Resources/dp/1491939206/Web Operations: https://www.amazon.com/Web-Operations-Keeping-Data-Time/dp/1449377440/The DevOps Handbook: https://www.amazon.com/DevOps-Handbook-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations/dp/1942788002/Adaptive Capacity Labs: https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.comJohn Allspaw Twitter: https://twitter.com/allspawRichard Cook Twitter: https://twitter.com/ri_cookDave Woods Twitter: https://twitter.com/ddwoods2

About NaderCurrently working to help build the decentralized future at Edge and Node.Previously led Developer Advocacy for Front End Web and Mobile at Amazon Web Services.Specializing in GraphQL, cross platform, & cloud enabled web & mobile application developmentDeveloping applications & reference architectures using a combination of GraphQL & serverless technologies built on AWS4 years experience training fortune 500 companies on web & mobile application development, with the last two focused on React and React Native Training (clients include Microsoft, Amazon, US Army Corps of Engineers, Visa, ClassPass, American Express, Indeed, & Warner Bros).Mobile consultant specializing in cross platform web & mobile application developmentAuthor of React Native in Action (Manning Publications)Author of Full Stack Serverless (O'Reilly Publications)International speakerCreator of React Native ElementsCreator of JAMstack CMS & JAMStack ECommerceLinks:Edge & Node: https://edgeandnode.comJs.la: https://js.laTwitter: https://twitter.com/dabit3Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/naderdabit

About Serena Serena Tiede is a SRE at Optum, a healthcare technology company that manages everything from the delivery of care to the management of patient data. Prior to becoming an SRE they were a Kafka operator for real time security logging and ingestion. In their off time, they moonlight as the proud admin of an incredibly over engineered Minecraft server.  Links:Optim: https://www.optum.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/SerenaTiedePersonal Blog: https://blog.serenacodes.com

About AmyWith over ten years industry experience, Amy Arambulo Negrette has built web applications for a variety of industries including Yahoo! Fantasy Sports and NASA Ames Research Center. One of her projects modernized two legacy systems impacting the entire research center and won her a Certificate of Excellence from the Ames Contractor Council. More recently, she built APIs for enterprise clients for a cloud consulting firms and led a team of Cloud Software Engineers. Amy has survived acquisitions, layoffs, and balancing life with two small children. Links:The Duckbill Group: http://duckbillgroup.com/@nerdypaws: https://twitter.com/nerdypaws

About JesseJesse is a seasoned operations engineer with a deep passion for understanding complex technical and organizational systems. He's spent his career helping Engineering teams achieve their business goals by improving how they interact with their technical systems, and with each other. He's currently a Cloud Economist with Duckbill Group, guiding organizations along their journey of cloud cost optimization and management.Links:The Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/Jesse’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jesse_deroseAWS Morning Brief: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/

About JamesJames is the Redmonk co-founder, sunshine in a bag, industry analyst loves developers, "motivating in a surreal kind of way". Came up with "progressive delivery". He/HimLinks:RedMonk: https://redmonk.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MonkChipsMonktoberfest: https://monktoberfest.com/Monki Gras: https://monkigras.com/

About SeanSean Kilgore is an Architect at Twilio, where he draws boxes, lighthouses and soapboxes. In Sean’s spare time, he enjoys reading, walking, gaming, and a well-made drink.Links:Twilio: https://www.twilio.com/Silvia Botros's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dbsmasherSean's Twitter: https://twitter.com/log1kal