Screaming in the Cloud

About JessJess Schalz (she/they) is a computer gremlin multiclassing in software development and infosec. She’s a queer disability advocate, and this informs her empathy-based approach to technology. Her hobbies include watercolors and collecting human remains. Talk to her about weird medical history and cats.Links:Transposit: https://www.transposit.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessica_schalz

Links:Splunk: https://www.splunk.com/Meanwhile in Security: https://meanwhileinsecurity.com/

About KevinKevin's the Lead Product Owner and Engineer on Ducktools, a recently-released set of AWS Cost Management power tools.Links:Stop Lying Cloud: https://stop.lying.cloud/TabDB.io: https://tabdb.io/Personal website: https://kevinkuchta.com/

About JonanJonan Scheffler is the Director of Developer Relations at New Relic. He has a long history of breaking things in public and occasionally putting them back together again. His interest in physical computing often leads him to experiment with robotics and microelectronics, though his professional experience is more closely tied to cloud services and modern application development. In order to break things more effectively he is particularly excited about observability lately, and he’s committed to helping developers around the world live happier lives by showing them how to keep their apps and their dreams alive through the night.Links:New Relic: https://newrelic.com/The Relicans: https://www.therelicans.com/New Relic Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/new_relicTwitter: https://twitter.com/thejonanshow

About TomTom is the co-founder and CEO of Command E, an app that provides blazing fast search across all your docs and records in G Suite, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Dropbox, and 20+ more tools via one easy keyboard shortcut.Links:Command E: https://getcommande.com/

Links:Linux Foundation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/OpenJS Foundation: https://openjsf.org/Relying on plain-text email is a 'barrier to entry' for kernel development, says Linux Foundation board member:https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahnovotnyWebsite: https://sarahnovotny.com/

About JamesJames Urquhart is a Strategic Executive Advisor for VMware Tanzu customers. Mr. Urquhart brings almost 30 years of experience in distributed applications development, deployment, and operations, focusing on software as a complex adaptive system, cloud native applications and platforms, and automation. Prior to joining VMware, via Pivotal, Mr. Urquhart ran product and engineering teams for AWS, SOASTA, and Dell (via Enstratius). Mr. Urquhart has also written and spoken extensively about cloud computing, software agility and the business opportunities they afford.Mr. Urquhart was named one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing by both the MIT Technology Review and the Huffington Post, and is a former contributing author to GigaOm and CNET. He recently completed a book on event-driven integration for O'Reilly Publishing titled "Flow Architectures: The Future of Event-Driven Integration".Mr. Urquhart graduated from Macalester College with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Physics.Links:VMWare: https://www.vmware.com/Book: Flow Architectures: The Future of Streaming and Event-Driven integration: https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Architectures-Streaming-Event-Driven-Integration/dp/1492075892Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesurquhart

About NoraNora is the founder and CEO of Jeli. She is a dedicated and driven technology leader and software engineer with a passion for the intersection between how people and software work in practice in distributed systems. In November 2017 she keynoted at AWS re:Invent to share her experiences helping organizations large and small reach crucial availability with an audience of ~40,000 people, helping kick off the Chaos Engineering movement we see today. She created and founded the www.learningfromincidents.io movement to develop and open-source cross-organization learnings and analysis from reliability incidents across various organizations, and the business impacts of doing so.Links:Jeli main webpage: https://www.jeli.io/Chaos Engineering Book: https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Engineering-System-Resiliency-Practice/dp/1492043869Learning From Incidents: https://www.learningfromincidents.io/Jeli contact us form: https://www.jeli.io/contact-us/

About Ana VisneskiAna Visneski is a Grandmaster of Disaster (responding to them more so than causing them). She has 15+ years of experience in communications and disaster response. Ana was an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard for 12 years responding to disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the BP Oilspill. After leaving the service she was the Head of Launch, Blog, and Podcast Operations, before becoming the Head of Global Disaster Response. She is now the Sr. Director of Communications and Community for H2O.ai. She has a Master of Communication in Digital Media and a Master of Communication in Networks. She pronounces AMI the right way...as an acronym.Links Referenced: H2O.ai: https://www.h2o.ai/Twitter: https://twitter.com/acvisneski 

About Sarah KaiserI use lasers to melt acrylic and the cisheteropatriarchy alike. Quantum Computing technologist/consultant by day, author and dog mom the rest of the time.Links:Unitary Fund: https://unitary.fund/Sarah’s Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/crazy4pi314/Learning Quantum Computing with Python and Q#: https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Quantum-Computing-Python-hands/dp/1617296139Twitter: https://twitter.com/crazy4pi314GitHub: https://github.com/crazy4pi314Personal Website: https://www.sckaiser.com/