Screaming in the Cloud

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: sviernes@viernesesq.com 

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/

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