Screaming in the Cloud

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/