Screaming in the Cloud

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:sandyct@amazon.com 

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:  bhs@gmail.comThis 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: farrah@stackery.ioPersonal 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/