Screaming in the Cloud

About Paul Chin Jr. Paul Chin Jr. is a curious human who likes to work with new technologies. His day job is at Cloudreach as a cloud solutions architect, working with enterprises to modernize their applications in the cloud. On the side, he’s a prophet for Nicolas Cage and is called to spread his message. Links ReferencedTwitter Username: @paulchinjrLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulchinjr/Personal site: https://www.paulchinjr.comCompany site: www.cloudreach.comTalk hashtag: #praisecage

About Paul JohnstonPaul Johnston is an interim CTO, CTO and strategist who has particular interests in serverless, cloud, startups and climate change. Formerly, Paul served as a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS for Serverless and CTO of multiple startups, including one of the world’s first serverless startups. Paul’s also a keynote speaker, tweets a lot at @PaulDJohnston, and blogs a lot on Medium. Right now, he may also be working in stealth mode on something (it’s probably serverless)…Links ReferencedTwitter Username: PaulDJohnstonLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/padajo/Personal site: https://medium.com/@PaulDJohnstonCompany site: http://roundaboutlabs.com/Sponsor: Manifold

About Nicole Forsgren, PhDDr. Nicole Forsgren does research and strategy at Google Cloud following the acquisition of her startup DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) by Google. She is co-author of the Shingo Publication Award winning book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps, and is best known for her work measuring the technology process and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been an entrepreneur, professor, sysadmin, and performance engineer. Nicole’s work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. Nicole earned her PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, and is a Research Affiliate at Clemson University and Florida International University.Links ReferencedTwitter Username: @nicolefvLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolefv/Personal site: nicolefv.comCompany site: cloud.google.com/devopsManifold: https://www.manifold.co/ 

About Andrew PetersonAndrew Peterson is the CEO and Cofounder of Signal Sciences. Under Peterson’s leadership, Signal Sciences has become the #1 and most trusted provider of next-gen WAF and RASP technology and one of the fastest growing cybersecurity companies in the world. As CEO, Peterson is responsible for overseeing all business functions, go-to-market activities, and attainment of strategic, operational and financial goals. Prior to founding Signal Sciences, Peterson has been building leading edge, high performing product and sales teams across five continents for over fifteen years with such companies as Etsy, Google, and the Clinton Foundation. In 2016, O’Reilly published his book Cracking Security Misconceptions to encourage non-security professionals to take part in organizational security. He graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Science, Technology, and Society.Links ReferencedTwitter: @ampeters06LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewmarshallpetersonSignal SciencesSponsor: X-Team

About AJ StuyvenbergAaron Stuyvenberg (AJ) is a Senior Engineer at Serverless Inc, focused on creating the best possible Serverless developer experience. Before Serverless, he was a Lead Engineer at SportsEngine (an NBCUniversal company). When he's not busy writing software, you can find him skydiving, BASE jumping, biking, or fishing.Links Referenced: Twitter: @astuyveServerless.comServerless Blog

About Josh StellaJosh Stella is co-founder and CTO of Fugue, the company delivering autonomous cloud infrastructure security and compliance. Previously, Josh was a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he supported customers in the area of national security. Prior to Fugue, Josh served as CTO for a technology startup and, for 25 years, in numerous other IT leadership and technical roles.Links ReferencedTwitter: @joshstellaLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-stella-949a9711www.fugue.co

About Matt BrobergMatt loves working with technology communities to develop products and content that invite delightful engagement. He’s a serial podcaster, best known for the Geek Whisperers podcast, is on the board of the Influence Marketing Council, co-maintains the DevRel Collective, and often shares his thoughts on Twitter and GitHub @mbbroberg. He’s also a fan of tattoos and cats, though remains unsure of Schrödinger’s.Links Referenced: Twitter Username: MbbrobergLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbbroberg/Personal site: Mbbroberg.funX-TeamCHAOSSEARCH

About Nicole Forsgren, PhDDr. Nicole Forsgren does research and strategy at Google Cloud following the acquisition of her startup DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) by Google. She is co-author of the Shingo Publication Award winning book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps, and is best known for her work measuring the technology process and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been an entrepreneur, professor, sysadmin, and performance engineer. Nicole’s work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. Nicole earned her PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, and is a Research Affiliate at Clemson University and Florida International University.Links Referenced: Twitter Username: @nicolefvLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolefv/Personal site: nicolefv.comCompany site: cloud.google.com/devopsX-Team: x-team.com/cloud

About Richard CampbellRichard Campbell wrote his first line of code in 1977. His career has spanned the computing industry both on the hardware and software sides, development and operations. He was a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, acquired by Radware in 2013 and was on the board of directors of Telerik which was acquired by Progress Software in 2014. Today he is a consultant and advisor to a number of successful technology firms and is the founder and chairman of Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org), a public charity that builds open source software for disaster relief. Richard is also the host of two podcasts: .NET Rocks! (www.dotnetrocks.com) the Internet Audio Talkshow for .NET developers and RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com) which is a weekly show for IT Professionals.Links Referenced: Twitter Username: richcampbellLinkedIn URL: www.linkedin.com/in/richjcampbellPersonal site: https://rcampbell.me/Company site: http://runasradio.com

About Mike WarrenMike Warren is cofounder and CTO of Descartes Labs. Mike’s past work spans a wide range of disciplines, with the recurring theme of developing and applying advanced software and computing technology to understand the physical and virtual world. He was a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years, and also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Sandpiper Networks/Digital Island. His work has been recognized on multiple occasions, including the Gordon Bell prize for outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. He has degrees in Physics and Engineering & Applied Science from Caltech, and he received a PhD in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.Links Referenced@m_warrenhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-warren-3a0439b1/https://lightstep.com/