Screaming in the Cloud

About Anna SpyszAnna Spysz is a writer turned software engineer at Stackery in Portland. When not software engineering, she likes to travel, play music, and kung fu fight for fun and profit.Links Referenced: https://www.stackery.iohttps://medium.com/@annaspies

About Scott GuthrieAs executive vice president of the Microsoft Cloud + AI Group, Scott Guthrie is responsible for the company’s computing fabric (cloud and edge, including cloud infrastructure, server, database, CRM, ERP, management) and Artificial Intelligence platform (infrastructure, runtimes, frameworks, tools and higher-level services around perception, knowledge and cognition).Prior to leading the Cloud + AI Group, Guthrie helped lead Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud platform. Since joining the company in 1997, he has made critical contributions to many of Microsoft’s key cloud, server and development technologies and was one of the original founders of the .NET project. Guthrie graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Duke University.Links Referencedhttps://azure.microsoft.com/ 

About Omer Levi HevroniOmer has been coding since 4th grade when his dad taught him BASIC, and he got hooked. From that point, he learned to code in many programming languages (today his favorite is C#). Today he’s working at Soluto by Asurion, and coding is a huge part of his day job.His passion for AppSec started by accident when he was offered the role of security champion. The AppSec journey was (and still is) fascinated, and taught him a lot. OWASP helped him a lot during this journey; This is why he decided to become a paying member and also leading OWASP Glue.Omer’s current job is DevSecOps – helping the entire team to produce more secure software. Besides his job, he’s also giving a lot of talks all over the world, and heavy OSS contributor – mainly to Kamus, a secret encryption solution for Kubernetes platform.When he’s not working – he’s enjoying the company of his two beloved kids and his wife.Linkshttps://twitter.com/omerlhhttps://www.asurion.com/about/smb/who-we-are/https://github.com/Soluto/kamushttps://omerlh.info

About Valentino VolonghiValentino currently designs and implements AdRoll's globally distributed architecture. He is the President and Founder of the Italian Python Association that runs PyCon Italy. Since 2000, Valentino has specialized in distributed systems and actively worked with several Open Source projects. In his free time, he shows off his biking skills on his Cervelo S2 on 50+ mile rides around the Bay.Links Referenced: https://twitter.com/dialtone_Adroll.comTech.adroll.com

About Richard BoydRichard is a Cloud Data Engineer with the iRobot Corporation’s Cloud Data Platform where he builds tools and services to support the world’s most beloved vacuum cleaner.  Before joining iRobot, Richard built discrete event simulators for Amazon’s automated fulfillment centers in Amazon Robotics, ensured your Alexa device had all the skills you could ever want on Amazon’s Alexa team, held test engineering lead roles at BAE, cyber warfare systems analyst roles at MIT, and research roles for the Center for Army Analysis.  He holds advanced degrees in Applied Mathematics & Statistics.Links Referencedhttps://aws.amazon.com/deepracer/https://aws.amazon.com/api-gatewayhttps://aws.amazon.com/lambda/https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformationhttps://twitter.com/cloudtrekau/status/936300151005626368https://twitter.com/rchrdbydhttp://rboyd.devhttps://richardhboyd.comhttps://linkedin.com/in/richard-h-boyd

About Richard HartmannRichard "RichiH" Hartmann is the Swiss Army Chainsaw at SpaceNet, leading both a greenfield datacenter build and monitoring. By night, he is involved in several FLOSS projects, a Prometheus team member, founder of OpenMetrics, and organizing various related conferences, including but not limited FOSDEM, DENOG, and Chaos CommunicationCongress. Links Referenced: https://velocityconf.com/cloudhttps://prometheus.iohttps://www.debian.orghttps://promcon.iohttps://fosdem.orghttps://cloud.withgoogle.com/nexthttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/buildhttps://reinvent.awsevents.comhttps://twitter.com/twitchih

About Jess FrazelleJessie Frazelle is a computer programmer who has worked at GitHub, Microsoft, Google, Docker and various companies, startups, even design agencies before that. She’s worked on a lot of the open source projects in the container ecosystem, she’s a top abuser of the GitHub api, and runs her own cloud from her apartment and a colo in NYC called jess cloud.Links Referenced: twitter.com/jessfrazgithub.commicrosoft.comgoogle.comdocker.comcontained.afcncf.iosummerofcode.withgoogle.comJoe.devSoul of a New Machinegithub.com/Gazler/githug

About Maureen LonerganMaureen Lonergan joined Amazon Web Services in March of 2012 as Director of Training and Certification. Since then, Maureen has worked to build a set of programs and offerings that offer a flexible path for learners to advance their careers and for organizations to enable their teams and get more out of the cloud. Her team is responsible for building, maintaining, and delivering both classroom and digital training courses alongside an AWS Certification program to validate cloud knowledge. Education programs, including AWS Academy, aim to build a pipeline of cloud talent for the future. Over the course of the last 7 years, the organization has delivered training in over 50 Countries and hundreds of thousands of learners. Prior to Amazon, Maureen was the Senior Director for Partner Enablement at VMware where she built training and enablement programs and delivered training to hundreds of thousands of individuals across a channel of 30,000 partners. She’s also served as the Director of Technical Training and Enablement at Symantec and the Director of Education Services at Ariba.Some of the highlights of the show include: Where to get started learning about the cloudThe variety of AWS certifications offeredWhy certifications are valuable for job prospectsThe work that goes into designing the AWS training coursesSome partners where you can access trainingLinks:https://www.aws.traininghttps://aws.amazon.comhttps://aws.amazon.com/training/course-descriptions/https://aws.amazon.com/training/learning-paths/https://www.coursera.org/awshttps://aws.amazon.com/training/path-cloudpractitioner/https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certifications/certifications/expert/ccie-routing-switching.htmlhttps://www.edx.org/school/awshttps://www.coursera.org/aws

Some of the highlights of the show include: The benefits of RoboMaker in code deploymentHow cloud computation frees up local resources Using machine learning to improve robot reactionHow great a name RoboMaker isAmazon’s commitment to the enduring APILinks:https://aws.amazon.com/robomaker/http://www.ros.orghttps://aws.amazon.com/deepracer/

Some of the highlights of the show include: Implications for migrating to AWSWhy and how for using Amazon vs hardwareThe positive effects of mentoring for both the mentor and menteeTechnical vs Management tracks at a software companyCareer advice for women in the tech fieldLinks:https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://sendgrid.com/DO.co/screaming http://blog.dbsmasher.com/https://github.com/