Screaming in the Cloud

About RobRob Zuber is a 20-year veteran of software startups; a four-time founder, three-time CTO. Since joining CircleCI, Rob has seen the company through its Series B, Series C, and Series D funding and delivered on product innovation at scale. Rob leads a team of 150+ engineers who are distributed around the globe.Prior to CircleCI, Rob was the CTO and Co-founder of Distiller, a continuous integration and deployment platform for mobile applications acquired by CircleCI in 2014. Before that, he cofounded Copious an online social marketplace. Rob was the CTO and Co-founder of Yoohoot, a technology company that enabled local businesses to connect with nearby consumers, which was acquired by Appconomy in 2011.Links:Twitter: @z00bLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robzuber/Personal site: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/rob-zuber#section-overviewCompany site: www.circleci.com

About JackJack is Uptycs’ outspoken technology evangelist. Jack is a lifelong information security executive with over 25 years of professional experience. He started his career managing security and operations at the world's first Internet data privacy company. He has since led unified Security and DevOps organizations as Global CSO for large conglomerates. This role involved individually servicing dozens of industry-diverse, mid-market portfolio companies.Jack's breadth of experience has given him a unique insight into leadership and mentorship. Most importantly, it fostered professional creativity, which he believes is direly needed in the security industry. Jack focuses his extra time mentoring, advising, and investing. He is an active leader in the ISLF, a partner in the SVCI, and an outspoken privacy activist. Links Referenced:UptycsSecretMenu.com: https://www.uptycssecretmenu.comJack’s email: jroehrig@uptycs.com

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About BrianBrian leads the Google Cloud Product and Industry Marketing team. This team is focused on accelerating the growth of Google Cloud by establishing thought leadership, increasing demand and usage, enabling their sales teams and partners to tell their product stories with excellence, and helping their customers be the best advocates for them.Before joining Google, Brian spent over 25 years in product marketing or engineering in different forms. He started his career at Microsoft and had a very non-traditional path for 20 years. Brian worked in every product division except for cloud. He did marketing, product management, and engineering roles. And, early on, he was the first speech writer for Steve Ballmer and worked on Bill Gates’ speeches too. His last role was building up the Microsoft Surface business from scratch as VP of the hardware businesses. After Microsoft, Brian spent a year as CEO at a hardware startup called Doppler Labs, where they made a run at transforming hearing, and then spent two years as VP at Amazon Web Services leading product marketing, developer advocacy, and a bunch more marketing teams.Brian has three kids still at home, Barty, Noli, and Alder, who are all named after trees in different ways. His wife Edie and him met right at the beginning of their first year at Yale University, where Brian studied math, econ, and philosophy and was the captain of the Swim and Dive team his senior year. Edie has a PhD in forestry and runs a sustainability and forestry consulting firm she started, that is aptly named “Three Trees Consulting”. As a family they love the outdoors, tennis, running, and adventures in Brian’s 1986 Volkswagen Van, which is his first and only car, that he can’t bring himself to get rid of.Links Referenced:Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com@isforat: https://twitter.com/IsForAtLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brhall/

About HarryHarry has worked at Sysdig for over 6 years, helping organizations mature their journey to cloud native. He’s witnessed the evolution of bare metal, VMs, and finally Kubernetes establish itself as the de-facto for container orchestration. He is part of the product team building Sysdig’s troubleshooting and cost offering, helping customers increase their confidence operating and managing Kubernetes.Previously, Harry ran, and later sold, a cloud hosting provider where he was working hands on with systems administration. He studied information security and lives in the UK.Links Referenced:Sysdig: https://sysdig.com/

About SimenEver since he started programming simple games on his 8-bit computer back in the day, Simen has been passionate about how software can deliver powerful experiences. Throughout his career he has been a sought-after creator and collaborator for companies seeking to push the envelope with their digital end-user experiences.He co-founded Sanity because the state of the art content tools were consistently holding him, his team and his customers back in delivering on their vision. He is now serving as the CTO of Sanity.Simen loves mountain biking and rock climbing with child-like passion and unwarranted enthusiasm. Over the years he has gotten remarkably good at going over the bars without taking serious damage.Links Referenced:Sanity: https://www.sanity.io/Semin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/svale/Slack community for Sanity: https://slack.sanity.io/

About RamDr. Ram Sriharsha held engineering, product management, and VP roles at the likes of Yahoo, Databricks, and Splunk. At Yahoo, he was both a principal software engineer and then research scientist; at Databricks, he was the product and engineering lead for the unified analytics platform for genomics; and, in his three years at Splunk, he played multiple roles including Sr Principal Scientist, VP Engineering and Distinguished Engineer.Links Referenced:Pinecone: https://www.pinecone.io/XKCD comic: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425:_Tasks

About RickRick is the Product Leader of the AWS Optimization team. He previously led the cloud optimization product organization at Turbonomic, and previously was the Microsoft Azure Resource Optimization program owner.Links Referenced:AWS: https://console.aws.amazon.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-ochs-06469833/Twitter: https://twitter.com/rickyo1138

About SamSam Nicholls: Veeam’s Director of Public Cloud Product Marketing, with 10+ years of sales, alliance management and product marketing experience in IT. Sam has evolved from his on-premises storage days and is now laser-focused on spreading the word about cloud-native backup and recovery, packing in thousands of viewers on his webinars, blogs and webpages.Links Referenced:Veeam AWS Backup: https://www.veeam.com/aws-backup.htmlVeeam: https://veeam.com

About BrianBrian is an accomplished dealmaker with experience ranging from developer platforms to mobile services. Before InfluxData, Brian led business development at Twilio. Joining at just thirty-five employees, he built over 150 partnerships globally from the company’s infancy through its IPO in 2016. He led the company’s international expansion, hiring its first teams in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Prior to Twilio Brian was VP of Business Development at Clearwire and held management roles at Amp’d Mobile, Kivera, and PlaceWare.Links Referenced:InfluxData: https://www.influxdata.com/