Screaming in the Cloud

About BobbyBobby Allen serves as VP of Strategic Alliances for Turbonomic. Bobby is a veteran of Intel, Bank of America, TIAA and multiple startups including one that was successfully acquired by the former CSC (now DXC). He went into corporate America after being an Intel fellow at the University of Michigan (MS in Computer Science and Engineering) and a Meyerhoff scholar at UMBC (BS in Computer Science). Bobby has been involved in cloud computing startups since 2012. He frequently advises CXO’s on cloud strategy and logical equivalents in cloud technology. His goal is to provide data-driven output to move decision-makers from information to clarity to insight. Bobby has been a featured speaker in various events and digital formats including VMworld, AWS re:Invent, theCube, crowdchat, The CTOAdvisor and Gigaom’s Voices in the cloud. He’s equally skilled talking to analysts or technical teams but most enjoys helping customers separate fact from fiction.Bobby also serves as Stewardship Pastor of Wellspring Church – a Gospel centered, multi-ethnic community in Charlotte, NC. Bobby is a member of the preaching team at Wellspring and is responsible for technology, finances and facilities. He’s grateful to be part of the team that helped complete a multi-year building purchase and remodeling project. Wellspring moved into their new home in December 2019. Links:turbonomic.com: https://turbonomic.combobbyjallen.me: https://bobbyjallen.me@ballen_clt: https://twitter.com/ballen_clt

About Talia Talia Nassi is an international keynote speaker who delivers content on all things testing and quality. She is a developer advocate at Split.io where she works closely with engineering teams globally to ship software more efficiently. She is passionate about feature flagging, canary launches, CI/CD, testing in production, and A/B testing. She has spoken at countless conferences internationally, ranging from audiences of 100 to 4000!Links:Split Software: https://www.split.io/Flagship Conference: https://flagshipconf.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/talia_nassi

About AlanDeveloper and DevOps-er; interested in all kinds of cloudy tech, especially deployment pipelines and infrastructure as code. Also building the DevOps capabilities at Hitachi Capital.Links:Hitachi Capital UK: https://www.hitachicapital.co.uk/Accelerate book: https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Technology-Organizations/dp/1942788339Twitter: https://twitter.com/alanraisonGitHub: https://github.com/alanraison

About PetePete is a recovering system administrator who got his start with AWS services back in 2009 while at Sonian, the first cloud-based email archiving platform. As one of the earliest and largest users of AWS, Pete ran technical operations and brought DevOps theory into action. Pete has worked for other companies such as Dyn, Threat Stack, and CHAOSSEARCH, managing large scale AWS deployments. A frequent speaker at DevOps and Observability events, Pete brings a product mindset to SaaS operations. Outside of work he spends his free time smoking meats and tweeting about the results.Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/petecheslock

About KevinKevin Miller is currently the global General Manager for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Prior to this role, Kevin has had multiple leadership roles within AWS, including as the General Manager for Amazon S3 Glacier, Director of Engineering for AWS Virtual Private Cloud, and engineering leader for AWS Virtual Private Network and AWS Direct Connect. Kevin was also Technical Advisor to Charlie Bell, Senior Vice President for AWS Utility Computing. Kevin is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.Links:AWS S3: https://aws.amazon.com/S3AWS Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/awsAWS YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServicesAWS Pi Week: https://pages.awscloud.com/pi-week-2021.html

About LaurieLaurie has been a web developer for 25 years and cares deeply about making the web bigger and better for everyone. He previously co-founded awe.sm and npm, and is currently a Senior Data Analyst at Netlify.Links:Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/seldoPersonal website: https://seldo.com/

About MarkMark Curphey is the co-founder at Open Raven, a cloud native data security company. Mark’s fingerprints can be found all over the security industry, but perhaps most visibly from his role as the founder of OWASP. His contributions range from his time as a hands-on application security director at Charles Schwab, Product Unit Manager of Microsoft’s MSDN program and his more recent role as founder and CEO of SourceClear. Mark’s obsessed with building elegant products that solve hard problems for discerning customers.Links:Open Raven: https://www.openraven.com/

About HeidiHeidi is a transformation advocate with LaunchDarkly. She delights in working at the intersection of usability, risk reduction, and cutting-edge technology. One of her favorite hobbies is talking to developers about things they already knew but had never thought of that way before. She sews all her presentation shirts so they match the pajama pants.Links:LaunchDarkly: https://launchdarkly.com/Personal website: https://heidiwaterhouse.comBlog: [https://medium.com/@wiredferret](https://medium.com/@wiredferret)Twitter: https://twitter.com/wiredferret

About KendallKendall was the first hire at Fairwinds and has been in almost every role in the company. Today he works to establish Fairwinds as a essential name in kubernetes—offering software, services, and open source. Kendall has four kids, a dog, and three weasels. He also co-hosts a podcast on leadership with his friend Rachel at https://authorityissu.es.Links:Fairwinds: https://www.fairwinds.com/kubernetestheeasyway.com: https://kubernetestheeasyway.comFairwinds Elements: https://www.fairwinds.com/elementslastweekinaws.com: https://lastweekinaws.comlastweekinazure.com: https://lastweekinazure.comFairwinds Insights: [Fairwinds Insights](https://www.fairwinds.com/insights)blatanterror: https://twitter.com/blatanterrorAuthority Issues: https://authorityissu.es/

About LauraLaura Thomson is Vice President of Platform Engineering at Fastly. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society. Previously, she spent more than a decade at Mozilla, leading engineering and operations teams, and was on the board of Let's Encrypt. Laura has spoken at many conferences worldwide over the last 20 years and is the author of best-selling software development books.Links:Fastly: https://www.fastly.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/lxt