Screaming in the Cloud

About Christie BrandaoChristie Brandao is a software engineer at Branch Insurance, a company utilizing a fully serverless infrastructure to sell home, auto, renters, and bundled insurance with just a name and address.Links ReferencedBranchTwitterChristie's portfolioConnect with Christie on LinkedIn

About Courtney WilburnCourtney's journey began in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, by hardware hacking on personal computers and lurking on Prince message boards. She loves finding unusual and efficient ways to solve problems (both human and technical alike), building tools, developing workflows, and building infrastructure almost as much as she enjoys finding ways to keep activists safe organizing online. When she’s away from her desk, she can be found running, hiking, or biking around Philadelphia, cooking, brewing beer, knitting, building keyboards, or singing karaoke duets with her wife.Links ReferencedElasticTwitterConnect with Courtney on LinkedInCourtney's personal site

About Jez HumbleJez Humble is co-author of several books on software including Shingo Publication Award winner Accelerate, The DevOps Handbook, Lean Enterprise, and Jolt Award winner Continuous Delivery. He has spent his 20 year career in software tinkering with code, infrastructure, and product development in companies of varying sizes across three continents, including working for the US Federal Government’s 18F team as part of the Obama Tech Surge, and co-founding startup DevOps Research and Assessment LLC, which was acquired by Google in December 2018. He works for Google Cloud as a technology advocate, and teaches classes on agile software engineering and product management at UC Berkeley’s School of Information.Links ReferencedDORA: https://cloud.google.com/devops/Cloud.gov: https://cloud.gov/NIST Special Publication 800-145: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-145.pdfThe Phoenix Project: https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/1942788290/ The Unicorn Project: https://www.amazon.com/Unicorn-Project-Developers-Disruption-Thriving/dp/1942788762/ Continuous Delivery: https://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automation-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321601912/The DevOps Handbook: https://www.amazon.com/DevOps-Handbook-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations/dp/1942788002/Accelerate: https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Technology-Organizations/dp/1942788339/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jezhumbleLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jez-humble/ 

About Ceora FordCeora Ford is a digital marketer turned software engineer based in Philadelphia. She is really into Python, AWS, education and diversifying tech. She's had the pleasure of teaching with Kode With Klossy, BSD Education, and more recently, egghead.io. When she is not coding, she's usually watching movies and pretending to be a film critic.Linksegghead.io: https://egghead.io/Eight Resources for Learning Python blog post: https://www.ceoraford.com/posts/8-resources-you-can-use-to-learn-python/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ceeoreo_Personal Blog: https://www.ceoraford.com/ LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceora-ford/Ceora’s Website: https://ceoraford.com/

About Tim BanksTim started his 20+ year career in tech quite non-traditionally. After joining the US Marine Corps to be a musician, he was reassigned into an avionics specialty based on the results of standardized testing.After learning about and working on electronic equipment in the military, Tim went on to work for hardware manufacturers and defense contractors as a civilian. Specializing in systems administration and operations for large Unix-based datastores, Tim left the government contracting world for the private sector, working both in large corporate environments and small startups.Today, Tim leverages his years in operations, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering to advise and consult with engineering groups as a Technical Account manager. Tim is also a husband and a father of five children, as well as a competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, and the reigning American National and Pan American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champion in his division.Links ReferencedCompany Site: https://www.missioncloud.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/elchefe 

About Alex ChanAlex is a software developer at Wellcome Collection, a museum in London that explores the history of human health and medicine. Their role primarily focuses on preservation, and building systems to store the Collection’s digital archive. They also help to run the annual PyCon UK conference, with a particular interest in the event’s diversity and inclusion initiatives.Links ReferencedWellcome Collection: https://wellcomecollection.org/Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexwlchanBlog: https://alexwlchan.net/ 

About Jason McKayJason is responsible for leading Logicworks’ technical strategy including its software andDevOps product roadmap. In this capacity, he works directly with Logicworks’ senior engineers and developers, technology vendors and partners, and R&D team to ensure that Logicworks service offerings meet and exceed the performance, compliance, automation, and security requirements of our clients. Prior to joining Logicworks in 2005, Jason worked in technology in the Unix support trenches at Panix (Public Access Networks). Jason graduated Bard College with a Bachelor of Art and holds several AWS and Azure Professional certifications.Links Referenced: Logicworks: http://logicworks.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhmckay/ 

About Veliswa BoyaVeliswa Boya is a 2x certified AWS Cloud Engineer currently working in financial services. She works with application teams on cloud migration strategies and cloud architecture designs. Veliswa has been in the IT industry for 20+ years, starting her career as a mainframe developer working on critical systems for car manufacturers, insurance companies, and banks.Veliswa is a member of Indoni Developers, which is a platform for African women in coding/tech. She speaks at meetups and was one of the speakers at the inaugural AWS Community Day Cape Town in 2019. She especially enjoys speaking and connecting with those who are new to tech and specifically new to AWS.Veliswa mentors young people who are looking to embark on AWS certification journeys, she shares her own experiences, gives guidance and support. Veliswa also likes to write about “what she’s learned so far on AWS” and publishes on her Medium blog.For fun Veliswa enjoys the outdoors, she regularly goes hiking and loves road running.Links Referenced: AWS Community Hero: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/veliswa-boya/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vel12171LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/veliswa-boya/Dev.to blog: https://dev.to/vel12171 

About Stuart MinimanStuart Miniman has been an analyst and co-host of the online video interview program theCUBE for a decade. Stu's background is in networking and virtualization, he focuses on cloud and disruptive technologies. Stu has interviewed thousands of guests on theCUBE and written on wide variety of enterprise technology topics. His past positions, including sales, product management and strategic planning provides him with perspective on how to focus on the needs of customers. Stuart's previous employers include EMC (with a primary focus on storage networking and virtualization), Lucent Technologies (now Avaya) and American Power Conversion. Stuart holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Bryant University.Links Referenced: theCUBE: http://theCUBE.net/Twitter: https://twitter.com/stutheCUBE Bio page: https://www.theCUBE.net/theCUBE-hosts 

About Angela AndrewsAngela Andrews is a solutions architect at Red Hat. Prior to that, she was a systems administrator in higher education for over 15 years. With many interested in technology, she’s dived into areas like cybersecurity, where she was a substitute teacher and teaching assistant (TA) for a cybersecurity boot camp. She attended a full-stack coding boot camp and also taught and TA’d classes teaching people how to code. Angela is the organizer for #PythonForAll, an online meetup called where people learn how to program in Python. She’s given talks on topics like self-care, WordPress, AWS, and also is a contributor to Women Techmakers YouTube video series.Angela is married with two sons and a dog whom she adores, named Scout. In her spare time, she likes to read, lift weights, SPIN, swim, learn new technologies, and occasionally blog.Links Referenced: Connect with AngelaTwitter: @scooterphoenixLinkedInRed HatSponsorsCatchpointStrongDMLinode