Screaming in the Cloud

About Spencer ViernesSpencer Viernes has been practicing law for over 15 years. His practice consists of local, national and international clients. He has advised clients regarding digital infrastructure, including cloud infrastructure, data centers and telecommunications infrastructure, technology transactions, energy and natural resources, and economic development initiatives. Spencer has provided strategic guidance, both legal and practical, related to diverse geographic business and legal issues.With a practice that includes deals across almost most major continents, Spencer has a demonstrated track record of closing deals with a savvy business mind and a sharp legal perspective. He works side by side with business and project teams to drive results that benefit his clients in a meaningful way and allow room for mutual benefit that solidifies lasting successful business partnerships between otherwise opposing parties.Links Referenced: Vierness ESQ Website: http://www.viernesesq.com/Spencer Viernes Email: sviernes@viernesesq.com 

About Ev KontsevoyEv Kontsevoy is the CEO of Gravitational, where he and other engineers build open-source tools for other developers for securely delivering cloud apps to restricted and regulated environments. Besides computers, Ev’s obsessed with trains and old film cameras.Links Referenced: Gravitational website: https://gravitational.com/ Gravitational GitHub: https://github.com/gravitational Teleport GitHub: https://github.com/gravitational/teleport 

About Fredick “Flee” LeeFredrick "Flee" Lee is the CSO at Gusto, the platform that helps 100,000+ small businesses nationwide pay, insure, and provide benefits for their teams. Flee has more than 15 years of experience leading global information security and privacy efforts at large financial services companies and technology startups, most recently as Square's head of information security. He previously held senior security and privacy roles at Bank of America, NetSuite, and Twilio.Links Referenced: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredrickdlee/

About Corey Sanders:Corey Sanders is the Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Solutions, an organization dedicated to partnering with customers as they transform into successful digital businesses.He is responsible for sales strategy and corporate technical sales across Solution Areas and Teams that include Azure Applications & Infrastructure, Azure Data & AI, Business Applications, Cybersecurity Solutions Group, and Modern Workplace. His focus also includes selling the full value of Microsoft cross-cloud solutions and advancing the technical depth of the Microsoft Solutions team.Prior to this role, Corey was Head of Product for Azure Compute and the founder of Microsoft Azure’s infrastructure as a service (IaaS) business. During that time, he was responsible for products, strategy and technical vision aligned to core Azure compute services. He also previously led program management for multiple Azure services. Earlier in his career, Corey was a developer in the Windows Serviceability team with ownership across the networking and kernel stack for Windows.Corey joined Microsoft in 2004 after graduating from Princeton University and resides in New Jersey.Links Referenced: Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/coreysanderswaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corey-sanders-842b72/

Links Referenced: Honeycomb: https://www.honeycomb.io/Personal Blog: https://charity.wtf/Honeycomb Blog: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog

About Stephanie StimacStephanie is a Design Technologist and Program Manager for Microsoft Edge Developer Experiences. She comes from a background in design and after initially spending 6 years focusing on a career in web design, has spent the last 4 years working on Microsoft Edge to improve developer tools and the browser. Currently she helps run an initiative called the Web We Want that focuses on identifying problems developers face in their day-to-day work and is passionate about HTML, CSS and inspiring a new generation to get involved in the web.Links ReferencedMicrosoft company website: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/ Corey’s websites https://gaslighting.me/ and https://stop.lying.cloud/The Web We Want: https://webwewant.fyi/Smashing Conference: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/events/beyond tellerrand: https://beyondtellerrand.com/An Event Apart: https://aneventapart.com/ webhint: https://webhint.io/Stephanie’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/seaotta

About Mark NunnikhovenIs this system safe? Is my information protected? These are hard questions to answer. Mark Nunnikhoven works to make cybersecurity and privacy easier to understand.A forensic scientist and security leader, Mark has spent more than 20 years helping to defend private and public systems from cybercriminals, hackers, and nation states. A sought after speaker, writer, and technology pundit, his message is simple: secure and private systems are a requirement in today’s world, not a luxury.Links Referenced: Trend Micro: https://trendmicro.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/markncaMark’s website: https://markn.ca/ 

About Adithya ReddyI do everything from web and mobile to backend architecture at Branch Insurance. I started out as a purely frontend developer but after joining Branch, which was 100% serverless from day 1, I expanded across the stack and probably write as much CloudFormation today as I do JavaScript.Links Referenced: Branch Insurance Main: https://ourbranch.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheTallpantsGitHub: https://github.com/tallpants

About Christina WarrenChristina Warren is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, where she helps shape the overall video and broader content strategy for Channel 9, Docs.Microsoft.com, and the greater CA team. In this role, she hosts shows on Channel 9, Microsoft’s video channel for developer content, creates technical content snd demos, speaks at events, and interviews people within the developer community. Prior to joining Microsoft, Christina spent a decade in digital media as an editor, senior reporter, and commentator, with a focus on technology, business, and, entertainment. As a journalist, she appeared as an expert or commentator on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, Fox Business, Bloomberg, the BBC, Marketplace Radio, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and many more outlets. She also co-hosts Rocket, a popular tech news podcast, which has the distinction of being one of the only tech podcasts with an all-female hosting team.Links:This Week on Channel 9 Rocket Podcast Microsoft Build Microsoft Developer YouTube Screaming in the Cloud Episode 68

About Charles FitzgeraldCharles Fitzgerald is a Seattle-based angel investor, with a focus on developer platforms and infrastructure. Previously, he spent 20+ years working on platform businesses at Microsoft and VMware. He can see the cloud from his house.Links Referenced: Main company site: https://www.platformonomics.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/charlesfitz/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesfitzSponsorsTrend Micro Cloud OneA Cloud GuruNew Relic