Screaming in the Cloud

About Tiffany FarrissTiffany is the CEO and co-owner of Palantir.net. Along with George DeMet, she provides the vision and values for Palantir. She has over 20 years of internet consulting and development experience and extensive experience providing information architecture and usability consulting for a wide variety of clients. Tiffany has a BA in Mathematics from Northwestern University, where she focused on mathematical modeling and human-computer interaction, and was a member of the Drupal Association Board from 2009–2017.Links ReferencedSponsors AWS SolutionsInflux DataTwitter: @farrissLinkedIn URL: www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanyfarrissCompany site: Palantir.net

About Sasha RosenbaumSasha is a Program Manager on the Azure DevOps engineering team, focused on improving the alignment of the product with open-source software.Sasha is a co-organizer of the DevOps Days Chicago and the DeliveryConf conferences, and recently published a book on Serverless computing in Azure with .NET.Links Referenced: Sponsor: Snark.cloud/AWSsolutionsTwitter Username: @DivineOpsLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-rosenbaum/Personal site: https://www.sasharosenbaum.com/Youtube channel: Azure DevOpsCompany site: microsoft.com

About Tanya JancaTanya Janca is the co-founder and CEO of Security Sidekick. Her obsession with securing software runs deep, from starting her company, to running her own OWASP chapter for 4 years and founding the OWASP DevSlop open-source and education project. With her countless blog articles, workshops and talks, her focus is clear. Tanya is also an advocate for diversity and inclusion, co-founding the international women’s organization WoSEC, starting the online #MentoringMonday initiative, and personally mentoring, advocating for and enabling countless other women in her field. As a professional computer geek of 20+ years, she is a person who is truly fascinated by the ‘science’ of computer science.LinksTwitter Username: @shehackspurpleLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-janca-60ab0998/Personal site: https://dev.to/shehackspurpleCompany site: https://securitysidekick.devSponsor:  www.manifold.co

About Josh DoodyJosh is a salary negotiation coach who helps experienced software developers negotiate job offers from big tech companies like Google and Amazon.Links Referenced: Twitter: https://twitter.com/joshdoodyLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshdoody/Personal site: https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/My Coaching Site:: https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/coach/A detailed article on how to answer the salary expectations question: https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/the-dreaded-salary-question/

About Paul DixPaul Dix is the creator of InfluxDB. He has helped build software for startups, large companies and organizations like Microsoft, Google, McAfee, Thomson Reuters, and Air Force Space Command. He is the series editor for Addison Wesley’s Data & Analytics book and video series. In 2010 Paul wrote the book Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails for Addison Wesley’s. In 2009 he started the NYC Machine Learning Meetup, which now has over 7,000 members. Paul holds a degree in computer science from Columbia University.Links Referenced: Twitter Username: @pauldixLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauldix/Personal site: pauldix.netCompany site: www.influxdata.com

About Paul Chin Jr. Paul Chin Jr. is a curious human who likes to work with new technologies. His day job is at Cloudreach as a cloud solutions architect, working with enterprises to modernize their applications in the cloud. On the side, he’s a prophet for Nicolas Cage and is called to spread his message. Links ReferencedTwitter Username: @paulchinjrLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulchinjr/Personal site: https://www.paulchinjr.comCompany site: www.cloudreach.comTalk hashtag: #praisecage

About Paul JohnstonPaul Johnston is an interim CTO, CTO and strategist who has particular interests in serverless, cloud, startups and climate change. Formerly, Paul served as a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS for Serverless and CTO of multiple startups, including one of the world’s first serverless startups. Paul’s also a keynote speaker, tweets a lot at @PaulDJohnston, and blogs a lot on Medium. Right now, he may also be working in stealth mode on something (it’s probably serverless)…Links ReferencedTwitter Username: PaulDJohnstonLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/padajo/Personal site: https://medium.com/@PaulDJohnstonCompany site: http://roundaboutlabs.com/Sponsor: Manifold

About Nicole Forsgren, PhDDr. Nicole Forsgren does research and strategy at Google Cloud following the acquisition of her startup DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) by Google. She is co-author of the Shingo Publication Award winning book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps, and is best known for her work measuring the technology process and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been an entrepreneur, professor, sysadmin, and performance engineer. Nicole’s work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. Nicole earned her PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, and is a Research Affiliate at Clemson University and Florida International University.Links ReferencedTwitter Username: @nicolefvLinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolefv/Personal site: nicolefv.comCompany site: cloud.google.com/devopsManifold: https://www.manifold.co/ 

About Andrew PetersonAndrew Peterson is the CEO and Cofounder of Signal Sciences. Under Peterson’s leadership, Signal Sciences has become the #1 and most trusted provider of next-gen WAF and RASP technology and one of the fastest growing cybersecurity companies in the world. As CEO, Peterson is responsible for overseeing all business functions, go-to-market activities, and attainment of strategic, operational and financial goals. Prior to founding Signal Sciences, Peterson has been building leading edge, high performing product and sales teams across five continents for over fifteen years with such companies as Etsy, Google, and the Clinton Foundation. In 2016, O’Reilly published his book Cracking Security Misconceptions to encourage non-security professionals to take part in organizational security. He graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Science, Technology, and Society.Links ReferencedTwitter: @ampeters06LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewmarshallpetersonSignal SciencesSponsor: X-Team

About AJ StuyvenbergAaron Stuyvenberg (AJ) is a Senior Engineer at Serverless Inc, focused on creating the best possible Serverless developer experience. Before Serverless, he was a Lead Engineer at SportsEngine (an NBCUniversal company). When he's not busy writing software, you can find him skydiving, BASE jumping, biking, or fishing.Links Referenced: Twitter: @astuyveServerless.comServerless Blog