Screaming in the Cloud

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 intern...

About Alan Developer 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/1942788339 Twitter: https://twitter.com/alanra...

About Pete Pete 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 deployment...

About Kevin Kevin 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...

About Laurie Laurie 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/seldo Personal website: https://seldo.com/

About Mark Mark 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 a...

About Heidi Heidi 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://launchd...

About Kendall Kendall 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.fairw...

About Laura Laura 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 dev...

About Matt Matt Cauthorn oversees the ExtraHop Security Sales Engineering, and enjoys studying the intersection of business and technology. Prior to ExtraHop, Matt was a Sales Engineering Manager at F5. He’s a passionate technologist and evangelist. He holds an MBA from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida. Matt speaks at industry events, has bee...

About Katrina Katrina Bakas is a Senior Technical Product Manager at Amazon, working on CloudFront within AWS. She brings a lifetime of relentless curiosity to her role and a desire to simplify complex technologies to make them accessible for more folks. Previously, she brought the same inquisitiveness and desire to simplify to observability at Pivotal and VMware (upon acquisition), having spent t...

About Randall Randall is a Software Engineer and Open Source Developer Advocate at Facebook. Previously of AWS, SpaceX, MongoDB, and NASA. Links: Totes Not Amazon: totes-not-amazon.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/jrhunt

About Eric https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-security-profiles-eric-brandwine-vp-and-distinguished-engineer/ Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ebrandwine AWS Security Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/

About Dennis  Dennis Gada is SVP and Head for Financial Services, North America at Infosys, where he has executive responsibility for all client relationships and new client acquisitions in the Financial Services sector. Dennis has significant Business Transformation, Innovation, and Financial Services Consulting experience. He is an industry leader in Financial Services with experience in partner...

About Jess Jess Schalz (she/they) is a computer gremlin multiclassing in software development and infosec. She’s a queer disability advocate, and this informs her empathy-based approach to technology. Her hobbies include watercolors and collecting human remains. Talk to her about weird medical history and cats. Links: Transposit: https://www.transposit.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessica_sch...

Links: Splunk: https://www.splunk.com/ Meanwhile in Security: https://meanwhileinsecurity.com/

About Kevin Kevin's the Lead Product Owner and Engineer on Ducktools, a recently-released set of AWS Cost Management power tools. Links: Stop Lying Cloud: https://stop.lying.cloud/ TabDB.io: https://tabdb.io/ Personal website: https://kevinkuchta.com/

About Jonan Jonan Scheffler is the Director of Developer Relations at New Relic. He has a long history of breaking things in public and occasionally putting them back together again. His interest in physical computing often leads him to experiment with robotics and microelectronics, though his professional experience is more closely tied to cloud services and modern application development. In ord...

About Tom Tom is the co-founder and CEO of Command E, an app that provides blazing fast search across all your docs and records in G Suite, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Dropbox, and 20+ more tools via one easy keyboard shortcut. Links: Command E: https://getcommande.com/

Links: Linux Foundation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/ OpenJS Foundation: https://openjsf.org/ Relying on plain-text email is a 'barrier to entry' for kernel development, says Linux Foundation board member: https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahnovotny Website: https://sarahnovotny.com/

About James James Urquhart is a Strategic Executive Advisor for VMware Tanzu customers. Mr. Urquhart brings almost 30 years of experience in distributed applications development, deployment, and operations, focusing on software as a complex adaptive system, cloud native applications and platforms, and automation. Prior to joining VMware, via Pivotal, Mr. Urquhart ran product and engineering teams...

About Nora Nora is the founder and CEO of Jeli. She is a dedicated and driven technology leader and software engineer with a passion for the intersection between how people and software work in practice in distributed systems. In November 2017 she keynoted at AWS re:Invent to share her experiences helping organizations large and small reach crucial availability with an audience of ~40,000 people,...

About Ana Visneski Ana Visneski is a Grandmaster of Disaster (responding to them more so than causing them). She has 15+ years of experience in communications and disaster response. Ana was an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard for 12 years responding to disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the BP Oilspill. After leaving the service she was the Head of Launch, Blog, and Podcast Operations, before...

About Sarah Kaiser I use lasers to melt acrylic and the cisheteropatriarchy alike. Quantum Computing technologist/consultant by day, author and dog mom the rest of the time. Links: Unitary Fund: https://unitary.fund/ Sarah’s Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/crazy4pi314/ Learning Quantum Computing with Python and Q#: https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Quantum-Computing-Python-hands/dp/1617296139 Twitter: ht...

About Caroline Carter Caroline is our sponsorships manager at The Duckbill Group for our three media publications: Screaming in the Cloud, AWS Morning Brief, and Last Week in AWS. She also helped us create our first-ever re:Quinnvent digital conference in December of 2020.  Before joining the Duckbill Group, Caroline sold market insights software to Fortune 500 companies at CB Insights and payment...