Screaming in the Cloud

About Yoav Yoav is a security veteran recognized on Microsoft Security Response Center’s Most Valuable Research List (BlackHat 2019). Prior to joining Orca Security, he was a Unit 8200 researcher and team leader, a chief architect at Hyperwise Security, and a security architect at Check Point Software Technologies. Yoav enjoys hunting for Linux and Windows vulnerabilities in his spare time. Links...

About Kate Kate Holterhoff, an industry analyst with RedMonk, has a background in frontend engineering, academic research, and technical communication. Kate comes to RedMonk from the digital marketing sector and brings with her expertise in frontend engineering, QA, accessibility, and scrum best practices. Before pursuing a career in the tech industry Kate taught writing and communication courses...

About Venkat Venkat Venkataramani is CEO and co-founder of Rockset. In his role, Venkat helps organizations build, grow and compete with data by making real-time analytics accessible to developers and data teams everywhere. Prior to founding Rockset in 2016, he was an Engineering Director for the Facebook infrastructure team that managed online data services for 1.5 billion users. These systems sc...

About Chris Chris Harris is Vice President, Global Field Engineering at Couchbase, a provider of a leading modern database for enterprise applications that 30% of the Fortune 100 depend on. With almost 20 years of technical field and professional services experience at early-stage, open source and growth technology companies, Chris held leadership roles at Cloudera, Hortonworks, MongoDB and others...

About Tom Tom enjoys being a bridge between people and technology. When he's not thinking about ways to make enterprise demos less boring, Tom enjoys spending time with his wife and dogs, reading, and gaming with friends. Links Referenced: LaunchDarkly: https://launchdarkly.com Heidi Waterhouse Twitter: https://twitter.com/wiredferret

About Casey Casey spends his days leveraging AWS to help organizations improve the speed at which they deliver software. With a background in software development, he has spent the past 20 years architecting, building, and supporting software systems for organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. Links Referenced: “17 Ways to Run Containers in AWS”: https://www.lastweekinaws.c...

About Scott Cloud security historian. Developed flaws.cloud, CloudMapper, and Parliament. Founding team for fwd:cloudsec Links: Block: https://block.xyz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xdabbad00

About Molly Molly White is a software engineer and team lead. She's also a longtime Wikipedia editor and advocate for free and open knowledge, and has more recently become an outspoken critic of cryptocurrencies and web3 more broadly. Links: web3isgoinggreat.com: https://web3isgoinggreat.com lasttweetinaws.com: https://lasttweetinaws.com mollywhite.net: https://mollywhite.net @molly0xFFF: https://...

About Johnny Johnny was born in Cleveland, OH and graduated from the University of Toledo with a Bachelor's in Computer Science Engineering. He began his career as a software engineer focused on embedded device protocols and systems engineering. Eventually he realized that Program Management worked better with the grain of his brain, so he took his career in that direction. In 2019, he was hired b...

About “Matty” Matt Stratton is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi, founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, and the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences. Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight int...

About Joe Joe Onisick is a polarizing technologist with nearly 25 years’ experience architecting, building, operating complex IT systems and advising customers on the same. Onisick’s passion is marrying technology to a customer’s real-time business challenges and leading them through the entirety of the adoption curve. Onisick is a Principal and co-founder of Transformation Continuum (transformati...

About Ashleigh Ashleigh Early is a passionate advocate for sales people and through her consulting, coaching, and The Other Side of Sales , she is devoted to making B2B sales culture more inclusive so anyone can thrive. Over the past ten years Ashleigh has led, built, re-built, and consulted for 2 unicorns, 3 acquisitions, 1 abject failure and every step in between.  She is also the Head of Sales...

About Tim Timothy William Bray is a Canadian software developer, environmentalist, political activist and one of the co-authors of the original XML specification . He worked for Amazon Web Services from December 2014 until May 2020 when he quit due to concerns over the terminating of whistleblowers. Previously he has been employed by Google , Sun Microsystems and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC...

About Peter Peter's spent more than a decade building scalable and robust systems at startups across adtech and edtech. At Remind, where he's VP of Technology, Peter pushes for building a sustainable tech company with mature software engineering. He lives in Southern California and enjoys spending time at the beach with his family. Links: Redis: https://redis.com/ Remind: https://www.remind.com/ R...

About Philip Philip Griffiths is VP Global Business Development and regularly speaks at events from DevOps to IoT to Cyber Security. Prior to this, he worked for Atos IT Services in various roles working with C-suit executives to realise their digital transformation. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two daughters. Links: NetFoundry: https://netfoundry.io/ Blog article: https://netfoundry.io...

About Nipun Nipun Agarwal is a Senior Vice President, MySQL HeatWave and Advanced Development, Oracle. His interests include distributed data processing, machine learning, cloud technologies and security. Nipun was part of the Oracle Database team where he introduced a number of new features. He has been awarded over 170 patents. Links: Oracle: https://www.oracle.com

About Rick I lead the developer relations team for strategic accounts at MongoDB. My responsibilities include defining technical standards for the global strategic accounts team and consulting with the largest customers and opportunities for the business. My role spans technology sectors and as part of my engagements I routinely provide guidance on industry best practices, technology transformatio...

About Rachel Rachel leads product and technical marketing for Chronosphere. Previously, Rachel wore lots of marketing hats at CloudHealth (acquired by VMware), and before that, she led product marketing for cloud-integrated storage at NetApp. She also spent many years as an analyst at Forrester Research. Outside of work, Rachel tries to keep up with her young son and hyper-active dog, and when she...

About Clint Clint is the CEO and a co-founder at Cribl, a company focused on making observability viable for any organization, giving customers visibility and control over their data while maximizing value from existing tools. Prior to co-founding Cribl, Clint spent two decades leading product management and IT operations at technology and software companies, including Splunk and Cricket Communica...

About Alex Alex holds a Ph. D. in Computer Science and Engineering from UC San Diego, and has spent over a decade building high-performance, robust data management and processing systems. As an early member of a couple fast-growing startups, he’s had the opportunity to wear a lot of different hats, serving at various times as an individual contributor, tech lead, manager, and executive. Prior to j...

About Aidan Aidan is an AWS enthusiast, due in no small part to sharing initials with the cloud. He's been writing software for over 20 years and getting paid to do it for the last 10. He's still not sure what he wants to be when he grows up. Links: Stedi: https://www.stedi.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/aidansteele Blog posts: https://awsteele.com/ Ipv6-ghost-ship: https://github.com/aidansteele...

About David David is an AWS expert who likes to design and build scalable solutions that are fully automated and take care of themselves. Now he is focusing on selling his own products on the AWS Marketplace. Links: 0x4447: https://0x4447.com/ Products page: https://products.0x4447.com

About Seth Seth Vargo is an engineer at Google. Previously he worked at HashiCorp, Chef Software, CustomInk, and some Pittsburgh-based startups. He is the author of Learning Chef and is passionate about reducing inequality in technology. When he is not writing, working on open source, teaching, or speaking at conferences, Seth advises non-profits. Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/sethvargo

About Brooke Brooke is the Head of Enablement - AI/ML and Data at Blackbook.ai, an Australian based consulting firm and AWS Partner. Brooke has degrees in Mathematics and Data Engineering and they specialise in developing technically robust solutions that help “non-data people” harness the power of AI for their industry, and communicate this effectively. Outside of their 'day job', Brooke speaks a...

About Liz Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with cloud native networking and security specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium eBPF-based networking project. She is chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee, and was Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of Container Security, published by O'Reilly. She has a wealth of software development, team, and...