Screaming in the Cloud

About Scott Piper Scott is an independent consultant helping companies secure their AWS environments through private trainings.  He created the free training sites flaws.cloud and flaws2.cloud, along with the open-source projects CloudMapper, Parliament, and more. Links Referenced:  Connect with Scott Piper on...  LinkedIn Twitter: @0xdabbad00   Company website: Summit Route flaws.cloud flaws2.clo...

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About Paul Osman Paul Osman is a Software Engineer with 20 years of experience in the industry. He's the Lead Instrumentation Engineer at Honeycomb.io and is passionate about making production a less scary word. Having spent most of his career in the ill-defined space between software development and operations, Paul spends a lot of time thinking about making on-call experiences better, responding...

About Brandon Shaw Brandon Shaw is a senior program manager in security operations at Discovery, Inc., an entertainment company that owns several premium cable brands, including Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, and TLC. Previously, he worked as an applications manager at CRISP and a senior software applications engineer at CompuGroup Medical, among other positions. Brandon has a slew of cert...

About Kylie Robison Kylie Robison is a California State University, Sacramento student studying business information systems, technology reporter for the State Hornet, and proud president of her school’s Ski & Snowboard Club. She’s hoping to break into the technology industry when she graduates in May of 2021. Links Referenced: The State Hornet Covered California Follow Kylie on Twitter Kylie’...

About Alex Hidalgo Alex Hidalgo is a Site Reliability Engineer and author of the upcoming Implementing Service Level Objectives (O'Reilly Media, September 2020). During his career he has developed a deep love for sustainable operations, proper observability, and using SLO data to drive discussions and make decisions. Alex's previous jobs have included IT support, network security, restaurant work,...

About Danyel Fisher Danyel Fisher is a Principal Design Researcher for Honeycomb.io. He focuses his passion for data visualization on helping SREs understand their complex systems quickly and clearly. Before he started at Honeycomb, he spent thirteen years at Microsoft Research, studying ways to help people gain insights faster from big data analytics. Links Referenced:  Danyel’s section on Honeyc...

About Chris Porter Chris Porter is the Director of Solutions Engineering at StackRox, the leader in Kubernetes-native container security. Porter has more than 20 years of experience in pre-sales engineering roles, serving and advising customers on security for email, web, cloud, and now Kubernetes and containers. Porter is a certified AWS Solutions Architect and AWS Security Specialist, is the aut...

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About Matt Stratton Matt Stratton is a Transformation Specialist at Red Hat and a long-time member of the global DevOps community. Back in the day, his license plate actually said “DevOps”. Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations, ranging from large financial institutions such as JPMorganChase to internet firms including Apartments.com. He is a sought-after speaker internationally, p...

About Shelby Spees Shelby Spees has been developing software professionally since 2015 in a range of domains, which has made her appreciate the importance of learning how to learn and creating support systems for lifelong skill development. When she’s not helping teams level up their observability practice, you can find her at home playing on her Switch or singing karaoke with her rescue pitbull N...

About Alfonso Cabrera Alfonso Cabrera is the Director of Platform Engineering at Red Ventures, where he helps manage and optimize the extensive AWS footprint. He also spent time at AWS as a Solutions Architect and worked as a DevOps Engineer at a few startups. Alfonso enjoys fostering community and has organized DevOpsDays Charlotte for the past 5 years. Outside of work, he tries to stay in shape...

About Richard Seroter Richard Seroter is Director of Outbound Product Management at Google Cloud, with a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Colorado. He’s also an instructor at Pluralsight, the lead InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, a frequent public speaker, the author of multiple books on software design and development, and a former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. Richar...

About Peter Cooper Founder and editor-in-chief of Cooper Press. Programmer, indexer of all the programming links, former O'Reilly conference chair, and general nerd. Links Referenced Cooper Press JavaScript Weekly Ruby Weekly Article, “ How to use AWS SimpleDB from Ruby ” Follow Peter on Twitter Connect with Peter on LinkedIn

About Divanny Lamas Divanny Lamas is the CEO of Transposit, the DevOps automation company. Divanny and the Transposit team are creating a world where humans interact with machines successfully to manage today’s complex technology stacks. Divanny is also a managing director at leading venture capital firm Sutter Hill Ventures. She is passionate about working with entrepreneurs to tackle ambitious t...

About Brooke Mitchell Brooke is an analytical IT professional skilled at team building, data collection and evaluation, cloud computing as well as cross-functional collaboration. She is proficient at scripting and creating CI/CD pipelines to automate workflows to increase efficiency while reducing the chance of error. Links Referenced Connect with Brooke on LinkedIn Follow Brooke on Twitter A Clou...

About Liz Zalman Liz Zalman is the Co-Founder & CEO of strongDM. Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of the cross-device profile company Media Armor. After its acquisition, she served as VP of Analytics at the acquirer, Nomi. With over 15 years of experience leading data-driven organizations, she is an expert in analytics, data privacy, and security. Links Referenced strongDM Connect with Li...

About Thomas Dullien Thomas Dullien / Halvar Flake is a security researcher / entrepreneur known for his contributions to the theory and practice of vulnerability development and software reverse engineering. He built and ran a company for reverse engineering tools that got acquired by Google; he also worked on a wide range of topics - like turning security patches into attacks turning physics-ind...

About Jam Leomi Jam Leomi is a penmaker who just so happens to computer. When not found ranting on equality and equity in #infosec and beyond on twitter, they're found doing their day job as Lead Security Engineer at Honeycomb. Links Referenced Honeycomb Jam's Personal Blog Follow Jam on Twitter Connect with Jam on LinkedIn

About Christie Brandao Christie 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 Referenced Branch Twitter Christie's portfolio Connect with Christie on LinkedIn

About Courtney Wilburn Courtney'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 organ...

About Jez Humble Jez 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 Federa...

About Ceora Ford Ceora 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. Links egghead.io: https://egghead.io/ Eigh...

About Tim Banks Tim 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...