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Empathy Driven Management and Engagement with Tim Banks Aug 04, 2022

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About Tim

Tim’s tech career spans over 20 years through various sectors. Tim’s initial journey into tech started as a US Marine. Later, he left government contracting for the private sector, working both in large corporate environments and in small startups. While working in the private sector, he honed his skills in systems administration and operations for large Unix-based datastores.

Today, Tim leverages his years in operations, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering to advise and consult with clients in his current role. Tim is also a father of five children, as well as a competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. Currently, he is the reigning American National and 3-time Pan American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champion in his division.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/elchefe

Cloud Security and Cost with Anton Chuvakin Aug 02, 2022

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About Anton

Dr. Anton Chuvakin is now involved with security solution strategy at Google Cloud, where he arrived via Chronicle Security (an Alphabet company) acquisition in July 2019.

Anton was, until recently, a Research Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) Security and Risk Management Strategies team. (see chuvakin.org for more)

Links Referenced:

Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com/
Cloud Security Podcast: https://cloud.withgoogle.com/cloudsecurity/podcast/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/anton_chuvakin
Medium blog: https://medium.com/@anton.chuvakin

Generating Demand and Building Trust with Anadelia Fadeev Jul 28, 2022

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About Anadelia

Anadelia is a B2B marketing leader passionate about building tech brands and growing revenue. She is currently the Sr. Director of Demand Generation at Teleport. In her spare time she enjoys live music and craft beer.

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Teleport: https://goteleport.com/
@anadeliafadeev: https://twitter.com/anadeliafadeev
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anadeliafadeev/

Remote Work and Finding Your Voice with Jeff Smith Jul 26, 2022

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About Jeff

Jeff Smith has been in the technology industry for over 20 years, oscillating between management and individual contributor. Jeff currently serves as the Director of Production Operations for Basis Technologies (formerly Centro), an advertising software company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Before that he served as the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering at Grubhub.

Jeff is passionate about DevOps transformations in organizations large and small, with a particular interest in the psychological aspects of problems in companies. He lives in Chicago with his wife Stephanie and their two kids Ella and Xander.

Jeff is also the author of Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions with Manning publishing. (https://www.manning.com/books/operations-anti-patterns-devops-solutions)

Links Referenced:

Basis Technologies: https://basis.net/
Operations Anti-Patterns: https://attainabledevops.com/book
Personal Site: https://attainabledevops.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffery-smith-devops/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DarkAndNerdy
Medium: https://medium.com/@jefferysmith
duckbillgroup.com: https://duckbillgroup.com

Cloud-Hosted Database Services with Benjamin Anderson Jul 21, 2022

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About Benjamin

Benjamin Anderson is CTO, Cloud at EDB, where he is responsible for developing and driving strategy for the company’s Postgres-based cloud offerings. Ben brings over ten years’ experience building and running distributed database systems in the cloud for multiple startups and large enterprises. Prior to EDB, he served as chief architect of IBM’s Cloud Databases organization, built an SRE practice at database startup Cloudant, and founded a Y Combinator-funded hardware startup.

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EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com/
BigAnimal: biganimal.com

Developer Advocacy, Empathy, and Imposter Syndrome with Brandon West Jul 19, 2022

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About Brandon

Brandon West was raised in part by video games and BBSes and has been working on web applications since 1999. He entered the world of Developer Relations in 2011 as an evangelist for a small startup called SendGrid and has since held leadership roles at companies like AWS. At Datadog, Brandon is focused on helping developers improve the performance and developer experience of the things they build. He lives in Seattle where enjoys paddle-boarding, fishing, and playing music.

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Datadog: https://www.datadoghq.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bwest

Kubernetes and OpenGitOps with Chris Short Jul 14, 2022

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About Chris

Chris Short has been a proponent of open source solutions throughout his over two decades in various IT disciplines, including systems, security, networks, DevOps management, and cloud native advocacy across the public and private sectors. He currently works on the Kubernetes team at Amazon Web Services and is an active Kubernetes contributor and Co-chair of OpenGitOps. Chris is a disabled US Air Force veteran living with his wife and son in Greater Metro Detroit. Chris writes about Cloud Native, DevOps, and other topics at ChrisShort.net. He also runs the Cloud Native, DevOps, GitOps, Open Source, industry news, and culture focused newsletter DevOps’ish.

Links Referenced:

DevOps’ish: https://devopsish.com/
EKS News: https://eks.news/
Containers from the Couch: https://containersfromthecouch.com
opengitops.dev: https://opengitops.dev
ChrisShort.net: https://chrisshort.net
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisShort

Technical Lineage and Careers in Tech with Sheeri Cabral Jul 12, 2022

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About Sheeri

After almost 2 decades as a database administrator and award-winning thought leader, Sheeri Cabral pivoted to technical product management. Her super power of “new customer” empathy informs her presentations and explanations. Sheeri has developed unique insights into working together and planning, having survived numerous reorganizations, “best practices”, and efficiency models. Her experience is the result of having worked at everything from scrappy startups such as Guardium – later bought by IBM – to influential tech companies like Mozilla and MongoDB, to large established organizations like Salesforce.

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Collibra: https://www.collibra.com
WildAid GitHub: https://github.com/wildaid
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sheeri
Personal Blog: https://sheeri.org

Incidents, Solutions, and ChatOps Integration with Chris Evans Jul 07, 2022

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About Chris

Chris is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at incident.io, where they're building incident management products that people actually want to use. A software engineer by trade, Chris is no stranger to gnarly incidents, having participated (and caused!) them at everything from early stage startups through to enormous IT organizations.

Links Referenced:

incident.io: https://incident.io
Practical Guide to Incident Management: https://incident.io/guide/

Enterprise Developer Advocacy with Maish Saidel-Keesing Jul 05, 2022

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About Maish

Maish Saidel-Keesing is a Senior Enterprise Developer Advocate @AWS working on containers and has been working in IT for the past 20 years and with a stronger focus on cloud and automation for the past 7.

He has extensive experience with AWS Cloud technologies, DevOps and Agile practices and implementations, containers, Kubernetes, virtualization, and a number of fun things he has done along the way

He is constantly trying to bridge the gap between Developers and Operators to allow all of us provide a better service for our customers (and not wake up from pages in the middle of the night). He is an avid practitioner of dissolving silos - educating Ops how to code and explaining to Devs what the hell is Operations

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@maishsk: https://twitter.com/maishsk
duckbillgroup.com: https://duckbillgroup.com

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