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Caylent: From Etymology to Engineering with Randall Hunt Feb 17, 2022

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About Randall

Randall Hunt, VP of Cloud Strategy and Solutions at Caylent, is a technology leader, investor, and hands-on-keyboard coder based in Los Angeles, CA. Previously, Randall led software and developer relations teams at Facebook, SpaceX, AWS, MongoDB, and NASA. Randall spends most of his time listening to customers, building demos, writing blog posts, and mentoring junior engineers. Python and C++ are his favorite programming languages, but he begrudgingly admits that Javascript rules the world. Outside of work, Randall loves to read science fiction, advise startups, travel, and ski.

Links:

Caylent.com: https://caylent.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jrhunt
Riot Games Talk: https://youtu.be/oGK-ojM7ZMc
James Hamilton Talk: https://youtu.be/uj7Ting6Ckk

Keeping Life on the Internet Friction Free with Jason Frazier Feb 16, 2022

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About Jason

Jason Frazier is a Software Engineering Manager at Ekata, a Mastercard Company. Jason’s team is responsible for developing and maintaining Ekata’s product APIs. Previously, as a developer, Jason led the investigation and migration of Ekata’s Identity Graph from AWS Elasticache to Redis Enterprise Redis on Flash, which brought an average savings of $300,000/yr.

Links:

Ekata: https://ekata.com/
Email: jason.frazier@ekata.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonfrazier56

AWS Services that Age Well with Wayne Duso Feb 15, 2022

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About Wayne

Professionally, I'm a Vice President at Amazon Web Services (AWS) where I lead a set of businesses delivering cloud infrastructure services. In 2013, I founded and continue to lead the AWS Boston regional development center. I'm an always-curious entrepreneur who is passionate about building innovative teams and businesses that deliver highly disruptive value to customers. I love engaging people who build and deliver customer-obsessed solutions, as well as customers wanting to realize value from those solutions. I hold over 40 patents in distributed and highly-available computer systems, digital video processing, and file systems. Personally, I'm a proud dad to great people, I love to cook and grow things, it relaxes and grounds me, and I cherish finding adventure in the ordinary as well as the extraordinary.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayneduso/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wayneduso

Merewif’s Mitigation of Risk with Ana Visneski Feb 10, 2022

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About Ana

Ana Visneski is the founder of Merewif, a crisis communications and management consulting firm. She is a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard where she was a first responder to major disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the BP Oil Spill, and various other incidents. After the USCG, Ana moved on to a whole new disaster that needed an experienced crisis operator - running Launch Operations for AWS. Following that she was the global lead for AWS Disaster Response, overseeing deploying AWS technology response to natural disasters and overseeing the response to COVID. She has a Master of Communication Digital Media and a Master of Communication in Networks from the University of Washington, where she currently teaching Crisis Communications.

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Mirewif: https://www.themerewif.com/
Oracle HeatWave: https://www.oracle.com/mysql/heatwave/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/acvisneski
The—T-H-E—merewif—M-E-R-E-W-I-F dot com: https://www.themerewif.com/

The Redis Rebrand with Yiftach Shoolman Feb 09, 2022

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About Yiftach

Yiftach is an experienced technologist, having held leadership engineering and product roles in diverse fields from application acceleration, cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS), to broadband networks and metro networks. He was the founder, president and CTO of Crescendo Networks (acquired by F5, NASDAQ:FFIV), the vice president of software development at Native Networks (acquired by Alcatel, NASDAQ: ALU) and part of the founding team at ECI Telecom broadband division, where he served as vice president of software engineering.

Yiftach holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science and has completed studies for Master of Science in Computer Science at Tel-Aviv University.

Links:

Redis, Inc.: https://redis.com/
Redis open source project: https://redis.io
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yiftachshoolman/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/yiftachsh

How to Investigate the Post-Incident Fallout with Laura Maguire, PhD Feb 08, 2022

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About Laura

Laura leads the research program at Jeli.io. She has a Master’s degree in Human Factors & Systems Safety and a PhD in Cognitive Systems Engineering. Her doctoral work focused on distributed incident response practices in DevOps teams responsible for critical digital services. She was a researcher with the SNAFU Catchers Consortium from 2017-2020 and her research interests lie in resilience engineering, coordination design and enabling adaptive capacity across distributed work teams. As a backcountry skier and alpine climber, she also studies cognition & resilient performance in high risk, high consequence mountain environments.

Links:

Howie: The Post-Incident Guide: https://www.jeli.io/howie-the-post-incident-guide/
Jeli: https://www.jeli.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lauramdmaguire

The Proliferation of Ways to Learn with Serena (@shenetworks) Feb 03, 2022

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About Serena

Serena is a Network Engineer who specializes in Data Center Compute and Virtualization. She has degrees in Computer Information Systems with a concentration on networking and information security and is currently pursuing a master’s in Data Center Systems Engineering. She is most known for her content on TikTok and Twitter as Shenetworks. Serena’s content focuses on networking and security for beginners which has included popular videos on bug bounties, switch spoofing, VLAN hoping, and passing the Security+ certification in 24 hours.

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Cisco cert Discord study group:https://discord.com/invite/uXQ8yWnN8a
Beacons:https://beacons.page/shenetworks
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@shenetworks
sysengineer’s TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@sysengineer
Twitter:https://twitter.com/notshenetworks

Developing Storage Solutions Before the Rest with AB Periasamay Feb 02, 2022

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About AB

AB Periasamy is the co-founder and CEO of MinIO, an open source provider of high performance, object storage software. In addition to this role, AB is an active investor and advisor to a wide range of technology companies, from H2O.ai and Manetu where he serves on the board to advisor or investor roles with Humio, Isovalent, Starburst, Yugabyte, Tetrate, Postman, Storj, Procurify, and Helpshift. Successful exits include Gitter.im (Gitlab), Treasure Data (ARM) and Fastor (SMART).

AB co-founded Gluster in 2005 to commoditize scalable storage systems. As CTO, he was the primary architect and strategist for the development of the Gluster file system, a pioneer in software defined storage. After the company was acquired by Red Hat in 2011, AB joined Red Hat’s Office of the CTO. Prior to Gluster, AB was CTO of California Digital Corporation, where his work led to scaling of the commodity cluster computing to supercomputing class performance. His work there resulted in the development of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory’s “Thunder” code, which, at the time was the second fastest in the world.

AB holds a Computer Science Engineering degree from Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India.

AB is one of the leading proponents and thinkers on the subject of open source software - articulating the difference between the philosophy and business model. An active contributor to a number of open source projects, he is a board member of India's Free Software Foundation.

Links:

MinIO: https://min.io/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/abperiasamy
MinIO Slack channel: https://minio.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-11qsphhj7-HpmNOaIh14LHGrmndrhocA
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abperiasamy/

Tackling Tech Head-On with Natalie Davis Feb 01, 2022

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About Natalie

I'm interested in solving human problems through technology (she/her). Share your screen (or I'll share mine) and we'll figure this out!

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Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/codeFreedomRitr

The Relevancy of Backups with Nancy Wang Jan 27, 2022

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About Nancy

Nancy Wang is a global product and technical leader at Amazon Web Services, where she leads P&L, product, engineering, and design for its data protection and governance businesses. Prior to Amazon, she led SaaS product development at Rubrik, the fastest-growing enterprise software unicorn and built healthdata.gov for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Passionate about advancing more women into technical roles, Nancy is the founder & CEO of Advancing Women in Tech, a global 501(c)(3) nonprofit with 16,000+ members worldwide.

Nancy is an angel investor in data security and compliance companies, and an LP with several seed- and growth-stage funds such as Operator Collective and IVP. She earned a degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Links:

https://coursera.org/awit
Advancing Women in Technology: https://www.advancingwomenintech.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wangnancy/
Advancing Women in Technology LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/advancingwomenintech/

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