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Reconnecting with an Old Boss with Regis Wilson Jan 28, 2021

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About Regis Wilson
Regis Wilson is the founding engineer at Release, an environments as a service provider. Regis brings more than 25 years of tech experience to this position, having worked as an infrastructure architect and SRE at TrueCar, Inc. and a cloud systems architect at Live Nation, among several other positions.

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Connect with Regis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/regis-wilson-a713609/
Personal Website: http://www.zennet.com/
Release: https://releaseapp.io/

The Rise of the Agile Data Center with Tim Banks Jan 26, 2021

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About the Tim Banks
Tim Banks is currently with Packet, an Equinix Company, where he is a Principal Solutions Architect. His tech career spans over 20 years through various sectors. Tim’s initial journey into tech started as a US Marine, having originally joined the Marine Corps to be a musician. He was later reassigned into an avionics specialty based on the results of standardized testing. Upon leaving the Marine Corps, he went on to work for hardware manufacturers and defense contractors as a civilian. 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 engineering groups in his current role. Tim is also a husband and a father of five children, as well as a competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. Currently, he is the reigning American National and Pan American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champion in his division.

Links Referenced:

Equinix Metal: https://metal.equinix.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/elchefe

Defining Your Consultancy Niche Part 2 with Scott Piper Jan 21, 2021

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Company website: http://summitroute.com
flaws.cloud: http://flaws.cloud
fwd:cloudsec: https://fwdcloudsec.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xdabbad00

Talking Shop with a Unix Historian with Tabitha Sable Jan 19, 2021

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About the Guest

Tabitha Sable has been a hacker and sysadmin since the turn of the century. She serves Kubernetes as co-chair of SIG Security and an associate member of the Product Security Committee. She loves to build tools and make friends, and puts those skills to work coordinating the efforts of the infrastructure, security, and product teams at Datadog. Outside of work, she can often be found organizing or participating in Capture the Flag contests and loves "pretty much anything with wheels."

Links Referenced:

Datadog: https://www.datadoghq.com/
“The Ironies of Automation”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0005109883900468
International Journal of Proof of Concept, or Get Out The [BLEEP] out: https://pocorgtfo.hacke.rs/
“Reliable Code Execution on a Tamagotchi”: https://doc8643.com/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo02.pdf
“What happens when you type google.com into your browser's address box and press enter?": https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tabbysable

Best Practices for AWS Security - Part 1 with Scott Piper Jan 14, 2021

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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.

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Connect with Scott Piper on...
- LinkedIn
- Twitter: @0xdabbad00
Company website: Summit Route
flaws.cloud
flaws2.cloud
fwd:cloudsec

Forty-Five Years in Tech with Hal Berenson Jan 12, 2021

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Gaia Platform
Hal’s Blog
Follow Hal on Twitter

Weaseling into Tech with Kat Cosgrove Jan 07, 2021

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JFrog’s Website
Follow Kat on Twitter
Connect with Kat on LinkedIn
Email Kat at katc@jfrog.com

Best Practices Don’t Exist with Paul Osman Jan 05, 2021

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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 to and learning from incidents, and improving ways for software engineers to share knowledge. Before joining Honeycomb.io, Paul worked in Platform and SRE teams at Under Armour, PagerDuty, and SoundCloud.

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Honeycomb.io
Follow Paul on Twitter
Paul’s Blog

26 Years of Corey Quinn with Brandon Shaw Dec 31, 2020

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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 certifications, including CISSP, CISM, CDPSE, CCSK, PMP, ITIL, and three from AWS.

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Discovery, Inc. Website
Connect with Brandon on LinkedIn

Behold: The Block Button with Kylie Robison Dec 29, 2020

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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.

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