Screaming in the Cloud

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A Rising Star in Cloud with Brooke Mitchell Nov 19, 2020

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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.

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Connect with Brooke on LinkedIn
Follow Brooke on Twitter
A Cloud Guru Blog post, “Automating CI/CD With AWS CodePipeline”

Managing Access in Cloud Made Easy with Liz Zalman Nov 17, 2020

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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.

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strongDM
Connect with Liz on LinkedIn

Writing Better Code to Optimyze Cloud Spend with Thomas Dullien Nov 12, 2020

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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-induced DRAM bitflips into useful attacks. After a few years of Google Project Zero, he is now co-founder of a startup called http://optimyze.cloud that focuses on efficient computation -- helping companies save money by wasting fewer cycles, and helping reduce energy waste in the process.

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optimyze.cloud
Quoted Tweet
Follow Thomas on Twitter
Connect with Thomas on LinkedIn
Thomas’ personal site

DevOpsy Security with Jam Leomi Nov 10, 2020

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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.

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Honeycomb
Jam's Personal Blog
Follow Jam on Twitter
Connect with Jam on LinkedIn

The New Way to Become an Engineer with Christie Brandao Nov 05, 2020

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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.

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Branch
Twitter
Christie's portfolio
Connect with Christie on LinkedIn

Great Managers Are Elastic with Courtney Wilburn Nov 03, 2020

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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 organizing online. When she’s away from her desk, she can be found running, hiking, or biking around Philadelphia, cooking, brewing beer, knitting, building keyboards, or singing karaoke duets with her wife.

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Elastic
Twitter
Connect with Courtney on LinkedIn
Courtney's personal site

Teaching the Cloud Forever with Jez Humble Oct 29, 2020

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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 Federal Government’s 18F team as part of the Obama Tech Surge, and co-founding startup DevOps Research and Assessment LLC, which was acquired by Google in December 2018. He works for Google Cloud as a technology advocate, and teaches classes on agile software engineering and product management at UC Berkeley’s School of Information.

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DORA: https://cloud.google.com/devops/
Cloud.gov: https://cloud.gov/
NIST Special Publication 800-145: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-145.pdf
The Phoenix Project: https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/1942788290/
The Unicorn Project: https://www.amazon.com/Unicorn-Project-Developers-Disruption-Thriving/dp/1942788762/
Continuous Delivery: https://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automation-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321601912/
The DevOps Handbook: https://www.amazon.com/DevOps-Handbook-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations/dp/1942788002/
Accelerate: https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Technology-Organizations/dp/1942788339/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jezhumble
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jez-humble/

Learning Tech in Public with Ceora Ford Oct 27, 2020

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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.

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egghead.io: https://egghead.io/
Eight Resources for Learning Python blog post: https://www.ceoraford.com/posts/8-resources-you-can-use-to-learn-python/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ceeoreo_
Personal Blog: https://www.ceoraford.com/
LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceora-ford/
Ceora’s Website: https://ceoraford.com/

The Democratization of Tech with Tim Banks Oct 22, 2020

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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 systems administration and operations for large Unix-based datastores, Tim left the government contracting world for the private sector, working both in large corporate environments and small startups.

Today, Tim leverages his years in operations, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering to advise and consult with engineering groups as a Technical Account manager. Tim is also a husband and a father of five children, as well as a competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, and the reigning American National and Pan American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champion in his division.

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Company Site: https://www.missioncloud.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/elchefe

Using the Cloud to Preserve the Future with Alex Chan Oct 20, 2020

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About Alex Chan
Alex is a software developer at Wellcome Collection, a museum in London that explores the history of human health and medicine. Their role primarily focuses on preservation, and building systems to store the Collection’s digital archive. They also help to run the annual PyCon UK conference, with a particular interest in the event’s diversity and inclusion initiatives.

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