Screaming in the Cloud

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Making the Cloud More Secure with Mark Nunnikhoven Sep 10, 2020

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About Mark Nunnikhoven
Is this system safe? Is my information protected? These are hard questions to answer. Mark Nunnikhoven works to make cybersecurity and privacy easier to understand.

A forensic scientist and security leader, Mark has spent more than 20 years helping to defend private and public systems from cybercriminals, hackers, and nation states. A sought after speaker, writer, and technology pundit, his message is simple: secure and private systems are a requirement in today’s world, not a luxury.

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The Serverless Insurance Startup with Adithya Reddy Sep 08, 2020

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About Adithya Reddy

I do everything from web and mobile to backend architecture at Branch Insurance. I started out as a purely frontend developer but after joining Branch, which was 100% serverless from day 1, I expanded across the stack and probably write as much CloudFormation today as I do JavaScript.

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Branch Insurance Main: https://ourbranch.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheTallpants
GitHub: https://github.com/tallpants

We’re All AV Experts Now with Christina Warren Sep 03, 2020

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About Christina Warren

Christina Warren is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, where she helps shape the overall video and broader content strategy for Channel 9, Docs.Microsoft.com, and the greater CA team. In this role, she hosts shows on Channel 9, Microsoft’s video channel for developer content, creates technical content snd demos, speaks at events, and interviews people within the developer community. Prior to joining Microsoft, Christina spent a decade in digital media as an editor, senior reporter, and commentator, with a focus on technology, business, and, entertainment. As a journalist, she appeared as an expert or commentator on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, Fox Business, Bloomberg, the BBC, Marketplace Radio, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and many more outlets. She also co-hosts Rocket, a popular tech news podcast, which has the distinction of being one of the only tech podcasts with an all-female hosting team.

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No Cloud Unturned with Charles Fitzgerald Sep 01, 2020

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About Charles Fitzgerald

Charles Fitzgerald is a Seattle-based angel investor, with a focus on developer platforms and infrastructure. Previously, he spent 20+ years working on platform businesses at Microsoft and VMware. He can see the cloud from his house.

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Main company site: https://www.platformonomics.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/charlesfitz/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesfitz
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The New New Relic with Bill Staples Aug 27, 2020

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About Bill Staples
Bill Staples is New Relic’s chief product officer, responsible for driving the company’s market-leading platform strategy and leading New Relic’s product management, engineering and design functions. Staples is an execution-focused product and engineering leader who loves to build and scale cloud-based businesses. Previously Staples was at Adobe, where he led the 1,500+ employee global engineering team behind Adobe’s market-leading Experience Cloud. Prior to Adobe, Staples spent 17 years at Microsoft, including his last role as vice president of Microsoft’s Application platform. At both Microsoft and Adobe, he successfully led transformative product, culture and technical innovation agendas, helping both companies expand multi-billion dollar cloud portfolios with developers and IT as the customer.

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Main company site: https://newrelic.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bstaples
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamstaples/

Billion-Line Cloud Bills with Rodrigo Flores Aug 25, 2020

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About Rodrigo Flores

Rodrigo Flores is Managing Director of the Accenture Cloud Platform (ACP) in charge of Architecture, Product Management and Engineering innovation. Currently he leads a team of 400 people delivering the service to 3000 clients and $400M of cloud spend. The Accenture Cloud Platform is a hybrid cloud service that delivers a variety of providers such as Amazon, Azure, Google, VMware and Microsoft-based private clouds. Additionally, Cloud Management Services such as patching, security, backup, hardening, monitoring and security. This includes cloud brokering, security and cloud optimization services.

Additionally, Rodrigo frequently works with Global 2000 enterprises to help them in their cloud transformation and migration projects. These engagements include DevOps, financial, security and program reviews as well as one-on-one coaching and consulting with C-suite executives.

Prior to Accenture, Rodrigo worked at Cisco in the cloud software business group as CTO. He founded newScale (acquired by Cisco) the service catalog and cloud management platform pioneer from 2000--2011.

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Accenture main site: http://accenture.com/
Rodrigo’s blog “Working Class CTO”: https://workingclasscto.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roflores/
Twitter: @rfflores

HEY, We’re Building Better Email with Blake Stoddard Aug 20, 2020

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About Blake Stoddard

Blake is Senior System Administrator on Basecamp’s Operations team who spends most of his time working with Kubernetes, and AWS, in some capacity. When he’s not deep in YAML, he’s out mountain biking.

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Basecamp: https://basecamp.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/t3rabytes
Signal v. Noise blog (author page): https://m.signalvnoise.com/author/blake/
Signal v. Noise blog (main site): signalvnoise.com

The Startup Inside IBM with Sachin Agarwal Aug 18, 2020

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About Sachin Agarwal

Sachin Agarwal is the Worldwide Product Management Lead at IBM Aspera where he is responsible for leading up the portfolio's strategy and roadmap. Prior to joining IBM, he held various product ownership positions including Principal Product Manager at LaunchDarkly, VP of Product and Operations at Nylas, and Director of Product Management at Oracle. Sachin's post-career goal is to retire in Hawai'i, where he plans to open a great Chicago-themed gastropub/cocktail bar.

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IBM Aspera: https://www.ibm.com/products/aspera
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sachinag
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachinag/

Building Taxpayer-Funded Cloud Services with Simon Elisha Aug 13, 2020

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About Simon Elisha

As Head of Technology and Transformation at Amazon Web Services, Simon Elisha is sought after by C-Level Executives who want deep insights into combining modern technology innovations with the pragmatic lessons learned from hard-earned experience. An expert in Cloud Computing and Organizational Change needed to get the most out of it; Simon is able to demystify how technology innovation is best applied to enable organisations improve customer experience, reduce costs and adapt quickly.

Simon was a leader in cloud well before it was mainstream. As the first technical staff member for Amazon Web Services in Australia, he led the charge to Public Cloud. Bringing over 30 years of industry experience in software, infrastructure and business consulting to the “brave new world”– he has guided start-ups, digital businesses, Government agencies and Enterprises alike on their journey to the cloud. He now leads the AWS Solutions Architecture team located in capital cities across Australia and New Zealand.

A noted industry speaker and communicator; as host of the AWS Podcast, Simon speaks to a global audience of technology leaders and practitioners on a weekly basis. Simon has held senior roles at organisations including Pivotal Software, Cisco, Hitachi Data Systems, VERITAS Software, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and EDS. In addition, Simon earned an Honors Degree in Information Technology from Monash University and holds eight patents.

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AWS Podcast: https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/aws-podcast/
Ensuring Rollback Safety During Deployments: https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/ensuring-rollback-safety-during-deployments/

Spanning the Globe with Jaana Dogan Aug 11, 2020

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About Jaana Dogan

Jaana Dogan is working on Spanner at Google to make state not your problem problem. She has 15+ years of experience in building infrastructure, developer platforms, and tools. Jaana's current work is focused on storage systems, observability and performance tools, and helping customers with architectural design tradeoffs.

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