About Amy Amy Tobey has worked in tech for more than 20 years at companies of every size, working with everything from kernel code to user interfaces. These days she spends her time building an innovative Site Reliability Engineering program at Equinix, where she is a principal engineer. When she's not working, she can be found with her nose in a book, watching anime with her son, making noise with electronics, or doing yoga poses in the sun. Links Referenced: Equinix: https://metal.equinix.com ...
Sep 27, 2022•39 min•Ep 395•Transcript available on Metacast About Shinji Shinji Kim is the Founder & CEO of Select Star, an automated data discovery platform that helps you to understand & manage your data. Previously, she was the Founder & CEO of Concord Systems, a NYC-based data infrastructure startup acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2016. She led the strategy and execution of Akamai IoT Edge Connect, an IoT data platform for real-time communication and data processing of connected devices. Shinji studied Software Engineering at Universit...
Sep 22, 2022•33 min•Ep 394•Transcript available on Metacast About Scott With more than 28 years of successful leadership in building high technology companies and delivering advanced products to market, Scott provides the overall strategic leadership and visionary direction for Azul Systems. Scott has a consistent proven track record of vision, leadership, and success in enterprise, consumer and scientific markets. Prior to co-founding Azul Systems, Scott founded 3dfx Interactive, a graphics processor company that pioneered the 3D graphics market for per...
Sep 20, 2022•37 min•Ep 393•Transcript available on Metacast About Allen Allen is a cloud architect at Tyler Technologies. He helps modernize government software by creating secure, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant serverless applications. Allen publishes content regularly about serverless concepts and design on his blog - Ready, Set Cloud! Links Referenced: Ready, Set, Cloud blog: https://readysetcloud.io Tyler Technologies: https://www.tylertech.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/allenheltondev Linked: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allenheltondev/...
Sep 15, 2022•39 min•Ep 392•Transcript available on Metacast About Ian Ian Smith is Field CTO at Chronosphere where he works across sales, marketing, engineering and product to deliver better insights and outcomes to observability teams supporting high-scale cloud-native environments. Previously, he worked with observability teams across the software industry in pre-sales roles at New Relic, Wavefront, PagerDuty and Lightstep. Links Referenced: Chronosphere: https://chronosphere.io Last Tweet in AWS: lasttweetinaws.com...
Sep 13, 2022•42 min•Ep 391•Transcript available on Metacast About Dan Dan Moore is head of developer relations for FusionAuth, where he helps share information about authentication, authorization and security with developers building all kinds of applications. A former CTO, AWS certification instructor, engineering manager and a longtime developer, he's been writing software for (checks watch) over 20 years. Links Referenced: FusionAuth: https://fusionauth.io Twitter: https://twitter.com/mooreds...
Sep 08, 2022•37 min•Ep 390•Transcript available on Metacast About Anaïs Anaïs is a Developer Advocate at Aqua Security, where she contributes to Aqua’s cloud native open source projects. When she is not advocating DevOps best practices, she runs her own YouTube Channel centered around cloud native technologies. Before joining Aqua, Anais worked as SRE at Civo, a cloud native service provider, where she helped enhance the infrastructure for hundreds of tenant clusters. As CNCF ambassador of the year 2021, her passion lies in making tools and platforms mor...
Sep 06, 2022•36 min•Ep 389•Transcript available on Metacast About Alex Alex is the Chief Product Officer of Twingate, which he cofounded in 2019. Alex has held a range of product leadership roles in the enterprise software market over the last 16 years, including at Dropbox, where he was the first enterprise hire in the company's transformation from consumer to enterprise business. A focus of his product career has been using the power of design thinking to make technically complex products intuitive and easy to use. Alex graduated from Stanford Universi...
Sep 01, 2022•32 min•Ep 388•Transcript available on Metacast About Martin Martin Casado is a general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz where he focuses on enterprise investing. He was previously the cofounder and chief technology officer at Nicira, which was acquired by VMware for $1.26 billion in 2012. While at VMware, Martin was a fellow, and served as senior vice president and general manager of the Networking and Security Business Unit, which he scaled to a $600 million run-rate business by the time he left VMware in 2016. Martin...
Aug 30, 2022•35 min•Ep 387•Transcript available on Metacast About Matt Matt is a Sr. Architect in Belfast, an AWS DevTools Hero, Serverless Architect, Author and conference speaker. He is focused on creating the right environment for empowered teams to rapidly deliver business value in a well-architected, sustainable and serverless-first way. You can usually find him sharing reusable, well architected, serverless patterns over at cdkpatterns.com or behind the scenes bringing CDK Day to life. Links Referenced: Previous guest appearance: https://www.lastwe...
Aug 25, 2022•40 min•Ep 386•Transcript available on Metacast About Adam Adam is an independent cloud consultant that helps startups build products on AWS. He’s also the host of AWS FM, a podcast with guests from around the AWS community, and an AWS DevTools Hero. Adam is passionate about open source and has made a handful of contributions to the AWS CDK over the years. In 2020 he created Ness, an open source CLI tool for deploying web sites and apps to AWS. Previously, Adam co-founded StatMuse—a Disney backed startup building technology that answers sport...
Aug 23, 2022•34 min•Ep 385•Transcript available on Metacast About Alex Alex holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from UC San Diego, and has spent over a decade building high-performance, robust data management and processing systems. As an early member of a couple fast-growing startups, he’s had the opportunity to wear a lot of different hats, serving at various times as an individual contributor, tech lead, manager, and executive. He also had a brief stint as a Cloud Economist with the Duckbill Group, helping AWS customers save money on the...
Aug 18, 2022•38 min•Ep 384•Transcript available on Metacast About Steren Steren is a Group Product Manager at Google Cloud. He is part of the serverless team, leading Cloud Run. He is also working on sustainability, leading the Google Cloud Carbon Footprint product. Steren is an engineer from École Centrale (France). Before joining Google, he was CTO of a startup building connected objects and multi device solutions. Links Referenced: previous episode: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/google-cloud-run-satisfaction-and-scalabil...
Aug 16, 2022•35 min•Ep 383•Transcript available on Metacast About Alex Alex Su is a lawyer who's currently the Head of Community Development at Ironclad, the #1 contract lifecycle management technology company that's backed by Accel, Sequoia, Y Combinator, and other leading investors. Prior to joining Ironclad, Alex sold cloud software to legal departments and law firms on behalf of early stage startups. Alex maintains an active presence on social media, with over 180,000 followers across Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok. Links Referenced: Ironcl...
Aug 11, 2022•34 min•Ep 382•Transcript available on Metacast About Jon A husband, father of 3 wonderful kids who turned Podcaster during the pandemic. If you told me in early 2020 I would be making content or doing a podcast, I probably would have said "Nah, I couldn't see myself making YouTube videos". In fact, I told my kids, no way am I going to make videos for YouTube. Well, a year later I'm over 100 uploads and my subscriber count is growing. Links Referenced: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-myer/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/_JonMyer jonmy...
Aug 09, 2022•37 min•Ep 381•Transcript available on Metacast 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 w...
Aug 04, 2022•36 min•Ep 380•Transcript available on Metacast 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/clouds...
Aug 02, 2022•36 min•Ep 379•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Links Referenced: Teleport: https://goteleport.com/ @anadeliafadeev: https://twitter.com/anadeliafadeev LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anadeliafadeev/...
Jul 28, 2022•36 min•Ep 378•Transcript available on Metacast 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 i...
Jul 26, 2022•41 min•Ep 377•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Lin...
Jul 21, 2022•36 min•Ep 376•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Links ...
Jul 19, 2022•36 min•Ep 375•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Jul 14, 2022•39 min•Ep 374•Transcript available on Metacast 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 – late...
Jul 12, 2022•36 min•Ep 373•Transcript available on Metacast 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/...
Jul 07, 2022•33 min•Ep 372•Transcript available on Metacast 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 a...
Jul 05, 2022•30 min•Ep 371•Transcript available on Metacast About Chris Chris is a robotics engineer turned cloud security practitioner. From building origami robots for NASA, to neuroscience wearables, to enterprise software consulting, he is a passionate builder at heart. Chris is a cofounder of Common Fate , a company with a mission to make cloud access simple and secure. Links: Common Fate: https://commonfate.io/ Granted: https://granted.dev Twitter: https://twitter.com/chr_norm...
Jun 30, 2022•34 min•Ep 370•Transcript available on Metacast Full Description / Show Notes Corey and Linda talk about Tiktok and the online developer community (1:18) Linda talks about what prompted her to want to work at AWS (5:29) Linda discusses navigating the change from just being part of the developer community to being an employee of AWS (10:37) Linda talks about moving AWS more in the direction of short form content, and Corey and Linda talk about the Tiktok algorithm (15:56) Linda talks about the potential struggle of going from short form to lon...
Jun 28, 2022•34 min•Ep 369•Transcript available on Metacast Full Description / Show Notes Steren and Corey talk about how Google Cloud Run got its name (00:49) Corey talks about his experiences using Google Cloud (2:42) Corey and Steren discuss Google Cloud’s cloud run custom domains (10:01) Steren talks about Cloud Run’s high developer satisfaction and scalability (15:54) Corey and Steren talk about Cloud Run releases at Google I/O (23:21) Steren discusses the majority of developer and customer interest in Google’s cloud product (25:33) Steren talks abo...
Jun 23, 2022•37 min•Ep 368•Transcript available on Metacast Full Description / Show Notes Gafnit explains how she found a vulnerability in RDS, an Amazon database service (1:40) Gafnit and Corey discuss the concept of not being able to win in cloud security (7:20) Gafnit talks about transparency around security breaches (11:02) Corey and Gafnit discuss effectively communicating with customers about security (13:00) Gafnit answers the question “Did you come at the RDS vulnerability exploration from a perspective of being deeper on the Postgres side or dee...
Jun 21, 2022•30 min•Ep 367•Transcript available on Metacast Full Description / Show Notes Marie talks about Oki Doki’s primary product, Notion Mastery (2:38) Corey and Marie talk ADHD diagnosis and how it has impacted their lives and work (4:26) Marie and Corey discuss techniques they’ve developed for coping with ADHD (11:22) Corey and Marie talk about workarounds for people with ADHD who want to adopt something like Notion (16:13) Marie discusses the importance of being excited about the tools you’re employing (18:54) Corey and Marie talk about finding ...
Jun 16, 2022•39 min•Ep 366•Transcript available on Metacast 
