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 Phil...
Nov 03, 2020•33 min•Ep 156•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Oct 29, 2020•30 min•Ep 155•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Links egghead.io: https://egghead.io/ Eight Resources for Learning Python blog post: https://www.ceoraford.com/posts/8-resources-you-can-use-t...
Oct 27, 2020•34 min•Ep 154•Transcript available on Metacast 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 contr...
Oct 22, 2020•34 min•Ep 153•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Links Referenced Wellcome Collection: https://wellcomecollection.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexwlchan Blo...
Oct 20, 2020•31 min•Ep 152•Transcript available on Metacast About Jason McKay Jason is responsible for leading Logicworks’ technical strategy including its software and DevOps product roadmap. In this capacity, he works directly with Logicworks’ senior engineers and developers, technology vendors and partners, and R&D team to ensure that Logicworks service offerings meet and exceed the performance, compliance, automation, and security requirements of our clients. Prior to joining Logicworks in 2005, Jason worked in technology in the Unix support tren...
Oct 15, 2020•32 min•Ep 151•Transcript available on Metacast About Veliswa Boya Veliswa Boya is a 2x certified AWS Cloud Engineer currently working in financial services. She works with application teams on cloud migration strategies and cloud architecture designs. Veliswa has been in the IT industry for 20+ years, starting her career as a mainframe developer working on critical systems for car manufacturers, insurance companies, and banks. Veliswa is a member of Indoni Developers , which is a platform for African women in coding/tech. She speaks at meetu...
Oct 13, 2020•35 min•Ep 150•Transcript available on Metacast About Stuart Miniman Stuart Miniman has been an analyst and co-host of the online video interview program theCUBE for a decade. Stu's background is in networking and virtualization, he focuses on cloud and disruptive technologies. Stu has interviewed thousands of guests on theCUBE and written on wide variety of enterprise technology topics. His past positions, including sales, product management and strategic planning provides him with perspective on how to focus on the needs of customers. Stuar...
Oct 08, 2020•36 min•Ep 149•Transcript available on Metacast About Angela Andrews Angela Andrews is a solutions architect at Red Hat. Prior to that, she was a systems administrator in higher education for over 15 years. With many interested in technology, she’s dived into areas like cybersecurity, where she was a substitute teacher and teaching assistant (TA) for a cybersecurity boot camp. She attended a full-stack coding boot camp and also taught and TA’d classes teaching people how to code. Angela is the organizer for #PythonForAll, an online meetup cal...
Oct 06, 2020•33 min•Ep 148•Transcript available on Metacast About Spencer Viernes Spencer Viernes has been practicing law for over 15 years. His practice consists of local, national and international clients. He has advised clients regarding digital infrastructure, including cloud infrastructure, data centers and telecommunications infrastructure, technology transactions, energy and natural resources, and economic development initiatives. Spencer has provided strategic guidance, both legal and practical, related to diverse geographic business and legal i...
Oct 01, 2020•40 min•Ep 147•Transcript available on Metacast About Ev Kontsevoy Ev Kontsevoy is the CEO of Gravitational, where he and other engineers build open-source tools for other developers for securely delivering cloud apps to restricted and regulated environments. Besides computers, Ev’s obsessed with trains and old film cameras. Links Referenced: Gravitational website: https://gravitational.com/ Gravitational GitHub: https://github.com/gravitational Teleport GitHub: https://github.com/gravitational/teleport...
Sep 29, 2020•45 min•Ep 146•Transcript available on Metacast About Fredick “Flee” Lee Fredrick "Flee" Lee is the CSO at Gusto, the platform that helps 100,000+ small businesses nationwide pay, insure, and provide benefits for their teams. Flee has more than 15 years of experience leading global information security and privacy efforts at large financial services companies and technology startups, most recently as Square's head of information security. He previously held senior security and privacy roles at Bank of America, NetSuite, and Twilio. Links Refe...
Sep 24, 2020•39 min•Ep 145•Transcript available on Metacast About Corey Sanders: Corey Sanders is the Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Solutions, an organization dedicated to partnering with customers as they transform into successful digital businesses. He is responsible for sales strategy and corporate technical sales across Solution Areas and Teams that include Azure Applications & Infrastructure, Azure Data & AI, Business Applications, Cybersecurity Solutions Group, and Modern Workplace. His focus also includes selling the full value of...
Sep 22, 2020•34 min•Ep 144•Transcript available on Metacast Links Referenced: Honeycomb: https://www.honeycomb.io/ Personal Blog: https://charity.wtf/ Honeycomb Blog: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog
Sep 17, 2020•31 min•Ep 143•Transcript available on Metacast About Stephanie Stimac Stephanie is a Design Technologist and Program Manager for Microsoft Edge Developer Experiences. She comes from a background in design and after initially spending 6 years focusing on a career in web design, has spent the last 4 years working on Microsoft Edge to improve developer tools and the browser. Currently she helps run an initiative called the Web We Want that focuses on identifying problems developers face in their day-to-day work and is passionate about HTML, CSS...
Sep 15, 2020•32 min•Ep 142•Transcript available on Metacast 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, n...
Sep 10, 2020•44 min•Ep 141•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Links Referenced: Branch Insurance Main: https://ourbranch.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheTallpants GitHub: https://github.com/tallpants...
Sep 08, 2020•30 min•Ep 140•Transcript available on Metacast 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, sen...
Sep 03, 2020•45 min•Ep 139•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Links Referenced: Main company site: https://www.platformonomics.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/charlesfitz/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesfitz Sponsors Trend Micro Cloud One A Cloud Guru New Relic...
Sep 01, 2020•38 min•Ep 138•Transcript available on Metacast 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 spe...
Aug 27, 2020•30 min•Ep 137•Transcript available on Metacast 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, se...
Aug 25, 2020•36 min•Ep 136•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Links Referenced: 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...
Aug 20, 2020•31 min•Ep 135•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Links R...
Aug 18, 2020•36 min•Ep 134•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Aug 13, 2020•42 min•Ep 133•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Links Referenced: Recommended book: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable/dp/1449373321 Twitter: https://twitter....
Aug 11, 2020•35 min•Ep 132•Transcript available on Metacast About Jon Myer A Partner Solutions Architect for Cloud Management Tools at AWS. Jon Myer is an evangelist for all things AWS and passionate about educating, teaching, and connecting with others about new or existing services AWS releases. Links Referenced: The AWS Blogger: https://www.theawsblogger.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/_jonmyer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-myer/...
Aug 06, 2020•43 min•Ep 131•Transcript available on Metacast About Tim Bray: Tim is a general-purpose Internet-software geek. He specializes in Web, search, writing, speaking, business. He founded Textuality in 1996. He is available for consulting on issues of technology leadership, software construction, and distributed systems. You can follow Tim's musings on his blog ongoing and on Twitter . Links Referenced: “Working Effectively with Legacy Code”: https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052 Twitter: https://twitter...
Aug 04, 2020•46 min•Ep 130•Transcript available on Metacast About Katie Bullard As President of A Cloud Guru, Katie leads the sales, marketing, customer success, and partnership teams for the world's largest and most trusted cloud training platform. Links Referenced: Main company site: https://acloud.guru/ and https://acloudguru.com A Cloud Guru Twitter: https://twitter.com/acloudguru A Cloud Guru LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a-cloud-guru/...
Jul 30, 2020•36 min•Ep 129•Transcript available on Metacast About Liz Fong-Jones Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 16+ years of experience. She is an advocate at Honeycomb for the SRE and Observability communities, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights. Links Referenced Company Site: https://www.honeycomb.io/ The Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/ Honeycomb Liz: https://www.honeycomb.io/liz Personal site: https...
Jul 28, 2020•36 min•Ep 128•Transcript available on Metacast About Forrest Brazeal Forrest is an enterprise cloud architect, speaker, and community advocate. Currently a senior manager at A Cloud Guru, he spent years designing applications for the cloud at Infor and Trek10. One of the original AWS Serverless Heroes, Forrest was also named one of Jefferson Frank's Top 7 Global AWS Experts in 2019. His first book, "The Read-Aloud Cloud", is coming from Wiley in September 2020. Links Referenced Book: https://www.amazon.com/Read-Aloud-Cloud-Innocents-Inside/d...
Jul 21, 2020•36 min•Ep 127•Transcript available on Metacast 
