About James James Urquhart is a Strategic Executive Advisor for VMware Tanzu customers. Mr. Urquhart brings almost 30 years of experience in distributed applications development, deployment, and operations, focusing on software as a complex adaptive system, cloud native applications and platforms, and automation. Prior to joining VMware, via Pivotal, Mr. Urquhart ran product and engineering teams for AWS, SOASTA, and Dell (via Enstratius). Mr. Urquhart has also written and spoken extensively abo...
Feb 16, 2021•33 min•Ep 186•Transcript available on Metacast About Nora Nora is the founder and CEO of Jeli. She is a dedicated and driven technology leader and software engineer with a passion for the intersection between how people and software work in practice in distributed systems. In November 2017 she keynoted at AWS re:Invent to share her experiences helping organizations large and small reach crucial availability with an audience of ~40,000 people, helping kick off the Chaos Engineering movement we see today. She created and founded the www.learni...
Feb 11, 2021•30 min•Ep 185•Transcript available on Metacast About Ana Visneski Ana Visneski is a Grandmaster of Disaster (responding to them more so than causing them). She has 15+ years of experience in communications and disaster response. Ana was an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard for 12 years responding to disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the BP Oilspill. After leaving the service she was the Head of Launch, Blog, and Podcast Operations, before becoming the Head of Global Disaster Response. She is now the Sr. Director of Communications and Com...
Feb 09, 2021•36 min•Ep 184•Transcript available on Metacast About Sarah Kaiser I use lasers to melt acrylic and the cisheteropatriarchy alike. Quantum Computing technologist/consultant by day, author and dog mom the rest of the time. Links: Unitary Fund: https://unitary.fund/ Sarah’s Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/crazy4pi314/ Learning Quantum Computing with Python and Q#: https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Quantum-Computing-Python-hands/dp/1617296139 Twitter: https://twitter.com/crazy4pi314 GitHub: https://github.com/crazy4pi314 Personal Website: https://www.s...
Feb 04, 2021•33 min•Ep 183•Transcript available on Metacast About Caroline Carter Caroline is our sponsorships manager at The Duckbill Group for our three media publications: Screaming in the Cloud, AWS Morning Brief, and Last Week in AWS. She also helped us create our first-ever re:Quinnvent digital conference in December of 2020. Before joining the Duckbill Group, Caroline sold market insights software to Fortune 500 companies at CB Insights and payment software to businesses at Square. Prior to her sales career, she worked in client operations at Futu...
Feb 02, 2021•33 min•Ep 182•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Links Referenced: Connect with Regis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/regis-wilson-a713609/ Personal Website: http://www.zennet.com/ Release: https://releaseapp.io/...
Jan 28, 2021•33 min•Ep 181•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jan 26, 2021•42 min•Ep 180•Transcript available on Metacast Links Referenced: Company website: http://summitroute.com flaws.cloud: http://flaws.cloud fwd:cloudsec: https://fwdcloudsec.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xdabbad00
Jan 21, 2021•43 min•Ep 179•Transcript available on Metacast 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 whee...
Jan 19, 2021•40 min•Ep 178•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Links Referenced: Connect with Scott Piper on... LinkedIn Twitter: @0xdabbad00 Company website: Summit Route flaws.cloud flaws2.cloud fwd:cloudsec...
Jan 14, 2021•42 min•Ep 177•Transcript available on Metacast Links Referenced: Gaia Platform Hal’s Blog Follow Hal on Twitter
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Jan 07, 2021•38 min•Ep 175•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Befor...
Jan 05, 2021•37 min•Ep 174•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Links Referenced: Dis...
Dec 31, 2020•35 min•Ep 173•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Links Referenced: The State Hornet Covered California Follow Kylie on Twitter Kylie’s Website...
Dec 29, 2020•32 min•Ep 172•Transcript available on Metacast About Alex Hidalgo Alex Hidalgo is a Site Reliability Engineer and author of the upcoming Implementing Service Level Objectives (O'Reilly Media, September 2020). During his career he has developed a deep love for sustainable operations, proper observability, and using SLO data to drive discussions and make decisions. Alex's previous jobs have included IT support, network security, restaurant work, t-shirt design, and hosting game shows at bars. When not sharing his passion for technology with ot...
Dec 24, 2020•37 min•Ep 171•Transcript available on Metacast About Danyel Fisher Danyel Fisher is a Principal Design Researcher for Honeycomb.io. He focuses his passion for data visualization on helping SREs understand their complex systems quickly and clearly. Before he started at Honeycomb, he spent thirteen years at Microsoft Research, studying ways to help people gain insights faster from big data analytics. Links Referenced: Danyel’s section on Honeycomb’s website Danyel’s Personal Site Follow Danyel on Twitter...
Dec 22, 2020•32 min•Ep 170•Transcript available on Metacast About Chris Porter Chris Porter is the Director of Solutions Engineering at StackRox, the leader in Kubernetes-native container security. Porter has more than 20 years of experience in pre-sales engineering roles, serving and advising customers on security for email, web, cloud, and now Kubernetes and containers. Porter is a certified AWS Solutions Architect and AWS Security Specialist, is the author of a Cisco Press book on Email Security, and holds a Master’s degree from Stevens Institute of T...
Dec 17, 2020•33 min•Ep 169•Transcript available on Metacast Links Referenced: Follow @SimpsonsOps on Twitter
Dec 15, 2020•31 min•Ep 168•Transcript available on Metacast About Matt Stratton Matt Stratton is a Transformation Specialist at Red Hat and a long-time member of the global DevOps community. Back in the day, his license plate actually said “DevOps”. Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations, ranging from large financial institutions such as JPMorganChase to internet firms including Apartments.com. He is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and ITSM focused events, including DevOps Enterprise Summit, DevOpsDays,...
Dec 10, 2020•40 min•Ep 167•Transcript available on Metacast About Shelby Spees Shelby Spees has been developing software professionally since 2015 in a range of domains, which has made her appreciate the importance of learning how to learn and creating support systems for lifelong skill development. When she’s not helping teams level up their observability practice, you can find her at home playing on her Switch or singing karaoke with her rescue pitbull Nova. Links Referenced Follow Shelby on Twitter Connect with Shelby on LinkedIn Shelby’s Personal Sit...
Dec 08, 2020•35 min•Ep 166•Transcript available on Metacast About Alfonso Cabrera Alfonso Cabrera is the Director of Platform Engineering at Red Ventures, where he helps manage and optimize the extensive AWS footprint. He also spent time at AWS as a Solutions Architect and worked as a DevOps Engineer at a few startups. Alfonso enjoys fostering community and has organized DevOpsDays Charlotte for the past 5 years. Outside of work, he tries to stay in shape by playing sports of all kinds, and gets his adrenaline fix by riding motorcycles. Links Referenced ...
Dec 03, 2020•38 min•Ep 165•Transcript available on Metacast About Richard Seroter Richard Seroter is Director of Outbound Product Management at Google Cloud, with a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Colorado. He’s also an instructor at Pluralsight, the lead InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, a frequent public speaker, the author of multiple books on software design and development, and a former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found ...
Dec 01, 2020•41 min•Ep 164•Transcript available on Metacast About Peter Cooper Founder and editor-in-chief of Cooper Press. Programmer, indexer of all the programming links, former O'Reilly conference chair, and general nerd. Links Referenced Cooper Press JavaScript Weekly Ruby Weekly Article, “ How to use AWS SimpleDB from Ruby ” Follow Peter on Twitter Connect with Peter on LinkedIn...
Nov 26, 2020•48 min•Ep 163•Transcript available on Metacast About Divanny Lamas Divanny Lamas is the CEO of Transposit, the DevOps automation company. Divanny and the Transposit team are creating a world where humans interact with machines successfully to manage today’s complex technology stacks. Divanny is also a managing director at leading venture capital firm Sutter Hill Ventures. She is passionate about working with entrepreneurs to tackle ambitious technical challenges. Prior to Transposit, she began her career at Google and spent seven years at Sp...
Nov 24, 2020•35 min•Ep 162•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Links Referenced Connect with Brooke on LinkedIn Follow Brooke on Twitter A Cloud Guru Blog post, “ Automating CI/CD With AWS CodePipeline ”...
Nov 19, 2020•35 min•Ep 160•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Links Referenced strongDM Connect with Liz on LinkedIn...
Nov 17, 2020•30 min•Ep 164•Transcript available on Metacast 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-found...
Nov 12, 2020•34 min•Ep 163•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Links Referenced Honeycomb Jam's Personal Blog Follow Jam on Twitter Connect with Jam on LinkedIn...
Nov 10, 2020•40 min•Ep 158•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Links Referenced Branch Twitter Christie's portfolio Connect with Christie on LinkedIn...
Nov 05, 2020•31 min•Ep 157•Transcript available on Metacast 
