About Rick I lead the developer relations team for strategic accounts at MongoDB. My responsibilities include defining technical standards for the global strategic accounts team and consulting with the largest customers and opportunities for the business. My role spans technology sectors and as part of my engagements I routinely provide guidance on industry best practices, technology transformation, distributed systems implementation, cloud migration, and more. I led the architecture and design ...
Mar 24, 2022•41 min•Ep 335•Transcript available on Metacast About Rachel Rachel leads product and technical marketing for Chronosphere. Previously, Rachel wore lots of marketing hats at CloudHealth (acquired by VMware), and before that, she led product marketing for cloud-integrated storage at NetApp. She also spent many years as an analyst at Forrester Research. Outside of work, Rachel tries to keep up with her young son and hyper-active dog, and when she has time, enjoys crafting and eating out at local restaurants in Boston where she’s based. Links: C...
Mar 23, 2022•38 min•Ep 334•Transcript available on Metacast About Clint Clint is the CEO and a co-founder at Cribl, a company focused on making observability viable for any organization, giving customers visibility and control over their data while maximizing value from existing tools. Prior to co-founding Cribl, Clint spent two decades leading product management and IT operations at technology and software companies, including Splunk and Cricket Communications. As a former practitioner, he has deep expertise in network issues, database administration, a...
Mar 22, 2022•38 min•Ep 333•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. Prior to joining the Duckbill Group, Alex spent a few years as a freelance data engineering consultant, helping...
Mar 17, 2022•40 min•Ep 332•Transcript available on Metacast About Aidan Aidan is an AWS enthusiast, due in no small part to sharing initials with the cloud. He's been writing software for over 20 years and getting paid to do it for the last 10. He's still not sure what he wants to be when he grows up. Links: Stedi: https://www.stedi.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/aidansteele Blog posts: https://awsteele.com/ Ipv6-ghost-ship: https://github.com/aidansteele/ipv6-ghost-ship Twitter: https://twitter.com/__steele...
Mar 16, 2022•34 min•Ep 331•Transcript available on Metacast About David David is an AWS expert who likes to design and build scalable solutions that are fully automated and take care of themselves. Now he is focusing on selling his own products on the AWS Marketplace. Links: 0x4447: https://0x4447.com/ Products page: https://products.0x4447.com
Mar 15, 2022•36 min•Ep 330•Transcript available on Metacast About Seth Seth Vargo is an engineer at Google. Previously he worked at HashiCorp, Chef Software, CustomInk, and some Pittsburgh-based startups. He is the author of Learning Chef and is passionate about reducing inequality in technology. When he is not writing, working on open source, teaching, or speaking at conferences, Seth advises non-profits. Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/sethvargo...
Mar 10, 2022•42 min•Ep 329•Transcript available on Metacast About Brooke Brooke is the Head of Enablement - AI/ML and Data at Blackbook.ai, an Australian based consulting firm and AWS Partner. Brooke has degrees in Mathematics and Data Engineering and they specialise in developing technically robust solutions that help “non-data people” harness the power of AI for their industry, and communicate this effectively. Outside of their 'day job', Brooke speaks at Data, AI, Software Engineering, UX and Business conferences and events to Australian and internati...
Mar 09, 2022•36 min•Ep 328•Transcript available on Metacast About Liz Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with cloud native networking and security specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium eBPF-based networking project. She is chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee, and was Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of Container Security, published by O'Reilly. She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digi...
Mar 08, 2022•37 min•Ep 327•Transcript available on Metacast About Emily Emily is an Android engineer by day, but makes tech jokes and satires videos by night. She lives in San Francisco with two ridiculously fluffy dogs. Links: Uber: https://eng.uber.com/ Blog: https://www.emilykager.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilyKager TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@shmemmmy...
Mar 03, 2022•36 min•Ep 326•Transcript available on Metacast About Kelly KellyAnn Fitzpatrick is a Senior Industry Analyst at RedMonk, the developer-focused industry analyst firm. Having previously worked as a QA analyst, test & release manager, and tech writer, she has experience with containers, CI/CD, testing frameworks, documentation, and training. She has also taught technical communication to computer science majors at the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow. Holding a Ph.D. in English from the University at Albany ...
Mar 02, 2022•38 min•Ep 325•Transcript available on Metacast About Anna Anna has nearly ten years of experience researching and advising organizations on cloud adoption with a focus on security best practices. As a Gartner Analyst, Anna spent six years helping more than 500 enterprises with vulnerability management, security monitoring, and DevSecOps initiatives. Anna's research and talks have been used to transform organizations' IT strategies and her research agenda helped to shape markets. Anna is the Director of Thought Leadership at Sysdig, using her...
Mar 01, 2022•33 min•Ep 324•Transcript available on Metacast About Lynn Cloud Architect who codes, Angel Investor Links: Lynn Langit Consulting: https://lynnlangit.com/ Groove Capital: https://www.groovecap.com/groove-capital-minnesotas-first-check-fund Twitter: https://twitter.com/lynnlangit GitHub: https://github.com/lynnlangit...
Feb 24, 2022•36 min•Ep 323•Transcript available on Metacast About Sean Sean is a senior software engineer at TheZebra, working to build developer experience tooling with a focus on application stability and scalability. Over the past seven years, they have helped create software and proprietary platforms that help teams understand and better their own work. Links: TheZebra: https://www.thezebra.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sc_codeUM LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-corbett-574a5321/ Email: scorbett@thezebra.com...
Feb 23, 2022•38 min•Ep 322•Transcript available on Metacast About Tyler Lifelong learner, passionate coach, obsessed with continuous improvement, avid solver of people puzzles. Links: United Airlines: https://www.united.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerslove/
Feb 22, 2022•34 min•Ep 321•Transcript available on Metacast About Randall Randall Hunt, VP of Cloud Strategy and Solutions at Caylent, is a technology leader, investor, and hands-on-keyboard coder based in Los Angeles, CA. Previously, Randall led software and developer relations teams at Facebook, SpaceX, AWS, MongoDB, and NASA. Randall spends most of his time listening to customers, building demos, writing blog posts, and mentoring junior engineers. Python and C++ are his favorite programming languages, but he begrudgingly admits that Javascript rules t...
Feb 17, 2022•37 min•Ep 320•Transcript available on Metacast About Jason Jason Frazier is a Software Engineering Manager at Ekata, a Mastercard Company. Jason’s team is responsible for developing and maintaining Ekata’s product APIs. Previously, as a developer, Jason led the investigation and migration of Ekata’s Identity Graph from AWS Elasticache to Redis Enterprise Redis on Flash, which brought an average savings of $300,000/yr. Links: Ekata: https://ekata.com/ Email: jason.frazier@ekata.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonfrazier56...
Feb 16, 2022•37 min•Ep 319•Transcript available on Metacast About Wayne Professionally, I'm a Vice President at Amazon Web Services (AWS) where I lead a set of businesses delivering cloud infrastructure services. In 2013, I founded and continue to lead the AWS Boston regional development center. I'm an always-curious entrepreneur who is passionate about building innovative teams and businesses that deliver highly disruptive value to customers. I love engaging people who build and deliver customer-obsessed solutions, as well as customers wanting to realiz...
Feb 15, 2022•43 min•Ep 318•Transcript available on Metacast About Ana Ana Visneski is the founder of Merewif, a crisis communications and management consulting firm. She is a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard where she was a first responder to major disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the BP Oil Spill, and various other incidents. After the USCG, Ana moved on to a whole new disaster that needed an experienced crisis operator - running Launch Operations for AWS. Following that she was the global lead for AWS Disaster Response, overseeing deploying AWS techn...
Feb 10, 2022•44 min•Ep 317•Transcript available on Metacast About Yiftach Yiftach is an experienced technologist, having held leadership engineering and product roles in diverse fields from application acceleration, cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS), to broadband networks and metro networks. He was the founder, president and CTO of Crescendo Networks (acquired by F5, NASDAQ:FFIV), the vice president of software development at Native Networks (acquired by Alcatel, NASDAQ: ALU) and part of the founding team at ECI Telecom broadband division,...
Feb 09, 2022•40 min•Ep 316•Transcript available on Metacast About Laura Laura leads the research program at Jeli.io. She has a Master’s degree in Human Factors & Systems Safety and a PhD in Cognitive Systems Engineering. Her doctoral work focused on distributed incident response practices in DevOps teams responsible for critical digital services. She was a researcher with the SNAFU Catchers Consortium from 2017-2020 and her research interests lie in resilience engineering, coordination design and enabling adaptive capacity across distributed work tea...
Feb 08, 2022•31 min•Ep 315•Transcript available on Metacast About Serena Serena is a Network Engineer who specializes in Data Center Compute and Virtualization. She has degrees in Computer Information Systems with a concentration on networking and information security and is currently pursuing a master’s in Data Center Systems Engineering. She is most known for her content on TikTok and Twitter as Shenetworks. Serena’s content focuses on networking and security for beginners which has included popular videos on bug bounties, switch spoofing, VLAN hoping,...
Feb 03, 2022•35 min•Ep 314•Transcript available on Metacast About AB AB Periasamy is the co-founder and CEO of MinIO, an open source provider of high performance, object storage software. In addition to this role, AB is an active investor and advisor to a wide range of technology companies, from H2O.ai and Manetu where he serves on the board to advisor or investor roles with Humio, Isovalent, Starburst, Yugabyte, Tetrate, Postman, Storj, Procurify, and Helpshift. Successful exits include Gitter.im (Gitlab), Treasure Data (ARM) and Fastor (SMART). AB co-f...
Feb 02, 2022•39 min•Ep 313•Transcript available on Metacast About Natalie I'm interested in solving human problems through technology (she/her). Share your screen (or I'll share mine) and we'll figure this out! Links: Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/codeFreedomRitr
Feb 01, 2022•37 min•Ep 312•Transcript available on Metacast About Nancy Nancy Wang is a global product and technical leader at Amazon Web Services, where she leads P&L, product, engineering, and design for its data protection and governance businesses. Prior to Amazon, she led SaaS product development at Rubrik, the fastest-growing enterprise software unicorn and built healthdata.gov for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Passionate about advancing more women into technical roles, Nancy is the founder & CEO of Advancing Women in Te...
Jan 27, 2022•37 min•Ep 311•Transcript available on Metacast About Rachel Rachel Kelly is a Senior Engineer at Fastly in Infrastructure, and is a proud career-switcher over to tech as of about eight years ago. She lives in the Pacific Northwest and spends her time thinking about crafts, cycling, leadership, and ditching Google. Previously, she worked at Bright.md wrestling Ansible and Terraform into shape, and before then, a couple years at Puppet. You can reach Rachel on twitter @wholemilk, or at hello@rkode.com. Links: Fastly: https://www.fastly.com Sea...
Jan 26, 2022•37 min•Ep 310•Transcript available on Metacast About Deirdré For over 35 years, Deirdré Straughan has been helping technologies grow and thrive through marketing and community. Her product experience spans consumer apps and devices, cloud services and technologies, and kernel features. Her toolkit includes words, websites, blogs, communities, events, video, social, marketing, and more. She has written and edited technical books and blog posts, filmed and produced videos, and organized meetups, conferences, and conference talks. She just star...
Jan 25, 2022•41 min•Ep 309•Transcript available on Metacast About Andrew I create free cloud certification courses and somehow still make money. Links: ExamPro Training, Inc.: https://www.exampro.co/ PolyWork: https://www.polywork.com/andrewbrown LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-wc-brown Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewbrown...
Jan 20, 2022•39 min•Ep 308•Transcript available on Metacast About Shir Shir Tamari is the Head of Research of Wiz, the cloud security company. He is an experienced security and technology researcher specializing in vulnerability research and practical hacking. In the past, he served as a consultant to a variety of security companies in the fields of research, development and product. About Sagi Sagi Tzadik is a security researcher in the Wiz Research Team. Sagi specializes in research and exploitation of web applications vulnerabilities, as well as netwo...
Jan 19, 2022•34 min•Ep 307•Transcript available on Metacast About Pete I enjoy improving companies organizational structures, providing insight into building and growing autonomous high functioning, high performing technical teams. I'm fascinated by the dynamics of high performance, and take great pride in building and supporting those teams. I also enjoy the intricacies of Systems Architecture, Design, and Implementation work. I like to use modern tools to solve difficult technology problems. I'm most excited by Automation, Observability, Data Engineeri...
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