This week your cohosts Francesc (https://twitter.com/francesc) and Mark (https://twitter.com/Neurotic)

travel all the way to sunny Sunnyvale, CA to interview some Google Developer Experts on the amazing things

they do.

Google Developer Experts are a very interesting group of highly skilled people with a passion for technology

and spreading their knowledge. We will talk about how they are using the cloud to improve research on cancer.

Cool thing of the week

* How to avoid a self-inflicted DDoS Attack - CRE life lessons blog post (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/how-to-avoid-a-self-inflicted-DDoS-Attack-CRE-life-lessons.html)

Interviews:

Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine

Alexis (https://twitter.com/alexismp) is a Developer Relations Program Manager for the Google Cloud Advocacy

team, and manages the Google Developer Experts program for all cloud related topics.

Lynn Langit

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Lynn (https://twitter.com/lynnlangit) is the co-founder of ‘Teaching Kids Programming’ and a Big Data

and Cloud Architect, as well as an analyst.

She is also an advisory board member at Codenvy, and AlgebraixData.

Alline Oliveira

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Alline (https://twitter.com/allineo) is the founder of LeanX.co and a senior Java/GWT programmer.

Over the past 20 years, she

has programmed, taught and managed teams in various companies across the globe including Qualcomm;

Nike Inc.; the University of California at San Diego (UCSD); Tata Consultancy Services (a CMM Level

5 company based in India); and TBABrazil (a Microsoft partner).

Daniel Cukier

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Daniel (https://twitter.com/danicuki) is a entrepreneur, founder and CTO at Playax, a music intelligence and analytics

platform. Before Playax he worked for two years as CTO at Elo7 – the biggest crafts marketplace in Brazil and became

venture advisor at Monashees Capital. He is also a Computer Science PhD candidate at University of São Paulo – IME-USP.

His PhD research in on Software Startups Ecosystems and Entrepreneurship. He mastered in Computer Science in University

of São Paulo in 2009, with the Thesis Patterns for Introducing New Ideas in the Software Industry.

Daniel started developing software in Brazil when he was 10, on his TK-3000 Basic 2MB RAM computer. He worked as a

consultant and software developer in many companies. In 2001, he worked for an Internet startup in Italy. In 2006 he

joined Locaweb, the biggest web hosting company in Brazil and worked there for 5 years as developer and tech lead in

infrastructure team. In 2010, he organized the first DevOpsDays Brazil. Daniel is an active member in the agile and

software development communities, speaker in many conferences such as QCON, Agile Brasil, TDC, DevCamp, Agile Trends and others.

Didier Girard

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Didier (https://twitter.com/DidierGirard) has a Ph.D in Machine Learning; has been a web developer since

1994; a java developer since 1997; speaker at many conferences (QCon, Devoxx, Google Developer Day, DevFest,

JUGs,…); an expert in Cloud Technologies. Currently, he’s Innovation Director at SFEIR (150-developer

French IT Consultancy Company). Plus he’s a Google Authorized Trainer and author of the Android/AppEngine

ABonEntendeur application – with 1M+ downloads.

Krishnan S. P. T.

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Krishnan (https://twitter.com/sptkrishnan) is a seasoned professional with 16+ years of industry

experience in multiple IT domains. Built several software products, secured and successfully executed

multiple partner-­funded projects worth few million dollars. Krishnan currently works at a research

institute in Singapore, where he leads a team of researchers, engineers,