About Natalie

Natalie is the Director of Marketing at the Duckbill Group. Her background includes marketing roles in the localization and SaaS industries. In her free time, she teaches yoga, creates beadwork, and tries to keep up with her toddler. All of which impacts how she approaches growth and storytelling. Natalie resides in Missoula, Montana with her husband, daughter, and two wild corgis

Links:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/natveiswilliams

About Forrest 

Forrest is a cloud educator, cartoonist, author, and Pwnie Award-winning songwriter. He currently leads the content marketing team at Google Cloud. You can buy his book, The Read Aloud Cloud, from Wiley Publishing or attend his talks at public and private events around the world.

Links:

• The Cloud Bard Speaks: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/the-cloud-bard-speaks-with-forrest-brazeal/
• The Read Aloud Cloud: https://www.amazon.com/Read-Aloud-Cloud-Innocents-Inside/dp/1119677629
• The Cloud Resume Challenge Book: https://forrestbrazeal.gumroad.com/l/cloud-resume-challenge-book/launch-deal
• The Cloud Resume Challenge: https://cloudresumechallenge.dev
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/forrestbrazeal

About Ant

Ant Co-founded A Cloud Guru, ServerlessConf, JeffConf, ServerlessDays and now running Senzo/Homeschool, in between other things. He needs to work on his decision making.

Links:

• A Cloud Guru: https://acloudguru.com
• homeschool.dev: https://homeschool.dev
• aws.training: https://aws.training
• learn.microsoft.com: https://learn.microsoft.com
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamstan

About Craig

Craig McLuckie is a VP of R&D at VMware in the Modern Applications Business Unit.  He joined VMware through the Heptio acquisition where he was CEO and co-founder. Heptio was a startup that supported the enterprise adoption of open source technologies like Kubernetes.  He previously worked at Google where he co-founded the Kubernetes project, was responsible for the formation of CNCF, and was the original product lead for Google Compute Engine.

Links:

• 
  VMware: https://www.vmware.com
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/cmcluck
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigmcluckie/

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, and security operations.

Links:

• Cribl: https://cribl.io
• Cribl sandbox: https://sandbox.cribl.io
• Cribl.cloud: https://cribl.cloud
• Jobs: https://cribl.io/jobs

About Rich

Rich Burroughs is a Senior Developer Advocate at Loft Labs where he's focused on improving workflows for developers and platform engineers using Kubernetes. He's the creator and host of the Kube Cuddle podcast where he interviews members of the Kubernetes community. He is one of the founding organizers of DevOpsDays Portland, and he's helped organize other community events. Rich has a strong interest in how working in tech impacts mental health. He has ADHD and has documented his journey on Twitter since being diagnosed.

Links:

• Loft Labs: https://loft.sh
• Kube Cuddle Podcast: https://kubecuddle.transistor.fm
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richburroughs/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/richburroughs
• Polywork: https://www.polywork.com/richburroughs

About Will

Will is recovering System Administrator with a decade's worth of experience in technology and management. He now embraces the never-ending wild and exciting world of Information Security.

Links:

• Color Health: https://www.color.com
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/willgregorian

About Cliff

Cliff is an Agile Consultant and self proclaimed “computer botherer.”

Links:

• Agile Manifesto: https://agilemanifesto.org
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/moonpolysoft

About John

John Allspaw has worked in software systems engineering and operations for over twenty years in many different environments. John’s publications include the books The Art of Capacity Planning (2009) and Web Operations (2010) as well as the forward to “The DevOps Handbook.”  His 2009 Velocity talk with Paul Hammond, “10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation” helped start the DevOps movement.

John served as CTO at Etsy, and holds an MSc in Human Factors and Systems Safety from Lund University

Links:

• The Art of Capacity Planning: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Capacity-Planning-Scaling-Resources/dp/1491939206/
• Web Operations: https://www.amazon.com/Web-Operations-Keeping-Data-Time/dp/1449377440/
• The DevOps Handbook: https://www.amazon.com/DevOps-Handbook-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations/dp/1942788002/
• Adaptive Capacity Labs: https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com
• John Allspaw Twitter: https://twitter.com/allspaw
• Richard Cook Twitter: https://twitter.com/ri_cook
• Dave Woods Twitter: https://twitter.com/ddwoods2

About Nader

• Currently working to help build the decentralized future at Edge and Node.
• Previously led Developer Advocacy for Front End Web and Mobile at Amazon Web Services.
• Specializing in GraphQL, cross platform, & cloud enabled web & mobile application development
• Developing applications & reference architectures using a combination of GraphQL & serverless technologies built on AWS
• 4 years experience training fortune 500 companies on web & mobile application development, with the last two focused on React and React Native Training (clients include Microsoft, Amazon, US Army Corps of Engineers, Visa, ClassPass, American Express, Indeed, & Warner Bros).
• Mobile consultant specializing in cross platform web & mobile application development
• Author of React Native in Action (Manning Publications)
• Author of Full Stack Serverless (O'Reilly Publications)
• International speaker
• Creator of React Native Elements
• Creator of JAMstack CMS & JAMStack ECommerce

Links:

• Edge & Node: https://edgeandnode.com
• Js.la: https://js.la
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/dabit3
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/naderdabit