About xssfox

Just a dumb fox

Links Referenced: 

• DigitalOcean https://www.digitalocean.com/ 
• CHAOSSEARCH http://CHAOSSEARCH.io 
• Big Buck AWS https://github.com/xssfox/bigbuckaws 
• Corey’s talk, “Terrible Ideas in Git” https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/terrible-ideas-in-git-by-corey-quinn/ 
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/xssfox
• Screaming in the Cloud http://ScreamingintheCloud.com 

About Sandy Carter
Sandy Carter is the AWS Vice President, Public Sector Partners and Programs. In her new role, she is responsible for driving next-generation partnering. Her responsibilities include evolving partner models to intensify partner innovation, AWS cloud adoption and creation of mission critical cloud solutions with partners across public sector.  Her impact will be growing the partner ecosystem as a major driver for public sector and contributing significantly to the success of Public Sector customers.

Prior to this role, Sandy built an enterprise workload team as the Vice President of Windows and Enterprise Workloads at Amazon Web Services (AWS) focused on helping companies innovate using their current technology and assets with migration and modernization through containers and serverless. She led the team to overall growth with AWS now hosting nearly two times as many Windows Server instances in the cloud as Microsoft, per IDC. She led her engineering team to optimize SQL Server on AWS which exhibited 2X+ better price/ performance than Azure per ZK Research. For her leadership on the VMware Cloud on AWS business, she led the team to deliver results of 4x the number of customers year over year, with those customers having deployed 9x the number of VMs now vs 1 year ago.  Finally, she grew the number of competency partners by 3x and the number of ISV validated solutions by 4x in the last year.

She is the author of Extreme Innovation: Three Superpowers for Purpose and Profit, built on her research with Carnegie Mellon.  Sandy was named Lifetime Achievement Winner, 'Excellence in Cloud Achievement' for 2019, AI Innovator of the Year Nominee in 2019, Top 10 AI Influencers for 2019, Top 10 Cloud Computing Influencer, Top 39 Engineers by Business Insider 2018, Top 50 AI influencer by Onalytica 2018, Top 10 Future of Work influencer in 2018, and Top 10 Women in Technology by CNN. 

Sandy is the Chairman of the Board of Girls in Tech, and an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley. Last year,  Girls in Tech had over 125K women participate in their “Hacking for Humanity” initiative, and trained over 90K women globally on coding through boot camps, and workshops. She was honored two times with the AIT United Nations Member of the Year award for helping developing countries with technology. She is an Advisor to startups in AI, IoT, and AR/VR.

Links Referenced

• DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/, http://do.co/screaming
• Observe 2020 Virtual Conference: snark.cloud/observe
• re:Invent: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
• ExtraHop: http://ExtraHop.com, http://ExtraHop.com/trial
• Coding for America: https://www.codeforamerica.org/
• Twitter, #techforgood: https://twitter.com/search?q=techforgood
• Twitter, Sandy Carter: https://twitter.com/sandy_carter
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandyacarter/
• Email: mailto:[email protected] 

About Ben Sigelman

Ben Sigelman is a co-founder and the CEO at LightStep, a co-creator of Dapper (Google’s distributed tracing system), and co-creator of the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects (both part of the CNCF). Ben's work and interests gravitate towards observability, especially where microservices, high transaction volumes, and large engineering organizations are involved.

Links Referenced

• OpenTracing: https://opentracing.io/
• OpenTelemetry: https://opentelemetry.io/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/el_bhs
• Email:  [email protected]
• This podcast: http://ScreamingintheCloud.com 

About Farrah Campbell

After 10 years of working in healthcare management, a serendipitous 20-minute car ride with Kara Swisher inspired Farrah to make the jump into technology. She has worked at multiple startups in many different capacities, eventually working her way to being the Ecosystems Director for Stackery in Portland, Oregon.

As the Stackery Ecosystems Director, Farrah has managed the Stackery relationship with AWS including Stackery as an Advanced Technology Partner, achieving the AWS DevOps Competency, a launch partner for Lambda Layers and is an AWS Serverless Hero. Farrah has cultivated the serverless community as an organizer of Portland Serverless Days, the Portland Serverless Meetup, along with numerous serverless workshops and the Portland tech community events from Techfest to bringing multiple luminaries to Portland.

Links Referenced 

• AD: DigitalOcean
• AD: DataStax
• Portland Serverless Days
• Portland Serverless Meetup 
• Twitter: @FarrahC32
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farrahcampbell/
• Email: [email protected]
• Personal site: https://medium.com/@FarrahC32
• Company site: www.stackery.io

About Tobi Knaup
Tobi Knaup is a Co-Founder & the Chief Technology Officer of D2iQ. Knaup is an experienced software engineer focusing on large scale systems and machine learning. Previously, he helped scale Airbnb to millions of users worldwide as technical lead. Tobi’s research work is on Internet-scale sentiment analysis using online knowledge, linguistic analysis, and machine learning. Tobi also co-founded his first company at the age of 15.

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Links Referenced

• Twitter Username: superguenter
• LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiasknaup/
• Personal site: https://tobi.knaup.me/
• Company site: https://d2iq.com/

About Gene Kim
Gene Kim is a multiple award-winning CTO, researcher and author, and has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He has written six books, including The Unicorn Project (2019), The Phoenix Project (2013), The DevOps Handbook (2016), the Shingo Publication Award winning Accelerate (2018), and The Visible Ops Handbook (2004-2006) series. Since 2014, he has been the founder and organizer of DevOps Enterprise Summit, studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.

Links Referenced 

• The Phoenix Project: https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/1942788290/
• The Unicorn Project: https://www.amazon.com/Unicorn-Project-Developers-Disruption-Thriving/dp/B0812C82T9
• The DevOps Enterprise Summit: https://events.itrevolution.com/
• @RealGeneKim

About Jeremy Bowers
Jeremy Bowers is an Engineering Director for the Newsroom Engineering team at The Washington Post. Previously, Jeremy was the Senior Editor for News Applications on the Interactive News Team of The New York Times, where he led a team focused on writing software for elections, Congress and the Supreme Court. Jeremy was also a news applications developer on the NPR Visuals team and a Senior Newsroom Developer at The Washington Post.

Links Referenced: 

• Twitter: @jeremybowers
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyjbowers/
• Personal site: jeremybowers.com
• Company site: https://www.washingtonpost.com/

About Kelsey Hightower
Kelsey Hightower is a principal developer advocate at Google, the co-chair of KubeCon, the world’s premier Kubernetes conference, and an open source enthusiast. He’s also the co-author of Kubernetes Up & Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure.

Links Referenced

• Twitter: @kelseyhightower
• Company site: Google.com
• Book: Kubernetes Up & Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure

About Rob Zuber
Rob Zuber is a 20-year veteran of software startups; a four-time founder, three-time CTO. Since joining CircleCI, Rob has seen the company through its Series B, Series C, and Series D funding and delivered on product innovation at scale. Rob leads a team of 150+ engineers who are distributed around the globe.

Prior to CircleCI, Rob was the CTO and Co-founder of Distiller, a continuous integration and deployment platform for mobile applications acquired by CircleCI in 2014. Before that, he cofounded Copious an online social marketplace. Rob was the CTO and Co-founder of Yoohoot, a technology company that enabled local businesses to connect with nearby consumers, which was acquired by Appconomy in 2011.

Links Referenced

• Twitter: @z00b
• LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robzuber/
• Personal site: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/rob-zuber#section-overview
• Company site: www.circleci.com

About Andreas Wittig
Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig are freelancers, entrepreneurs, and authors. As freelancers, they are training, coaching, and consulting their clients on all things Amazon Web Services (AWS). In their role as an entrepreneur, Andreas and Michael are building SaaS products. The brothers have published two books Amazon Web Services in Action and Rapid Docker on AWS and are blogging at cloudonaut.io.

Links Referenced

• Twitter: @andreaswittig
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaswittig/
• Company site: https://cloudonaut.io
• Books:
  • Rapid Docker on AWS
  • Amazon Web Services in Action