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Dr. Werner Vogels is Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company’s customer-centric technology vision.

As one of the forces behind Amazon’s approach to cloud computing, he is passionate about helping young businesses reach global scale, and transforming enterprises into fast-moving digital organizations.

Vogels joined Amazon in 2004 from Cornell University where he was a distributed systems researcher. He has held technology leadership positions in companies that handle the transition of academic technology into industry. Vogels holds a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Werner
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wernervogels/
Blog: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/
AWS: https://aws.amazon.com

About Merritt Baer
Merritt Baer is an emerging tech and infosec expert. She builds strategic initiatives for security and emerging technologies. She currently is a Principal Security Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where she provides technical cloud security guidance to complex, regulated organizations like the Fortune 100, and advises the leadership of AWS' largest customers on security as a bottom line proposition. 

Recently, Merritt served as the Lead Cyber Advisor to the Federal Communications Commission. She also wrote and implemented civilian cybersecurity strategy at the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, the nation's cyber firehouse.

Merritt is a double Harvard graduate with experience in all three branches of government and a strong publication record. She is a leader in computer security, an Internet law and business expert, and a technology entrepreneur.

• Twitter: @MerrittBaer
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/merrittbaer/
• Personal website: https://www.merrittrachelbaer.com/

About Megan O’Neil
Megan is a Principal Security Solutions Architect at AWS. In her more than four years with AWS, she has had experience in threat detection and incident response, as well as in enabling customers to implement sophisticated, scalable, and secure solutions that solve their business challenges.

Megan’s expertise also includes collaborating with internal teams to design and develop secure solutions across multiple technologies and platforms, as well as providing strategic direction on enterprise security architecture and the implementation of appropriate safeguards and controls. She is also well-versed in assessing current and planned applications and systems, identifying security architecture issues and designing solutions for gaps.

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-o-neil-aa147311/

About Matthieu Napoli
Matthieu is a software engineer passionate about helping developers to create. He’s the founder of Null, and currently a Senior Product Manager for Serverless Framework at Serverless Inc. Fascinated by how serverless unlocks creativity, he works on making serverless accessible to everyone.

Apart from consulting for clients, Matthieu also spends his time maintaining open-source projects. That includes Bref, a framework for creating serverless PHP applications on AWS. Alongside Bref, he sends a monthly newsletter containing serverless news relevant to PHP developers.

After years of talking at conferences and training teams on serverless, Matthieu created the Serverless Visually Explained course. Packed with use cases, visual explanations, and code samples, the course focuses on being practical and accessible.

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/matthieunapoli
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthieunapoli
• GitHub: https://github.com/mnapoli/
• Personal website: https://mnapoli.fr/
• Serverless Explained course: https://serverless-visually-explained.com/
• Null: https://null.tc/
• Serverless Framework: serverless.com

About Mariusz Nowak
Mariusz has been involved with full-stack development of web applications since 2004 and actively engaged in the open source community. He developed and published many JavaScript tools and modules, which play important part in implementation of modern web applications (client & server side) that he's worked with.

He also implemented a light, highly configurable, in-memory database engine that allows decentralized, network independent and (while in network connection) a real-time distribution/replication of database data: https://github.com/medikoo/dbjs.

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/medikoo
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariusznowak
• GitHub: https://github.com/medikoo

Tom is a cloud infrastructure and operations engineer with 13+ years of platform operations and IT experience, and over 8 years of AWS cloud infrastructure. He has worked in companies ranging from startups to the enterprise. His areas of focus around serverless started largely on the operational aspects of building and running reliable serverless systems. More recently his efforts involve mentoring teams new to AWS and serverless, and helping them successfully adopt these technologies through training and education.

Tom is also a leading serverless advocate in the DevOps community. He is a regular speaker at DevOpsDays conferences where he works to guide operations engineers in identifying and further the skills they need to be successful with serverless infrastructure.

What drew Tom early to serverless was the prospect of having no hosts or container management platform to build and manage which yielded the question: What would he do if the servers he was responsible for went away? As an early DevOps adopter he felt it was time to take a leap again into a new and emerging technology space. He’s found enjoyment in a community of people that are both pushing the future of technology and trying to understand its effects on the future of people and businesses.

When not working, Tom can be found racing his ‘87 Buick Grand National at the dragstrip, dabbling in photography, or playing with his cat Cinnamon.

• Twitter: @tmclaughbos
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmclaugh/
• ServerlessOps.io: https://www.serverlessops.io/
• Serverless DevOps Ebook: https://www.serverlessops.io/download-the-serverless-devops-ebook
• Dev.to: https://dev.to/tmclaughbos

Dave Anderson is currently a Technical Fellow with Bazaarvoice, where he focuses on product development, and technical and strategic leadership. He also is a contributor at The Serverless Edge, a blog for engineers, architects, and leaders interested in serverless, where he explores the narrative building on the new ways to create business value through software and technology.

Prior to these roles, Dave has led transformation, technical excellence, cloud adoption, fintech/insurtech strategies, technical community activity, and both participated and led several enterprise/organizational transformation efforts. His experience also includes frequent collaboration with senior executives, engineers and business sponsors. With Liberty Mutual, he designed and implemented large scale internet eCommerce systems and distributed web platforms. Operating as a tech startup within a Fortune 100 company, Dave led a period of digital disruption that put the organization ahead of the competition.

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidand393
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-anderson-belfast/
• The Serverless Edge: https://www.theserverlessedge.com/
• The Serverless Craic (podcast): https://theserverlessedge.podbean.com/
• Dev.to: https://dev.to/davidand39
• The Flywheel Effect book: https://itrevolution.com/the-flywheel-effect/

Kristi Perreault is a Senior Software Engineer at Liberty Mutual Insurance, where her focus is serverless development and enablement. She has over 4 years of industry experience, holds an M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, and has learned, followed, and preached the best coding practices she knows through it all. When she isn’t promoting Women in Technology and mentoring her dozens of new hires & interns, Kristi can be found in the mountains of Colorado hiking, mountain biking, skiing, golfing, paddle-boarding, or doing just about anything else outdoors.

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/kperreault95
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristi-perreault/
• Medium: https://kristiperreault.medium.com/
• Business Insider Post: “I gave the wrong answer when I was asked how people can better support women in tech. Here's what I wish I said instead.”

Tomasz Łakomy is a Frontend Engineer at Stedi, Co-founder of Cloudash, an egghead.io instructor, and a lifelong learner with a passion for learning in public.

Since 2018, he's been diving into the world of AWS and at the same time sharing what he's learned with others. After passing the AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Associate exam in 2019 he recorded multiple courses on serverless technologies, including Build an App with the AWS Cloud Development Kit, and Learn AWS Lambda from scratch.

In addition, he's active on his Twitter, blog - tlakomy.com, as well as The Practical Dev community, where he posts articles on career advice, testing and - of course - AWS.

• Twitter: @tlakomy
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%F0%9F%9A%80-tomasz-Lakomy-12b2a258
• GitHub: https://github.com/tlakomy/
• Personal website: https://tlakomy.com/
• Dev.to: https://dev.to/tlakomy
• AWS Community Hero: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/tomasz-lakomy/
• Cloudash: https://cloudash.dev/ 
• Stedi: https://www.stedi.com/

Eric Johnson is a Principal Developer Advocate for Serverless Applications at Amazon Web Services and is based in Northern Colorado. Eric is a fanatic about serverless and enjoys helping developers understand how serverless technologies introduces a major paradigm shift in how they approach building and running applications at massive scale with minimal administration overhead. Prior to this, Eric has worked as a developer, solutions architect and AWS Evangelist for an AWS partner company.

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/edjgeek
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/singledigit/
• GitHub: https://github.com/singledigit
• Serverless Land: https://serverlessland.com/about/eric-johnson/

Shawn “Swyx” Wang is currently Head of DX at Temporal.io, based out of Seattle. He is also a frequent writer and speaker best known for the Learn in Public movement and recently published The Coding Career Handbook with more advice for engineers going from Junior to Senior.

• Twitter: @swyx
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnswyxwang/
• Website: https://www.swyx.io/
• Github: https://github.com/sw-yx
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/swyxTV
• The Swyx Mixtape: https://swyx.transistor.fm/
• The Self-Provision Runtime: https://www.swyx.io/self-provisioning-runtime

This episode is sponsored by Stream.

Dorian Smiley is a dedicated full-stack engineer with more than 15 years of experience.  He is currently the VP of Technology at Brainly, the world's largest peer-to-peer learning community for students, parents and teachers. Prior to joining Brainly, Dorian spent a decade with Silicon Publishing Inc., first as Sr. Software Architect, and later as its Chief Scientific Officer. His extensive professional experience includes work with cloud native applications, microservices, serverless, big data architectures, PWAs, MEAN, MERN, and LAMP stacks.

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorian-smiley-97a72a14/
• Medium: https://dorians.medium.com/
• Github: https://github.com/doriansmiley
• Brainly: https://brainly.com/
• Brainly Tech Blog: https://medium.com/brainly

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