Timothy Serewicz is Senior Instructor and Curriculum Developer at The Linux Foundation. With almost 20 years of experience working with the latest technologies including Cloud, NoSQL and Hadoop, he has trained countless professionals in their use. He currently maintains the Kubernetes Administration and OpenStack Administration courses among others. In addition to The Linux Foundation, Tim is a certified trainer for Red Hat, Couchbase, MapR, Oracle University, and other startups.

Additional Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/serewicz
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Classes Tim teaches and developed for The Linux Foundation https://training.linuxfoundation.org/ :

Kubernetes
- https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/kubernetes-administration/ (LFS458)
*****Online - self paced: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/kubernetes-fundamentals/
- https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/kubernetes-for-app-developers/ (LFD459)
*****Online - self paced: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/kubernetes-for-developers/ (LFD259)

OpenStack
- https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/essentials-of-openstack-administration/ (LFS452)
*****Online - self paced: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/openstack-administration-fundamentals/

Open Source Virtualization
- https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/open-source-virtualization/ (LFS462)

Service Mesh for Kubernetes with Envoy, Istio and Linkerd
- Coming Soon - In Development (LFS243)

Free courses on emerging technology, like Kubernetes, blockchain and others
- https://www.edx.org/school/linuxfoundationx

Amy Rich has been an Ops person for over 25 years at a variety of companies, helped ship Firefox to hundreds of millions of users, owned her own consulting business, helped organize multiple conferences for USENIX, and written professionally on the topic of UNIX systems administration.
In her head, she frames what she loves about her job as "bringing order from chaos."  Amy values being able to use her technical and professional skills to make a positive difference in the world.

These days her job title reads "Director of Engineering" at Nuna, Inc. and a member of the Board of Directors of the USENIX Association. In her spare time she’s a board/card game addict, Star Wars LEGO nerd, horrible guitar player, fan of music, books, and movies, and enjoy taking pictures of the places traveled.

Additional Links:

Leadership & Management Educational Recommendations
- https://goo.gl/f3x5xt

General Management Resources by Amy Rich
- https://goo.gl/s7P4Lp

Ithan Payne is in the business of providing creative brand identity, advertising and graphic design. Ithan is a self-taught graphic designer with over 20 years working in international multimedia, marketing and print design. Join us as we discuss his journey and tools needed to pursue a career in Visual Design.

Additional Links:

Website: www.IthanPayneCreative.com
Instagram: @ithanpaynecreative

Vladimir Vivien is a software engineer and technical author. Vladimir has work in diverse industries including technology, publishing, financial, and healthcare. After years of building enterprise systems using Java, Vladimir came to Go for its simplicity and stayed for its concurrency and fast build time. Vladimir continues to use Go as his primary language to build and create open source software.

Additional Links:

Blog: https://medium.com/@vladimirvivien
Twitter: @vladimirvivien

Books from Vladimir Vivien: https://www.packtpub.com/books/info/authors/vladimir-vivien
- Learning Go Programming
- Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects
- JavaFX 1.2 Application Development

Derrick Thomas is currently a Senior Associate at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) where he performs IT security audits for internal clients. Derrick is also an adjunct professor of information technology at South University. He is a graduate of the University of Tampa with a BS in Management Information Systems, a Masters in Information Systems from the University of Phoenix and a JD in law from Stetson College of Law. Derrick also various technical certifications such as Network+, iNet+, Security+, Cloud+, CISSP, GMOB, CIPT and CIPP/US certification.

Derrick’s technology career includes IBM, AT&T, GE, Citigroup, and Accenture. He is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated, Amnesty International, President of the Tampa Bay Chapter of (ISC)2, Chairperson for B-Sides Tampa and the Co-Chair of IAPP Central Florida Knowledgenet.
 
Derrick’s hobbies include tinkering with electronics, breaking stuff, traveling, cooking and doing CrossFit. 


Additional Links:

Website: http://bsidestampa.net/
Twitter: @BSidesTampa

(ISC)² Tampa Bay: http://isc2chapter-tampabay.org

Quiessence Phillips is a Cybersecurity professional with 10 years of experience working in the financial industry. She co-founded an non-profit EdTech, JOURNi, building an authentically inclusive tech ecosystem in Detroit. In efforts to get more women into Cybersecurity, Quiessence started Securing Your Path. She is a mom, mentor, coder, hacker, strategist, and change agent.

Additional Links:

Website: www.itsquiessence.com
Twitter: @itsquiessence

JOURNi: www.journi.org/
Securing Your Path: http://www.securingyourpath.com/

Bryan Liles works on the Cloud Engineering team at Capital One. When not helping a huge bank move to the public cloud, he gets to speak at conferences on topics ranging from machine learning to building the next generation of developers.

Additional Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanliles
Github: https://github.com/bryanl
Twitter: @bryanl

Darlene Gillard Jones is the Chief Community Officer, a Partner and founding team member of digitalundivided (DID), a social enterprise that fosters economic growth through the empowerment of Black and Latina women entrepreneurs using innovation as a tool. In addition to providing leadership to DID’s staff and key stakeholders, Darlene oversees all community partnerships and events for the organization. She is part of the leadership team behind some of DID’s signature programs and events including the recently launched BIG Innovation Center and BIG Incubator program - the first and only space and tech accelerator program dedicated to the training and support of Black and Latina women founders of high-growth tech companies.

Darlene has more than 20 years of experience managing large-scale projects for brands such as Disney, eBay, BlogHer, Conde Nast, Time Inc., and the International Downtown Association. Prior to DID, Darlene was the founder Gillard Jones Agency, a public relations and event planning firm offering a full range of services devoted to image development, increased brand awareness and effective marketing and has held senior leadership positions at several national media outlets for women including Women’s Wear Daily, W, Essence, and Elle Magazine.

Additional Links:

Website: https://www.digitalundivided.com
Twitter: @digundiv

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darlene-gillard-86500ba
Twitter: @gillardjones

#WomenInLinux CTO Series: Nigel Kersten & Deepak Giridharagopal, Puppet

Nigel Kersten, Chief Technical Strategist, was responsible for the development of the initial versions of Puppet Enterprise and has since served in a variety of roles, including head of product, CTO, and CIO. He has been deeply involved in Puppet's DevOps initiatives, and regularly speaks around the world about the adoption of DevOps in the enterprise and IT organizational transformation.

Deepak Giridharagopal, CTO & Chief Architect, guides Puppet's technical development. He has played an integral role in every version of Puppet and Puppet Enterprise shipped since joining Puppet in 2011. Over the years, Deepak has overseen development of major versions of core projects, including the Puppet language, Facter, PuppetDB, Puppet Server, and major features such as application orchestration. Deepak's work has helped Puppet achieve the massive increases in performance and scale that Puppet users depend on.

Additional Info:

website: https://puppet.com/


Recommended Reading:*
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, Marshall B. Rosenberg
- How to Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
- The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error', Sidney Dekker
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters, Richard Rumelt

Leadership
- The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success, Jim Dethmer
- Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World, General Stanley McChrystal & Tantum Collins


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#WomenInLinux CTO Series: Val Bercovici, SolidFire

Valentin (Val) Bercovici, a longtime NetApp executive and member of the Office of the CTO, is SolidFire CTO. The SFOCTO engages with and explores the latest technology communities, ecosystems and stacks, delivering strategic technical guidance in support of SolidFire’s largest and most complex customer and partner deployments. Bercovici, a pioneer in the Cloud industry, introduced the first International Cloud Standard to the marketplace as CDMI (ISO INCITS 17826) in 2012 and has several patents pending around data center applications of augmented reality.

Additional Links:

Website: https://www.netapp.com/us/products/cloud-storage/index.aspx
http://netapp.io/

Lean Cloud: https://twitter.com/valb00/status/719614776519725057

Gartner Catalyst Conf: https://www.gartnereventsondemand.com/

***Update: Val is now the Founder of Peritus.ai - a virtual expert which automates the workflow of your most critical support cases led by your most scarce escalations experts.

Now Hiring: Data Scientists, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Full Stack & Distributed Systems Developers