Episode #140: From Zero to Cloud Engineer with Gwyn Pena-Siguenza

About Michael HartA software engineering leader with 20 years of experience growing teams and building distributed systems, from fullstack development to machine learning and big data analytics. He also contributes to open source tools with hundreds of millions of downloads per month, primarily around API integrations, team productivity, and developer optimization for cloud environments. He is currently a Principal Engineer for Cloudflare Workers at Cloudflare.Twitter: @hichaelmartGithub: https://github.com/mhartMedium: https://medium.com/@hichaelmartCloudflare Workers: https://workers.cloudflare.com/

About Kevin JerniganKevin started his career on the first product management team at Oracle, with responsibilities for utilities, benchmarks, and Oracle Parallel Server. After Oracle, he built a consulting business focused on data warehousing and high end transactional systems, and then built a SaaS business providing booking capabilities to the health club industry. He returned to Oracle to manage a team delivering storage and performance features in Oracle Database, and then joined AWS to launch Aurora PostgreSQL, which he helped build into the fastest-growing service in the history of AWS. In early 2021, Kevin joined the Atlas Serverless product team, and is focusing on bringing the Serverless from preview to general availability, and on working with customers to ensure it exceeds customer expectations in all dimensions, including ease of use, performance, pricing, scalability, functionality, and integration with the broader serverless application landscape.Twitter: @kjernigaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinjernigan/ MongoDB Atlas: https://www.mongodb.com/atlas MongoDB Atlas Serverless: https://www.mongodb.com/use-cases/serverless

Gwyn is currently a Regional Cloud Advocate at Microsoft as well as a YouTube content creator. She started in tech at a help desk role, where she was first introduced to cloud computing and the learning hasn't stopped since then. Her favorite topics are .NET and Azure Functions, and she’s always down to try out new things. Gwyn is passionate about introducing others to the cloud; creating friendly and concise content; and her family. When she’s not doing Advocate things, you can find her playing video games, hanging out with her family, or eating mint chocolate chip ice cream.Twitter: @madebygpsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwyneth-pena/GitHub: https://github.com/madebygps/Personal website: https://www.gwynethpena.com/What if everyone in tech started out in helpdesk... tweet

About Lee James GilmoreLee is a mentor, blogger, and cloud architect passionate about resolving complex problems with simple solutions, with a key focus on serverless technologies on AWS. He's currently a Global Serverless Architect at City Electrical Factors. Before that he worked as a Principal Developer / AWS Architect at AO across the five CeX (Customer Experience) teams; Customer Interactions, ChatBots, Order Management, My Account and Agent Experience, and also previously worked as a Technical Cloud Architect / Technical Lead on cloud native projects @ Sage PLC, after transitioning from Principal Software Developer, and with over 17 years professional experience in the industry.He was a member of the extended leadership team at Sage within product delivery, with a keen interest in innovation, serverless architectures, and technology and has historically held long-term senior technology positions in two separate FTSE 100 companies, as well as running his own start-up, writing articles for ‘The Startup’ which has 680K followers, and mentoring in his free time. He's also 6x AWS Certified.Twitter: @leejamesgilmoreLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-james-gilmoreGitHub: https://github.com/leegilmorecode 

Episodes mentioned:Episode #108: Mulling over Multi-cloud with Corey QuinnEpisode #123: APIs and the Evolution of Serverless with Dorian SmileyEpisode #124: Self-Provisioning Runtimes with Shawn "swyx" WangEpisode #127: Supporting Women in Tech with Kristi PerreaultEpisode #125: Configuration over Code with Eric JohnsonEpisode #118: Deploying on Fridays with Charity Majors

Episodes mentioned:Episode #132: The Evolution of Serverless at AWS with Dr. Werner VogelsEpisode #112: Abstracting Stateful Serverless with Jonas BonérEpisode #110: Mapping the Inevitability of Serverless with Simon WardleyEpisode #128: Serverless-First Engineers and the Flywheel Effect with David AndersonEpisode #129: What To Do When the Servers Go Away with Tom McLaughlinEpisode #135: Serverless for Frontend Engineers with Swizec TellerEpisode #131: Security in the Cloud with Merritt Baer and Megan O'Neil

About Sarah HamiltonSarah Hamilton is a Software Engineer at LEGO Group and an AWS Community Builder. Prior to her current role, she was a Cloud Engineer at aleios.Twitter: @serverlesssarahLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamilton-sarah/Medium: https://medium.com/@08hamiltonsGitHub: https://github.com/hamilton-s

About Swizec TellerSwizec Teller has been programming for the web since the early 2000's. From a server in his bedroom to web scale cloud ecosystems making millions of dollars. The sysadmin part always annoyed him. Too fiddly. Serverless caught his eye as the perfect answer for quick to get started, easy for engineers to use, fit for scale, no fiddling. You can ask him anything on twitter @swizec, or join the newsletter at swizec.com. He writes about web engineering lessons from practice.Twitter: @SwizecLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/swizec/GitHub: https://github.com/swizecPersonal website: https://swizec.com/React for Data Visualization (course): https://reactfordataviz.com/Serverless Handbook for Frontend Engineers (book): https://serverlesshandbook.dev/The Senior Mindset Series: https://seniormindset.com/YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SwizecTeller

About Farrah CampbellAfter 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 Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Containers & Serverless.Farrah previously worked as Ecosystems Director, at Stackery where she managed the 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.Twitter: @FarrahC32LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farrahcampbell/AWS Community Builders: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/community-builders/

About Jeff WilliamsJeff brings more than 20 years of security leadership experience as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast. Previously, Jeff was Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aspect Security, a successful and innovative application security consulting company acquired by Ernst & Young. Jeff is also a founder and major contributor to OWASP, where he served as Global Chairman for eight years and created the OWASP Top 10, OWASP Enterprise Security API, OWASP Application Security Verification Standard, XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet, and many other widely adopted free and open projects. Jeff has a BA from the University of Virginia, an MA from George Mason, and a JD from Georgetown.Twitter: @planetlevelLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/planetlevel/Contrast Security website: https://www.contrastsecurity.com/OWASP Foundation: https://owasp.org/