Serverless Chats

About Kevin Jernigan

Kevin 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 storag...

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 ...

About Lee James Gilmore

Lee 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 Manageme...

Episodes mentioned:

• Episode #132: The Evolution of Serverless at AWS with Dr. Werner Vogels
• Episode #112: Abstracting Stateful Serverless with Jonas Bonér
• Episode #110: Mapping the Inevitability of Serverless with Simon Wardley
• Episode #128: Serverless-First Engineers and the Flywheel Effect with David Anderson
• Episode #129: What To Do When the Servers Go Away with Tom McLaughlin
• Episode #135: Serverless for Frontend Enginee...

About Swizec Teller
Swizec 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 newslette...

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 Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Containers & Serverless.

Farrah previously worked as Ecosystems Director, at Stackery where she manage...

About Jeff Williams

Jeff 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 a...

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...

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 proposi...

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 include...

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 ser...

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 transfo...

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, K...

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 w...

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...

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....

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...