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Code of Conduct

tl;dr: Be excellent with each other

All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at our conference are required to agree with the following code of conduct. Organisers will enforce this code throughout the event. We are expecting cooperation from all participants to help ensuring a safe environment for everybody.

The Quick Version

Our conference is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion (or lack thereof). We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks, workshops, parties, Twitter and other online media. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference without a refund at the discretion of the conference organisers.

The Less Quick Version

Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

Sponsors are also subject to the anti-harassment policy. In particular, sponsors should not use sexualised images, activities, or other material. Booth staff (including volunteers) should not use sexualised clothing/uniforms/costumes, or otherwise create a sexualised environment.

If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the conference organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the conference with no refund.

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of conference staff immediately. Conference staff can be identified as they’ll be wearing branded t-shirts.

Conference staff will be happy to help participants contact hotel/venue security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the conference. We value your attendance.

We expect participants to follow these rules at conference and workshop venues and conference-related social events.

Simon Wardley

Researcher for Leading Edge Forum

Simon Wardley is a Researcher for Leading Edge Forum, a global research and thought leadership programme dedicated to helping large organizations reimagine their organizations and leadership for a technology-driven future. Simon is also lead practitioner for LEFs Wardley Maps Advisory service which helps client anticipate market and ecosystem developments so they know where to go and why.

Simon’s focus is on strategic play both at an industrial and global level. He is the author of multiple reports including Clash of the Titans: Can China Dethrone Silicon Valley?, a pioneer in the use of topographical intelligence within business, a former executive and an advisory board member for several successful start-ups. He has twice been voted as one of the UKs top 50 most influential people in technology. Simon has spent the last 20 years defining future strategies for companies in the FMCG, Retail and Technology industries. He is a passionate advocate in the fields of strategic play, organizational structure, open source and leadership and is a regular presenter at conferences worldwide.

Donna Malayeri

Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform

Donna Malayeri is a product manager on the serverless team on Google Cloud, where she works on Knative Eventing and Cloud Run. She's worked in the serverless space since 2016, and is bullish on the future of serverless. Prior to joining Google, she was the first product manager at the startup Pulumi, which creates tools for building modern cloud applications. She was also a product manager on the Azure Functions team at Microsoft, guiding the developer experience from its beta through the first year of general availability. Donna is passionate about creating products that developers love, and has worked on programming languages such as F# and Scala.

Kelsey Hightower

Staff Developer Advocate for Google

Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech, and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go code, you can catch him giving technical workshops covering everything from programming to system administration.

Tory Adams

Fullstack Engineer, Sightbox

I have been tinkering and experimenting with computers since I was young. Growing up in the country the two choices I had were to go outside or play with technology I chose the latter. Fast forward to now I am just as excited about technology as I was when I first started. I work at Sightbox as a full-stack engineer that loves working in serverless.

Subbu Allamaraju

Senior Technologist, Expedia Group

Subbu Allamaraju is a senior technologist at the Expedia Group, where he is leading a large-scale migration of Expedia Group’s travel platforms from enterprise data centers to a highly available architecture in the cloud. Subbu is a well-rounded engineer and influencer with hands-on experience in software development, architecture, distributed systems, services, internet protocols, operations, and the cloud. Over the past several years, he has helped build and empower several engineering and operations teams in these areas. He has published several books on REST and Java, and is a frequent speaker at conferences on cloud, operations, resiliency, and leadership.

Ahmet Alp Balkan

Developer Advocate, Google

Ahmet Alp Balkan is a Software Engineer at Google, working on developer experiences for open source technologies like Kubernetes and Knative, as well as Google’s services like GKE and Cloud Run. He is the maintainer of developer tooling like kubectx.dev and krew.dev.

Prior to Google, he has worked at Microsoft Azure on the Linux team on porting Docker to Windows, creating the first container image for .NET Core, and starting the Azure Container Registry service. In his spare time, he likes to make fresh pasta, work on his latte art skills and go hiking.

Jonathan Altman

Director, Capital One

Jonathan Altman joined Capital One three years ago as a Distinguished Engineer, and has been working on the Cloud Engineering team for the last year and a half, where his responsibilities include work on tools enabling feature teams to safely provision cloud resources, and helping define best practices on cloud infrastructure. Before Capital One he gained extensive experience building high-scale, high-availability multi-tenant SaaS applications first at Outtask and then Concur after its acquisition of Outtask. Between Concur and joining Capital One, Jonathan ran a boutique software contracting and consulting business helping build SaaS systems in the travel industry. Prior to his move to commercial software development, Jonathan first worked as the Database Administrator for an early big-data and OCR project in Humanities computing, the Dartmouth Dante Project http://dante.dartmouth.edu/ while still an undergraduate student.

Richard H. Boyd

Serverless Architect, iRobot

Richard is a Serverless Architect at The iRobot Corporation, the number one provider of clean homes. Prior to joining iRobot, Richard spent several years at Amazon Inc. (Robotics and Alexa) and over a decade in the defense industry. He loves building large distributed systems with as little code as possible. Richard can often be found telling the same 6 jokes over and over, speaking with his hands, and signing up for races then never training. Richard holds a master’s degree in statistics from Stony Brook University and is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, Developer - Associate, and Security/Alexa Specialty.

Sheen Brisals

Senior Engineer & Coach, LEGO

Sheen Brisals is a seasoned software engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect and a team coach, currently architecting and guiding a team of engineers building serverless eCommerce solutions at LEGO. He has previously worked in engineering and leadership positions with leading software organizations. He is passionate about serverless and managed services, a keen follower of AWS cloud solutions and the architectural patterns.

Ryan Scott Brown

Lead Architect, Trek10

Ryan Scott Brown is a cloud architect and developer at Trek10, focusing on automation and real-world uses of serverless tech. He spends his time at Trek10 helping teams think serverless, and teaches video courses on AppSync, Lambda, and GraphQL at A Cloud Guru.

Farrah Campbell

Ecosytems Director, Stackery

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. 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. She has been featured on The Cube, Faas and Furious, and in her spare time dabbles in IoT buttons and Lambdas.

Murugappan Chetty

Principal Engineer, Optum

Murugappan Chetty is a Principal Engineer at Optum. Opensource enthusiast, has been instrumental in onboarding open source tools for Optum. Active member of the Openfaas community, currently leads the effort at Optum to build an on premise serverless platform.

Paul Chin Jr.

Cloud Solutions Architect, Cloudreach

Paul Chin Jr. is a Cloud Solutions Architect at Cloudreach and lifetime resident of Virginia Beach, VA. He is passionate about using the right tech for the right problem. He works in cloud native development and wants to show the world how to use these new tools to make anything you can imagine. Feel free to talk to him about anything related to tech, food, or business.

Nicholas Criss

Sr. Manager, Cloud Center of Excellence, T-Mobile USA

Nicholas runs the Platform Services & Security team for T-Mobile's Cloud CoE. He also leads the OSS Working Group, which champions the use, contribution and creation of open source throughout T-Mobile. His team has open-sourced projects for serverless (Jazz), blockchain (NEXT Identity), secrets management (T-Vault) and automated compliance and remediation (PacBot).

Nader Dabit

Senior Developer Advocate, AWS

Web & mobile developer, podcaster, author

Jeremy Daly

CTO, AlertMe.news

Jeremy is a passionate serverless advocate, an AWS Serverless Hero, and a senior technology leader with more than 20 years of experience building web and mobile applications. He is an active member of the serverless community, creating and contributing to open source serverless projects, and frequently consulting with companies looking to adopt serverless. Jeremy also writes extensively about serverless on his blog (jeremydaly.com), publishes Off-by-none, a weekly email newsletter that focuses on all things serverless (offbynone.io), and hosts the Serverless Chats Podcast (serverlesschats.com). He is currently the CTO of AlertMe.

Alex DeBrie

Engineering Manager, Serverless, Inc.

Alex is an Engineering Manager at Serverless, Inc. focused on designing, building, and promoting serverless applications. He is passionate about Lambda, DynamoDB, and many other AWS technologies. He is the creator of DynamoDBGuide.com, a guided walkthrough to DynamoDB. In a past life, Alex was a corporate lawyer. For fun, Alex likes to play with his kids, watch basketball, and spend way too much time on Twitter.

Hanna Elszasz

Cloud Software Engineer, Cloudreach

Hanna Elszasz joined Cloudreach in June 2018 as a Cloud Software Engineer out of New York City, focused on application development in AWS. Most recently, she has worked on creating a data processing and ingestion application using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Athena, S3, and Glue. Also while at Cloudreach, she worked on developing a recommendation engine using Sagemaker and Python. Along with her work as software engineer, Hanna is passionate about math and has experience in mathematical research.

Joseph Emison

CTO, Branch

Joe is the CTO of Branch, which provides home and auto insurance, powered by community. Previously, Joe founded BuildFax (acquired by DMGT), Spaceful (acquired by Xceligent), BluePrince (acquired by Harris Computer), and EphPod (acquired by Wind Solutions). Joe graduated with degrees in English and Mathematics from Williams College and has a law degree from Yale Law School.

Ian Fuller

CTO, Freetrade.io

Ian Fuller is the CTO at Freetrade. In this role, Ian leads the development and engineering of a modern investment platform. Before joining Freetrade, Ian worked as an Engineering Manager at Snapchat where he provided technical guidance and managed operational excellence to help ship products used by millions of users. Prior to Snapchat, Ian spent three years at Amazon as a Software Development Manager and Software Development Engineer where he managed the design development and delivery of Amazon Instant Video (now Amazon Prime Video) on PS3, PS4, Samsung & LG devices.

Meena Gowdar

Senior Product Manager, AWS

Meena Gowdar is a senior product manager at Amazon Web Services. She’s responsible for strategy and product delivery of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and Firecracker, an open source virtualization technology. She’s a passionate technologist who has worked in consumer electronics, wearables, and fintech industries and helped grow businesses worldwide. She’s an advocate and advisor for #BUILTBYGIRLS, a nonprofit for women leaders in tech. She’s also a vehement skier, loves cooking, and enjoys traveling.

Sander van de Graaf

Cloud Solutions Architect, Ookla / Downdetector

Sander is a cloud solutions architect, specializing in high scale and high volume applications.

He's a co-founder of Downdetector. Downdetector has been getting more and more traffic over the years. Most of that traffic has been very, very spikey. This makes for interesting issues and problems and constant iterations are required to be ahead of the next bottleneck. Downdetector is now owned by Ookla which is also known for Speedtest.

In his spare time, he loves to hack hardware and tinker with home automation, and is very fond of Lego and everything space related.

Rasmus Hald

Head of Cloud Center of Excellence, MAERSK

I'm heading up the cloud journey of the largest container logistics company on the planet as the leader of MAERSK Cloud Center of Excellence. We build awesome solutions in the cloud and manage the implementation of a cloud-first strategy.

Ron Harnick

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Palo Alto Networks

Ron leads product marketing for serverless security products at Prisma, the cloud security suite from Palo Alto Networks. Ron started out as a network engineer and Cisco certification junkie before he worked his way through various engineering, product and technical marketing roles in the cloud and DevOps world. Ron is passionate about enabling enterprises to adopt serverless by making it as secure as possible. He joined the leading serverless security startup, PureSec, which was later acquired by Palo Alto Networks to become part of Prisma Cloud. Ron lives in Israel with his wife and his twin girls and feels awkward writing about himself in 3rd person.

Danielle Heberling

Software Engineer, Stackery

Danielle Heberling is a software engineer with a background that includes being a musician and teaching at a K-8 public school. She’s passionate about building things that make the world a better place, whether that be through social change or a good laugh. When she’s not coding, you can often find her reaching back to her teaching roots by mentoring folks from underrepresented groups that would like to make a career switch into tech.

Jeff Hollan

Product Manager, Azure Functions

Jeff Hollan is the product manager for Azure Functions. He is one of the original members of the Azure serverless team. Jeff is known for his fun and demo-filled sessions around cloud native and serverless tech.

Burke Holland

Developer, Microsoft

Burke and Cecil are developers working at Microsoft on the Azure team. They hail from Tennessee and Florida respectively and are all around nice guys. Cecil's forté is C#, and Burke likes to push pixels. Together they are trying to figure out how to do things quickly and cheaply in the cloud.

Keith Horwood

CEO and Founder, Standard Library

Keith Horwood is the founder and CEO of StdLib. An avid programmer from a young age, he is especially passionate about understanding and optimizing for how humans and machines communicate via the use of APIs. His academic background, Biochemistry, is an odd pairing with his enthusiasm for programming but is reflective of a larger trend: a deep thirst for knowledge and a desire to solve problems across a variety of domains. He is happiest when he’s learning, building, and sharing with others so those activities take up the majority of his time.

Shorta Izumi

Senior Architect, Advanced Creative Center, Dentsu Digital Inc.

I am a senior architect at an advertising agency in Japan, and I have worked in the advertising industry for more than 12 years. I have experience in developing an automated bidding system for digital ads, a dashboard to monitor KPIs, and ETL architecture. I live in Tokyo, Japan.

Casper Jensen

Cloud Architecture Lead, MAERSK

I'm the captain of cloud architecture of the largest container logistics company on the planet. We build awesome solutions in the cloud used by millions, but we need to do it in a scalable, secure and agile manner – that’s what we do at MAERSK Cloud Center of Excellence.

Ben Kehoe

Cloud Robotics Research Scientist at iRobot, AWS Serverless Hero

Ben Kehoe is a Cloud Robotics Research Scientist at iRobot and an AWS Serverless Hero. Ben focuses on developing business value rapidly through serverless (and servicefull) applications, and seeks to amplify voices from dev, operations, and security to help the community shape the evolution of serverless and event-driven designs for IoT and cloud computing.

Nicki Klein

Senior Technical Evangelist, AWS

Nicki brings with her 5 years of experience working in the software industry, first as a self-taught full stack developer, and then as a funded entrepreneur working on an HRTech startup for developers prior to coming to AWS. She is very passionate about helping developers succeed on AWS and developing apps (especially serverless ones!) using any programming language as she loves learning new languages. In addition to her passion for development, she has a serious matcha addiction and travels to Japan annually to restock her quality matcha supply.

Sam Kroonenburg

Founder, A Cloud Guru

Sam has extensive experience leading large software engineering teams and architecting robust systems that scale. Sam has worked for Microsoft in Seattle in the Core File Systems team of Windows - where he developed the Disk Defragmenter for Windows Vista SP1 and Windows 7. He also worked for Microsoft in Oslo, Norway where he developed query processing technology for FAST Search.

Matt Lancaster

Managing Director & Master Technology Architect, Accenture

Matthew Lancaster leads Accenture’s Transformation Architecture business, and is at the forefront of Accenture’s work with its clients to make technology a key differentiator. For the last nine years, he’s built software engineering and architecture numerous practices and led the charge to integrate emerging technologies into core business capabilities. He has pioneered transforming legacy core systems into realtime, event driven, agile software capable of serving as the foundation for continuous evolution of client business, as well as the introduction of AI into core transactions and interactions to create truly intelligent systems. Much of this work involved a heavy application of serverless architecture mixed and matched with other cloud native components. Matt has led from the front, serving as lead architect and getting hands on with everything from helping to write core components to stitching together components to writing Serverless framework plugins. Matt was previously the CTO of two software startups and has been on multiple industry and nonprofit boards. He is sometimes known to trade technology advice for good whiskey, and make obscure historical analogies when talking about unrelated problems.

Brian LeRoux

CTO, begin.com Maintainer, arc.codes

Brian LeRoux is currently building a continuous delivery for modern AWS apps at begin.com on an open source foundation arc.codes. Previously he worked at Adobe on PhoneGap and Apache Cordova. He also created wtfjs.com and sports a questionable tattoo. Brian believes the future is an open web, seamlessly running on the cloud, stewarded by hackers like you.

Satish Malireddi

Principal Architect, T-Mobile USA

Satish is an experienced enterprise architect with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications & software industries. He is skilled in public cloud technologies (AWS), Agile & DevOps Methodologies, Serverless & Containers, CI/CD tooling and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Satish is currently working at T-Mobile Cloud CoE and his work focuses on building next generation cloud development platforms using cutting edge technologies like serverless & containers and facilitate their adoption within the enterprise.

Sean Mare

Application Architect, Gemological Institute of America

Sean Mare is a technologist with over 20 years of experience in application design, development and integration. He spent the majority of his career in consulting, which gave him a broad view of the technological challenges facing large and small organizations across multiple industries; it also gave him experience in a wide variety of languages, methodologies and techniques. He now puts that knowledge to use at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), where he is passionate about serverless computing and he loves telling the world about it. He is currently developing a new serverless architecture for the business’ mission critical applications. Sean has written about design and development for blogs (notably a series on enterprise search for Lucidworks) and evangelizes best practices when possible. In his free time, Sean enjoys riding his motorcycle, cycling, gardening, and building electronics projects (his latest is an Arduino-based pH monitor for his fish tank.) Sean resides in the greater NYC area with his wife and 4 adorable dogs.

Tanusree (Tanu) McCabe

Distinguished Engineer, Architecture, Capital One

Tanusree (Tanu) McCabe is currently an Architect at Capital One. From Cloud to DevOps, Containers to Serverless, she's had a wide array of experiences. As a passionate technologist, she enjoys sharing experiences and lessons learned in the hopes that others may benefit.

Bret McCowen

Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Platform

Bret is a Developer Advocate for Serverless on the Google Cloud Platform team at Google, focusing on serverless products like Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, App Engine, Firebase, machine learning APIs, and more. He's currently an aspiring Node.js developer. Prior to Google, Bret worked as a software engineer in the cloud industry at Rackspace. Before that, he led engineering teams at e-commerce and non-profits and tried his hand at creating two startups. He's often on the running trail, volleyball court or kickball field.

Bret lives in New York City and earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Texas A&M University.

Chris Munns

Principal Developer Advocate - Serverless, AWS

Chris Munns is a Principal and the lead Developer Advocate for Serverless Applications at Amazon Web Services based in New York City. Chris works with AWS's developer customers to understand how serverless technologies can drastically change the way they think about building and running applications at potentially massive scale with minimal administration overhead. Prior to this role, Chris was the global Business Development Manager for DevOps at AWS, spent a few years as a Solutions Architect at AWS, and has held senior operations engineering posts at Etsy, Meetup, and other NYC based startups. Chris has a Bachelor of Science in Applied Networking and System Administration from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Amy Arambulo Negrette

Cloud Software Engineer Lead, Cloudreach

With ten years industry experience, Amy Arambulo Negrette has built web applications for a variety of industries including Yahoo! Fantasy Sports and NASA Ames Research Center. One of her projects modernized two legacy systems impacting the entire research center and won her a Certificate of Excellence from the Ames Contractor Council. Currently, she builds cloud applications for enterprise clients for Cloudreach and leads a team of other Cloud Software Engineers. Amy has survived two acquisitions, one round of layoffs, and balancing life with two small children.

Linda Nichols

Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft

Linda is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. In addition to creating software solutions, she has a passion for community involvement and education. She is a co-founder of Norfolk.js, NodeBots Norfolk, and RevolutionConf. She also teaches a variety of local robotics workshops. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Old Dominion University and a Masters in Information Technology from Virginia Tech. She enjoys bad karaoke, good sushi, and all varieties of cats.

Mark Nunnikhoven

Vice President, Cloud Research, Trend Micro

Cybersecurity is hard. When viewed through a traditional lens, security is focused on stopping bad things from happening. That's part of the picture, but only a very narrow slice. There is a better way.

Mark Nunnikhoven works to change this view of cybersecurity and helps individuals, organizations, and communities explore the impact of technology through the lens of privacy and security. Helping everyone understand that the goal is to ensure that our technology works as intended...and only as intended.

As a research and educator, Mark studies risk and how it impacts communities in the physical and digital world. He applies this work to helping organizations around the world use technology to transform their work.

This approach provides an opportunity to help build security into the fabric of technologies designed with privacy in mind.

Mark is a forensic scientist and security leader who has spent more than 20 years helping to defend private and public systems from cybercriminals, hackers, and nation states. A sought after speaker, writer, and technology pundit, his message is simple: secure and private systems are a requirements in today's world, not a luxury.

You can find Mark online @marknca and https://markn.ca.

Kas Perch

Developer Advocate, Cloudflare

Kas (they/them/their) is a developer advocate for CloudFlare. They’re also an author of two books about JS Robotics and a Twitch Affiliate streamer for code and hardware. They like serverless and all the discussions it brings, and playing with their 2 cats.

Cecil Phillip

Developer, Microsoft

Burke and Cecil are developers working at Microsoft on the Azure team. They hail from Tennessee and Florida respectively and are all around nice guys. Cecil's forté is C#, and Burke likes to push pixels. Together they are trying to figure out how to do things quickly and cheaply in the cloud.

Corey Quinn

Cloud Economist, The Duckbill Group

Corey is the Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group. Corey specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying; hosts the Screaming in the Cloud and AWS Morning Brief podcasts; and curates Last Week in AWS, a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark.

MJ Ramachandran

Senior Associate, ForgePoint Capital

MJ is a venture capitalist with experience in transaction advisory and principal operating roles. He is passionate about finance, technology, and entrepreneurship. As an investor MJ is most excited to operate at the crossroads of those functions and derives maximum value while helping great ideas scale. Prior to ForgePoint, MJ spent several years at LendingClub leading cross-functional finance support for the Personal Loans business line. He also worked at AGC Partners where he focused on M&A and private placement transactions in enterprise software and cybersecurity. He is an avid scuba diver and an ardent Duke sports fan.

David Roberts

Startup Solutions Architect, AWS

David Roberts is a Developer, Cloud Architect, and serverless fanboy from the Philadelphia area. He previously led a team of developers at Chain.io to build and support an all serverless platform.

Peter Sbarski

VP of Content, A Cloud Guru

Dr. Peter Sbarski is VP of Content at A Cloud Guru, AWS Community Hero, and one of the original organizers of Serverlessconf, the world’s first conference dedicated entirely to serverless architectures and technologies. His work at A Cloud Guru allows him to work with, talk and write about cloud computing and serverless architectures. He is the author of Serverless Architectures on AWS (Manning Publications, 2017). Peter is always happy to talk about cloud computing and can be found at conferences throughout the year. Peter’s passions include serverless technologies, event-driven programming, back end architecture, microservices, and orchestration of systems. Dr. Peter Sbarski holds a PhD in Computer Science from Monash University, Australia.

Jared Short

Sr. Cloud Architect, Developer Acceleration, Trek10, Inc

Jared has been building and operating serverless technologies in production at scale since 2015, and is laser focused on helping companies deliver business value with a serverless mindset. As former Head of Developer Experience and Relations at Serverless, Inc. and currently working at Trek10, Inc. helping folks build and operate cloud native architectures, his day to day is all serverless all the time.

Johann Schleier-Smith

Researcher, UC Berkeley

Johann Schleier-Smith is a member of the UC Berkeley RISELab where he focuses on the future serverless computing. He brings to his current research an industry background in scaling software and infrastructure, built over years as CTO of hi5 and Tagged, social networks that merged to form a user base of over 300 million members. Johann holds an A.B. in Physics and Mathematics from Harvard University and an M.S. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

James Simmons

Partner / CTO, Fortium Partners

James Simmons is a product, technology, and business leader used to tackling big problems in hard industries. He is a Partner at Fortium Partners, where he works as a strategic advisor and transitional CTO for startups, mature enterprises, and institutional investors. Before Fortium he was at Everyone Counts, a leading innovator in election technology, first as CTO and then CEO. While there he launched the most advanced and secure voter registration and citizen engagement platform in the world, piloted online voting in the U.S. presidential election, and oversaw high profile public and private voting for the United Nations, the Oscars and Emmys, and governments around the world. In 2018, James led the sale of Everyone Counts to Votem Corp., creating the world’s largest blockchain voting company.

James began his career as a software engineer at Northrop Grumman working on control algorithms for missile defense satellites and spent almost a decade working on defense and intelligence projects that included autonomous vehicles, sensor data fusion, warfighter-machine interface systems, and culminated with two years in the Middle East managing technology integration for the U.S.’ armored vehicle fleet. Ten years ago James jumped into tech startups. At Verify, he led the development of a supply chain management SaaS platform that had 50 of the Fortune 500 using it within six months of launch. Next was Head of Product Engineering for LegalZoom, where he drove the company's pivot from transactional to subscription-based relationships and launched their mobile apps.

In addition to his day-to-day leadership, James is a recognized expert in technology thought leadership and policy. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College and multiple certifications related to project management, software development, and product architecture.

Javier Toledo

CTO, The Agile Monkeys

Serial tech entrepreneur. I’ve been involved professionally in tech for more than 17 years, first as a freelancer, then as founder of several startups, and finally as co-founder of the bootstrapped and successful software development company, The Agile Monkeys, 8 years ago. I’ve worked for companies like eBay, Rent The Runway, Paypal, and Harvard, always tracking the edge of technology and trying to put pragmatism and business value first. Nowadays, I’m involved in our labs department where we research the limits of technology to try to make our small impact on the universe.

Tim Wagner

Tim was most recently the VP of Engineering at Coinbase, the world's largest regulated crypto exchange and custodian. Prior to that he was the creator and GM of AWS Lambda at AWS where he also managed the API Gateway and Serverless App Repository teams. He now spends his days thinking about ways to make serverless platforms do new tricks.

Rosemary Wang

Developer Advocate, HashiCorp

As a developer advocate for HashiCorp, Rosemary works to bridge the technical and cultural barriers between infrastructure engineers and application developers. She has a fascination for solving intractable problems with code, whether it be helping an infrastructure engineer learn to code or an application developer troubleshoot infrastructure failures. She also interfaces with vendors, clients, startups, and open source projects to find creative software solutions for infrastructure. When she is not drawing on whiteboards, Rosemary valiantly attempts to hack stacks of various infrastructure systems on her laptop while foraging for tasty victuals around the world.

David Wilson

Vice President of Technology and CIO, Mutual of Enumclaw Insurance

David Wilson is the CIO for Mutual of Enumclaw Insurance, a $450MM regional property and casualty carrier based in the Seattle area.

Erica Windisch

CTO, Founder, IOpipe

Erica is CTO & Founder at IOpipe where she is building tools to help developers of serverless applications iterate faster and support their applications in production. She is a former maintainer of Docker and OpenStack and has been building cloud, ops, and infrastructure tooling for over 15 years.