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…

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 "bringi…

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.IthanP…

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 primar…

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 t…

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, st…

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: @b…

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…

#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 regul…

#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 cust…

#WomenInLinux CTO Series: Lee Jones, Clear Idea Labs Lee Jones is the CTO and Co-Founder of Clear Idea Labs a lean startup focused custom software development company specializing in mobile and web based solutions. He is a recognized subject matter expert in mobile and web technology. His experience includes work for brands like, Microsoft, Motorol…

Denise W. Barreto is an entrepreneur, author and TEDx speaker with over 20 years of leadership and marketing experience across multiple industries. As founder and managing partner of Relationships Matter Now her firm serves businesses of all sizes, non-profit and government agencies who want to better leverage their relationships to grow their bott…

Jerome Hardaway is the Executive Director of #VetsWhoCode a veteran operated 501c3 charitable non-profit dedicated to filling the wide chasm between technical expertise needed and available with early stage transitioning veterans and active duty military spouses through software development training and education. His work has been featured in Huff…

Lynn Langit creates big data and cloud architectures with AWS, Microsoft, Google, and OpenStack technologies. She also works with SQL Server, MongoDB, Google Big Query, Redis, Neo4j, and Hadoop. Lynn is also the cofounder of Teaching Kids Programming, and has spoken on data and cloud technologies in many countries. She is an ACM Distinguished Speak…

Mike McGarr is the Engineering Manager for the Netflix Developer Productivity team. He is also a co-host of the Ship Show Podcast. He has been developing Java/JVM-based applications for most of his career and been known to dabble in other languages as well. He is passionate about building quality software through automation. Mike can frequently be …

As the Community Manager for Taos, Julie spends the majority of her time attending tech conferences nationwide: speaking and developing relationships with technology professionals and businesses. Relationship builder extraordinaire she loves connecting the dots between people, business and technology to help foster community growth. Julie's Links: …

#WomenInLinux CTO Series: Yvette Pasqua, Meetup Yvette is the CTO of Meetup. She leads the engineering team with a focus on continuous learning, innovation, and using data to launch software that brings people together around the world to do what matters to them. Her team’s work enables 27+ million members in over 180 countries to organize, build c…

#WomenInLinux CTO Series: Teddy Matheu, CEO/Co-Founder, Clear Idea Labs Teddy has more than twenty five years of Information Technology (IT) experience, responsible for Clear Idea Lab's strategic direction. Prior to his role at Clear Idea, Teddy served as the founder of Guident, a big data analytics provider to the federal government. Website: http…

Rachel Chalmers VP of Marketing at Unitive and VC is on a mission to help companies around the world bring their hiring processes into alignment with their core values. She has over twenty years’ experience as a VC, technology industry analyst and journalist to apply to the problem. Recommended Reading: - Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of You…

#WomenInLinux CTO Series: Eric Sites, Co-Founder & CTO of Meros. Eric is a veteran CTO with over 20 years of experience in technology. Formerly CTO of ThreatTrack Security, he built large-scale DevOps systems processing petabytes of data daily. As CTO of Sunbelt Software, he and his team created some of the best-known brands in security, including …

#WomenInLinux CTO Series: Bryan Helmig, Co-Founder & CTO of Zapier. Bryan navigates us through his journey from developer to CTO. Website: https://zapier.com/ Twitter: @bryanhelmig Blog: http://bryanhelmig.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/bryanhelmigAf Women In Linux

The Karen Hunter Show teaches the keys to entrepreneurial success in the industries of sports, politics, entertainment and so much more, directly from the celebrities and civilians who have personally created brands from the ground up. Women In Linux Founder, Tameika Reed, shares her views on lack of diversity in tech, and how Women In Linux is bri…

Monika Jo: VR/AR Producer, Marketer, Evangelist. She’s addicted to start-ups in the tech sector and has been part of pioneering and innovative teams in virtual reality and natural language processing.Af Women In Linux

Steve Buchanan is a regional solutions director with Concurrency, a five-time Microsoft Cloud & Data Center MVP, and author of several technical books focused on the System Center platform. Steve has been an IT Professional for over 15 years with various positions ranging from infrastructure architect to IT Manager. Steve is focused on transforming…

We have a great talk with Emily Bender of University of Washington. Where she details and highlights information about Computational Linguistics. Currently a Professor in the Department of Linguistics, an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the faculty director of the CLMS program, and the director of the Comput…