Bits of Serverless

Zain Raza is currently the Director of Video Engineering at Frame.io. He is a media technologist with over 15 years of industry experience that includes leading the design and development of robust media editing, collaboration, and distribution platforms.

Before starting Vercel (formerly ZEIT) in November 2015, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He's the creator of several popular Node.js open source libraries like Socket.io, Mongoose, and Slackin. Prior to Node.js, he was a core developer of the MooTools frontend toolkit. He is determined to make the web better.

Blending years of enterprise and startup research and development, Tim builds highly effective teams that turn complex problems into scalable successful solutions. After years of groundbreaking real-time streaming video products connecting people from all over the world Tim has found a home at Ridgeline where he focuses on Teams, Architecture, and API design at scale.

Farrah is an AWS Serverless Hero and the Ecosystems Director at Stackery, a serverless workflow company, where she leads the company's engagement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), system integrators, technology partners, and the broader community. Farrah is passionate about her work with the Serverless, DevOps, and Women in Technology communities. She participates in global industry events, user events, conferences, and user groups. She's also involved in a documentary focused on how culture changes stories for women in the technology industry.

Farrah often speaks about her efforts within the Serverless and Women In Tech communities, and how these communities have shaped her life and career. She is the organizer of the Portland Serverless Days, the Portland Serverless Meetup, and speaks around the world about her serverless journey and the serverless mindset. She has also been featured as a Serverless Superhero by A Cloud Guru and has shared her story in Episode 1 of the documentary series Chasing Grace. Farrah lives in Portland, Oregon, has two sons, loves to read and to dance, and is happy to call herself a nerd.

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.

Stephen Pinkerton is a Product Manager at Datadog. He works on building easy-to-use monitoring tools to empower serverless development teams. Outside of work, catch him cycling and planning all of his time around what he's going to eat next.

Harvinder Ghotra is a Software Engineer at Datadog, working on building next-generation monitoring tools for serverless environments. When he's not coding, he likes playing hockey, drinking Labatt blue, and fighting polar bears.

Andrew Krug is a Security Engineer specializing in Cloud Security and Identity and Access Management. Krug also works as a Cloud Security consultant and started the ThreatResponse project a toolkit for Amazon Web Services first responders. Krug has been a speaker at Black Hat USA, DerbyCon, and BSides PDX.

Rachel White is a technologist, artist, and pretend-cyborg who is currently a Technical Evangelist at Datadog, and member of the Node.js Community Committee. She is interested in new uses for old hardware, useless robots, VR/AR/MR, and bots. She has spoken internationally about Node.js, JavaScript, Creative Coding, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, NodeBots, and hardware.

Darcy Rayner is a Senior Software Engineer on the Serverless team at Datadog, and previously worked as Lead Software Engineer at at Two Bulls, a boutique software development firm, running the front-end chapter. Darcy’s projects boast clients like Disney, PBS, LIFX, Verizon and the Linux Foundation.