Speaking & Advisory
Talks, panels, and podcasts
I speak on cloud platform strategy, AI governance, and engineering leadership — usually to engineering orgs, executive teams, and vendor advisory boards.
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Unlock value for your workloads: Microsoft, Oracle, OpenShift, and more
April 2025 42:22
Challenges of AI in Cloud Computing
May 2024 43:36
Network Architects Customer Panel
March 2020 21:23
Ellie Mae Discusses Modernization & Their Adoption of Serverless
October 2019 15:00
AWS re:Invent 2021: Cost Takeaways
December 2021 31:23
AWS re:Invent 2021: Cost Takeaways + Vendor Showcase
December 2021 1:18:11
Conference talks
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Google Cloud Next 2025 · April 11, 2025 · South Seas B
Unlock value for your workloads: Microsoft, Oracle, OpenShift, and more
Breakout BRK1-028. Panel with David Allard (Kinaxis) and Venkat Gattamaneni, Alex Joseph, and Ravi Ravishankar (Google Cloud). Recorded.
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Google Cloud Next 2025 · April 10, 2025 · Expo Breakout 3
Workload-optimized data protection for mission-critical enterprise apps
Breakout BRK2-024, with Ruwen Hess and Vijay Tewari (Google Cloud), on Hyperdisk and Backup and DR. In-person only — the catalog marks it that way and no recording exists.
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C2C Global — 2Gather Sunnyvale, Cloud Optimization Summit · February 15, 2024 · Google Sunnyvale
What Do I Know Now That I Wish I’d Known When I Started?
Customer panel moderated by Bruno Aziza, with Deepa Bajaj (PayPal) and Jascha Kaykas-Wolff (Lytics).
Guest appearances
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Screaming in the Cloud · May 2024 · Ep 560
Challenges of AI in Cloud Computing with Justin Brodley
With Corey Quinn. Also available as video.
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Security Voices · January 2021 · Ep 37
Cloud Security Series Wrap-up
With Jack Daniel and Dave Cole, recorded at re:Invent.
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Screaming in the Cloud · May 2018 · Ep 8
A Corporate Prisoner’s Dilemma
With Corey Quinn — the first of my two appearances on the show, and the earliest recording of me talking about cloud anywhere.
The Cloud Pod
Most of my talking happens on my own show. I co-founded The Cloud Pod in December 2018 and have hosted it weekly ever since — past 370 episodes, with most recent ones also available as full video on YouTube.
I host alongside Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas, and Matthew Kohn. The show is part of the Failover Media network.
Host & Co-FounderSince Dec 2018
Weekly episodes370+
TopicsAWS · GCP · Azure · Kubernetes · AI
Topics
Cloud platform strategy and economics
Where cloud spend actually goes, how to structure a platform organization, and when a migration timeline should slip on purpose.
AI as a governed product capability
Treating AI as something you ship and govern rather than a feature you bolt on — including the compliance posture that opens markets.
Engineering leadership at scale
“You Build It, You Run It”, building leadership density instead of heroics, and moving an org from component ownership to product ownership.
Security and compliance as market openers
FedRAMP, SOC, ISO 42001, and the certifications that turn a compliance burden into revenue.
The decisions that cost you the quarter
Extending a migration on purpose, sunsetting a product, and telling a board why. Case studies in tradeoffs that hurt now and pay later.
Platform engineering and developer experience
DORA metrics without the theater, self-service platforms, and getting onboarding from two weeks to a day — what actually moved velocity and what was cargo cult.
Invite me
I don't have anything on the calendar right now and I'm open to adding it. If you're planning a conference, an internal engineering summit, a podcast appearance, or a customer advisory session, tell me the audience and the problem you want them to leave thinking about.