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Tinkering While Talking Tanzu - Thoughts on Uptime

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8:00 PM UTC on Tuesday, Feb 15, 2022

Tinkering While Talking Tanzu - Thoughts on Uptime

Tinkering While Talking Tanzu - Thoughts on Uptime

Feb 15, 2022

In this episode

What could be more fascinating than a room full of Tanzu Super Users / Cloud Operators gathered together to discuss the newest Tanzu technology? Watching them discuss it while building advanced Lego sets simultaneously! :). As many of you know, engineers are notorious tinkerers, whether it be programming on a Raspberry Pi, building a home gym, or building the latest master-level Lego set. In this upcoming episode of Tanzu Tuesday, tune in to hear from Vanguard super users, who will share their latest thoughts and musings about cloud DevOps technology while building their current Lego set. Check in to find out what they have to say, how it will impact your current cloud environments, and check out their latest Lego builds! :)

Guests

Juergen Sussner

Juergen Sussner

If you would write DevOps with a dash, I am the dash …I am a JavaEE Developer, J2EE AppServer Admin, and Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at DATEV’s Cloud Platform Team. We architect the platform necessary for DATEV’s future applications and implement many important extensions for Cloud Foundry to integrate it very well into DATEV’s environment. The platform is our Product and we, as a team are responsible for every aspect of the product, from technical issues to market research, requirements engineering and marketing.

Kerry Schaffer

Kerry Schaffer

Senior IT Director specializing in solution development and delivery. Unique cross functional IT background including solution development, pricing, delivery, and Information Security management supported by both Systems Administration and Development experience. Is working to attract, grow and empower women to build careers in IT.

Jonathan Regehr

Jonathan Regehr

Jonathan is a Platform Architect with Garmin International. He is a thought leader when it comes to Cloud Native platforms. He is passionate about CI/CD and automation. Jonathan has over 20 years of experience in software development and architecture and has worked in digital marketing, telecom IT, manufacturing, and electronics.

Stu Burnside

Stu Burnside

Stu has 20+ years in the banking industry with a focus on technology. Working with everything from mainframe networking to modern distributed systems. In the past few years, he has been focusing on delivering Cloud Foundry and k8s deployments into production along with working to enabling developers to deliver products and services to end customers quicker than before.

Paul Pelafas

Paul Pelafas

Principal Architect at Kin+Carta. Professional experience and expertise in all aspects of enterprise level software development and management specifically in healthcare, insurance, and consulting. Passionate about the developer experience, best software lifecycle practices, monitoring, DevOps, and resiliency.

Lance Brown

Lance Brown

Principal Engineer at Wells Fargo specializing in cloud technologies. 20+ year career in systems management in commercial, federal government contracting, education, and financial environments focused on a customer-service first attitude and delivering the best product to the customer possible. His focus at Wells Fargo is bringing Cloud technology to Wells Fargo IT operations.

Hosts

Tiffany Jernigan

Tiffany Jernigan

Tiffany is a senior developer advocate at VMware and is focused on Kubernetes. She previously worked as a software developer and developer advocate (nerd whisperer) for containers at Amazon. She also formerly worked at Docker and Intel. Prior to that, she graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in electrical engineering. In her free time she really likes to travel and dabble in photography. You can find her on Twitter @tiffanyfayj.

Whitney Lee

Whitney Lee

Whitney is a lovable goofball who enjoys understanding and using tools in the cloud native landscape. Creative and driven, Whitney recently pivoted from an art-related career to one in tech. She is a CNCF Ambassador and active in the open source community. You can catch her lightboard streaming show ⚡️ Enlightning on Tanzu.TV. And not only does she rock at tech - she literally has toured playing in the band Mutual Benefit on keyboards and vocals.