Cloud Websites

Manuel Bernhardt is a polyglot software engineer, trainer, and independent consultant. He helps technology companies engineer, deploy, and operate highly available and fault-tolerant systems, and improve existing systems to meet predictable performance requirements. Manuel has experience in engineering and operating distributed systems. He is the author of the book Reactive Web Applications. He studied telecommunications at the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon. He lives in Vienna, Austria and enjoys traveling. He is fluent in English, French and German.

Andrea Contino is a communication professional who enjoys working with video games. He is the author of the blog "Go With The Flow," where he writes about communication, video games, and tech, as well as food, books, music, and TV shows. Andrea recently moved to the USA with his wife and dog. He is currently deciding whether to stay in the US long term. He can be contacted at gwtf@contino.com.

Marcin Zelent is an entrepreneur with a background in software development and cloud architecture. He is currently the Founder of Viridate, a startup focused on helping companies with the standardization and evaluation of carbon data. Marcin is also a student of MSc Technology Entrepreneurship at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He has experience as a Senior Developer at Kraftvaerk, where he designed and developed cloud-based solutions. Previously, he was the Founder and CTO of ArchitectureQuote, where he built a SaaS platform. Marcin is motivated and resourceful, with a strong interest in innovation and entrepreneurship. He is curious about the world and its future, and eager to learn and take on new challenges.

Carles Loriente has over 15 years of experience leading platform engineering adoption, infrastructure strategy development, designing cloud operation models and adoption strategies, DevOps culture, and setting engineering standards for large software projects. He transforms companies into high-performing organizations. Carles is highly experienced in Cloud infrastructure, Architecture, Software Development, Deployment, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, Cloud Applications, Cloud Migrations, Micro Services, Server Less, System Architecture, Monitoring, Observability, Automation, Governance and Cloud Computing. He develops and manages security, reliability, scalability, performance, and Compliance projects with PCI DSS, VdS 10000, ISO 27001, or GDPR certifications. He leads and manages the Cloud Infrastructure architecture of SaaS products for the world's most popular furnishing brand.

kaumnen is a platform engineer, currently working primarily with AWS. They are proficient in Python and Go. kaumnen holds SAA-C03 and AZ-104 certifications. They have projects on GitHub, with cipr being a highlighted project, and documentation available at cipr.kaumnen.com. kaumnen can be found on X (formerly Twitter) at @kaumnen. They also have a homelab.

Shayon Mukherjee is a Software Engineer with Product and Infrastructure engineering experience. He enjoys building and scaling software led infrastructure. His interests include Distributed Systems, Site Reliability, Operations, Incident Management, Databases, and Neural Networks. He also enjoys Running, Gulab Jamun and Biryani. He can be found as shayonj on twitter, github, linkedin, and gmail.

Marc Bowes is a software engineer at AWS. He builds secure, reliable systems and enjoys connecting with customers and answering their questions. He currently works on Amazon Aurora DSQL, a serverless distributed SQL database. Previously, he worked for Amazon EC2, managing a large MySQL installation. His work focuses on the performance and availability of databases and how they impact customers. He has written articles about DSQL engineering and design choices.

Victor is a Brazilian Software Engineer who works at Microsoft AI. He solves problems by designing and implementing software. He is proficient in distributed cloud-native systems and web browser applications. He currently helps millions of daily shoppers worldwide save time and money at Microsoft Shopping. He writes about software engineering and other topics on Breder.org. All statements and opinions written on the website are solely his own and are not representative of or endorsed by any employer, past or present.

Daniel Mangum is a big fan of computers and human beings. He is the Chief Technology Officer at Golioth, where he leads engineering efforts that span hardware, firmware, and cloud software. Previously, he was a principal software engineer at Upbound where he helped build Upbound Cloud, Upbound Marketplace, and the open source Crossplane project. Prior to Upbound, he worked as a consultant on large-scale cloud deployments at Fortune 500 companies. He has participated in multiple open source communities, including holding leadership positions in the Kubernetes project. He is equally passionate about hardware and software, and often finds himself at the points where they intersect.