Great Speeches from Women Influencers in Cloud Computing

Cloud platforms are becoming a fixture in every modern enterprise. In 2015, women held 57 percent of all professional occupations. Unfortunately, that number dropped to only 25 percent in professional computing. Despite this, there are various women in the cloud computing space that speak regularly at various conferences.

Hopefully this list will grow for next year, we always need more women in computing!

Tanya Janca – Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft

“Tanya is a senior cloud advocate for Microsoft, specializing in application security; evangelizing software security and advocating for developers through public speaking, her open source project OWASP DevSlop, and various forms of teaching via workshops, blogs and community events.”

“This talk will explain how people’s personal insecurities can be brought out by leadership decisions in the way we manage our application security programs, and how this can lead to real-life vulnerabilities in software and other IT products. This is not a soft talk about “feelings”, this is a talk about creating programs, governance and policies that ensure security throughout the entire SDLC. “

Chen Goldberg – Director of Engineering at Google, Kubernetes

“Technology leader with 15+ years of demonstrated expertise leading global engineering teams, product R&D initiatives, and high-profile customer engagements with Fortune 500 enterprises”

Laura Frank –  Director of Engineering at CloudBees

“I’m focused in building tools to make developers’​ lives easier. I have a particular affinity for containers, virtualization, and running vim as pid 1. I got my first hand-me-down DOS system when I was in middle school and I’ve been lost in the code mines ever since.”

Abby Fuller – Senior Technical Evangelist at Amazon Web Services

Sr Technical Evangelist and software engineer at Amazon Web Services. Before she joined Amazon, she worked at a number of startups, including Airtime and Hailo.

Sarah Novotny – Open Source Strategy at Google

My technological focuses have been in recent years Open Source; Cloud and Utility Computing; Infrastructure automation; and Data (big and small; relational and non-relational).

Michelle Noorali – Software Engineer at Microsoft

“Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Kubernetes, Cloud Computing, Go, Ruby on Rails. Passionate about the impact of open source software and end user experiences. Strong engineering professional with a Computer Science degree and research background from The University of Georgia.”