Python for DevOps: Learn Ruthlessly Effective Automation

About Alfredo DezaGrig GherghiuKennedy BehrmanNoah Gift

Noah Gift is a lecturer and consultant at UC Davis Graduate School of Management in the MSBA program. Professionally Noah has approximately 20 years'' experience programming in Python and is a member of the Python Software Foundation. He has worked for a variety of companies in roles ranging from CTO general manager consulting CTO and cloud architect. Currently he is consulting start-ups and other companies on machine learning and cloud architecture and is doing CTO-level consulting via Noah Gift Consulting. He has published close to 100 technical publications including two books on subjects ranging from cloud machine learning to DevOps. He is also a certified AWS Solutions Architect. Noah has an MBA from the University of California Davis; an MS in computer information systems from California State University Los Angeles; and a BS in nutritional science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. You can find more about Noah by following him on Github (https: //github.com/noahgift/) visiting http: //noahgift.com or connecting with him on https: //www.linkedin.com/in/noahgift/. Kennedy Behrman is a veteran consultant specializing in architecting and implementing cloud solutions for early-stage startups. He has both undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania including an MS in Computer Information Technology and post-graduate work in the Computer Graphics and Game Programming program. He is experienced in data engineering data science AWS solutions and engineering management and has acted as a technical editor on a number of python and data science-related publications. As a Data Scientist he helped develop a proprietary growth hacking machine learning algorithm for a startup that led to the exponential growth of the platform. Afterward he then hired and managed a Data Science team that supported this technology. Additional to that experience he has been active in the Python language for close to 15 years including giving talks at user groups writing articles and serving as technical editor to many publications. Alfredo Deza is a passionate software engineer avid open source developer Vim plugin author photographer and former Olympic athlete. He has given several lectures around the world about Open Source Software personal development and professional sports. He has rebuilt company infrastructure designed shared storage and replaced complex build systems always in search of efficient and resilient environments. With a strong belief in testing and documentation he continues to drive robust development practices wherever he is. As a passionate knowledge-craving developer Alfredo can be found giving presentations in local groups about Python file systems and storage system administration and professional sports. Grig Gheorghiu has worked for the last 13 years as a programmer research lab manager system/network/security architect and most recently as a software test engineer. Grig is the founder of the Southern California Python Interest Group as well as a member of the Agile Alliance and of the xpsocal user group. He holds an MS degree in Computer Science from USC. Grig blogs fairly regularly on agile testing topics at agiletesting.blogspot.com.