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.
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