AWS Implementation: Helping or Hindering Your DevOps Journey? with Tom Kowalski
Details
Mark your calendars, because the AWS Michigan Meetup group kicks off its 2023 events on Wednesday, January 18th from 6:30pm-7:30pm at The Back Office Studio in Ypsilanti!
Doors will open at 6:00pm for anyone interested in coming early to network, socialize, and enjoy dinner and refreshments. The talk will begin at 6:30pm, so don't miss it!
Parking information for the Back Office Studio can be found at this link:
Back Office Studio Parking Details
This month's topic will be "AWS Implementation: Is it helping or hindering your DevOps journey?" This technical deep dive will cover good DevOps practices with a focus on communication and organizational structure. From there, Tom will highlight various AWS services and how improper implementation can hinder the fostering and development of a DevOps culture. To avoid these pitfalls, Tom will cover how to implement these services properly.
About The Speaker:
Tom Kowalski is a seasoned technology leader with over 15 years of experience in the B2B and SaaS markets. He has a strong track record of scaling products to millions of users and is an avid DevOps practitioner and mentor, focused on continuously delivering value to customers and fostering a culture of loose coupling and high alignment among teams and applications. Tom has held various leadership roles, overseeing technology strategy, engineering documentation and communication practices, and data patterns and practices, as well as providing guidance for the migration and modernization of multiple workloads on AWS. He holds both AWS professional certifications and has a strong skillset in continuous integration, agile methodologies, serverless architecture, software development, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, and data integration.
Livestream:
In case you missed the news about our last few meetups, these events are now available in hybrid form, as we'll be live streaming them through the Great Lakes Tech Leaders Discord channel! Remote viewers will have the ability to participate as if they were in-person by hearing in-person members' questions, interacting with the in-person members, and most importantly, asking the speaker questions themselves.
To livestream this month's discussion, simply head on over to the GLTL Discord page, join, and the discussion will be streaming live in the appropriate channel. Feel free to join up at the link below:
Great Lakes Tech Leaders Discord
Great Lakes Tech Leaders (GLTL):
If you skipped the blurb above about our NEW and improved livestream process, the GLTL Slack community has migrated on over to Discord! Please join us to help reignite opportunities for engaged regional collaboration, participation in our weekly Lunch With Tech Leaders Podcast, and to talk all things DevOps, tech, hiring, SaaS optimization, security, and more!
It's 10000% free to join and offers all of the interactive features Discord is known for and more. We hope to see you there, so here's that link to join, one more time:
