Python for DevOps

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