Community
Being an active member of the community and a positive influence.
Volunteering
AWS Community Hero
- Introduced in 2014 by the CTO of Amazon, Werner Vogels, the AWS Community Heroes program recognizes outstanding members of the cloud computing community. I was one of the initial six.
Advanced AWS Meetup
- Since 2013, I have been running the Advanced AWS Meetup in San Francisco. It's a monthly meetup for developers who want to learn more about AWS.
Young Eagles
- Together with my wife, we run the EAA Young Eagles program for Chapter 20 out of the San Carlos airport (KSQL). Every month, we hold a rally where pilots take kids ages 8-17 up in a small, general aviation aircraft for a free introductory flight.
Scouts Troop 42
- I am the Treasurer of Scouts Troop 42 in San Mateo where I manage the budget and the finances.
Open Source
default-avatar-generator
- A Ruby gem that generates interesting and unique profile pictures (avatars) to use in your app.
Ansible EC2 Inventory Plugin
- Back in 2012, I added the EC2 inventory plugin to Ansible. This little contribution has been my most widely used open source contribution to date.
Public Speaking
2025
Everything you didn't want to know about IAM
AWS Community Day - Security Edition - Bay Area
Everything you didn't want to know about IAM
Advanced AWS Meetup - March
AWS Survey 2025 with Peter Sankauskas
Virtual Brown Bag
2024
CI/CD: GitHub Actions to ECS
AWS Community Day 2024
CI/CD: GitHub Actions to ECS
Advanced AWS Meetup - September
AWS Control Tower: How to adopt it?
AWS Cloud Security Community Day 2024
State of AWS Survey
Virtual Brown Bag
2023
AWS Control Tower: How to adopt it?
AWS Cloud Security Community Day 2023
State of AWS Survey
Virtual Brown Bag
2018
Serverless Image Processing
AWS Community Day 2018
Interview by Brent about Serverless
AWS Loft in San Francisco
2015
Lambda Chat
Gluecon 2015
2014
Auto Scaling Groups
Advanced AWS Meetup
How Ansible Makes Automation Easy
Gluecon 2014