Community
Rooms are easier to fill than they look
Someone has to book the venue, chase the speakers and show up when four people do. I've been that someone in Dallas for years, and it's the part of this work I'd miss most.
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Meetup
AWS User Group Leader — AWS Dallas
Ongoing
Monthly meetups for the North Texas AWS crowd. I pick topics people can use on Monday morning rather than whatever is trending, which means fewer keynotes and more people arguing about IAM in the hallway.
AWS Dallas on Meetup ↗
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AWS
AWS Community Builder — Security & Identity
Ongoing
A small program of practitioners AWS keeps close to the security and identity roadmap. The useful part is the group chat: early context, blunt feedback, and people who will tell you your approach is wrong before a customer does.
About the program ↗
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NADOG
Chapter Leader — North America DevOps Group
Ongoing
Running the local chapter of a DevOps community that spans the continent. Same job as the AWS group, different accent: get practitioners in a room and keep the vendor pitch out of it.
NADOG ↗