About our guest -
Erica is currently Principal Engineer & Architect at New Relic, but has been innovating cloud computing technologies since 2002. By leveraging early-career experience of supporting web hosting environments, Erica sought to disrupt the web hosting industry. Some career highlights include:
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Relic, Inc.
Principal Engineer & Architect
Erica is currently Principal Engineer & Architect at Relic, Inc, but has been innovating cloud computing technologies since 2002. By leveraging early-career experience of supporting web hosting environments, Erica sought to disrupt the web hosting industry.
Erica is currently Principal Engineer & Architect at Relic, Inc, but has been innovating cloud computing technologies since 2002. By leveraging early-career experience of supporting web hosting environments, Erica sought to disrupt the web hosting industry. Some career highlights include:
Founder of IOpipe, providing event-based analytics and distributed tracing for AWS Lambda and "serverless" applications
Founder of the Magnum Container Service, an OpenStack project.
Early contributor to OpenStack (February 2011).
Released one of the first open source cloud management systems -- in 2010.
Founded a cloud hosting product designed for developers in 2006.
Built one of the first "Platform as a Service" (PaaS) solutions as early as 2003.
Seeing the potential for containers to solve many of the problems in the gap between infrastructure and platform services, Erica joined Docker in January 2014. At Docker, Erica has driven their OpenStack and Security initiatives.
Has continued leveraging experience in building clouds to assist enterprises with cloud architecture, operations, and in building cloud computing products.
