Google’s Biggest Partner with Miles Ward
from Screaming in the Cloud Hosted by Corey Quinn
About Miles Ward As Chief Technology Officer at SADA, Miles Ward leads SADA’s cloud strategy and solutions capabilities. His remit includes delivering next-generation solutions to challenges in big data and analytics, application migration, infrastructure automation, and cost optimization; reinforcing our engineering culture; and engaging with customers on their most complex and ambitious plans around Google Cloud. Previously, Miles served as Director and Global Lead for Solutions at Google Cloud. He founded the Google Cloud’s Solutions Architecture practice, launched hundreds of solutions, built Style-Detection and Hummus AI APIs, built CloudHero, designed the pricing and TCO calculators, and helped thousands of customers like Twitter who migrated the world’s largest Hadoop cluster to public cloud and Audi USA who replatformed to k8s before it was out of alpha, and helped Banco Itau design the intercloud architecture for the bank of the future. Before Google, Miles helped build the AWS Solutions Architecture team. He wrote the first AWS Well Architected framework, proposed Trusted Advisor and the Snowmobile, invented GameDay, worked as a core part of the Obama for America 2012 “tech” team, helped NASA stream the Curiosity Mars Rover landing, and rebooted Skype in a pinch. Earning his Bachelors of Science in Rhetoric and Media Studies from Willamette University, Miles is a three-time technology startup entrepreneur who also plays a mean electric sousaphone. Links SADA.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milesward/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/milesward Cloud N Clear Podcast: https://sada.com/insights-events/video-podcasts/
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Miles Ward is the Chief Technology Officer at SADA, a global business and cloud consulting firm that is Google’s largest partner. Prior to this role, Miles worked as the director of solutions and global lead at Google Cloud for five years and served as the senior management of solutions architecture at Amazon Web Services for four years. He’s also held director-level positions at Visible Technologies and Insurgent Technologies. Join Corey and Miles as they discuss hybrid and multi-cloud environments, what Andy Jassy believes is the biggest impediment to AWS’ growth, why Miles decided to leave Google after a life-changing five-year run, how managing a team of 80 makes it nearly impossible to get your hands dirty with tech, what a solutions architect does and whether the job description changes from company to company, the product Miles killed at Google and what the experience was like, how much Miles believes it costs Google to turn off products, what the Achilles heel of every public cloud is, and more.
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