Elad Amit

Tel-Aviv, Israel

Bio

I’ve been a part of the IT industry since 1998, making the shift to product development in 2001 when I formed my own software development shop specializing in e-commerce solutions along with several of my closest friends. Since then, I’ve served as an R&D Team Leader, Program Manager, Director of Product Development, and Agile Development Consultant. Over the past 6 years I’ve led several architecture and operations teams in high growth and large scale environments .

Gave this talk around good practices for scrum masters at Agile Israel 2010 - https://www.slideshare.net/amitelad7/black-belt-scrum-master . And this talk around ToC thinking processes and their relation to agile transformations at Agile Israel 2011 - https://www.slideshare.net/amitelad7/sustainable-successful-and-repeatablev6removing-text and at Agile Central Europe 2011 as well - https://vimeo.com/23044443 . I’ve also given several agile courses in Israel and Canada from 2009-2011, class sizes varied from 15-30 people And gave this talk at Reversim 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYZu2u76otk Google 2018 Summit Tel Aviv - took part in the event keynote - https://cloudplatformonline.com/2018-Summit-TelAviv-Speakers.html Google Next SF 2019 - gave a talk on Creating Interactive Cost and KPI Dashboards Using BigQuery - https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/19/sf/speakers?session=CST302

My Talks

1 cloud, 2 clouds, 3 clouds, tons

Over the past year we've gone from having 1 POP in GCP to 6 in GCP and 1 in AWS The journey took us through multiple AWS regions, a region in Azure, and one in Rackspace (all with live production...

Cloud Cluster Management 2018 - and why Kubernetes and the likes just don't cut it

Kubernetes and other container / cluster managers are all the rage these days, we would like to show how we ended up using them in our multi cloud setup and why they're just not enough

Don't use spark, no really, please

Over the past half decade or so, the hype around spark streaming has grown to such an extent that it is hard to discern myth from reality Our experience with it in production has been such a disa...

Kafka, Go, and BigQuery - combining open source and cloud

Over the past four years we've had quite a roller coster ride of data. In this session we will review the evolution we've gone through along with the various tidbits and workarounds we've collected...

Managing Your Managers...They're People Too...

Why should your manager be given advice on how to work and manager you while you're kept in the dark? Join us for 30 minutes to acquire some basic tools and habits which will help you better commun...

SaaS to opensource - The story of monitoring in the cloud

In 2018 there is no need to compromise on observability or pay too much for it once you grow We would like to share how we migrated from datadog to a combination of prometheus, grafana, ELK and rei...

Saving up for technical debt - how to prepare so you don't go bankrupt

Over the past year or so we've had the chance to get an accelerated view of moving from small to large scale. This made our mistakes, as well as our wiser decisions, very apparent We'd like to shar...

When cloud costs just don't cut it - visibility into the unknown

DevOps broke the barrier between Developers and Operations. FinOps is now breaking them between Finance and Engineering. Just as CI/CD made DevOps a must have, in a cloud environment FinOps is now ...