Brian Wood is an Applications Programmer in the IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration department. Brian is the technical lead on the IST Drupal team responsible for UC Berkeley's Drupal distribution.
Anna Gazdowicz is Web and Accessibility Specialist. She is a UC Santa Cruz graduate, and has worked at UC Berkeley since 2005. She currently works for IST (Web Platform Services) with the IST Drupal and Web Accessibility teams.
Brian describes how Web Platform Services leverages AWS services like EC2 and SQS to automate software updates for Open Berkeley websites. Anna will discuss how the Web Platform Services team is able to build on the cloud strategy and offer a robust turnkey service for a variety of audiences and provide "Marvel-ous Customer Support with Limited Resources" (https://web.berkeley.edu).
Malik discusses research computing on demand and is a cultivator of new technologies and designer of experiences with an appetite for complexity.