I am excited to share that I will be speaking at this year’s Open Source North conference on May 29, 2025, at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.
This year, I’m teaming up with my fellow Jamf, Levi McCormick (Director of Engineering at Jamf), for a session that is very close to our daily reality: Multi-Cloud Without the Marketing or Designing for Multi-Cloud Without Losing Your Mind.
Why this talk? In the cloud industry, “Multi-Cloud”, “Cloud Native”, and “Iac via Terraform” are often sold as magic pills for redundancy, cost savings, unifaction and more across clouds. But for the people actually building and maintaining these systems, it can often feel like a recipe for complexity and technical debt.
At Jamf, Levi and I work on our infrastructure efforts across AWS, Azure, and GCP. We’ve learned—sometimes the hard way—what works, what doesn’t, and where the “hype” version of cloud differs from the “production” version. We wanted to build a session that focuses on the practical:
- How to design for portability without over-engineering.
- Managing identity, networking, and security across different providers.
- Avoiding the “lowest common denominator” trap.
- Keeping your sanity while managing three different clouds.
Open Source North is a great local event to the MN Tech scene because of the high-caliber community and the focus on real-world engineering. Whether you are a cloud veteran or just starting to look at a second provider, we’d love to see you there.
The Details:
- Conference: Open Source North 2025
- Date: May 29, 2025
- Location: University of St. Thomas (St. Paul Campus)
- Session Link: https://opensourcenorth.com/presentations/Multi-Cloud-Without-the-Marketing-or-Designing-for-Multi-Cloud-Without-Losing-Your-Mind
If you’re attending, please connect on LinkedIn or find us after the session. We’d love to hear how your team is tackling these same challenges!
