Baseer Balazadeh has worked in IT management and implementation for more than 15 years. His experiences range from hands-on work on application architectures to development with DevOps best practices to network security and application migration into the public cloud IaaS. He has a bachelor's degree in computer system networking engineering from Westwood College. Fun facts about Baseer: he has completed several (10+) century bicycle rides, with his favorite being the Ojai Valley Century; he’s traveled to 10 countries, 41 cites with 200,000 miles flown; and he thoroughly enjoys passing on gained knowledge.