OUR TEAM
We’re technical influencers who have led developer relations and product marketing at AWS, Google, Microsoft and startups. We specialize in grabbing the attention of technical people … and their bosses.
FORREST BRAZEAL
Forrest Brazeal is an author, tech educator, cartoonist, and Pwnie Award-winning songwriter. Before leaving Google in 2024 to found the technical media company Good Tech Things, he was Google Cloud's Head of Developer Media and held marketing and software engineering leadership positions at A Cloud Guru, Trek10, and Infor.
Known for making complex technical topics accessible through original songs and cartoons, Forrest was one of the original AWS Serverless Heroes and twice co-chaired ServerlessConf. He has been named one of the world's top 7 AWS experts (Jefferson Frank, 2019) and one of the top 50 global voices in cloud (Onalytica, 2023).
EMILY FREEMAN
Emily Freeman is a bestselling author of two books, DevOps for Dummies and 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know, and a prolific speaker, traveling across the globe to educate executives and engineers on the best approaches to AI, DevOps, and cloud engineering.
Emily has been studying, leading, and shaping the developer journey for the last 15 years. She has led developer relations and product marketing at AWS, Microsoft, and cutting-edge startups. Emily is based in Denver, Colorado.