Ann Wallace and Michael Wallman are here today to teach Aja and Mark about Professional Services Organization (PSO) at Google Cloud. PSO is the “post sales” department, helping clients come up with solutions for security, data migration, AI, ML, and more. Listen in to this episode to learn more about the specifics of the PSO!



Ann Wallace

Ann Wallace is the Global Security Practice Lead for Google PSO. She has spent the last 6 months building out the security practice. Ann is passionate about inclusion in tech. She is the West regional lead for Google Cloud EDII and a volunteer with Women Who Code Portland. Before Google Ann spent 14 years at Nike in various engineering and architecture roles. CloudNOW named her one of the top 10 Women in Cloud in 2015. When not working, Ann can be found ultra-trail running around the world.

Michael Wallman

Michael Wallman is a TPM, working on Cloud Migration for internal Alphabet companies and acquisitions. He also serves as the America’s infrastructure practice lead. He is in his 3rd year at Google. Prior to Google, Michael is Cloud “OG”, and spent almost 5 years growing the AWS Professional Services organization from 5 to 700+. Before sticking his head in the clouds, Michael helped found 2 start-ups: Aspera and SensysNetworks. Outside of work Michael spends his time chasing his 2 toddlers and mountain lions around the Berkeley Hills.

Ann and Michael actually met 5 years ago, working on Nike’s first cloud migration project. This encompassed reverse engineering a custom Perl configuration management system. (Who doesn’t love Perl?) It’s a small cloud world.

Cool things of the week


Amy built an app that uses Cloud Vision to identify key features of images texted to it link
Want to Change the Game? Design your own with Google Play blog


Change the Game site

The team based game of life app we demoed during the keynote is still up site
How we search for bow wows and meows blog


Why do cats and dogs…? site



Interview


G Suite site
Chrome site
GKE site
Kubernetes site
Anthos (the new Cloud Services Platform) site
Pub/Sub site
GCS site
GCS Dual-Region Buckets site
Grafeas site
CRDS site
Exploring container security: Digging into Grafeas container image metadata blog
CRE site
SRE site
Cloud Consulting Services site


Question of the week

How do I cache files between builds in Cloud Build?


Cloud Builders Community site


Where can you find us next?

Mark will be at IO, Open Source in Gaming Day which is co-located with Open Source North America Summit, and CFP.

Aja will be online! She has blog posts coming on assessing coding during interviews, using Ruby + GCP for weird stuff, and many other things.

Our guests will be at Kubecon EU.