Michael is an author, speaker and Sr Staff Security Engineer at Confluent, leading multi-organization security initiatives. Previously, he was a Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at LinkedIn, architecting LinkedIn's move to Microsoft Azure. Before graduating with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Queensland (Australia), Michael interned at NASA Ames Research Center building small-satellites known as Phonesats. While working at LinkedIn, Michael led the company's work on Incident Response, Disaster Recovery, Visibility Engineering & Reliability Principles. He has also been embedded with the profile, traffic, espresso (KV Store) teams. After leading LinkedIn's last physical data-center build, he is now the architect for how LinkedIn builds its infrastructure in Azure. Michael has spoken at numerous events all over the world and in 2018 was a co-author of the book "Cloud Native Infrastructure with Azure" and "Reducing MTTD for High Severity Incidents" David is an expert in leading large-scale incident response programs and is currently the Staff Incident Chaser at Confluent. David has architected and run incident & bug bounty programs, interfaced with outside researchers, coordinated application security incident response events, and smashed vulnerabilities across large & complex infrastructures. Additionally, David has spoken at numerous conferences and events throughout the globe, including being a two-time Black Hat speaker