Howdy 👋

I'm Bret McGowen, a former software engineer living in NYC. Cofounder of Vinyl TV. Currently in New York City. Previously at Google, Rackspace.

About Bret McGowen

• Currently cofounder of Vinyl TV.
• ⌨️ Former software engineer (C#, Node.js, Python, Java, JavaScript, ColdFusion)
• ⌛ Previously:
  • Bret McGowen at Google - Developer Advocate for Serverless (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, App Engine, Firebase)
  • Rackspace - Software Developer IV
• 🏃‍♂️ Running
• 🦝 Raccoons
• 🏐 Volleyball
• 🛫 Travel
• 😄 Pronouns: he/him

Social Media

• Website - bretmcg.com
• LinkTree - linktr.ee/bretmcg
• Twitter - @BretMcG or @BretMcGowen
• Instagram - @bret.mcgowen
• Stack Overflow
• About.me
• Facebook - bret.mcgowen
• 🏃Strava
• Medium blog, Hashnode blog - at some point I'll start blogging again!
• YouTube Channel @BretMcG - I'll upload previous talks here

Talks

• Slideshare - Google Cloud slides
• Speaker Deck - Google Cloud slides
• Partial list of talks I've given: sessions, conferences

Videos

• Google Cloud overview (from 2015)
• Stripe + Ruby on Rails (from 2013)
• Track Cloud costs with Rackspace and Cloudability (from 2013)