Meet Your Instructors

We have a great group of instructors for each of the courses of the Nanodegree program. In some courses, you'll learn from just one instructor, and in other courses you'll learn from several. Each of them brings expertise from working in the field and experience teaching others. Below is a short bio of each instructor, and you'll learn more about them during the courses they teach.

Course 1 - Cloud Fundamentals

Kesha Williams, Software Engineering Manager at Chick-fil-A

Kesha has over 20 years experience in software development and is a software engineering manager at Chick-fil-A, routinely leading innovation teams in proving out the use of cloud services to solve complex business problems. She was recently named an Alexa Champion by Amazon.

Course 2 - Deploy Infrastructure as Code (IAC); Course 3 - Build CI/CD Pipelines, Monitoring & Logging

Carlos Rivas, Senior Solutions Architect at Infiniti Consulting

Carlos is a Senior Solutions Architect at Infiniti Consulting where he helps institutions move traditional data centers to the cloud. He has worked for several large telecommunication providers managing and configuring network infrastructure, using Java, Groovy, Python, Perl, and PHP.

Noah Gift, Lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Information

Noah has worked at companies including Disney Feature Animation, Sony Imageworks, Weta Digital, and AT&T. He is a lecturer at universities including Northwestern, UC Berkeley and UC Davis. He is the author of Python DevOps and Pragmatic AI: An Introduction to Cloud-Computing.