Better Insight: Measuring the Cost of an Application on GCP (Cloud Next '19)

Ron Cuirle is a Senior Engineering Manager for Target’s Release & Runtime Engineering team. He oversees multiple platforms with multi-cloud focus, and handles Target's relationship with Google including cost reporting and management. He has led teams and projects to both develop and adopt a combination of off-the-shelf open source and custom CI/CD tooling. These tools help to drive a common CI/CD experience for all developers at Target while making the underlying infrastructure nearly 100% interchangeable. In previous lives, Ron has worked as a software engineer for established leaders in the Digital Marketing, Public Utility, and Retail industries designing and building bleeding edge solutions hosted at various trusted cloud providers.

Rachel Shinn is a Senior Scrum Master in the Cloud & Compute area at Target. She was a project lead to migrate Target's digital workloads to Google Cloud and currently works across multiple compute platform teams. Her work projects focus on Showback and Efficiency for all of Target’s compute environments as well as helping compute teams transition into product-focused teams. She received her undergraduate degree in Informatics from Indiana University and is currently pursuing an MBA and Masters in IT Management dual degree from Indiana University.