Bernd Nordhausen is a seasoned cloud architect with over 25 years of experience working at industry leaders such as Intel and Accenture. He is a Google cloud authorized trainer and holds over a dozen cloud certifications from all three major cloud service providers. Currently working as an independent cloud consultant and Google Cloud trainer, Bernd was previously the technical lead for the Google Cloud practice at Accenture Southeast Asia. In that role, he developed and implemented several large-scale deployments on Google Cloud using Terraform. In a different century, Bernd received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Alabama, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine. When his head is not in the cloud, Bernd is an aspiring woodworker and trail runner.