This workshop will teach attendees the basics of DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in a fun gamified way that combines learning DevOps fundamentals with making "line go up". Attendees will gain hands-on expertise with both AWS and HashiCorp Terraform in a free, safe, and sand-boxed environment. Bring your laptop and a web browser (no additional tools are needed to get started) and leave with tips and tricks that you can immediately apply to your own workflows.

Emma Higashikawa is a solutions architect at Amazon Web Services, currently serving as a partner solutions architect for AWS GameDay. With a background in aerospace and satellite solutions, she focuses on cloud architecture, system design, and applied generative AI, helping partners and customers build and operate complex workloads on AWS. Emma began her career as a cloud developer and QA engineer at Amazon, and holds a mechanical engineering degree from Yale University, with additional academic experience in architecture and civil engineering from the University of Tokyo.

Sam McGeown is a senior developer advocate at HashiCorp and a long-time cloud and Kubernetes practitioner based in the UK. He has deep hands-on experience across public and private cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, APIs, automation, and cloud-native platforms, with a background spanning consulting, product management, and technical marketing. Sam is known for translating complex infrastructure and DevOps concepts into practical guidance through talks, community content, and hands-on demos.