Adam Jacob
@adamhjkAdam Jacob is the creator of Chef and co-founder of Chef, Inc. in 2008 and currently serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Prior to Chef, Inc. Adam founded HJK Solutions, an automated infrastructure consultancy. During two years at HJK, Adam built new infrastructures for 15 different startups. Including Adam’s time at HJK, Adam has 13 years of experience as a systems administrator, systems architect, and tools developer.
Andrew Farley
Farley is a Senior DevOps Engineer and consultant for OlinData. He has experience with high-scalability systems both in bare metal and in the cloud for the last 12 years and on AWS for over 6 years now. He’s founded a handful of startups and been doing consulting for a wide range of companies in Silicon Valley and around the world. He is passionate about high-scalability and redundant, systems, automation, agile and continuous deployment, documentation, diagramming and open-source software. He has no associations with Amazon other than being a passionate user of their platform and holding an AWS Associate Certification. Farley’s interests don’t end at managing servers, he’s authored and launched over 30 mobile applications, numerous games, he’s launched or been an early employee at a dozen startups, and has years of experience designing and consuming APIs using various languages. And for fun he plays with microelectronics and designs & flies racing quad-copters in his free time.
Arnold van Wijnbergen
@bsmconsultantArnold van Wijnbergen is an independent advisor, coach and consultant from Devoteam. He specializes in Monitoring and Automation topics to improve quality and efficiency of operational control of IT4IT business. To achieve this he combines Lean principles with DevOps culture, because he strongly believes in the power of culture and self-steering teams. His broad experience in Monitoring and Automation tooling implementations ranges from midsize till enterprise scale, formed mainly in the banking, insurance, governance, retail, telco and service provider branches. At ING he is management consultant within the ING Automate monitoring stream, which is responsible for advising, training and coaching DevOps teams with improving their monitoring capabilities.
Avishai Ish-Shalom
@nukembergAvishai Ish-Shalom is a veteran Ops and a survivor of many production skirmishes. Currently an independent consultant, Avishai helps companies deal with web era operations and scale. In his spare time Avishai is spreading weird ideas and conspiracy theories such as DevOps.
Bas Meijer
@bbaassssiieeBas is a systems engineer and software developer and wasted decades on latenight hacking. He is currently helping out 2 enterprises with continuous delivery and devops.
Bernd Erk
@gethashBernd Erk is co-founder and community manager of the Icinga Project. In his day job he is CEO at NETWAYS, a German open source service company. As contributor to Linux Magazine and Admin Magazine, Bernd regularly publishes articles and presents on open source topics ranging from monitoring, configuration management to various open source datacenter solutions. He tries to spread the DevOps spirit wherever and whenever possible.
Christoph Andreas Torlinsky
@nuagenetworksHello, i work for a Startup called Nuage Networks in EMEA and we are actively trying to change how Software interacts with the Network. Check us out, I’ve been working for a number of companies prior to Nuage in the Networking and Linux and Operating Space.
Daniël van Gils
@foldingbeautyDaniël van Gils is a polyglot developer advocate at Cloud 66. He helps other polyglot developers craft ruby (on rails) web applications and container based microservice architectures with ♥, to deploy on any server or public cloud. He’s been involved in the web development, creative technologies, and gaming industries. An accomplished creative technologist, Daniel has vast and varied experience in application development, agile workflows, lecturing and building container technologies at scale. In his spare time he experiments with strawberries in his backyard, likes to surf and practices improvisation theater.
Dave van Herpen
@daveherpenDave van Herpen is management coach (Enterprise Agility & DevOps) at Sogeti Netherlands. In his role as practitioner, coach, trainer and change agent, Dave has been supporting his customers to organize for end-to-end agility for the past 15 years.
Desmond Delissen
Desmond started his career at a big consultancy company. Via this company he got the change to join a mobile app project in the beginning of 2012. Desmond enjoined this so much that he decided to start working for IceMobile and become a expert in testing mobile apps and their backend systems.
Erica Baker
@EricaJoyErica is a Senior Engineer at Slack Technologies and advocate for diversity and inclusion in tech, and expanding access to tech education. Erica’s career in tech began fourteen years ago doing domain administration for the University of Alaska Statewide System, before becoming a Googler in 2006. Erica’s role grew and shifted within Google, growing from Support Technician to Site Reliability Engineer. She joined Slack in 2015, where she focuses on Build and Release Engineering. Erica is on the Advisory Boards for Atipica and Hack the Hood, and is a Tech Mentor for Black Girls Code. Erica is currently based in Oakland, California.
Gopal Ramachandran
@goposkyGopal is an experienced engineer/consultant who is passionate about Devops. The last few years he has been busy creating CD pipelines, implementing configuration management, and automating stuff at few large companies in the Netherlands. Prior to that he has been a hosting engineer, and also a Java developer.
Guy Podjarny
@guypodGuy Podjarny is a cofounder at Snyk.io focusing on securing open source code. Guy was previously CTO at Akamai and founder of Blaze.io, and worked on the first web app firewall & security static code analyzer. Guy is a frequent conference speaker, the author of ‘Responsive & Fast’, ‘High Performance Images’ and the upcoming ‘Securing Third Party Code’ (via O’Reilly), and the creator of Mobitest.
Hannah Foxwell
@hannahfoxwellWhile culture and sharing are at the heart of DevOps, Infrastructure Automation is the technical backbone. That’s one of the reasons why Hannah co-founded Pendrica, a consultancy specialising in Platform Automation with Chef and Microsoft. Hannah’s background and experience in managing large scale software programmes naturally lead to a keen interest in Agile, Continuous Delivery and the DevOps movement as a way of building collaborative, highly-performing teams. As a coach and mentor she continues this work today, helping teams improve how they work together in the fast-moving world of automation. Outside of work you can generally find Hannah in her local pub enjoying a craft beer while planning her next adventure.
Harm Weites
@wehkampHarm is committed to engineering the Wehkamp e-commerce platform, making sure it scales and performs to meet customer and business demands. He is passionate about automation and is part of Wehkamp’s SRE team.
Jan de Vries
Jan de Vries is a senior business IT consultant and a trusted advisor in the fields of requirements engineering, business information management, application management and DevOps. He is a BiSL, ASL, ITIL, ISM and FSM trainer and convenor of the Enterprise DevOps working group that unites members of the ASL BiSL Foundation and the Agile Consortium. He founded Blue Ocean Recon to do research that focuses on Blue Oceans and Lean Startups.
Jan Kaan
@jankaan81Jan Kaan runs the Expert Partner Program for Atlassian within the Benelux & Nordics. With a background in Intercultural Awareness and 15 years of experience within the IT space he has fulfilled various roles from Recruitment to Sales in primarily large international organizations.
Jason Yee
@gitbisectJason is a community builder, developer, traveller and chef. He’s passionate about connecting people and ideas to build a better world.
Jim Leitch
Jim is a family man, guitarist and dog lover. Having lived in the Netherlands for the last 22 years he knows where the best stroopwafels are.
Jody Wolfborn
@joderitaJody is a theatre major-turned-technologist with a passion for languages of all kinds and a soft-spot for animals of the canine variety. Since entering the tech realm, she’s had many years of experience living with and attempting to overcome Impostor Syndrome; through observation, research, and experimentation, she’s collected resources to help combat this psychological self-sabotage.
Karleen Wijsman
Karleen Wijsman is an all-round IT Specialist and has many years of experience in providing training and workshops in the field of personal development and organisational change. Her NLP Practitioner and NLP Master background give her a solid foundation to motivate, engage and energize people and organizations
Ken Mugrage
@kmugrageKen Mugrage has 25 years of experience in the IT industry, spending the last 7 at ThoughtWorks. During his entire career, Ken has focused on using technology to increase business effectiveness, as opposed to using the ‘latest cool thing’. Ken has been focused on Continuous Delivery and DevOps for most of the past decade, working with organizations all over the world, ranging from startups to Fortune 50 companies. He now uses this experience to teach others how to get better at building, testing and deploying software.
Marco Ceppi
@marcoceppiMarco Ceppi is a devops engineer working for Canonical - the company behind Ubuntu. When not behind a computer, he often enjoys sailing, restoring cars, and voiding warranties.
Mark van Holsteijn
Mark van Holsteijn is Principal Consultant at Xebia specialized in cloud software architectures with open-source technologies.
Melanie Rieback
Melanie Rieback is the CEO/Co-founder of Radically Open Security. She is also a former Asst. Prof. of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam who performed RFID security research (RFID Virus and RFID Guardian), that got worldwide press coverage, and won several awards (VU Mediakomeet, ISOC Award finalist, NWO I/O award, IEEE Percom Best Paper, USENIX Lisa Best Paper). Melanie also worked as a Sr. Engineering Manager on XenClient at Citrix, where she led the Citrix Vancouver office. She was also a Sr. Managing Consultant in the Cyber Crime Expertise and Response Team (CCERT) at ING Bank, where she set up the CCERT Analysis Lab and was the lead technical project manager of the ING Core Threat Intelligence Systems. For fun, she founded the Dutch Girl Geek Dinner in 2008. Melanie was also named 2010 ICT Professional of the Year (Finalist) by WomeninIT, and one of the “400 most successful women in the Netherlands” by Viva Magazine (Viva400) in 2010.
Michael Ducy
@mfdiiMichael Ducy currently works as a Manager for Solutions Architects at Chef focusing on helping companies understand Chef, DevOps, and IT transformation. Previously, Michael focused on designing and implementing automation solutions for customer’s Cloud, IT Automation, and Continuous Delivery needs. Michael has also worked in a variety of roles in his career including Cloud Architecture, Systems Engineering , Performance Engineering, and IT Instructor. Michael holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and an MBA from The Ohio State University.
Michael Friedrich
Michael has been an Icinga core developer for more than 7 years. He is currently leading the Icinga 2 development together with Gunnar. In addition to the exciting core architecture work he likes to play with Vagrant. Docker and Dashing. You’ll also find him active over at monitoring-portal.org, most recently as administrator too. In his spare time Michael loves to build LEGO models and enjoys Nuremberg with his Austrian dialect.
Nati Cohen
@nocootNati Cohen is a Production Engineer at SimilarWeb, fighting manual labor with code and vengeance. Previous experience includes: operations consulting, software development, *nix administration and security research in the Intelligence corps as well as in multiple startup companies.
Pavel Chunyayev
@PavelChunyayevPavel Chunyayev is a Continuous Delivery Architect at Levi9 IT Services. With 12 years of experience he moved a year and a half ago to Amsterdam to continue working with Levi9’s customers to help them create or optimize the way they deliver their applications to production. Pavel is a regular speaker at local meetups promoting ideas of continuous delivery, programmable infrastructure and automated testing.
Philipp Krenn
@xeraaPhilipp is a Developer Advocate at Elastic, spreading the love and knowledge of full-text search, analytics, and real-time data. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and meetups about all things search & analytics, databases, cloud computing, and devops. Philipp lives in Vienna where he enjoys experimenting with software, organizing meetups, and sports.
Remi Bergsma
@remibergsmaRemi Bergsma is an engineer with a pasion for automation. He works for Schuberg Philis, a Mission Critical outsourcing company in NL. Since about 2,5 years Remi works in the Mission Critical Cloud Team at Schuberg Philis. In this role he and his colleagues make sure their Mission Critical Cloud simply works. That is truly DevOps: from ordering, racking and automatically configuring hardware all the way to developing new features and fixing bugs in the Java and Python code. Remi is an Apache CloudStack committer/PMC member and was Release Manager for CloudStack 4.6, 4.7 and 4.8. Nowadays Remi is one of the committers in the Cosmic Cloud project. He did several talks and workshops on conferences and enjoys teaching others new stuff.
Robert den Broeder
Robert den Broeder is owner of Trigono BV and is a certified trainer / coach in IT Service Management and Organizational Behavior Management (OBM). Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) is a management approach that demonstrably increases team performance and motivation. Robert supports organizations with implementing and improving service management processes, with special attention for behavioral change, using OBM techniques and principles.
Simon Fisher
@simfish85Simon is a Solutions Architect at Chef, he has spent the past few years helping customers solve their Continuous Delivery problems with a variety of products and methods. In his spare time he also develops and maintains DAFNE Online, a site for people with Type 1 Diabetes in the UK. He also enjoys watching rugby, attempting to learn the piano, and learning how to be a new dad.
Stefan Stolzle
Stefan has been a software developer, teacher and consultant for over 10 years, he believes “code is beautiful” and achieving it through collaboration. On the https://services.github.com team at GitHub his focus lies in helping companies to implement and migrate Git and GitHub, and to learn about the https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/ to write beautiful software.
Takahiko Ito
@takahi_i_enTakahiko Ito received his Ph.D. in Engineering at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, specializing in graph mining. He worked at FAST’s (now Microsoft) R&D group as an Asian language NLP expert before joining Recruit Technologies as an R&D engineer.
Tiziano Perrucci
@tizianoperrucciI’m an independent Italian software engineer working in the software industry for more than a decade. My expertise lies in backend and system integration, never the less I’ve a strong background (and passion) in automation and devops. I’m a co-founder of the StarterSquad community where I take part in several teams. We earn our living working for several startups around the world. I’m a collaborative problem solver with strong analytical skills and committed to a continuous improvement process.”
Victoria Jeffrey
As a software engineer at Chef, Victoria has developed on Delivery and Compliance, spending her days in her code cave battling whatever dragons come her way. Prior to joining Chef, she was an assistant teacher at her son’s school, where she spent her days getting dirty in gardens and playing games. When she’s not hiding out in her code cave, you can find her hanging with family, admiring the baby lizards in the backyard, and wishing she had a koala pet.
Warner Moore
@warnermooreWarner Moore is a technology and information security leader who is passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship having worked with tech-focused businesses nearly his entire career. When not scaling platforms and teams at CoverMyMeds, he contributes back to the community by organizing Ohio LinuxFest and DevOpsDays Ohio. Additionally, he is co-founder of the LOPSA Columbus chapter and chairs the Leadership Committee.
Will Button
@wfbuttonWill Button is a DevOps advocate for Trax Technologies, working to integrate DevOps methods and ideology into development and operations teams. When not at work, he can be found sharing his knowledge through lessons at http://egghead.io and http://www.pluralsight.com as well as his blog and public speaking engagements.
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