Kelsey Hightower
@kelseyhightowerKelsey has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software.
Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go code you can catch him giving technical workshops covering everything from Programming, System Administration and Kubernetes.
VM Brasseur
@vmbrasseurVM Brasseur (aka Vicky) is a manager of technical people, projects, processes, products, and p^Hbusinesses. In her nearly 20 years in the tech industry, Vicky has been an analyst, programmer, product manager, software engineering manager, technical business consultant, and director of software engineering. Currently, she is a senior engineering manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, serving a team of developers 100% dedicated to upstream open source development on OpenStack. Vicky occasionally blogs.
Alan Kraft
After an early career in UNIX and Linux system administration, Alan now works on hybrid cloud computing, Linux Containers, and DevOps at USPTO. His current interests include infrastructure as code, systems thinking & learning organizations, and the application of concepts from safety science and complexity theory to DevOps.
Baruch Sadogursky
@jbaruchBaruch Sadogursky (a.k.a JBaruch) is the Developer Advocate of JFrog, the creators of Artifactory Binary Repository, the home of Bintray, and JavaOne 2011 Duke Choice Awards winner.
For a living he hangs out with the JFrog tech leaders, writes some code around Artifactory and Bintray, and then speaks and blogs about all that. He does it repeatedly for the last 10 years and enjoys every moment of it.
Baruch is @jbaruch on twitter and mostly blogs on http://blog.bintray.com and http://blogs.jfrog.org.
Ben Rockwood
@benrBen Rockwood is the Director of IT & Operations at Chef. He has been a UNIX System Administrator for over 20 years and an Operations Management junkie for the last 8. Between 2006 and 2014 he was the Director of Operations at Joyent, one of the first IaaS Cloud providers. He recently moved to Seattle with his super-hot wife and their 5 children.
Ben blogs at http://cuddletech.com/.
Caskey Dickson
@caskeyCaskey L. Dickson is a Site Reliability Engineer at Microsoft where he is part of the leadership team reinventing operations at Azure. Before that he was at Google where he worked as an SRE/SWE writing and maintaining monitoring services that operate at “Google scale” as well as a few business intelligence pipelines and maybe a script or two. He has worked in online services since 1995 when he turned up his first web server and has been online ever since. Before working at Google, he was a senior developer at Symantec, wrote software for various Internet tartups such as CitySearch and CarsDirect, ran a consulting company, and even taught undergraduate and graduate computer science at Loyola Marymount University. He has a B.S. in Computer Science, a Masters in Systems Engineering, and an M.B.A from Loyola Marymount.
Corey Quinn
@QuinnyPigPrincipal at The Quinn Advisory Group, Corey has a history as an engineering manager, public speaker, and advocate for business resilience through processes that aren’t actively ridiculous. He specializes in helping FinTech companies leverage cloud technologies while managing and mitigating risk.
Outside of his professional work, Corey is known for overdressing, telling entertaining stories, and carrying a cigarette case full of drink umbrellas.
Dan Isla
@danislaDan Isla is a Data Scientist in the Office of Chief Technology and Innovation at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. For the past 7 years, Isla has worked on the teams that build, launch and operate robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system. Legacy is everywhere in Aerospace and after seeing the scale of the data problems and challenges that face our missions, Isla has now dedicated his time to infusing the latest big data tools, cloud computing solutions, and container platforms to revolutionize how we operate interplanetary spacecraft.
Darryl Bowler
@darrylbowlerDarryl is a manager within Accenture DevOps practice and his working roles include project management, product development, engagement management and architecture. In the last six years, Darryl’s primary focus has been delivering client value through agile methodologies and DevOps. Currently, he is responsible for establishing a DevOps capability within a digital transformation program for a major mobile communications provider.
Dave Harrison
Dave is an Application Development Manager at Microsoft where he utilizes his expertise and technical background to help solve dev team maturity bottlenecks and help clients deliver better software, faster to add more business value.
At heart he’s a developer and loves solving problems creatively. Coming from the relational database/data warehousing ranks, he’s been writing applications for about 20 years now with strong experience in a broad variety of tools within the Microsoft stack. He’s crazy about ALM/SDLC and DevOps concepts and frequently gives presentations and chalktalks on implementing Agile in the real world.
Gerie Owen
@GerieOwenGerie Owen is a test architect at Eversource Energy, Certified ScrumMaster, conference presenter, and author on testing/test management topics. She is developing a test center of excellence and consults on test processes and tools. Gerie manages large, complex projects involving multiple applications; coordinates test teams across multiple time zones; and delivers high-quality projects on time and within budget. She enjoys mentoring new QA leads and brings a cohesive team approach to testing. Learn more about Gerie on her website, her Software Testing in the Trenches blog, and on Twitter @GerieOwen.
Jason Hand
@jasonhandDevOps Evangelist at VictorOps, organizer of DevOpsDays - Rockies, author of “ChatOps for Dummies”, and host of a number of DevOps related events in the Denver/Boulder area. Jason has spent the last 8 months presenting and building content on a number of DevOps topics such as Blameless Post-mortems, ChatOps, and the value of context within incident management. A frequent speaker at DevOps events around the country, Jason enjoys talking to audiences large and small on a variety of technical and non-technical subjects.
Jeff Anderson
@programm3rqJeff Anderson is a Developer Support Engineer at Docker. He has a background in Linux system operations, configuration management, and automation.
Jonah Horowitz
@jonahhorowitzJonah Horowitz is a Senior Site Reliability Architect at Netflix with over 20 years of experience keeping servers and sites online. He started with a home-built BBS and has worked at both large and small tech companies including Walmart.com, Looksmart, and Quantcast.
Leonid Igolnik
@ligolnikLeonid is technologist blending product development, product management and product operations at scale. In his current role as a Vice President of Engineering with CA Technologies he is responsible for product development of SaaS applications for the Enterprise Security space. He has spend his entire professional career building on-line applications starting his career at one of the earliest internet service providers in Israel. Leonid first started building large scale applications in Java in 2002 while working for the 2nd largest domain registrar at the time at Tucows/OpenSRS where he led the platform team. Subsequently to that he held several technology leadership roles with companies in Canada and US. Most recently Leonid has been responsible for engineering teams at Taleo (acquired by Oracle) building applications that help millions of people find jobs that have propelled the company to a position of one of the 4 largest SaaS companies in the world.
Mary Younce
As information technology risk and compliance professional, Mary has had the good fortune to lead teams of talented technologists on devising solutions that reduce risk and meet company goals. She’s contributed over 20 years in IT operations and security roles. Mary encourages technical and professional resiliency to balance requirements and safeguards.
Matthew Barker
@matthewabqAs a experienced Solutions Architect and Sales Engineer, Matthew helps companies efficiently secure their applications. His broad-based experience in open source software and rapid application development combined with background in software security enables him to provide insightful, technical guidance to companies desiring to produce secure applications of high quality and with minimal license risk.
Peter Varhol
@pvarholPeter Varhol is principal technology evangelist at Technology Strategy Research and a consulting QA lead for a leading digital design firm. An accomplished and frequent speaker at technology conferences and user groups, Peter’s topics cover software development to testing and application lifecycle. As a technology journalist and thought leader, he has authored hundreds of articles, white papers, and blog posts on software development, testing, and related topics. His past roles include technology journalist, software product manager, software developer, and university professor. Learn more about Peter on his Cutting Edge Computing blog and on Twitter @pvarhol.
Seth Falcon
@sfalconA product focused engineering leader who builds teams that consistently deliver valuable, high quality software at velocity.
Seth believes the essential elements for a high performing team are trust, commitment to learning and experimentation, mechanisms for measuring outcomes, and clear communication. He’s helped teams increase their effectiveness as an individual contributor, an engineering manager, and as a leader of managers.
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