Aaron Blythe
@ablytheAaron Blythe has worked in Software for over a decade. He is currently a Sr. Automation and Release Engineer at Hearst Business Media. He is genuinely curious and interested in understanding things and making them better. Aaron went to college at both the University of Illinois and Griffith University in Australia. While in Australia he mostly skipped classes to surf. Aaron loves observing how people interact within the software process and modeling those interactions in search of improvements. He is constantly experimenting with new ways of interacting both in person and with technology. Aaron currently loves Ruby, Rails, and Chef. He has co-organized the Kansas City DevOps community for the past few years.
AJ Bowen
@s0ulshakeAJ Bowen is on a mission to containerize all the things and help others to do the same. In the past, AJ has done technical support, evangelism, and customer and developer advocacy at Gandi.net. Her other experience includes heavy involvement in the Occupy movement in Kansas City, where she discovered the delightful and complicated world of horizontal organization in groups of passionate people with wildly diverse political perspectives, and humanitarian work in Haiti. AJ doesn’t like being told what to do—or telling others what to do—and is on a constant mission to eliminate unnecessary hierarchy. For the truly curious:
curl cv.soulshake.net
Alyssa Nicoll
@AlyssaNicollI am an energetic, über passionate developer. I am a Google Developer Expert, Web Dev at WeaveUp and I have some Front-End and Angular courses on Code School. I love to learn new things and then share them with others. I Scuba Dive and have a toothless dog named ‘Gummy’. My name is Alyssa, come talk sometime.
Ashmita Sarma
@mitimitaAshmita Sarma is a senior at Wayzata High School in Minnesota. Over the summer, she interned on the Systems Engineering Team at SPS Commerce, where she experienced the DevOps culture at a large scale company. She is currently does robotics research at the University of Minnesota under the guidance of Dr. Maria Gini. She volunteers as a mentor at CoderDojo, as well as a mentor at Camp KidsCode. Her passions include cloud computing, robotics, anything Python, web development, and unicycling.
Baruch Sadogursky
@jbaruchBaruch Sadogursky (a.k.a JBaruch) is the Developer Advocate at JFrog where he has made a profession of speaking about the company’s products: Artifactory, the Universal Artifact Repository; Bintray - the Universal Distribution Platform; Xray, Universal Component Analysis and Mission Control, Centralized Control and Management. For a living he hangs out with JFrog’s tech leaders, writes code around the JFrog Platform and its ecosystem, and then speaks and blogs about it all. He has been doing this for the last dozen years or so, and enjoys every minute of it. Baruch is @jbaruch on twitter and mostly blogs on http://www.jfrog.com/blog/ and http://blog.bintray.com.He is a professional conference speaker on DevOps, Java and Groovy topics, and is a regular at the industry’s most prestigious events including JavaOne (where he was awarded a Rock Star award), Devoxx, DevOps Days, OSCON, QCON and many others. His full speaker history is available on Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/profile/jbaruch/sessions/
Caleb Hyde
@hedonisticaAfter a tour of duty at a certain large telecom during the recession, I have been the entire DevOps team at small companies, and have worked on DevOps teams supporting multiple developer teams. I aspire to Steve Yegge’s Done, and Gets Things Smart.
Charles Butler
@lazypowerChuck is a hacker, software engineer and Linux enthusiast. He works for Canonical, the company that brings you Ubuntu. His day job is working on the Juju Ecosystem team. When not at work, you can find Chuck in his audio lab; creating or destroying things.
Cynthia Thomas
@_techcet_Cynthia Thomas is a systems engineer at Midokura, a global network virtualization software company. She enjoys highlighting the emerging technologies in network virtualization as application needs evolve. Her background in networking hardware spans from Telecommunications to Data Center and Campus/Enterprise solutions. She is a frequent speaker at cloud conferences such as the OpenStack Summit, OpenStack meetups and the IT Cloud Computing Conference (IC3). Cynthia received her B. Sc. (Eng) and M. Sc. (Eng) from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.
David N. Blank-Edelman
@otterbookDavid is the Technical Evangelist at Apcera. He has spent close to thirty years in the systems administration/DevOps/SRE field in large multiplatform environments including Brandeis University, Cambridge Technology Group, MIT Media Laboratory and Northeastern University. He is the author of the O’Reilly Otter book (Automating System Administration with Perl) and is a frequent invited speaker at conferences in the field. David is honored to serve on the USENIX Board of Directors. He prefers to pronounce Evangelist with a hard ‘g’.
Jeffrey Sykes
@sykesjsJeffrey Sykes is the Director of WebOps at VML. Jeffrey leads a team of around 20 across VML’s North American offices. During his time at VML, Jeffrey has worked across many of VML’s largest clients supporting high-volume web sites utilizing many different technologies, including custom .NET sites, Sitecore, AEM (CQ) and custom Java applications. His assignments have included designing the server and cloud infrastructure for sites along with the actual implementation of the projects. As a team leader, Jeffrey has worked to help spread the adoption of DevOps methodologies across VML. Other projects include collaborative efforts to develop a company wide architectural assessments for all projects. Prior to VML, Jeffrey worked in various IT roles in Higher education. Outside of work, Jeffrey enjoys soccer, cooking and sharks.
Kevin O'Brien
Kevin is a Human Factors Engineer with extensive experience developing useful and usable technology. Kevin founded O’Brien Consulting in Cupertino CA in 1998. Working with clients like HP, Sun Microsystems, Brocade, Emerson Process Management, and Palm on projects including provisioning tools, systems and network administration, system monitoring, and geographic information systems. Kevin earned a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from University of Kansas followed by stints at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and Pacific Bell. When not doing that stuff Kevin spends time helping his kids with homework, playing jazz (sax), reading physics, astronomy, and maths.
Kyle Sexton
@mockerKyle Sexton is a DevOps Engineer for New Context, a pioneer in lean security. He has been managing servers for over 15 years and has his RHSA, LPIC and dCAP certifications. He stinks at writing personal bios.
Leon Fayer
@papa_fireLeon’s two decades of expertise were concentrated on architecting and operating complex, web-based systems to withstand crushing traffic (often unexpectedly). Over the years, he’s had a somewhat unique opportunity to design and build systems that run some of the most visited websites in the world. While his core expertise is in application development, he works his way around the whole technology stack from system architecture to databases design and optimization to front/back-end programming. He’s considered a professional naysayer by peers and has the opinion that nothing really works until it works for at least a million people.
Pauly Comtois
@paulycomtoisPauly Comtois is VP of DevOps for Hearst Business Media. This role provides full time consulting to ten business units within Hearst focusing on continuous improvement and community building through culture, process and tools. Pauly has over 20 years’ experience in building, developing and leading high performing IT, Support, Operations and Development teams in rapidly growing organizations. Pauly is a seasoned leader of cultural change efforts in unifying Development and Operations through training and mentorship in Incident Management, Blameless Post Mortems, Value Stream Mapping, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. His current focus is on building Agile and DevOps communities within the business units at Hearst Business Media and a broader community that binds those business units together. This effort is underpinned by Agile and DevOps methodologies and cultural concepts. Pauly is based in Seattle, WA.
Scott Howell
@sdhowell3Scott is a hacker and doer, currently a DevOps Engineer at Pinsight Media. He’s previously held multiple positions from back-end developer to project manager. Scott found his current role in DevOps after serving as the lead front-end developer for all marketing sites at Pinsight. He enjoys mapping chaos into organized systems and integrating complex processes into automated tasks. When Scott isn’t working, he can be found serving on multiple nonprofit boards, pursuing his favorite hobby of Native American beadwork, or catching up on the latest trends in DevOps.
Scott Smerchek
@smerchekScott is a software engineer working at a small medication adherence company called SMRxT. Formerly he worked as a .NET developer and more recently as a node.js/javascript developer. However, Scott has most recently been drawn to functional, typed languages like Elm and Haskell. Scott enjoys working for small healthcare businesses building software that can change lives for the better. Working with new technologies and constantly learning are a bonus.
Suzie Prince
@pm_suzieSuzie Prince is currently the product manager for a software-as-a-service continuous integration and continuous delivery tool for software engineering teams. Her team practices continuous integration and continuous delivery everyday to deliver quality software to their users. She likes pushing buttons to release software, feature toggles and pager duty. She also like burritos, beer and hiking.
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