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. 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.
Allan Espinosa
@AllanEspinosaAllan works at Engineyard where he supports customers’ Deis, Docker and Kubernetes infrastructures in production. Prior to that, he worked on managing one of the world’s largest CloudFoundry deployments using Chef. Allan is also the author of Docker High Performance from Packt Publishing. The book contains some worked examples and high level concepts on how to get Docker up and running in production.
Antoinette Smith
@ant_authAntoinette is an instructor at Prime Digital Academy, an 18-week coding bootcamp in scenic Bloomington, MN. In her free time, she co-organizes events for the Blacks in Technology Twin Cities chapter and looks forward to completing a dual masters in business administration and software engineering at the end of this year.
Ben Zvan
@BenZvanBen Zvan is an IT professional who has been using Linux since 1996. He started his professional Ops career at the University of Minnesota in 2006 and moved to Capella University, a for-profit university in Minnesota, in 2011. He has concentrated on the mantra “simplify, standardize, automate” since hearing the phrase from Jim Hall at the U of MN, when he realized that’s what he had been doing for years. Learning about agile and DevOps made him an instant evangelist. He currently struggles with change management, production support, and not having enough time for photography or motorcycling.
Charity Majors
@mipsytipsyCofounder and CTO of Honeycomb, a new startup focused on mining machine data. Previously running infrastructure at Parse, engineering manager at Facebook. Worked with the RocksDB team to build and deploy world’s first Mongo+Rocks in production. Likes single malt scotch.
Corwin Atkins
@CorwinAtkinsA Service Desk Team Lead at the University Of Minnesota, Corwin has been in IT since 2005. He is slowly getting over his resentment toward Disney regarding Star Wars, and eagerly awaits the day when his daughter can beat him in Magic, rendering him obsolete.
Dana Engebretson
@bigdanaDana Engebretson and Python are like synchronized swimmers in a sea of data. She is a data scientist building classification models for BI Worldwide, which somehow led to lots of devops-related fun too. Dana founded PyLadies Twin Cities, our local nest of Python women and allies. She enjoys mentoring and thinking about universal design.
Jamie Riedesel
@sysadm1138Jamie Riedesel started out in Government IT for the City of St. Paul and has since moved into the private sector. Currently she’s working remotely for a San Francisco based startup. In the meantime, she’s earned the Chuck Yerkes award from LOPSA for being helpful online, and is trying to become more helpful in person.
Jasmine Russell
@JasMRussellJasmine holds 8 years of experience within quantitative and qualitative market research and digital analytics across markets of: retail, consumer products, healthcare, service and technology industries. From her analytic focus, she brings a knowledge base of optimizing market strategy–guiding broad concepts into strategic business action. Jasmine additionally works within the Minneapolis community with groups to facilitate women empowerment, diversity development (i.e. P.O.C.’s), collaborative student learning, technology development, and community speaker concept development (i.e. event speaker curation). Founder of theproceed.com.
Jeff Smith
@DarkAndNerdyJeff Smith has been in the technology field for over 15 years, oscillating between manager and individual contributor. He currently serves as the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering at GrubHub. Jeff enjoys discussing the psychological aspect of problems in organizations. Jeff is also one of the co-founders of the Chicago Nerd Social Club. He occasionally musters up the strength to write on his All Things Dork blog.
John Kelly
@jkelly3John Kelly is a Director of Software Engineering at SPS Commerce. He spent the early part of his career as a professional LEGO model builder. John lives in South Minneapolis with his wife, two daughters, and enough LEGO bricks to swim in.
Matt Genelin
@magellanOnOpsMatt Genelin is a Senior DevOps Engineer @optum. Dad, Sys Admin, Improv. comedian, amateur radio op. Matt has been a System Administrator for big and small companies for 15 years.
Megan Carney
@PwnieFanMegan Carney is an Infosecurity engineer at Yelp. Previous to working with Yelp, she worked as an analyst at a university and a retail company. She tries to keep her paranoia at healthy levels while protecting Yelp from the evils of the Internet.
Mike Bjerkness
@mikebjerknessMike Bjerkness is a Director of Software Engineering at SPS Commerce. Mike has worked in many facets of software development all the way from C++ coding radar systems, to building video games, to writing fancy Flex/Flash applications and attempting to wrangle MongoDB. Mike is a mostly lifelong Minnesota resident with stints in Boston (Raytheon) and Orlando (EA Sports).
Nicole Forsgren
@nicolefvDr. Nicole Forsgren is an IT impacts expert who shows leaders and practitioners how to unlock the potential of technology change in their organizations. Best known for her work with tech professionals and as the lead investigator on the State of DevOps Reports, she is the Director of Organizational Performance and Analytics at Chef and an Academic Partner at Clemson University. In a previous life, she was a professor, sysadmin, and hardware performance analyst.
Sarah Goff-Dupont
@DevToolSuperFanSarah has been working in and around software teams for 14 years – as QA engineer, agile coach, and now a marketer. When not writing about all things agile and/or automated, she can be found reading contemporary fiction, smashing it out & keeping it real at CrossFit, or rolling around on the floor with her kids (possibly all at once).
Tracey Treat
@RPGprotagonistTracey is an incoming junior currently at Rosemount High School. She has been able to pursue her interest in Computer Science through mentoring in CoderDojo with Scratch, AppInventor, Web Development, and Finch Robots. Last year, she and her partner were Regional Winners for the Technovation Challenge with their app, AbroadNet, which helps bridge the gap between foreign exchange and local students. Because of these opportunities, Tracey has learned just as much from the younger students she mentored, as any strong teacher would. She is interested in pursuing a computer science career in the future.
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