Aaron Atwell
@theAAexperiencePronouns: he/him
Aaron is part of the team at VictorOps that is working to connect IT teams to a product that makes them more effective and helps make their ‘on-call lives suck less’ After spending ‘many’ years in the staffing industry helping put people to work, he’s found a new adventure in helping IT teams be more effective by improving communication, increasing visibility of infrastructure issues, and helping teams get their product to their stakeholders, faster. He’s also interested in the positive and negative effects technology has on IT professional’s daily lives. When he’s not working you’ll find him on his mountain bike exploring Colorado’s trails, hanging out with family, and volunteering to help and support people in need in the Boulder community. He’s encouraging everyone to love more.
Anthony Caiafa
@anthonycaiafaWebsite: http://www.anthonycaiafa.com
Pronouns: he/him
Anthony currently leads Production Engineering @ Bloomberg. Previously he started SRE @ Digitalocean and helped scale the company from the very beginning. He has an extensive background with startups and helping them grow from inception. Anthony has a passion for operations and loves helping as many people as possible in the field. He has interest in monitoring, automation, systems, big data, distributed systems and much more.
Bridget Kromhout
@bridgetkromhoutWebsite: http://bridgetkromhout.com/
Pronouns: she/her
Bridget Kromhout is a Principal Technologist for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal. Her CS degree emphasis was in theory, but she now deals with the concrete (if ‘cloud’ can be considered tangible). After years as an operations engineer (most recently at DramaFever), she traded in oncall for more travel. A frequent speaker at tech conferences, she helps organize tech meetups at home in Minneapolis, serves on the program committee for Velocity, and acts as a global core organizer for devopsdays. She podcasts at Arrested DevOps, occasionally blogs at bridgetkromhout.com, and is active in a Twitterverse near you.
Dave Long
@davejlongWebsite: https://cagedata.com/blog
Pronouns: he/him
Dave Long is a devops consultant at Cage Data. He has been working in the development world since the mid–2000’s with various companies including consultancies, startups and corporations. Throughout his time in the development work, Dave has always had an interest in automation to improve deployment and the general quality of the final product. Outside of the professional world, Dave works with his wife in Uganda, Africa to teach technology skills to children with the Kampala Children’s Centre.
David Blank-Edelman
@otterbookWebsite: http://www.apcera.com/dnb
Pronouns: he/him
David 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’.
Eric Sigler
@esiglerEric Sigler is an Engineering Manager at PagerDuty, and has formerly led Operations teams at Minted and Missouri S&T. He lives in San Francisco, and when he’s not on an incident call he spends his time making cocktails using liquid nitrogen, and hiking around Northern California.
Frank Mitchell
@onefrankguyWebsite: https://www.frankmitchell.org/
Pronouns: he/him
Frank Mitchell is a Senior Software Engineer at Rapid7. He’s been crisscrossing the DevOps Divide for the past ten years searching for that mythic place in the middle where code flows freely and conversations are super constructive. Along the way he’s helped build CAD engines, video game platforms, and open source security solutions. Frank believes shipping software is a skill, marketing isn’t an afterthought, and ice cream exists to be eaten.
Jason Hand
@jasonhandPronouns: he/him
DevOps Evangelist at VictorOps, organizer of DevOpsDays–Rockies, author of ChatOps for Dummies (Wiley), and cohost of the “Community Pulse” podcast about building community in tech. He has spent the last 18 months presenting and building content on a number of DevOps topics such as blameless postmortems, ChatOps, and modern incident management. A frequent speaker at DevOps-related events and conferences around the country, Jason enjoys talking to audiences large and small on a variety of technical and non-technical subjects
Jason Yee
@gitbisectPronouns: he/him
Jason is a community builder, developer, traveller and chef. He currently works as a technical writer & evangelist at Datadog. When he’s not working you can often find him on a plane trying to accumulate more miles or in a restaurant cooking.
Marcus Finley
@marcusafinleyWebsite: http://www.fin-digital.com/
Marcus Finley is the CEO and Co-Founder of FIN Digital and full service application development firm in Washington DC. Marcus graduated from Florida State University where he majored in Mechanical Engineering and Public Administration. Marcus is a certified Scrum Master with expert knowledge of a number programming languages, user experience design and web/mobile application development. Marcus has managed over $3 million dollars of contracted technology development and strategy projects for with an average project budget of $200,000. In his professional roles he has provided technology strategies and user experiences to achieve client’s goals. He has help developed UX practices, lead a number of UX workshops with clients and guided companies with emerging needs of validating applications. He co-founded a Meetup called Color of Tech to bring together a diverse group of technology professionals to network and thrive.
Nick Doiron
@mapmeldWebsite: https://github.com/mapmeld
Pronouns: he/him
Traveling web developer and mapmaker
Nivia Henry
@LanoobaWebsite: http://linkedin.com/in/nivia
A technologist with 15 years of experience executing strategy and delivering high quality products. Career has included product management; program/project execution; people leadership; agile coaching; and enterprise agile transformations. Also a proud participant and contributor to the technology community, including organizing meet-ups and conferences; speaking at local and regional conferences; and guest blogging.
Rakia Finley
@rakiamcWebsite: http://www.fin-digital.com/
Pronouns: she/her
Rakia Finley is the Co-founder & Innovation Director if FIN. Digital. Her work includes consulting on the use of software systems to achieve corporate mission, information technology planning and the strategic use of technology. She specializes in mastering technology and web systems to increase development among organizations. Her strength is in planning for specific technology projects that involve complex information systems. With over 12 years of experience in the information technology industry, she has become an industry expert on organizational issues associated with program creation and growth. She is active in the technology-for-enhancement movement and is frequently invited to speak at conferences across the country, primarily focusing on application deployment strategy, start-up development and technology inclusion.
Sharon Steed
@sharonsteedWebsite: http://www.communilogue.com
Pronouns: she/her
Sharon is the founder of Communilogue, an agency specializing in helping teams foster greater collaboration. A life-long stutterer, she uses her speech limitation to teach conference audiences as well as teams at companies about the value of vulnerability in communication. An internationally recognized public speaker, she’s given keynotes, hosted workshops and spoken in house to companies. Sharon’s talks inspire attendees to be more empathetic communicators, and they empower attendees to be more inclusive in their personal and professional lives. Originally from Chicago, she lives in Pittsburgh with her partner. You can learn more about her work at Communilogue.com.
Tim Jarrett
@tojarrettWebsite: https://www.veracode.com/blog
Pronouns: he/him
Tim Jarrett is Senior Director of Enterprise Security Strategy at Veracode. A Grammy-award winning product professional, he joined Veracode in 2008 and has a Bacon number of 3. He has previously spoken at numerous events including the Birst Forward conference, the RSAM User Summit, and regional ISACA events, as well as on webcasts for Dark Reading, Black Hat, and the SANS Institute. He can be found on Twitter as @tojarrett
Victoria Jeffrey
@vickkoalaPronouns: “she/her”
Victoria is a software engineer @Chef. She’s a wanderer turned preschool teacher turned coder. During her time at Chef, Victoria has developed on Automate (Workflow) and Compliance integrations, spending her days in her code cave battling whatever dragons come her way. When she’s not hiding out in her code cave, you can find her hanging with her little boy admiring the lizards in the garden.
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