Alex Corkin
@4lexNZI’m Alex. I spent a portion of time in the Army. Then I left to do CompSci at Auckland University. I did an internship at Spark Ventures and now work for Healthlink. My background is in web applications with node and java. More and more I find myself drawn to a mixture of applications and infrastructure. I think Pilsner is superior to IPA and that Guinness is best served at room temperature. If I’m drinking a loaf of bread, that bread ought to be warm.
Bridget Cowie
@bridgetkcowieI’m the person you call when performance outages get really bad. I work with teams to identify and resolve issues with their production applications both in production environments and also in development & test. I’m happiest when we detect problems as early as possible and I hope that I can work myself out of a job! To sum it up - I love performance, technology & automation (and talking).
Damian Brady
@damovisaDamian is a Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio and Development Technologies and a Solution Architect for Octopus Deploy in Brisbane, Australia. He is a co-author of Professional Team Foundation Server 2013 from Wiley, and he regularly speaks at conferences, User Groups, and other events. Damian spends a lot of time training development teams on how to deliver their software better, be it through improving their agile process, code quality, or DevOps strategy. Most of the time youll find him working on Octopus Deploy or helping teams use it better.
Jethro Carr
@jethrocarrPart of the team running www.stuff.co.nz, Jethro likes long walks through Varnish configurations, has the patience of a Lambda instance and consumes coffee like a Java process consumes memory.
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.
Lindsay Holmwood
@auxesisLindsay Holmwood is a engineering manager living in the Australian Blue Mountains. Lindsay works at the Australian Government’s Digital Transformation Office, building clearer, simpler, faster, more humane public services. A long-time contributor to the open source and DevOps communities, he authored cucumber-nagios, Visage, and Flapjack, and has run the Sydney DevOps meetup the past five years. Lindsay speaks internationally about both the cultural and technical side of DevOps, covering Just Culture, complexity, cognitive biases, and monitoring tools. He also won third place at the 1996 Sydney Royal Easter Show LEGO building competition.
Martina Iglesias
Martina is a Lead Backend Engineer at Spotify in the team responsible for album, artist and chart pages. During university she worked as a researcher (Human Brain Project), which lead to a scientific publication. In her free time she enjoys music and dancing tango.
Mrinal Mukherjee
@mukherjee_mkWith over 12 years of consulting experience in various technical domains, Mrinal is currently working with ‘Assurity Consulting’ as part of its DevOps practice. He is currently partnering with clients to help them implement CI/CD practices, Infrastructure as Code and to enjoy software development in general!
Owen Evans
@buildmasterOwen is a developers’ developer. Someone who hates being pigeon-holed while writing his own bio. He is currently helping out 8i by leading their platform development, which involves being all things to all people in the business. He likes to get his hands dirty with AWS and Containerisation as well as leading highly productive engineering teams. Before 8i Owen founded and ran a developer startup focusing on one of the first ‘serverless’ computing platforms, hoist.io. And previously, he helped grow Xero from a company of 20 to 500 when he left as their Chief Architect.
Pavel Jelínek
@pajelAWS DevOps Challenge Auckland 2016 winner. Deploying anything at any time in Docker on Kubernetes.
Peter Sellars
@petersellarsPete likes to think of himself as a developer, husband, thinker, dad, challenger and footballer. His focus on Continuous Improvement has led him on a journey of discovery through support, development, automated testing and delivery pipeline teams. He has blogged and co-created a Personal Kanban board with Assurity Consulting, introduced teams and organisations to the Improvement Kata and believes strongly that people are an organisation’s biggest asset. He shares all he knows with the community. Founder of the Auckland Continuous Delivery Meetup and currently organizer of the Auckland Docker Meetup as well as active in the DevOps community in Auckland - New Zealand. Currently Continuous Delivery Lead at ClearPoint NZ he aims to provide businesses improved customer satisfaction, increased agility and improved outcomes via value-creating delivery pipelines.
Troy Cornwall
@DevTroyCurrently a Software Developer in the Health Industry. Fighting to help make the right technology choices, in a industry which is resistant to change. I started programming in High School. During my second year of Uni, I worked at a start up, Active Mobile Security, helping write a Automation Testing Framework to test an Android Security Platform. When funding fell thru for AMS, I moved to Spark Ventures, and built the CI/CD platform for Bigpipe, as well as internal tooling for Lightbox. Now at HealthLink reworking the way developers here work, using all the buzz word technologies, focusing on increasing the quality of our products, and the speed to market.
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