Aaron Aldrich
DevOps evangelist and consultant with @CageData, I love people and the people aspect of DevOps. Father of Four, Husband, musician and board gamer, balancing being human and getting devops done.
Bill Condo
Bill is a long time PHP developer, small business owner, and a local PHP meetup organizer living in Columbus, OH. He frequently covers devops, application architecture, and security via public speaking and mentoring.
Chris Mcfee
Currently maturing DevOps practices, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and configuration management / automation. Experience designing and implementing highly available enterprise-ready systems and processes and infrastructure solutions; while providing engineering, deployment, administration, and support. Master’s degree in Digital Sciences with a focus on Enterprise Architecture from Kent State University.
Clinton Wolfe
Clinton Wolfe leads the DevOps Practice at OmniTI, which means he voluntarily chooses to go into heavily siloed, dysfunctional organizations and try to get them to talk to each other with as few stabbings as possible. He’s especially interested in testable infrastructure, and the processes needed to support quality throughout the application lifecycle. He is also Oliver and Sylvia’s Daddy.
Eric Sigler
Eric Sigler is the Head of DevOps for PagerDuty, evangelizing culture, automation, measurement, and sharing. Prior to his current role, he lead the Developer Tools team, implementing Continuous Deployment across the company’s infrastructure. During his 16 year career in infrastructure engineering, he’s been the Technical Operations Manager at Minted, improving holiday cheer through high availability, and Manager of Computing Systems at Missouri S&T, saving the world one student at a time.
Jarred Olson
Jarred has been developing software professionally for over 10 years. He is passionate about automated testing, continuous delivery, removing inefficiencies, and developing DRY clean code in Groovy, Java, Javascript, Scala, or whatever the best tool for the job is. Currently employed at ForgeX in Columbus OH where he slings code while keeping a light and fun team environment. Outside of coding Jarred enjoys spending time with his wife and 2 kids, woodworking, golf, and watching college football.
Jason Yee
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.
Jody Wolfborn
Jody is a theatre major-turned-technologist with a passion for languages of all kinds and a soft-spot for animals of the canine variety. Since entering the tech realm, she’s had many years of experience living with and attempting to overcome Impostor Syndrome; through observation, research, and experimentation, she’s collected resources to help combat this psychological self-sabotage.
Ken Mugrage
Ken Mugrage started his own web development company in 1994. Since then he’s held almost every position in a software development company, from developer to system administrator, sales engineer to development manager. This varied experience enables Ken to look at issues with a holistic view. Ken is currently a Technology Evangelist at ThoughtWorks, responsible for teaching others about DevOps and Continuous Delivery.
Leon Adato
Leon Adato is a Head Geek and technical evangelist at SolarWinds®, and is a Cisco® Certified Network Associate (CCNA), MCSE and SolarWinds Certified Professional. His experience spans financial, healthcare, food and beverage, and other industries. Before he was a SolarWinds Head Geek, Adato was a SolarWinds user for over a decade. His expertise in IT began in 1989 and has led him through roles in classroom training, desktop support, server support, and software distribution.
Leon Fayer
Leon’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.
Matt Williams
Matt Williams always wanted to be a Renaissance Person. Maybe one day he will be. In the mean time, he reads, cooks, weaves, hacks, and spends time with his daughter in Columbus, OH. You can find his technical musings at matthewkwilliams.com.
Nathen Harvey
Nathen Harvey, VP of Community Development at Chef, helps the community whip up an awesome ecosystem built around the Chef platform. Nathen also spends much of his time helping people learn about the practices, processes, and technologies that support DevOps, continuous delivery, and high velocity organizations. Nathen is a co-host of the Food Fight Show, a podcast about Chef and DevOps. He is also an occasional farmer who loves eggs and #hugops.
Pete Gordon
Columbus Software Guy and Buckeye, who never has and never will live anywhere but Columbus. Working the beautiful intersection of Statistics (ML, AI, R, Data Science) and Software (JavaScript, NodeJS, HTML/CSS, SVG, WebGL) at the Columbus Collaboratory. The Internet changes everything!
Peter Walsh
Peter Walsh is a Director with Jackpine Technologies, a developer of software excellence solutions, including the CONS3RT cloud orchestrator. A graduate of Boston University, Peter has over 20 years of experience in the private & public sector in product design & development, from embedded systems through enterprise software. Peter is a speaker and trainer in Agile Development and DevOps; he has presented at DevOps Days, Red Hat Summit, DISA Mission Partner Conference, and others.
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