Andrey Utis
Andrey has a Masters in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park, where he primarily studied algorithms and computational complexity. In the industry, he spent several years consulting, working on a wide range of projects: implementing distributed systems, performance tuning Java applications, and optimizing large databases. Andrey has been working for CapitalOne for the last few years, initially leading customer security and fraud development teams. Currently, he is leading the Account Opening project, as well as related CI/CD and DevOps efforts.
Berenice Venegas Cotero
A physicist that once fell to the stars of Astrophysics.
However, being experimentalist and theoretician at heart, her love eventually fell for molecular Biophysics, researching the cooperative but elusive behavior of lipids designed nanoliposomes for targeted drug delivery.
Her first close encounter with a computer was a PRIME 750, exclusively used to scare mother, who run batch jobs filling her terminal screen with infinite error messages and warnings.
As a good physicist, only UNIX style computing was acceptable. Unfortunately learned some Windows well into the new millennium which then regretted quite a bit.
Research brought dynamic and Monte Carlo simulations, experimental data required analysis automation so cloud computing offered attractive adventures Big data IoT pipelines dockerization Oh My!
DevOps has become her fascinating playground. Feeling infinite compute power at the fingertips, she automates infrastructure up from the ground never having a particular server relationship
Besides obvious interest of maxing out cloud resources she likes unplanned travels and being outdoors gymnastics, including mind ones and collecting fine peppers for cooking.
In free time she likes rescuing any pet especially ones being a ‘poor thing’.
Bridget Kromhout
@bridgetkromhoutBridget 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.
Catherine Enck
@mrsmodernamazonCatherine Enck is Director of Operations for Hire an Esquire, an agile company disrupting the legal staffing scene by leveraging technology. Catherine has hands-on experience in all aspects of operations in multiple industries including tech, finance, and legal. The birth of her daughter a year ago has her more motivated than ever to advocate for powerful women in the workplace and better working options for mothers. When she’s not actively preventing her toddler from accidental self-harm, she’s spending the other 20% of her free-time blogging about strong women, exploring South Philly, and enjoying irreverent humor.
Dave Long
@davejlongDave Long is the Director of Development at Cage Data, a tech consultancy servicing the New England region. He’s been writing applications in Ruby, JavaScript and Elixir for the past 8 years. Working in smaller consultancies, Dave has, often times, had to manage his own application infrastructure. In this, Dave has brought ideas and concepts from programming into his systems administration, such as managing infrastructure code like any application with tests and code analysis.
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.
Kaitlin Picco
@PhillyKaitKait Picco is General Counsel and Director of Human Resources for Tonic Design Co., a Philly-based digital design and development agency focused on emerging technologies. Prior to joining Tonic, Kait worked as an attorney in several large law firms and helped her clients navigate the world of transactional employment law and litigation. Kait’s other notable achievements include never laying down her motorcycle; barely beating a 10-year old in the Broad Street Run; hatching a Lapras; and winning a Best Mom Ever coffee mug six years running.
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.
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.
Maurício Linhares
@mauriciojrMaurício Linhares is a technical lead at DigitalOcean working at the Edge team making sure all traffic routed into DO’s API and cloud servers reach it’s destination. He’s been working on cloud environments and infrastructure automation on AWS and private clouds, making sure systems are doing their job. Passionate about functional programming, stateless infrastructure and DevOps to produce distributed systems that are scalable and maintainable in the long run.
Oguz Pastirmaci
@OguzPastirmaciOguz worked as a system administrator for 6 years before joining Microsoft as an Infrastructure Technical Evangelist in 2012, focusing on virtualization and private cloud. Starting with 2015, his focus is now DevOps and Open Source.
Rick Pufky
Rick Pufky is a member of the DevOps Practice at OmniTI, diving into customer teams to help with difficult problems. He is well versed in several automation systems, helping customers to become familiar with them and use them in day-to-day activities.
Ross Kukulinski
@rosskukulinskiRoss Kukulinski works at NodeSource as a Technical Product Manager and is a member of the NodeJS Evangelism Working Group. His technical expertise is in architecting, developing, and deploying scalable, containerized, real-time cloud applications. When he’s not fostering enterprise adoption of NodeJS, Ross can be found running Node in production using container tools including Docker, CoreOS and Kubernetes.
Ross is a frequent speaker at technology conferences and events including QCon, CoreOS Fest, ContainerCamp, NodeSummit, KrankyGeek WebRTC, and Philly Tech Week. Ross has also published an O’Reilly Video Tutorial Series called Introduction to CoreOS: Learn to Deploy, Monitor, and Scale Containerized Applications
Tim Gross
@0x74696dTim Gross is a product manager for Joyent, providers of the Triton Elastic Container Service. Tim previously ran Ops at DramaFever, where he and his scrappy team ran Docker in production to serve a few million fans their daily dose of dramas, documentaries, and gross-out horror movies.
In a previous life, Tim was an architect (buildings, not software). He took the leap into programming and Operations after he discovered he could automate away almost everything boring in his life.
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