Aaron Jensen
@pshdoAaron Jensen is a Software Architect for WebMD Health Services, where he automates software builds, deployments, configuration, and installation. He is the creator and maintainer of Carbon, an open-source PowerShell module for automating the installation and configuration of Windows computers, applications, websites, and services. It has been downloaded over 12,000 times and is the 13th most popular non-Microsoft module on the PowerShell Gallery.
Adrien Thebo
@nullfinchAdrien is a software engineer at Puppet. He started in IT Ops in 2005 and started writing code to automate everything, inadvertently becoming one of the earliest devops hipsters (he did devops before it was cool). Adrien joined Puppet in 2011, first on the Operations team where he helped cause frequent outages, and then transferred to the Engineering team in 2013 to where he helped break the build. The original author of r10k and other client tools for Puppet, these days Adrien works on the security development team yelling at openssl documentation and refining ways to protect systems and infrastructure.
Ben Burry
Ben Burry is a senior infrastructure engineer at Etsy, working both remotely (and not remotely!) on the Devtools team.
Ben Hughes
@benjamminghBen is a security engineer at Etsy where he protects the yarn from evil doers. He’s previously been an operations engineer (or sysadmin to those who’ve been in the industry more than 10 years) at Puppet Labs working on automation software, a network engineer so knows how to battle through Cisco’s product catalogue. He learnt about systems security by the generosity of other people’s insecure systems in the 90s.
Caskey Dickson
@caskeyCaskey L. Dickson is a Site Reliability Engineer at Microsoft where he is part of the leadership team reinventing operations at Azure. Before that he was at Google where he worked as an SRE/SWE writing and maintaining monitoring services that operate at “Google scale” as well as a few business intelligence pipelines and maybe a script or two. He has worked in online services since 1995 when he turned up his first web server and has been online ever since. Before working at Google, he was a senior developer at Symantec, wrote software for various Internet startups such as CitySearch and CarsDirect, ran a consulting company, and even taught undergraduate and graduate computer science at Loyola Marymount University. He has a B.S. in Computer Science, a Masters in Systems Engineering, and an M.B.A from Loyola Marymount.
Chris Barker
@mrzarquonTurning in his pager for an airline miles membership, Chris Barker now helps fellow system administrators refine and automate their infrastructure. In his past life as a systems administrator, he has administered Linux, Windows, and OS X systems in infrastructure ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. He was drawn to Puppet due to his automation-driven creativity. When not traveling for Puppet, he resides in Portland, OR automating parts of his house and deconstructing cocktails.
Dan Young
@idleyoungmanDan Young is a Senior Operations Engineer in the Site Engineering group at New Relic, Inc working on build infrastructure, Docker, and the hundred other things all ops folks do.
He is a carbon-based biped who enjoys making things work, sharing the knowledge with others, and sweaters.
David Blank Edelman
@otterbookDavid 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’.
E Dunham
@qedunhamE. Dunham is the DevOps engineer for Mozilla research, which in practice means shepherding servers for the Rust language and Servo browser engine web presence, continuous integration, and release infrastructure. The OSL alum’s hobbies include carpentry, gardening, and filing “please license your code” issues on GitHub.
Eric Passmore
@ericpassmoreEric Passmore is an online media and technology executive working at Microsoft. He has previously held executive roles at AOL and CBS Interactive. During his 20-year career he has served as head of platforms and infrastructure, content management, application development, and online media. Eric has developed real-time systems to power online social activities and demand-based systems to create customized and relevant experiences. He is a co-inventor of a patented system that creates personalized experiences from large volumes of online content. Eric is passionate about creating resilient services. He is a frequent speaker on topics of large-scale cloud services and improved operational practices.
Jennifer Davis
@sigjeJennifer is the co-author of Effective DevOps. She is a co-organizer of devopsdays Silicon Valley, and the founder of Coffeeops. In her role at Chef, Jennifer develops software to simplify building and managing infrastructure. She has spoken at a number of industry conferences about devops, tech culture, monitoring, and automation. When she’s not working, she enjoys hiking Bay Area trails, learning to make things and quality time with her dog, George.
Jj Asghar
@jjasgharJJ is a Sr. Partner Engineer at Chef, he was also the PTL for the Openstack-Chef project. He lives in Austin, Texas and has been part of the OpenStack community since Diablo’s release.
He enjoys a good strong stout, hoppy IPA, and some Dwarf Fortress. He’s a member of the Church of Emacs, and usually chooses Ubuntu over CentOS.
He’s a father and husband, if he’s not trying to automate his job away he’s trying to convince his daughters to “let the bot’s do the work for them.”
Josh Berkus
@fuzzychefJosh Berkus is Community Lead for Project Atomic, but is better known for his 18 years of contributions to PostgreSQL. Josh works with Docker, Kubernetes, Atomic, and Etcd. He lives in Portland, where he does Linux containers, gardening and pottery.
Julia Wester
@everydaykanbanJulia brings 15 years of experience working in and managing teams at Turner Broadcasting and F5 Networks. Julia is passionate about teaching others how to tame the chaos of the everyday at work by embracing transparency and continuous improvement and talking about how management doesn’t have to be a dirty word. Julia joined LeanKit as an Improvement Coach in 2015. She blogs at everydaykanban.com and tweets at @everydaykanban.
Kelsey Hightower
@kelseyhightowerKelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech, and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go code, you can catch him giving technical workshops covering everything from programming to system administration, and his favorite Linux distro (CoreOS).
Ken Mugrage
@kmugrageKen 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.
Matthew Barker
@matthewabqAs a experienced Solutions Architect, I assist companies in automating quality into their devops tool chain. My broad-based experience in open source software and rapid application development combined with my background in software security enables me to provide insightful, technical guidance to companies desiring to produce secure applications of high quality and with minimal risk.
Nell Shamrell Harrington
@nellshamrellNell Shamrell-Harrington is a Software Development Engineer at Chef, focusing on the Supermarket open source product. She also sits on the advisory board for the University of Washington Certificates in Ruby Programming and DevOps. She specializes in Chef, Ruby, Rails, Regular Expressions, and Test Driven Development and has traveled the world speaking on these topics. Prior to entering the world of software development, she studied and worked in the field of theatre. The world of theatre prepared her well for the dynamic world of creating software applications. In both, she strives to create a cohesive and extraordinary experience. In her free time she enjoys practicing the martial art Naginata.
Terrence Ryan
@tpryanTerry Ryan is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform team. He has 15 years of experience working with the web - both front end and back. Before working for technology shops like Google and Adobe he worked in roles that combined development with system administration at the Wharton School of Business.
He also wrote Driving Technical Change for Pragmatic Bookshelf, a book that arms technology professionals with the tools to convince reluctant co-workers to adopt new tools and technology.
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