Aaron Suggs

Aaron Suggs

@ktheory

Aaron Suggs is the Operations Engineering Manager at Kickstarter, where he backs too many video game projects. He enjoys writing code that makes developers happier.
Brian O'Connell

Brian O'Connell

@boc_tothefuture

Brian O’Connell is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM focusing on DevOps, continuously available cloud technologies and software defined environments. Brian leads the team responsible for the transition of high profile web sites such as The Masters, Wimbledon, Roland Garros (French Open), US Open Tennis, and the Australian Open to a hybrid cloud. Brian has more than 300 patents, is an IBM Master Inventor, a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and a Franz Edelman laureate.
Chris Collins

Chris Collins

@ChrisInDurham

Chris Collins is a senior automation engineer and the web architecture lead at Duke University’s Office of Information Technology. He’s a container and automation evangelist, leads adoption of containers within the university, and loves to talk about them with anyone who will listen, much to the annoyance of the co-workers who sit closest to him.
Clinton Wolfe

Clinton Wolfe

@clintoncwolfe

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.
Dylan Schowengerdt

Dylan Schowengerdt

@DevOpsDylan

Dylan wants to live in a world where common sense is a little more common, noise pollution is self-regulated and all dogs get along at the dog park. As an Operations Professional with almost 10 years of experience, he’s worked for global corporations, tech start-ups and everything in-between keeping business units organized, documented and fun. When he’s not creating unique customer solutions or designing reports that don’t bore the executive team to death, you can find him trying new recipes in the kitchen, painting in his studio and spending as much time as possible in the Great Outdoors.
Eric Sigler

Eric Sigler

@esigler

Eric 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.
Fraser Pollock

Fraser Pollock


I’ve been through several DevOps transformation with huge successes and catastrophic failures. I’ve seen the good and the bad of DevOps and am ready to share it at the speed of a lightning talk!
Gabe Ortiz

Gabe Ortiz

@signalnine

Gabe Ortiz has been replacing himself with a series of very small shell scripts for over 15 years, though these days it’s mostly Python. He is currently sole infrastructure engineer at Agari Data, where he’s responsible for Tom Sawyering his coworkers into writing infrastructure code.
Jen Krieger

Jen Krieger

@mrry550

Jen Krieger is Chief Agile Architect at Red Hat. Most of her 20+ year career has been in software development representing many roles throughout the waterfall and agile lifecycles. At Red Hat, she lead a department-wide DevOps movement focusing on CI/CD best practices. Most recently, she worked with the Project Atomic & OpenShift teams. Now Jen is guiding teams across the company into agility in a way that respects and supports Red Hat’s commitment to Open Source.
Josh Atwell

Josh Atwell

@josh_atwell

Josh Atwell is a Developer Advocate for NetApp SolidFire, focused on building a developer community and enabling customers and partner success. Over the last 10+ years he has worked very hard to allow little pieces of code to do his work for him through various automation tools. Josh is a contributing author to the popular Mastering vSphere series and the Devops for VMware Administrators book. He is a serial community builder and loves getting people together to talk technology or tell stories of pain and success. Never known for lacking an opinion he blogs at vtesseract.com and tweets at @josh_atwell.
Leon Fayer

Leon Fayer

@papa_fire

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. 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. In production.
Maggie Gourlay

Maggie Gourlay

@okterok

I’ve been doing software quality assurance since the early 2000’s and also have a degree in theoretical mathematics. I currently work ensuring quality for a DevOps application which brings me back to the days I was on call as a systems administrator in the late 90’s. In my free time, I love to travel and learn new things (currently I’m learning R and Scala).
Michael DeHaan

Michael DeHaan

@laserllama

Previously invented Ansible, Cobbler, and co-creator of some other things you might have used.
Peter Lamar

Peter Lamar

@ptlamar

Peter has spent many years as both a Software Engineer and Product Manager at various organizations including Electronic Arts, Google and Cisco. Peter Lamar is a course director at Techtown training and thrives on challenging problems and building awesome teams.
Rebecca Fernandez

Rebecca Fernandez

@ruhbehka

Rebecca Fernandez is a Principal Employment Branding + Communication Specialist at Red Hat. She is a writer and a communications coach with a passion for cultivating and sustaining great company cultures. Rebecca is the program manager, maintainer, and evangelist for the Open Decision Framework, a collection of Red Hat’s best practices for open, collaborative, and inclusive decision making that has been featured in Forbes, ZDNet, Business Insider, and opensource.com. She has contributed to opensource.com, was an editor for Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst’s book The Open Organization, and is an Open Organization Ambassador.
Ryan Cook

Ryan Cook

@cooktheryan

I’m all about making the process of IT easier and less scary. I have been part of a few teams with the goal to help safely speed up IT Infrastructure delivery and the release process from development to production. I love automation and finding out ways to do things faster and easier.
Suzie Prince

Suzie Prince

@pm_suzie

I am Suzie Prince. I am the product manager for a software-as-a-service continuous integration and continuous delivery tool for software engineering teams. My team practices continuous integration and continuous delivery everyday to deliver quality software to our users. I like pushing buttons to release software, feature toggles and pager duty. I also like burritos, beer and hiking.
Worth Becker

Worth Becker

@Func_E

As a consultant, I get exposed to lots of different company culture’s. Some are awesome and some are getting it all wrong. I want to share that with you! I’m the co-founder of Neuralux; a software and devops consulting shop trying to do things (pretty much) right.