Bridget Kromhout

Bridget Kromhout

@bridgetkromhout

Bridget 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.
Donny Nadolny

Donny Nadolny

@DonnyNadolny

Donny Nadolny is a developer at PagerDuty, working on improving incident response. He is one of the co-organizers of Failure Friday, and is always interested in talking about distributed systems.
Hannah Browne

Hannah Browne

@HannahBrowne

Hannah Browne is an opinionated deal maker and General Manager of software delivery and devops firm, Cevo. A non-technical technologist strongly focused on the people component of teams and organisations, because frankly, the technology problems are the usually the easier challenges to resolve.

She cut her teeth with The British Consul-General, before leading Friday Media and Lambda Software through periods of strong growth and service evolution. Prior to starting Cevo in Victoria, Hannah worked with ThoughtWorks delivering great software with clients like IOOF, MYOB, Coles, World Vision, Slater & Gordon and Australia Post.

Now her mandate is to build Cevo into Australia’s premier provider of software delivery, devops and automation capability by forging a team of great technologists, who solve interesting problems with awesome clients.

Lindsay Holmwood

Lindsay Holmwood

@auxesis

Lindsay Holmwood is a engineering manager living in the Australian Blue Mountains. Lindsay works at the Australian Government’s Digital Transformation Agency, building clearer, simpler, faster 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 six 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.

Mujtaba Hussain

Mujtaba Hussain

@khalidaapps

Infrastructure Engineer at Fillr (https://www.fillr.com)
Nigel Kersten

Nigel Kersten

@nigelkersten

Nigel came to Puppet from Google HQ in Mountain View, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of one of the largest Puppet deployments in the world. At Puppet, Nigel was responsible for development of the initial versions of Puppet Enterprise, and has since served in a variety of roles, including head of product, CTO and CIO. He has been deeply involved in Puppet’s DevOps initiatives, and regularly speaks around the world about adoption of DevOps in the enterprise and IT organizational transformation.
Patrick Robinson

Patrick Robinson

@drnemski

I have worked as a systems/devops engineer for 5 years mostly on large distributed platforms. I am easily bored with repetitive work and find myself constantly trying to automate myself out of a job, but alas have not yet succeeded. I currently work at Envato, an e-commerce company specialising in creative digital media. My current technical interests are container orchestration and learning Golang and Elixir.
Peter Hall

Peter Hall

@peterkh

Operations Delivery Lead at REA Group
Steve Mactaggart

Steve Mactaggart

@stevemac

Steve Mactaggart is an Application Delivery Evangineer at Cevo, his focus is on helping businesses deliver the best solution for their customers in a way that fits both their timelines and their customer needs. A passionate technologist, he takes great pleasure in keeping abreast of current trends in technology always looking for opportunities to improve current practice with some innovative thinking.

Using Lean and Agile principals, Steve is constantly working with teams to help them realise the goal of delivering value in discrete units, measuring the results and then learning and adapting in rapid succession.