Eric Maxwell is a Solutions Engineer at Chef Software and is focused on making companies more awesome by helping them “do the DevOps” and enabling them to ship at velocity. Eric has helped dozens of the world’s top companies adopt Chef too ls and DevOps methodologies while assisting with their DevOps transformation. Based in Portland, Oregon, USA, Eric runs the Chef PDX meetup and is active on the speaker circuit spreading the love of DevOps. In past lives, Eric was a back-e nd C# engineer, a big-data engineer, and a professional social engineer.