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Renaissance Tech & Media

Michael is a veteran systems management professional. In a career that has ranged from academic computing to finance to manufacturing and now, professional services, he has worked as a front-line technician, a back-office systems engineer, an enterprise architect, and a leader of teams of 100+ technologists in hybrid WAN, large-scale domestic and global computing environments. His passions encompass envisioning, designing, building, and improving business and organizational systems of all varieties and at every scale. He is equally comfortable learning something new at a command line and in the C-suite helping senior executives make sense of their IT strategy and spend. He is particularly passionate about helping systems professionals develop better ways to work together, improve the products they deliver, and most importantly, the culture of the workplaces in which we all labor.

Hi, I'm Laura. I believe that done is better than perfect, that iteration, simplicity, and customer feedback are keys to success, and that community-driven efforts lead to powerful change. When I'm not working (Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Klaviyo) or organizing the PyLadies Boston and Boston Devops meetups, I enjoy a nice cup of tea and board games with friends.

Datadog

Matt Williams is an Evangelist at Datadog. He is passionate about the power of monitoring and metrics to make large-scale systems stable and manageable. So he tours the country speaking and writing about monitoring with Datadog. When he's not on the road, he's coding. You can find Matt on Twitter at @Technovangelist.

Don Luchini is a Boston-based DevOps engineer specializing in infrastructure management and deployment automation pipelines. Over the past ten years, he has acted in the corporate IT, quality assurance, software development, and release engineering spaces, encompassing a number of roles that now fall under the term ‘DevOps’. He is currently the DevOps Team Lead at CloudHealth Technologies. In his spare time, he is a martial artist, radio enthusiast, and hobby photographer.

Michael works as a Site Reliability Engineer for Carbon Black, a SaaS security company in the Boston area. He has a passion for all things surrounding cloud design and architecture, building tools with Go, automating infrastructure provisioning, and deployment automation pipelines. While not tinkering with tech he can be found pressing arcade stick buttons, or banging on drums.

Hannah is the Marketing Programs Manager at Threat Stack Inc, where she focuses on building and developing a programs that support the DevOps and security community. When she's not at work, you can find her outdoors hiking, running, playing soccer or reading one of her favorite non-fiction books.

Paul Bruce is a DevOps Advisor, helping to transform enterprise software teams and delivery practices. He currently serves in the role of Founder at Growgistics, is a working group member of IEEE 2675, daylights with the Neotys team as a Sr. Performance Engineer, moonlights as a Papa of two, and lives as a friend to all. He loves meat pies, picklebacks, and community work. His technical research wheelhouse includes cloud management, high availability service architecture, API design and experience, continuous testing at scale, and organizational learning frameworks. He writes, listens, and teaches about software delivery patterns in enterprises and key industries around the world. You can learn more at: http://paulsbruce.io

MassMutual

Adam is a Site Reliability Engineer, he enjoys combining software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale fault-tolerant environments. Before joining MassMutual, he was an Operations Engineer at Quantopian solving infrastructure and security problems in the financial space. Adam studied Computer Science at Northeastern and enjoys spending time outside of the city in Maine. When he’s not at his laptop he can be found skiing tall mountains or exploring far away oceans.

Professionally, I help companies gain a competitive edge in technical resource management, planning, and execution. On the personal side, I am very passionate about teaching and learning. ‘Learning with the intent to teach others’.

Cogito

E/em/eir/eirs. Trans non-binary devops-y nerd and social justice warrior. | ProdOps at Cogito. | Opinions mine.