Residing in the Pacific Northwest, Joe has worn various hats in his tech career: helpdesk at a university computer lab, system administrator, kernel performance engineer, build engineering, distributed systems, configuration management, and the list goes on.

Currently, Joe is Principal Engineer at Workday in the Operations Engineering group. This team is responsible for tooling and configuration management of Workday's server fleet across multiple data centers around the world.

Joe is one of the organizers of DevOpsDays Portland and hosts the Chef PDX Meetup. Author of the zap cookbook, he occassionally blogs at https://nvwls.github.io/ and can be found on Twitter, @JoeNuspl.

In his spare time, Joe enjoys cooking, music, movies, board games, and hiking.