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Our local team
Jason is a 20+ year technology veteran, primarily in the application-development-side in IT. His consulting and diverse industry resume helps Jason to apply patterns and solutions in unconventional ways. Though spending many of his years in the Microsoft ecosystem, he is not dogmatic in his approach – it’s all about the right solution for the problem. He is currently the Director of Software Development at CPI Card Group in Nashville.
A Developer Advocate at Containous, contributes to the team and community by bringing his passion and experience for developer productivity through enablement and education. He is passionate about championing the benefits of Open Source, DevOps, automation, observability, distributed tracing, and control theory. In addition to his role at Containous, Kevin is an organizer for DevOpsDays Nashville, recognized as a Docker Captain, a co-founder and consultant for Single Music. He has traveled the globe speaking on topics including DevOps, Docker, Observability, and Culture Transformation at conferences such as DockerCon, SREcon, Open Source Summit EU-US, Velocity and DevOpsDays including Tokyo and Houston.
Geoff Craig is a Principal DevOps Engineer for Citizens Bank and an excited first time organizer for DevOps Days Nashville. In his free time you can usually find him behind a book, in a strange new city, or behind a guitar playing very badly. His favorite opening liner is, ‘I like long walks on the beach… and bourbon.’
Chris Gundersen, known as Gunny by friends and law enforcement, is the Head of Technology at Velocity Risk Underwriters based in Green Hills. As a pragmatic polyglot he has been fortunate to have been a part of many fantastic teams that have built loads of awesome things in the last 20+ years. That last part makes him feel old. His favorite piece of recorded music is either Op. 92 from Beethoven’s 7th symphony or Jump Around by House of Pain.
Aimee Knight is a Software Architect and former professional figure skater currently residing in Nashville TN. Outside of work, she’s a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies specializing in performance, a panelist on the JavaScript Jabber podcast, and an international keynote speaker. Currently, she specializes in DevOps, JavaScript, React, and CSS however, she’s worked extensively in Angular, Node, and Ruby on Rails. Her past involvement includes working at npm, Inc., being a weekly panelist on the Angular Air podcast, a co-organizer for CharmCityJS, and a mentor for Baltimore NodeSchool and Rails Bridge.