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Michael is a veteran systems management professional. He has worked across multiple industry verticals as a software trainer, a front-line technician, a back-office engineer, an enterprise architect, and a manager of large-scale, global computing environments. His passions encompass envisioning, designing, building, and improving business and organizational systems of all varieties and at every scale. 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.

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 currently works at SimpliSafe, a Boston-based manufacturer of connected home security systems. 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.

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 P2675, daylights with the Neotys team as Dir. of Customer 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 and F1000s around the world. You can learn more at: http://paulsbruce.io

Kate works as a Site Reliability Engineer II for edx, a edtech company in the Boston area looking to expand education past the boundaries of traditional education. She has a passion for all things infrastructure and application security, and using emojis to get things done. While not at work, she’s working on a farm, playing with her dog, or biking through the streets of Massachusetts.

Not much is known about Josh, other than he tends to show up, support the mission, not say much, and disappear into the night when no longer required.

Val works as a Software Engineer at Dell Technologies. Primarily doing Advanced Research Development under the CTIO but recently working under a new product team. She has a lot of experience leveraging Open Source projects in order to deliver rapid PoCs spanning many technology domains. When she’s not working, she’s listening to podcasts while walking around Boston, traveling abroad, or crafting whatever art project she’s into at the time.