Michael is VP of Engineering at Flox. Prior to this, he held senior engineering leadership roles at CircleCI and Puppet. He has a demonstrated ability to build high-performing teams and organizations, as well as conduct research on engineering effectiveness, authoring the State of DevOps Reports from 2018-2022 as well as contributing several other industry publications. Michael is obsessed with the intersection of the business and engineering with ROI as a key driver behind efficiencies and automation. Michael has been a speaker at DevOps and Automation events since 2007. In 2005, he authored a book on OpenSSH He also founded the package repository Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) and contributes to several open source projects.