devopsdays Singapore 2016

Adrian Cole

@adrianfcole

Adrian is an active member of cloud interoperability circles. He is the founder of a few popular open source projects, notably Apache jclouds and Netflix feign. Recently, he’s focused on distributed tracing, particularly in the OpenZipkin project. Adrian works at Pivotal in the Spring Cloud OSS team.

Angad Singh

@angadsg

Angad is a Data Scientist at Twitter Singapore. He recently led the DevOps team at Viki. He is passionate about large data infrastructures as well as distributed systems. Talked at previous DevOpsDays 2015 Singapore about ELK.

Benjamin Henshall

@bhenshal

Benjamin Henshall is the Director of solutions for Red Hat’s developer tooling and developer platforms for the Asia Pacific region. His primary responsibility is to help clients, partners and the eco-system within Asia adopt the Red Hat toolsets and services in digital transformative opportunities. Benjamin comes with over 8 and half years experience within Red Hat and prior working at Oracle within the Fusion Middleware business unit and BEA Systems preceding his time at Oracle. His particular interests is to help organisations ‘out innovate’ the competition through ‘compressed innovation cycles’ using software engineering principles and cultural change known as DevOps and aligning IT architectures and operations to meet the demands of the next generation business model(s). Ben also has a passion for helping organisations understand how to harness the innovation from open source software and participate in their respective communities.

Brett Gray

Greater than 20 years of experience in IT and electronics industry in various sectors, such a private, public and military. Brett has been using Puppet since 2011 and has been a Puppet Labs employee since 2013. Currently Brett is the Principal Solutions and Services Engineer for Puppet in APAC. Brett is the lead consultant in APAC for Puppet and undertakes many complex DevOps engagements. Brett has a Master of Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Computing and GradDip of Brewing.

Clemens Perz

I have been working as a freelance lead developer/architect/deployment wizzard since 1990 - and I today own the Next Workstation that I started learning Unix on :) Currently I work for a singaporean data center provider automating the deployment and management of an Open Stack infrastructure.

Clemri Steyn

I am the Group Product Manager on the Microsoft DevOps Marketing team. I have more than 16 years experience in the Developer Tools, ALM and DevOps market. Prior to this role, I managed Product Management teams at Compuware for the DevPartner Studio, DriverStudio, DevPartner for Java, OptimalTrace and Uniface product lines. i have spoken extensively at numerous conferences across the globe

Ion Mudreac

@mudrii

Ion is DevOps Lead in Standard Chartered Bank, Head of Development in EDM. He has 20+ years IT experience with 10+ years experience in Banking. He previously worked in Japan as a Project Manager for Daiwa Securities and Merrill Lynch and eventually moved to Merrill Lynch Singapore to lead Asia Pac Wealth Management support team. Prior joining SCB, he was with Commerzbank and held various team lead roles for eFX Connectivity global team, eFX and FX Option Global support team and Murex Cash/Murex Currency Asia Pacific team. He is a practitioner of agile and lean development, Scrum, XP and Kanban, with experience in DevOps Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration.

Jason Man

@mrjasonman

Jason Man is an experienced Continuous Delivery and DevOps consultant at Forest Technologies. Forest has been helping companies worldwide transform their ability to deliver value to their customers through the adoption of DevOps and Automation for over 12 years. We’ve worked across a variety of sectors including retail, telecoms, financial, online gambling and online travel, from the biggest enterprises to small start-ups. This gives us a unique insight into what it takes for companies to successfully adopt a collaborative culture, and the underpinning processes and tools to increase the speed and quality that software and software-related services can be delivered to customers. Jason’s previous experience covers most aspects of the SDLC working as a Developer, Build and Release Engineering as well as architecting and implementing DevOps practices for many organisations around the world.

Ken Mugrage

@kmugrage

Ken Mugrage is a technology evangelist for ThoughtWorks, focused on providing education on DevOps and continuous delivery. He began his IT career in the early 1990s as a system administrator for Seattle’s first Internet service provider. Ken went on to form his own web development company in 1994, creating some of the first data-driven websites anywhere. During the next twenty years he held almost every position in a software development organization—from developer to director of a global engineering team. Using his experience Ken has consulted with top companies on applying the right technical solutions to business problems.

Mike Place

@cachedout

I am the principle maintainer of SaltStack – one of the world’s leading open-source automation platforms. I’ve keynoted and spoken at dozens of conferences. I’m currently residing in Tokyo so this is a perfect chance for me to attend more conferences in Asia. :]

Mitchell Hashimoto

@mitchellh

Mitchell Hashimoto is best known as the creator of Vagrant, Packer, Terraform and Consul. Mitchell is the founder of HashiCorp, a company that builds powerful and elegant DevOps tools. He is also an O’Reilly author. He is one of the top GitHub users by followers, activity, and contributions. “Automation obsessed,” Mitchell solves problems with as much computer automation as possible.

Nicole Forsgren

@nicolefv

I am an IT impacts expert who shows leaders and tech professionals how to unlock the potential of technology change. Best known for my work with tech professionals and as the lead investigator on the Puppet Labs State of DevOps study, I am a consultant, expert, and researcher in DevOps, IT adoption and impacts, and knowledge management. I am the Director of Organizational Performance and Analytics at Chef. You can read more about it here, and about what Gartner says about my move from academia here. I am also an Academic Partner at Clemson University. In a previous life, I was a professor, sysadmin, and hardware performance analyst. I hold a PhD in Management Information Systems and a Masters in Accounting. I have been awarded public and private research grants (funders include NASA and the NSF), and my work has been featured in various media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, ComputerWorld, and InfoWeek. I have been named a Top 100 Leader and renowned expert in DevOps, and a Top 20 Most Influential Women in DevOps by TechBeacon.

Rizky Ariestiyansyah

@ariestiyansyah

Full-time researcher, part-time tech speaker, I’ve been working from small to big scale of DevOps system starting from StartUp to Minister in Indonesia. Mozilla Tech Speaker and CTO at IndonesiaX.co.id.

Seth Vargo

@sethvargo

Seth Vargo is the Director of Evangelism at HashiCorp. Previously, Seth worked at Chef (Opscode), CustomInk, and a few Pittsburgh-based startups. He the author of Learning Chef and is passionate about reducing inequality in technology. When he is not writing, working on open source, or speaking at conferences, Seth enjoys spending time with his friends and advising non-profits. He loves all things bacon.

Stefan Streichsbier

@s_streichsbier

Stefan has been focusing on information security since 2003. He is passionate about analysing complex applications through architecture, design and source code reviews and improving their security posture. As the CTO of Vantage Point he is working on revolutionary approaches to integrate security into the agile and DevOps with the goal to sustainably eradicate vulnerabilities from applications and empower dev teams. Stefan has founded the local DevSecOps Singapore Meetup group that is enjoying an active and ever growing community.