Andreas Grabner
@grabnerandiWebsite: http://blog.dynatrace.com
Andreas Grabner is a performance enthusiast who has been working in this field for the last fifteen+ years. He was a developer, tester, architect and product evangelist for several testing and diagnostics companies such as Segue, Borland, Compuware and Dynatrace. In these days Andreas helps organizations finding the performance, scalability and architectural problems in their applications. He is taking his knowledge to teach others on how to spot and avoid these problems. He is doing that by speaking at different meetups, user groups and international conferences such as Star, STPCon, Agile Testing Days, Swiss Testing Day, Java South Africa, JavaOne, …
Andy Rosequist
@blond_baronAndy is the Director of IT Operations at Zipcar. He’s very passionate about collaboration and transparency, as well as beards.
Anjuan Simmons
@anjuanWebsite: http://www.AnjuanSimmons.com
Anjuan Simmons is a technologist with a successful track record of delivering technology solutions from the user interface to the database. He is currently a software project manager and Certified Scrum Master at a leading construction software manufacturer, and he has previously worked as an executive for Accenture, Deloitte, and Infosys, all multi-billion dollar technology services companies with hundreds of clients around the world.
Anjuan is also an energetic and informative speaker who often presents at conferences, seminars, schools, and community events. He is a sought after thought leader on Agile software development, design, diversity, and leadership. Drawing from his work experience as well as his educational background, Anjuan delivers presentations that focus on facts and provide simple explanations of complex ideas.
Anjuan has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Texas A&M University (where he was the first person voted by his fellow MBA students to serve as Student Speaker during their graduation ceremony). He lives in Houston with his beautiful wife and three amazing kids. Anjuan’s hobbies include reading, writing, travel, and exercise. His has vowed to never again speak the name of his favorite member of One Direction aloud.
Barak Chamo
@barakchamoWebsite: http://github.com/barakchamo
Barak is a passionate software developer, entrepreneur and digital artist. He’s been working with and building startups in Tel-Aviv, London and New-York for the past 6 years.
An avid web developer and creative coder, he enjoys exploring the connection between art and technology in audio, visual and physical form and creates new and exciting digital experiences.
Corey Quinn
@QuinnyPigCorey has a long and storied history as a consultant – long, in that every year he did it felt like three years, and storied, in that he’s got a few. Prior to his current role as Director of DevOps at FutureAdvisor, he spent most of the past few years at a Bay Area consulting firm, where he served as a systems architect, ad-hoc recruiter, advocate for driving transformational change throughout organizations, and (due to a misunderstanding around what a “standup meeting” really was) an improvisational comic. One of the early developers behind Saltstack, Corey also has a rich history of contributing to various open source projects.
Corey’s hobbies include motorcycles, building custom keyboards, and drinking whiskey– it’s a shame that they all don’t work well together. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two rodents of unusual size masquerading as dogs.
David Blank-Edelman
@otterbookDavid is the Technical Evangelist at Apcera. He has spent close to thirty years in the systems administration/DevOps/SRE field in large multiplatform environments including Brandeis University, Cambridge Technology Group, MIT Media Laboratory and Northeastern University. He is the author of the O’Reilly Otter book (Automating System Administration with Perl) and is a frequent invited speaker at conferences in the field. David is honored to serve on the USENIX Board of Directors. He prefers to pronounce Evangelist with a hard ‘g’.
David Fredricks
@dfreddy76Website: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/devops-needs-great-managers-david-fredricks?trk=mp-author-card
David provides consultative services to organizations on how to successfully grow technical teams. His services help leaders understand current candidate markets and offer realistic solutions for solving critical hiring challenges. David helps clients by creating SMART personalized plans and delivery models to successfully on board the right engineers. If you are struggling to identify, attract and hire technical folks. Give him a call to set up a meeting and discuss your situation.
Eliot Murphy
@sstatikWebsite: http://blog.elliotmurphy.com/
Elliot is the CEO of Kindly Ops, a DevOps and security firm focused on reducing the cost of healthcare innovation. Over the last year he has assisted organizations with operation, scaling, and 3rd party risk assessment of mission critical systems that conduct medical research, perform real time malware defense, process prescription refills, deliver therapy, and store psychiatric records.
He has real-world deployment experience with Kubernetes, Mesos, ECS and Amazon, Google and Azure clouds.
James Meickle
@jmeickleWebsite: http://www.test.com
Site Reliability Engineer at the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University
As an engineer with a background in psychology and political science, James has a strong interest in combining code optimizations and people optimizations. He currently works as a site reliability engineer at the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University where he is responsible for managing fMRI brain scan data, architecting processing pipelines, and deploying statistical software. Past roles include developer evangelist at web performance startup AppNeta and release engineer at Romney for President ’12. In his spare time, James is also a conference organizer for DevOpsDays Boston.
Jill Jubinski
@jilljubsWebsite: https://theunrecruiter.wordpress.com/
Jill Jubinski is a recruiting veteran with over 6 years of recruiting experience in the community. She received her Masters in Industrial/Organizational Psychology with plans to change the way organizations treated their employees. When that didn’t work out she started recruiting ;-) Jill leans on her strength in relationship building as a jumping off point to help organizations build amazing teams and genuinely cares about the health and wellness of an organization’s culture. She is also known to chat incessantly about her dogs and give hugs like they are going out of style.
John Downey
@jtdowneyWebsite: http://jtdowney.com
John Downey is the Security Lead at Braintree (which is owned by PayPal). Braintree helps businesses accept credit card payments online with great development tools and first class support. There he has worked on their highly available infrastructure and integrations into the banking system. In his free time he contributes to open source projects and mentors high school students in the FIRST Robotics Competition.
Kirsten Hunter
@synedraWebsite: http://www.princesspolymath.com
Kirsten Hunter is an unapologetic hacker and passionate advocate for the development community. Her technical interests range from graph databases to cloud services, and her experience supporting and evangelizing REST APIs has given her a unique perspective on developer success. In her copious free time she’s a gamer, fantasy reader, and all around rabble-rouser. Code samples, recipes, and philosophical musings can be found at http://www.princesspolymath.com.
Leon Fayer
@papa_fireWebsite: http://fayerplay.com
Leon’s two decades of expertise were concentrated on architecting and operating complex, web-based systems to withstand crushing traffic (often unexpectedly). Over the years, he’s had a somewhat unique opportunity to design and build systems that run some of the most visited websites in the world. While his core expertise is in application development, he works his way around the whole technology stack from system architecture to databases design and optimization to front/back-end programming. He’s considered a professional naysayer by peers and has the opinion that nothing really works until it works for at least a million people. In his current role Leon advises companies about critical aspects of project strategies and and concentrates on educating others by writing and speaking about industry trends and best practices, sharing his experience as related to designing and operating architectures at scale.
Liz Frost
@stillinbetaLiz is a queer trans woman with pink hair and a taste for sour candy. She’s a software engineer at Heroku, previously at Activision, and in her spare time likes walking her dog and taking selfies. You can find her on Twitter at @stillinbeta.
Matthew Barr
@matthewbarrMatthew Barr is an architect for the Developer Productivity at Akamai. In the past, he’s worked as a sysadmin & “devops engineer” for banks & startups, large & small companies.
Michael Kristan
Michael Kristan is a Software Systems Engineer at MITRE’s Center for National Security. Michael currently serves as a thought leader in cloud computing and DevOps. He regularly consults on a variety of projects and provides guidance, support, and systems engineering expertise as people explore and transform their IT and software development efforts to ones that leverage continuous delivery and elastic compute environments. He has been featured as a session lead at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit.
Rafael Benevides
@rafabeneWebsite: http://rafabene.com/
Rafael Benevides is a Director of Developer Experience at Red Hat. In his current role he helps developers worldwide to be more effective in software development, and he also promotes tools and practices that help them to be more productive. He worked in several fields including application architecture and design. Besides that, he is a member of Apache DeltaSpike PMC - a Duke’s Choice Award winner project. And a speaker in conferences like JUDCon, TDC, JavaOne and Devoxx. Twitter | LinkedIn | rafabene.com
Sara Jarjoura
@saranicoleWebsite: http://sarastreeter.com
I’m a DevOps Engineer, and I’m happiest when spawning invisible computers in “the cloud.” I started out in the tech field in 2007 when I attended my first web development meetup in Providence and learned what “WYSIWYG” meant. Nowadays you can find me at DevOps meetups or hanging around in the Seaport district.
Spencer Krum
@nibalizerWebsite: http://spencerkrum.com
Spencer (nibalizer) Krum (http://spencerkrum.com) has been sysoping Linux since 2010. He works for IBM contributing upstream to OpenStack and Puppet. Spencer is a core contributor to the OpenStack Infrastructure Project. Spencer coordinates the local DevOps user group in Portland and volunteers for an ops-training program at Portland State University called the Braindump. Spencer is a published author and frequent speaker at technical conferences. Spencer is a maintainer for the voxpupuli effort(https://voxpupuli.org), which attempts to bring together a network of Puppet developers, modules, and infrastructure.
Spencer lives and works in Portland, Oregon where he enjoys tennis, cheeseburgers and StarCraft II.
Steve Faulkner
@southpolesteveSteve Faulkner once went to the South Pole. Now he is Director of Systems Engineering at Bustle. A bunch of stuff happened in between! Life is crazy like that.
Tracy Osborn
@limedaringWebsite: http://limedaring.com
Tracy Osborn is a designer, developer, and entreprenerd living in the California Bay Area. She’s a part of the developer relations team at DreamFactory, the author of Hello Web App, and creator of WeddingLovely. She’s also an avid outdoorswoman and would love to go on a hike with you.
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