Dale Humby

Dale Humby

@dalehumby

Dale Humby is the Chief Technical Officer of Nomanini, a South African-based technology provider dedicated to building the tools needed to facilitate cash payments in informal markets. He is an electro-mechanical engineer with a wealth of experience in embedded systems and back-end system design. In 2014, Dale was named a Developer Expert for the Google Cloud platform. Dale leads Nomanini’s team of software developers, hardware engineers and industrial designers, and is responsible for the technical operations of Nomanini’s payments platform. Before joining Nomanini, Dale was the founding member of One Over Zero, which developed a wide range of products. He lead development on various bespoke embedded and M2M electronics and software projects for agricultural and FMCG markets.
Daniel Maher

Daniel Maher

@phrawzty

Daniel Maher is a Senior Devops Engineer at Mozilla. He’s also been a small business owner, a university lecturer, and a day labourer. Send wine suggestions to him via Twitter.
David Rubin

David Rubin

@drubin87

David is an engineer and loves making developers’ lives easier and to keep VPCs purring like kittens. Currently working at OLX bringing his startup experience into handling and building OLX’s technology platform. For the last 7 years he has worked for the FireID group on various products including being part of the original team that built SnapScan, CEO of Swiftly, CTO of FitKey. He takes pride in his few fast failures along the way too. David currently lives in Stellenbosch, the wine capital of South Africa.
Eric Maxwell

Eric Maxwell

@iamericmaxwell

Eric Maxwell is a Success Engineer at Chef Software and is focused on making companies more awesome by helping them “do the DevOps” and enabling them to ship at velocity. In past lives, Eric was a back-end C# engineer, a big-data engineer playing in the Hadoop ecosystem, and a professional social engineer working in the InfoSec world.
JP Viljoen

JP Viljoen

@froztbyte

A computer farmer and packet herder by trade, JP spent years working in the broadcast and telecoms industries. The founder of Featherlight Consulting, JP adheres to the philosophy that things can, and most likely will, break. He spends much of his time caring about meaningful insights into systems, engineering reliability where needed, and delivering bespoke solutions in a number of problem domains. JP picks Python as the first hammer in his toolbox (although he writes whatever is necessary), learns Haskell for fun, reads filesystems whitepapers while drinking beer, and plays with IP video streams and Internet routing protocols when bored.
Noa Resare

Noa Resare

@blippie

Noa Resare is an engineer with a long background in both in operations and development in organisations large and small. He currently holds a position as Production Engineer at Facebook in London, before that he brought music to the world at Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden.
Seth Vargo

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.
Spencer Krum

Spencer Krum

@nibalizer

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.
Tim Haak

Tim Haak

@tim_haak

Tim Haak is a Docker Captain by night and an independent contractor by day. He is also one of the organisers for Johannesburg Php Meetup. He has spent to many years playing and working in the web, networking and linux world. Tim specialises in the Web Application sphere though mainly backend focused.