devopsdays Chicago - contact

Jerry Cattell is the Director of Technical Operations for Tempus and a co-organizer of the DevOps Chicago meetup group. In his free time, Jerry enjoys traveling, reading, and playing with new technologies.

Cora became a developer after working in all the fun and exciting places, Central Asia, West Africa, and lovely Chicago. In her household, the number of laptops outnumber the humans and cats combined.

GrubHub

Chef Software, Inc

Kevin Reedy is an infrastructure developer from Chicago that currently works for Chef as a Customer Architect. In his free time, he enjoys brewing beer, snowboarding, DJing, and promising that he’ll update his blog more often.

Centro

Allie Richards has been ops-ing since before the terms “DevOps” and “Operations Engineering” existed. She is passionate about command lines, automation and performance at scale. When not at work she can usually be found trying to read with a cat on her lap.

Microsoft

Sasha Rosenbaum is a Cloud Solution Architect for Microsoft, helping large scale clients on their journey to Azure. Sasha is passionate about DevOps, company culture and collaboration in IT teams.

Chef Software, Inc

Matt Stratton is a Customer Architect at Chef, where he demonstrates how Chef’s automation platform provides speed and flexibility to clients’ infrastructure. He is devoted to concepts like Continuous Delivery and Infrastructure as Code, and his license plate actually says “DevOps”. He lives in the Chicagoland area with his wife Andrea, and his three kids, Henry, Joey, and Sophia, and their cat, Fancy. He also has an unhealthy obsession with Doctor Who, Firefly, and Game of Thrones. And whiskey. Matt is also the creator and co-host of the Arrested DevOps podcast.

Cohesive Networks

Margaret Valtierra is the Senior Marketing Specialist at Cohesive Networks. She is responsible for growing Cohesive’s awareness through digital and written content creation, public relations, and community events. She organizes and leads the Chicago AWS user group. Previously, Margaret was VP of Operations at GreenPoint Partners, a sustainability consulting company for commercial real estate. At GreenPoint, Margaret managed the LEED building certification process for over 5 million square feet of commercial space and earned her LEED GA and LEED AP accreditations. Margaret has a BSM from Tulane University and is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate.

gogo

Joel is a Senior DevOps Engineer working at Gogo; providing a best-in-class cloud infrastructure and developing infrastructure/deployment tooling. Primarily works with Python, the cloud is his immutable data center, and loves tinkering with all things tech. In his spare time, Joel is also a GDG Organizer and loves exploring his home city Chicago from time to time.