After working for a number of Internet Service Providers, Sam founded Bashton Ltd in 2004. Focussing exclusively on Linux and Open Source software, Sam and his team provide consultancy, support… more
Gordon Rowell is a site reliability manager at Google, Sydney. His team focuses on delivering services to Googlers around the world. They have migrated major internal services to run on Google… more
Jez Humble is a Principal at ThoughtWorks Studios, and co-author of the Jolt Award winning Continuous Delivery, published in Martin Fowler’s Signature Series (Addison Wesley, 2010). He has worked as a… more
Brian Stevens joined Red Hat’s senior management team in 2001 and has been critical to the company’s enterprise operating system, storage, and virtualization strategies. As CTO and vice president,… more
Reinhardt Quelle is a Cloud Services Architect in the Cloud Collaboration Applications group at Cisco, where he’s responsible for defining infrastructure architecture and deployment automation .… more
Nicholas Weaver is the Cloud Automation Architect for VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) platform and the primary architect behind the vCHS automation framework (Project Zombie). He is also a… more
Ben Schofield is the middleware architect for ESPN. With 11 years of IT experience working for Fortune 200 companies in the retail, insurance, financial and media industries, Ben has seen the good, bad… more
Lance Albertson is the Director for the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) and has been involved with the Gentoo Linux project as a developer and package maintainer since 2003. Since… more
Mykel Alvis has been a developer for over 34 years, primarily in assembler, C, Java and Groovy. Several years ago he switched from producing new features in software to producing new ways to deliver software.
Keith Chambers is the platform architect for the WebEx Social product at Cisco. He joined Cisco in 2000 and is based out of Seattle Washington. In his current role, Keith leads the engineering team… more
Ryan is a product owner at Puppet Labs, responsible for the Puppet Forge. He used Puppet at Penn State to keep up with demands in Penn State’s central infrastructure teams before joining Puppet Labs as a… more
Celia Cottle is a Support Engineer at Puppet Labs, where she troubleshoots and resolves issues for Puppet Enterprise customers. She comes from Portland State University, where she worked for the College… more
Richard keeps the servers happy at Betable. He’s something of a polyglot, working frequently in C, Go, Java, JavaScript, Puppet, Python, Ruby, and shell. He’s the creator of the Blueprint… more
Erik is a system engineer within the site reliability engineering at Spotify with a focus on Puppet and automation. He is also a community contributor to Puppet and author of the puppetdbquery tool. Can be found at IRC and Github as dalen.
Wojciech Dec is a Cisco Technical Leader focusing on Data Center network technologies and architectures. His main areas of activity include IPv4-IPv6 transition mechanisms, IPv6 Data Center architectures… more
Robert is an engineer who has spent the past several years attempting to automate away the need for the work that he does. Focusing on server automation and security work for BusinessWire,… more
Tomas currently works as senior sysadmin at TIM Group, developing application and infrastructure automation solutions. Tom came to the dark side of systems & devops after being a professional perl… more
Will is a developer and operations engineer. Will works on system operations at GitHub, where he spends most of his time slinging Puppet to manage GitHub’s extensive production environment where he… more
Dawn Foster is the Community Lead for the Puppet Community at Puppet Labs. She has more than 18 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in community building, community management,… more
Founded an Internet Service Provider in 1995. Founded a IT consulting firm in 1999. Decided that it was funnier to do technical stuff rather than to manage companies and became a freelance… more
James Fryman is a Technologist who has been working on spreading the good word of technology via the greatest mechanism known to man: the beer fueled rant. James has been working to automate software and… more
Mitchell is best known as the creator of Vagrant and founder of HashiCorp. He is also an O’Reilly author and professional speaker. He is one of the top GitHub users by followers, activity, and… more
Matt Hicks is one of the founding members of the Red Hat OpenShift team. He has spent over a decade in software engineering with a variety of roles in development, operations, architecture and management.… more
Kenn leads product development for Cloudsmith. Kenn’s background is in modeling technology and tools development, and he continues to be involved with Modeling projects at Eclipse in his spare time. Prior… more
Nick Lewis is a software developer at Puppet Labs and one of the co-authors of PuppetDB.
Ruth graduated from Reed College in May 2012 with a degree in Linguistics. One month later she joined Puppet Labs as a software development intern working on Facter, and then moved to the Puppet… more
Recovering systems engineer turned software engineer, responsible for helping the Puppet community contribute their code to our open source projects.
A Tools Engineer at Jive Software working on the Technical Operations team, which provides SaaS for hundreds of Jive customers. I’ve been managing Unix systems and related technologies for over 10 years,… more
Peter has been evangelizing for OpenStack Hyper-V integration since March 2011, now as a Microsoft employee within Microsoft’s Open Source Technology Center, he is working on OpenStack Hyper-V… more
Gareth Rushgrove is now a technical architect at the Government Digital Service, part of the UK Government. He is mainly interested in configuration management, infrastructure and platform as a… more
Mike Ryan is the founder of Epitech BV, a cloud technology consultancy based in Amsterdam, and author of the upcoming O’Reilly book AWS System Administration. He is also the founder of Cloudfrag, an… more
Carlos Sanchez is specialized in automation and quality of software development, QA and operations processes, from build tools and continuous integration to deployment automation, speaking on the… more
Jeremy is a 20 year veteran in the networking industry and has been with Juniper Networks for over five year. He holds a BSCS from Georgia Tech and began his career as an embedded software engineer… more
Paul Stack is a London based developer working on the .net technology stack. Paul has spoken at various events throughout the world as well as extensively in the UK about his passion for continuous… more
Michael Stahnke is a Software Engineering Director at Puppet Labs, where he was previously the Community Manager and where he built out the Release Engineering team as Release Manager. He came to… more
Robert Starmer is the Principle Cloud Engineer for Cisco’s Systems Development Unit, supporting Cloud solutions development for the IT systems market, and has 20 years of experience working with… more
Greg is a Linux Engineer for Rackspace. An open source enthusiast by day and a fire performer by night, he has been working extensively with Augeas inside Puppet for the past two years, including contributions to the Augeasproviders module.
Adrien Thebo has been in the Operations/Software development field since 2005, starting at small IT shop in Boise, Idaho. He started at Puppet Labs in 2011 on the Operations team, and used Puppet to run… more
An early adopter of puppet, Thomas has been using puppet since 0.24. He started with puppet for workstation management at the Institute for Advanced Study where he also helped develop the Springdale… more
After beginning his career at UC Riverside supporting enterprise operations and bioinformatics research, Chris is now rocking being an infrastructure engineer at Demand Media in Santa Monica. He… more
John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 30 years. Prior to joining Dell (formally Enstratius), Willis was the VP of Solutions for DTO Solutions where he led the transition to a… more
