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Dan Nemec Dan Nemec, Engineering Solutions Architect at Silverpop, brings 12 years of operations and solution architecture experience with Software As A Service applications. Previously he was Senior Solution Architect at Harbinger/Inovis where he led the effort to improve the operational and deployment functionality of their custom built, hosted applications. He continues that effort at Silverpop, having been in Operations and currently in Development, by bridging both organizations and has led numerous, successful Devops efforts such as automated provisioning and deployment and configuration and environment standardization improving the agility of development and stability of operations. Nemec graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.
Burzin N. Engineer Burzin N. Engineer is Vice President of Infrastructure Technology at Shopzilla, Inc. Burzin has more than 18 years of experience in the IT industry. His experience ranges from system and database administration to network/storage design and architecture. His technology focal points revolve around solving today's largest IT problems such as server consolidation, virtualization, data mobility and ILM. At Shopzilla, Burzin is responsible for all facets of IT, including network, storage, systems and internal IT. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. He can be reached at bengineer at shopzilla dot com.
Kevin Rae Kevin Rae wrote his first software on an Apple IIe and have been hooked ever since. After obtaining a BA in computer science from Claremont McKenna he traveled the US as a management consultant for Ernst & Young then spent the dot com bubble running systems for Fogdog Sports. After the bubble popped he managed systems administration and systems engineering teams for DST Output and during evenings and weekends earned an MBA from UC Davis. Kevin is currently employed as Director of IT at PowerReviews.Outside work he likes to spend time with his wife and 2 sons and also enjoys playing and recording music in his home studio.
Theo Schlossnagle Theo Schlossnagle is a Founder and CEO at OmniTI where he designs and implements scalable solutions for highly trafficked sites and other clients in need of sound, scalable architectural engineering. In his role at OmniTI, he has founded several successful startups including Message Systems and Circonus. Theo is a participant in various open source communities including OpenSolaris, Reconnoiter, Apache, PostgreSQL, perl, and many others. He is a published author in the area of scalability and distributed systems as well as a veteran speaker in the open source conference circuit.
Luke Kanies Luke is the founder and CEO of Puppet Labs and the founder of the Puppet project. Previously, he was a consultant, open source contributor, and article author. He has focused on tool development since 2001, developing and publishing multiple simple sysadmin tools and contributing to established products like Cfengine. He has presented on Puppet and other tools around the world, including at OSCON, LISA, Linux.Conf.au, and FOSS.
Erik Troan Erik Troan is founder and CTO of rPath, Inc. Prior to founding rPath, Erik served in multiple roles at Red Hat including Vice President of Product Engineering for several years and chief developer for Red Hat Software. During his tenure with the company Erik was responsible for leading development for Red Hat Linux, RPM, and Anaconda. He managed a multimillion-dollar budget, participated in two public stock offerings and assisted in acquiring and integrating nine other companies. Erik has co-authored two editions of Linux Application Development. At rPath he is responsible for all aspects of product design and implementation and for the company's IT infrastructure. He holds BS degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University and a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Virginia. Erik also serves on the Board of Directors for Digium, Inc.
John Allspaw John has worked in systems operations for over fourteen years in biotech, government and online media. He started out tuning parallel clusters running vehicle crash simulations for the U.S. government, and then moved on to the Internet in 1997. He built the backing infrastructures at Salon, InfoWorld, Friendster, and Flickr. He is now VP of Tech Operations at Etsy, and is the author of The Art of Capacity Planning and the upcoming Web Operations, published by O’Reilly.
Lloyd Taylor Lloyd is an independent adviser, consultant, and investor who specializes in helping companies scale successfully. His professional work has included scaling LinkedIn's infrastructure to support it's rapid growth; Developing, implementing and operating an infinitely scalable global physical infrastructure for Google's server farms; Building out a worldwide performance measurement infrastructure for Keynote Systems; and Developing one of the first managed hosting architectures while at Digex. His pro bono work includes funding and advising a select group of non-profits working on zero-dependency methods for ending poverty throughout the world. http://www.linkedin.com/in/lloydtaylor
James Urquhart James Urquhart manages cloud computing infrastructure strategy for the Server Provider Systems Unit of Cisco Systems. Named one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing by the MIT Technology Review, and author of the popular C|NET Blog Network blog, The Wisdom of Clouds (http://news.cnet.com/the-wisdom-of-clouds), Mr. Urquhart brings a deep understanding of these disruptive technologies and the business opportunities they afford. Mr. Urquhart is a seasoned field technologist with almost 20 years of experience in distributed systems development and deployment, focusing on service-oriented architectures, cloud computing, and virtualization. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Urquhart held leadership roles at Forte Software, Sun Microsystems, and utility computing infrastructure vendor Cassatt Corporation. Mr. Urquhart graduated from Macalester College with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Physics.
Jyoti Bansal Jyoti founded AppDynamics in early 2008 with the vision of defining the next-generation of application performance management (APM) solutions for distributed applications running in cloud, virtual, and physical environments. Before founding AppDynamics, Jyoti led the design and architecture for several products at Wily Technology. Before Wily, Jyoti worked in senior engineering roles at Datasweep (acquired by Rockwell Automation) and netLens (acquired by Microsoft through FAST/Nextpage), where he built distributed application architectures for enterprise search and data mining. Jyoti received his BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is the lead inventor on 14 US patent applications in the field of distributed applications management. His latest creation is a free product for troubleshooting java performance in production, available at www.appdynamics.com/free.
Javier Soltero Javier Soltero is the CTO of Management Products at SpringSource division of VMware. Previously, Javier was the co-founder and CEO of Hyperic, the leader in multi-platform, open source IT management, which SpringSource acquired in May 2009. Prior to co-founding Hyperic, he was chief architect at Covalent Technologies, where he led the design and implementation of multiple enterprise products, including the configuration management product for Apache and the Covalent Application Manager (CAM)—now Hyperic's flagship product Hyperic HQ. Prior to Covalent, Soltero was a senior software engineer at Backflip, where he met Hyperic co-founders Charles Lee and Doug MacEachern. At Backflip, he was actively involved in the design, implementation, and operational aspects of the site. Soltero also held senior engineering positions at Netscape, where he participated in the design development of e-commerce and Internet infrastructure suites. Over the last 10 years, Soltero has been actively involved in various open source communities as both user and contributor to projects like JBoss and Apache Tomcat. Soltero is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico and received his BS in Information Systems and Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University.
Gareth Bowles Gareth Bowles has been working as a QA and technical operations manager at different West Coast startups since well before the dawn of the 21st century. He recently realized that I'd already been practicing quite a few devops concepts without putting a convenient name to them, especially trying to figure out the human factors and using the cloud for extra efficiency. Gareth is always looking for new ways to get the product built, tested and deployed faster while still getting a good night's sleep.
Adam Fletcher Adam Fletcher is the Operations Architect for ITA Software's airline reservation system product, a mission critical, highly scalable, high performance, transaction processing system. He has over 10 years of systems operations and software development experience. Adam has been practicing devops without naming it for all of those years, firmly believing that automation and process control are critical to managing any infrastructure. Adam frequently writes on devops topics outside of web operations on his blog, http://www.thesimplelogic.com, and runs the Boston DevOps Meetups.
Gene Kim Gene Kim is the CTO and co-founder of Tripwire, Inc. In 1992, he co-authored Tripwire while at Purdue University with Dr. Gene Spafford. Since 1999, he has been studying high performing IT operations and security organizations. In 2004, he co-wrote the Visible Ops Handbook, codifying how to successfully transform IT organizations from “good to great.” In 2008, he co-authored Security Visible Ops Handbook, a handbook describing how to link IT security and operational objectives in four practical steps by integrating security controls into IT operational, software development and project management processes. Gene is a huge fan of IT operations, and how developers can enable fast throughput of features from “code complete” to “in production,” without causing chaos and disruption to the IT environment. He has worked with some of the top Internet companies on improving deployment flow and increasing the rigor around IT operational processes.
Michael Stahnke Michael Stahnke began working with Unix in the late 1990s. After getting a CS degree from Ball State in 2002, he quickly found his passion in Linux administration and automation. He has worked with Fortune 100 companies, and several open source projects. Michael has concentrated on Identity Management as well security integration into administration and automation processes. In 2005, Michael authored Pro OpenSSH for Apress Publishing. Michael also joined the Fedora project in that year. Today he (co)maintains about 30 packages, and is an active member on the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) steering committee. He also contributes to the Spacewalk project, the Ruby special Interest Group, and several other facets of the Fedora Project. In 2008, Michael moved to a leadership position on his Unix and Virtualization team at Caterpillar. Michael also works as an independent contractor for various technology organizations in Nashville, TN.
James Turnbull James Turnbull is Director of Operations for Puppet Labs. He previously worked for the National Australia Bank as the manager of their Computer Emergency Response Team. James has also worked as an Executive Manager of IT Security at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the CIO of a medical research foundation doing Web-based clinical trials, managing the architecture group of an outsourcing company and in a number of IT roles in gaming, telecommunications and government. He is an experienced infrastructure architect with a background in Linux/Unix, AS/400, Windows, and storage systems. He has been involved in security consulting, infrastructure security design, SLA and service definition and has an abiding interest in security metrics and measurement. James is involved in the Free and Open Source Software community as a developer and contributor. He was the Treasurer and coordinated the mini-conference program at linux.conf.au 2008 in Melbourne, Australia and has been a member of the linux.conf.au papers committee since 2008. He is a member of Linux Australia, acting as President in 2010 and serving on the Council in 2008. In his spare time his interests include cooking, wine, political theory, photojournalism, philosophy, poetry, and cats.
Kurt Milne Kurt Milne is the Managing Director of the IT Process Institute, and primary author of five major IT management research studies. He has 20 years of experience at leading technology companies including Hewlett Packard and BMC Software. His main areas of expertise include IT service management and IT controls, inventory and supply chain management, and computer integrated manufacturing.
Rolf Russell Rolf Russell leads the DevOps/Build/Release practice at ThoughtWorks. He focuses on helping IT organizations become nimble and reactive in meeting their customers' needs through pragmatic improvements to the way software is build and taken into production. Rolf developed his passion for this space in the traditional way, through painful experience as poorly managed 'paths to production' endangered projects he was delivering. His experiences come through working with Fortune 1000 companies across an array of industries, including financial services, telecommunications, energy and media.