Featured Speakers
Armon Dadgar
Founder & CTO at HashiCorp
About Mitchell Hashimoto
Mitchell is the Co-Founder and Co-CTO of HashiCorp. He is the original creator of many of HashiCorp's tools and continues to work day to day with the product and engineering teams. Mitchell is self-described as "automation obsessed" and uses that to drive the creation of new technology solutions.About Armon Dadgar
Armon (@armon) has a passion for distributed systems and their application to real-world problems. He is a founder and CTO of HashiCorp, where he brings distributed systems into the world of DevOps tooling. He has worked on Nomad, Vault, Terraform, Consul, and Serf at HashiCorp, and maintains the Statsite and Bloomd OSS projects as well.
Mitchell Hashimoto
Founder & Co-CTO at HashiCorp
About Mitchell Hashimoto
Mitchell is the Co-Founder and Co-CTO of HashiCorp. He is the original creator of many of HashiCorp's tools and continues to work day to day with the product and engineering teams. Mitchell is self-described as "automation obsessed" and uses that to drive the creation of new technology solutions.About Armon Dadgar
Armon (@armon) has a passion for distributed systems and their application to real-world problems. He is a founder and CTO of HashiCorp, where he brings distributed systems into the world of DevOps tooling. He has worked on Nomad, Vault, Terraform, Consul, and Serf at HashiCorp, and maintains the Statsite and Bloomd OSS projects as well.
Bridget Kromhout
Principal Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft
About Bridget Kromhout
Bridget Kromhout is a Principal Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. Her CS degree emphasis was in theory, but she now deals with the concrete (if 'cloud' can be considered tangible.) After 15 years as an operations engineer, she traded being on call for being on a plane. A frequent speaker and program committee member for tech conferences, she leads the devopsdays organization globally and the devops community at home in Minneapolis. She podcasts with Arrested DevOps, blogs at bridgetkromhout.com, and is active in a Twitterverse near you.About Zachary Deptawa
Zachary is a Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft with a focus on Linux (yes, really.) Before that, he’s played roles from monitoring technician to system administrator and professional services consultant to solutions architect at startups (Sprout Social, ClearDATA) and larger orgs (Rackspace, Amazon Web Services.) These days, he advocates for awesome developer and operations experiences through talks, docs, and code. In his spare time, you can find him gigging with his bands, hanging out with his family, or playing StarCraft and PUBG. He blogs at cloudywithachanceofdevops.com and can be found on Twitter telling bad puns.
Idit Levine
Founder & CEO at Solo.io
About Idit Levine
Idit Levine is the founder and CEO of solo.io, a Boston-based company that develops tools to help the enterprise adopt and make the most of innovative cloud technologies. At solo, Idit leads the development of Qloo, the codeless GraphQL Engine, Gloo, the function gateway, Squash, a platform for debugging microservices applications, and UniK, an orchestration tool for unikernels. Prior to founding solo.io, Idit was the CTO of the cloud management division at EMC and a member of its global CTO Office. Previously, Idit gained first-hand experience in many aspects of the cloud infrastructure, working for both startup and enterprise companies.
Jennie Lees
Senior Software Engineer at Riot Games
Jennie Lees
Senior Software Engineer at Riot GamesEcosystem as Code: Getting Between the User and the Scheduler
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Jennie is a Senior Engineer at Riot Games, where she leads engineers in building tools that help game developers ship games faster. Her passion is to create seamless, near-invisible experiences for developers that get out of the way. A lifelong videogame enthusiast, her favorite games are Halo 2 and World of Warcraft, and she's currently playing a lot of Overwatch.
Nicholas Klick
Lead Engineer at ActBlue
Dan Catlin
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at ActBlueHow Terraform Will Impact the 2018 US Elections
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Dan Catlin is a DevOps professional focused on engineer-oriented release engineering, composable and secure production operations and intelligent performance and security monitoring built to empower developers and deliver highly available and secure infrastructure for modern development teams. After years in quality assurance and release engineering, focusing on building a high performance devops oriented security product, I have decided to focus my energy on applying my work to improve security for ActBlue and help a cause I truly care about while delivering high performance modern infrastructure built for security and reslience.About Nicholas Klick
Nicholas Klick is a Lead Engineer at ActBlue, the largest political fundraising platform in the US. He has over 10 years experience in DevOps and building web applications that serve tens of millions of users. His most recent project was a zero-downtime migration of a $2 Billion credit card vault to AWS using Terraform and Chef.
Rick Rackow
Site Reliability Engineer at eBay Classifieds Group
About Rick Rackow
Starting his professional career as a working student at the eBay Classifieds Group, Rick was part of a team tasked with build and release engineering as well as continuous integration pipelines for all of the eCG and in particular the teams based in Berlin. Later he joined the SiteOperations Engineering team as systems engineer, being responsible for all German classifieds platforms. Since the beginning of 2018, he is facing a new challenge to run a completely new platform, containered and scalable with an on-premise OpenStack Cloud.
Seth Vargo
Developer Advocate at Google
About Seth Vargo
Seth Vargo is a Developer Advocate at Google. Previously he worked at HashiCorp, Chef Software, CustomInk, and a few Pittsburgh-based startups. He is the author of Learning Chef and is passionate about reducing inequality in technology. When he is not writing, working on open source, teaching, or speaking at conferences, Seth enjoys spending time with his friends and advising non-profits.
