DevOps in the Windy City With Jeff Smith, Jerry Cattell, and Sameer Doshi
Posted on Monday, Oct 24, 2016
Show Notes
- ADO episode at devopsdays Chicago 2014 with J. Paul Reed
- Jerry started his career swapping out computers for Y2K in tropical locations. Nice job to have!
- Most sportsball talk on any episode of ADO to date!
- “You may not be able to move as fast as others, but that doesn’t mean you have to sit still” - Jeff
- Conversations Matt has had with local folks in the past two years have changed from “this will never work at my company” to “ this is really hard, and we aren’t moving as fast as I would like us to be”
- 1871 - Chicago incubator
- Chicago DevOps Meetup
- 2016 Chicago Tech Madness Bracket
Companies doing cool devops in chicago
Community & Event Stuff
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Upcoming conferences
For any devopsdays, try the code ADO2016! It should get you 20% off.
- DevOpsDays Ohio Oct 31, 2016 - Nov 1, 2016
- DevOpsDays Madison Nov 2, 2016 - Nov 3, 2016
- DevOpsDays Bangalore Nov 4, 2016 - Nov 5, 2016
- DevOpsDays Cape Town Nov 7, 2016 - Nov 8, 2016
- DevOpsDays Nashville Nov 10, 2016 - Nov 11, 2016
Open CFPs
- A lot of devopsdays CFPs closing soon - see devopsdays.org/speaking
Check Outs
Jeff
Jerry
- DevOpsDays Chicago videos
- Spantree Vimeo - a Meetup recording company that also does tech consulting
Sameer
- Edmund Lau’s Effective Engineer a great, fast read that’s made big differences in day to day life (reminds me of Time Management for System Adminstrators)
- Can’t wait for Halloween and the finale of the web series Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party
- OMG I’m loving http://armviz.io
Matt
- Storm Trooper Whiskey Decanter
- Hamilton in Chicago!
- Westworld on HBO
Guests
Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith has been in the technology field for over 15 years, oscillating between manager and individual contributor. He currently serves as the Manager of Production Operations at Centro and previously served as the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering at Grubhub. Jeff enjoys discussing the psychological aspect of problems in organizations. Jeff is also one of the co-founders of the Chicago Nerd Social Club. He occasionally musters up the strength to write on his All Things Dork blog.
Jerry Cattell
Jerry Cattell is the VP of Engineering for LifeQode, a co-founder of ShiftGen, and occasional Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Yardi Systems. In his spare time, Jerry is a co-organizer of the DevOps Chicago meetup group and DevOpsDays Chicago. Jerry has over 17 years experience as a developer, sysadmin, DBA, and systems architect.
Sameer Doshi
Sameer is a DevOps Architect at kCura, where he manages DevOps team, responsible for maintaining software development tools, automation, and culture. His work enables a small team of engineers to manage a large code base across a distributed source control system and rapidly spin up complex server environments for a growing development team. Sameer graduated from Boston University with a degree in biomedical engineering. He joined kCura in 2014.
Hosts
Matt Stratton (he/him)
Matty Stratton is the Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, a well-known member of the DevOps community, and a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.
Matty has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.
He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke.
