Glenn Sarti, originally from Perth (Western Australia), has recently moved with his family to Portland to work at Puppet. He has spent well over a decade as a Windows Client and Infrastructure engineer, with a heavy focus on automation and infrastructure software development. Glenn was also a co-organizer for the DevOps meetup in Perth and has spoken at his local Dot Net, Java and DevOps and meetups.
Grant Fritchey has worked for more than 30 years in IT as a developer and a DBA. He has built systems from the major enterprise to distributed systems to small boutique companies. Grant writes articles on various data-related topics for the #1 SQL Server education and community site, SQLServerCentral and Redgate’s technical journal, Simple Talk. He is the author of multiple books including SQL Server Execution Plans and SQL Server Query Performance Tuning. He develops and presents complete structured learning plans to teach Azure, AWS, and other data-related topics to developers and other IS personnel. Grant is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and an AWS Community Builder.
With over a decade of experience in platform engineering, Hannah Foxwell has always advocated for the human aspects of technology transformation and evolution. Hannah is relentlessly curious about the tools, technologies, processes and practices that make life better for the people involved in software development, using this knowledge to build happy, high-performing engineering teams. Hannah now works as an independent adviser, writer and creator at the intersection of platform engineering, security and AI.
Ian Coldwater specializes in hacking and hardening Kubernetes, containers and cloud-native infrastructure. In their spare time, they like to go roller skating, participate in Capture the Flag competitions, and eat a lot of pie. Ian lives in Minneapolis and tweets @IanColdwater.
Igor Papirov is a chief architect of AzureWatch, a monitoring and management service for Windows Azure applications. He is a passionate about software development, cloud computing and Windows Azure. Igor is also a Windows Azure Insider.
Inés Sombra is a director of engineering at Fastly, where she spends her time helping the web go faster. Inés holds an M.S. in Computology with an emphasis on Cheesy 80’s Rock Ballads. She has a fondness for steak, fernet, and a pug named Gordo. In a previous life, Inés was a Data Engineer.