Guests of Arrested DevOps
James Turnbull
James Turnbull is the CTO of Empatico. A long-time member of the open source community, James is the author of nine technical books about open source software: The Terraform Book, The Art of Monitoring, The Logstash Book, The Docker Book, Pro Puppet, Pulling Strings with Puppet, Pro Linux System Administration, Pro Nagios 2.0, and Hardening Linux. He was formerly CTO at Kickstarter and an advisor at Docker. James likes food, wine, books, photography, and cats. He is not overly keen on long walks on the beach or holding hands.
James Watters
James Watters is the senior vice president of Pivotal’s product and business development organizations. In this role, James has helped shepherd the company’s marquee product—Pivotal Cloud Foundry—into a highly disruptive enterprise software business and the industry standard platform for cloud applications. Under his leadership, in less than two years, Pivotal Cloud Foundry has become the fastest growing open source product in history. Prior to Pivotal, James served in leading product roles at VMware and Sun Microsystems.
Jason Dixon
Founder of Monitorama. Author of the Graphite Book. Previously: Librato, Dyn, GitHub, Heroku and Circonus.
Jason Hand
Jason Hand writes, presents, and coaches on the principles and nuance of DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and modern incident management practices. Named “DevOps Evangelist of the Year” by DevOps.com in 2016, Jason recently authored a new book on the topic of Site Reliability Engineering. In addition to SRE, Jason has authored books with O’Reilly Media on the subject of post-incident reviews and Chatops. DevOpsDays Rockies organizer and host of the Front-range Site Reliability Meetup, Jason is dedicated to the latest trends in technology, sharing the lessons learned, and helping people continuously improve their IT and software development practices. Jason is also a co-host on the popular podcast, “Community Pulse” - a show on building community in tech.
Jason Yee
Jason Yee is Director of Advocacy at Gremlin where he helps people build more resilient systems by learning from how they fail. He also leads the internal Chaos Engineering practices to make Gremlin more reliable. Previously, he worked at Datadog, O’Reilly Media, and MongoDB. His pandemic-coping activities include drinking whiskey, cooking everything in a waffle iron, and making chocolate.
Jay Gordon
Jay Gordon is a Senior Cloud Ops Advocate with the Microsoft Azure Advocates. He and the rest of the Advocacy team are focused on helping Developers and Ops teams get the most out of their cloud experience with Microsoft Azure. Prior to Microsoft, Jay was part of teams at DigitalOcean, BuzzFeed and MongoDB. Jay lives in New York City with his wife and has a goofy pug named Rico.
Jeanne Steinback
Currently the Director of Software Delivery at Rewards Network, Jeanne was previously the Director of Corp Systems Software Development for Redbox. Jeanne has over 14 years of hands-on continuous improvement of software delivery teams, a full understanding of SDLC, and expertise in implementing progressive tools and methodologies.
