Guests of Arrested DevOps
Katie McLaughlin
Katie has worn many different hats over the years. She has been a software developer for many languages, systems administrator for multiple operating systems, and speaker on many different topics. When she’s not changing the world, she enjoys cooking, making tapestries, and yelling at JavaScript and its attempt at global variables.
Katie Prizy
Katie is a Sr. DevOps Engineer at Health Care Service Corporation. She leads a team of CI/CD enthusiasts and supports over 500 applications. Katie’s team builds highly automated, audit-compliant solutions that take teams from requirements to Production safer and faster. Katie lives in Forest Park, IL with a beautiful wife and two of the cutest dogs you’ll ever see.
Katy Farmer
Katy is a developer, writer, and storyteller who is always learning something new. She has worked in Developer Relations for three years, and loves connecting with new communities. She has been described by both strangers and loved ones as “chaotic” and “a little much”.
Kelsey Hightower
Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech, and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go code, you can catch him giving technical workshops covering everything from programming to system administration.
Ken Mugrage
Ken Mugrage has spent the last 10 years teaching DevOps and Continuous Delivery for ThoughtWorks. He’s a 30 year industry vet, global organizer for DevOpsDays and remains in denial about people using the term DevOps Engineer.
Kenny Bastani
Kenny works at Pivotal as Developer Advocate for the Spring technologies. As open source contributor and blogger, he engages a community of passionate developers on topics ranging from graph databases to microservices. He’s co-author of the O’Reilly book “Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry”. He has also worked as enterprise software consultant in projects requiring a full-stack web developer in agile mode.
Kent Rancourt
Kent is a senior engineer at Microsoft, a dad, martial arts instructor, comic book nerd, and Legomaniac.