Guests of Arrested DevOps
Lindsay Holmwood
Lindsay Holmwood is a engineering manager living in the Australian Blue Mountains. Lindsay works at the Australian Government’s Digital Transformation Agency, building clearer, simpler, faster public services . A long-time contributor to the open source and DevOps communities, he authored cucumber-nagios, Visage, and Flapjack, and has run the Sydney DevOps meetup the past six years. Lindsay speaks internationally about both the cultural and technical side of DevOps, covering Just Culture, complexity, cognitive biases, and monitoring tools. He also won third place at the 1996 Sydney Royal Easter Show LEGO building competition.
Liz Fong-Jones
Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 15+ years of experience. She is an advocate at Honeycomb.io for the SRE and Observability communities, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights.
She lives in Brooklyn with her wife, metamours, and a Samoyed/Golden Retriever mix, and in San Francisco and Seattle with her other partners. She plays classical piano, leads an EVE Online alliance, and advocates for transgender rights as a board member of the National Center for Transgender Equality.
Manuel Pais
Manuel Pais is an independent IT consultant and trainer, focused on team interactions, delivery practices and accelerating flow. Manuel is co-author of the book “Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow” (IT Revolution Press, 2019). He helps organizations rethink their approach to software delivery, operations and support via strategic assessments, practical workshops, and coaching.
Mark Heckler
Mark Heckler is a Pivotal Principal Technologist & Developer Advocate, conference speaker, published author, & Java Champion focusing upon developing innovative production-ready software at velocity for the Cloud and IoT applications. He has worked with key players in the manufacturing, retail, medical, scientific, telecom, and financial industries and various public sector organizations to develop and deliver critical capabilities on time and on budget. Mark is an open source contributor and author/curator of a developer-focused blog (http://www.thehecklers.org) and an occasionally interesting Twitter account (@MkHeck). Mark lives with his very understanding wife in St. Louis, MO USA.
Mark Hibberd
Mark is the Head Technologist at Kinesis in Sydney, where they help cities and developers (like, property developers) help the climate, using data. He believes in guiding complex systems through change.
Mark Imbriaco
Mark works at Pivotal where he helps customers adopt DevOps practices and modernize technology delivery. He has spent the last 20 years building and operating internet infrastructure and applications, leading TechOps organizations at places like GitHub, Heroku, DigitalOcean, and Basecamp. He is frequently opinionated about topics relating to incident response, outage communication, team performance, and organizational learning.
Martin Thompson
Martin is a Java Champion with over 2 decades of experience building complex and high-performance computing systems. He is most recently known for his work on Aeron and SBE. Previously at LMAX he was the co-founder and CTO when he created the Disruptor. Prior to LMAX Martin worked for Betfair, three different content companies wrestling with the world largest product catalogues, and was a lead on some of the most significant C++ and Java systems of the 1990s in the automotive and finance domains.
Mary Thengvall
Mary Thengvall is a connector of people at heart, both personally and professionally. She loves digging into the strategy of how to build and foster communities and has been working with various developer communities for over 10 years. After several years of building community programs at O’Reilly Media, Chef Software, and SparkPost, she’s now consulting and contracting with companies looking to build out a Developer Relations strategy. She’s also the author of the first book on Developer Relations: The Business Value of Developer Relations ( © 2018, Apress).
Mary is a co-host of Community Pulse, a podcast for community professionals, and the curator of DevRel Weekly, a newsletter for people in the Developer Relations industry. She speaks at various conferences and events about building and fostering technical communities as well as how to prevent burnout in yourself and your team.
