Guests of Arrested DevOps
Michelle Noorali
Michelle Noorali is a Sr. Software Engineer at Microsoft and works on open source, cloud native technologies. She is a member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee and serves as a developer representative on the CNCF Governing Board. Michelle has served as core maintainer of several open source projects like Helm, Draft, CNAB. She now focuses on the service mesh space on projects like Service Mesh Interface (SMI) and Open Service Mesh (OSM). She is passionate about building modular and robust solutions, friendly developer experiences, and doughnuts.
Mick Pollard
After a couple of decades in the ISP, Web Hosting and Cloud Industry as a sysadmin / Infrastructure Coder, Mick Pollard joined the Australian Government’s Digital Transformation Agency to help build clearer, simpler, faster public services. Mick’s focus is on building the next generation hosting platform that allows digital transformation teams to operate safely at speed. Mick co-founded Devops Sydney along with Lindsay Holmwood in Feb 2010 - a monthly meetup for ideas and knowledge sharing around helping development and operations work more efficiently together rather than in silos. When not tapping at a keyboard Mick can be found chasing the many kangaroos off his property or helping the local community as a first responder with the New South Wales Rural Fire Service.
Mike Fiedler
Mike is a long-time systems engineer, building a variety of platforms with all technologies. Currently the Director of Technical Operations at Datadog, he focuses on delivering scalable platforms with short turnaround times via automation. He is the Chief Editor of Ops School, and contributes to Chef, maintains cookbooks, and many other open source projects. Sometimes he writes a few of his own. He’s spoken at Velocity, DevOpsDays, ChefConf and AWS re:Invent, amongst others.
Monica Hart
Going from retail cashier to software engineer, she is now a Technology Associate with VMLY&R in Kansas City. She enjoys reading historical fiction and watching Jenkins pipeline scripts build without errors.
Nate Brengle
Currently a Game Designer working in partnership with Stanford to create medical games as well as a QA and Business Analyst for Pathfinder Software. His romance with Quality extends far beyond software and games, with ties to the literary and plastic arts, philosophized psychoanalysis, and functional religion.
Nate Burleson
18 years of experience with internet-centric technologies, which lends both a breadth and depth of knowledge. Also, an almost obsessive passion for matching the right technology with qualified business goals and opportunities.
Nathen Harvey
VP of Community Development at Chef, helps the community whip up an awesome ecosystem built around the Chef platform. Nathen also spends much of his time helping people learn about the practices, processes, and technologies that support DevOps, continuous delivery, and high velocity organizations. Nathen is a co-host of the Food Fight Show, a podcast about Chef and DevOps. He is also an occasional farmer who loves eggs and actively supports #hugops.
Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Nell Shamrell-Harrington is a Software Development Engineer at Chef, focusing on the Supermarket open source product. She also sits on the advisory board for the University of Washington Certificates in Ruby Programming and DevOps. She specializes in Chef, Ruby, Rails, Regular Expressions, and Test Driven Development and has traveled the world speaking on these topics. Prior to entering the world of software development, she studied and worked in the field of theatre.