Guests of Arrested DevOps
Phillip Gibson
Phillip Gibson is a passionate technologist who champions the use of cloud native technologies, services, and open source software. With a career that spans a diverse set of IT roles at Microsoft and Docker, Phillip knows how effective driving of incremental technology changes can add up to substantial business impact. While not learning the next big tech thing, hacking code, or building systems, Phillip involves himself in several technology and coding mentoring programs targeting minority and the underserved student populations, as well as a relentless pursuit of mastering the art of smoke barbecue.
Quintessence Anx
Quintessence meandered into developer relations after a long tenure in IT and operations roles. After running AWS bills up and then bringing them back down again, she brought her “lessons learned” to PagerDuty, where she is a Developer Advocate. Outside of work, she co-founded Inclusive Tech Buffalo and mentors underrepresented groups to help them launch sustainable careers in technology.
Ranjib Dey
I am a system administrator with PagerDuty. Along with rest of our team, I try to design systems that can withstand major outages. Before joining PagerDuty, I worked at Google, ThoughtWorks etc, where I was working with private build/deployment cloud, also enabling continuous delivery & cloud adoption. I did my masters in Life Science (Bioinformatics), and I always try to create infrastructure like living systems.
Rein Henrichs
Rein is a strange sort of software developer who spends more time thinking about systems made with people than systems made with computers. He believes that most technical problems are really people problems, and that people problems can be solved by listening to, caring for, and helping each other. Talking about himself in the third person makes him uncomfortable, but he is working on it. He also wrote a database in Haskell once, so he has that going for him, which is nice.
Reuben Dunn
Reuben Dunn is the DevOps Practice Lead at Fraedom - a payment, expense and travel SaaS platform. Reuben is influencing a transformation around continuous learning, scientific experimentation and Fraedom’s newly formed SRE team. Reuben started in the Windows Ops space cutting his teeth on a DEC server running NT Server 3.51, before moving into development roles after needing to script users into AD. In the development roles, he found himself doing the build & deploys, then found belonging in the DevOps Space. Reuben is passionate about a sustainable transformation for DevOps in the windows space.
Reuben enjoys life with his wife and 4 kids on a rural section in the south-east of Auckland. Reuben is also the lead organiser for DevOpsDays Wellington which ran earlier this year.
Rin Oliver (they/them)
Rin is a Technical Community Builder at Camunda. They enjoy discussing all things open source, with a particular focus on diversity in tech, improving hiring pipelines in OSS for those that are neurodivergent, and removing accessibility barriers to learning programming. Rin is also a Member of Kubernetes, a contributor to Spinnaker, involved in the Kubernetes Contributor Experience SIG, and is a Storyteller on the Kubernetes Upstream Marketing Team. When not immersed in all things OSS and cloud-native, they can be found hanging out with their wife and pets, making candles, cooking, or gaming.
RJ Williams
RJ Williams is a Senior Product Marketing Specialist at ASPE. He has a proven track record of successfully developing and launching learning products related to DevOps and Data Analytics. At work, you’ll find RJ optimizing marketing campaigns, developing product strategy, and improving operational success.
RJ is also a core member of the DevOpsDays Raleigh organizing committee.
Rob Cummings
Rob has been involved in IT operations for the past 14 years. This includes work at Bose, EMC Corporation, and Accenture prior to joining Nordstrom. While at Nordstrom he has been a sysadmin on teams responsible for shop.nordstrom.com, back-end merchandising systems, and virtualization infrastructure. Rob made the jump into leadership by helping form the Nordstrom Infrastructure Engineering and Public Cloud teams. Today, Rob supports the eCommerce Technical Operations teams and is focusing his passion on modernizing our technology stack and how we work together.