Guests of Arrested DevOps
Shelby Spees
Shelby Spees is a Developer Advocate at Honeycomb, where she helps developers better understand their services in production in order to deliver more business value. Before joining Honeycomb, Shelby worked on applications, build pipelines, infrastructure, and other reliability efforts. She’s dedicated to improving access and equity in tech as well as to helping people feel good about their work.
Shelby lives in Los Angeles, CA, where she enjoys doing karaoke with her pitbull, Nova.
Sidney Miller (She/Her)
Working Mom, a huge Arizona Wildcat Alumni and knows a thing or two about humans and matching them to the right Engineering role. I say all the things my engineers want to say about all the things they can not because of unsafe places. Advocate for those without a voice in the company and on the street. I got you.
I specialize in developer tools, cloud computing and anything from the interface layer to the data center.
Silvia Botros
Silvia Botros is a Senior Principal Engineer at Twilio Sendgrid. She likes to help teams scale their databases and build well architected platforms. She loves finding the breaking point of all sorts of technologies and her superpower is EMPing everything she touches.
You can find out the latest thing Silvia is working on by following her on twitter or by reading her posts on her blog.
Sonia Gupta
Sonia Gupta is currently a software developer at Ibotta, Inc. in Denver, CO. Prior to becoming a developer, Sonia was a lawyer in Louisiana. She served as a Public Defender in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, then as a Prosecutor, and finally as an Assistant Attorney General doing torts and Civil Rights litigation.
Before initiating her career change, Sonia had no experience in programming and software development. She attended the Turing School of Software and Design where she learned best practices through a curriculum focused on Ruby and Rails development.
Sonia is an outspoken advocate of diversity and inclusion in tech and in life. She is passionate about fostering empathetic and effective communication on engineering teams, and believes that even if tech can’t always change the world, technologists absolutely can.
Stephanie Stimac
Stephanie is a Design Technologist and Program Manager for Microsoft Edge Developer Experiences. Her design and program management work has been focused on improving the tools developers use to build for the web, including the browser developer tools and the open source project, which she was the lead designer for, webhint.io. She is passionate about connecting with the web community to help drive the vision of the future forward and has recently been co-leading The Web We Want initiative to help do that.
Stephanie Van Dyk
Stephanie Van Dyk is an SRE who likes really big, broken things. In November 2013, she got swept up in one of the most high profile technical disasters of all time – the failure of healthcare.gov. Stephanie currently works on Search at Google.
Steve Corona
Steve Corona is the author of Scaling PHP Applications. Steve slept next to his laptop for a year while learning how to scale Twitpic to 50 million users. Now, Steve is the Head of API at Life360, where he bends PHP to his will, torturing it with 800 million API requests per day :) Steve blogs about life hacking at stevecorona.com and has been featured by FastCompany, WSJ, NYT, and LifeHacker.
Steve Giguere (He/Him)
Currently I am enjoying life as a Developer Advocate with Bridgecrew (by Palo Alto) specialising in Cloud and Infrastructure Security Automation. Prior to this I was a Solution Architect for StackRox and Aqua Security specialising in container and kubernetes security and also previously spent several years Synopsys establishing DevSecOps best practices for enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
I also have killer new podcast called CoSeCast - The Continuous Security Podcast, a personal blog and podcast called Codifyre, and represent Great Britain at playing Ultimate Frisbee.