Ace is the iOS Lead on the Mobile SRE team at American Express. He lives in Phoenix, AZ with his wife and two dogs. When he's not trying to measure all the things in the Amex mobile apps, he's probably thinking about board games and escape rooms.

Ada Lündhé is a Lead Engineer at Datavant, helming the Developer Experience team. Ada has a wide ranging background, ranging from web development and machine learning engineering to test and DevOps, which they use to build unique and unconventional solutions.

AJ is a Specialist in the field of DevOps/SRE with over 20 years of empirical operational experience. He not only architects and designs, but also implements and maintains the infrastructure thereafter, the whole nine yards, soup to nuts. He ventures out to learn unfamiliar things, digging in to finding the root cause and coming up with tangible solutions.

Arjun Sharda is an 12-year old founder, self-published author, open source maintainer, and speaker. He is the founder of TLEEM, a 501(c)(3) non-profit addressing and solving real-world problems in the TLEEM (Technology, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Engineering, and Mathematics) field, while also helping passionate people in the TLEEM field develop their skills. Arjun is also the maintainer of open source projects like Searchor, Passeo, and many more.

A friendly and pragmatic technologist who enjoys being thrown into challenging situations and solving problems with a diverse and inclusive set of peers. Driven to design and deliver technical solutions that are simple and scalable.

Daniel is a seasoned software consultant at Lean TECHniques, helping teams deliver high quality software. He works alongside teams as they adopt various agile and lean technical practices, such as effective CI/CD, automated testing, cloud development, and product management.

With experience in software development and consulting across several industries including financial, retail, and agriculture, he has fulfilled roles including technical coach, agile coach and tech lead. Daniel's core background lies in being a software developer. He finds his job most fulfilling when he can help teams understand their unique challenges and work together to improve their technical practices and enjoy their job more as a whole.

Although he has worked a variety of programming languages, such as Typescript, Daniel thrives in the .NET ecosystem and considers it home base for himself. He also particularly enjoys automated testing, whether it's the theory behind it, delving into the different implementations options and libraries available, or helping teams adopt it.

He also enjoys playing piano and guitar, swing dancing, and working on his own personal programming projects in his free time. including game development, for which he has a company called Nightcap Games that he has released one game under.

Eric Proegler is a Staff Platform Engineer for Credit Karma in Oakland, California. At work, he’s hacking processes, wielding metrics carefully, asking questions, and generally splitting the difference between Solver and Right Hand StaffEng Archetypes.

Previously, Eric has been a Senior Director of Quality Engineering, a performance testing consulting practice lead, a Testing Tools Product Manager, and the President of the Association for Software Testing. He’s presented at CAST, TestBash, Agile, PNSQC, CMG Impact, STARWEST, Jenkins World, Quality Sense Conf, Oredev, Nordic Testing Days, Romanian Testing Conference, Yerevan Testing Days, CodeFest, and STPCon. Eric may be best known as the lead organizer for WOPR, the Workshop on Performance and Reliability.

In his free time, Eric spends time with family, travels, runs a science fiction book club, and is resuming a busy schedule of live literary events, music, and stand-up comedy. He seeks out street food from all over, plays video games, collects Lego sets, and closely follows the NBA.

Hello! I'm Ethan Jones, a Senior DevOps Engineer at Liatrio. I'm passionate about min-maxing aspects of the software development life cycle. Outside of work I enjoy playing soccer and taking too long to complete woodworking projects.

Software engineer with experience in cloud architecture and web application development. I enjoy the challenge of solving a hard problem with innovative solutions that work with both business and technical stakeholders to achieve goals. When not working, I love spending time with my family, paddle-boarding, and dabbling in DJ'ing

Born and raised in the ever-expanding Greater Houston Area, Garo has been messing with software for at least 29 years, writing it for money for about 20 years, and loving every clock cycle of it. He has worked as the Software Whisperer for Baker Hughes, leading software teams, conducting design reviews, and coaching people on how to put the 0's and 1's in a close enough order to make things work. Later, he was a Principal Consultant at Headspring, making silky smooth software and spreading mirth and merriment. Currently, he is a Software Whisperer (and Senior Manager) at Accenture, now learning and doing software at a global scale.

Developer advocate with six years experience in tech.

Engineer at RackN

James is the CEO and Co-Founder of DryRun Security, a devtool company that uses a first-of-its-kind Contextual Security Analysis to help developers create more secure software across the entire development and deployment pipeline.

He is a dynamic speaker on software engineering topics ranging from security to development practices and he has spent a lot of time at the intersection of the DevOps and Security communities.

As an author, he created several courses on DevOps and DevSecOps at LinkedIn Learning. His courses include DevOps Foundations, Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps: Automated Security Testing, Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Site Reliability Engineering, and more.

James is the creator of the Lonestar Application Security Conference, the most-fun AppSec conference in Texas. He also ran DevOps Days Austin for over 10 years. He previously served on the global DevOps Days board.

In his spare time, he is trying to learn how to make a perfect BBQ brisket.

Jeremy is a Developer Relations and Community leader, formerly the Director of DevRel & Community at CircleCI, and previously at Solace, Auth0, and XDA. With almost 30 years in Tech, covering just about every functional area including Support, SysAdmin, Application Developer, Program Manager, and Business Analyst, Jeremy is active in the DevRel and DevOps communities, and is a co-creator of DevOpsPartyGames.com. A lover of all things coffee, community, open source, and tech, he’s a husband and father, and is also house-broken, and (generally) plays well with others.

Whether it’s operators or observability, agile or accessibility, my expertise shines because I’m passionate about all of it. I’ve been building software for more than a decade and I love sharing experiences via public speaking. I’m currently a Product Manager for IBM Instana, where I often help create educational content about observability, and I am a contributor to the OpenTelemetry project.

Justin Reock is the Head of Developer Relations for Cortex.io, and is an outspoken speaker, writer, and software practice evangelist. He has over 20 years of experience working in various software roles and has delivered enterprise solutions, technical leadership, and community education on a range of topics. After a fifteen year career in software development, Justin now focuses on helping businesses create better throughput by optimizing the developer experience. Much of his work can be found online including lectures, keynotes, blogs, and other publications.

Michelle Greer has helped engineering teams improve their productivity for over a decade. At Heroku, she edited "The Twelve Factor App," which outlines best practices for distributed systems. She also worked to understand the pain points of platform teams as an early Product Marketing hire for HashiCorp, where she managed the Terraform ecosystem. She is now applying these learnings at the API layer as the Product Marketing lead at Apollo GraphQL.

Good morning! I'm an Engineer that got my start as a Scala Developer and made the transition into Cloud/DevOps/Platform/SRE/etc Engineering™. I love helping fellow developers enjoy their job which is what attracted me to DevOps. In my free time; I enjoy biking, climbing, and gaming whenever I have the time.

Engineering Director @ CrabNebula. Jill of many trades, expert at some. I'm an avid hockey player (center) and have been playing since I was 7. When I'm not working or on the ice, I'm usually spending time with my kid doing a number of activities or outside working on my yard.

Peco Karayanev, based in Austin, TX, has been in the tech industry for over two decades. He's held key roles in product management at PagerDuty, Rundeck, Aternity Inc. and Riverbed Inc., where he drove growth and innovation. With a strong engineering background from National Instruments Inc., he developed cloud automation frameworks, observability systems and led system engineering projects. Peco actively engages with industry communities, speaks at events, and continues to author coursework.

Do you keep wondering why building automation is so hard and even harder to share as a community? That really bugs Rob too! He has been creating software to collaboratively automate infrastructure for over 20 years. His latest startup, RackN, focuses on providing team-focus IaC automation and abstraction layers for provisioning Cloud, Edge and Enterprise data centers. He is also building a forward looking operator community at the2030.cloud with weekly DevOps and future hallway-type discussions.

Ross started his tech career as an assistant SysAdmin at an engineering firm in High School, where he was introduced to 2003 vintage monitoring tools like sar, perl, and the crontab. He was an early employee at CopperEgg -- a server/cloud monitoring SaaS company from 2011-2014 -- where he learned that "DevOps" is not just a way of life, but also a verb and job title. He currently DevOps at Logicmonitor -- yet another server/cloud monitoring SaaS company -- as a Senior DevOps Engineer where he complains about databases in his expensive time. In between the monitoring firms, he used several other monitoring technologies, all of which technically functioned I guess. In his free time he's Commander Shepard and this is his favorite talk at the conference.

Rumana Haque is part of the System Verification Test group for WebSphere in IBM, where she has spent more than a decade. Her focus is on System Test Applications which are used to test WebSphere. This includes updating, maintaining and modernizing the applications, as well executing Stress tests on WebSphere using these applications using automation.
In her free time she enjoys gardening, and volunteering for the Girls Who Code organization.

Scott has done most of the things in devops and many of the things in other types of ops and dev. Doesn't really like long walks, but does like cats, the sound of a 2400 baud Hayes Smartmodem, and learning things from people. According to some people, I'm contractually obligated to mention AIX in any conversation about software that's more than 10 minutes long.

I've been employed by IBM for 29 years. I started out as a C-programmer, and quickly moved into the QA/Test role as I enjoyed breaking software in it's early stages. I also had a knack for setting up environments that mimicked customer's environments that stressed out software that we were delivering. As software and systems became more complex, all of the manual steps to setup target environments became to tedious, so I sought out 'auto-magic' processes that could accelerate testing.

Xe Iaso is a technical educator, twitch streamer, vtuber, and philosopher that focuses on ways to help make technology easier to understand and do cursed things in the process. Xe lives in Ottawa with their husband and does developer relations professionally. Xe is an avid writer for their blog xeiaso.net, where they have over 400 articles. They regularly experiment with new technologies and find ways to mash them up with old technologies for their own amusement.

I'm an engineering intern at RackN, working on the Digital Rebar Portal.