15 years of DevOpsDays

Brit is the VP of Engineering at System Initiative and has over a decade of experience scaling high-performing engineering teams. Prior to System Initiative, she was a member of the executive team at Hyland Software where she led global engineering teams responsible for building multiple cloud product lines and was most recently the Head of Cloud Engineering at Firebolt Analytics, where she was responsible for designing and executing the strategic direction of DevOps at Firebolt. Brit recently completed her Executive MBA from the University of Michigan and holds a degree in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University.

Non-binary. Punk. Docker Captain. Google Developer Expert. I'm a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and currently work at Storyblok, with a postgraduate degree in Computational Forensics and Master degree in Operation, Evaluation and Advanced Management of Computer Networks at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. I am a Docker Community Leader awarded twice by Docker Inc, DevOpsDays Core Organizer, Impulso Expert, Hashicorp Ambassador, organizer and speaker of DevOpsDays in Brazil and instructor by LinuxTips. In my spare time I'm enjoying life and fluffing my black kittens <3 https://pronoun.is/they

Michael Coté studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck cover these topics. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&A, and was a programmer. He also co-hosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk. His daily-ish newsletter is at newsletter.cote.io.

David Sandilands is an author and I.T. infrastructure expert who focuses on the management of Puppet’s development ecosystem and integrations. Prior to this, he worked within Puppet’s customer services team where he helped Puppet’s largest customers deliver infrastructure automation at scale and contributed to their DevOps working practices.

In 2023, David published “Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers” which is available through major book outlets. That year, he also became a DevOps Advisory Board Member for DevNetwork. David’s expertise is called upon for the annual State of DevOps Report (SODOR), and he’s also a frequent contributor to Puppet’s “Pulling the Strings” podcast, a community event presenter, and a popular webinar guest.

David has a passion for delivering change into traditional working environments, breaking down team silos, and integrating DevOps practices within heavily regulated and audited environments. Before joining Puppet by Perforce, David spent eight years at NatWest as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer delivering their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Platform.

Outside of work, David is an accomplished hillwalker (Munroist number: 3085) having climbed all 282 of the Scottish Monros. He also enjoys sci-fi and fantasy books and regularly visits Scotland's tractor parks with his wife and two sons.

Dirk is a DevOps evangelist and Continuous Delivery expert at SAP.

Since 2001 Dirk worked in various roles at SAP which mainly revolved around Development and Operations.
Together with his former team "TwoGo by SAP" he established the first Continuous Delivery implementation at SAP, delivering value daily to their customers.

In his current role, he is part of the CI/CD Product Management at SAP, helping SAP’s product teams on their CI/CD and DevOps journey.

Dirk is a frequent speaker at international conferences on DevOps and Continuous Delivery and co-organizer of DevOpsDays Zurich

Developer advocate at Chef

Ikuo Odanaka is an Engineering Manager focused on Agile Software Development Process and OKR.
He has been attend some Agile Conference in Japan as a speaker.

• Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo 2021
• Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo 2023
• Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo 2024
• Scrum Fest Niigata 2022
• Scrum Fest Niigata 2023
• Scrum Fest Niigata 2024
• Scrum Fest Mikawa 2022
• Scrum Fest Fukuoka 2023
• DevOpsDays Tokyo 2023
• DevOpsDays Tokyo 2023

His slides has been selected as most viewed decks in speakerdeck.

https://blog.speakerdeck.com/2022-most-viewed-decks/
- "I don't have time" syndrome, its tendency and countermeasures(https://speakerdeck.com/navitimejapan/shi-jian-ganai-zheng-hou-qun-sofalseqing-xiang-todui-ce)

https://blog.speakerdeck.com/2023-most-viewed-decks/
- A Demise of a retrospective(https://speakerdeck.com/navitimejapan/a-demise-of-a-retrospective)

John Willis has worked in IT management for over 35 years and is a prolific author, including "Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge" and "The DevOps Handbook." He is researching DevOps, DevSecOps, IT risk, modern governance, and audit compliance. Previously, he was an Evangelist at Docker Inc., VP of Solutions for Socketplane (sold to Docker) and Enstratius (sold to Dell), and VP of Training & Services at Opscode, where he formalized the training, evangelism, and professional services functions at the firm. Willis also founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award-winning IBM business partner specializing in deploying Tivoli technology to the enterprise. Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems.

Mandi Walls is a DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty. For PagerDuty, she helps organizations along their IT Modernization journey. Prior to PagerDuty, she worked at Chef Software and AOL. She is an international speaker on DevOps topics and the author of the whitepaper “Building A DevOps Culture”, published by O’Reilly.

Manuel Pais is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow. Recognized by TechBeacon as a DevOps thought leader, Manuel is an independent IT organizational consultant and trainer, focused on team interactions, delivery practices and accelerating flow.

Michael Ducy currently leads a team of technical experts focusing on helping companies adopt and use Red Hat’s Cloud Services on AWS, Azure, and other public clouds. Michael has held a variety of roles in his career including Cloud Architect, Systems Engineering, Performance Engineering, Open Source Advocacy, Developer Advocacy, IT Instructor, and Sales Engineering. Through his career he’s been an active user of open source software, and has contributed to communities such as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Falco and sig-security). Michael holds Master degrees in Computer Science (University of Chicago) and Business Administration (The Ohio State University). In his spare time Michael loves to travel, and enjoys woodworking.

Nathen Harvey, Developer Relations Engineer, leads the DORA team at Google Cloud. DORA enables teams and organizations to thrive by making industry-shaping research accessible and actionable. Nathen has learned and shared lessons from some incredible organizations, teams, and open source communities. He is a co-author of multiple DORA reports on software delivery performance and was a contributor and editor for 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know, published by O'Reilly in 2020.

Platform engineering aficionado. Promoting better development through cloud native.

Communications expert, event organizer, community gatherer. OSS contributor, sailing the K8s ocean since 2019. Marketing Director @Mia-Platform.
Strong believer that better software engineering brings to better development for the planet.

Engineering Manager at SUSE, working on Kubernetes’s related projects such as Rancher. Builder of Updatecli, and Former Infrastructure officer of the Jenkins project. Olivier has extensive experience in building OSS tooling around infrastructure automation.

Patrick Debois currently works in the intersection of genAI and DevOps as an independent consultant:
- guiding companies in their genAI transformation journey , bringing engineering rigor to genAI delivery
- inspiring engineering to embrace AI to improve their automation
- advising genAI platforms on their product offering and Ideal customer Profile
- raising the bar of our industry as a keynote speaker

He is a versatile technologist with a breadth of experience across Dev, Sec, and Ops and genAI continuously pushing the boundaries of his technical expertise. Known for his aptitude in harnessing emerging ideas , he skillfully guides teams and advises businesses ranging from startups to enterprises in their journey. Recognized as a trusted ally among dev, sec, ops communities.

While Patrick’s technical appetite is vast, his affinity for people is equally profound. He possesses the rare ability to bridge perspectives, effortlessly switching between management and individual contributor levels and roles. This unique experience has led him organizing the first Devopsdays in 2009. He is attributed to coining the term DevOps and co-author of the widely known Devops Handbook. In the past Patrick has worked together with renowned tech organizations such as Atlassian and Snyk. He has experience wearing hats such as VP of Engineering , Distinguished Engineer or CTO.

He thrives in sharing knowledge, organizing numerous community events, and presenting at many more. He believes in transforming his learnings into shareable lessons, using this feedback loop to hone his skills and broaden his perspectives. Through open sharing and lateral thinking, Patrick is not just enhancing his professional growth but also contributing significantly to the evolution of the field.

You can enjoy his past talks on his youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@jedi4ever/videos. Or follow the firehose of learnings he shares on Twitter https://twitter.com/patrickdebois

Independent Lead DevOps Engineer/Architect, who has been working in the engineering field for the past 10 years across multiple projects and with various technologies.

Paulina is a co-founder of Code Club Copenhagen and The Better Software Initiative creating community and educational events for software professionals.

Rhea is a Marketing Specialist and Developer Relations advocate at Mia-Platform.
Enthusiastic about Platform Engineering and AI with a Gen-Z overview of technology.
Passionate about tech events and conferences, and collaborative efforts to share knowledge
and ideas. She loves traveling, trying new cuisines, and showering love on every dog she
sees.

Sasha is a founder of a new venture, Ergonautic

With a degree in Computer Science, an MBA, and two decades of experience across development, operations, product management, and technical sales, at companies including Microsoft and Red Hat, Sasha Rosenbaum brings a unique perspective to optimizing the organizational flow of work, bridging gaps with empathy and insight.

Sergiu brings an applied background in strategic planning, complex change management, process transformation, and technology enablement to organizations seeking to continually evolve the way they deliver value and build highly engaged, collaborative cultures.

He has worked with some of the world’s largest names in banking, insurance, and other industrial era companies, advising on their digital transformation strategies and helping them extract business value from modern technologies and methodologies. Sergiu was selected on the list of Top 100 Fintech mentors in Singapore. He is the organiser of DevOps meetup, and annual conference DevOpsDays Singapore and holds Bachelors in Computer Science.

Steve Pereira was lucky to join Ghent 2014 with an ignite talk “DevOps is the MacGuffin” about the present and future of DevOps. Since then, he’s become a student of past and parallel efforts to improve performance, and applying his learning with teams in organizations of all sizes. He’s compiled that learning in a set of practices shared with a community of flow enablers, and written papers and books to share the most impactful concepts, principles and practices.

Steve has spent over two decades improving the flow of work across organizations. He's worked through tech support, IT management, build and release engineering, and as a founding CTO for enterprise SaaS.

He serves as lead consultant for Visible Flow Consulting, as a board advisor to the Value Stream Management Consortium, Chair of the OASIS Value Stream Management Interoperability technical committee, and co-founder of the Flow Collective to bring flow-focused professionals together. Since 2017, he has been developing and facilitating Flow Engineering to make flow improvement in large organizations accessible. collaborative, and actionable.

Ulf Månsson is a Senior infrastructure architect, with experience from small startups to large global corporations was one of the co-founders of Recorded Future and started to build an extensive cloud infrastructure based on AWS in 2008. He has spoken at #ChefConf, CfgMgmtCamp,, Devopsdays, and different events in Sweden about infrastructure, cloud, operations and CI/CD.