Al Crowley is a Principal Engineer at TCG where he has built web applications for the federal government since 1996. He currently serves as TCG's DevSecOps Capability Captain, driving initiatives to integrate security and automation into the development lifecycle. Al is a company evangelist for these best practices, both internally and externally. He previously led the South Jersey Python Development Group and actively provides training and mentorship within TCG. A proud alumnus of Villanova and the University of Pennsylvania, Al loves being part of the tech and social culture in Philadelphia.
- Surviving a High-Stakes $40M Federal Live Code Challenge
Ankur is an Expert Application Engineer at Discover Financial Services (DFS). He is very passionate about building large and complex highly available applications using Java/JavaScript/Python and related open source tooling. He is a full stack developer who also wears an architect hat from time to time. Ankur loves to follow the latest in technology trends and how enterprise apps can take advantage of them to deliver a better customer experience. He holds a Bachelors of Engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Besides work, Ankur loves to follow cricket and is very active in the field of investing.
- Secure Coding: Automate secret management and security scanning
Anuj is Senior SRE with more than a decade of experience in SRE/DevOps and passionate for Cloud Native, OpenSource. He is also AWS Community Builder.
- Breaking GitOps Bottlenecks: The Power of Sharding
- Building AI Agents for AWS Infrastructure Automation
Benjie is the co-founder of Shipyard and co-hosts the Kubelist podcast. Previously, he built out CI/CD pipelines for companies ranging in size from seed to Fortune 50. He enjoys automating the mundane and releasing code that he knows has been tested and validated! When not working, he likes hanging out with his pug and family.
- What the Makefile got right (49 years later)
Hi! I am a Developer Relations professional, working at the intersection of user interfaces and observability.
- The Case for User-focused Observability
Dwayne has been working as a Developer Advocate since 2014 and has been involved in tech communities since 2005. His entire mission is to “help people figure stuff out.” He loves sharing his knowledge, and he has done so by giving talks at hundreds of events worldwide. He has been fortunate enough to speak at institutions like MIT and Stanford and internationally in Paris and Iceland. Dwayne currently lives in Chicago. Outside of tech, he loves karaoke, live music, and crochet.
- I'm A Machine, And You Should Trust Me: The Future Of Non-Human Identity
Ehfaj Khan is an Expert Application Engineer at Discover, a division of Capital One, N.A. He has strong experience building large-scale, highly available event-oriented architectures and cloud-native application modernizations.
- Secure Coding: Automate secret management and security scanning
Gamini is a data scientist and AI/ML team lead at Red Hat, Inc. with 7+ years of experience of leading high-visibility advanced analytics projects. Her expertise includes machine learning, statistical forecasting, and building AI-powered automation tools, with a strong focus on practical deployment in business environments. She is a graduate of MS in Business Analytics from Duke University and is currently on track to graduate from MS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Talk SQL to Me: Building a Smarter Query Assistant
Josh Kodroff is a Principal Customer Success Architect at Pulumi. He has over two decades of experience in software, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering working with organizations of all sizes: from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises.
- From IaC to IDP: A Practical Guide to Self-Service Maturity
Joshua is a seasoned software developer with over a decade of experience, specializing in a broad range of topics including operations, observability, agile methodologies, and accessibility. His passion for technology is matched by his enthusiasm for sharing knowledge through public speaking. Currently, Joshua serves as a Developer Advocate for Altinity, where he creates educational content on ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry.
- DevOps is a Foreign Language (or Why There Are No Junior SREs)
Kennedy Toomey is an Application Security Researcher & Advocate at Datadog. Previously she was an Application Security Engineer where she spent her time working with developers to help fix vulnerabilities and write more secure code.
- Finding what’s important: Actionable, Automated and Accurate Alerting
Max Saltonstall loves teaching, especially when it comes to The Cloud and Cybersecurity. A New York native, he’s part of the Datadog Technical Storytelling team within Advocacy. He's also known to expound on board games and juggling with almost no provocation. Max has strong opinions about chocolate and ice cream - just ask.
- Finding what’s important: Actionable, Automated and Accurate Alerting
Michael Stahnke is a seasoned technology leader and open-source advocate, and VP of Engineering Flox. With experience in leading operations and engineering departments, Michael has played a pivotal role in shaping DevOps practices and automation in software development. Prior to joining Flox he held senior leadership positions at CircleCI and Puppet, where he built and led engineering teams solving problems for developers and operations. He is a regular speaker at technology conferences, sharing insights on DevOps transformations, scalability challenges, and the future of automated workflows. He’s obsessed with measurements of engineering performance and finding a great night of karaoke.
- Is your investment in AI paying off... or just generating more sh*tposts?
Scott is a Senior DevOps Engineer with Liatrio, focusing on expediting world-class software delivery for enterprises by building advanced DevOps platforms powered by open source, while coaching engineering and business teams along the way. With over a decade of experience in tech, Scott has worked as a consultant across a range of industries including Education, FinTech, Retail, Aviation, Life Sciences, and Healthcare, helping organizations modernize their software delivery practices. Prior to consulting, he worked in the defense industry, developing applications for Naval missile and automated vehicle defense systems. Scott holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from Rowan University, and when he's not building pipelines, he can be found reading Stephen King, playing guitar, or kayaking the rivers of southern New Jersey where he resides with his wife, dog, and three cats.
- Small Batch Delivery: Why Tiny Changes Make a Big Difference
Tyler Auerbeck is a Principal Engineer at Equinix focusing on unlocking developer productivity through providing flexible, self-service developer platforms. This currently includes smashing Kubernetes into new and unexpected shapes and tying various open source technologies into beautiful bows to meet the needs of our developer communities.
- The Kids Are Alright: Lessons Learned From Teaching A Kindergarten Coding Class