Abby is a Staff Platform Engineer with 25 years in software development and 10 years in SRE/DevOps. She previously led platform and infrastructure work at Filevine, where she built systems designed around how people actually work. She's currently running Ergon Automation Labs and doing fractional SRE consulting, focusing on ops tooling and developer experience. She's based in Denver.
- Systems That Respect Attention: Redesigning Ops for Human Limits
Adam Gordon Bell has spent 20 years building infrastructure — cloud security products at Tenable, CI/CD tooling at Earthly, and now IaC at Pulumi. He's run real experiments giving AI agents access to live AWS and Kubernetes clusters, and has the failure receipts to prove it. He's also written widely-read technical guides on AWK, jq, Bazel, and containers, and hosts CoRecursive, a software engineering podcast with several million downloads.
- When AI Agents Touch Real Infrastructure: Five War Stories and a Frameworkk
Amanda Aguayo is the Co-Founder of Hunted Labs, where she oversees all business operations, commercial and federal go-to-market execution, and investor relations. Amanda excels at translating the dense, technical challenges of foreign influence in software into intuitive, mission-critical narratives for the global market. Amanda holds a B.A. in Communications from Loyola Marymount University.
- Question Everything: How Curiosity Strengthens Security
Amin Astaneh is the founder of Certo Modo, a consultancy that helps technology companies strengthen reliability and operational practices. Drawing on two decades of experience scaling production systems of all sizes from scrappy startups to Big Tech companies, he brings both technical depth and hard-earned practical insight. He is also the host of the Reliability Rebels podcast, where he explores the social side of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering. When he’s not helping teams, Amin is a digital nomad-often found camping out of his customized pickup truck and exploring new places.
- Why Most SLOs Fail
Brent Chapman helps companies prevent, prepare for, respond to, and learn from incidents in their IT services. Over more than three decades in Silicon Valley, he has designed, built, managed, and scaled IT infrastructure and teams for everything from embryonic startups to giants such as Google, Slack, and Atlassian. As a leader in Google's legendary SRE organization, he created the Incident Management at Google (IMAG) protocol now used throughout the company. Slack later recruited him to build and lead its incident management program, and he has since led and advised incident management efforts at many other companies large and small. Today he runs Great Circle Associates, providing incident management consulting and training, and he is writing the forthcoming book Incident Management for DevOps and SRE.
Brent brings a rare dual perspective from a parallel volunteer career in public safety emergency services: air search and rescue pilot and incident commander, emergency dispatcher and dispatch supervisor for Burning Man, and CERT instructor. He is coauthor of the highly regarded O'Reilly book Building Internet Firewalls, the creator of Majordomo (the classic open source Internet mailing list manager), and a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide.
- When Production Burns, You're the Fire Department (and the Fire Marshal, Too)
Having worked across the entire IT lifecycle—from support and engineering to architecture- Catherine brings a 360-degree perspective to digital transformation.
An expert in Service Delivery and Transition Management, Catherine acted as the enterprise “chef ” —bringing together software, engineers, product owners, and operations teams to blend Agile, DevOps, and governance.
Most recently, she led a major banking digital transformation, designing high-velocity transition frameworks, deploying monitoring and observability practices needed to enable feedback loop, stability and continuity to keep the system running smoothly and optimizing the “recipe”.
Certifications
ITIL Master version 4 & 5
DevOps foundation
DevOps Leader
PMP
Currently, I’m a consultant and ITIL, DevOps trainer on a freelance basis for Qualiti7
- A recipe : blending the DevOps Infinite Loop and the new ITIL diamond tiles
Husband of Elisângela and father of Lucas. An amateur swimmer at Náutico de Capibaribe (PE) and a weekend surfer. Holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from UFPE and is a specialist in Artificial Intelligence from USP. Enterprise Architect Lead at Onefinancial (Accenture Brazil), responsible for the disciplines of systems architecture, DevOps engineering, AI systems with agents and Generative AI, reliability architecture (SRE), observability, and cloud-native solutions. Active member of Accenture’s Technical Architecture group.
- What We Learned Standardizing Kubernetes Across 4 Clouds
Passionate about computers from the very beginning, Ludovic programmed his first website when he was a kid and never stopped coding since. After having implemented distributed systems in Java, he became interested in deploying and operating these systems in production with a particular emphasis on observability. Ludovic has been working for several years as a Technical Architect to support organizations in adopting Cloud Native technologies such as Mesos/Marathon, Kubernetes, OpenFaas, and Istio. He is now leading an engineering organization as VP Engineering and is driven to build a high-performing and collaborative engineering culture allowing teams and individuals to grow.
- Scaling Engineering Teams across Continents
Luke Philips is a Principal Engineer at FICO and Software A̶r̶c̶h̶i̶t̶e̶c̶t̶ Custodian. Trying to sweep together the best ideas from all sources. Previously of the New York Times, and a long career in Telecom at Charter, CenturyLink, and Level 3 Communications. With a mixed focus on continuous delivery, orchestration solutions, enterprise, Kubernetes, open source, networking, and cloud-native technologies. On the side Luke dabbles in Wardley Mapping and strategic proficiency.
- Lashed to the Mast: A Platform Engineer's Odyssey
Architecture Leader in Cloud, AI & DevSecOps | Building Secure and Reliable Platforms | Passionate about Scalable Innovation, Ethical AI & Empowering Tech Teams
Marcello Ozzetti is a Tech Architecture Director at Accenture Brazil, where he leads the design of digital platforms and drives initiatives in DevSecOps, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing for the financial sector. He brings over 15 years of experience in enterprise architecture, CI/CD pipeline modernization, software governance, and scalable solutions using Java and Python. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Itajubá (UNIFEI), is currently pursuing a Master’s in Computer Science at UNIFESP, and also holds an MBA in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data from the University of São Paulo (USP). His academic research focuses on mitigating bias in facial recognition systems through deep neural networks (CNNs).
- What We Learned Standardizing Kubernetes Across 4 Clouds
Marc Hornbeek, a.k.a., DevOps-the-Gray, is Senior DevOps Advisor for The DevOps Institute, CEO and Principal Consultant at Engineering DevOps.com, Founder of Intelligent-Institute.com, Author of books Engineering DevOps, Continuous Testing, Quality, Security, and Feedback, Intelligent Continuous Security, and Engineering Respect and Trust. Advisor, ambassador, author and instructor for PeopleCert - The DevOps Institute. Blogger on DevOps, CloudNativeNow, SecurityBoulevard, and Platform Engineering and LinkedIn websites. Marc is a globally recognized strategic consultant who applies disciplined engineering practices, holistically, for Continuous Testing, DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE digital transformations. Marc has led more than 95 transformations for enterprises, manufacturers, service providers and government institutions. He is an IEEE Outstanding Engineer, and an IEEE Life member. His education includes engineering and executive business degrees and numerous DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE certifications.
- From Practice to Profession: DevOps in the AI-Native Era
Matt “Kelly” Williams is the founder of Making Software Greener and CEO of the Sustainable IT Manifesto Foundation. He helps engineering teams understand how architecture, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, AI, performance, cost, and sustainability are often the same systems problem viewed from different angles.
With more than three decades in IT, Kelly has worked across software architecture, operations, DevOps, and cloud computing, focusing on the hidden inefficiencies and operational patterns that quietly shape modern systems. He serves on the advisory board of the Green Computing Foundation and speaks internationally on sustainable software, developer agency, resilience, and systems thinking.
Kelly believes waste is a bug, architecture matters, and every system eventually reveals the decisions embedded within it.
When not exploring the intersection of technology and sustainability, he can usually be found reading, photographing mountains, designing tabletop games, weaving, cooking, or wandering outdoors looking for interesting stories hidden in ordinary systems.
- For Want of a Clearly Written Sentence
Morgan Helton is a software engineer at Flox, working on cloud infrastructure and systems reliability. With prior experience in industrial controls and instrumentation and two decades of Linux and open-source use, Morgan blends practical engineering discipline with modern cloud-native practices.
- Salvage Title Software: How Engineering Teams Ship to Themselves
Omari Gaskins Jr. is the creator of DocuSOR, the first platform providing coding agents with verified context reducing token costs while increasing token usage. As a Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase for the last 5 years, he has worked on hundreds of different applications, with on prem and public cloud integrations, managing the scale that comes with working for a large global enterprise.
- Context Validation: Doc Testing and the Missing AI infrastructure Layer
Rainu is a web dev turned data engineer turned infrastructure engineer. She's spent time all across the stack and just kept digging back to the absolute infrastructure. She's been a tech lead on and off for the past 4 years, and in that time, she absolutely fell in love with making machines and humans lives easier. Outside of work, she spends plenty of time in the mountains hiking, lifting, and with her three dogs and partner.
- Context Engineering: The Next Frontier of Your Relationship with Jarvis
Saideep Navakoti is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 10 years of experience building and operating cloud-native banking infrastructure on Kubernetes. His career has been entirely in financial services — designing CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and observability systems for platforms handling critical financial transactions. SaiDeep holds AWS Solutions Architect and CKA certifications, and is co-author of published research on context engineering for AI agents (arXiv:2603.14057). Currently focused on the intersection of platform engineering and AI/ML workloads in regulated banking environments. Based in Atlanta, GA.
- Your CI/CD Pipeline Is About to Meet AI — Here's What It Doesn't Know
Hello, my name is Sophia! With a background in Biochemistry from UT Austin, I discovered a passion for coding in the DIY Diagnostics lab, where wet lab research and software development went hand in hand. After graduating in 2021, I began my career at GM as a Deployment Engineer/Analyst, later transitioning into a Software Engineering role observing real-time LLM based robotic systems on the plant floor. Now, as a Developer Advocate at Elastic, I draw on my experience optimizing and troubleshooting logs, traces, and metrics in high-stakes, in-plant production environments. I bring both technical depth and practical insight to the challenges of observability at scale.
- The DevOps Metabolism: How CI/CD is Like the Krebs Cycle
I'm a DevOps engineer based in Chicago, working with AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes. I hold an MS in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology. I built and maintains tfdrift, an open-source Terraform drift detection tool with severity classification, published on PyPI and used against real AWS infrastructure. I write about infrastructure automation and IaC on Dev.to and Hashnode.
- our terraform plan output is lying to you (by omission)
Sylvain Kalache is the Head of Rootly AI Labs. A former Senior SRE at LinkedIn, he co-designed a patented self-healing infrastructure. He later co-founded Holberton, training software engineers worldwide. He also writes about AI, automation, and DevOps for TechCrunch, Forbes, and The New Stack.
- AI Made Developers 25% More Productive. It Also Tripled Our Incident Rate.