About Page it to the Limit

Page It to the Limit is a podcast that focuses on what it means to operate software in production. Hosted by the PagerDuty Community Team, we cover the leading practices used in the software industry to improve both system reliability and the lives of the people responsible for supporting it.

Hosts

Daniel Afonso

Daniel Afonso (he/him)

Daniel Afonso is a Senior Developer Advocate at PagerDuty, SolidJS DX team member, Instructor at Egghead.io, and Author of State Management with React Query. Daniel has a full-stack background, having worked with different languages and frameworks on various projects from IoT to Fraud Detection. He is passionate about learning and teaching and has spoken at multiple conferences around the world about topics he loves. In his free time, when he’s not learning new technologies or writing about them, he’s probably reading comics or watching superhero movies and shows.

Kat Gaines

Kat Gaines (she/her/hers)

Kat is a developer advocate at PagerDuty. She enjoys talking and thinking about incident response, customer support, and automating the creation of a delightful end-user and employee experience. She previously ran Global Customer Support at PagerDuty, and as a result it’s hard to get her to stop talking about the potential career paths for tech support professionals. In her spare time, Kat is a mediocre plant parent and a slightly less mediocre pet parent to two rabbits, Lupin and Ginny.

Mandi Walls

Mandi Walls (she/her)

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.

Miguel Lupi

Miguel Lupi

Miguel has a rich background in developer relations, community management, and marketing for platform engineering professionals, having held previous founder and leadership roles. For fun, Miguel can be found playing the latest RPGs, D&D campaigns, or TCGs, reading manga and comics, and engaging in various sports.

Sid Verma

Sid Verma (He/Him/His)

Sid Verma is a Developer Advocate at PagerDuty, where he helps developers optimize their workflows and implement scalable solutions. With a deep background in observability, DevOps, and enterprise open source technologies, Sid is passionate about empowering teams to innovate and improve their incident management processes. He’s also a tech enthusiast with experience in vector databases, security APIs, and more.

Xenda Amici

Xenda Amici

Xenda is a Community Program Manager with the PagerDuty DevRel team. Before PagerDuty, Xenda was a Community Manager at an AI translation company, worked in CRM and was also a producer and copywriter for a news website, TV and radio host in Brazil. “I’m here to help bring developer achievements into the spotlight and make PagerDuty Commons a space where folks can share, learn and… have a bit of fun!”.