Dr. Mark Peters works for Raft as Senior Director Solutions Architecture, responsible for integrating customer solutions. He worked on 4 different DevOps transitioning DoD programs and is the North America Chapter Chair for the DevOps Institute. During his US Air Force career, he integrated intelligence processes with operational delivery and retired as a LtCol who directed all global intelligence flying operations .
A double doctor in Strategic Security and a PhD in Information Technology, he authored “Cashing in on Cyberpower”, analyzing a decade of cyber-attacks. A cybersecurity expert, he holds certifications as CISSP, PMP, CGSCL, and others. In his spare time, he reads, thinks, writes, and then speaks. He enjoys his family, judo, and drawing He frequently consults and gives conference presentations. Dr. Peters is passionate about working with individuals on their unique DevSecOps implementations. A full-up DevOps junkie, he maintains unbound optimism about incorporating new technology into DevOps across multiple industries.
Mary is Honeycomb’s technical writer / instructional designer. She’s passionate about information organization and accessible documentation. Previously, Mary wrangled the docs at Chef, and in a past life, worked in libraries and library technology.
Mary Thengvall is a connector of people at heart, personally and professionally. She loves digging into the strategy of how to build and foster developer communities and has been doing so for over 10 years. Mary is the Director of Developer Relations at Camunda, a developer-friendly source-available process orchestration platform. She’s the author of the book on Developer Relations: The Business Value of Developer Relations.
Matt Davis is a musician that finds himself in the cyclone of managing socio-technical systems in a fast-paced digital world. He has recently led the transformation of Incident Management and Resilience Engineering practices at multiple organizations. His practitioner research on improvisation and team collaboration has led to the development of a Practice of Practice technique that opens opportunities for group learning. Connect with him on the Fediverse at c.im/@dtauvdiodr, keep up with his progress on teamwork at practiceofpractice.com, or subscribe at youtube.com/dtauvdiodr.
Matt has worked in systems administration and support for over 25 years, the last ten of which have been at PagerDuty. He likes to prioritize making IT an ally of its customers, and fostering a collaborative relationship between IT and the rest of the org.
Matt Stratton is a Transformation Specialist at Red Hat and a long-time member of the global DevOps community. Back in the day, his license plate actually said “DevOps”.
Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations, ranging from large financial institutions such as JPMorganChase to internet firms including Apartments.com. He is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and ITSM focused events, including DevOps Enterprise Summit, DevOpsDays, Interop, PINK, and others worldwide. Matt is the founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, as well as a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.
He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Doctor Who. He is currently on a mission to discover the best phở in the world.
Megan is a lead software engineer at The New York Times. She enjoys solving a variety of business problems across multiple teams and missions while also advocating for system resilience and maturity. On her spare time she likes collecting plants and hitting up the slopes to snowboard.
Megg Sage is a Senior Security Engineer at PagerDuty. Prior to PagerDuty, she worked as a Software Dev for a number of years. She loves sharing her passion and knowledge of security with others; in particular, the shocked look of disbelief in people’s eyes when they see just how easy it can be to take advantage of a known exploit in an unpatched system. In her spare time, she loves to zoom on her motorcycle, make costumes and attempt to keep her two dozen+ plants alive.
I began learning to program computers way back in 1981 in High School. The Data Processing teacher took pity on a young 9th grader and let me borrow time on the county’s HP 2000 to teach myself BASIC. That experience grew into a passion for software development that has never waned.
Though my early career took a 10-year detour, I finally began writing software professionally in 1995. I’ve been doing that ever since.