Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 16+ years of experience. She is an advocate at Honeycomb for the SRE and Observability communities, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights.
Luke is an expert in community development and creative marketing and is currently the Senior Director, Global Hacker Community at HackerOne - the leading hacker - powered security platform with the largest community of hackers in the world. Previously at HackerOne, Luke oversaw all B2B content marketing efforts, brand voice and social media management, and educational content development. Prior to HackerOne, he served in several creative and marketing leadership roles at Captricity, Sultan Ventures, and Central Pacific Financial. Luke is active on Twitter under the username @luketucker, and blogs at luketucker.com.
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. Manuel is also a LinkedIn instructor on Continuous Delivery.
Links: https://academy.teamtopologies.com, https://teamtopologies.com
Mark Hatch is a Senior Director of Engineering at Recharge. He has spent his career building and supporting production Infrastructure with a focus on procedural, data-driven Operations driven by transparency in Engineering. His resume includes roles across a wide set of industries including eCommerce, Automotive, Financial and Entertainment where he was able to develop many different points-of-view on the singular subject that is supporting software in production. In his free time he can usually be found outside, exploring or trying to fight back nature, or inside, playing games of all kinds with his family.
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.