Paul is a Chicago-based software engineer who has been drawn to the boundary between applications and infrastructure for his entire career. At HashiCorp he gets to focus directly on that boundary by working on and around Terraform.
Rachel Stephens is a Senior Analyst with RedMonk, a developer-focused industry analyst firm. She focuses on helping clients understand and contextualize technology adoption trends, particularly from the lens of the practitioner. Her research covers a broad range of developer and infrastructure products, with a particular focus on emerging growth technologies and markets.
Rich Lafferty is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at PagerDuty, where he builds platforms in the clouds to make PagerDuty reliable and his development teams happy. He now calls Dartmouth, Nova Scotia home with his wife and two tortoiseshell cats. In his copious spare time, he can be found enjoying craft beer, staring at a wall, or playing bass in one of PagerDuty’s two office bands.
Rob’s comfort zone is right at the intersection between people and technology. His technical and leadership skills were honed at Intel, Dell, and Quest Software, but his true passion is listening and learning from customers. After 15 years of experience in the APM market, Rob started Resurface with the goal of creating first-party observability solutions, where customers truly own their data, and where security and privacy controls are seamlessly integrated.
Robbie is a software engineer from Glasgow, Scotland who turned to product. Now living in beautiful Portland, Oregon, he enjoys only moderately better weather. With over a decade of building developer tools, he’s extremely excited to be able to work on Terraform full time.
Sarah works for PagerDuty as the lead of the Center of Excellence for Automation at Pager Duty working on all things automation to create more operational efficiencies at Pager Duty. One of her favorite things to do is talk to people about how they can save time and money by automating the tedious tasks that they need to perform in their jobs on a regular basis thus not only saving time, but many headaches for her fellow Dutonians. She lives in Chicago with her family including three kids and many pets!
Sarai Rosenberg is an Insecurity Princess working in Security Engineering at PagerDuty. She is a professional mathematician who has been working in security since 2015. Sarai has spoken on threat modeling, recommendation algorithms, and psychological safety, as well as being an advocate for compassion, mentorship, and elliptic curve cryptography.
Scott has been in the tech industry for over 15 years and has been in nearly every role that’s possible, with the exception of frontend development because he can’t do CSS to save his life. (Mad props to the FED folks out there, I love you!) He lives in Seattle with his partner and their three cats, Freyja, Dr. Leg, and Elle Fury. (Doc and Elle were named by an AI written by Janelle Shane, go check out her stuff!) Scott is also a serial user of unnecessary parentheses (sorry) and in his free time plays and records a lot of music.
Scott McAllister is a Developer Advocate for ngrok. He has been building software in several industries for over a decade. Now he’s helping others learn about a wide range of web technologies and incident management principles. When he’s not coding, writing or speaking he enjoys long walks with his wife, skipping rocks with his kids, and is happy whenever Real Salt Lake, Seattle Sounders FC, Manchester City, St. Louis Cardinals, Seattle Mariners, Chicago Bulls, Seattle Storm, Seattle Seahawks, OL Reign FC, St. Louis Blues, Seattle Kraken, Barcelona, Fiorentina, Borussia Dortmund or Mainz 05 can manage a win.