Guests of Page it to the Limit

Andrew White

Andrew always had a passion for technology and, age 8 in the mid 80’s, he was lucky enough to receive (after much pestering) an Acorn Electron as a Christmas gift. Back then, hacking at BASIC, reverse engineering code and playing games, his imagination had to fill in for the absence of advanced graphics, sounds and immersive narratives. Nowadays with ever advancing technology multiplied by the power of collaboration, if we can imagine it, we can bring it to life. He has never found this more true than in his roles at Checkout.com. He has been immensely proud to be a part of Checkout’s journey so far, together with an exceptional team, they really are reshaping the future of payments.

His career has been dedicated to delving into the intricacies of technology, finding innovative solutions, and leading and motivating teams to excel in high-pressure, critical transaction processing environments. He thrives on understanding the details and intricacies of complex systems, using technology as a tool to drive efficiency and excellence. I’m an experienced and driven IT executive with a broad range of experience in global service operations management with technology, media and financial services organisations over a 25 year career.

Andy Slater

A Certified Scrum Alliance Product Owner & Scrum Master. His role is to bridge the gap between developers, different technical teams and the business to ensure they’re continuing to drive value from their Observability and AIOps tools. Across the course of a working week he tend to wear a number of different hats rotating through the role of IT Service Delivery Manager, Product Owner, Business Analyst and Consultant. He facilitates and leads learning sessions and drives community programmes as well as working closely with their 3rd party onshore and offshore teams and solution providers to define best practice, governance and working standards.

As an IT grad and self confessed, a bit of a tech’ geek, Andy tries and keep his finger on the pulse and regularly attend industry and tech community events and expos as well as being a regular judge and contributor to Computing magazine awards and events; all enabling which enable him to talk technical and business in the right context.

Angela Chapman (she/her)

Raised on an island in the PNW, I made her way to San Francisco after graduating from the University of Oregon, where I started working for PagerDuty. My next chapter with the company will take me to Lisbon, where I will continue to work on our AWS Strategic Alliance. I love to travel and stay active through yoga. I am passionate about all things nature, especially Marine Biology – love to geek out on whale facts.

Arthur Berezin

Arthur is the Founder and CEO of JovianX Platform for SaaS, a control plane for SaaS products, radically simplifying building and operating SaaS and cloud services.. Previously, he held products and technology management roles with RedHat, the Linux Foundation, Cloudify, Liveperson, and Matrix.

Austin Parker

Austin Parker has been solving - and creating - problems with computers and technology for most of his life. He is the Principal Developer Advocate at LightStep and maintainer on the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects. His professional dream is to build a world where we’re able to create and run more reliable software. In addition to his professional work, he’s taught college classes, spoken about all things DevOps and Distributed Tracing, and even found time to start a podcast. Austin is also the co-author of Distributed Tracing in Practice, published by O’Reilly Media.

Austin is an international speaker, having presented to audiences in Europe and North America on topics relating to Observability and DevOps. In addition, he has led or assisted with workshops on OSS projects such as OpenTelemetry and OpenTracing at events such as QCon SF 2019 and QCon London 2020, and O’Reilly Infrastructure and Ops 2020. Finally, he has extensive experience speaking to diverse audiences in a variety of media formats through his podcast On-Call Me Maybe and his event livestreams such as OPS Live!

Barak Brudo (he/him)

Barak Brudo was, up until recently, an ERP and full-stack developer. Right now he’s the DevRel for Scribe Security, a software supply chain security startup from Israel. Barak has a degree in art education, he’s a martial arts instructor, and a dungeon master so as you can see, explaining and teaching are in his blood.

Bea Hughes

Bea has been frustrated at Linux’s IP blocking tools for over 20 years now, and are just waiting to see what Nftables is replaced by.

Bea likes shouting about threat models a lot, and trying to convince people that their primary concern is probably not the NSA and that DNSSEC should be put out to pasture.

She is more opinionated about coffee.

benny Vasquez (she/her)

As a multifaceted woman with over 20 years of experience in management, technical support, brand management, community, and developer relations, I know that my passion is service. I find my joy in bettering a product, a presentation, or a brand. I’ve worked as an individual contributor, managed teams of varied ages and experiences, and built programs from the ground up.

Brad Johnson (he/him)

Brad Johnson is the Director of Product Marketing for no-code/low-code automation startup Blink Ops. Previously, Brad worked at Netlify, which acquired collaboration startup FeaturePeek where he was Head of Marketing. With 10+ years experience at leading GTM efforts, Brad has also worked at an IP law firm, a handful of SaaS startups, and as a middle school substitute teacher.