Guests of Page it to the Limit

Brad Lhotsky (He/Him)

Brad is a Perl programmer who’s been working in security since 1999. He’s worked with PCI-DSS, FISMA, HIPAA, SOx, and GDPR compliance programs as well being active in the observability and Perl communities. He believes security and monitoring should be accessible, humane, and add value to the business. Brad has been trying to automate himself out of a job for two decades.

Brandy Smith

Brandy has spent more than a decade in the tech industry. She has a wealth of experience architecting and implementing solutions for customers on their journeys through digital transformation in a myriad of technical roles at industry-leading tech companies including Google, AWS, and Cisco. She is passionate about observability and solving customers' problems. Outside of work, Brandy loves spending time with family, hiking, and tinkering with all things technical.

Breanne Boland (she/her)

Breanne Boland is a product security engineer at Gusto. Before moving into security, she was a site reliability engineer and an infrastructure engineer, working in healthcare and govtech. Prior to that, she was a professional writer, and she still considers finishing the docs the real sign that the work is done. She writes fiction and zines, embroiders, and pets cats whenever she can. She lives in Brooklyn.

Brian Rutkin

Brian is an SRE at Twitter where he works on Core Services and all the things they touch (so pretty much everything). Often that means just trying to ensure all the different services and people get along together.

Brian Weber

After coming from a non-tech background, I’ve been an SRE at Twitter for five years and had related titles for well over a decade and a half. When away from the computer, I enjoy everything outdoors and experimenting in the kitchen.

Brittany Woods (she/her)

Brittany Woods is an automator of things based in central Missouri. During her career in technical roles spanning across both the financial and the automotive sector, Brittany has been a major advocate for utilizing DevOps and automation.

When she’s not automating the things, Brittany enjoys the casual binge watch on your favorite streaming service, lazy weekends, clarinet and bass guitar playing, and home improvement projects.

Brittany is currently a Manager for the Server Automation team at H&R Block.

Bruce Wong

Bruce Wong is director of engineering at Stitch Fix. He formerly resided at Netflix and Twilio, where he founded the Chaos Engineering effort to stress and proactively introduce failure into critical production systems to validate resilience. He is passionate about tackling challenging problems, scaling engineering teams, and building compelling products. In his spare time he can be found applying engineering principles to iterate on BBQ and chocolate chip cookies.

Camden Louie (she/her/hers)

Camden Louie loves talking about PagerDuty with anyone whether through trainings, at conferences, or virtually! She is based in the San Francisco office and is always happy to see PagerDuty users in person. In her free time, she enjoys volunteering in her communities, traveling the world, reading anywhere, and baking for friends and family.

Charity Majors

Charity is professionally caremad about computers. She is an operations and database engineer and sometimes engineering manager. Right now Charity is the CTO and cofounder of Honeycomb, builders of observability for distributed systems. (“Monitoring” doesn’t have to be a dirty word; give it a try.)

Until recently Charity was a production engineering manager at Facebook, where she spent 3.5 years working on Parse (both pre and post-acquisition by FB). She also spent several years at Linden Lab, working on the infrastructure and databases that power Second Life, and is the co-author of “Database Reliability Engineering” by O’Reilly.

Charity was a classical piano performance major in college, but dropped out because it turns out she prefers not being dirt poor. She has been building systems and engineering teams ever since.

Charity love startups, chaos and hard scaling problems, and somehow always ends up in charge of the databases.