With degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Theater Management, Connie-Lynne brings more than 25 years of System Engineering experience to the table, as well as a keen understanding of how to handle drama in the workplace. Currently Director of Incident Management at Fastly, Connie-Lynne has worked at Linden Lab, Change.org, and Caltech, but admits that her most fun position is serving as a board member for the Grilled Cheese Invitational, an annual food festival celebrating all things cheesy.
Corey is the Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group. Corey specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying; hosts the Screaming in the Cloud and AWS Morning Brief podcasts; and curates Last Week in AWS, a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark.
Courtney Nash is a researcher focused on system safety and failures in complex sociotechnical systems. An erstwhile cognitive neuroscientist, she has always been fascinated by how people learn, and the ways memory influences how they solve problems. Over the past two decades, she’s held a variety of editorial, program management, research, and management roles at Holloway, Fastly, O’Reilly Media, Microsoft, and Amazon. She lives in the mountains where she skis, rides bikes, and herds dogs and kids.
A huge fan of using visual cues to inspire change, Dominica DeGrandis, author of Making Work Visible - Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow, and Principal Flow Advisor at Tasktop, helps organizations make work visible to improve the flow of work across value streams. Obsessed with flow metrics & influencing change, Dominica advises customers on value stream management and how to affect change in their organization.
Dormain Drewitz is Vice President of Product Marketing and Developer Relations at PagerDuty. Prior to PagerDuty, she worked at VMware Tanzu, Pivotal, and Riverbed Technologies. Before her career in product and solutions marketing, she spent over 5 years as a technology investment analyst, closely following enterprise infrastructure software companies and industry trends. Dormain holds a B. A. in History from the University of California at Los Angeles.
I’ve spent 9 years working in IT at PagerDuty helping to build out and manage our internal tools and systems. I spent 10 years in the bay area, where I started at PagerDuty before moving to London in 2021 to support or team in EMEA.
Dylan is a senior engineer manager with PagerDuty. Earlier in his career, Dylan worked in the trading industry, specifically on low latency option market making systems and strategies. He started his career at Microsoft where he once broke the behavior of pressing the left arrow in the Visual Studio Editor.
Elad is a die hard coder and the CEO & Co-Founder of Wing Cloud. He lives in Tel-Aviv with his husband and twins, enjoys music, hiking and crossfit. He’s built software that runs in network devices, drones, worked at Microsoft and created the AWS CDK.
Ella joined the Ops Community team after working on dev.to and CodeNewbie. A non-dev who likes to hang out in developer spaces, she’s currently hacking on a machine to turn the fumes of Imposter Syndrome into starlight and crystals.