Guests of Page it to the Limit
Geoff Montgomery (he/him)
George Miranda
George Miranda directs Product Marketing at Honeycomb, where he helps people improve the ways they run software in production. He made a 20+ year career as a Web Operations engineer at a variety of small dotcoms and large enterprises by obsessively focusing on continuous improvement for people and systems. He now works with software vendors that create meaningful tools to solve prevalent IT industry problems. He’s a former Page It to the Limit host.
George tackled distributed systems problems in the Finance and Entertainment industries before working with Buoyant, Chef Software, and PagerDuty. He’s a trained EMT and First Responder who geeks out on emergency response practices. He owns a home in the American Pacific Northwest, has no idea where home is anymore, and loves writing speaker biographies that no one reads.
Hannele Kormano (She/Her)
Hannele has been a software engineer for just over ten years, the last five at PagerDuty. She grew up in Thunder Bay Ontario, she loves her Finnish background, and she’s used to thinking of Toronto as The South. Along with fixing broken things, Hannele loves story-telling and digging into weird historical quirks, so this book club is a great fit!
Heitor Lessa (he/him)
Heitor Lessa is a Chief Architect at the Powertools for AWS team. He created the AWS Well-Architected Serverless Lens (2017) and Powertools for AWS (2019) to help customers learn and implement best practices.
He spent the last decade at AWS helping customers' engineering teams on digital transformation, engineering processes, migrations, and community building.
Helen Beal (she/her)
Helen Beal is chair of the Value Stream Management Consortium, co-chair of the OASIS Value Stream Management Interoperability Technical Committee, and chief ambassador at DevOps Institute. She also provides strategic advisory services to DevOps and VSM industry leaders.
Helen is the author of the annual State of VSM Reports from the VSMC and the State of Availability Report from Moogsoft. She is a co-author of the book about DevOps and governance, Investments Unlimited, published by IT Revolution. She is a DevOps editor for InfoQ, and also writes for a number of other online platforms.
Helen hosts the Day-to-Day DevOps webinar series for BrightTalk and speaks on DevOps and value stream-related topics at a wide variety of industry conferences and at corporate events.
She regularly appears in TechBeacon’s DevOps Top100 lists and was recognized as the Top DevOps Evangelist 2020 in the DevOps Dozen awards and was a finalist for Computing DevOps Excellence Awards’ DevOps Professional of the Year 2021.
She serves on advisory and judging boards for many initiatives including Developer Week, DevOps World, JAX DevOps, and InterOp.
Iris Carrera (she/they)
Iris Carrera is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Dutchie focused on observability and incident response. Prior to Dutchie she worked at HashiCorp building the infrastructure that supports HashiCorp Cloud Platform. Iris has worked on infrastructure and site reliability in aerospace, cannabis, and cloud PaaS environments. Iris lives in Seattle, WA, with her partner and pup.
Isabella Applen (she/her)
Isabella is an associate software engineer at PagerDuty. She works on tooling and patterns that promote service reliability and scalability. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, playing music, and social anxiety.
Ivan Merrill (he/him)
Ivan Merrill is Head of Solutions Engineering at Fiberplane. Before joining Fiberplane Ivan spent 15 years in various IT Operations roles in large enterprises in the financial sector, mainly focused on monitoring and observability. Ivan started off as an engineer and then moved into team management. Ivan is passionate about helping teams to implement good monitoring strategies, building observable systems, and also understanding the importance of doing so.