Guests of Page it to the Limit
Fred Harper (he/him)
As the Director of Developer Relations at Mindee, I helps developers merge the physical and digital worlds using the magic of machine learning coupled with the ease of APIs. I had shared my passion for technology on the stage at dozens of events around the world. I helped build successful communities at npm, Mozilla, Microsoft, DigitalOcean, and Fitbit, and am the author of the book Personal Branding for Developers at Apress. Behind this extrovert that I am, is a very passionate individual who believes in the power of communication… and cat videos.
Gautam Prabhu
Gautam Prabhu is based in San Francisco and has been leading engineering teams for about 15 years now. He is currently the VP of Engineering for PagerDuty, where he leads product delivery and infrastructure. Prior to that, he was VP of Engineering for Shared Services/Infrastructure for Zendesk. Before Zendesk, he was VP of Engineering at a small startup called PowerReviews, which he helped start with 3 others.
Gene Gotimer
Gene Gotimer is a DevSecOps Engineer who loves playing with new tools, focusing on agile processes, securing development practices, and automating everything. He spends a lot of time with federal government clients and large organizations, helping them build security and automated infrastructure into their build processes, incrementally improving and moving them towards DevSecOps. Gene feels strongly that repeatability, quality, and security are all strongly intertwined; each depends on the other two, making agile and DevSecOps crucial to software development.
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.