Guests of Page it to the Limit

Joe Block

Joe Block (He/Him)

Joe is a long time SRE - and was one when we were still called sysadmins. In his off time he likes to hike, to cook, and do home automation using Home Assistant in his homelab. In addition to his other open source projects, he maintains the awesome-zsh-plugins list, git-extra-commands repository, and the sysadmin-reading-list.

John Allspaw

John Allspaw

John Allspaw has worked in software systems engineering and operations for over twenty years in many different environments. John’s publications include the books The Art of Capacity Planning (2009) and Web Operations (2010) as well as the forward to “The DevOps Handbook.” His 2009 Velocity talk with Paul Hammond, “10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation” helped start the DevOps movement.

John served as CTO at Etsy, and holds an MSc in Human Factors and Systems Safety from Lund University.

John O'Donnell

John O'Donnell (he/him)

John O’Donnell is the Team Lead for PagerDuty’s EMEA support team. John has worked at Pagerduty for 6 years but has been in the tech industry for nearly 10. John’s passion lies in providing Pagerduty’s customers with top tier support, and supporting his team in feeling heard and achieving their goals. Outside of work, John can be found in one of Londons galleries, museums, restaurants or parks.

Jonathon Canada

Jonathon Canada (he/him)

Jonathon is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Teleport and a Cyber Operations Officer in the Army National Guard. Previous companies he has worked at include IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and several startups. He holds multiple IT certifications and has expertise in DevOps, cloud computing, and cybersecurity.

Julie Gunderson

Julie Gunderson

Julie is a relationship driven Sr. Reliability Advocate who is passionate about helping individuals, teams, and organizations understand how to leverage best practices, and develop amazing cultures. Julie is an international speaker on topics related to reliability, organizational and team culture, chaos engineering, and incident management. Additionally, Julie is the founder of DevOpsDays Boise, which focuses on building a stronger technical community in Idaho.Julie is a relationship driven Sr. Reliability Advocate who is passionate about helping individuals, teams, and organizations understand how to leverage best practices, and develop amazing cultures. Julie is an international speaker on topics related to reliability, organizational and team culture, chaos engineering, and incident management. Additionally, Julie is the founder of DevOpsDays Boise, which focuses on building a stronger technical community in Idaho.

Kat Gaines

Kat Gaines (she/her/hers)

Kat is a developer advocate at PagerDuty. She enjoys talking and thinking about incident response, customer support, and automating the creation of a delightful end-user and employee experience. She previously ran Global Customer Support at PagerDuty, and as a result it’s hard to get her to stop talking about the potential career paths for tech support professionals. In her spare time, Kat is a mediocre plant parent and a slightly less mediocre pet parent to a rabbit named Lupin.

Kimberly Garmoe

Kimberly Garmoe

Kimberly Garmoe is a Senior Technical Writer at Tecton.ai (https://www.tecton.ai/), where she works on taxonomy and technical content. Before joining Tecton, she wrote and managed the documentation team at Chef Software. As well as being a documentarian, Kimberly is also a trained librarian and a former humanities scholar.

Kimbre Lancaster

Kimbre Lancaster (She/Her/Hers)

Kimbre is a meticulous Project Manager and Strategic Event Marketer with (can’t tell you a number because you’ll guess her age) years experience in corporate events and strategic growth. She builds event programming with humans in mind. Originally from a farm in Washington (State), and after living in New York City she’s learned to add ‘State’ otherwise anyone who hails from the East Coast will assume you mean D.C. Fun fact she is a classically trained singer who also loves to hike, read on the beach and could cook all day if you let her. She is extremely skilled at tripping and can trip over pretty much anything without even trying, including flat ground. It’s a very rare natural skill. She is a Court Appointed Special Advocate for youth in Vancouver, Washington and highly encourages folks to look into volunteering with causes they care about!

Kolton Andrus

Kolton Andrus (he/him)

Kolton is the founder and CTO of Gremlin. Previously he was CEO, building the initial product, team, and company to $10M in ARR. Before founding Gremlin, Kolton was an engineer and leader at both Amazon and Netflix, building their internal Chaos Engineering platforms and guiding the implementation of the practice leading to another ‘nine’ of uptime for both companies. Early in his career, Kolton worked for several start-ups and holds a BS and MS in Computer Science.