ChefConf 2016 With Jon Cowie, Fletcher Nichol, and Annie Hedgpeth

Annie Hedgpeth

I’m totally new to technology, and I’m learning all there is to know about security and compliance. I started a blog to teach others about InSpec in hopes of making it more accessible to non-developers. I’m excited about playing a role in removing security as a bottleneck!

Fletcher Nichol

Fletcher Nichol is a software developer from Edmonton, Canada who has worked in jobs ranging from systems administrator to web application developer. He spends far too much time writing open source software and far too little time playing the drums. He is active in many automation and testing projects such as Chef and Test Kitchen, and is a core developer of Habitat. Fletcher works for Chef Software, Inc, an automation company which helps companies of all sizes automate their business with safety at speed.

Jon Cowie

Jon Cowie is a senior operations engineer at Etsy where he mixes his love of both coding and operations to try and solve interesting problems. He has created and open sourced a number of projects, including the Chef tools knife-spork and knife-preflight, and has spoken at several of O’Reilly’s Velocity conferences. He’s currently working on the upcoming O’Reilly book Customizing Chef.

Matt Stratton (he/him)

Matty Stratton is the Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, a well-known member of the DevOps community, and a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.

Matty has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.

He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke.

Trevor Hess

Trevor Hess is a Senior Product Manager at Progress Software working on Chef Software. He currently works on the Chef Application Delivery, Compliance and Infrastructure offerings.

Coming from a background in .NET Software Development and consulting, he has worked with several large multinational organizations to help kick start their journey to the cloud and the world of DevOps practices and principals. He is excited to engage in new experiences, and learning opportunities.

Trevor enjoys having hearty discussions about DevOps as well organizational change and transformation.