Devopsdays Chicago 2016 With Nell Shamrell-Harrington, Jill Jubinski, and Michael Stahnke

Nell Shamrell-Harrington

Nell Shamrell-Harrington is a Software Development Engineer at Chef, focusing on the Supermarket open source product. She also sits on the advisory board for the University of Washington Certificates in Ruby Programming and DevOps. She specializes in Chef, Ruby, Rails, Regular Expressions, and Test Driven Development and has traveled the world speaking on these topics. Prior to entering the world of software development, she studied and worked in the field of theatre. The world of theatre prepared her well for the dynamic world of creating software applications. In both, she strives to create a cohesive and extraordinary experience. In her free time she enjoys practicing the martial art Naginata.

Jill Jubinski

Jill Jubinski is a recruiting veteran with over 6 years of recruiting experience in the community. She received her Masters in Industrial/Organizational Psychology with plans to change the way organizations treated their employees. When that didn’t work out she started recruiting ;-) Jill leans on her strength in relationship building as a jumping off point to help organizations build amazing teams and genuinely cares about the health and wellness of an organization’s culture. She is also known to chat incessantly about her dogs and give hugs like they are going out of style.

Michael Stahnke

Michael Stahnke is Director of Engineering at Puppet. He’s held a few roles and been a part of the company growing from 35 to 470+ employees. While staying near the domains of release engineering, operations, and community, he’s been in leadership for most of the last decade. His interests are building teams, mentoring team members, and playing Hot Wheels cars with his son. He came to Puppet Labs from Caterpillar, Inc. where he was an infrastructure architect, infrastructure team lead, and open source evangelist. Michael also helped get the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository launched in 2005, authored of Pro OpenSSH (Apress, 2005), and writes with some frequency about technology and computers. @stahnma on twitter and medium.

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.