Guests of Arrested DevOps

Dillon Culpepper

Software Developer at Code Authority. Involved in startup strategy, agile culture, cloud infrastructure, and continuous delivery. Enjoys competitive gaming, audiophile music, comprehensive cheese boards, and hackathons.

Donnie Berkholz

Donnie is VP of Products at Docker and leads product vision and strategy. He manages a holistic products team including product management, product design, documentation & analytics. Before joining Docker, Donnie was an executive in residence at Scale Venture Partners and VP of IT Service Delivery at CWT leading the DevOps transformation. Prior to those roles, he led a global team at 451 Research (acquired by S&P Global Market Intelligence), advised startups and Global 2000 enterprises at RedMonk and led more than 250 open-source contributors at Gentoo Linux. Donnie holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics from Oregon State University, where he specialized in computational structural biology, and dual B.S. and B.A. degrees in biochemistry and chemistry from the University of Richmond.

Donovan Brown

Meet The Man in the Black Shirt. Donovan Brown is a Principal DevOps Manager on Microsoft’s Cloud Developer Advocacy team. Why is DevOps one of the hottest topics? Because it hurts the most. Luckily, Donovan’s unofficial tagline is #RubDevOpsOnIt and he’s here to make it all better. Before joining Microsoft, Donovan spent seven years as a Process Consultant and a Certified Scrum Master. Developer Tools are his thing. Donovan has traveled the globe helping companies in the U.S., Canada, India, Germany, and the UK develop solutions using agile practices, Visual Studio, and Team Foundation Server in industries as broad as Communications, Health Care, Energy, and Financial Services. What else keeps the wheels spinning on The Man in The Black Shirt? Donovan’s also an avid programmer, often finding ways to integrate software into his other hobbies and activities, one of which is Professional Air Hockey where he was ranked as high as 11 in the world.

Doug Ireton

Doug Ireton has been in IT since 1993, starting his career working in Microsoft Prod Support answering calls about MS-DOS. Spending 22 of the last 23 years in large enterprises, Doug now works for 1Strategy, an AWS consultancy focused on helping companies with DevOps and Big Data. Doug is an open source contributor and conference speaker. Passionate about Dev+Ops, he also hosts the Seattle CoffeeOps Meet-up group.

Dustin Collins

Dustin is a developer that saw the light. As organizer for the Boston DevOps meetup, he is most interested in helping technical people level up and have a bigger voice in their organizations. By day, Dustin is the developer advocate for Conjur, a security startup.

Eddie Villalba

Eddie Villalba is a Principal Software Engineer for Microsoft’s Commercial Software Engineering division where he helps some of the largest enterprises in the world with cloud native application design and DevOps practices. Eddie is based in Austin, Texas where he also co-leads the Austin Kubernetes Meet-up. He is an Air Force Veteran, brand new first time dad, Kubernetes Contributor and SIG Release member.

Edward Thomson

Edward Thomson is a Program Manager for Azure DevOps, where he focuses on Git and version control in Azure Repos and continuous integration and continuous delivery in Azure Pipelines. In his spare time, he’s one of the maintainers of libgit2, the linkable Git repository management library, and the host of All Things Git, the podcast about Git.

Emily Bache

Emily Bache is a Technical coach at ProAgile and also a well known author and speaker. Emily works with software development teams and organisations who want to get better at the technical practices needed to be agile, including Test-Driven Development, Refactoring, Incremental Design and Architecture. Emily’s most recent book Technical Agile Coaching with the Samman Method details her coaching methods. Originally from the UK, Emily lives in Gothenburg, Sweden.