Guests of Arrested DevOps
Jack Knives (she/they)
Jack is currently the Lead Devops Engineer at Moda Operandi, and actively encourages other organizations to join in the effort to devops-ify their platforms. A relative newcomer to the conference world, Jack hopes to further evangelize their experiences at future events. In her free time, she likes cooking new foods, caring for her houseplants, and engaging with birds.
Jacquie Grindrod
Jacquie Grindrod is a developer advocate for HashiCorp where she’s able to apply her passion for solving problems with a holistic approach by bridging the gaps between teams and systems. From making healthcare accessible to creating a winning networking application for women in tech at ElleHacks 2018, Jacquie works to collaborate and empower communities around her. In 2019, Jacquie was recognized as Canada’s Top 30 Under 30 Developers and spoke at DevOpsDays Toronto.
Jake Champlin
A 25-year-old hacker and thought laggard. Spends free time tinkering on computers, hanging out with friends, and riding motorcycles. Has no idea what the world balance means, and currently trying to get a life outside of devops. Friend of the mental health advocates. Insomniac, pursuer of the dark arts, and all around weirdo.
Jam Leomi
Jam Leomi has worked in the Tech industry for over 10 years, with a keen eye towards operations and security. Currently a Infrastructure Engineer at Splice, they have lent their expertise throughout their career in Operations and Security Engineering at companies including Google, GitHub, and CloudPassage. They also share their stories and experience to many communities through speaking and meetups across the globe. In their spare time they are a maker of things musical, delicious, and digital.
James Turnbull
James Turnbull is the CTO of Empatico. A long-time member of the open source community, James is the author of nine technical books about open source software: The Terraform Book, The Art of Monitoring, The Logstash Book, The Docker Book, Pro Puppet, Pulling Strings with Puppet, Pro Linux System Administration, Pro Nagios 2.0, and Hardening Linux. He was formerly CTO at Kickstarter and an advisor at Docker. James likes food, wine, books, photography, and cats. He is not overly keen on long walks on the beach or holding hands.
James Watters
James Watters is the senior vice president of Pivotal’s product and business development organizations. In this role, James has helped shepherd the company’s marquee product—Pivotal Cloud Foundry—into a highly disruptive enterprise software business and the industry standard platform for cloud applications. Under his leadership, in less than two years, Pivotal Cloud Foundry has become the fastest growing open source product in history. Prior to Pivotal, James served in leading product roles at VMware and Sun Microsystems.
Jason Dixon
Founder of Monitorama. Author of the Graphite Book. Previously: Librato, Dyn, GitHub, Heroku and Circonus.
Jason Hand
Jason Hand writes, presents, and coaches on the principles and nuance of DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and modern incident management practices. Named “DevOps Evangelist of the Year” by DevOps.com in 2016, Jason recently authored a new book on the topic of Site Reliability Engineering. In addition to SRE, Jason has authored books with O’Reilly Media on the subject of post-incident reviews and Chatops. DevOpsDays Rockies organizer and host of the Front-range Site Reliability Meetup, Jason is dedicated to the latest trends in technology, sharing the lessons learned, and helping people continuously improve their IT and software development practices. Jason is also a co-host on the popular podcast, “Community Pulse” - a show on building community in tech.
