Guests of Arrested DevOps

John Sheehan

John is co-founder and CEO of Runscope with over 15 years of experience working in a wide variety of IT and software development roles. As an early employee at Twilio, John led the developer evangelism program and worked as a Product Manager for Developer Experience. After Twilio, John was Platform Lead at IFTTT working with API providers to create new channels. John is also the co-host of Traffic and Weather, an API and cloud podcast.

John Smyth

As a teenager, John moved from Chicago to a small, ultra-conservative midwestern town where dancing and Rock and Roll music had been banned. Against all odds, he successfully lead a rebellion to abolish the outmoded ban, winning the heart of the minister’s daughter along the way. Currently, Mr. Smyth is a Senior Consultant with 10th Magnitude.

John Willis

John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 35 years. Currently he is an Evangelist at Docker Inc. Prior to Docker Willis was the VP of Solutions for Socketplane (sold to Docker) and Enstratius (sold to Dell). Prior to to Socketplane and Enstratius Willis was the VP of Training & Services at Opscode where he formalized the training, evangelism, and professional services functions at the firm. Willis also founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise. Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems.

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.

Jonathan Hickford

Jonathan Hickford is a product manager at Red Gate, working on creating tools to support database lifecycle management (DLM). Before he joined Red Gate, Jonathan worked in the web technology team of an international broadcaster, who provided new features and the operational management for the consumer facing TV network websites. Jon writes articles for Simple-Talk and can also be found on Twitter.

Jono Bacon

Jono Bacon is a leading community strategist, speaker, author, and podcaster. He is the founder of Jono Bacon Consulting which provides community strategy/execution, workflow, and other services. He previously served as director of community at GitHub, Canonical, XPRIZE, and OpenAdvantage. His clients include Huawei, GitLab, Microsoft, Intel, Google, Sony Mobile, Deutsche Bank, Santander, HackerOne, Mattermost, SAP, FINOS Foundation, The Executive Center, data.world, Creative Commons, and others. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed The Art of Community, a columnist for Forbes and opensource.com, founder of the Community Leadership Summit and Open Collaboration Conferences, and co-founder of Bad Voltage. He is an advisor to AlienVault, Moltin, data.world, Mycroft, Open Networking Foundation, and Open Cloud Consortium.

Jordan Hendricks

Jordan Hendricks is an engineer at Joyent, where she works on Manta, Joyent’s distributed and highly-scalable object store. In a past life, she studied chemistry and did college journalism before switching to computer science as a grad student. She lives in Berkeley, California, and enjoys cooking, hiking and all forms of gym-going.

Josh Hertz

Josh Hertz has over 10 years experience working on Operations Teams ranging in size from startups to enterprises. When he’s not rabblerousing he’s doing “the DevOps” in the great Los Angeles area. He is uncomfortably enthusiastic about craft beer and technology.

Joshua Timberman

Joshua Timberman is a code cleric at Chef, where he Cures Technical Debt Wounds 1d8 lines of code at a time.