Guests of Arrested DevOps

Joshua Zimmerman

Joshua Zimmerman has worked for the University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries for the past decade, playing a variety of roles ranging from helpdesk support, web developer, and Windows systems administration. For the past five and a half years, Joshua has been part of a team of administrators architecting and maintaining an ever-growing Linux server environment for applications both developed in house and procured from vendors. In his spare time, Joshua co-organizes the Madison DevOps meetup and devopsdays Madison.

JP Morgenthal

I represent Enterprise IT & the realities of delivering real business solutions in a rapidly changing landscape.

Julia Evans

Julia Evans is a developer who works on infrastructure at Stripe. She likes making programs go fast and learning how to debug weird problems. She thinks you can be a wizard programmer.

Julian Dunn

Engineering lead at Chef. Interested in tech, startups, urban issues, transportation, journalism.

Justin Cormack

Justin Cormack is the CTO for Docker. He has been at Docker since 2015, as a senior engineer in security and as a maintainer of Docker’s open source projects. He is a member of the Technical Oversight Committee for the Cloud Native Security Foundation, helping grow projects and community in the cloud native space. He previously has worked in engineering, management and operations in finance and publishing. He is based in Cambridge, UK.

Karen Chu

Karen Chu is a Community PM on the Microsoft Azure Container Compute Upstream team with a focus on open source tools such as Helm, CNAB, Brigade, Virtual Kubelet, and more. She is a CNCF Ambassador, meet-up organizer, and conference organizer. She has also worked on and keynoted on The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes book series. When she’s not connecting dots in the community, you can find her traveling, pursuing photography, and enjoying awesome chai.

Kat Cosgrove

Kat Cosgrove is a chronic early-adopter of new technologies and a real-life cyborg. Her professional engineering background is in web development, IoT, and programming education, but today she’s a Developer Advocate for JFrog. She loves finding creative solutions for hard problems, especially if they’re a little hacky.

When she’s not building demos or at a conference, she spends her time gaming, watching e-sports, and working on useless but entertaining side-projects. She also volunteers with area non-profits geared towards getting more women and other underrepresented minorities into tech.

Katie McLaughlin

Katie has worn many different hats over the years. She has been a software developer for many languages, systems administrator for multiple operating systems, and speaker on many different topics. When she’s not changing the world, she enjoys cooking, making tapestries, and yelling at JavaScript and its attempt at global variables.

Katie Prizy

Katie is a Sr. DevOps Engineer at Health Care Service Corporation. She leads a team of CI/CD enthusiasts and supports over 500 applications. Katie’s team builds highly automated, audit-compliant solutions that take teams from requirements to Production safer and faster. Katie lives in Forest Park, IL with a beautiful wife and two of the cutest dogs you’ll ever see.