Guests of Arrested DevOps

Katy Farmer

Katy is a developer, writer, and storyteller who is always learning something new. She has worked in Developer Relations for three years, and loves connecting with new communities. She has been described by both strangers and loved ones as “chaotic” and “a little much”.

Kelsey Hightower

Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech, and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go code, you can catch him giving technical workshops covering everything from programming to system administration.

Ken Mugrage

Ken Mugrage has spent the last 10 years teaching DevOps and Continuous Delivery for ThoughtWorks. He’s a 30 year industry vet, global organizer for DevOpsDays and remains in denial about people using the term DevOps Engineer.

Kenny Bastani

Kenny works at Pivotal as Developer Advocate for the Spring technologies. As open source contributor and blogger, he engages a community of passionate developers on topics ranging from graph databases to microservices. He’s co-author of the O’Reilly book “Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry”. He has also worked as enterprise software consultant in projects requiring a full-stack web developer in agile mode.

Kent Rancourt

Kent is a senior engineer at Microsoft, a dad, martial arts instructor, comic book nerd, and Legomaniac.

Kevin Hubbard

Trouble maker, problem solver, Gemini. BCycle DevOps Engineer @ Trek Bicycle Corporation, Madison, WI.

Kevin Reedy

Kevin Reedy is an infrastructure developer from Chicago that currently works for Kong (not the dog toy company) as a Senior Technical Account Manager. In his free time, he enjoys playing shuffleboard (the kind you’d find on the deck of cruise ship), brewing beer, snowboarding, and promising that he’ll update his blog more often.

Kris Buytaert

Kris Buytaert is a long time Linux and Open Source Consultant. He’s one of instigators of the DevOps movement, currently working for Inuits. He is frequently speaking at, or organizing different international conferences and has written about the same subjects in different books, papers and articles. He spends most of his time working on bridging the gap between developers and operations with a strong focus on High Availability, Scalability , Virtualisation and Large Infrastructure Management projects hence trying to build infrastructures that can survive the 10th floor test, better known today as the cloud, while actively promoting the devops idea! Make sure to read his blog titled Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem.