Manuel Pais is an independent IT consultant and trainer, focused on team interactions, delivery practices and accelerating flow. Manuel is co-author of the book “Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow” (IT Revolution Press, 2019). He helps organizations rethink their approach to software delivery, operations and support via strategic assessments, practical workshops, and coaching.
Mark Heckler is a Pivotal Principal Technologist & Developer Advocate, conference speaker, published author, & Java Champion focusing upon developing innovative production-ready software at velocity for the Cloud and IoT applications. He has worked with key players in the manufacturing, retail, medical, scientific, telecom, and financial industries and various public sector organizations to develop and deliver critical capabilities on time and on budget. Mark is an open source contributor and author/curator of a developer-focused blog (http://www.thehecklers.org) and an occasionally interesting Twitter account (@MkHeck). Mark lives with his very understanding wife in St. Louis, MO USA.
Mark is the Head Technologist at Kinesis in Sydney, where they help cities and developers (like, property developers) help the climate, using data. He believes in guiding complex systems through change.
Mark works at Pivotal where he helps customers adopt DevOps practices and modernize technology delivery. He has spent the last 20 years building and operating internet infrastructure and applications, leading TechOps organizations at places like GitHub, Heroku, DigitalOcean, and Basecamp. He is frequently opinionated about topics relating to incident response, outage communication, team performance, and organizational learning.
Martin is a Java Champion with over 2 decades of experience building complex and high-performance computing systems. He is most recently known for his work on Aeron and SBE. Previously at LMAX he was the co-founder and CTO when he created the Disruptor. Prior to LMAX Martin worked for Betfair, three different content companies wrestling with the world largest product catalogues, and was a lead on some of the most significant C++ and Java systems of the 1990s in the automotive and finance domains.
Mary Thengvall is a connector of people at heart, both personally and professionally. She loves digging into the strategy of how to build and foster communities and has been working with various developer communities for over 10 years. After several years of building community programs at O’Reilly Media, Chef Software, and SparkPost, she’s now consulting and contracting with companies looking to build out a Developer Relations strategy. She’s also the author of the first book on Developer Relations: The Business Value of Developer Relations ( © 2018, Apress).
Mary is a co-host of Community Pulse, a podcast for community professionals, and the curator of DevRel Weekly, a newsletter for people in the Developer Relations industry. She speaks at various conferences and events about building and fostering technical communities as well as how to prevent burnout in yourself and your team.
Matt Butcher leads a team of open source developers at Microsoft. He is a core maintainer of Helm. Matt has authored a number of books, including “Go in Practice” with Matt Farina. With Karen Chu, Matt created the “Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes” series. When Matt isn’t hacking away on open source projects, he enjoys drinking specialty coffee and hiking in the Colorado Rockies.