Guests of Arrested DevOps

Matt Curry

Matt is a passionate technologist and busy dad from Scottsdale, Arizona. He is currently working at Allstate Insurance, helping to drive a cultural transformation which Allstate has labeled CompoZed Labs. At Allstate, Matt leads the Cloud Engineering organization, which is tasked with defining and delivering on Allstate’s Connected Developer Platform. Matt is an Open Source nerd and led the release of Allstate’s first open source software project, Deployadactyl, for multi-cloud management with Cloud Foundry. Matt is a software and hardware geek with a demonstrated history of using software to solve infrastructure challenges. He is a strong believer in maximizing developer efficiency and delight. Prior to Allstate, Matt worked at PayPal for 8 years. There he played a variety of roles from Business Analyst to Capacity and Performance Specialist to Solutions Architect. While at PayPal he worked on projects related to holiday capacity planning, datacenter movement, code release efficiency and self-healing infrastructure.

Matt Farina

Matt works on the Cloud Native Computing Team at Samsung SDS where he focuses on cloud native applications. He is an author, speaker, and regular contributor to open source. Matt has been developing software for over 25 years. He is a maintainer of Helm and a Kubernetes SIG Apps co-chair.

Matt Kuritz (he/him)

Matt is a staff engineer, and the tech lead of the Platform Engineering team at The Farmer’s Dog. Prior to The Farmer’s Dog, Matt worked in a variety of companies and roles, but has always helped with the adoption of devops culture and practices.

Outside of work, Matt has served as an organizer of devopsdays in New York City since 2018. He is currently interested in learning more about resilience engineering, and facilitating learning from incidents. The rest of his time is spent playing tug with a very goofy white swiss shepherd named Ze’ev.

Matt Ray

Matt Ray is the Sydney, Australia-based manager of Solutions Architecture (APAC) for Chef Software. He is an active open source contributor, a host of the SoftwareDefinedTalk podcast, blogs at LeastResistance.net and is @mattray on Twitter, IRC and GitHub. He has presented at OSCON, Velocity, DevOpsDays, OpenStack Summits, ChefConf, LinuxCon, SCALE and other conferences.

Matthew Barlocker

I’m a startup fanatic. Creating businesses, teams, products, and process are where I thrive. My background is in software engineering, so I prefer deep tech companies, like Blue Matador, my software monitoring startup. In my spare time, you’ll find me flying airplanes, playing luckless board games, riding my side-by-side, playing the piano, or learning new skills and languages (sailing & Italian on the shortlist).

Matthew Jones

Matthew Jones is an operations engineer at Red Guava. He is a global core organiser of Devopsdays, serves as president of Devops Australia, helped establish Infracoders, and helps run the Melbourne Infracoders meetup. His pseudonym is Geekle.