Guests of Arrested DevOps

Matthew Skelton

Matthew Skelton is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow. He is Head of Consulting at Conflux and specialises in Continuous Delivery, operability, and organisation dynamics for modern software systems.

Matthew Walter

Matthew Walter is an Infrastructure Manager at North American Power, where he works hard at keeping the lights on. After having to manually reset passwords on over 1000 clients once early in his career, Matthew is passionate about automation and infrastructure as code. He lives in Connecticut on a sailboat and loves cat pictures and bad puns.

Matty Stratton

Matty Stratton is the Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, a well-known member of the DevOps community, founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, and a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.

Matty has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.

He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids and two Australian Shepherds, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke.

Megan Bohl

Megan is joining the DevOps community with more than 15 years experience in supply chain/operations and marketing in the fashion and consumer goods industries. She has recently completed an intensive 12-week DevOps and Continuous Integration program and is ready to join the workforce as a Junior DevOps Engineer.

Mia Moore

Mia Moore (they/she) is a Developer Advocate at IBM focusing on IBM Cloud and Kubernetes. They also run the IBM Developer Twitch channel at twitch.tv/ibmdeveloper. Previous roles include content creation and community management, and they are enthusiastic about good storytelling in digital content. They have played Animal Crossing games since the Gamecube and have already invested an embarrassing amount of hours into the latest iteration. Aside from Animal Crossing, Mia enjoys knitting, birding, and figuring out what to do with their sourdough discards.

Michael Coté

Michael Coté works at Pivotal on the advocate team. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, worked in corporate strategy and M&A at Dell in software and cloud, and was a programmer for a decade before all that. He does several weekly (mostly) tech podcasts, writes a column on Agile & DevOps for The Register, blogs at Cote.io, and is @cote in Twitter.

Michael Ducy

Michael “The Goat Whisperer” Ducy works for CHEF Software, where he travels all over the world and talks about goats and silos. He has a great family of 3 kids with his wife Nicole in Ohio.