Guests of Arrested DevOps

Michael Goetz

Michael is the Solutions Engineering Manager for Chef’s Solution Engineering team, where he helps customers with distributed teams work safely and quickly with Chef to manage their infrastructure. He has several years of automation, systems and configuration management experience across many different types of businesses. An avid woodworker, Michael loves to spend time crafting furniture when he’s not helping others solve their technical problems.

Michael Hedgpeth

Michael Hedgpeth leads the Application Operations and DevOps team for NCR’s Hospitality division. He’s most interested these days in applying DevOps to large organizations, teaching people how to make positive career changes, and incident management.

Michael Isbitski

Mike is well-versed in cloud security, container security, Kubernetes security, API security, security testing, mobile security, application protection, and secure continuous delivery. He’s guided countless organizations globally in their security initiatives, researching and advising on cybersecurity as a Gartner analyst. Prior to his advisory experience, Mike learned many hard lessons on the front lines of IT with over twenty years of practitioner and leadership experience with application security, vulnerability management, enterprise architecture, and systems engineering at organizations such as Johnson & Johnson, PSEG, and Verizon.

Michael Rembetsy

Michael Rembetsy has worked in technical operations for over ten years in the web, healthcare, online media and financial sectors. He started out in the help desk area, but moved to operations shortly thereafter, and has been building and running data center and operations teams ever since. In previous jobs he worked for NBC Universal, iVillage and McDonald’s online game, Monopoly. Currently, Michael is the VP, Technical Operations for Etsy.

Michael Stahnke (He/Him)

Michael Stahnke is VP of Engineering at Flox. He’s been involved with DevOps and DevOpsDays since 2011. He’s previous held senior engineering leadership positions at Puppet and CircleCI. He is passionate about simplification and automation of problems both technically and human oriented. He’s been a speaker at dozens of conferences and events. He was a founding member of the EPEL package repository and wrote a book OpenSSH in 2005.

Michelle Noorali

Michelle Noorali is a Sr. Software Engineer at Microsoft and works on open source, cloud native technologies. She is a member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee and serves as a developer representative on the CNCF Governing Board. Michelle has served as core maintainer of several open source projects like Helm, Draft, CNAB. She now focuses on the service mesh space on projects like Service Mesh Interface (SMI) and Open Service Mesh (OSM). She is passionate about building modular and robust solutions, friendly developer experiences, and doughnuts.

Mick Pollard

After a couple of decades in the ISP, Web Hosting and Cloud Industry as a sysadmin / Infrastructure Coder, Mick Pollard joined the Australian Government’s Digital Transformation Agency to help build clearer, simpler, faster public services. Mick’s focus is on building the next generation hosting platform that allows digital transformation teams to operate safely at speed. Mick co-founded Devops Sydney along with Lindsay Holmwood in Feb 2010 - a monthly meetup for ideas and knowledge sharing around helping development and operations work more efficiently together rather than in silos. When not tapping at a keyboard Mick can be found chasing the many kangaroos off his property or helping the local community as a first responder with the New South Wales Rural Fire Service.