Guests of Arrested DevOps
Nicole Johnson
Nicole is the manager of Solutions Architects East team at Chef Software, based in NYC Metro. She has been in the IT industry for over 11 years, with Chef for nearly 2 years, and has spent previous years as a Solutions Architect with Chef, and specializing in server, storage, virtualization and cloud architecture and operations.
Ohad Maislish (he/him)
Ohad Maislish is the CEO and co-founder of env0 - the best way to manage your IaC in scale. Before env0, Ohad was the CEO and founder of Arno Software, a cloud infrastructure services company, and Capester, a startup that empowered citizens in smart cities worldwide. Ohad is also the host of TheIaCPodcast.com, a podcast to explore the benefits, challenges, and best practices of using IaC frameworks such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and more.
Patrick Debois
In order to understand current IT organizations, Patrick has taken a habit of changing both his consultancy role and the domain which he works in: sometimes as a developer, manager, sysadmin, tester and even as the customer.
He first presented concepts on Agile Infrastructure at Agile 2008 in Toronto, and in 2009 he organized the first devopsdays . Since then he has been promoting the notion of ‘devops’ to exchange ideas between these groups and show how they can help each other to achieve better results in business.
He now works as Director of DevOps Relations and Advisor at @snyksec
Pauly Comtois
Pauly Comtois is VP of DevOps for Hearst Business Media. This role provides full time consulting to ten business units within Hearst focusing on continuous improvement and community building through culture, process and tools. Pauly has over 20 years’ experience in building, developing and leading high performing IT, Support, Operations and Development teams in rapidly growing organizations. Pauly is a seasoned leader of cultural change efforts in unifying Development and Operations through training and mentorship in Agile, Lean, DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
Pete Bellisano
Pete Bellisano is a Web Operations Engineer at Etsy and the newest member of the Operations team. He enjoys tackling the challenges of technology and is a student of all things Dev/Ops.
Pete Cheslock (He/Him)
Pete is currently the Head of Growth And Community for AppMap, the open source dynamic runtime code analyzer. Pete also works with early stage startups, helping them navigate the complex world of early stage new product development.
Pete also fully acknowledges his profile pic is slightly out of date, but has been too lazy to update it to reflect current hair growth trends.