Guests of Arrested DevOps

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Pete also fully acknowledges his profile pic is slightly out of date, but has been too lazy to update it to reflect current hair growth trends.

Peter Burkholder

Geophysicist turned DevOp. Joining GSA’s @18F soon, currently hacking for @GovReady. Formerly: @chef, @aarp, NIH, NCAR, U. of Washington & U. of Witwatersrand.

When free from work, can be found making pizza, playing volleyball and singing w/ his community choir.

Peter Shannon

Infrastructure @Instacart. Previously @WarnerBrosEnt, aka @DramaFever (RIP). Organizes @DevOpsDaysPHL. Is a husband, father, and trekkie. Likes hammocks.

Phil Dibowitz

Phil Dibowitz has been working in systems engineering for 12 years and is currently a production engineer at Facebook. Initially, he worked on the traffic infrastructure team, automating load balancer configuration management, as well as designing and building the production IPv6 infrastructure. He now leads the team responsible for rebuilding the configuration management system from the ground up. Prior to Facebook, he worked at Google, where he managed the large Gmail environment, and at Ticketmaster, where he co-authored and open sourced a configuration management tool called Spine. He also contributes to, and maintains, various open source projects and has spoken at conferences and LUG’s on a variety of topics from Path MTU Discovery to X509.