Guests of Arrested DevOps
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.
Phillip Gibson
Phillip Gibson is a passionate technologist who champions the use of cloud native technologies, services, and open source software. With a career that spans a diverse set of IT roles at Microsoft and Docker, Phillip knows how effective driving of incremental technology changes can add up to substantial business impact. While not learning the next big tech thing, hacking code, or building systems, Phillip involves himself in several technology and coding mentoring programs targeting minority and the underserved student populations, as well as a relentless pursuit of mastering the art of smoke barbecue.
Quintessence Anx
Quintessence meandered into developer relations after a long tenure in IT and operations roles. After running AWS bills up and then bringing them back down again, she brought her “lessons learned” to PagerDuty, where she is a Developer Advocate. Outside of work, she co-founded Inclusive Tech Buffalo and mentors underrepresented groups to help them launch sustainable careers in technology.
