devopsdays Chicago - Contact

Jerry Cattell is the Director of Technical Operations for Tempus and a co-organizer of the DevOps Chicago meetup group. In his free time, Jerry enjoys traveling, reading, and playing with new technologies.

GitHub

Sasha is a Program Manager at GitHub, focused on helping engineers be successful with using GitHub for work as well as for open source. In addition to co-organizing DevOpsDays Chicago, Sasha is a chair of the new DeliveryConf, and an author of a book on Serverless Computing in Azure.

Albert Cheung works in support for a financial institution dealing with production issues and change management. In his free time, he likes to: sail, play pickleball, visit friends outside of Chicago and brew kombucha.

Hyatt Hotels

Brian Devlin is (presumably) a human who enjoys activities of various natures. Brian is a father who lives in the suburbs. He enjoys board games and beverages, in no specific order. He may or may not have a shadow Twitter account. He tweets only during warm weather. Once, Brian vaulted over the Chicago River, but that could have been in his imagination. Brian invented DevOps, but not the DevOps you know.

Josh Goldman is a Site Reliability Engineer at Packet Host Inc, a bare metal cloud provider. He’s learning to be a pythonista and a terraform guru. Previous endeavors include being a Site Reliability Engineer at SecureWorks as well as an SRE Manager, a mid sized Managed Security Service Provider. In his non work life he volunteers at PAWS Chicago as a Dog Handler and a Adoption Counselor.

Morningstar

Christian Herro is a Lead SRE at Morningstar. He co-founded the Madison WI devops meetup and devopsdays MSN. In his free time, he enjoys dancing, board games, live music, eating all of the foods, and spending far too much time thinking about Babylon 5.

Chef Software, Inc

Trevor Hess is a Partner Solution Architect focusing on Microsoft at Chef Software, working with Microsoft to ensure that Chef is delighting customers and prospects on Windows and the many parts inside Azure! Coming from a background in .NET Software Development and consulting, he has worked with several large multinational organizations to help kick start their journey to the cloud and the world of DevOps practices and principals. He is excited to engage in new experiences, and learning opportunities. Trevor enjoys having hearty discussions about DevOps as well organizational change and transformation.

Chef Software, Inc

Kevin Reedy is an infrastructure developer from Chicago that currently works for Chef as a Customer Architect. In his free time, he enjoys brewing beer, snowboarding, DJing, and promising that he’ll update his blog more often.

Red Hat

Matt Stratton is a Transformation Specialist at Red Hat and a long-time member of the global DevOps community. Back in the day, his license plate actually said “DevOps”. He has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Doctor Who. He is currently on a mission to discover the best phở in the world.

Morningstar

Margaret Valtierra is a Program Manager at Morningstar. She runs the AWS Chicago user group, AWS Community Day Midwest, and is a global core organizer for the AWS Community Days. When not at work she can usually be found at the dog park with her dog, Peanut.

Discover

Hari Vedam is a cloud engineer. He is an avid technologist. His experience includes IT architecture, front-end development, and public + private cloud. When he is not playing with the cloud, his free time includes cooking, reading, and watching movies, especially Marvel.

I help developers understand the environments they are developing for, and helps infrastructure people build better systems. Specialties are Unix (any flavour), scripting and networking. I’ve done time as a Developer and as a Sys Admin, but now I am both…

NextCapital

Brian Andersen is a Senior DevOps Engineer at NextCapital. Prior to joining NextCapital, he made a living as production support for a large, multinational bank and an Atlassian consultant for a small local firm. In his free time he plays (possibly) an unhealthy amount of games, both of the video and board variety. He also has really enjoys visiting cities with zoos in them.