About Ian ShermanIan Sherman is Head of Software at Formant, a company building cloud infrastructure for robotics. Prior to Formant, Ian led engineering teams at Google X and Bot & Dolly. The through line of his career has been tool building, for engineers and artists alike. He’s inspired by interdisciplinary collaboration of all types; currently this takes the form of applying patterns and practices from distributed systems operations to the relatively nascent field of robotics. Linkshttps://formant.io TranscriptMike: This is the Real World DevOps Podcast and I'm your host Mike Julian ..read more

About Aaron SachsAaron Sachs is a home brewer, banjo player, and also happens to like monitoring things. He helps make his customers look like monitoring badasses to their customers at Sensu, where he's a Customer Reliability Engineer. Links Referenced SensuAaron.sachs.blogTwitter: @asachs01 TranscriptMike:  This is the Real World DevOps podcast and I'm your host Mike Gillian. I'm setting out to meet the most interesting people doing awesome work in the world of DevOps. From the creators of your favorite tools, to the organizers of amazing conferences, from the authors of great books to fanta ..read more

About Andrew RogersAndrew leads technical strategy and architecture development for ACE IoT Solutions. Andrew also leads the development of technical and research strategy at The Enterprise Center, a non-profit focused on developing the innovation ecosystem in Chattanooga, TN. When not bringing his extensive professional experience in Industrial Control Systems, Critical Infrastructure Controls, and Network Engineering to his professional endeavors, he can most commonly be found with a camera in his hand. A deep passion for photography takes him off the beaten path the world over, and serves a ..read more

About Jeremy TangrenJeremy Tangren is a Technical Program Manager specializing in infrastructure and vendor management. Throughout his 15+ years in IT program/project management, he has managed local- and global-scale multi-million dollar projects at companies like Facebook, Splunk, and Cisco. Jeremy is based in San Francisco, CA. TranscriptMike: This is the Real World DevOps podcast and I'm your host Mike Julian. I'm setting out to meet the most interesting people doing awesome work in the world of DevOps. From the creators of your favorite tools to the organizers of amazing conferences or t ..read more

About Mary ThengvallMary Thengvall is a connector of people at heart, both personally and professionally. She loves digging into the strategy of how to build and foster developer communities and has been doing so for over 10 years. After building community programs at O’Reilly Media, Chef Software, and SparkPost, she’s now consulting for companies looking to build out a Developer Relations strategy. In addition to her work, she's known for being "the one with the dog," thanks to her ever-present medical alert service dog Ember. She's the author of the first book on Developer Relations: The Bus ..read more

About Kelly ShortridgeKelly Shortridge is currently VP of Product Strategy at Capsule8. Kelly is known for research into the applications of behavioral economics to information security, which Kelly has presented conferences internationally, including Black Hat, AusCERT, Hacktivity, Troopers, and ZeroNights. Most recently, Kelly was the Product Manager for Analytics at SecurityScorecard. Previously, Kelly was the Product Manager for cross-platform detection capabilities at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence as well as co-founder and COO of IperLane, which was acquired. Prior to IperLane, Kelly w ..read more

About Christine YenChristine delights in being a developer in a room full of ops folks. As a cofounder of Honeycomb.io, a tool for engineering teams to understand their production systems, she cares deeply about bridging the gap between devs and ops with technological and cultural improvements. Before Honeycomb, she built out an analytics product at Parse (bought by Facebook) and wrote software at a few now-defunct startups. Links Referenced: https://www.honeycomb.io https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/o11ycast/ TranscriptMike Julian: This is the Real World DevOps podcast and I'm your ..read more

About James TurnbullJames Turnbull is originally from Australia but now lives in Brooklyn, NY. He likes wine, food, and cooking (in that order) and tattoos, books, and cats (in no particular order). He is a CTO in residence and lead startup advocacy at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, he was the founding CTO at Empatico. Before that, James was CTO at Kickstarter, VP of Engineering at Venmo, and in leadership roles at Docker and Puppet. He also had a long career in enterprise, working in banking, biotech, and e-commerce. James also chairs the O'Reilly Velocity conference series. In lieu of sleep ..read more

About VM BrasseurVM (aka Vicky) spent most of her twenty-plus years in the tech industry leading software development departments and teams, providing technical management and leadership consulting for small and medium businesses, and helping companies understand, use, release, and contribute to free and open source software in a way that's good for both their bottom line and for the community. Now, as the Director of Open Source Strategy for Juniper Networks, she leverages her nearly 30 years of free and open source software experience and a strong business background to help Juniper be succe ..read more

About Ryn DanielsRyn Daniels is a staff infrastructure software engineer who got their start in programming with TI-80 calculators back when GeoCities was still cool. Their work has focused on infrastructure operability, sustainable on-call practices, and the design of effective and empathetic engineering cultures. They are the co-author of O’Reilly’s Effective DevOps and have spoken at numerous industry conferences on devops engineering and culture topics. Ryn lives in Berlin, Germany with a perfectly reasonable number of cats and in their spare time can often be found powerlifting, playing c ..read more