Guests of Page it to the Limit

Nathen Harvey

As a Cloud Developer Advocate at Google, Nathen helps the industry understand and apply DevOps and SRE practices in the cloud. These practices are rooted in the understanding that increased reliability comes with increased velocity.

He is part of the DevOpsDays conferences global organizing committee and was a technical reviewer for the Accelerate State of DevOps Report.

Nathen’s father thought misspelling his children’s names would be a fun prank to play with consequences that would last a lifetime. "

Nora Jones

Nora Jones is a Senior Director of Product at PagerDuty, and the former founder and CEO of Jeli. She is a software engineer and leader with 10+ years of experience at innovative companies including Netflix and Slack. Nora’s focus on the sociotechnical aspects of engineering — the intersection between how people and software work together in practice in distributed systems — is a founding pillar of Jeli, as well as the Chaos Engineering movement, which Nora helped build from the start. She is also the founder of the Learning From Incidents community (learningfromincidents.io).

Pablo Gonzalez (he/him)

Support Engineer turned Software Developer turned Software Architect. Now I bring software engineering best practices to the world of business applications.

Paige Cruz (she/her)

Paige Cruz is a Senior Developer Advocate at Chronosphere passionate about cultivating sustainable on-call practices and bringing folks their aha moment with observability. She started as a software engineer at New Relic before switching to SRE holding the pager for InVision, Lightstep, and Weedmaps. Off-the-clock you can find her spinning yarn, swooning over alpacas, or watching trash TV on Bravo.

Patrick Debois (He/Him)

Once so often it makes sense to repeat the basics: Using the CAMS acronym Patrick Debois will explain how DevSecOps is built upon the core tenets of DevOps, requires the same mindset and approach, and ultimately forms a consistent feedback channel for the business on overcoming yet another bottleneck: security. Coming to a mature DevOps organization near you, sooner rather than later.

Patrick Roserie (he/him)

Patrick Roserie is a husband, father, tinkerer, and cyber security professional that specializes in infrastructure/application security and automation. He has been in the IT Industry for over 10 years, prior to cyber security he was a helpdesk/migration technician.

Paul Hinze

Paul is a Chicago-based software engineer who has been drawn to the boundary between applications and infrastructure for his entire career. At HashiCorp he gets to focus directly on that boundary by working on and around Terraform.

Rachel Stephens (she/her)

Rachel Stephens is a Senior Analyst with RedMonk, a developer-focused industry analyst firm. She focuses on helping clients understand and contextualize technology adoption trends, particularly from the lens of the practitioner. Her research covers a broad range of developer and infrastructure products, with a particular focus on emerging growth technologies and markets.

Rich Lafferty (he/him)

Rich Lafferty is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at PagerDuty, where he builds platforms in the clouds to make PagerDuty reliable and his development teams happy. He now calls Dartmouth, Nova Scotia home with his wife and two tortoiseshell cats. In his copious spare time, he can be found enjoying craft beer, staring at a wall, or playing bass in one of PagerDuty’s two office bands.