Guests of Page it to the Limit
Sumbry
Sumbry currently leads Reliability Engineering @ Airbnb. His team is responsible for the overall reliability of the Airbnb Platform: building tools, automation, ensuring product quality, and providing production engineering expertise to all of Airbnb. Sumbry has almost two decades of experience working in the platform, infrastructure, and reliability engineering space but comes from a non-traditional background: having started his career as a software engineer, Sumbry pivoted to network engineering because he wanted to learn more about the core technology that enabled the Internet and other distributed systems.
Sumbry joined several startups as the Internet grew in popularity and quickly learned how to build and scale infrastructure, striving to strike the right balance between perfection and growth. Sumbry eventually started several of his own businesses because he thought he had some good ideas (and also wanted to learn more about problem-solving from a product and customer perspective). Some great (and expensive) lessons were learned here are a big reason why Sumbry is heavily customer focused today even from the infrastructure and reliability side of development. Sumbry is also an Electronic Music DJ and producer in his free time, as getting away from platforms and infrastructure actually helps preserve his sanity.
Tammy Bryant
Tammy Butow is a Principal SRE at Gremlin where she works on Chaos Engineering, the facilitation of controlled experiments to identify systemic weaknesses. Gremlin helps engineers build resilient systems using their control plane and API. Tammy previously led SRE teams at Dropbox responsible for Databases and Storage systems used by over 500 million customers. Prior to this Tammy worked at DigitalOcean and one of Australia’s largest banks in Security Engineering, Product Engineering and Infrastructure Engineering. Tammy is also the co-founder of Girl Geek Academy, on a mission to teach 1 million women technical skills by 2025.
Tara King (they/them or she/her)
Tara King is an experienced backend developer and long-time open source contributor. Tara has worked at Automattic, Universal Music Group, Pantheon, and many other companies, with a focus on making developer’s lives easier and more fun. Tara is currently the Director of Developer Relations at PagerDuty and is based in Albuquerque, NM.
Ted Neward (he/him)
Ted Neward is an industry professional of twenty years' experience. He speaks at conferences all over the world and writes regularly for a variety of publications across the Java, .NET, and other ecosystems. He currently resides in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, three cats, twelve laptops, seven tablets, nine phones, and a rather large utility bill.
Tiago Barbosa (he/him)
Tiago Barbosa is a Developer Advocate for PagerDuty. With 13 years of experience in the tech industry, he has helped hundreds of companies of various sizes and industries on their journey to build resilient and scalable cloud applications while working for Microsoft and AWS. Before moving to PagerDuty Tiago ran the Cloud and Platform Engineering teams for Music Tribe. When he is not busy working or travelling, he is most certainly spending some good time with his family, playing music or surfing.
Tim Armandpour
Tim Armandpour is the Chief Technology Officer at PagerDuty, where he brings a 20-year history of applying technological innovation to maximize value to users. In his role, he leads the company’s long-term technology strategy for the PagerDuty Operations Cloud, architecture vision, security, and technology research to support corporate development.
Before joining PagerDuty, Tim led product management and engineering teams at Yapstone, a global payment solutions provider. He also led the global engineering teams at PayPal, delivering new product experiences across tablets, mobile devices, and the web. Prior to its acquisition by PayPal, he served as Vice President of Engineering at Zong. Tim began his career in 1999 as a Lead Engineer with Yodlee.
Tim holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of California, San Diego. He also holds four U.S. patents.
Tim Nicholas (he/him)
Tim is Principal Engineer for SRE at Xero, a cloud-based business software company with over 2 million subscribers. Tim’s years creating and responding to “surprises” in production have fueled a passion for learning from incidents. He is an advocate for the people grappling with complexity in high pressure circumstances.
Tim has spent over 20 years working with technology and infrastructure at scale. He cut his teeth building and supporting large scale network, data and compute systems for the VFX and animation industries. In 2014 he moved to the SaaS world with Xero where he has worked across a number of disciplines as an engineer, team lead, product owner and architect - each adding to his perspective on software systems engineering and operations.
Tom Geraghty (he/him)
Tom’s first job title was “Experimentalist, which set the tone for the rest of his career. His first tech role was as a lone sysadmin, and many subsequent years of tech ops and leadership roles has made Tom passionate about effective leadership and psychological safety. Tom sincerely believes happiness precedes success - high performing teams are high performing because they’re happy. Outside of work, Tom spends as much time as possible outdoors, and is studying for a Masters Degree in Global Health and Humanitarianism.
Vinessa Wan
Vinessa is a technical product manager at NYT. She love to apply design principles to developer tooling and resilience engineering concepts to her daily life.
You can check out her essays in the upcoming O’Reilly book, 97 Things Every SRE Should Know (https://97things.incidentlabs.io/). When she’s away from her keyboard, you can find her building lego castles with her daughter.