Raised on an island in the PNW, I made her way to San Francisco after graduating from the University of Oregon, where I started working for PagerDuty. My next chapter with the company will take me to Lisbon, where I will continue to work on our AWS Strategic Alliance. I love to travel and stay active through yoga. I am passionate about all things nature, especially Marine Biology – love to geek out on whale facts.
Arthur is the Founder and CEO of JovianX Platform for SaaS, a control plane for SaaS products, radically simplifying building and operating SaaS and cloud services.. Previously, he held products and technology management roles with RedHat, the Linux Foundation, Cloudify, Liveperson, and Matrix.
Austin Parker has been solving - and creating - problems with computers and technology for most of his life. He is the Principal Developer Advocate at LightStep and maintainer on the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects. His professional dream is to build a world where we’re able to create and run more reliable software. In addition to his professional work, he’s taught college classes, spoken about all things DevOps and Distributed Tracing, and even found time to start a podcast. Austin is also the co-author of Distributed Tracing in Practice, published by O’Reilly Media.
Austin is an international speaker, having presented to audiences in Europe and North America on topics relating to Observability and DevOps. In addition, he has led or assisted with workshops on OSS projects such as OpenTelemetry and OpenTracing at events such as QCon SF 2019 and QCon London 2020, and O’Reilly Infrastructure and Ops 2020. Finally, he has extensive experience speaking to diverse audiences in a variety of media formats through his podcast On-Call Me Maybe and his event livestreams such as OPS Live!
Barak Brudo was, up until recently, an ERP and full-stack developer. Right now he’s the DevRel for Scribe Security, a software supply chain security startup from Israel. Barak has a degree in art education, he’s a martial arts instructor, and a dungeon master so as you can see, explaining and teaching are in his blood.
Bea has been frustrated at Linux’s IP blocking tools for over 20 years now, and are just waiting to see what Nftables is replaced by.
Bea likes shouting about threat models a lot, and trying to convince people that their primary concern is probably not the NSA and that DNSSEC should be put out to pasture.
She is more opinionated about coffee.
As a multifaceted woman with over 20 years of experience in management, technical support, brand management, community, and developer relations, I know that my passion is service. I find my joy in bettering a product, a presentation, or a brand. I’ve worked as an individual contributor, managed teams of varied ages and experiences, and built programs from the ground up.
Brad Johnson is the Director of Product Marketing for no-code/low-code automation startup Blink Ops. Previously, Brad worked at Netlify, which acquired collaboration startup FeaturePeek where he was Head of Marketing. With 10+ years experience at leading GTM efforts, Brad has also worked at an IP law firm, a handful of SaaS startups, and as a middle school substitute teacher.
Brad is a Perl programmer who’s been working in security since 1999. He’s worked with PCI-DSS, FISMA, HIPAA, SOx, and GDPR compliance programs as well being active in the observability and Perl communities. He believes security and monitoring should be accessible, humane, and add value to the business. Brad has been trying to automate himself out of a job for two decades.
Brandy has spent more than a decade in the tech industry. She has a wealth of experience architecting and implementing solutions for customers on their journeys through digital transformation in a myriad of technical roles at industry-leading tech companies including Google, AWS, and Cisco. She is passionate about observability and solving customers' problems. Outside of work, Brandy loves spending time with family, hiking, and tinkering with all things technical.