Guests of Page it to the Limit

Boaz Barzel (he/him)

Boaz Barzel is the Field CTO at OX Security, specializing in bridging the gap between security, technology, and business. By making tech makes sense, Boaz is aligning product innovation with the real-world needs of customers and is known for transforming complex security challenges into strategic business advantages. With extensive expertise in application security and product innovation, he ensures security solutions are not just reactive but proactively address emerging threats.

Boaz is helping organizations integrate security seamlessly into their operations. He excels in translating technical risks into clear, actionable insights, enabling product teams to develop solutions that drive business growth while strengthening security. He is a trusted advisor to executives and security leaders and has helped countless organizations implement security strategies that align with business goals. At OX Security, he shapes product strategy, influences the market, and drives customer success.

Brad Johnson (he/him)

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 Lhotsky (He/Him)

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 Smith

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.

Breanne Boland (she/her)

Breanne Boland is a product security engineer at Gusto. Before moving into security, she was a site reliability engineer and an infrastructure engineer, working in healthcare and govtech. Prior to that, she was a professional writer, and she still considers finishing the docs the real sign that the work is done. She writes fiction and zines, embroiders, and pets cats whenever she can. She lives in Brooklyn.

Brian Rutkin

Brian is an SRE at Twitter where he works on Core Services and all the things they touch (so pretty much everything). Often that means just trying to ensure all the different services and people get along together.

Brian Weber

After coming from a non-tech background, I’ve been an SRE at Twitter for five years and had related titles for well over a decade and a half. When away from the computer, I enjoy everything outdoors and experimenting in the kitchen.

Brittany Woods (she/her)

Brittany Woods is an automator of things based in central Missouri. During her career in technical roles spanning across both the financial and the automotive sector, Brittany has been a major advocate for utilizing DevOps and automation.

When she’s not automating the things, Brittany enjoys the casual binge watch on your favorite streaming service, lazy weekends, clarinet and bass guitar playing, and home improvement projects.

Brittany is currently a Manager for the Server Automation team at H&R Block.

Bruce Wong

Bruce Wong is director of engineering at Stitch Fix. He formerly resided at Netflix and Twilio, where he founded the Chaos Engineering effort to stress and proactively introduce failure into critical production systems to validate resilience. He is passionate about tackling challenging problems, scaling engineering teams, and building compelling products. In his spare time he can be found applying engineering principles to iterate on BBQ and chocolate chip cookies.