Guests of Page it to the Limit

Dotan Horovits

Dotan Horovits lives at the intersection of technology, product and open source. With over 20 years in the hi-tech industry as a software developer, a solutions architect and a product manager, he brings a wealth of knowledge in cloud and cloud-native architectures, big data solutions, DevOps practices and more. Horovits is an international speaker and thought leader, as well as an Ambassador of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). He runs the successful OpenObservability Talks podcast, and is a sought writer. Currently working as senior developer advocate for the Open Source Strategy & Marketing team at AWS, Horovits evangelizes on Observability in IT systems with special focus on the OpenSearch project by the Linux Foundation.

Drew Bruton (he/him)

I’ve spent 9 years working in IT at PagerDuty helping to build out and manage our internal tools and systems. I spent 10 years in the bay area, where I started at PagerDuty before moving to London in 2021 to support or team in EMEA.

Dylan Lingelbach (he/him)

Dylan is a senior engineer manager with PagerDuty. Earlier in his career, Dylan worked in the trading industry, specifically on low latency option market making systems and strategies. He started his career at Microsoft where he once broke the behavior of pressing the left arrow in the Visual Studio Editor.

Elad Ben-Israel (he/him)

Elad is a die hard coder and the CEO & Co-Founder of Wing Cloud. He lives in Tel-Aviv with his husband and twins, enjoys music, hiking and crossfit. He’s built software that runs in network devices, drones, worked at Microsoft and created the AWS CDK.

Ella Ang de Jonge (she/her)

Ella joined the Ops Community team after working on dev.to and CodeNewbie. A non-dev who likes to hang out in developer spaces, she’s currently hacking on a machine to turn the fumes of Imposter Syndrome into starlight and crystals.

Elora Burns (she/her)

Elora likes to find weird bugs. Well, she finds them whether she wants to or not! She’s done several “change the engine while the plane is flying” migrations over the years, and enjoys making things better going forward. She also sings with www.countermeasuremusic.com, cooks, makes things, and knits continental.

Emil Stolarksy

Emil is a site reliability engineer, who previously worked on caching, performance, & disaster recovery at Shopify and the internal Kubernetes platform at DigitalOcean. He has spoken at Strange Loop, Velocity, & RailsConf, and is the program co-chair for SREcon EMEA 2019 and SREcon Americas West 2020. He has guested on the podcasts InfoQ and Software Engineering Daily, and contributed a chapter to the O’Reilly book “Seeking SRE.”

Emily Freeman

Emily Freeman is a technologist and a storyteller who helps engineering teams improve their velocity. As the author of DevOps for Dummies, she believes the biggest challenges facing developers aren’t technical, but human. Her mission in life is to transform technology organizations by creating company cultures in which diverse, collaborative teams can thrive.

Emily’s experience spans both cutting-edge startups and some of the largest technology providers in the world. Her work has been featured in outlets such as Bloomberg and she is widely recognized as a thoughtful, entertaining, and professional keynote speaker. Emily is best known for her creative approach to identifying and solving the human challenges of software engineering. It is rare in the technology industry to find individuals equally adept with code and words, but her career has been defined by precisely that combination.

Eric Potter (he/him)

Eric is the Director of Technical Education for Sweetwater and a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio and Development Technologies. He works primarily in the .Net web platform but loves opportunities to try out other stacks. He has been developing high-quality custom software solutions since 2001. He has successfully delivered solutions for clients in a wide variety of industries. He loves to dabble in new and exciting technologies. In his spare time, he loves to tinker with Arduino projects. He fondly remembers what it was like to develop software for the Palm OS. He has an amazing wife and 5 wonderful children. He blogs at http://humbletoolsmith.com/ and you can follow him on Twitter as @pottereric.