Guests of Page it to the Limit

Heitor Lessa

Heitor Lessa (he/him)

Heitor Lessa is a Chief Architect at the Powertools for AWS team. He created the AWS Well-Architected Serverless Lens (2017) and Powertools for AWS (2019) to help customers learn and implement best practices.

He spent the last decade at AWS helping customers' engineering teams on digital transformation, engineering processes, migrations, and community building.

Helen Beal

Helen Beal (she/her)

Helen Beal is chair of the Value Stream Management Consortium, co-chair of the OASIS Value Stream Management Interoperability Technical Committee, and chief ambassador at DevOps Institute. She also provides strategic advisory services to DevOps and VSM industry leaders.

Helen is the author of the annual State of VSM Reports from the VSMC and the State of Availability Report from Moogsoft. She is a co-author of the book about DevOps and governance, Investments Unlimited, published by IT Revolution. She is a DevOps editor for InfoQ, and also writes for a number of other online platforms.

Helen hosts the Day-to-Day DevOps webinar series for BrightTalk and speaks on DevOps and value stream-related topics at a wide variety of industry conferences and at corporate events.

She regularly appears in TechBeacon’s DevOps Top100 lists and was recognized as the Top DevOps Evangelist 2020 in the DevOps Dozen awards and was a finalist for Computing DevOps Excellence Awards’ DevOps Professional of the Year 2021.

She serves on advisory and judging boards for many initiatives including Developer Week, DevOps World, JAX DevOps, and InterOp.

Iris Carrera

Iris Carrera (she/they)

Iris Carrera is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Dutchie focused on observability and incident response. Prior to Dutchie she worked at HashiCorp building the infrastructure that supports HashiCorp Cloud Platform. Iris has worked on infrastructure and site reliability in aerospace, cannabis, and cloud PaaS environments. Iris lives in Seattle, WA, with her partner and pup.

Isabella Applen

Isabella Applen (she/her)

Isabella is an associate software engineer at PagerDuty. She works on tooling and patterns that promote service reliability and scalability. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, playing music, and social anxiety.

Ivan Merrill

Ivan Merrill (he/him)

Ivan Merrill is Head of Solutions Engineering at Fiberplane. Before joining Fiberplane Ivan spent 15 years in various IT Operations roles in large enterprises in the financial sector, mainly focused on monitoring and observability. Ivan started off as an engineer and then moved into team management. Ivan is passionate about helping teams to implement good monitoring strategies, building observable systems, and also understanding the importance of doing so.

J. Paul Reed

J. Paul Reed

J. Paul Reed speaks internationally on software delivery, critical incident response and management, operational sociotechnical complexity challenges and opportunities, Resilience Engineering, and DevOps. He’s worked with such organization as VMware, Mozilla, Symantec, and, most recently, Netflix.

Jaime Woo

Jaime Woo

Jaime began his career as a molecular biologist before following his passion for communications, working at DigitalOcean, Riot Games, and Shopify, where he launched the engineering communications function. He co-founded Incident Labs, helping teams better manage their incident response data to return hours for planned work. He is also an avid lover of dumplings.

Jake Cohen

Jake Cohen (He/Him)

I grew up in the SF Bay Area and then went to UC Santa Barbara for college. My first paid job was working an IT Helpdesk at one of the grad-schools at UC Santa Barbara. I’d always enjoyed working on computers - and this helped me learn the basics of IT. That job also provided the connection to land a position at LogicMonitor (infrastructure monitoring for IT teams) right after graduating. I started on the sales-side, spending most of my time there as a Sales Engineer. I spent a lot of time building custom-solutions for customers as well as helping build internal tools for our teams. After roughly 6 years there, I made the move to PagerDuty to work on the Process Automation products - since I had known some of the original Rundeck team that were part of the acquisition by PagerDuty. After a year on the Solutions Consulting team, I transitioned over to the Product Management team working on our Solutions and Integrations. That brings us to the present!

James Governor

James Governor (He/Him)

James Governor is co-founder of RedMonk, the only developer-focused industry analyst firm. Based in London, he advises clients on developer-led technology adoption, cloud, open source, community and technology strategy. Came up with “Progressive Delivery.”