7:00am CDT
8:00am CDT
9:00am CDT
Workshop: Building Cookbooks with DSC Resources
Speakers
Prinicipal Engineer, Chef
Steven is a Principal Engineer on the Community Engineering team at Chef and Microsoft MVP in Cloud and Datacenter Management. Steven has in depth experience with PowerShell Desired State Configuration, having been among the first to adopt the technology, and is an experienced Windows...
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Monday July 11, 2016 9:00am - 12:30pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
9:00am CDT
9:00am CDT
Workshop: Advanced Dungeons and Testing Dragons
Speakers
Technical Training Team Lead, Chef
College dropout, turned instructor who found software development because everything else in his life was going too well. Forged by the fires of tech support, quality assurance and software development, he now brings technology to the hungry, sullied masses with raw energy, immeasurable...
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Monday July 11, 2016 9:00am - 5:15pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
9:00am CDT
Workshop: AWS Technical Essentials
Speakers
Training Manager, AWS
Eli currently manages a team of world-class technical trainers for Amazon Web Services; a role that he stepped into recently after 14 months of delivering technical training himself. His background includes IT Process and Systems Engineering with recent attention focused on evangelizing...
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Monday July 11, 2016 9:00am - 5:15pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
9:00am CDT
Workshop: Azure Chef Training
Speakers
VP Strategic Partnerships / Co-Founder, TechnoTrainer
Elon's fast-growing company,
TechnoTrainer.com, is Chef's Primary Global Training partner, fueling the love of Chef for people on every continent except Antarctica (we're still trying to convince the penguins to give up CFEngine). Having taught enterprise software in over 40-countries, Elon and the TechnoTrainer team belie...
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Technical Instructor, TechnoTrainer
Always getting the discarded hardware of relatives and taking it apart to figure out what made it tick, Fabian has been into technology ever since he was a child.When he got the opportunity in his career to become a linux engineer he took the chance with both hands and never looked...
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Monday July 11, 2016 9:00am - 5:15pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
9:00am CDT
Workshop: Chef Essentials
Speakers
Lead Instructor, TechnoTrainer
Robin has been tinkering and hacking ever since he took apart a Roland electronic keyboard as a child, much to the detest of his parents. This lead him to experiment with building, maintaining and repairing consumer electronics throughout his youth, until pursuing bachelor degrees...
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Monday July 11, 2016 9:00am - 5:15pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
9:00am CDT
Workshop: Crafting Reusable Cookbooks
Speakers
Success Engineer, Chef
Ian is a customer facing engineer for Chef and supports multiple community meetups in the greater Cincinnati area and has been known to frequently drop into community meetups he comes across during his regular travels. In his role at Chef, Ian helps customers design and deploy systems...
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Monday July 11, 2016 9:00am - 5:15pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
9:00am CDT
Workshop: Full Stack Continuous Delivery with Chef Delivery
Speakers
Customer Architect, Chef
John Byrne has been a career geek for fifteen years and counting. He has held various technology-related roles including, systems engineer, architect, and consultant. After experiencing the high of his first chef-client run nearly five years ago, he made it his life’s work to automate...
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Monday July 11, 2016 9:00am - 5:15pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
9:00am CDT
Workshop: New Rules for DevOps Radicals
Speakers
VP of Engineering, Soylent
Jeff has been hooking things up to the internet since the early 90’s. He’s spent time as an engineer, software developer, people manager, and coach for companies that have defined the markets in which they compete. In his role at Chef, Jeff builds training and coaching around...
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Monday July 11, 2016 9:00am - 5:15pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
9:00am CDT
Workshop: Operating the Chef Server at Scale
Speakers
Principal Customer Architect, Chef
Irving leads the Customer Engineering team at Chef and was Chef's first Customer Success Engineer. He has 18 years of experience building, scaling, operating and troubleshooting large-scale Enterprise, Web and HPC systems. He has been deeply involved in the design, planning and troubleshooting...
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Monday July 11, 2016 9:00am - 5:15pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
10:00am CDT
Chef Community Summit
Speakers
VP Community Development, Chef
As the the VP of Community Development at Chef, Nathen helps the community whip up an awesome ecosystem built around the Chef framework. Nathen also spends much of his time helping people learn about the practices, processes, and technologies that support DevOps, Continuous Delivery...
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Monday July 11, 2016 10:00am - 5:15pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
12:30pm CDT
1:45pm CDT
Workshop: Tactical Troubleshooting for Windows Server
Speakers
Prinicipal Engineer, Chef
Steven is a Principal Engineer on the Community Engineering team at Chef and Microsoft MVP in Cloud and Datacenter Management. Steven has in depth experience with PowerShell Desired State Configuration, having been among the first to adopt the technology, and is an experienced Windows...
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Monday July 11, 2016 1:45pm - 5:15pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
5:30pm CDT
7:00am CDT
8:00am CDT
9:00am CDT
Keynote and Main Stage Speakers
Speakers
VP of Transformation, Chef
Justin Arbuckle brings more than 20 years of experience in transforming enterprise IT for speed, scale and consistency to Chef. He is a passionate proponent of the value of architectural thinking to driving significant business value. Prior to Chef, Justin most recently served as...
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CEO, Chef
Barry Crist has more than 20 years of experience in driving enterprise customer success and adoption with both open source and DevOps software solutions. Prior to joining Chef, he was an Executive-in-Residence at Ignition Partners, a Chef investor. He was previously CEO of Likewise...
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VP Community Development, Chef
As the the VP of Community Development at Chef, Nathen helps the community whip up an awesome ecosystem built around the Chef framework. Nathen also spends much of his time helping people learn about the practices, processes, and technologies that support DevOps, Continuous Delivery...
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CIO, WestPac NZC
Dawie Olivier has had a dynamic career in the IT industry, leading many different teams in the design and implementation of strategies and solutions of strategic importance for a number of large corporations. Most recently, as Executive Head of Group Technology Build for the Standard...
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CIO, Alaska Air
As CIO, Sita oversees the Information Technology Services (ITS) organization, staffed by over 300 IT professionals responsible for investing in the airline’s infrastructure, enterprise systems, and technical innovation.Since joining Alaska in 2014, Sita has spearheaded the deployment...
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Director Service Operations, GE Digital
Rachel’s career has spanned 25 years of transforming military command and control, commercial, and industrial market segments.Rachel began her career at GE as a Network Security Architect for GE Transportation (GET). During her three years in this role she architected and deployed...
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Tuesday July 12, 2016 9:00am - 12:00pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
12:00pm CDT
12:00pm CDT
1:00pm CDT
Session: Balancing Velocity and Compliance - Bringing DevOps into Government
Speakers
Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer, SAP NS2
I love working with Chef software, it makes my day, I have been working for the majority of my career within the public sector, local, state and federal governments. Systems Administrator by trade, I have learned the value of automation for Windows and Linux Distros and understand...
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DevOps Manager, SAP NS2
I am the DevOps manager at SAP NS2. My experience in the enterprise has provided valuable knowledge regarding cloud, both with AWS and with private data centers. I have been working with Chef over the past few years in both the public and commercial spaces.
Senior Automation Engineer, SAP NS2
At SAP NS2 I’ve helped to build out and automate our cloud offerings and define our development lifecycle. In my previous positions I’ve worked on architecture and operations, slowly transitioning to a devops focus. Before joining NS2, I worked in SAP’s Mobile Services division...
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Tuesday July 12, 2016 1:00pm - 1:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
1:00pm CDT
Session: Canary In the Coal Mine: Initiating Organizational Change Through Rapid Prototyping Pressure
Speakers
Senior Software Architect, NCR
Michael Hedgpeth has been automating all the things for over a decade at NCR and is recently leading the chef implementation for NCR’s Hospitality Division. Over the years he has developed a passion for test-driven development, Kanban, good design, organizational effectiveness...
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Dev Lead, DevOPs, NCR
John Kerry is a plant biologist turned software developer turned devops pioneer and a statistician at heart. He's a vocal advocate for continuous integration and delivery and spends most of his time dreaming up ways to make the lives of the developers on his team easier and automating...
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Tuesday July 12, 2016 1:00pm - 1:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
1:00pm CDT
Session: Cheffing SharePoint
Speakers
Sr. Engineer, Target
Naomi Reeves is an infrastructure engineer at Target who got her start in technology as the geek in the business unit, trying to automate all the painful processes and acting as the liaison to IT. After joining a more traditional IT team, she’s been focused on the operational aspects...
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Principal Engineer, Target
Ron grew up on a potato farm in north-central Wisconsin, has spent the last fifteen years in various IT roles: Developer, Admin, Architect & Engineer primarily around the SharePoint and dependent technology stacks at scale. A servant leader to a global and talented engineering team...
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Tuesday July 12, 2016 1:00pm - 1:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
1:00pm CDT
Session: Cooking with AWS
Speakers
Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
I’m a Solutions Architect for Amazon Web Services who works with AWS Partners in the DevOps segment. I traded hot, humid summers in southwest Florida where I grew up for cold, snowy winters in Chicago where I live now. Over the years I’ve worn many hats, held many titles, and...
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Senior Manager PaaS Delivery, Gannett
Franklin Hanson is a Platform as a Service engineer focused on creating a Gannett wide cloud platform. The platform is built on a foundation of cloud technologies and evangelizing devops practices for its internal customers. Franklin is a strong advocate for getting comfortable being...
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Tuesday July 12, 2016 1:00pm - 1:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
1:00pm CDT
1:00pm CDT
Session: Habitat 101: An Introduction to Habitat
Speakers
Code Cleric, Chef
Joshua Timberman is a Code Cleric at Chef. He works on improving internal technical processes, fuels of the love of Chef, is a current member of the CBGB, and works on the Habitat core team. He occasionally overhears funny things.
Tuesday July 12, 2016 1:00pm - 1:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
1:00pm CDT
Session: How to Drive a Delivery Truck with Insurance in Africa
Speakers
Automationeer, Standard Bank
One of the noisy guys from the first floor, knows all the things about python and Chef.
Automationeer, Standard Bank
Ex-designer that went from writing MS Word documents to Cooking with Chef. Proof that anyone can learn to use Chef.
Tuesday July 12, 2016 1:00pm - 1:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
2:00pm CDT
Session: A Year After My First ChefConf: Lessons, Shortcuts and Hilarious Bloopers
Speakers
Senior Systems Engineer, Samsung Electronics America
Matt Medeiros has been working in the New York tech world for over a decade, mostly in startups, but also at larger companies. His DevOps journey includes racking and stacking, cloud migrations, supporting massive code bases, and managing globally distributed teams. He does all the...
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Tuesday July 12, 2016 2:00pm - 2:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
2:00pm CDT
Session: Chef Automate [Visibility] Q&A Panel
Speakers
Chef Automate UX Lead, Chef
UX Lead for Chef Automate's visibility features.
Chef Automate Product Manager, Chef
Tasha runs product management for the visibility capabilities of Chef Automate.
Chef Automate Engineering Lead, Chef
Tom is engineering lead for Chef Automate's visibility features.
Lead Engineer, Chef
Christoph is a lead engineer at Chef, developer, and founder who spent the last decade building complex software and infrastructure systems. He was responsible for automation at the innovation laboratory at Deutsche Telekom and created effective solutions managing the future their...
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Tuesday July 12, 2016 2:00pm - 2:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
2:00pm CDT
Session: DevOps in the Intelligence Community
Speakers
Lead Software Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation
Michael Kristan is a Software Systems Engineer at MITRE’s Center for National Security. Michael currently serves as a thought leader in cloud computing and DevOps. He regularly consults on a variety of projects and provides guidance, support, and systems engineering expertise as...
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Tuesday July 12, 2016 2:00pm - 2:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
2:00pm CDT
Session: Habitat 201: Habitat in the Ecosystem
Speakers
Product Marketing Manager, Chef
George is a career-long believer of using automation and a wearer of many hats at Chef. He is recovering from production ops PTSD and still twitches when dashboards turn red. He now spends his days figuring out ways to help others avoid the same fate by talking about Chef, DevOps...
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Tuesday July 12, 2016 2:00pm - 2:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
2:00pm CDT
Session: Integrating all your tools with Chef – and how we did it at HPE
Speakers
Data Center Infrastructure Automation Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Bik is a Systems Software Engineer on the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Center Infrastructure Automation Team. He is an avid user of Chef and will be demonstrating how his team was able to create integrations between their HPE Technologies and Chef. Bik is passionate about creating...
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Data Center Infrastructure Automation Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Vivek is a Senior Systems Software Engineer on the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Center Infrastructure Automation Team. He comes with 10+ years of Infrastructure Management experience, now busy transforming Infrastructure operations using Chef and creating integrations between...
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Tuesday July 12, 2016 2:00pm - 2:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
2:00pm CDT
2:00pm CDT
Session: SAP’s IT Journey into DevOps
Speakers
DevOps CoE Manager, SAP AG
SAP DevOps COE managers...managing and running the traditional IT transformation into DevOps concept within SAP organization.
Tuesday July 12, 2016 2:00pm - 2:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
2:00pm CDT
3:00pm CDT
Session: Behind Closed Doors: Managing Passwords in a Dangerous World
Speakers
Lead Rascal, Noah Kantrowitz
Noah Kantrowitz is a web developer turned infrastructure automation enthusiast, and all around engineering rabble-rouser. By day he builds tools and teaches, and by night he works with the Python Software Foundation infrastructure team. He is an active member of the Chef community...
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Tuesday July 12, 2016 3:00pm - 3:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
3:00pm CDT
Session: Breaking Technology Silos with Chef
Speakers
Lord High Fixer, National Football League
Sean Walberg is a DevOps practitioner with the National Football League's digital media division, which encompasses all of the league’s websites and streaming. Over the past two-plus years he's used Chef to help automate website operations and reduce downtime. He is the current...
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Tuesday July 12, 2016 3:00pm - 3:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
3:00pm CDT
3:00pm CDT
Session: Delivery Dependency Support (or How Your Project Is Not an Island)
Speakers
Software Engineer, Chef
Jess Mink is a software engineer at Chef. Her previous experiences include everything from Amazon to five person startups. When not spelunking into the intricacies of Erlang or pondering the most effective team dynamics, she's generally in the woods searching for lost people.
Tuesday July 12, 2016 3:00pm - 3:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
3:00pm CDT
Session: Enterprise Chef: Bringing Technology and Teams Together
Speakers
Senior Automation Engineer, Hearst Corporation
Aaron is a huge Chef advocate, an active community member and previous ChefConf speaker who also runs the DevOps Kansas City MeetUp Group. He and co-presenter Pauly Comtois will bring light and solutions to problems other organizations are sure to be facing.
VP DevOps/Sr. Automation Engineer, Hearst Corporation
Pauly is a former Chef employee and has spent the last 20 years building, developing and leading high performing Support, IT, Operations and Development teams in rapidly growing organizations. Pauly and Aaron Blythe will bring light and solutions to problems other organizations are...
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Tuesday July 12, 2016 3:00pm - 3:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
3:00pm CDT
Session: Habitat 301: Building Habitats
Speakers
Sr. Software Development Engineer, Chef
Jamie has been involved in the Chef community since 2009 and is the author of popular open source projects such as Berkshelf, Ridley, and more recently, Habitat. Jamie is a full-time software engineer working at Chef leveraging his earlier work on developing patterns and processes...
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Tuesday July 12, 2016 3:00pm - 3:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
3:00pm CDT
4:30pm CDT
7:00am CDT
8:00am CDT
9:00am CDT
Keynote and Main Stage Speakers
Speakers
VP of Business Development, Chef
VP Community Development, Chef
As the the VP of Community Development at Chef, Nathen helps the community whip up an awesome ecosystem built around the Chef framework. Nathen also spends much of his time helping people learn about the practices, processes, and technologies that support DevOps, Continuous Delivery...
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CTO, Co-Founder, Chef
Adam Jacob is a co-founder of Chef and the creator of Chef. Prior to Chef, he founded HJK Solutions, an automated infrastructure consultancy. During two years at HJK, he built new infrastructures for 15 different startups. Including his time at HJK, Adam has 13 years of experience...
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Head of Americas, Cloud Partner Business, Google
Brandon currently serves as the lead for Google’s cloud partner business in the Americas. He has built the ecosystem that includes technology companies as diverse as Intel, Docker, Cloudera, Chef and Tableau. He brought together system integrators with deep cloud expertise like...
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SVP & CTO of Information Technology, Liberty Mutual Insurance Group
Mark’s team provides IT services in support of Liberty Mutual Insurance. They work to transform IT’s effectiveness through an agile mindset and by helping themselves and their company become a cloud native enterprise. Before joining Liberty Mutual in 2009, Mark was the Vice President...
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Director of Program Management, Microsoft Azure
Corey Sanders has been a member of the Azure team for 6 years and Microsoft for 11 years. Corey is currently the Director of Program Manager responsible for the engineering and business of compute in the Azure team. This includes Windows VMs, Linux VMs, Batch Computing, and the compute...
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Director, SDI, Intel
Nicholas Weaver is a Director at Intel Corporation leading efforts in Emerging Technology, Orchestration, and Scheduling for the Datacenter Solutions Group. Previously he was the lead automation architect at VMware’s vCloud Air. His passion is in finding the next evolution of...
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Wednesday July 13, 2016 9:00am - 12:00pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
12:00pm CDT
12:00pm CDT
1:00pm CDT
Session: Build Cookbooks and the Service Delivery Canvas
Speakers
Engineering Manager, Chef
Christopher Webber is an Engineering Manager for the Corporate Infrastructure and Applications Team at Chef. Chris and his team are some of the earliest users of Delivery and are responsible for systematically moving much of Chef’s internal infrastructure, like docs.chef.io and...
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Wednesday July 13, 2016 1:00pm - 1:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
1:00pm CDT
1:00pm CDT
Session: Chef and DevOps for Pointy-Hairs
Speakers
Operations Engineer, Texas A&M University
She’s a chef in the kitchen at home and, because of Chef, she gets to have a kitchen in the office too. Victoria is an Operations Engineer for the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University, managing the college’s Unix web infrastructure since 2014. All Linux nodes are Chef-managed...
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Wednesday July 13, 2016 1:00pm - 1:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
1:00pm CDT
Session: Chef Journey on Google Cloud
Speakers
Senior Software Engineer, Google
Nelson is a member of Senior staff at Google. With 20 years of experience in software development, he currently responsible for overseeing the architecture and implementation of software at Google with current emphasis on cloud solutions. Focused most of his career in software development...
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Senior Partner Engineer, Chef
JJ is a Sr. Partner Engineer at Chef, he was also the PTL for the Openstack-Chef project, and helped bootstrap the OSOps project in OpenStack. He lives in Austin, Texas and still is itching for Google Fiber.He enjoys a good strong stout, hoppy IPA, and some Dwarf Fortress or Factorio.He's...
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Head of Americas, Cloud Partner Business, Google
Brandon currently serves as the lead for Google’s cloud partner business in the Americas. He has built the ecosystem that includes technology companies as diverse as Intel, Docker, Cloudera, Chef and Tableau. He brought together system integrators with deep cloud expertise like...
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CEO, Cascadeo
Michael Norring is the CEO of Cascadeo a Cloud DevOps Engineering and Managed Services company. He has more than 20 years of experience building complex enterprise architectures and holds several technology patents. Prior to Cascadeo, Michael served as the CEO of SynerG Software...
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Wednesday July 13, 2016 1:00pm - 1:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
1:00pm CDT
1:00pm CDT
Session: Introducing Chef to an Enterprise and Creating Awesome Chefs
Speakers
Senior Software Engineer, Capital One
Surya is on the Tools Engineering team at Capital One, primarily responsible for managing Chef & other shared continuous delivery tools and works closely with application teams helping them in their Cloud/DevOps automation. Surya has been with Capital One for about two years and holds...
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Cloud engineer, Capital One
Ishu has been a developer , operations engineer and ultimately a devops engineer in his past 9 years as an IT professional . He is an avid user of Chef who has been working with a wide range of developers in CapitalOne to enable them in getting their applications on Cloud. As part...
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Lead Software Engineer - Cloud Migration, Capital One
Ali Ravji has bachelors in computer science and in information systems. He has over 17 years of IT experience in various technology roles (Operations, Engineer, software development and Architect) in the manufacturing, technology and financial services industries.Ali has been with...
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Wednesday July 13, 2016 1:00pm - 1:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
1:00pm CDT
1:00pm CDT
Session: We Can All Have Nice Things: Patterns for Brownfield Automation
Speakers
Senior Web Technologist, Adobe Systems
Jeremy has spent 16 years in IT Web Operations at large technology companies supporting both internal application and external customer-facing web sites and services. That’s a nice way of saying he’s tried to modernize and support old infrastructure and applications; he knows...
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Wednesday July 13, 2016 1:00pm - 1:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
2:00pm CDT
Session: Adding Windows to Your Kitchen
Speakers
Principal Engineer, Target Corporation
Levi Geinert is a Principal Engineer in Engineering Practices at Target Corporation. He has worked to develop and mature DevOps practices and with a special focus on Windows automation
Principal Consultant, 10th Magnitude
Trevor Hess is a Principal Consultant at 10th Magnitude and a co-host of the Arrested DevOps Podcast. Trevor is a regular speaker at events across the country like ChefConf and DevOps Days Chicago, as well as local meetups. He proudly holds the title "Chef Prince of Azure," and loves...
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Wednesday July 13, 2016 2:00pm - 2:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
2:00pm CDT
Session: DevOps for Networks, NetDevOps, NetOps or Whatever: Get Your Network Cooking with Chef
Speakers
Extensibility Engineer, Arista Networks
Jere Julian brings over 25 years worth of experience in network, server, and storage administration as well as systems automation. He’s worked with government, enterprise, financial, higher-education, cloud, and service provider customers. His current role as an Advanced Services...
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Wednesday July 13, 2016 2:00pm - 2:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
2:00pm CDT
Session: From Code to Community: Contributing to the Chef and Microsoft Ecosystem
Speakers
Co-Founder, Pendrica
While culture and sharing are at the heart of DevOps, Infrastructure Automation is the technical backbone. That’s one of the reasons why Hannah co-founded Pendrica, a UK consultancy specialising in Platform Automation with Chef and Microsoft. Hannah’s background managing large...
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Technical Director and Co-Founder, Pendrica
Stuart Preston is the Technical Director and co-founder of Pendrica, a Chef partner based in the United Kingdom. Over the last 2 decades he has specialised in delivering Infrastructure, Platform Architecture and Application Lifecycle Management consultancy at scale. Stuart is a keen...
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Wednesday July 13, 2016 2:00pm - 2:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
2:00pm CDT
2:00pm CDT
Session: How We Adapted our DevOps Pipeline for Chef Delivery
Speakers
Chief Technologist, Booz Allen Hamilton
Wyatt Chaffee is a Chief Technologist in the Digital group of the Strategic Innovation Group (SIG) at Booz Allen Hamilton. Wyatt’s focus area is in solution architecture, platforms and implementation of cloud-based solutions for several of our federal clients and the development...
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Chief Technologist, Booz Allen Hamilton
Jimmy is a Chief Technologist in the Strategic Innovation Group (SIG) at Booz Allen Hamilton. As part of the SIG, Jimmy is focused on driving innovative capabilities with modern software development including DevOps and other practices. Prior to joining Booz Allen , Jimmy was with...
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Wednesday July 13, 2016 2:00pm - 2:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
2:00pm CDT
Session: Inside the New Chef Server HA
Speakers
Software Engineer, Chef
Mark Anderson and Marc Paradise have collectively been working on Chef Server for over 10 years.
Prinicpal Engineer, Chef
Mark Anderson and Marc Paradise have collectively been working on Chef Server for over 10 years.
Wednesday July 13, 2016 2:00pm - 2:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
2:00pm CDT
3:00pm CDT
Session: Chef Automate [Workflow] Q&A Panel
Speakers
Senior UX Designer, Chef
Vicki Ebberts is a senior UX designer on the product team at Chef. Prior to joining Chef, she spent a few years in corporate branding and web design, followed by nearly a decade in the videogame industry, designing delightful user experiences for games at studios like ArenaNet, Z2...
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Engineering Manager for Chef Automate, Chef
Product Manager, Chef
Megan Gleason is a product manager at Chef working with the Chef Automate team. She lives in Seattle and can usually be found at Chef HQ. Beyond her passion for helping the world continuously deliver everything, Megan is obsessed with marine science and with visiting as many countries...
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Wednesday July 13, 2016 3:00pm - 3:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
3:00pm CDT
3:00pm CDT
Session: Enterprise Open Source How-To
Speakers
Sr. Engineer, 1Strategy
Doug Ireton has worked at enterprise companies for most of his career. At Nordstrom, Doug held the informal title of “Open Source Czar” where he helped evangelize, drive, and manage open source guidelines. Doug worked through many political and legal challenges to help teams contribute...
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Wednesday July 13, 2016 3:00pm - 3:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
3:00pm CDT
Session: Tuning and Monitoring your Chef Infrastructure
Speakers
Customer Engineer, Chef
Hey, I'm Andrew! I've been a sysadmin, systems engineer, and system developer for the better part of 10 years in government, telecom and various private industries. Now, I'm a Customer Engineer at Chef, Inc., and as part of that job I frequently see what happens when customers are...
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Wednesday July 13, 2016 3:00pm - 3:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
3:00pm CDT
3:00pm CDT
Session: Writing DSC Resources and Using Them in Chef for Windows
Speakers
Prin. Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Narayanan (Nana) Lakshmanan is the Principal Software Engineering Manager for PowerShell Desired State Configuration. Nana is an established technical leader with over 15 years of experience in developing high performance, scalable platforms and protocols, highly concurrent and multi-tenant...
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Wednesday July 13, 2016 3:00pm - 3:40pm CDT
JW Marriott Austin
110 E 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
4:30pm CDT
8:00pm CDT
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