Governing Board

Anders Wallgren is vice president, technology strategy at CloudBees. Anders brings with him over 30 years of in-depth experience designing and building commercial software. Prior to joining CloudBees, Anders held executive positions at Electric Cloud, Aceva, Archistra and Impresse. Anders also held management positions at Macromedia (MACR), Common Ground Software and Verity (VRTY), where he played critical technical leadership roles in delivering award-winning technologies such as Macromedia’s Director and various Shockwave products.

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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.

Eric is an Engineering Manager on the Delivery Engineering team at Netflix leading the Workflows and Foundations teams working on Spinnaker. Since joining Netflix in 2010, Eric has led multiple teams in building and innovating on products and tools used for continuous delivery to facilitate engineers in building and shipping product experiences with increased velocity and confidence.

Jason co-founded Google Cloud Build and the Tekton project at Google, and recently joined Red Hat to continue working on Tekton, Shipwright, and other related development and delivery projects. He contributes to various container-image-related projects, and has never heard a joke about his name and the JavaScript Object Notation that didn’t elicit a polite chuckle. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and kids, and enjoys naps and most cheeses.

Jayne Groll is co-founder and CEO of the DevOps Institute (DOI). Her IT management career spans over 25 years of senior IT management roles across a wide range of industries.

Jennifer Hooper is an experienced technical marketer and digital strategist who understands how to bring people together on the web. Grounded in over 20 years of experience, Hooper deftly converts a company’s vision into digital strategies that deliver business value. She currently leads developer marketing, brand, and content at Armory, an open-source continuous delivery platform, having previously lead similar programs at Heroku, Microsoft, Oracle, and others. While at Sun, she was responsible for several key firsts such as the first electronic download, the first OEM site, the first consumer site, and the first e-commerce and reseller commerce efforts. Hooper is an avid baseball fan and birder. She can often be found taking pictures or watching the Oakland A’s.

Nikhil Kaul leads DevOps product marketing at Google Cloud, where he is responsible for driving positioning, messaging, and go-to market for DevOps products and solutions. Prior to Google, Nikhil spent his time in a variety of technology roles, including software engineering and product management. Nikhil holds a master of business administration (MBA) from Georgetown University.

Oleg’s background includes research, development and automation in hardware and embedded/CAD software areas. I also have an experience in customer support.

Interests: Embedded systems, HW/SW co-design, Electronic design automation, Continuous integration.

Senior Director at Fujitsu Limited

Stephen Chin is Head of Developer Relations at JFrog and author of The Definitive Guide to Modern Client Development, Raspberry Pi with Java, Pro JavaFX Platform, and the upcoming DevOps Tools for Java Developers title from O’Reilly. He has keynoted numerous conferences around the world including Devoxx, JNation, JavaOne, Joker, and Open Source India. Stephen is an avid motorcyclist who has done evangelism tours in Europe, Japan, and Brazil, interviewing hackers in their natural habitat. When he is not traveling, he enjoys teaching kids how to do embedded and robot programming together with his teenage daughter. You can follow his hacking adventures at: http://steveonjava.com/

Tom is VP of Business Development leading technology and channel partnerships globally at CircleCI, a continuous integration and delivery platform used by the world’s best engineering teams. In more than twenty-five years in software, Tom has developed a deep understanding of both the business and technology sides through hands-on experience as a startup co-founder and CEO (EnterPAS, Trahan Associates), as a product/program management leader in large enterprises (Microsoft, SAP), and as a consultant delivering software solutions to organizations of all sizes.

Tracy is a dynamic and entertaining speaker. She is expert in software development practices and can present on a wide variety of topics in this area.  In recent years, she has focused her attention on cloud native development, containers and Kubernetes.  She understands the service based architecture disruption in software practices and how companies need to pivot to support a microservice based continuous delivery practice – what she likes to call K8s Pipelines.  Tracy has been a visionary in this area her entire career.  In 1995, she co-founded OpenMake Software, a private software company that specializes in the automation of cross-platform, and accelerated software builds (compile/link standards).   Her innovation in this area was recognized by IBM, leading her to a board position on the newly formed Eclipse Foundation where she served for 5 years.  In 2014, Tracy and her team recognized the shift in pipeline management that the new container-based architecture would require.  This led to the formation of DeployHub, a new product and company focused on bringing microservice configuration mapping, sharing, and deployment to high performing development teams.  Ortelius was launched as an open source solution for microservice mapping in early 2019 based on a core of the DeployHub code base.

See some of her recent talks:

“Pivoting from Monolithic to Microservices”, DevOps World 2019

“Cultural Transformation via Release Automation”, DevOps World 2018

“A State of DevOps Tools: A Primer”; DevOps.com, March 2018

“Agile Challenges and Solutions”; ExperienceIT, September 2017