PuppetConf 2016

Nigel came to Puppet from Google HQ in Mountain View, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of one of the largest Puppet deployments in the world. At Puppet, Nigel was responsible for the development of the initial versions of Puppet Enterprise and has since served in a variety of roles, including the Head of Product, CTO, and CIO. He has been deeply involved in Puppet's DevOps initiatives, and regularly speaks... Read More →

Cornelia Davis is Sr. Director of Technology at Pivotal, where she helps customers develop and execute on their cloud platform strategies. Responsible for guiding clients on the technical elements of broader transformation, she helps development and operations teams and IT executives understand and adopt new systems, platforms, and processes, as the central part of delivering greater value to their customers. Fundamentally, Cornelia helps... Read More →

Jez Humble is co-author of the Jolt Award winning Continuous Delivery, published in Martin Fowler’s Signature Series (Addison Wesley, 2010), and Lean Enterprise, in Eric Ries’ Lean series (O’Reilly, 2015). He has spent his career tinkering with code, infrastructure, and product development in companies of varying sizes across three continents. He is currently researching how to build high performing teams, and helping to... Read More →

Gene is a multiple award winning CTO, researcher and author. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He has written three books, including “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win,” “The Visible Ops Handbook” and the upcoming “DevOps Handbook.” Gene is a huge fan of IT operations, and how it can enable developers to maximize throughput of features from “code... Read More →

Bethany Macri is a Software Engineer on Etsy's Data Storage team. Bethany studied Literature in college, then taught herself how to code and attended the Recurse Center before working for Etsy. She is passionate about infrastructure and web operations, Mexican food and travel.

John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 35 years. Currently he is an Evangelist at Docker Inc. Prior to Docker Willis was the VP of Solutions for Socketplane (sold to Docker) and Enstratius (sold to Dell). Prior to to Socketplane and Enstratius Willis was the VP of Training & Services at Opscode where he formalized the training, evangelism, and professional services functions at the firm. Willis also founded Gulf... Read More →