I’m not one for lofty or overly-ambitious New Year’s resolutions, but I do feel that the beginning of the year is an excellent time to set goals and make some changes in the name of continuous improvement.
A personal goal I set for myself this year was to do better about staying in touch with friends and family. Often times I feel like I rely on social media to fill me in on what everyone who is important to me is up to. While social media is great and I love seeing pictures and reading about everyone’s personal and professional adventures, it lacks a true emotional and personal connection that only comes from spending quality time with each other, communicating directly with one another .
I’ve decided that this effort should be extended beyond my own family and personal friends.
Over the next several months, I’m going to share with you an interview series featuring my DevOps friends, letting them talk about what they have planned for 2015. To preview some of the folks I’ll be communicating with, I’ve put together a teaser of who I’ll be talking with in one form or another. All of them have some very exciting things coming up and I can’t wait to share with you what they are.
Matt Stratton
Solutions Architect at Chef, lead organizer of DevOpsDays – Chicago, and host of the Arrested DevOps Podcast
J. Paul Reed
Build/Release Engineering, DevOps, Agile Consultant, Public Speaker, and host of the Ship Show Podcast
Steve Pereira
DevOps, Continuous Delivery specialist, and lead organizer of DevOpsDays – Toronto
Dave Josephsen
Developer Evangelist at Librato, developer of Slacker (chatbot), and Prentice Hall & O’Reilly author
Ryan Frantz
Senior Operations Engineer at Etsy,
James Fryman
Senior DevOps Engineer at StackStorm
Dave Zwieback
VP of Engineering, Next Big Sound. CTO, Lotus Outreach. Devops practitioner and author of “The Human Side of Postmortems”
Matthew Boeckman
V.P. of Infrastructure at Craftsy, co-organizer of DevOpsDays – Rockies and local DevOps Denver Meetup
Josh Nichols
Infrastructure Engineer at GitHub and Hubot maintainer
Dale Hamel
Operations Developer at Shopify. Lead developer of RasPlex
Bridget Kromhout
Operations Engineer at DramaFever, co-host of Arrested DevOps Podcast and lead organizer of DevOpsDays – Minneapolis
Seth Goings
Software Engineer & Continuous Delivery Specialist at ReadyTalk
Gene Kim
DevOps enthusiast, “The Phoenix Project co-author”, Tripwire founder, Visible Ops co-author, IT Ops/Security Researcher, Theory of Constraints Jonah, rabid UX fan
Alan Shimel
Managing Partner at The CISO Group, Network World Blogger, Manager Security Bloggers Network, Editor Devops.com
Jason A. Cox
Director, Systems Engineering at The Walt Disney Company
Jimmy Cuadra
Developer of Lita and ChatOps specialist
Dianne Marsh
Director of Engineering @ Netflix
Jason Dixon
Director of Product Solutions @Librato
Stay tuned and join me in learning more about what these folks are up to this year!
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