OPEN INFRASTRUCTURE OPENINFRA
DAYS UK 2019

Key Speakers

Speakers already confirmed for the event include:

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  Allison Randal @allisonrandal

  University of Cambridge

  Allison Randal is a software developer and open source strategist. She is a board member of the Open Source Initiative, board member of the OpenStack Foundation, board member of the Perl Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for open source leaders.

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  Thierry Carrez @tcarrez

  OpenStack Foundation

  Thierry Carrez is the Vice-President of Engineering at the OpenStack Foundation, in charge of the long-term health of the open source projects under the Foundation. A long-time elected member of the OpenStack Technical Committee, he has been a Release Manager for the OpenStack project since its inception, coordinating the effort and facilitating collaboration between contributors.

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  Steve Helvie @stevehelvie

  Open Compute Project

  VP Channel for the Open Compute Project, an open source project started by Facebook in 2011 focused on high efficiency data centre infrastructure. Steve helps to educate organisations on the benefits of open hardware designs, the value of “community-driven” engineering and how to apply the circular economy in the repurposing of hyperscale data centre infrastructure for enterprises. Steve has spent the last 14 years living and working in Asia holding various Leadership and Channel Development roles for companies like Microsoft and Rackspace. He recently moved to London last year to focus on building the EMEA business.

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  Justin Cormack @justincormack

  Docker

  Justin Cormack is a security engineer at Docker. He maintains many open source projects, including Docker and LinuxKit. He has previously worked in infrastructure, and is interested in the ongoing changes in the infrastructure and operating system spaces, config management and the challenges of scaling out infrastructure effectively.

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  Cheryl Hung @oicheryl

  Cloud Native Computing Foundation

  Cheryl is the Director of Ecosystem at the CNCF. Her mission is to make end users successful and productive with cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes and Prometheus. In addition to being a prolific public speaker, she founded and runs the Cloud Native London meetup. Previously Cheryl led product management and the DevOps engineering team at a container storage startup. As a software engineer at Google she wrote backend and search infrastructure for Maps. She holds a MA in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.

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  Graham Whaley @grahamwhaley

  Intel

  Graham has been working on *nix systems since he first played with Version 7 Unix longer ago than he cares to remember. Having spent many years working on embedded systems and tooling, he has more recently been working within Intel's Opensource Technology Center, focussed on Kata Containers and its forerunners.

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  Monty Taylor @e_monty

  Red Hat

  Monty currently leads the team that works on the Zuul project for CI/CD in Red Hat's CTO Office. He's the founder, core member and past PTL of the OpenStack Infra team which runs CI and developer tooling for OpenStack. He's a past member of both the OpenStack Technical Committee and the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors. Monty is the PTL of the shade/python-openstacksdk project and is the maintainer of the Ansible modules for consuming OpenStack.

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  Stig Telfer @oneswig

  StackHPC

  Stig has a background in R&D working for various prominent technology companies, particularly in HPC and software-defined networking. Stig is now CTO for StackHPC, a consultancy specialising in the convergence of cloud, HPC and big data. Stig is also co-chair of the OpenStack Scientific Working Group, a globally-distributed grouping of research institutions using OpenStack for research computing use cases.

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  Steven Armstrong @Steve9Armstrong

  Just Eat

  A DevOps solution architect, process automation specialist and honours graduate in Computer and Electronic Systems, with a proven track record of streamlining companies development architecture and processes so they can deliver software at pace.

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  Andrew Sheppard HMRC Digital

  HMRC

  Andrew has worked in a dev ops environment within HMRC Digital for the past five years, initially heading up one of the tax platform teams, then in 2016 becoming the Platform Product Owner. Last November Andrew became the Interim Head of Digital Operations, of which the tax platform is one domain, and more recently has started another role heading up the IT side of HMRC’s ‘new ways of working’ capability. For the past nine months Andrew has been working to set up a brand new Level 4 DevOps Engineer apprenticeship standard as chair of an Institute for Apprenticeships Trailblazer Group. For several years prior to the move into agile and dev ops, Andrew worked as an enterprise architect and service manager in the waterfall world, which has given him a thorough appreciation of the challenges in getting a large organisation to completely rethink its approach to delivering world class IT infrastructure and services in a constantly evolving cloudscape.

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  Laszlo Budai /in/laszlobudai

  ComponentSoft

  Laszlo is a seasoned IT consultant and instructor who still remembers the time when Linux was young, and Solaris servers ruled the world, built mission critical telco systems with both OS-es and the related cluster software for several years before changing to the cloud and cloud native world some 4 years ago. He then architected and has been supporting a mission critical Openstack and Ceph based telco system which also uses Docker and Kubernetes. Add to all these his 15 years’ experience in instructing the then newest and hottest technologies for employees of telco vendors and operators throughout Europe, like Istio on this conference.