Speaker - Ben Ford

Ben is director of Community Developer Relations at Puppet which tickles his funnybone because he gets to strategize over community engagement, build neat things, -and- talk to people! \o/ He's been in the tech industry in one way or another since the late 90's doing everything from devops before devops was a thing at a tiny security startup, to forensics investigations, to maintaining a compute cluster for a computational anthropology department at an American university and teaching the grad students how to write distributed Java code to run on it. He's one of those weirdos who runs marathons in those funny finger shoes and yes he's read the book. It was ok.