Featured PuppetConf Speakers

Mårten Mickos builds global disruptive businesses. As CEO of MySQL AB for seven years, Mickos grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largest open source company in the world. After the acquisition by Sun Microsystems of MySQL AB for $1bn, he served as Senior Vice President of Sun's Database Group. Previously, Mickos held multi-national CEO and senior executive positions in his native Finland. He is a member of the board of Electrosonic. Mickos holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology. In 2006 he received the Audemars Piguet "Changing Times Award: European Entrepreneur of the Year 2006" and the Nokia Foundation Award.

Jos is a long time Linux & Perl developer, with a keen interest in resilient and scalable services. He currently works for Krux Digital and has worked for Canonical, XS4ALL, and RIPE NCC designing and deploying large scale internet infrastructure. He’s also contributed roughly 2% of the code in the current Perl core

Pedro Canahuati leads the Infrastructure Application Operations and Site Reliability teams at Facebook, where he oversees teams scaling the infrastructure and making sure Facebook is always available. Prior to this, Pedro was Director of Operations at BuzzMedia and Qloud. He previously leveraged his network and systems knowledge to build datacenters and scale web operations at companies like NameMedia, Relera and Verio.

Jason works at Google and manages their Puppet deployment. He's been with Google for over eight years. Before owning Puppet he worked with Google's internal Ubuntu team providing Hardy based server, desktop and laptop distributions using Puppet. For four years prior to that he was with Google's Corp email team, running service for google.com in the days before Gmail.

Damon Edwards is the co-founder and president of the DTO Solutions consulting group. DTO Solutions specializes in automated infrastructure and process improvement consulting for large-scale, mission critical IT operations. DTO clients include leading e-commerce, financial services, and gaming companies. Damon is also a frequent contributor to the Web Operations focused dev2ops.org blog, the co-host of the DevOps Cafe podcast series.