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Issac Mosquera, CTO

Keynote: “The Life & Death of Great American Cities: What Urban City Planning has in common with Open Source Software” October 21st

“I don’t always test my code, but when I do, it’s in production” October 27th

Keynote: “Accepting the challenge: straight talk from technology leaders on Spinnaker & the SDLC” November 4th

Isaac is the CTO & Co-founder at Armory. He has been leading engineering and product teams at Armory engaged in the Spinnaker community since it was open-sourced in 2015. He has recently been elected to both the Spinnaker Steering Committee and the Continuous Delivery Foundation's Technical Oversight Committee. Before Armory, Isaac was SVP Engineering at ShareThis where his team built a CI/CD platform that increased deployment velocity by 600x. Before that, he served as CTO at two startups with exits. He enjoys mountain biking, snowboarding, and eating copious amounts of gummy bears.

Cameron Motevasselani, Senior Software Engineer

“Plugins Training Workshops” - Premium October 22nd

"Spinnaker Extensibility: A Journey" November 4th

Software Engineer at Armory working on Spinnaker extensibility and Armory's data pipeline. Has spoken at a previous Spinnaker Summit on the plugin framework, as well as DevOps Days.

Fernando Freire, Staff Engineer

“New Spin Contributors Walkthrough Workshop” - Premium October 20th

“Zero to Spinnaker at the Speed of GitOps” November 12th

Hi, my name’s Fernando, and my goal is to unlock human potential through software. I’m currently enabling the Global 2000’s next digital transformation with Armory , where I lead an engineering team dedicated to the Spinnaker on-boarding experience. My side hustle is evangelizing and building engineering culture that empowers people to build better software. In previous roles at Nike, I lead engineering teams that built and operated the Nike Training Club (NTC) platform, Kubernetes platform, Observability infrastructure, and engineering blogs.

Chris Gruel, Senior Solutions Architect

“Migrating from Halyard to Armory OSS Operator for Kubernetes” - Premium October 29th

Rosalind Benoit, Director of Community

“Roadmap: Build Your Career as a Spinnaker Contributor” October 29th

"OSStarboard: A Contributor Experience App That’s Got Game” November 12th

Rosalind is Director of OSS Community at Armory, where she works to energize the Spinnaker ecosystem and improve the contributor experience. Rosalind holds an MSIS in Database & Internet Technologies from Northwestern University. Her passion for enacting change via software comes from a varied background in system administration, development, project management, and education, along with a lifelong love of Linux. As chair of the Continuous Delivery Foundation Outreach Committee, she seeks to share access to SDLC optimizations and improve the world's capacity to safely and speedily deliver software. She enjoys rock climbing, cycling, civil disobedience, and being a mom.

Ryan Cartwright, Director, Enterprise Delivery

“5 Reasons Spinnaker Aligns to FinServ Business Initiatives” November 10

Ryan is an early-stage investor, advisor, and a sales/marketing technology leader currently living in San Francisco, CA. He is passionate about partnerships and working around challenges to create opportunities. He is currently Director of Enterprise Delivery for Armory, a global, YC funded, high-growth COSS company and a LP of OSS Capital. He previously worked for VMware and Stanley Black Decker. Ryan has an MBA from UNC KFBS, and enjoys scuba diving and sailing in his spare time. “Think globally, act locally.” Ryan has previously spoke at VMworld, OpenUp Summit, and Spinnaker meetups around the world.

Lee Faus, Field CTO

“To go or not to go: 4 Error Metrics You Need for Confident Release Validaton” October 27th

“Securing your Deployments Using a Policy Driven Approach” November 5th

With over 20 years of experience in IT, Lee has been mentoring senior executives at G2k and Fortune 500 on DevOps workflow best practices leveraging an open core mentality and helping them understand best practices for automation and self-service for AppDev teams to deliver applications faster with higher precision and greater accuracy to increase company value in a post-pandemic world. Lee currently serves as Armory's Field CTO and previously worked at GitHub. Lee has spoken at AWS RE:INVENT, AllThingsOpen, Money2020, GitHub Universe.

Clay McCocy, Principal Software Engineer

“Spinnaker Plugins By Example” October 20th

Clay worked on deployment tooling at Netflix and was part of the team that started Spinnaker. Now at Armory, Clay is still contributing to Spinnaker with a new perspective. When not writing code or enjoying his family, he is probably wake boarding or at Jiu Jitsu class.

Nicolas Cohen, Principal Software Engineer

“Dynamic Account Management Framework for Spinnaker” October 29th

Nicolas is a Principal Engineer at Armory where he currently focuses on cloud integrations and configuration of Spinnaker.

Beth Fuller, Senior Product Manager

“This is an Open Source Project, Why do we need a vulnerability management process?” October 20th

“How Customer Success Matters in Product Led Growth” October 22nd

Beth is a seasoned product leader in the Infrastructure/Devops space. She is a Senior Product Manager at Armory. She adores the personalities of DevOps people, understanding their challenges and finding opportunities to improve their day to day lives.

Andrew Way, Senior Sales Engineer

“Securing your Deployments using a Policy Driven Approach” November 5th

Andrew Way, Sales Engineer at Armory with 10 years of both software development and business experience at Microsoft, Xamarin and Amarante Technologies. Andrew has also spoken at VM World.

Akshay Dayal, Product Manager

“Zero to Spinnaker at the Speed of GitOps” November 12th

Product Manager at Armory working on Platform User Experience and Cloud Integrations.

Dan Peach, Software Engineer II

“UI Plugin Development” November 4th

Dan Peach has been working in the Spinnaker community since 2016. Formerly at Google, he worked on adapting Spinnaker for internal use-cases (and talked about them at Spinnaker Summit 2018!). He's excited to now be at Armory, where he works on Spinnaker's plugin framework.

German Muzquiz Rodriguez, Software Engineer

“Scaling Spinnaker for Kubernetes Deployments” October 22nd

Software Engineer at Armory, with more than 10 years of experience working with industries of telecom, entertainment and technology, focusing in backend development and DevOps. Currently working on making Spinnaker successful with Kubernetes. I have previously speak at some Spinnaker related webinars.

Jacob Kobernik, Software Engineer

“Hardening Spinnaker Pipelines” October 27th

Jason McIntosh, Site Engineer

“Spinnaker Observability in Practice w. Kubernetes” Nov 5th

Ige Adetokunbo Temitayo, DevOps Engineer

“An interactive game session of DevOps practices” November 12th

Ige is a seasoned engineer passionate about business continuity, SRE and devOps who holds a Master of Science in Business Information Technology & Communications. His vast experience in computing cuts across the software development lifecycle and includes management of enterprise applications, infrastructure, servers, databases, and incidents. He has worked on different projects in various sectors of Information Technology in Nigeria, Mauritius, US and UK, and remotely with US companies. During his free time, he writes articles to share his experience solving issues with the community; you can view his articles on medium.com/@igeadetokunbo.

Nikema Prophet, Associate Community Marketing Manager

Keynote: “The 3 S’ of a Black Profesional: Structures, Strategy, and Statements” October 28th

Sucheta Chhabra, Director Customer Success

“How Customer Success Matters in Product Led Growth” October 22nd

I lead customer success at Armory, responsible for product adoption and customer growth. I have most of my experience working with Enterprise Software companies e.g Informatica, Cloudera in a different capacity from Engineering Manager to Customer Success I have presented at Informatica World and Cloudera Summit.

On-Demand Content

Spinnaker Summit | This is an Open Source Project, Why do we Need a Vulnerability Management Process? | Beth Fuller

Spinnaker Summit | Spinnaker Plugins By Example | Clay McCoy

Spinnaker Summit | New Spin Contributors Walkthrough Workshop | Fernando Freire

Spinnaker Summit | Keynote: The Life & Death of Great American Cities: What urban city planning has in common with Open Source Software | Isaac Mosquera

Spinnaker Summit | How Customer Success matters in Product Led growth| Sucheta Chhabra & Beth Fuller

Spinnaker Summit | Scaling Spinnaker for kubernetes deployments| German Muzquiz Rodriguez

Spinnaker Summit | Plugins Training Workshop | Cameron Motevasselani

Spinnaker Summit | Hardening Spinnaker Pipelines| Jacques Thomas, Jacob Kobernik, Tim Hinrichs

Spinnaker Summit | To Go or Not To Go: 4 Error Metrics You Need for Confident Release Validation| Eric Mizell & Lee Faus

Spinnaker Summit | I don’t always test my code, but when I do it’s in production | Isaac Mosquera

Spinnaker Summit | Keynote: The 3 S’sences of Black Professional: Structures, Strategy, and Statements | Cheryl Ingram, Angie Marable, and Nikema Prophet

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