A Sweet Conference Focused on Windows Automation (WinOps)

Chris Hunt

Stack Overflow

Site Reliability Engineer

Chris is a distinguished software operator with the good fortune to have worked in incredible organizations like Ticketmaster and Stack Overflow. He has an unhealthy affection for the meta and working on projects that invoke "Yo Dawg" memes like writing automated tests for a testing framework that's a DSL abstracting a DSL. In 2017 and 2019, he put together a single-day, single-track nano-conference following the PowerShell Summit.

Dan Franciscus

Institute for Advanced Study

Systems Engineer

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Dan Franciscus is a systems engineer specializing in PowerShell, Active Directory, VMware, Chocolatey and Puppet. Dan is also a freelance tech writer who has been published on Tom's IT Pro, Ipswitch, 4sysops, and Techtarget.

Dwight Bragdon

Qualcomm

IT Security Engineer, Sr. Staff

Dwight is a Sr. Staff IT Security Engineer at Qualcomm's Cyber Security division and works on most things Microsoft and virtual. Dwight has been working in IT for almost 25 years, using Chocolatey for 2+ years, and eating chocolate for around 35 years. Dwight's goals are to automate himself out of a job so he can take on new projects, responsibilities, and opportunities.

Gary Ewan Park

Chocolatey Software

Senior Software Engineer

Gilbert Sanchez

Facebook

"Señor" Systems Engineer

Gilbert is a "Señor" Systems Engineer at Facebook on the Enterprise Core Services team specializing in PowerShell, Chocolatey, and Chef. Managing all the Windows servers for the entire corporate fleet while building tools for Corp and Prod. When not writing PowerShell or ruby, he can be found backpacking, fishing or posting memes.

Joey Aiello

Microsoft

Program Manager

Joey is a Program Manager working on PowerShell at Microsoft, passionate about open-source and cross-platform technologies.

Karen Kwentus

Chef Software

Sr. Solution Architect

Karen Kwentus is a Sr. Solution Architect for Chef. She lives in the Nashville area and has been working with apps and infrastructure since PVCS was cool.

Manfred Wallner

KS Engineers

Software Development Engineer

Manfred is a 28 year old software developer located near Graz, Austria.

In the last 10 years, he's been involved in a variety of projects including work for TV-broadcasting providers, research and development, performance analysis and optimization in automotive engineering as well as software deployment & configuration automation.

Considering himself a Linux-advocate, he really does enjoy his Chocolatey and PowerShell-driven PC at work.

Mark Gewurz

Yelp

IT Engineer

Mark Gewurz is a Client Platform Engineer at Yelp. He previously worked at North Texas University before joining Yelp in 2017. He is excited about CI and well documented APIs. He has yet to encounter one.

Mark Johnson

Solutions Architect

Mark Johnson is a Solutions Architect who implements end-to-end software solutions that include a diverse set of technologies and patterns. He believes that solid DevOps practices are a necessary part of every software development project. He has been leveraging Chocolatey in his DevOps solutions since the early days of Chocolatey and continues to use it to this day. He has been using PowerShell since its inception and uses it heavily for Windows and Linux automation. Within the last few years, he has embraced infrastructure as code tools such as Otter and PowerShell DSC, to orchestrate server configuration, resource configuration, and environment management. Mark currently uses Git as the primary mechanism to drive continuous delivery and continuous deployment.

Matt Davis

Red Hat

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Ansible Core

Matt is a Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Ansible project at Red Hat. He has over 20 years experience in software engineering, architecture, and operations at companies large and small. An avid musician, maker, and home hacker, Matt lives with his wife and daughter in Beaverton, Oregon.

Michael Lombardi

Puppet, Inc.

Software Engineer

Michel Buczynski

TD Securities

DevOps Coach

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Michel Buczynski is a DevOps coach at TD Securities and has 20 years of experience as a Platforms, Systems and Software Engineer. He specializes in implementation cross platforms microservices, using such tools as Docker, Python, Powershell, Groovy, Chocolatey, YUM/RPM, APK and Jenkins. Michel also works as an architect on UNIX/Linux, Microsoft, mobile and embedded platforms.

Mukesh Sharma

Chocolatey Software

COO

Mukesh Sharma got his start in technical sales long ago. He's found Windows in a very special place in his heart and jumped at the chance to work with Rob on making Windows Automation a better place with Chocolatey Software.

Mukesh first got excited about Chocolatey last year after hearing first hand from customers on their desire to leverage package management in the Windows environment. He has over 20 years of experience in sales, business development, and go to market strategies from several tech companies, including Puppet, EMC, VMware, and Atos. He holds a bachelor's degree in International Business from the University of Greenwich and an Executive MBA from University of Oxford.

Paul Broadwith

Chocolatey Software

Senior Technical Engineer

Peter Sisk

Yelp

Client Platform Engineer

Peter Sisk is a Client Platform Engineer specializing in the Windows platform. Originally from Dublin, Ireland he began his IT career in Education and has been with Yelp for 4 years. His interests include Star Trek, Metal and Computing; ideally washed down with a Mezcal Negroni. Do not google the bands he used to be in.

Rob Reynolds

Chocolatey Software

CEO and Founder

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Rob is a developer turned founder who has a passion for developing low maintenance solutions with great user experiences and common sense approaches. He has been involved with several highly successful open source projects related to automation in the Windows ecosystem. Rob has over 10 years experience in infrastructure automation and modern automation approaches (something most folks simply call "CI/CD" and "DevOps" nowadays).

In his day job he is solving software management automation for Windows with Chocolatey Software. Rob's focus is in problem solving - he creates solutions that solve hard problems for customers in simple ways. As someone once put it "Simple ain't easy" - Anonymous

Viva la DevOps (with a side of bacon)!

Stefan Scherer

SEAL Systems AG

Sr. Software Engineer

Stefan is a Sr. Software Engineer at SEAL Systems. He enjoys automating things and uses Chocolatey and Docker at work in various development and test environments. He is an early adopter of Docker on Windows, giving feedback and sharing his experience as a Microsoft MVP and Docker Captain. He is a maintainer of several Docker related Chocolatey packages. He also is member of the Hypriot team that gives the community a very easy experience for Docker on ARM devices.

Steven Murawski

Microsoft

Lead Cloud Ops Advocate

Steven is a Lead Cloud Ops Advocate at Microsoft. Steven focuses on DevOps, SRE, and Cloud Native scenarios with Azure. Steven is an active member of the Chef and WinOps communities and a maintainer for several open source projects, including Chef, Habitat, and Test-Kitchen.

Tony Cheng

CME Group

Tech Specialist – Systems Engineering

Yosef Durr

Microsoft

Program Manager

Yosef Durr is a Lead Program Manager at Microsoft for a variety of projects to improve the developer experience on Windows. He’s passionate about Microsoft’s contributions aligning well with open standards, cross-platform technologies, and community efforts. His team leads efforts for the Windows Command Line, Windows Subsystem for Linux, aka.ms/devsetup for machine setup, and WinAppDriver for UI Test Automation.