Speakers

LaunchDarkly

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Gene Kim

Author, Researcher, & Founder

Gene Kim

Author, Researcher, & Founder

Kelsey Hightower

Distinguished Engineer

Kelsey Hightower

Distinguished Engineer

Claire Vo

Chief Product Officer

Claire Vo

Chief Product Officer

Joe Beutler

GTM

Joe Beutler

GTM

Tracy Behler

Sr. Director Online Experience

Tracy Behler

Sr. Director Online Experience

Mike Liberant

Senior Director Of Engineering

Mike Liberant

Senior Director Of Engineering

Mike Liberant is the Senior Director of Engineering at Rent The Runway. Mike is responsible for all the homegrown software that powers the RTR reverse-logistics operation which includes WMS, TMS, and OMS. He specializes in warehouse logistics, transportation, and value-adding B2C solutions.

Rachel Stephens

Senior Industry Analyst

Rachel Stephens

Senior Industry Analyst

Kent Morita

Conversation Designer

Kent Morita

Conversation Designer

Stephen Redeker

Senior Engineering Manager

Stephen Redeker

Senior Engineering Manager

Stephen Redeker is currently a Senior Manager of Engineering at VFCorp where he has worked for the last 2 years. He was previously employed at PublicisSapient for 12 years and worked with VFCorp as a client for 4 years. He is now responsible for overseeing VF’s experience technology team across multiple e-commerce platforms.

Mark Potter

Engineering Director

Mark Potter

Engineering Director

Olivia Sung

Developer Advocate

Olivia Sung

Developer Advocate

Peter McCarron

Senior Technical Marketing Manager

Peter McCarron

Senior Technical Marketing Manager

Peter is a Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer at LaunchDarkly that came to the DevOps world accidentally on purpose. After a start in the wireless and cellular space, Peter pivoted to a marketing career focusing on infrastructure automation, service networking, and application delivery.

Bill Tarr

Solutions Architect

Bill Tarr

Solutions Architect

"From software builder to designer, Bill has 20+ years of experience shaping best-in-class SaaS technology strategies for organizations from startup to enterprise. He’s also an AWS SaaS community leader and producer of the Building SaaS on AWS show on twitch.com/aws, frequent public speaker with experience at top tier AWS events.

Josh Marinacci

Community Engineer

Josh Marinacci

Community Engineer

For over 30 years Josh Marinacci has worked as developer advocate, designer, engineer and author. He has worked at such storied companies as Palm, Nokia, Sun, and Mozilla, and is currently the Community Engineer at DevEx tools company Trunk.io. Josh believes in the power of technology thoughtfully applied, and the need for better human computer interfaces.

Dan Rogers

Chief Executive Officer

Dan Rogers

Chief Executive Officer

Dan Rogers is CEO of LaunchDarkly, the platform that helps engineering teams build products that customers love. LaunchDarkly’s mission is to give developers the power to release their best software. Previously Dan was the president of Rubrik where he led GTM Operations, driving the product, marketing, product line sales and GTM strategy, and accelerated the company’s global growth.

Ameya Ketkar

Founding Software Engineer

Ameya Ketkar

Founding Software Engineer

Ameya Ketkar is a software engineer at Gitar, where he develops program analysis and refactoring tools. His current focus is on developing multi-language AST analysis and refactoring tools. His research interests broadly include source code mining and program transformations. Ameya is also interested in developing advanced tooling for improving and speeding up the code reviews.

Erin Mikail Staples

Developer Experience Engineer

Erin Mikail Staples

Developer Experience Engineer

Erin Mikail Staples is a developer advocate, community human, tech educator, and comedian living in Brooklyn, NYC🗽 by way of Reno, NV 🤠. She is currently a Developer Experience Engineer at LaunchDarkly working to facilitate wins through education, content, and connection. Erin is the cohost to the DevRel(ish) podcast and performs and produces comedy in NYC.

Chris Traganos

Head of Evangelism (Apps & Games)

Chris Traganos

Head of Evangelism (Apps & Games)

Brian Rinaldi

Developer Relations Engineer

Brian Rinaldi

Developer Relations Engineer

Brian Rinaldi is a Developer Experience Engineer at LaunchDarkly with over 20 years experience as a developer for the web. Brian is actively involved in the community running developer meetups via CFE.dev and Orlando Devs. He’s the editor of the Jamstacked newsletter and co-author of The Jamstack Book from Manning.

Wryen Meek

MCT Product Lead

Wryen Meek

MCT Product Lead

Wryen has been serving Ad Hoc as the product lead for Medicare.gov since 2018. He has built and led the Ad Hoc cross-functional teams that have modernized the medicare plan finder application for CMS and is honored to have had the opportunity to help millions of beneficiaries through the very confusing Medicare Enrollment process.