Speakers
Jeremy Miles is a quantitative psychologist at the RAND Corporation, where he works in areas such as drug policy, post-traumatic stress disorder and the health benefits of dogs and cats.
Rob Ryan first worked in open source in the Linux world with a software called Arkeia for storage and backup on Linux (since sold to Western Digital).
Maxime is a Sales Engineer at Cloudera, the Open Source leader of Apache Hadoop.
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, director of the Edmond J.
Spencer is a Solutions Engineer at Puppet Labs, a company which makes software for configuration management and system automation based out of Portland, Oregon.
Mike Cohen is Director of Product Management at Cisco Systems focused on open source after joining through the acquisition of Insieme Networks.
David Guttman is currently the CTO at Interlincx. He has worked and led teams at Disney Interactive Media Group, DigiSynd, and AT&T Interactive.
Amber began her personal journey into open source in 2009, when she began blogging about her experiences with Ubuntu, filing bugs, organizing and speaking at various Linux events, and more.
Frank has been working with databases for 30 years. Designing and building applications, DBA and Operations work for Apple, Wired.com, Spock and others.
Greg Farnum is a long-standing member of the core Ceph development team,
Yolanda Kol is an educator based in Los Angeles, CA. Her mission is focused on ensuring academic opportunities to overcome the achievement gap by bridging the digital divide.
Oscar is a founding principal of KnowledgeSource Solutions, Inc.
Erik is a core developer for the SaltStack project. He began contributing to SaltStack in January 2012, and became a core developer in October of that year.
Gabrielle Roth is a consultant with EnterpriseDB. She specializes in network, database, and system monitoring, as well as abusing SQL.
Jody Mulkey is EVP of Platform Engineering and Global Technical Operations at Ticketmaster.
Michael Stahnke is Director of Engineering Services at Puppet Labs, where he was previously the Community Manager and where he built out the Release Engineering team as Release Manager.
Michael Stahnke is Director of Engineering Services at Puppet Labs, where he was previously the Community Manager and where he built out the Release Engineering team as Release Manager.
 George Robinson’s first bitter taste of UNIX was in 1987 with Xenix 2.1.1. He finally went pro in 1998 and has been trying to automate himself out of a job ever since. He has
Linux administrator for 20+ years. 10 years with Digital Equipment Corp (DEC), 7 with NBC, last 5 years with St. Jude Medical admin'ing 1000+ critical medical systems.
Ron Evans is a software developer who has been active in the free and open source community for over 20 years.
Ron Evans is a software developer who has been active in the free and open source community for over 20 years.
An internationally known community manager, speaker and author, Leslie
Hawthorn has spent the past decade creating, cultivating and enabling
Shauna Gordon-McKeon is an organizer, writer, programmer, and teacher.
Dain Sundstrom a software engineer at Facebook and a founding member of Presto, an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries.
Braddock Gaskill founded the Internet-in-a-Box project in 2012 to bring open source internet resources to developing world schools without internet connectivity.
I've spent the past 10 years or so doing technical consulting and support in the corporate environment.
17-year old guy who is currently an Ubuntu Member and a member of the Ubuntu LoCo (Local Communities) Council. Actively participating on the Ubuntu Project, loves photography and food.
Tim Mackey is a technology evangelist for XenServer and CloudPlatform within the Citrix Open Source Business Office and focused on server virtualization and cloud orchestration technical competenci
Lars Lehtonen has worked as an engineer for the smallest and largest companies in Los Angeles. He is one year shy of having 20 years of Linux experience.
Senior Network Engineer for WellAware, an Oil and Gas communications, software and data as a service company that I helped co-found.
A SoCal native, Andrew now lives with his wife and daughters near San Jose, CA, and has worked in Facebook's Infrastructure organization for over three years, spending time with the general we
Matt Ray is a Cloud Integrations Lead for the company and open source systems integration platform Chef.
Matt Ray is a Cloud Integrations Lead for the company and open source systems integration platform Chef.
Miguel Hernandez is a Web Developer and an Open Source Software and Linux Evangelist who promotes the use of open source software for community-building and in bridging the Digital Divide.
Arbind has been developing software professionally for 20 years. He's a Senior Developer at Carbon Five in Santa Monica where he works with CoffeeScript and Ruby every day.
Rikki Endsley is a technology journalist and the USENIX Association’s community manager.
Randal L. Schwartz is a renowned expert on the Perl and Smalltalk programming languages, having contributed to a dozen top-selling books on the subject, and over 250 magazine articles.
Sean OMeara has been a systems administrator since he was old enough to type. He's gave up his pager a few years ago and has been mostly consulting ever since.
Al is a father, technologist, musician, and open source advocate working for Datastax.
Dmitri has led engineering at a number of organizations, most recently leading the vSphere client team at VMware where he also worked on a variety of related projects.
Scott Williams is a programmer at Claremont McKenna College on the web development team and maintains the LAMP stack.
Dan Yoder brings over thirty years of experience in all aspects of the software business.
Operations engineer at PandaStrike.com, a consultancy focused on rich client, high-performance Web and mobile experiences and lightweight solutions for big data, focused on CoffeeScript, Node.js, a
Jayneil Dalal is an Embedded Linux Engineer/Technical Writer who loves to explore different open source technologies and is currently part of the MinnowBoard.org project.
Peter is arguably the world's foremost expert in MySQL performance and scaling, with a special expertise in hardware and database internals.
Jason Hibbets is a project manager in Corporate Marketing at Red Hat where he is the lead administrator, content curator, and community manager for opensource.com.
Nate has been working in the enterprise and mobile software industry for 13 years in various capacities as a developer and product management.
Kelley is a relatively new kernel developer, who is learning under the excellent guidance of mentors through the Gnome Outreach Program for Women.
Jason Sirota is the Director of Software Architecture for XO Group Inc. (The Knot), a premier media company devoted to weddings, pregnancy and everything in between.
Abs holds a degree in Computer Science & Engineering from UCLA.
Carol is a Community Marketing Manager at MongoDB, where she oversees technical webinars and helps engineers with conference proposals.
BSD geek that does geeky BSD things
John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 30 years.
Marco Ceppi has been an Ubuntu community member since 2011, an Ask Ubuntu moderator since 2010, and currently works on the Juju Solutions team as an Engineer for Canonical Ltd.
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Retired computer professional with 30 years experience. Working as a volunteer in support of one laptop
per child deployments since 2008.
Aaron Guzman is a open source evangelist for Zed Attack proxy otherwise known as ZAP. Much of his free time is taken by participating in Los Angeles information security events.
A long time Gentoo developer and current GNU Sim maintainer, he currently works at Google on the Chrome OS project.
After installing Linux on his old i386 from a CD in the back of a Linux book he was given in 1995, Clint went on to be a Linux and open source power user.
Kevin Kluge is currently VP Engineering at Elasticsearch, the provider of the leading open source search and analytics product of the same name.
Nathan Chan, CISSP, C|EH, CPT joined Canaudit, Inc this past June. His security experience is in the application security and access control domains.
Stephen Frost is a PostgreSQL Major Contributor and Committer who implemented the PostgreSQL role system and column-level privileges, and who has made contributions to PL/PgSQL, PostGIS, the Linux
Prior to establishing Peak Hosting, Jeffrey amassed over 20 years experience implementing BGP load-balancing and multihoming policies at both at Y!
Having had his parents murdered before his eyes, as the family was going to the theatre, young Jess dedicated his life to fight crime.
He now works as a systems administrator.
James Murdza is a student at Loyola Marymount University and a volunteer with the Unleash Kids Campaign.
Justin is a systems administrator with a passion for automation, security, and scale. He strives to automate himself out of a job and loves taking on hard problems.
Joshua Miller is a linux system administrator at Edmunds.com, where he pursues infrastructure as code and automation utopia.
Rich has been contributing to Open Source for 15 years or so. He's a member, and the Executive Vice President, of the Apache Software Foundation, and works on the Apache httpd project.
Rich has been contributing to Open Source for 15 years or so. He's a member, and the Executive Vice President, of the Apache Software Foundation, and works on the Apache httpd project.
Rich has been contributing to Open Source for 15 years or so. He's a member, and the Executive Vice President, of the Apache Software Foundation, and works on the Apache httpd project.
A Linux user since 1995 and a long-time Open Source advocate, Russ has spoken at over 50 Open Source events.
Corey is a traveling technical consultant and technical interviewer for Taos.
Jeremy is the proprietor of Galt's Gulch Industries, LLC, a company best known for large college sports websites like CSNbbs.
Roberto Aguilar is a full-stack Internet applications developer and has been part of the entire product lifecycle including design, architecture, implementation, and maintenance.
While not a kernel hacker (yet), Eugene has participated to 10 of the 11 current SCaLE events.
He has managed a group of interested volunteers for more than 15 years.
Keila Banks is an 11 year old web designer, programmer, videographer and publisher of content making use of mostly open source software.
I am 11 years old and live in Santa Barbara. I have participated in the Open Source community for several years.
Diane Mueller is the Director, Cloud Evangelism for ActiveState. She has been designing & implementing financial applications at Fortune 500 corporations for over 20 years.
Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph is an Automation and Tools Engineer at HP working on the OpenStack Infrastructure team.
Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph is an Automation and Tools Engineer at HP working on the OpenStack Infrastructure team.
Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph is an Automation and Tools Engineer at HP working on the OpenStack Infrastructure team.
Christophe has been working with PostgreSQL since 1997. He consults through PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.
Kirill Kolyshkin was named leader and project manager for the OpenVZ project in 2005 to further the adoption of containers virtualization for Linux.
My name is John Kim, a 17-year old Korean American and a regular contributor to the Ubuntu community. After finishing homework, I usually learn Java, Vim, and bash on my Ubuntu 12.04.
Philip Ballew is an active Open Source advocate in the greater Open Source community.
Brendan Gregg is the lead performance engineer at Joyent, where he analyzes performance and scalability at any level of the software stack.
IT Specialist for the National Park Service and multi-year volunteer for the SCALE tech team. Been using Linux since about 2001.
Jordan is a hacker in San Jose who has been doing operations and software engineering for 8 years. He practices hate-driven development and gives out hugs upon request.
Carlo Flores loves nerdery and co-founded LA DevOps, js.la, and the Downtown Los Angeles Chess Club. Carlo works for EdgeCast Networks.
Florian has worked for 10 years for various Fortune 500 companies as a software-architect, trainer and mentor. In 2008 he built the infrastructure for a startup in Los Angeles.
Ryan Jarvinen is an Open Source Evangelist working with RedHat's OpenShift team.
Ryan Jarvinen is an Open Source Evangelist working with RedHat's OpenShift team.
Once upon a time, a lot longer ago then he wished Mark Hinkle was born in a small Pennsylvania town and through the most unlikely sequence of events ended up as a technologist involved in the devel
Once upon a time, a lot longer ago then he wished Mark Hinkle was born in a small Pennsylvania town and through the most unlikely sequence of events ended up as a technologist involved in the devel
Thomas is the creator of the Salt infrastructure management system, one of the largest and fastest growing open source projects today.
Thomas is the creator of the Salt infrastructure management system, one of the largest and fastest growing open source projects today.
Jono Bacon is a leading community manager, engineering manager, consultant and author.
Mike Day is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and is the Chief Virtualization Architect for IBM's Open Systems Group.
Alex Perry is a Site Reliability Engineer for Google at the Los Angeles office in Venice, CA.
Thomas Cameron is the chief architect for the central US region at Red Hat. He has been in the IT industry since 1993, and started using Linux in 1995.
Thomas Cameron is the chief architect for the central US region at Red Hat. He has been in the IT industry since 1993, and started using Linux in 1995.
Since 2000 Karsten has been teaching and living the open source way (http://TheOpensourceWay.org).
Richard Gaskin is the owner of Fourth World Systems, a software design and development consultancy in Los Angeles.
Don Marti is a Technical Marketing Manager at Perforce. He has written for Linux Weekly News, Linux Journal, and other publications.
Ruth Suehle manages the Community Leadership team in Red Hat's Open Source and Standards group, which supports upstream open source software communities.
Ruth Suehle manages the Community Leadership team in Red Hat's Open Source and Standards group, which supports upstream open source software communities.
Joe Brockmeier is on the Open Source and Standards (OSAS) team at Red Hat. Brockmeier is an Apache CloudStack PMC member and recovering technology journalist.
Joe Brockmeier is on the Open Source and Standards (OSAS) team at Red Hat. Brockmeier is an Apache CloudStack PMC member and recovering technology journalist.
Colin Charles works at Monty Program Ab, on MariaDB. He lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and had worked at MySQL since 2005.
Colin Charles works at Monty Program Ab, on MariaDB. He lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and had worked at MySQL since 2005.
David is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Hortonworks, specializing in deployment and application of open-source Hadoop, assisting customers with scalable solutions for data processing and analysis.
Antony Curtis is an advocate of Open Source software and long-time user of alternative operating systems.
Ross has over 15 years experience as a Linux trainer and is author of the popular "LPIC-1 Exam Cram" (QUE Publishing).
Jason Brooks is a software analyst with Red Hat, in the company's Open Source and Standards group.
Caryl Bigenho was born 30 years too soon.
David is a long time advocate, entrepreneur, and author of all things open source. For more than a decade he has been involved with health care and technology.
Dawn Foster is the Director of Community for the Puppet community at Puppet Labs.
Christefano is one of the Larks at Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal design and engineering firm; and is a founder of Droplabs, a ne
Lance Albertson is the Director for the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) (http://osuosl.org) and has been involved with the Gentoo Linux (
Bradley M. Kuhn is President and Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy and on the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
Deb Nicholson works at the intersection of technology and social justice. She has been a free speech advocate, economic justice organizer and civil liberties defender.
Deb Nicholson works at the intersection of technology and social justice. She has been a free speech advocate, economic justice organizer and civil liberties defender.
Howard is the CTO of Symas Corporation and also currently Chief Architect of the OpenLDAP Project and has spoken at conferences across the US and Europe including Usenix/LISA events, UKUUG, Samba X
Christopher Webber has been a systems administrator since 2005. He has worked in academia, supporting California State University, Fresno and the University of California, Riverside.
Jérôme Petazzoni works for Docker inc (formerly dotCloud Inc.), where he juggles between evangelist and devops duties.
Jérôme Petazzoni works for Docker inc (formerly dotCloud Inc.), where he juggles between evangelist and devops duties.
Jorge O. Castro currently works on the Community Team as Cloud Community Liaison for Canonical Ltd, sponsors of the Ubuntu project.
Jorge O. Castro currently works on the Community Team as Cloud Community Liaison for Canonical Ltd, sponsors of the Ubuntu project.
Solomon is a MySQL certified DBA and a former director of LAMPSIG.
Dave Stokes is a MySQL Community Manager for Oracle and previously was the Certification Manager for MySQL AB.
Josh Berkus is a database geek, best known as a Core Team member of the PostgreSQL Project.
Josh Berkus is a database geek, best known as a Core Team member of the PostgreSQL Project.
Josh Berkus is a database geek, best known as a Core Team member of the PostgreSQL Project.
Dru Lavigne is the lead documentation writer for the PC-BSD and FreeNAS projects. She is author of BSD Hacks, The Best of FreeBSD Basics, and The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD.
Kyle Rankin is the System Engineering Lead for Artemis Internet, Inc.; the author of DevOps Troubleshooting, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Knoppix Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference, Linux Multimed
Owen DeLong is an IPv6 Evangelist at Hurricane Electric and a member of the ARIN Advisory Council. Owen brings more than 25 years of industry experience.
Owen DeLong is an IPv6 Evangelist at Hurricane Electric and a member of the ARIN Advisory Council. Owen brings more than 25 years of industry experience.