Merge pull request #14734 from caward24/chi2025speakers

[CHI-2025] Update speaker info for Chicago 2025

content/events/2025-chicago/program/leigh-capili.md

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 Speakers = ["leigh-capili"]
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+Nix is a unique package manager for configuring systems!
+It's reproducible and declarative and makes reliable systems.
+What does it look like to use Nix in the Cloud Native world?
 
+Do I Nix my development environment?
+Do I use NixOS to run production?
+Can Nix replace my Dockerfiles for building containers?
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+In what fun ways can we use Kubernetes and Nix together?
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+This workshop session will have something approachable for everyone, whether you are beginning developer, a mentoring practitioner, or a manager looking to contextualize Nix for your team.
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+Come join in for a primer and tour of the Nix universe as it applies to us cloud-native nerds!

content/events/2025-chicago/program/mic-mccully.md

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 Speakers = ["mic-mccully"]
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+The adoption of open-source AI software introduces a new family of vulnerabilities to organizations. Some components in AI, like model serving, include Remote Code Execution (RCE) by design, like when loading pre-trained models from external sources.
 
+Traditional SCA and SAST approaches are not built for the AI ecosystem leaving a huge & insecure attack surface. The irony is that in the AI ecosystem, security issues such as remote code execution are actually a feature and not a bug, often specified explicitly in the docs, which most devs don’t read.
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+AI models are often downloaded from the public web, from untrusted sources in common platforms like HuggingFace using the “trust_remote_code=True” flag when loading models.  So how do we better secure our AI stacks?
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+In this talk, we’ll examine some of the common security anti-patterns prevalent in AI engineering, such as security issues that are not classified as CVEs by design, or patched security issues that introduce breaking changes and therefore are not practically implemented.
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+We’ll review the methods introduced for better security hygiene such as new checkpoint formats (model files on disk) - like SavedModel and SafeTensors. While SCA, SAST, and traditional approaches don't analyze model checkpoints, leaving these silent vulnerabilities in your stacks, we’ll demo through real code examples, why the runtime context is crucial to detect these security issues––and how this can be achieved by leveraging eBPF and open source tooling providing real-time security context to improve the security of your AI applications.

content/events/2025-chicago/program/michael-stahnke.md

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 Speakers = ["michael-stahnke"]
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+The core metrics for measuring team effectiveness with DevOps have been around quite a while now and they’re a great starting point. What measurements matter after those are established? What should software delivery metrics be telling us?
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+In this ignite talk, I’ll pull out some research from time leading engineering at Puppet, CircleCI and Flox to talk about some different measurements that should help elevate your teams. I'll share insights around measuring time to spin-up for engineers, looking at team and departmental throughput, and measuring the effectiveness of your engineering platform.
 

content/events/2025-chicago/program/peter-zaitsev.md

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 Speakers = ["peter-zaitsev"]
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+Observability is a critical aspect of any infrastructure as it enables teams to identify and address issues promptly. Nevertheless, achieving system observability comes with its own set of challenges. It is a time- and resource-intensive process as it necessitates the incorporation of instrumentation into every application.
 
+In this talk, we will delve into the gathering of telemetry data, including metrics, logs, and traces, using eBPF. We will explore tracking various container activities, such as network calls and filesystem operations. Additionally, we will discuss the effective utilization of this telemetry data for troubleshooting.

content/events/2025-chicago/program/reid-savage.md

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 Speakers = ["reid-savage"]
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+Siloes and boundaries are natural and useful; they constrain the problem space, make it possible to reason in the face of overwhelming complexity, and give space for ideas and people that don't fit within the majority. However, those boundaries can also become so deeply entrenched and solid that they become counterproductive (thus, DevOps) - and yet the cycle repeats itself, where "DevOps Engineer" becomes a new way to say "infrastructure engineer" in many companies, someone who is holed away creating the platonic ideal of a well-managed Kubernetes cluster.
 
+At Honeycomb, our Site Reliability Engineering team does financial modeling and product management, embeds with our Customer Support team (who is critical to tuning our SLOs), and still finds time to be Terraform wranglers. In this talk, we'll walk through the benefits and occupational hazards of breaking down barriers, why all your managers should strive to be accomplished sociologists, and how to touch grass with your SLOs.

content/events/2025-chicago/program/robert-snyder.md

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 Speakers = ["robert-snyder"]
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+If you're like most innovation teams, you're obsessed with speed. You manage by principles, values, four adjectives (RACI), and an infinite number of verbs in your project plan. You drive your team with meetings and email. Documentation is mostly a CYA and you will soon delegate a lot of documentation to AI. Your idea of agility is the frequency of go-live events. Your culture is a communication traffic jam, you surrender to VUCA and leave behind a vague library of meeting minutes. It's a culture of low discipline and low empathy.
 
+What if you changed ALL of that?
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+Imagine if you were obsessed with synchronization. You manage by metaphors - avoiding traffic jams, bumper cars, and whiplash. Instead, you resemble a symphony, an improv team, and a dance couple. Instead of governing with Four Adjectives, you manage an "elegant expectation factory" of Five Verbs (Draft, Review, Revise, Approve, Distribute). You know meetings and email are wonderful servants but horrible masters. You define agility as the "ease to pivot." Your Five Verbs govern ruthless discipline and graceful empathy. You leave behind an elegant, highly trusted portfolio of institutional knowledge, ready to pivot and innovate more. You've replaced VUCA with Elegance.

content/events/2025-chicago/program/tracey-barrett.md

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+DevOps is more than a technology initiative; it's a change initiative - and far too often, these stall inside large organizations. Good intentions up front are lost among deadline pressure, competing priorities or simple resistance to change. How can you recapture momentum and encourage continuous improvement?
 
+This talk will explore techniques and case studies for reigniting DevOps initiatives so that your organization can finally make the progress it needs.

content/events/2025-chicago/speakers/leigh-capili.md

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 Title = "Leigh Capili"
 Twitter = "capileigh"
 linkedin = "https://linkedin.com/in/leighcs"
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+image = "leigh-capili.png"
 type = "speaker"
 linktitle = "leigh-capili"
+mastodon = "https://hachyderm.io/@capileigh"
+github = "stealthybox"
+website = "https://stealthybox.pages.dev"
 
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+Leigh is building Flox and is active with the Kubernetes and Flux projects.
 
+He has a background in infrastructure software with a security niche.
+He authored Flux 2's security model and kubeadm's mTLS implementation and is currently working on Kubernetes authorization with SIG Auth.
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+Leigh and his wife love to snowboard in Colorado and have 3 dogs.

content/events/2025-chicago/speakers/mic-mccully.md

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 Title = "Mic McCully"
-Twitter = ""
 linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/micmccully/"
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+image = "mic-mccully.jpg"
 type = "speaker"
 linktitle = "mic-mccully"
 
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+Mic is an experienced senior security advocate who has spent his career evangelizing security software as a business enablement solution in some of the earliest security startups, as well as in significant positions within leading global security software enterprises. His security diversity throughout his tenure has led to experience in various domains, including application security, mobile security, data level security, network security, and developer-focused security.
 
+Today, Mic is the Director of Solution Engineering at Oligo Security, helping to evangelize and share the power of the Oligo platform.

content/events/2025-chicago/speakers/michael-stahnke.md

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+github = "stahnma"
 
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+Michael Stahnke is a seasoned technology leader and open-source advocate, currently serving as the VP of Engineering Flox. With experience in leading operations and  engineering departments,  Michael has played a pivotal role in shaping DevOps practices and automation in software development. Prior to joining Flox he held senior leadership  positions at CircleCI and Puppet, where he built and led engineering teams solving problems for developers and operations. He is a regular speaker at technology conferences,  sharing insights on DevOps transformations, scalability challenges, and the future of automated workflows. He’s obsessed with measurements of engineering performance and finding a great night of karaoke.

content/events/2025-chicago/speakers/peter-zaitsev.md

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 Title = "Peter Zaitsev"
 Twitter = "PeterZaitsev"
 linkedin = "https://linkedin.com/in/peterzaitsev/"
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+image = "peter-zaitsev.jpg"
 type = "speaker"
 linktitle = "peter-zaitsev"
 
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+Peter Zaitsev is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona, Coroot, FerretDB and other tech companies. As one of the leading experts in Open Source strategy and database optimization, Peter has applied his technical knowledge and entrepreneurial drive to contribute as a board member and advisor to several open source startups. Additionally, Peter is the co-author of the book "High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backup and Replication," one of the most popular books on MySQL performance.

content/events/2025-chicago/speakers/reid-savage.md

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 Title = "Reid Savage"
-Twitter = ""
 linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/reid-s/"
 image = "reid.png"
 type = "speaker"
 linktitle = "reid-savage"
+github = "quercy"
+website = "https://quercy.co"
 
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+Reid went from consultant - migrating tens of startups into AWS while just out of college - to "DevOps Engineer", to SRE, and then Engineering Manager at Honeycomb where they find joy in the mire of ambiguity (then cutting through it). They spend their free time playing Soulslikes and projecting the pink V0 in the corner of the climbing gym.

content/events/2025-chicago/speakers/robert-snyder.md

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+website = "https://www.innovationelegance.com"
 
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+Robert Snyder is the founder and president of Innovation Elegance, LLC. His thirty-year career spans roles such as developer, project management, change management, sales enablement, and the performing arts. His career path includes corporate roles, consulting roles, startups, PMP, and Agile certifications. He’s performed in numerous vocal, dance, and theater ensembles. Robert earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and his MBA in Strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
 
+Robert is publishing a series of books on innovation methodology.
+“Innovation Elegance: Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace” (available now)
+“Innovation Portfolio: Five Verbs Shape Your Team’s Legacy” (available now)
+“Elegant Leadership: Distinguishing the Good, the Bad, and the False” (targeting 2025)

content/events/2025-chicago/speakers/tracey-barrett.md

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 Title = "Tracey Barrett"
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 linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/traceycbarrett/"
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 type = "speaker"
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+Tracey Barrett is the head of Milwaukee Agile and Senior Vice President at nvisia, helping clients modernize their IT departments through cloud platforms, DevOps, software and UX.