VIP Networking Lounge: Fireside Chat - DEV TEAMS & SKILLS

Jonathan Pasky is Executive Producer & Co-Founder of DevNetwork, the world's community for technical professionals, producing conferences for the software engineering, IT & tech industries, with 70,000+ community members and 25,000+ annual attendees. Jon is also a patent attorney, having practiced law for 10+ years, a new dad, and he has his BS in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) and minor in humanities from Valparaiso University.  

Cory is the CTO and Co-founder of Rollbar, the leading SF-based continuous code improvement platform. He is an experienced technical leader, who is passionate about innovation and creating world class teams and products. His expertise lies in engineering leadership, scalability and performance, software architecture, rapid iteration and AB testing. Prior to founding Rollbar with Brian Rue in 2012, Cory served as the Director of Engineering at Lumos Labs and Lolapps. Cory earned a BS in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Peter is Founder & CEO of CodeStream, a developer collaboration solution that integrates GitHub, JIRA, Slack and other essential dev tools into popular IDEs. Prior to CodeStream, Peter was Founder & CEO of Glip, a team collaboration platform acquired by RingCentral in 2015, and Multiply.com, a social commerce platform acquired by Naspers in 2010. He also founded Commissioner.com, one of the first online fantasy sports platforms, which was acquired by CBS in 1999. A seasoned entrepreneur and tech executive, Peter is a recognized expert in the collaboration and social networking space, pioneering several of today’s most commonly used features in real-time messaging. Peter holds a BS degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University.

Damon Edwards is Senior Director, Product at PagerDuty. Previously, Damon was a Co-Founder of Rundeck, the makers of the popular open-source runbook automation platform acquired by PagerDuty in 2020. Prior to Rundeck, Damon was the Managing Partner of DTO Solutions, a DevOps and Operations Improvement Consultancy. Damon has spent the past 22 years working with both the technology and business ends of IT Operations. He is noted for being a leader in porting cutting-edge DevOps techniques to large-scale enterprise organizations. Damon is a frequent conference speaker and writer who focuses on DevOps, SRE, and Operations improvement topics. Damon is active in the international DevOps community, co-host of the DevOps Cafe podcast, and a content chair for Gene Kim’s DevOps Enterprise Summit.