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Jon Destoppeleire - Sr. DevOps Engineer @ Brightloom

Talk: DIY Bare-Metal Provisioning

Lessons learned from creating a DIY provisioning framework covering multiple physical locations; on a shoestring budget. How eatsa's (now Brightloom) stores and technology have evolved over time.

Speaker Bio:

VFX Pipeline Engineer who's transitioned into the world of Systems and DevOps. Currently maintaining the cloud and on-prem deployment infra at Brightloom after starting on store deployment and maintenance side.

Raised as a third-culture-kid, and holding both American and French citizenship, Jon is a global nomad. His interests include travel, science, technology, outdoor adventuring, photography, and cooking.

About the company:

At Brightloom (formerly eatsa), we are working to revolutionize restaurants through innovative technology and design. We are disrupting an industry worth $900 billion globally with partnerships in North America, Asia, and soon other continents.

Led by our CEO, industry veteran and former Starbucks and J.Crew executive Adam Brotman, our unique, world-class team combines software and hardware engineers, designers, and industry experts to push the boundaries on re-engineering every aspect of the restaurant experience.

We believe any restaurant brand should be able to engage customers digitally using a seamless combination of mobile, omni-channel ordering and loyalty offerings. With key Starbucks technology components integrated into our platform, Brightloom will now allow any restaurant brand to create their own version of a world-class digital flywheel ecosystem.

Brightloom's configurable technology suite combines convenience (digital ordering channels), personal connection (personalized marketing) and engagement (loyalty) for restaurant brands in today's new digital era.

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Garland Kan - ManagedKube CEO & Co-founder

Talk: Kubernetes in production

Interested in how Kubernetes can help you deploy, scale, and manage your application? Wondering why Kubernetes is so great and has grown so quickly since its launch in 2015? Need help running or converting your app on Kubernetes? Come learn that and more at evening talk with Q&A, Get Started with Kubernetes, with Garland Kan!

Speaker Bio:

Garland Kan is a DevOps software engineer that helps small to medium-sized start-ups run large-scale, reliable applications. He works with the entire development team architecting, designing, building, optimizing, and operating infrastructure in the cloud (AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure).

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Webb Brown - Kubecost CEO & Co-founder

Talk: How to avoid overspending on Kubernetes

After working with 100+ teams to implement cost monitoring solutions, we’ll talk about the top 5 ways we’ve seen teams overspend and share tools to help avoid these pitfalls

Speaker Bio:

Webb is a former Google PM where he led teams building monitoring & performance tools. Prior to that he gained a grad degree in finance from UChicago MBA and working in finance startups.

About the company:

Kubecost provides cost and capacity management solutions for Kubernetes, including chargeback offerings, to reduce spend and improve availability.

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Chris Baumbauer - Independent Consultant

Talk: Tekton: Building in Kubernetes

Light intro to Tekton, what it is, how it works and how to unlock it's power.

Speaker Bio:

Have touched a little bit of everything on the stack over the years. First cutting teeth on Grid Computing and bridging computational grids. Then worked at Sun Microsystems and later Oracle on the Solaris. More recently helping clients bridge their legacy infrastructure with newer technologies such as Kubernetes.

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Food and drink will be provided at this event.