Per Hedman is a passionate developer who is a strong proponent of DevOps and Continuous Delivery and believes that you should empower the developer and that they should take responsibility for the code that they write.
He is a software consultant by trade and has been a development and operations person since the early 2000s.
Max Manders is an Operations Engineer at FanDuel, the leader in online daily fantasy sports. Max previously worked in the operations center for Cloudreach, an Amazon Web Services Premier Consulting Partner. Max has put his past experiences and skills to good use in order to promote all things DevOps; he is also working to master Ruby and advocate Infrastructure as Code through Chef and Puppet.
Max is a cofounder and organizer of Whisky Web, a Scottish conference for the web development and operations community. When he's not writing code or tinkering with the latest and greatest monitoring and operations tools, Max enjoys whisky and playing jazz and funk trombone. Max lives in Edinburgh with his wife Jo and their cats Ziggy and Maggie.