Ryan Russell-Yates is a technical consultant in the fields of automation, DevOps, and infrastructure architecture. He has helped numerous IT practitioners at companies of various shapes and sizes across a range of industries to implement automation best practices at scale. Ryan's true passion in the technology industry is teaching practitioners new tools, technologies, and strategies for dealing with today's complicated digital landscape.

Jason Southgate has been working in the IT industry for more than 15 years, has been using Puppet for more than 6 years, and has tackled some very large projects in Europe, most recently creating an IaaS/PaaS cloud for KPN, the Netherlands' premier telecommunications company, using Puppet Enterprise at a very large scale. Jason was certified in Puppet in 2014, and also has AWS and Azure certification.

Deniz Parlak has worked with Linux/UNIX technologies for more than five years. He is a [Dev-Sys-Sec]Ops enthusiast. Deniz is currently working with [Dev-Sys-Sec]Ops applications, especially Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes,  and cloud providers, and continues to share information about new technologies with people at many technical conferences and lectures. He has also published a book entitled CentOS System and Server Management, and is still writing Docker and Bash scripting books. His presentations on the Zeus tool and AWS hardening were selected for events such as Black Hat Asia 2018, DevOpsDays, and NuitDuHack.

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