John Willis has some interesting perspectives on the origin of the DevOps movement. Most people think of DevOps as something created conceptually by Patrick Debois in 2009, but from John's point of view, it can be traced all the way back to W. Edward Deming 's '14 Points for Management'.

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JR is the co-founder and CEO of Cumulus Networks where he is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the company. JR has been involved with networking since Ethernet only ran on coaxial cables. He's worked on some of the most foundational networking products of their time, from early Network Interface Cards at 3Com through switching and routing products at Cisco. JR's early involvement in home-grown networking at Google and as the VP of System Architecture for Cisco's Unified Computing System both helped fine tune his perspective on networking for the modern datacenter.

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Colin McNamara is a DevOps outcast in an enterprise world. In his current role, he is the Chief Cloud Architect for Nexus IS, a Dimension Data Company.

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Lori MacVittie is the Principal Technical Evangelist at F5 Networks. And she's very opinionated!

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Jeremy Schulman believes networking professionals need automation framework tools, so he founded Schprokits, a startup inspired by DevOps, but built for NetOps.

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Brent is a core upstream developer on the OpenDaylight/SDN development team at Red Hat out of the CTO office.

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Nathan is the DevNet lead for network programming and SDN at Cisco, with a specific focus on the design and implementation of virtual network based systems development lifecycle platforms. Nathan has been involved in professional software development and technology strategy for over 28 years, with a commercial background divided between finance and telecommunications.

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