MacDevOpsYVR 2017
Derick Okihara – Mid-Pacific Institute
Weighing Solutions on a Budget
Derick is the Apple technician for Mid-Pacific Institute, a private PK-12 institution, focusing on server administration, system deployment, and Apple technology.
Ed Marczak – Google
How to fail. Mistakes happen. Disaster strikes. Sooner or later, you or your team and organization will fail
Ed is the well known editor at MacTech magazine, co-organizer of the MacTech conference, and Worldwide Mac Operations Dude at Google.
Graham Gilbert – Airbnb
Something something commercial, something something open source
Graham is the author of Sal, a reporting tool for Munki, and Crypt, a FileVault 2-key escrow solution and Imagr. In his day job, Graham is a Systems Engineer at Airbnb.
Greg Batye – Facebook
Building an army of client admins
Greg is Client Platform Engineer at Facebook, responsible for developing automation tools for macOS & Linux clients. He likes testing in prod, grilled corn, and sour beers, and ping pong.
Greg Neagle – Disney Animation
Munki 3.0 – Ch – Ch – Changes
Greg works for a well known animation company. Started this thing called Munki and is a co-maintainer of Autopkg.
Henry Stamerjohann – Apfelwerk
What’s new with Zentral: Improving on the best way to collect, gather and process system events
Henry is a Systems Engineer, and Consultant, at Apfelwerk in Germany using commercial and open source tools for a broad range of customers.
Jesse Peterson – MacTechs
Demystifying MDM: open source endeavours to manage Macs
Jesse is an IT Consultant at MacTechs in Seattle. He’s been working with technology for 20+ years. Consulting, start-ups, and hobbies with a healthy portion of open source.
Joel Rennich – Trusource Labs
Privilege Safety Dance: Leverage NoMAD to provide admin privileges to non-admins without any directory services. While still keeping safe with off-box authentication and logging
Joel is the General Manager for Trusource Labs Enterprise Services in Austin, Texas. Previously he was an Enterprise Systems Engineering Manager at Apple.
Joe Chilcote – Splunk
Better than bad it’s good: Decoding macOS unified logging
Joe is a senior systems engineer at Splunk, and spends his free time trying to figure out how Console.app is supposed to work.
Mac Justice – Synapse
Intro to GitLab: DevOps tools on a shell script budget
Mac does all kinds of IT things at Synapse in Seattle, supporting a bunch of super talented hardware engineers. He likes spending time with his wife and daughter, reading history, and baking bread. Prefers tea in the AM and beer in the PM.
Melody Ma – Codecreate BC
Codecreate and the Hour of Code
Melody is a tech geek, art lover, impact junkie. Web Dev & Product Mrktr by day. @imaginexbc, #SaveChinatownYVR, @CodecreateBC by night.
Michael Lynn – Dropbox
Mac-narök: The end times of our workflows are upon us. Be prepared
Michael is a Client Platform Engineer at Dropbox in Seattle. He is obsessed with python and macOS.
Nate Walck – Facebook
Managing macOS has never been easier. Explore new chef cookbooks with Master Chef Nate
Nate has been involved in the MacAdmin community and in various open source projects since 2010, including Munki, Puppet and Chef. Nate is part of the IT Core Automation Team at Facebook.
Nick Cobb – Uber
Building macOS as a service for mobile development
Nick is a systems engineer on Uber’s mobile team. He is excited about automating repetitive tasks and getting insightful data from macOS infrastructure.
Pepijn Bruienne – Duo Security
Securing the Dev environment
Pepijn is all about Macs, Enterprise and good times at Duo Security.
Rich Trouton – SAP
Storing our digital lives: Mac filesystems from MFS to APFS
Rich has supported Macs for 18 years in university, government, medical research and advertising. He currently works for SAP, on the Mac CoE team.
Sam Keeley – Airbnb
Osquery + Streamalert
Sam is a security engineer at Airbnb, enough said.
Sarah Lewis – Independent Security Researcher
A brief overview of the state of security on the DarkWeb & OnionScan Project
Sarah has worked for the British Government and as a security engineer at Amazon analyzing threat models and designing defenses to protect against security risks. She maintains the OnionScan project and runs Mascherari Press.
Victor Vrantchan – Kolide
Demystifying MDM: open source endeavours to manage Macs
Victor is a DevOps engineer at Kolide. He loves creating MacAdmin tools with Go, and experimenting with the MDM protocol.
Wade Robson – Urthecast
Zappa and the elastic beanstalk
Wade Robson is a DevOps practitioner at Urthecast.
Wes Whetstone – Square
Repotoddy: Continuous deployment for Apple software updates
Wesley is a Mac operations engineer at Square, where automation and simplicity for fellow employees is a top priority.
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