Presentation: The Art of Chaos Engineering Panel

Kolton is the founder of Gremlin - helping companies build more robust services. He was a Chaos Engineer at Netflix, focused on the resilience of the Edge services. He designed and built FIT: Netflix’s failure injection service. Prior he improved the performance and reliability of the Amazon Retail website. At both companies he has served as a ‘Call Leader’, managing the resolution of company-wide incidents. Kolton is passionate about building resilient systems, primarily as it lets him break things for fun and profit.

Willie Wheeler is a Principal Applications Engineer at Expedia, with 20 years of professional software development experience. His focus over the past several years has been in tools development for both continuous delivery and operations. Additionally Willie enjoys applying machine learning techniques in the operational monitoring domain.

At Expedia Willie serves as a resiliency champion within the engineering organization.  Prior to Expedia, he led software development teams in the education industry.

Sahar Samiei is a Senior Product Manager leading the Site Reliability Program at Expedia. Sahar has been with Expedia for eight years, working across different teams, focusing on operations. She is passionate about building resilient systems and improving Expedia’s site performance.

Having spent the last several years designing fault-tolerant, high-availability, and high-assurance systems for large-scale data platforms, machine-learning pipelines, and global financial transaction processing; Nathan Äschbacher has turned his attention---perhaps better stated as "crippling anxiety"---toward the concerns of understanding and advancing functional-safety of the software stack in autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems.

Dave Hahn is a Senior SRE in the Cloud Operations and Reliability Engineering organization at Netflix. He has many years of experience in distributed systems, failures, and mis-attribution of complex problems to human error. Will talk for applause. Bad jokes likely.

Adrian Cockcroft has had a long career working at the leading edge of technology. He’s always been fascinated by what comes next, and he writes and speaks extensively on a range of subjects. He joined Amazon as their VP of Cloud Architecture Strategy in 2016, recruited and leads their open source community engagement team. He was previously a Technology Fellow at Battery Ventures. There he advised the firm and its portfolio companies about technology issues and also assists with deal sourcing and due diligence. Before joining Battery, Adrian helped lead Netflix’s migration to a large scale, highly available public-cloud architecture and the open sourcing of the cloud-native NetflixOSS platform. Prior to that at Netflix he managed a team working on personalization algorithms and service-oriented refactoring. Adrian was a founding member of eBay Research Labs, developing advanced mobile applications and even building his own homebrew phone, years before iPhone and Android launched. As a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems he wrote the best-selling “Sun Performance and Tuning” book and was chief architect for High Performance Technical Computing. He graduated from The City University, London with a Bsc in Applied Physics and Electronics, and was named one of the top leaders in Cloud Computing in 2011 and 2012 by SearchCloudComputing magazine.

Heather Nakama is a Senior Software Engineer at Azure Search, a managed search-as-a-service offering from Microsoft's Azure cloud service platform. She works on the backend infrastructure that deploys, monitors, elastically scales, and automatically heals clusters hosting customer services. Heather has a passion for building distributed systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, and reliable.