Workshops

Erika has been a Partner Engineering Manager at GitHub since 2018. Erika fell in love with computing from a young age, and spent her time at a computer lab during recess, rather than playing in the school yard. That love of computing and effort allowed her to explore various sectors of technology, including experiences in real-time embedded systems and video game consoles, where she holds several patents. Erika has worn many hats within the industry over the years, but she has found her passion in partner engineering, working to enable powerful integrations with partners.

John Bohannon brings nearly a decade of software engineering experience from industries including defense contracting, medical, and automotive. Ask him about the polymorphic virus he wrote in 8086 assembly and he'll tell you why he's not a hardware engineer anymore. As a Partner Engineer, he is happy to help you find success with GitHub Apps, APIs, and Marketplace. When he's not geeking out about web APIs, he likes running, traveling, and spending time with his family and Boston Terrier.

Thomas Hughes is a Partner Engineer at GitHub currently residing in Austin, Texas. He has been at GitHub for just under two years and has a passion for software development. Before GitHub, Thomas served in the U.S. Army National Guard and was an Intelligence Analyst. He took that experience and began working for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise on a government software contract which kick-started his software career. Through GitHub, he has worked with companies all around the world to help them to architect, implement, and achieve their goals.

Philip is an Engineering Manager at GitHub with a passion for expanding the gravity of GitHub as a platform. He works with the Primitives team to build platform primitives that enable users to extend their daily experience and workflows within GitHub. Philip is based in San Francisco, CA. Outside of work, he can be found skiing, climbing, or practicing yoga.

Claire Knight is a polyglot remote developer who has worked in many areas of technology over the years. She has been a lead developer for years, which means she has experienced most things the industry can throw at you. Claire currently works at GitHub as part of the Ecosystem API team, where she helps devs all over the world do their best work. She also spends time herding cats from her home office, since that turns out to be great practice for working with developers. Claire lives in Berkshire, UK, with her husband Steve and three cats who from time to time also like to be involved in video calls. When not working, she likes to lift heavy things, only to put them down again.

Steve has worked in “the wonderful world of software” for nearly two decades and has been using GitHub since 2008, which also happens to be the year it launched. As a Partner Engineer, Steve currently works with GitHub’s ecosystem of integrators, where he enjoys helping teams ship impactful developer tools on top of the GitHub platform. Originally hailing from the UK, Steve is now based in Franklin, TN, USA, where he enjoys running, cycling, spending time with his wife, three kids, and doggo, Hattie, as well as hunting for records, and not eating barbecue.

Chris has been in the software industry for more than 20 years. In that time, he has worked on a variety of projects at companies ranging from startups to telecom. Prior to coming to GitHub he spent 12 years as a Principal Program Manager on Azure DevOps at Microsoft.

Jared is the DevOps Engineering Manager for the Professional Services organization at GitHub, and an open source and DevOps super-fan. Jared is experienced in network engineering, cloud technologies, application architecture, CI/CD workflows, X-as-a-Service enablement, and more. At home he is a husband, a father of 5, an avid reader, gamer, musician, and technology hobbyist. Whether small or great, Jared's passion is learning how everything in the world works to help enable teams, companies and individuals to succeed in life. He's based in Charleston, SC (USA), and you can reach him by reaching out to services@github.com.

Jamie is an engineer on GitHub's Professional Services team, where she enables organizations to become high-achieving with her bespoke solutions. She encourages developers and managers alike to shift their cultural mindsets for greater happiness and faster ships through modern SDLC practices, workflows, and tools for well-tuned and effective DevOps pipelines. She has a background in dance and art history, and has worked at Microsoft, Google, and Nintendo of America. She likes making bad robots, strutting CSS, and documenting all the things. When not nerding out, she trains for triathlons, talks about birds, and travels around in a Westfalia Vanagon with her dog. You should give her book recommendations.

Froilán Irizarry, Froi, is a solutions architect on the Profesional Services team at Github. A backend engineer for most of his career, Froi has worked in a number of industries and goverment most recently at the United States Digital Service and Code.gov. In his free time he is working on civic tech efforts, helping tech communities in Puerto Rico, hiking, livestreaming code on Twitch, or relaxing with a good indie game.

Rex works for Professional Services at GitHub, Inc. as a Solution Architect. Because change is ubiquitous, omnipresent, and inevitable, Rex continues to be a student of the art of Leading Change. What keeps him happy, is being able to identify bright spots and encourage good practices in complex aspects of Software Engineering, including Software Architecture, Security Engineering, Systems Engineering and DevOps. He is comfortable working in any part of the world, in industries that contribute to humanity in meaningful ways. Rex brings a diversity of experience that helps transform businesses around the Globe.

Michael Sainz is a Solutions Architect within GitHub's Professional Services group. Michael is a career consultant, having been in professional services and consulting practices for 15 years and specializes in automation, tool-making and DevOps evangelism. He enjoys working with customers large and small solving both technical and business problems and helping them navigate the currents of the ever changing technology industry.

Lars is a DevOps Engineer in GitHub's Professional Services Team, working out of Berlin, Germany. He loves to work hands-on with customers to make their Git/GitHub experience more productive and fun. He is also a Git core and Git LFS open source contributor during working hours as well as a hiker and water sports enthusiast during his free time.

Graduating UW-Madison in December 2019 with degrees in Computer Science and Fine Arts. When I have free time you can find me rock climbing, hiking, camping, reading, traveling, and creating all sorts of art projects!

James comes from a background on hosting enterprise-scale software development environments and bettering the lives of developers for nearly 8 years. He has a passion for articulating technical concepts to audiences with a wide range of competencies, and is now the first Services Account Engineer on the Services team. James will be looking to work hands-on with customer accounts who need long-term focus on delivering their business needs.

Lucas is an engineer on GitHub's Professional Services team. He has extensive experience as an architect for Continuous Integration at Hewlett Packard and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He's additionally worked as a Senior Developer at GE Healthcare. These roles have allowed him to become a Subject Matter Expert in automating all the things. He has given talks at DevOps Enterprise summits and can help you understand what DevOps and ChatOps can do for you. He's a big fan of Linux, open source, Hubots, and writing scripts to automate every task.