Nathen Harvey

LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.

The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.

Nathen Harvey is the Director of Community at Chef. Before joining Chef, Nathen spent a number of years managing operations and infrastructure for a number of web applications. Nathen is a co-host of the Food Fight Show, a podcast about Chef and DevOps. He participates in many different meetup groups and organizes the DevOpsDC Meetup Group. When not working or hosting meetups, Nathen enjoys going to concerts, drinking craft beer, and over-sharing on sites like Twitter, untappd, and foursquare.

Linked Presentation: 
Testing Your Automation Code