The Team

Niall Murphy is an award-winning, best-selling author, speaker, industry leader, and executive. He has been working in Internet infrastructure since the mid-90s, in a variety of roles from systems, network, and software engineering, and ranging across individual contributor to director scope.

He is best known for the Site Reliability Engineering book and associated works.

He lives in Dublin, Ireland with his wife and two children, and holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Poetry Studies.

Joseph is passionate about how engineering, leadership, and infrastructure combine to shape reliability efforts. He spent years at Google where he wound up leading multiple automation and tooling initiatives.

He's held a number of roles from building infrastructure and SRE programs, to product and data software efforts, to bringing cloud modernization and reliability best practices to cloud customers.

When he's not thinking about software, and its impact on people, he's probably playing guitar, tinkering with strings of LED lights, or growing hot chilies and making sauces out of them.

Stacie Frederick is a seasoned product development leader bringing more than 20 years of experience in high profile companies and early-stage startups spanning consumer, enterprise SaaS, and health tech. She led engineering and product teams at Collective Health, Amazon, Yahoo! and was most recently the CTO at Osso VR. In addition to building software products, Stacie enjoys building teams, mentoring leaders, and advising startups.

Abhinav Subramaniam is an engineer turned strategist, with a huge passion for analyzing early stage ideas and helping founders take on the market. His career in innovation began while leading R&D projects in MedTech and quickly led to him diving into the world of startups as Chief of Staff at an AI-powered Biotech. 

Abhi is also deeply rooted in the venture ecosystem and has helped to close deals in technology and life sciences as a venture partner. This inspired him to have previously founded his own company in the intelligent fundraising space; Abhi has since shifted to an advisory role and continues to maintain ties to the venture ecosystem.

Being a proud Chicago native, Abhi is all about the thrill of hard work paying off, especially when it means enduring the chilly winters to soak in the fantastic summers the city has to offer!

Ian is a curious sales and go-to-market professional who's always looking to build a better mousetrap with software.

He's helped multiple startups take category-creating products to market, and has a passion for helping solve complex engineering problems in innovative ways.

He lives in San Francisco with his wife, daughter and various pets.

Doing great engineering doesn't mean taking yourself seriously. Laura values whimsicality as much as she values clarity, precision, and learning.

Laura’s experience in operating distributed systems at scale ranges from data pipelines to edge networking, e-commerce, and messaging. She is hands-on and technical while also being involved in setting strategy.

As a resilience engineering advocate, Laura is integrating human factors awareness in Stanza's designs, from the start.Laura is a member of the board of the USENIX Association and volunteers with the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. Laura lives in rural Ireland, where she is chief-of-staff to two demanding cats.

Matthew is a SRE who has worked as a software engineer for over a decade and ended up with a healthy dislike of computers and clumsy automation.He is obsessed with the concepts of reliability and resiliency and has spent the last 8 years specializing in internet networking, uncovering the hidden secrets and working with the fundamental building blocks (DNS! Anycast! TLS!) that have made the modern web possible.He believes that anyone who has an above average interest in production issues can become a great SRE.

He loves gummy bears and lives happily tucked away in the woods of Asheville, North Carolina with his wife and two children.