Bio
Matt Stratton is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi, founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, and the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.
Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.
He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke. Matt is the keeper of the Thought Leaderboard for the DevOps Party Games online game show and you can find him on Twitter at @mattstratton.
My Talks
Fight, Flight, or Freeze — Releasing Organizational Trauma
In this talk I will explain the background of fight, flight, and freeze, and how it applies to organizations, along with examples and suggestions on how to identify your own organizational trauma a...
Hot Takes, Myths, And Fake News - Why Everyone Is Wrong About DevOps Except For Me
Everyone has an opinion about DevOps. The problem is, most people's opinions are wrong. In this Ignite, I'll spin through some of the more popular misconceptions about DevOps of the last year or so...
How Do You Infect Your Organization With Humane Ops?
Getting your organization to take a step back and look at how ops affects humans can be a tough challenge. In this talk, I will discuss how the very DNA of an organization can evolve through the u...
The Four Agreements of Incident Response
Major outages, incident calls, war rooms, whatever you want to label them, can be stressful and frustrating experiences. In this talk, I will use the lessons of the book "The Four Agreements" by do...
The Lifecycle Of A Service
Services are the backbone of our systems. We will follow the story of a service at the fictional MattyCorp, from when it was a tiny idea, to when it makes a billion dollars, and finally, to when we...
You’ve convinced me we have to collaborate — but how the hell do we deal with people?
We know that DevOps is about people, empathy, relationships, & collaboration. Studies have shown collaboration is critical to effective software development & operations. Which raises the question:...