Bio
Mike Lombardi is a sysadmin-turned-documentarian and engineer whose primary goal is to be a force multiplier for organizations and communities by documenting, mentoring, and working to continuously improve processes and tooling. He maintains and contributes to several open source projects, co-organizes the St. Louis PowerShell User Group, was a contributing author and editor to the PSConfBook and is the sometime host of the technical community chat show, ChatterOps.
My Talks
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons & Development: Tool Design Lessons from Gaming
After more than two years of tabletop roleplaying game design work, it has become apparent that those games are _actually_ tools. In this talk you'll learn how to improve the tools you write and ho...
Doctor, Don't Defenestrate: What to Do with Legacy Scripts
Everyone has production critical services that rely on legacy solutions put in place long ago to solve problems. Legacy code is valuable - and valuable investments shouldn't be thrown away without ...
Dungeons & Dragons & Development: How Playing Games Makes You a Better IT Pro
D&D has been experiencing a resurgence in popularity - but in addition to being fun, it also has a lot to teach us about engineering skills. Learn how you can play a game and improve your lateral t...
PowerHour Universal Dashboard: Building a Community (Tool)
Over the last year the community has built a dashboard for submitting, watching, and discussing the PSPowerHour lightning talks. This talk will cover the lessons learned, the architecture, how to h...