Michael Stahnke is VP Platform at CircleCI running SRE, Security, and tooling. Prior to this, he worked at Puppet running PE, Platform engineering as well as SRE. He is an established author where he has co-authored two State of DevOps Reports and most recently, a Data-Driven approach to continuous integration. He is also a popular speaker and has attended various DevOps Days, CTO Summits, Puppetize conferences and more. He also founded the package repository EPEL and wrote a book on SSH in 2005.