Speaker Profile: Calvin Hendryx-Parker (@calvinhp)
Six Feet Up, Inc. co-founder Calvin Hendryx-Parker has over 18 years of experience in the development and hosting of applications using Python and web frameworks including Django, Pyramid and Flask.
As Chief Technology Officer for Six Feet Up, Calvin is responsible for researching cutting-edge advances that could become part of the company’s technology road map. Calvin provides both the company and its clients with recommendations on tools and technologies, systems architecture and solutions that address specific information-sharing needs. Calvin is an advocate of open source and is a frequent speaker at Python conferences on multisite content management, integration, and web app development. Calvin is also a founder and organizer of the IndyPy meetup group and Pythology training series in Indianapolis.
Outside of work Calvin spends time tinkering with new devices like the Fitbit, Pebble and Raspberry Pi. Calvin is an avid distance runner and ran the 2014 NYC Marathon to support the Innocence Project. Every year he and the family enjoys an extended trip to France where his wife Gabrielle, the CEO of Six Feet Up, is from. Calvin holds a Bachelor of Science from Purdue University.
Calvin will be presenting “Open Source Deployment Automation and Orchestration with SaltStack” at 3:00PM Saturday (2/4) in Room 200. Salt is way more than a configuration management tool. It supports many types of other activities such as remote execution and full-blown system orchestration. It can be used as a replacement for remote task tools such as Fabric or Paver.
Sponsor Profile: Juice Analytics (@juiceanalytics)
At Juice, we’re building Juicebox, a cloud platform to allow anyone to build and share stories with data. Juicebox is built on AWS, Python, Backbone.js and D3. We’re looking for a frontend dev with a love of teamwork, a passion for pixels, and a devotion to data. Love of Oxford commas also required.