Matthew Flaming started doing DevOps before it had a name, writing distributed Java systems and racking the servers that hosted them at startups in the late '90s. He's been involved with architecting and implementing SaaS software ranging from IoT cloud runtimes to massively scaled data platforms. Currently, he's VP of site reliability at New Relic, focusing on the SRE practice and the technical, operational and cultural aspects of scaling and reliability.