Chris's career has combined two seemingly disparate passions: Tech and history. A long-time Linux geek who earned a Ph.D. in French revolutionary history from Johns Hopkins, Chris lived the dream as a tenured professor for several years until boredom with academia prompted him to expand his horizons. Today, Chris keeps his inner historian happy by teaching part-time at a major research university, where his courses cover technology, culture and society. Meanwhile, he keeps his geek-self happy by contributing articles to a variety of technical media sites. He also works as a marketing consultant and technical content developer with Fixate IO, a developer marketing agency that works with a variety of software companies.

Chris Riley

Chris Riley is obsessed with bringing modern technologies, culture, and practices to tech-enabled enterprises. As a bad-coder-turned-technology-advocate, Chris understands the challengesand needs of modern engineers, as well as how technology fits into the broader business goals of companies in a demanding high-tech world.

Chris speaks and engages with end-users regularly in the areas of SRE, DevOps, App Dev, and Developer Relations. He is one of the original  founders of Fixate IO a marketing agency focused on developer marketing, and currently Sr Manager in Developer Relations at HubSpot. Chris is a regular speaker, contributor to industry blogs such as ContainerJournal.com, DevOps.com and Sweetcode.io, and overall technical adviser. He is also the host of the podcast, Developers Eating the World, Dissecting DevOps, & Tech A'Sketch.