Stephen Nelson-Smith is a Vice President, Resilience Engineering at Ticketmaster. He possess expertise in cloud computing, unix, linux, agile methodologies, solaris and 45 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Working with Stephen was both great fun and very productive. He has a deep understanding at all levels of technology—the full gamut from low-level networking and protocols to highly abstracted services—and, just as importantly, on the working practices necessary to achieve a great result. His holistic approach to building high quality systems is invaluable, and his collaborative attitude provides a great learning opportunity. A sense of pragmatism and a lean approach ensures that you… Show more" and "I got to know Stephen while organising the very first DevopsDays - He immediately saw the value writing the very first blogpost on "What is this devops thing anyway" . Over and over again he has shown great strength at seeing patterns and still being pragmatic and able to execute at speed. He is a tremendous asset in your project and a good communicator at both the management and technical leadership level, which is rare."