At the same time, the complexity of infrastructure has exponentially increased. Since its founding, Puppet has played an industry-wide role in establishing many of the practices considered to be “modern operations” today, from the adoption of DevOps principles, to establishing infrastructure automation as almost a basic expectation of IT operations teams. Puppet changed the game, giving operators hours of their lives back to spend doing what they want. The mission and vision of this company are rooted in empathy – built for operators by operators who understand the long hours and rote tasks that were once unavoidable. Puppet is a company built on the principle that transformational change is possible. This is a pivotal reason I joined Puppet, a company founded to make operators’ lives better. I’ve done this in the context of international service providers, large enterprises, government agencies, startups, and trade associations.Īt my core, I am happiest when shipping products & services that make customers’ work lives easier and less stressful so they can prioritize what makes them happiest in their personal lives and more fulfilled in their professional lives. While I started my career as a web developer, during the heyday of the late 1990s internet boom, I’ve been fortunate to work on projects up and down the stack, from web development to network backbone automation and telemetry. For the past five years, I was CTO and then Executive Director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, an open source PaaS created to make developers’ lives easier.
You likely don’t know me, so let me tell you a little about myself: I’ve been working in large-scale computing and open source software for more than twenty years. Hi, I’m Chip Childers and I’ve just joined Puppet as Chief Architect.