Justin Sheehy has spent most of his career thinking about how to make systems — composed of both computers and humans — safer and more resilient. He is currently Chief Architect for Infrastructure Engineering and Operations at Akamai. Previously he’s played roles including Chief Technologist for Cloud Native Storage (VMware), CTO (Basho), Principal Scientist (MITRE), Distributed Systems Engineer (multiple times), and more. He’s equally happy whether writing code, doing research, or managing teams. No matter which of those he’s doing at the moment, he tries to prevent more problems than he causes.