Tom is a SRE TPM at Stack Overflow, Inc. He is an internationally recognized author, speaker, system administrator and DevOps advocate. He writes the Operations and Life column in ACM Queue magazine.  He's best known for his books The Practice of System and Network Administration (http://the-sysadmin-book.com), The Practice of Cloud System Administration (http://the-cloud-book.com), and Time Management for System Administrators (O’Reilly). His past employers include Google, Bell Labs / Lucent, and AT&T. His blog is http://EverythingSysadmin.com and he tweets @YesThatTom.