Veronika is a platform engineer from Ukraine. With a background in Release Engineering, she found herself drawn towards implementing the DevOps mindset years ago, and now strives for building exceptional cloud solutions and constantly improving her efforts in the field. In her free time, she can usually be found traveling around the world or playing piano.

Emile is a DevOps and Backend specialist with a particular interest in web security. Outside of Masterpoint, he is either climbing mountains or renovating his house.

Living on a farm means there is always a project waiting to be tackled. Lately, my biggest physical undertaking has been renovating an old barn to turn it into a proper tool workshop and garage. The pace around here is starting to pick up, too, as fall is right around the corner and we are gearing up for the busy corn and soybean harvest.

On a more personal note, my life has shifted quite a bit recently as I now have a partner. It has been a wonderful new chapter, bringing with it a lot of meaningful personal and emotional growth. Navigating this evolving relationship has been a central and rewarding focus of my everyday life.

As part of that, we have been experimenting with different hobbies we can enjoy together. We are aiming for a good mix of active and fun, which has led us to try a bit of everything from video games and cooking to ping pong, badminton, and hiking. Right now, we are also having a great time plotting out some upcoming travels.

Robin Morrison is Head of Delivery at Masterpoint, based in Colorado. A program, product, and technology operations leader with deep experience in DevOps, cloud migrations, and platform modernization, she owns how Masterpoint delivers — from scoping and running client engagements to the internal operating model that keeps the team consistent as it scales. Robin has built her own delivery methodologies at multiple firms, bringing rigor and repeatability without slowing teams down, and leads practical, responsible AI-adoption work. She serves on the Board of Directors for Agile Denver and co-founded the Agile Denver Leadership Meetup. Outside of work, she's lifting kettlebells, making art, or perfecting her shortbread.

I am a recent empty nester and have been enjoying having the kids back from college for the summer. I live with my husband and Labrador retriever just outside Denver, near a state park, and have recently moved from running on the treadmill to running out in the park, enjoying the early morning sunshine when it is still cool.

I’m always reading something, often two books at once. On business, I’m currently re-reading Radical Focus by Christine Wodtke, and have also been enjoying mystery series, most recently by authors Tana French and Barbara Fradkin.

As a process and delivery person, I’m focused on learning to build tools, reports, and systems using AI to run Masterpoint as effectively and efficiently as possible so that we can deliver amazing results for our clients.

Weston is a Platform and Site Reliability Engineer. Having spent a decade building software and "quant" data pipelines, he's now focused on shipping infrastructure, reducing friction for teams, and ensuring everyone feels empowered to deploy to prod. Outside of work, you'll find him planting fruit trees and calculating 2nd order option greeks.

It’s been a hot, dry summer for my backyard, especially with the significant drought Colorado experienced this year. I let nature take its course, and most of the grass died out. Now that cooler weather and fall rains are coming in, I’m replanting with clover and a drought-tolerant grass that will hopefully survive better than what I had before.

I’ve been fascinated by Agent Skills, AI Evaluation techniques, and semantic data layer integrations allowing humans and agents alike to traverse through small and large data sets. I’m working on a couple of blog posts to share soon about what I’ve learned and how these tools genuinely help small teams keep shipping to production daily, faster and with more confidence.

Yangci (Yang) is a platform engineer from Philadelphia, PA. He finds great fulfillment in leveraging technology to tackle complex challenges across diverse technical domains and turning ambiguous problems into scalable, well-operated systems. Outside of work, he enjoys going on adventures, exploring new areas, skating, and playing racket sports like badminton.

This summer I spent about two weeks in Italy, split between Venice, Florence, and Rome. There were days where we had plans, but there were also days where we went slow and wandered to see what we’d stumble upon, and that turned out to be the best part, finding lesser known gems that were beautiful or had great food.

Closer to home, most of my free time still goes to racquet sports, at least two or three times a week, I’d play badminton, tennis, or pickleball. I also skateboard now that it’s getting cooler and not as hot as the summer, and it fits perfectly with my other quiet hobby of finding rooftops around the city with good views. For more chill evenings with friends, Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza has become my default thing to bring along. It takes about a minute to teach and works with almost any group, which is most of why I love it.

I also recently received my AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, it was a great excuse to go deeper on the corners of AWS that I don’t touch day to day, so when it does come up, I’ve experienced it and worked with it to know how to operate it, and it’s the same curiosity I’ve always run on.

James is a platform engineer recently from the Denver, CO area. He enjoys designing systems and platforms that are scalable and utilize infrastructure as code to create consistent and predictable outcomes. He is typically tinkering with Kubernetes clusters, VPS network designs, container deployment and management, and distributed hybrid environments. Outside of work you can find him skiing, scuba diving, riding a motorcycle, and exploring the world.

I’m currently living in the mountains, near the ski areas, and regularly enjoying all of the wonderful freedoms that I have. Lately, my time has been spent traveling and seeing the world. I also own an Airstream and spend plenty of time in the woods, mountains, near the lakes, hot springs, and national parks, or pretty much wherever I want to park it for a while. I’ve continued to improve the trailer and enjoy more and more time camping off-grid and away from the busy cities.

For technology side projects, I’m just finishing up a project to convert my long running Debian server over to a TalosOS Kubernetes deployment. This box runs a small portion of my electronic life, making steady progress towards open source, self hosting, and data sovereignty. I knew K8s was going to be something amazing the first time I started using it, and after many professional years managing clusters, I’m happy to have this project running on my home computer.

In other news, I’ve recently adopted a couple of stray kittens from my property manager. My adult cat is not too thrilled, but I’m sure he will come around. Yes, they are adorable. And yes, I can’t wait to get a full night sleep again.

Soon enough winter will be here and I’m looking forward to my regular downhill activities. As someone who has skied for over 40 years now, this is still one of my favorite things to do in life. While there’s no snow on the ground, paddle boarding, swimming, mountain biking, and summer concerts have been a reasonable replacement. My recent Amtrak trip to Denver for a Red Rocks concert was amazing, I love the train and I love that venue. That trip gave me plenty of time to catch up on my reading too, and I continue to be enriched by Terry Pratchett’s wonderful sense of humor and wit.

Yves is a Platform Engineer who helps teams build and scale reliable, well-automated infrastructure. Outside of work, he's usually out on the water fly fishing or up in the mountains exploring.