Chris Stankaitis

LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.

The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.

Chris Stankaitis is a Team Lead for the Enterprise Infrastructure Services group at Pythian, an organization providing Managed Services and Project Consulting to companies whose data availability, reliability and integrity is critical to their business.

Chris has spent the past 18 years in the systems administration field with primary goal and focus on designing and building systems with the highest reliability, availability, and scalability. His experience spans many industries from ISP/Telco, to financial to social media.

In his current role, Chris manages a team of Enterprise Infrastructure Consultants, providing leadership and direction to his team, and the many clients he is privileged to work with everyday.

Linked Presentation: 
Embracing Checklists as a Tool for Improving Human Reliability