Rachel Kroll

Rachel has been doing the whole sysadmin thing for a while and has a lot of stories to tell. She works at Facebook as a production engineer on the Web Foundation team, looking for things that might break, but also occasionally fights fires when something goes wrong. This is the "swat team" from last year's sessions. Rachel found the "kill -9 -1" in that story.

When not wrangling production systems at work she plays with software defined radio and writes about life in Silicon Valley and the industry as "rachelbythebay". Two collections of these stories have been self-published electronically.