Ken Patchett
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.
Ken is responsible for Facebook’s data center operations in the Western Region, including the company's facilities in Prineville, Oregon, and Altoona, Iowa. Altoona is Facebook’s fourth owned and operated data center and is built to specifications developed as part of the Open Compute Project (OCP). Prior to joining Facebook in 2010, Ken established data centers for Google across the United States and Asia. His career has spanned several industries, from mechanical engineering at a pulp paper manufacturer, to rising through the ranks of Compaq and Microsoft, where he initiated its network operations team, including security management, routing, switching, and content networking technologies.
