Sam Kottler is a software engineer at Digital Ocean and the co-maintainer of Puppet 2.7, committer to Icinga, Bundler, RubyGems.org infrastructure maintainer, and a member of the ruby-core security team. He helps maintain the Erlang, Ruby, and cloud-init stacks in Fedora/EPEL. Before working at Digital Ocean, Sam was a software engineer in Red Hat's virtualization R&D group, was responsible for infrastructure & security operations at Venmo, and was an early engineer at Acquia.