Fred Hebert is the author of 3 Erlang books and a bunch of blog posts. He co-founded and is a board member at the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation.

He works as Staff SRE at Honeycomb.io. Previously, he was a staff developer at Postmates, with a focus on learning from incidents and poking at various things. Earlier, he was Systems Architect at Genetec, a company offering security video and IoT integration systems. Even earlier, he was a principal member of technical staff on the Heroku platform, worked in real-time bidding, and provided Erlang training.