Liz Fong-JonesAuthor
Field CTO @ honeycomb.io
(edited)9h
other aliases this person uses: kcmastrpc, kevtainer, notsureifkevin, in case you're looking to block on Github etc
Btw, Kathryn Tewson says thank you for the compliments on her work, but she wants to be clear she is not a private investigator, she is an investigative paralegal that does work in connection with legal matters her firm has been retained on.
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Charity Majors
cofounder/CTO, honeycomb.io
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Liz Fong-Jones your stamina, your integrity, your empathy for others and grace under fire is incredible. You are so good at holding yourself together and showing up as an adult, in life and at work, I don't think most people realize that a vicious campaign of harassment and credible physical threats have been part of your daily reality for YEARS.
Having to factor credible threats of violence into every decision about where to speak, what to say, and what to do, for years on end, would crush many, many people. I don't know how you do it, but I'm grateful you do.
They picked a fight with the wrong girl, that's for sure. On behalf of the rest of us: thank you.
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Liz Fong-JonesAuthor
Field CTO @ honeycomb.io
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I wish I could be more present in my work with you, but every minute of it I get to do is still a joy and a privilege.
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Charity Majors
cofounder/CTO, honeycomb.io
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We'll get there!
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John Willis
As an accomplished author and innovative entrepreneur, I am deeply passionate about exploring and advancing the synergy between Generative AI technologies and the transformative principles of Dr. Edwards Deming.
6h
Every community is flawed; however, I am incredibly disappointed to hear about this from someone in the DevOps community.
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Liz Fong-JonesAuthor
Field CTO @ honeycomb.io
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he cannot be allowed to have a position of power like he did as DevOpsDays Nashville co-organiser again. this is vile!
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John Willis
As an accomplished author and innovative entrepreneur, I am deeply passionate about exploring and advancing the synergy between Generative AI technologies and the transformative principles of Dr. Edwards Deming.
6h
Liz Fong-Jones, Totally agree. I am no longer on the global organizing committee; however, I strongly endorse an investigation of his status representing my beloved community. hashtag#DevOpsDays
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Liz Fong-JonesAuthor
Field CTO @ honeycomb.io
6h
John Willis DoD global committee received the report under TLP:AMBER a few days ago; it's being handled.
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☁Chris Williams
Cloud Therapist & Dev Rel Mgr at Hashicorp | AWS Hero | VMware vExpert
(edited)8h
I'm so sorry you had to experience this betrayal. Thank you for your efforts to make our community safer for everyone
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Liz Fong-JonesAuthor
Field CTO @ honeycomb.io
8h
It sucks when it's one of our own
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Rich Seviora
Staff Software Engineer and World-Class Meddler
8h
☁Chris Williams I just can't get over the betrayal. This is awful on its on right, but to discover someone you've personally recommended has been out to get you for years? Heartbreaking.
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Ken Collins
Making Impact in the World of Hiring | Innovative & Award-Winning Leader | AWS Hero | AI Industry Expert | Strategic Tech, Product, Marketing, & Sales
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☁Chris Williams Agreed and thank you.
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Cerezo

Senior Technical Account Manager (FSI) at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
4h
I’m so sorry you’ve had to endure this hate. I’m impressed by the work to unmask the perpetrator of violence using osint and logic honed no doubt from the logic puzzles of our youth.
I hope this story spreads to be a well known example of how hate cannot hide. I hope more face consequences for their actions that make our world less safe for everyone.
Keep up the good work, Liz and keep inspiring all of us to be better and embrace empathy overall.


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Liz Fong-JonesAuthor
Field CTO @ honeycomb.io
4h
all Kathryn Tewson's work, I can't take credit for the deductive exercise!
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Pax Ahimsa Gethen
Queer Black trans blogger, editor, curator. funcrunch.org
7h
I'm so sorry for all the disgusting harassment you've experienced.
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Liz Fong-JonesAuthor
Field CTO @ honeycomb.io
7h
I've emailed arbcom about sanctions, because, yeah, we don't need people who use Wikipedia to do [[WP

WH]] to be posting under good hand alts.
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Pax Ahimsa Gethen
Queer Black trans blogger, editor, curator. funcrunch.org
4h
I wish I could have found out the identity of the transphobic sociopath who stalked me on and off Wikipedia several years ago. The first time Trump was elected, they gleefully told me I'd be sent to a concentration camp.
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Victim and survivor
Stalked by a trans-antagonistic sociopath
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Liz Fong-JonesAuthor
Field CTO @ honeycomb.io
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Pax Ahimsa Gethen Unfortunately the resources to do this are out of reach of most people, this ID probably cost several thousand dollars in paralegal and lawyer time, and also relied upon the other side being sloppy. I wish it were easier to make harassment stop, especially against people not as well resourced as me.
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Al Smith
Director of Fundraising at the Tor Project
9h
This is awful and I'm sorry you are the target of such hate. Thank you for unmasking this person.
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Liz Fong-JonesAuthor
Field CTO @ honeycomb.io
9h
Couldn't have done it without Kathryn Tewson.
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Ceren Ercen
Operations / SRE II at Grubhub
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Kathryn Tewson is legendary. <3
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Peter Corless
Director of Product Marketing for StarTree. Powered by the Apache Pinot database, StarTree Cloud is the fastest real-time analytics platform.
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I have wanted to comment a zillion times on this post. So many things to say. I kept deleting my words, thinking of more or different to say. I will boil it down to this:
Liz, I am sorry you have been treated this way.
Men: do better. There is no ethical, logical, moral excuse — at all — to be monsters.
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Liz Fong-JonesAuthor
Field CTO @ honeycomb.io
3h
For years these people have been shrill about the "if you don't interact with it how could it possibly harm you?" line -- while also making what we know now are credible threats to my safety from within my security perimeter. I am relieved to have dealt with this one individual so they can't come near me again, but unfortunately they may try again in future
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Niall Murphy
Co-founder & CEO.
7h
Jesus Liz, this is sickening. I’m so sorry.
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Liz Fong-JonesAuthor
Field CTO @ honeycomb.io
7h
Yeah

USENIX has been informed, I filed a CoC complaint last week as part of coordinated/embargoed disclosure.
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Michele Playfair
Technology Leader
6h
What a betrayal. At least you managed to find the rat.
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Liz Fong-JonesAuthor
Field CTO @ honeycomb.io
6h
Michele Playfair One of them! There are multiple. We're onto them.
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Christina Noren
4x IPO, 1st CPO/ VP PM @ Splunk, CloudBees, Zuora, …, art collector & investor. Founder of a stealth startup focused on product practice. Maintain some private consulting clients.
8h
I am so sorry you are dealing with this nonsense and hate, Liz. You are one of the shining stars in our industry in my book, and that of many others I respect.
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Liz Fong-JonesAuthor
Field CTO @ honeycomb.io
8h

The haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate
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Tom Knight
Cloudy chap
(edited)8h
Good grief. I'm sorry you've been subjected to this. Thank you for being so transparent.
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Liz Fong-JonesAuthor
Field CTO @ honeycomb.io
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Tom Knight For the sake of the community. He's been leading a double life for some time now, pretending to be someone trustworthy.
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Kat Marchán
Senior Software Engineer on Visual Studio JavaScript/TypeScript Tooling
9m
Holy shit Liz. This is so scary. I’m glad you smoked this guy out before it escalated because he’s completely unhinged. I hope this gives the others pause, and I hope this dude in particular gets torn to absolute shreds.
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Winston Hearn
has so many questions
9h
Beyond everything else—and I know this does nothing to change the pain and fear you've dealt with for years—thank you for making a decision to use this information to make the community safer. I'm sure this was a hard decision and I'll be honest I'm not sure I have the stomach to read his hatred but I hope this helps us continue to make the community and industry less toxic. <3
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Laban Eilers
Distinguished Engineer at SimpliSafe
1h
This is vile and disgusting. You're 100% doing the right thing by exposing them. Stay strong, we've got your back.
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Jason McIntosh
Engineer Architect@Harness
19m
What sucks is how many like this scum get away with it to other individuals not as amazing as Liz. Intolerance and bigotry have no place and all of us bear the burden of calling it out when we encounter it and prevent it from growing.
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Paul Graydon
Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle
(edited)3h
I'm so sorry you're going through this. Those reddit posts were quite the journey. Part of me can't help but wonder what was going on behind the scenes there. A progression, or an unmasking?
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Paul Osman
Senior Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn | ex-Honeycomb.io
6h
FFS, I'm so sorry you've had to go through this. Reading this was extremely painful - I can't even imagine how it would have been for you. Sending positive thoughts your way. Bravo for continuing to shine a light on this kind of hate.
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Grey Lathrop
Software Architect
1h
Thank you. You are an incredibly amazing person and a great leader.
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P. Taylor Goetz
Principal Engineer at Sema4.ai
2h
I’m so sorry this happened to you. Most devs already have a full plate, and dealing with shit like this should not be part of that load.
I feel you did the right thing.
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Greg McVerry
Fooling with Words and Identities
6h
I am so glad to see this, nobody talks about the harassment people face for speaking out.
I wish your story was rare
We need more people to share
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John Gallagher
Helping Engineers Understand Rails Apps In Production. kill3pill.com
4h
As a white, middle aged, hetrosexual man, this is mind boggling. I really do play life on easy mode. I've no idea how hard this must have been for you, day in day out for years. And from an ex colleague. Holy s**t. Thank you for having the grit to out this person to keep everyone else safe.
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Patrick B.
CTO at CultureKey | Executive Advisor on Technology, Culture, and Leadership; Available to help you unlock your organization's full potential.
2h
I’m so sorry this is happening to you. The evidence showing his slide over the last 5 years is terrifying for so many reasons.
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Clare Sudbery (she/her)
Samman technical coach
4h
Ugh. What a horrendous betrayal, I'm so sorry you're experiencing this kind of thing. I can't imagine.
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Thiago de Faria
Architecture Modernization meets Kindness meets Enterprise Architecture meets Data and AI/ML
8h
This is nuts… I’m sorry that this traumatic and crazy situation continues to unravel… be safe, and all positive energies to you…
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Khadijah M. Silver, JD/MPH
Supervising Attorney - Civil Rights @ Lawyers For Good Government with expertise in Policy Advocacy
7h
Awful, thank you so much for letting us know and I am SO SORRY you went through this!!!
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☠ Jade Allen
Your Future Developer or DevOps Manager
4h
Disgusting behavior. I’m sorry you’ve endured this for years.
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Jen Wohlner
Staff Technical Program Manager @ Datadog
4h
So sorry this happened to you. I am really glad you took action and are safe. I met you at a few SREcons or USENIX committees when I was a speaker, and I always really admired your work. Keep it up!
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Jill Wohlner
Founder & Forever Recruiter
1h
Jen Wohlner this is a pro-Liz household! Proud of you and thankful you exist. Sending love!
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Ziah G.
Associate Customer Support Engineer at Fastly
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Fuck, I'm so so so sorry to hear this, Liz. I can only imagine how devastating it must have been to hear. My heart goes out to you

Thank you for sharing with the community so that they may be amply warned!
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Joséphine Altzman
Vice President, SRE at Goldman Sachs
6h
Sweet Fancy Moses, this is a horrible thing to have gone through. Insider threat times a gazillion.
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Nicholas Blumhardt
Founder and CEO at Datalust
5h
This is absolutely appalling, I'm sorry you've had to endure this, Liz.
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Kevin Taylor
High School Student Passionate about AI and Software
4h
Sad day to have the name Kevin. I’m sorry you had to deal with this!
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Peter Corless
Director of Product Marketing for StarTree. Powered by the Apache Pinot database, StarTree Cloud is the fastest real-time analytics platform.
4h
Kevin Taylor Be the best Kevin!