Gregory Orzell, a Principal Software Engineer at GitHub, has spent his career perfecting the art of creating scalable and highly available systems. With experience working at both Netflix and startups, Orzell was a key architect of Netflix's migration to the cloud, involved in redesigning systems and infrastructure for an environment that was not under their control. Orzell has also built teams and helped develop entire organizations, working with executives to shape organizational strategy and culture. His specialties include infrastructure, distributed systems, scalability, cloud architecture, JVM performance, fault tolerance, and chaos monkey. Orzell's open-source contributions include Archaius, SimianArmy, and Asgard.

Prior to his current position at GitHub, Orzell held positions as Cloud Distributed Systems Architecture Consulting, North America at Crispy Mountain GmbH, Director Of Engineering at Keen IO, and Sr Technical Advisor - Silicon Valley at HBO. He was also the Co-Founder of Order of Magnitude Labs, LLC, a Principal Engineer on the founding team of Lyve Minds, Inc., an Architect at Sumo Logic, and held multiple positions at Netflix as Cloud Architect, Sr. Systems Engineer, Sr. QA Engineer, IT Project Manager, and IT Engineer.

Overall, Orzell is a highly experienced and respected engineer with expertise in cloud architecture, distributed systems, and infrastructure development, with a track record of success in helping organizations optimize their processes and strategies.