KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
Mitch Ashley
Brian Dawson
Amin Qazi
Jacqueline Salinas
Encouraging a DevOps Culture
DevOps is a mindset. Most if not all DevOps initiatives without a focus on culture change will end up failing. And, culture and people’s opinions are not easily or quickly changed.
In this episode of the SDLF, we discuss:
What is a “DevOps culture?
Can a DevOps culture be created?
Ways to navigate the cultural shift to Agile, DevOps & CD
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Speakers
Keynote Speaker
Shaaron Alvares | Manager, Enterprise Agility, Disney
Shaaron Alvares works as an Enterprise Agility Manager at Disney. She has a global work experience leading product, organizational and cultural transformation across technology, aerospace, automotive, finance and telecom industries within various global Fortune 500 companies in Europe and the US. She introduced lean product and software development practices and has led significant lean and DevOps practices adoption at Amazon.com, Expedia, Microsoft and T-Mobile. Speaker, trainer and writer, she is an editor at InfoQ and a DevOps Advocate at the DevOps Institute. Shaaron published her M.Phil. and Ph.D. theses with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).
Mitch Ashley | CEO and Managing Analyst, ASG
Brian Dawson | Senior Director, Solutions Marketing
Brian Dawson is a DevOps evangelist and practitioner with a focus on agile, continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and DevOps practices. He has over 25 years as a software professional in multiple domains including quality assurance, engineering and management. Across them all, his passion has been to focus on the optimization of software development. Brian has led an agile transformation consulting practice and helped many organizations implement CI, CD and DevOps.
Amin Qazi | Technical Advisor, IRS
Amin has been leading the DevOps/CICD effort in IRS since 2016. Prior to joining the IRS, Amin worked as technical architect in SSA, IBM, and on Wall Street. In addition to onboarding projects to the CICD platform, Amin is helping IRS AD projects become Container and Cloud ready. Amin is also working on establishing standards, procedures and technologies to provision infrastructure on demand (Ephemeral infrastructure) for on-prem applications.
Jacqueline Salinas | VP/Director, CDF
Jacqueline Salinas is the Director of Ecosystem & Community Development for the Continuous Delivery Foundation. She is an alumni of the University of New Mexico, where she earned her degree in Business Administration at the Robert O. Anderson School of Management with a concentration in International Management. Jacqueline is an expert in crafting outreach and marketing programs to grow effective and strong ecosystems and communities. She has over 7 years of experience working in marketing and sales organizations in Silicon Valley.