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DevOps Squared

DevOps Squared

By Martyn Coupland

DevOps Squared is the weekly podcast on all things DevOps, including interviews with industry experts on all things DevOps, questions from listeners and a discussion of news in the DevOps world with our guests.
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S1.E5 - DevOps Maturity with Will Hall

DevOps SquaredMay 22, 2020

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S1.E22 - DevSecOps with Mark Peters

S1.E22 - DevSecOps with Mark Peters

This week I am joined by Mark Peters, talking about the impact of security within DevOps and DevSecOps.
Sep 26, 202047:12
S1.E21 - Improving Your DevOps Skills as a Developer with Yuval Oren
Sep 18, 202049:36
S1.E20 - How to Become a Better DevOps Engineer with Yuval Oren
Sep 11, 202045:56
S1.E19 - DevOps and Microservices with Tracy Ragan

S1.E19 - DevOps and Microservices with Tracy Ragan

This week I am joined by Tracy Ragan who is the CEO and Co-Founder at DeployHub. This week we are talking about the rise of microservices, what they are, how you should approach them, the pros and cons, as well as it's relationship with DevOps.

Tracy is CEO and Co-Founder of DeployHub. DeployHub is the first microservice management platform designed to facilitate the sharing, relationship mapping and deployments of microservices. Tracy is expert in configuration management and pipeline life cycle practices with a hyper focus on microservices and cloud native architecture. She currently serves as a board member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) where she is the elected General Member Representative.

Tracy is a recognized evangelist in microservices and the continuous delivery pipeline. She is the creator of the Continuous Delivery Foundation Interactive Landscape, a blog contributor for the CDF and speaks at many DevOps events such as CNCF’s KubeCon and CloudBees DevOpsWorld. Tracy is also a DevOps Institute Ambassador and speaks at AWS Marketplace webinar educational events. She is also the leader of the New Mexcio CI/CD Foundation Meetups.   Prior to DeployHub, Tracy was the COO and co-founder of OpenMake Software, a build acceleration and management tool that is the heart of development for over 400 enterprise development teams. She served on the Eclipse Foundation Board as a founding member from 2004 -2007.

Tracy was recognized as a Women In Technology (WIT) Honoree for her work in the DevOps area. You may also find her as an expert panelist on Webinars along with some of her friends at GitLab and CircleCI, or quoted in SD Times articles around DevOps subjects.

Sep 04, 202043:50
S1.E18 - DevOps on AWS with Nadeem Augustine

S1.E18 - DevOps on AWS with Nadeem Augustine

Joining me this week is Nadeem Augustine, Head of DevOps with Old Mutual in South Africa. This week we are discussing the implementation of DevOps tooling on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Nadeem is also a DevOps Ambassador with the DevOps Institute and for his day to day role is the Head of DevOps with Old Mutual in South Africa. He is responsible for setting the enterprise release management strategy as well as developing and implementing release governance and defining the strategic direction for release management tools.

Aug 28, 202041:26
S1.E17 - DevOps War Stories with April Edwards, Will Hall and Joshua Boyles

S1.E17 - DevOps War Stories with April Edwards, Will Hall and Joshua Boyles

This week, we have a panel episode with April Edwards from Microsoft, Will Hall of HeleCloud, and Joshua Boyles of Elsevier. This week we are discussing the good, the bad, and the ugly of DevOps transformation, the panel shares their tips, successes, and war stories from working in the field of DevOps.
April is a senior software engineer and cloud advocate for Microsoft specializing in datacentre modernization and application transformation. Her focus is on advocating the cloud to customers and taking them on a journey to what is possible in the cloud. Migrating customers away from legacy methods into the new world of serverless and containers, where code comes first. April was previously a cloud consultant and solution architect for various partners in the UK and brings her years of experience in helping customers plan their journey. In April’s spare time she spends time outdoors hiking, skiing, or scuba diving. She is also a triathlete competing in Ironman and Half Ironman triathlons.

Twitter:
twitter.com/theapriledwards
Blog: azapril.dev/
Joshua started his career as a software engineer, rapidly finding a deep interest in the intersection of BDT and Lean practices. An early proponent and designer of highly efficient CI/CD pipelines, I have transitioned to leading enterprise DevOps.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-s-boyles-7086b0a/
Will is a DevOps Consultant at HeleCloud, GitLab Hero, and Docker Community Leader. He has been architecting and delivering successful solutions with software since 2005, most recently using DevOps tools and processes with Terraform, Vault, GitLab, and Ansible. He is interested in the evolution of DevOps, exploring the great opportunities to modernize existing applications and infrastructure to run them alongside new tools and services. These include containerization, serverless, and infrastructure as code.
Twitter: twitter.com/hn_will
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/willhallonline/
Aug 21, 202049:15
S1.E16 - DevOps Institute with Jayne Groll and Helen Beal

S1.E16 - DevOps Institute with Jayne Groll and Helen Beal

This week I am very pleased to be joined by both Jayne Groll the CEO of the DevOps Institute and also Helen Beal who is the Chief Ambassador with the DevOps Institute. We discuss a great pizza metaphor for DevOps courtesy of Jayne, discuss the role of the DevOps Institute, learn about the Chief Ambassador role from Helen and also hear about an exciting initiative with scholars and the DevOps Institute, not to mention the usual opening comments on what does DevOps mean to you.
Aug 07, 202051:09
S1.E15 - DevOps on Azure with Gregor Suttie

S1.E15 - DevOps on Azure with Gregor Suttie

In this episode, I am talking to Gregor Suttie who is the Head of Development at Sword and a Microsoft Azure MVP. We discuss using Azure DevOps to enable DevOps in your organisation and Gregor discusses his favourite aspects of working with Azure.
Jul 31, 202001:06:13
S1.E14 - DevOps Recruitment with Marcus Gardiner-Hill

S1.E14 - DevOps Recruitment with Marcus Gardiner-Hill

In this episode, I am talking to Marcus Gardiner-Hill, who is a Principal DevOps Consultant with Prism Digital. We are discussing the effects of DevOps on the recruitment industry, what Marcus looks for when hiring for roles, and what makes a great CV.
Marcus Gardiner-Hill is the Principal DevOps Consultant at Prism Digital, he helps to build teams through headhunting and talent attraction on a permanent and project basis in companies from startups to FTSE 100 companies who are looking to instate DevOps culture.
Jul 24, 202051:34
S1.E13 - Scrum Masters and DevOps with Georgia Cowlard

S1.E13 - Scrum Masters and DevOps with Georgia Cowlard

In this episode, we are talking about the relationship between Scrum masters and DevOps. Discussing how important DevOps is within a successful Scrum project, how important the tooling is, how Scrum needs to adapt for DevOps, and what we can take into other Scrum projects from DevOps.
This week I am joined by Georgia Cowlard who is a certified Scrum Master with the Scrum Alliance and is a Project Manager with Allianz Insurance. Previous to this she worked as a Senior Scrum Master with Virgin Atlantic leading the delivery of one of the most valuable programmes for 2020 over five business workstreams and three technical teams. Prior to this Georgia worked at IBM and holds a first-class honours Business Management degree from the University of Surrey.
Jul 17, 202056:42
S1.E12 - DevOps at The Very Group with Jamal Walsh

S1.E12 - DevOps at The Very Group with Jamal Walsh

This week I am joined by Jamal Walsh who is a Senior Solutions Architect at The Very Group. We are discussing how DevOps functions day to day at The Very Group and dig into the culture and the technology used at the organisation.

Jamal is a Senior Solutions Architect at The Very Group, he is a passionate Agile, and DevOps practitioner with a keen interest in the human side of Agile and DevOps practices. Possessing effective cross-functional leadership skills and experience working with different business functions, engineering, and operational teams to ensure systems are secure, scalable, and reliable.

Jul 10, 202052:49
S1.E11 - DevOps for CxOs with Amit Dalvi

S1.E11 - DevOps for CxOs with Amit Dalvi

This week, Martyn is talking to Amit Dalvi about engaging with CxOs on DevOps. Join us for this fascinating discussion on how to ensure you engage your executives.

Amit is an IT transformation consultant/architect providing valuable consultancy and advisory services to business decision-makers typically at CxO level forums to influence key strategic decisions. Helping businesses to achieve their digital goals by combining technology, people, and processes delivering small/incremental but the complex transition and business transformation programs. Creating strategies to achieve competitive advantage and realise cost, performance, and scalability benefits to business stakeholders.
Working within the managed cloud service provider to be a trusted advisor in facilitating Customers’ strategy, digital transformation, cultural change, adoption of automation, and DevOps. Working through pre-sales and responding to RFP/RFI, creating business cases using TCO/ROI analysis, creating key design documents including Solution presentations, architecture strategy, transition strategy, migration plan. With over 14 years of experience within the industry ranging from managing and delivering service-oriented architecture, developing strategic cloud roadmap using public, private and hybrid models and portfolio that demonstrates innovation, creativity, continuous improvement, agile, DevOps, and lean thinking.

Jul 03, 202053:23
S1.E10 - DevOps at Microsoft with April Edwards
Jun 26, 202001:03:32
S1.E9 - Enterprise DevOps with Nic Whittaker

S1.E9 - Enterprise DevOps with Nic Whittaker

This week Martyn is joined by Nic Whittaker who are discussing the adoption of DevOps in the enterprise. Currently Head of Platform Engineering & DevOps (and acting Head of Enterprise PMO) at Virgin Atlantic Airways, Nic is a seasoned technology veteran who has come "the long way round". Nic started out as a chemistry teacher before moving into technology as a junior developer in 2000 and has since inhabited various technical roles across a variety of industries including airline, post-production & broadcast, manufacturing, insurance and education. When not working, Nic strangles guitars, rides a motorbike, destroys his knees doing long distance running and loves being an annoying dad. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nic-whittaker-33a63a3/
Jun 19, 202001:06:04
S1.E8 - Leadership in DevOps with Garima Bajpai
Jun 12, 202001:02:56
S1.E7 - Delivering Business Value in DevOps with John Thompson

S1.E7 - Delivering Business Value in DevOps with John Thompson

This week, Martyn is joined by John Thompson who is a DevOps Engineer with Atmosera, discussing the value of DevOps within the business.
John Thompson is an Azure DevOps Engineer at Atmosera, a Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider. He believes in leveraging automation to solve complex business problems and to deliver value to the business and it's customers. His career has been focused on Azure cloud development, SharePoint / Web development and operations automation since 2014, as Principle Software Engineer at Con-way Trucking and XPO Logistics to mention a few.
Jun 05, 202001:07:24
S1.E6 - Shift Left with Ravi Lachhman
May 29, 202057:37
S1.E5 - DevOps Maturity with Will Hall
May 22, 202047:33
S1.E4 - The Culture of DevOps with Tiffany Jachja
May 15, 202051:56
S1.E3 - DevOps Outsourcing with Anthony Hodson
May 08, 202051:33
S1.E2 - Containers with Katie Gamanji
May 01, 202052:01
S1.E1 - DevOps at MSPs with Rob Stainsby and Tim Shackleton
Apr 24, 202040:54
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