DevOps Squared
By Martyn Coupland
DevOps SquaredMay 22, 2020
S1.E22 - DevSecOps with Mark Peters
S1.E21 - Improving Your DevOps Skills as a Developer with Yuval Oren
This week I am joined by Yuval Oren, this is a two part episode and in the second installment we are discussing how to improve your DevOps skills as a developer. We discuss how the approach to DevOps for developers is different to operations engineers, how to further your understanding of DevOps as a developer, how to transition to a DevOps Engineer and answer the question do developers make better DevOps Engineers?
Yuval helps DevOps teams catch up with Engineering. He is a DevOps and DevSecOps consultant at PineWise, a boutique consultancy he owns that helps tech companies improve developer productivity.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/yuvaloBlog: https://pushbuildtestdeploy.com
S1.E20 - How to Become a Better DevOps Engineer with Yuval Oren
This week I am joined by Yuval Oren, this is a two part episode and in the first installment we are discussing how to become a better DevOps engineer. We discuss what it means to be a DevOps Engineer, as well as dive into how to grow as an engineer looking for a promotion to your next opportunity.
Yuval helps DevOps teams catch up with Engineering. He is a DevOps and DevSecOps consultant at PineWise, a boutique consultancy he owns that helps tech companies improve developer productivity.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/yuvalo
Blog: https://pushbuildtestdeploy.com
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.
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.
S1.E17 - DevOps War Stories with April Edwards, Will Hall and Joshua Boyles
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/
S1.E16 - DevOps Institute with Jayne Groll and Helen Beal
S1.E15 - DevOps on Azure with Gregor Suttie
S1.E14 - DevOps Recruitment with Marcus Gardiner-Hill
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.
S1.E13 - Scrum Masters and DevOps with Georgia Cowlard
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.
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.
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.
S1.E10 - DevOps at Microsoft with April Edwards
April is a senior software engineer and cloud advocate for Microsoft specializing in datacentre modernization and application transformation. Her focus is 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/
S1.E9 - Enterprise DevOps with Nic Whittaker
S1.E8 - Leadership in DevOps with Garima Bajpai
This week Martyn is joined by Garima Bajpai from Capital Carbon Consulting who is discussing DevOps and leadership.
Garima is an industry speaker on a number of DevOps subjects including Digital Twins, product practices and AI-Ops. She is also the co-founder of the DevOps Community Practice in Canada with over 500 contributors, the co-organiser of the DevOps Summit - Canada, co-creator of the Continuous Product Oriented Practice and a DevOps Ambassador with the DevOps Institute.
She is also a board member for Capital Carbon Consulting and Advisor Health 4.0 Institute. In 2019 she was nominated for Young Leader of the Year at the Women IT Awards Canada.
DevOps Summit
https://www.capitalcarbonconsulting.com/devops-summit2020/
Continuous Product Oriented Practice Workshop
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/continuous-product-oriented-practice-lets-build-a-fintech-product-tickets-107389141814
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bajpaigarima1
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garimabajpai/
S1.E7 - Delivering Business Value in DevOps with John Thompson
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.
S1.E6 - Shift Left with Ravi Lachhman
Join Martyn and Ravi Lachhman from Harness as they discuss the concept of shift left in DevOps and also start the discussion of shift right.
Ravi Lachhman is an evangelist at Harness. Prior to Harness, Ravi was an evangelist at AppDynamics. Ravi has held various sales and engineering roles at Mesosphere, Red Hat, and IBM helping commercial and federal clients build the next generation of distributed systems. Ravi enjoys traveling the world with his stomach and is obsessed with Korean BBQ.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ravilach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravilachhman/
S1.E5 - DevOps Maturity with Will Hall
Join Martyn and Will Hall from HeleCloud as they discuss maturity in DevOps.
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 modernise existing applications and infrastructure to run them alongside new tools and services. These include containerisation, serverless and infrastructure as code.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hn_will
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willhallonline/
S1.E4 - The Culture of DevOps with Tiffany Jachja
Join Martyn in this episode where we talk about culture in DevOps and why it’s so important. In this episode we are joined by Tiffany Jachja.
Tiffany Jachja is a Technical Evangelist at Harness. She is an advocate for better software delivery, sharing applicable practices, stories, and content around modern technologies. Before joining Harness, Tiffany was a consultant with Red Hat’s Consulting practice. There she used her experience to help customers build their software applications living in the cloud.
You can find Tiffany online in the following locations:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tiffanyjachja
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanyjachja
S1.E3 - DevOps Outsourcing with Anthony Hodson
Anthony Hodson is an AWS Solution Architect working for Ensono, a Managed Service Provider. His career has seen him work as an implementer in FinTech, a Solution Architect at Chef and many years and many roles in Managed Services. As well as contributing to the occasional webinar / podcast / blog he’s also a returning judge for the UK Cloud Awards. His interests in Cloud include Machine Learning as well as the age-old problem of motivating people to do things differently.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyhodson/
Twitter: twitter.com/anthonyhodson
Anthony’s posts relevant to podcasts:
Cynefin – is it an agile problem?
Culture change
Well Architected Reviews
S1.E2 - Containers with Katie Gamanji
This week Martyn is joined by Katie Gamanji to discuss containers. We discuss what DevOps means to Katie, what containers are and how they help American Express as well as discuss Katie's role at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
As a Cloud Platform Engineer at American Express, Katie Gamanji contributes to the build-out of a platform that gravitates towards cloud-native principles and open-source tooling, with Kubernetes as the focal point. In previous roles, maintained and automated application delivery on OpenStack based infrastructure, which transitioned to the creation of a centralised, globally distributed platform at Condé Nast.
Additionally, Katie Gamanji has been elected as an End-User TOC (Technical Oversight Committee) for the CNCF. Alongside 10 other champions within the open-source community, she steers and maintains the technical vision for the CNCF landscape.
Katie Gamanji is a strong advocate for women in STEM, and public speaker on topics that revolves towards Kubernetes ecosystem and cloud-native tooling.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/k_gamanji
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-gamanji/
Medium: https://medium.com/@kgamanji
S1.E1 - DevOps at MSPs with Rob Stainsby and Tim Shackleton
This week Martyn is joined by guests Rob Stainsby (Director, Vendira) and Tim Shackleton (Senior Product Manager, Ensono) talk about the DevOps in Managed Service Providers.
- What does DevOps mean to you?
- Does DevOps work for an MSP?
- What effect does DevOps have on product management?
- How does DevOps create a challenge for service providers?
Make sure you find us on Twitter (@DevOpsSquared), use the link below to send us an audio question.
DevOps Squared Trailer
One week we will go from discussing the culture shift in DevOps and what that means for organisations to the implementation of technology to drive the adoption of DevOps. I hope this mix of subjects will give everyone something they can take away.
We will also give the opportunity to send in audio questions to us to be answered by myself and guests.
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I’ll look forward to our first podcast episode where I will be discussing the role of DevOps with Managed Service Providers.
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