DevOps: A Journey of Automation That's Worth the Wait
Continuous delivery is really about one thing: quickly responding to market changes. As with many teams, Shareen Gurley and Narasimha Yalamala's journey began with automation, which seemed never-ending. But to be effective with your DevOps implementation, you need to have solid technical and quality practices to ensure your code is always in a deployable state. If you don’t know exactly where you are going, how will you know when you get there? Join Shareen and Narasimha as they share the prerequisites for creating effective development delivery pipelines, integrated with critical compliance controls. They will provide insights and a model that can help with your DevOps journey. Learn which ideas worked and discuss some common challenges, and see a live demo of how continuous delivery makes releases less painful. You'll leave with the strategies and tools necessary to envision and build a DevOps culture powered by preapproved delivery pipelines.
Shareen Gurley is an experienced Delivery lead and Agile Coach at Capital One. She has a track record of enabling development teams to deliver outstanding software with the shortest lead times by using strong lean and agile principles. Her passion is in working with leaders and teams to create a culture of Quality ownership across all roles, to advance engineering practices through strategic transformation initiatives, and to set the direction for developing an elite engineering workforce and deliver results affecting the bottom line. Shareen believes that process and project management tools and techniques are crucial to execute projects, programs, and portfolios strategically.
Narasimha Yalamala is an experienced Lead Developer / Master Software Engineer at Capital One responsible for full stack development including application development and cloud infrastructure development on AWS using automated scripts such as Chef, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes. He is a certified AWS developer and architect associate with sound knowledge in AWS services and expertise in developing fully resilient applications in the cloud with fully automated infrastructure.