Jean-Philippe (JP) LeBlanc is the SVP of Engineering at CircleCI, the leading Continuous Integration and Delivery platform for the world's best software engineering teams. With more than twenty years of technology management experience, JP has developed a passion for fostering people-oriented product engineering environments in industry-leader companies. JP is a member of the executive team and is responsible for managing all aspects of the engineering organization for the company. Prior to CircleCI, JP was Senior Vice-President of Product & Technology at Lightspeed Commerce, and also served as Vice-President of Product Engineering at Shutterstock. JP lives with his wife and three children in Montreal, Canada.
For decades in the software industry, we have focused on testing our applications under the reassuring streetlight of GitOps. It made sense in theory: Wait for changes to the codebase made by ...