Keith Pleas is a technology & organizational leader who has spent more than 25 years building software products and consulting to industry on IT, management, architecture, automation, and software development. At Deloitte he is focused on bringing Platform Engineering capabilities to large IT organizations. His previous role was managing Accenture's enterprise Platform Engineering team enabling more than 1,000 application teams on a common engineering platform with continuous policy and security compliance. He has more than 200 published articles in international IT and software development publications and I have chaired and spoken at numerous conferences on all phases of IT with a focus on software development.