Kristian Nelson is a recent contributor currently working at InfoZen with a focus on DevOps, Cloud, Mobility, and SaaS. He is engaged in helping our government transition & embrace the change and benefits DevOps offers. Prior to this, Kristian worked as the senior product strategist and architect in creating an enterprise class DevOps service offering at the Bank of America. In his role, Kristian created and laid out a vision of new product features working with premier tooling vendors like Cisco, IBM, and BMC, from which the entire industry is still benefiting today. In addition, Kristian was also the primary product strategist at Bank of America creating a mobility service and transitioning the financial centers with new customer facing capabilities. Kristian has always been a visionary, holding senior leadership positions at companies like Quovera, Interliant, GST Internet, Gartner Group, and Lockheed Martin. Feel free to contact Kristian through any of the following …
Have you ever seen the sign, “Will work for food”? If you deconstruct the premise a bit, we all work for the rewards systems that interests us. We “trade” our labor (ideally, ...
Remember that guy you knew in college who was working on his fifth or sixth degree with no plans to stop? At some point the idea of real work must have terrified ...
I am always amazed at how many practitioners (or, rather, managers of) tout the benefits of test-driven development (TDD). This inherently changes the role of the traditional developer to one of developer ...
Change consistency (or the predictability of how change is deployed) followed by change transparency (or the visibility into the state of change at any stage in the software development life cycle [SDLC]) ...
Why is it that when we purchase a lotto ticket, every part of our brain tells us we won't win, yet some portion of it is able to inspire hope where there ...
We fix what we see is broken. Providing “transparency” into the DevOps-enabled software development life cycle (SDLC) has tangential goals of quickly illuminating what is broken, running slower than it should or ...
You could say the development and operations teams gave birth to the idea of DevOps, as it is believed the chief benefits are garnered in those two functional disciplines. Because of this, ...
Adopting and implementing DevOps isn't an overnight project. It takes time and effort to determine how it best fits into your organization—and what benefits your organization will realize as a result. Creating ...
Not all automation scales. One of the chief impediments of delivering an enterprise-class DevOps service is the decentralization of tooling choices—or worse, the methodologies within the tool for delivering CI/CD. If the ...