We are very happy to announce the first group of speakers for Camp DevOps Houston on October 28, 2014 at the Norris Conference Centers. There are still a few days left to submit your abstract and join this stellar line up. Email [email protected] if you would like to join us deep in the heart of Texas at Camp DevOps. You can also get more information about attending or sponsoring Camp DevOps Houston at http://www.campdevopsy.kinsta.cloud.
Ariel Tseitlin
Ariel Tseitlin is a Partner at Scale Venture Partners where he focuses on enterprise software investments in cloud, big data, security, and mobile. Ariel joined ScaleVP from Netflix, where he was Director of Cloud Solutions and responsible for creating and operating one of the most modern cloud infrastructures in the industry, accounting for a full third of all US downstream internet traffic at peak. Ariel’s team built many of the Netflix OSS components like Asgard and the Simian Army, including the Chaos Monkey, making the Netflix streaming service more resilient, reliable, and manageable. Prior to Netflix, Ariel was VP of Technology and Products at Sungevity and before that was the Founder & CEO of CTOWorks, a software consultancy helping early-stage entrepreneurs deliver their first product to market. Earlier in his career, Ariel held senior management positions at Siebel Systems and Oracle. Ariel holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an MBA with honors from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Abstract: Conventional product development thinking forces a tradeoff between the rate of innovation (i.e. development velocity) and quality (and availability), often depicted as an indifference curve along the two dimensions. However, by investing in automation and other DevOps best-practices, one can shift the curve to increase both rate of innovation and quality. We’ll highlight a few key areas, with past examples from Netflix, that are especially effective.
Chris Riley
Bio: Chris Riley is a technologist. Helping organizations make the transition from traditional development practices to a modern set of culture, tooling, and processes that increase the release frequency and quality of software. He is an O’Reilly author, speaker, and subject matter expert in the area of DevOps Strategy, Machine Learning, and Information Management.
Abstract: Navigating the Dev Tools Market. I have been working a lot with the vendors in the space, and I have realized first and foremost that this market is terribly fragmented, and hard to navigate, and second that there seems to be general trends happening which show some convergence on the future of tools in the space. I will discuss my findings and recomendations.
Jason Hand
Bio:Jason Hand is VictorOps’ DevOps Evangelist pulling from 15 years of experience as a developer, a system administrator, and a support specialist. He is Fully emerged in to the world of Agile development and the DevOps movement from working for 3 tech startups in Boulder. Jason is an avid outdoorsmen and adrenaline junky. Lover of fun. Hater of being on-call. Working to make it suck less.
Abstract: What they did not anticipate, but were the aspects of BYOD that would end up costing them a lot more in the long run.
Matthew Selheimer
Bio: Matthew Selheimer is Chief Technical Evangelist and SVP of Marketing for ITinvolve, Inc. He serves as the chief external spokesperson and technical evangelist for ITinvolve’s innovative and award- winning IT agility applications, and is responsible for all marketing functions including corporate and product positioning, demand generation, analyst and media relations, and social media engagement. In his twenty-year IT industry career, Matthew has demonstrated rich and diverse experience spanning IT management software, enterprise business applications, data center hardware and consulting businesses. Previously, he has held executive marketing and product management positions at BMC Software, as well as sales, business development, alliance management, systems engineering, and consulting positions at Informatica Corporation, Compaq Computer, and Deloitte & Touche. Matthew holds an MBA from Texas A&M University and a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Abstract: The Key to DevOps Success – Managing Cross-Silo Collaboration. Collaboration is essential to DevOps, yet how to do it is often unclear with many teams falling back on ineffective conference calls, instant messaging, documents, and SharePoint sites. In this keynote, ITinvolve chief technical evangelist, Matthew Selheimer, will share a vision for a next generation “DevOps 2.0” where collaboration, continuous documentation, and knowledge capture are combined with automation toolchains to enable rapid innovation and deployment. Matt will apply this vision to practical DevOps questions such as how do we more effectively collaborate on changing requirements across all stakeholders without creating an additional burden, and how can we more effectively merge “creation” with “operations” activities to enable continuous, seamless deployments? These questions and more will also be explored through a live demonstration.
Ruston Vickers
Bio: Ruston Vickers is Chief DevOps Architect and Senior Vice President of Product Management and Strategy of Application Delivery at CA Technologies. He is responsible of providing customers with counsel on their DevOps strategies to help them deliver higher quality software and services to market faster.
Sanjeev Sharma
Bio: Sanjeev is a 20-year veteran of the software industry. For the past 18 years he has been a solution architect with Rational Software, an IBM brand. His areas of expertise include DevOps, Mobile Development, Agile Transformation, Application Lifecycle Management and Software Supply Chains. He is a DevOps Thought Leader at IBM and currently leads IBM’s Worldwide Technical Sales team. He speaks regularly at conferences and has written several papers. Sanjeev is also author of ‘DevOps for Dummies, published by Wiley in October 2013.
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Abstract: DevOps takes a Lean view of ‘streamlining’ the delivery pipeline by eliminating bottlenecks. The Toyota approach to Lean Manufacturing streamlined the assembly line with ‘Kaizen’ or Continuous Improvement. Methodologies like SaFE take agile approaches to the next step by introducing true Lean approaches to eliminating bottlenecks by leveraging lean measurements. DevOps extends this Lean approach to the entire Application Delivery process in the Enterprise – from the Line of business to development to QA to operations. This session will explores the lean roots of DevOps and how Lean practices are being leveraged to drive DevOps adoptions in Enterprises.
Alan Shimel is founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, a Futurum company, and a member of Futurum's executive leadership team. A technology entrepreneur, media executive and industry commentator, Shimel has spent more than three decades building businesses, communities and media platforms serving enterprise technology professionals, including co-founding StillSecure, a network security company, and the DevOps Institute, a DevOps certification and training body. At Techstrong, he leads a portfolio of media brands including devopsy.kinsta.cloud, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Techstrong AI, Techstrong IT, Digital CxO, Platform Engineering, Techstrong Semi and Techstrong TV, along with a growing portfolio of events, educational programs and digital communities. With more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Shimel is a familiar voice in the space and was an early advocate of the DevOps movement, helping bring DevOps practices into mainstream enterprise technology. His work today spans cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud-native technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and digital transformation, and he hosts popular programs including Techstrong Gang, Shimmy Says and Still Cyber, After All These Years. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics from St. John's University and a Juris Doctor from New York Law School.