Application Lifecycle Management

What if you could do this using a fraction of your current development and operations resources? What if you could logically describe your application topology and abstract it from specific hardware configurations? What if you could reliably deliver complex applications in hours — not months? Does your company lack the appetite to move into a fully automated operational environment? These are some of the topics we’ll be exploring in this Meet-Up hosted by Tim Kimmet and Vitaliy Zinchenko of @WalmartLabs, the technology arm of Walmart eCommerce.

Tim Kimmet will touch on the Agility and Speed with which @WalmartLabs is adopting new technologies to drive efficiency in business. He will also share ideas for a new culture being built around Self-Service and Keep-it-Safe principals, plus adoption of new tools to drastically transform the way we deliver software to the world at @WalmartLabs. Vitaliy Zinchenko will then give a demo of the OneOps solution, a recent acquisition made by @WalmartLabs.

About the Speakers

Tim Kimmet has been in the software industry for over 17 years and is VP of Platform & Systems at Walmart Global eCommerce. Early in his career, Tim developed a solid basis for object oriented design and architecture when he built flight control systems for the FAA. He has a proven background in designing and building architectures that are long lasting and provide the foundation for some of the largest web sites including Ebay, PayPal, and currently at Walmart Global eCommerce. Tim has broad architectural knowledge that spans many platforms, software and infrastructure/operations. Tim enjoys developing people and leading high performance teams towards conceiving and implementing innovative solutions in high-growth environments. Tim is on the board of directors of Codechix (http://www.codechix.org/) and continues to speak at Codechix meet-ups -- his most recent talk was titled "Directed Acyclic Graphs" at Google (http://codechix-google-event.eventbrite.com/). Tim co-authored the book Core Java Web Server, which was published by Prentice Hall in 1998. Tim obtained his BS in Computer Science and minor in Mathematics from San Jose State University.

Vitaliy Zinchenko is a system architect and software developer. He has 16 years experience designing and implementing large, scalable systems with high availability. Prior to OneOps, Vitaliy was a Principal Engineer at eBay, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of eBay operations automation systems.