DevOps Society Birmingham Q2 2025

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Our first Birmingham DevOps Society meetup event of 2025 has arrived! We are delighted to be hosted by BJSS, in Birmingham city centre.

In this event, we will be hearing from two exciting speakers.
Jason Content, will be going through building cloud infrastructure as code, while Mateusz will be diving into what Express Route Cross Connects are!
Format of the meetup event will be as follows:
6pm – 6:30pm - Networking on arrival coupled with pizza and drinks provided by ReVybe IT.
6:30pm – 7pm – First speaker will take to the stage.
7pm – 7:10pm – Break for refreshments and networking
7:10pm – 7:40pm – Second speaker will take to the stage.
8pm onwards – Networking at event space and a local pub afterwards.
We are delighted to welcome 2 speakers to our second Birmingham event.
#1 – Jason Content – Senior / Lead DevOps Engineer @ Cority
Jason has been a DevOps engineer since the early days of AWS, when YAML was still unfamiliar and Terraform didn’t exist. Over the years, he has led DevOps teams and designed solutions across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Hetzner Cloud, and on-premises platforms like Azure Arc.

Title - Empowering Developers: Building Cloud Infrastructure with Code
Jason will be sharing his experience at Cority, where he redesigned and coded their AWS infrastructure using Python. The talk will explore how we can empower developers to build infrastructure themselves, removing the DevOps or platform engineering team as a bottleneck. Current tools like Terraform, OpenTofu, AWS CloudFormation, and Azure Bicep often put platform engineering teams at the centre, creating potential delays and resource challenges.
Instead, he will discuss how teams can shift this responsibility to developers by equipping them with the right tools and frameworks to create infrastructure independently using any programming language. This approach reduces bottlenecks, speeds delivery, and fosters team collaboration.

Jason also runs a blog, theclouddude.co.uk, where he shares insights and lessons learned from his work in the DevOps space. Writing for the blog allows him to give back to the DevOps and developer communities by fostering discussions and sharing practical solutions.

#2 – Mateusz Golebiewski - Platform Engineer @ BJSS

Mateusz is a Platform Engineer at BJSS (now part of CGI), where he helps build and secure cloud platforms for clients across government, aviation, and financial industries. With a strong background in cloud technologies, he is passionate about designing scalable, resilient, and secure solutions.

Title - Beyond Peering: Unlocking the Power of ExpressRoute Cross Connects

As businesses move more of their mission critical applications to the cloud, performance, reliability and security become utmost priorities.
In this session, we'll explore what are Express Route Cross Connects and how they go beyond traditional peering, providing direct, fast and secure connection between Azure and on-premise data centers.

P.S. Please provide full name and email address for access to the BJSS venue!
Address - 37 Temple Street, Birmingham, B2 5DP