Panel Discussion on the Four Pillars of DevOps

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Organizations often have different definitions of their core DevOps functions. In this panel discussion we’ll be covering John Shaw's “Four Pillars of DevOps”, focusing in on how our three panelists’ organizations follow or differ from this foundation. John Shaw defined the “DevOps Pillars” during Agile Cambridge in 2014 as: Platform, Deployment, Testing, and People. You may view his presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/johnfcshaw/four-pillars-of-devops-john-shaw-agile-cambridge-2014.

Pizza, salad, and soda will be provided free of charge by VanderHouwen & Associates.

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Agenda:

6:00 - 6:30pm Food and Networking

6:30 - 8:00pm Panel Discussion

8:00 - 8:30pm Networking

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The Panel Members

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Kavari Ellingson is a Wisconsin native who came to tech late in life. She is a recent graduate of the Epicodus program, and has worked in DevOps roles in two Enterprise software companies. Prior to getting into programming, Karvari came from an eclectic background of fine art, general contracting, and property management. She is currently working on becoming a cloud and scalability expert at Jama Software in Portland, Oregon.

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Nathan Williams is a Senior Systems Developer at Treehouse, where he focuses on designing humane, resilient & performant systems, and automating their operational life-cycle. Prior to joining Treehouse, Nathan got started at Silicon Valley giant Yahoo!, where he focused on developing automation tools for customer support teams, before going into the Managed Hosting industry, where he discovered the joys of configuration management and learned to love Murphy's Law.

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Greg Beuhler is a Senior Software Engineer at InComm, and a Co-Organizer for the Portland DevOps Groundup Meetup Group. He is focused on implementing DevOp tools and culture in the stored value industry at InComm. Greg is interested in continuous improvement and being a force multiplier and tinkers with things like time-series databases in his spare time.