2024 DevOps Meetup at Mastercard

Dear doers,

we're meeting after 6 months in the new year 2024.

This time, our host is Mastercard.

Here's the first talk

How do heavy metal songs teach us to be better DevOps professionals?
by Bogo Shopov

In most conferences, you see all the remarkable frameworks, approaches, and the latest improvements that make your life easier. To be a better DevOps engineer, you need more skills apart from pure technical ones.

This session challenges you to discover what else is needed from your side to become a better professional. It doesn't matter whether you work remotely, in an office, or part of a small startup or a huge company. Those skills are the same.

I am reviewing some heavy metal classics and sharing my view of what they can teach you.

• Do you have an identity crisis at work? What does Arch Enemy have to say?
• Do you need help with a problem? Pantera has the answer.
• Do you want to go out of your comfort zone? Judas Priest has something to offer.
• Do you need support with all the processes and automation? Black Sabbath to the rescue.

You will learn to be resilient, react to a change, fight for yourself, get back on your path when you lose it, and focus on things that make you happy at work!

2nd talk
Fostering team harmony: a journey of ownership, belonging and the bonds that build success
by Sarantis Kyritsis (Principal Software Engineer) from Mastercard

3rd talk
How I become the DevOps teacher
by Richard Fojta (Staff SRE) from Tricentis