Operationalizing Open Source With Michael Hedgpeth and Doug Ireton
Posted on Monday, Aug 29, 2016
Show Notes
Matt and Bridget chat with Michael Hedgpeth (NCR) and Doug Ireton (1Strategy) about organizations adopting open source.
Checkouts
Michael
- DevOps Days DFW on September 15 & 16 - I’ll be speaking
- Toyota Kata book
- PBS SpaceTime
Doug
Bridget
- Coté on “the ROI on devops/agile/etc”
- BWCA is part of Superior National Forest. The National Park Service is 100 years old this year and National Forests are different than parks!
- The West Wing (streaming on Netflix), because it’s election time.
Matt
- Wakatime - fitbit for programmers
- Homeland!!!
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Community & Event Stuff
If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf
Upcoming conferences
For any devopsdays, try the code ADO2016! It should get you 20% off. Also now works on O’Reilly Security and Velocity conferences.
- Devopsdays.org has dates announced for Sydney - Dec 1-2
Open CFPs
- A lot of devopsdays CFPs closing soon - see devopsdays.org/speaking
- DevOpsDays Madison, Detroit, Cape Town, and Nashville open until August 31
- DevOpsDays Berlin open until September 1
- DevOpsDays Bangalore open until September 4
- DevOpsDays Ghent open until September 6
Where we’ll be for the upcoming fortnight
- Bridget - Canoeing with no phone or internet, and then Velocity NY/devopsdays NY.
- Matt - DevOpsDays Chicago Aug 30-31
Guests
Michael Hedgpeth
Michael is a Software Architect at NCR working to introduce devops into their Hospitality organization. Change in large organizations require a lot of political skill, and Michael has learned through trial and error what works and what doesn’t. When pure technical skill wouldn’t suffice, Michael has had to discover the power of his personal brand both internally and externally in order to reach his company’s goals and his own goals.
Doug Ireton
Doug Ireton has been in IT since 1993, starting his career working in Microsoft Prod Support answering calls about MS-DOS. Spending 22 of the last 23 years in large enterprises, Doug now works for 1Strategy, an AWS consultancy focused on helping companies with DevOps and Big Data. Doug is an open source contributor and conference speaker. Passionate about Dev+Ops, he also hosts the Seattle CoffeeOps Meet-up group.
Hosts
Matt Stratton (he/him)
Matty Stratton is the Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, a well-known member of the DevOps community, and a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.
Matty has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.
He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke.
Bridget Kromhout
Bridget Kromhout is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft Azure, focusing on the open source cloud native ecosystem. Her CS degree emphasis was in theory, but she now deals with the concrete (if ‘cloud’ can be considered tangible). After years on call for production (from enterprise to research to startups) and a couple of customer-facing adventures, she now herds cats and wrangles docs on the product side of engineering. In the wider tech community, she has done much conference speaking and organizing, and advises the global devopsdays organization after leading it for over five years. Living in Minneapolis, she enjoys snowshoeing in the winter and bicycling in the summer (with winter cycling as a stretch goal).
