Welcome to the second episode of the Decoding DevOps series with the host, Brett Keown, and his special guest Colin Dembovsky, Field Solution Engineer at GitHub.
Today, we are jumping into the practical side of DevOps. It will be about giving the top talent room to be efficient at work and promoting automation that brings better value for the client, increased flow, and higher morale.
In the episode, Colin also explains how companies can benefit from the integration with GitHub Actions and how it can help reduce the number of tools and, consequently, their maintenance costs.
A DevOps journey has many legs, and this episode is only our second stop. Stay tuned for more parts to come.
About Colin:
Colin Dembovsky is a GitHub Solution Engineer. He is a self-proclaimed DevOpsologist and has been an ALM MVP since 2011. He is based in Spring, TX but remains proudly South African!
After completing an MSc in Computer Science at Rhodes University, he worked as a developer and later systems architect, implementing DevOps “by feel” and in the trenches. In 2010, he left development to start consulting, using his experience, insight and strategic thinking to help organizations put DevOps into practice. By 2019, Colin was leading a DevOps practice and joined GitHub in 2021.
Colin is passionate about helping teams improve the quality of their software, and do it more efficiently and securely. Colin is a frequent guest speaker and regularly blogs at http://colinsalmcorner.com and can be found on twitter at @colindembovsky and on GitHub.com/colindembovsky.
When he is not working, he is playing guitar, mandolin or drums, 3D printing on his Ender3, hacking an rPi, board-gaming, or entertaining his wife and 2 kids.
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