DevOps Experience Report

Let's start 2022 with two stories from two completely different organisations with very different backgrounds, history, age, and technologies. ClarityAI & Philip Morris International.

Important notices

• Talk #1 - Our DevOps Journey @ ClarityAI
• Talk #2 - From On-Prem to the Cloud @ Philip Morris International
• Start time is 19h Portuguese time (GMT+1)
• You need to register for this event to see the Zoom link (under "Online event").

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Agenda

19h00 - 19:20 : TALK #1
19h20 - 19h30 : Q&A
19h30 - 19h50 : TALK #2
19h50 - 20h00 : Q&A

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TALK #1: Our DevOps Journey @ ClarityAI
Speaker: Eduardo Ferro, Platform Eng. Manager @ ClarityAI

I will talk about the journey ClarityAI is on towards DevOps culture. I will show our evolution using the Team Topologies terms and some of the strategies we have used (Focus on Developer Experience, Self Service, reducing toil, etc).
We are in the early stages of our journey and we still have a long way to go, but we have made serious progress in this last year and a half, so we would like to share our experience so far.

BIO:
My name is Eduardo Ferro Aldama (@eferro). I am a Software Engineer passionate about working in small safe steps (3s) and helping teams to do so.
I have more than 25 years of experience working to create value through software (programming, infrastructure, testing, product, teams, etc.) in various industries (traffic systems, retail, telecommunications, video, advertising). I am passionate about teamwork, continuous delivery, and lean product development. I am looking to generate impact through agile development (XP), Devops culture, and the growth mindset associated with these movements

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TALK #2: From On-Prem to the Cloud
Speaker: Cirilo Zenoglio, DevOps Eng @ Philip Morris International

At PMI we are migrating over 1000 applications from on-prem to AWS. This brings unprecedented organizational challenges to teams and decades old departments who are now shifting to a product based org and adopting DevOps best practices. I will talk a bit more in detail about the platform architecture and the teams that are making this transition to the cloud happen

BIO:
I am cloud engineer at PMI, my first "big" tech project was a mobile app system to help bakers who do door to door deliveries manage their orders and trips, that project was an economical failure :) After that I worked as a developer for ecomerce and car subscription industries. In 2018 I transitioned to full time DevOps engineer and have since been involved in migrating a variety of applications to the AWS cloud as well as implementing multiple cloud native solutions

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