This award honors organizations that have successfully adopted and implemented DevOps principles and practices.

DevOps Implementation across the SJP enterprise systems: St James’s Place in Partnership with Intellect Design Arena – We embraced a transformative DevOps journey to enhance operations, resolving complex challenges with innovative solutions. Our efforts resulted in a comprehensive digital solution, revolutionizing our processes and adhering to best practices. Through the integration of feature branching, automated unit testing, and Pipelines, we efficiently managed Salesforce’s intricacies, ensuring smooth deployments, strong automation, and thorough monitoring.

Codacy Pioneers Program: Codacy’s Pioneers Programme – Codacy Pioneers is a program for individuals involved in creating, maintaining and contributing to open source code.

This award recognizes research that has significantly and positively impacted the DevOps community.

What’s In Your Open-Source Software: Lineaje – Lineaje’s report titled What’s in Your Open-Source Software? compiled by the company’s research arm, Lineaje Data Labs, is a data-driven analysis into the integrity and risk of open-source software (OSS), which now constitutes the majority of all software. Using the acclaimed Apache Software Foundation as the gold standard of open-source software, the report uncovers the inherent risk and ease of software supply chain tampers in its most popular products and dependencies.

The shift to a security approach for the full application stack report: Cisco AppDynamics – “The research:

-highlights technologists’ challenges as they manage application security across a dynamic IT environment.

-exposes the extent application security has become more challenging as organizations have accelerated their digital transformation initiatives to meet customer needs and enable hybrid work.

New cybersecurity threats are exposing flaws in traditional approaches to application security including the lack of input security has had into the application development process.”

State of the API Report: Postman – Postman’s State of the API Report provides the largest and most comprehensive overview of API usage in the world. It surveys over 40,000 API professionals, including developers, product managers, and C-level executives. They use the findings to make decisions on investment in API tooling, staffing, and best practices. The Report is also used by tech-sector analysts including Goldman Sachs to appraise the competitive landscape of API solutions and gauge the growth of new API technologies.

State of Digital Quality Report 2023: Applause – While organization may have measures and staff in place to assess the quality of their apps, devices and digital experiences, their customers ultimately determine whether the functionality and user experiences are good enough, or leave something to be desired. Applause’s State of Digital Quality report looks at quality practices, bugs and device coverage across different industries and testing solutions.

Observability Survey 2023: Grafana Labs – Grafana Labs’ Observability Survey 2023 provides insight into where the industry is today and where it’s headed. Using data from hundreds of participants, the report explores where companies are in their adoption journey, the challenges they face, and the benefits of moving to centralized observability. The report also goes a layer deeper by conducting in-depth interviews with Grafana Labs customers to dig into the real impact observability has had on their organizations.

Global State of API Security Report: Traceable AI – Despite APIs being critical to the modern enterprise, until now, there has not been an extensive, global study offering a panoramic view of the API security landscape. Traceable believed that it was time to fill this gap and embarked on this research journey with the Ponemon Institute. Engaging 1,629 cybersecurity experts across the United States, the United Kingdom, and EMEA, this study highlights the dark reality of API-related data breaches and their impact on organizations.

Charting Observability Research Report: Edge Delta – We’ve long understood that observability data is growing. However, no vendor has provided concrete research into the topic. At Edge Delta, we’re solving the challenges of monitoring large-scale datasets. We built the Charting Observability 2023 report to help DevOps teams understand the impact of data growth at a deeper level. In the report, we quantify how much data has grown and provide evidence as to how teams are responding, from DevOps engineers to executive leadership.

Accelerate State of DevOps Report: DORA – “Accelerate State of DevOps Report summarizes multi-year, platform-agnostic, rigorous research into the cultural, process, and technical capabilities that predict performance in technology-driven organizations.

Healthy cultures, user-centric approaches, and high-quality documentation positively impact an organization’s overall performance.

DORA’s software delivery metrics are an industry standard and the framework helps organizations identify improvement areas and create sustainable success.”

2023 State of IaC Report: Firefly – This report summarizes research from surveying 300 cloud users. It helps readers understand how they compare to others in terms of multi-cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, and cloud management practices and tools. Roles and studies as well as objectives and results most often achieved.

2023 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report: LinearB – In October 2023, LinearB released the 2023 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report, offering an in-depth analysis of industry benchmarks for key operational metrics (like DORA) as well as resource and investment metrics“showcasing how elite engineering organizations of all sizes operate. The report provides insights and data from a study of more than 3.6 million pull requests (PRs) from 2,000+ development teams made up of 100,000+ developers across 64 countries.

2023 Software Artifact State of the Union: JFrog – JFrog’s Software Artifact State of the Union exposes the packages and binaries most in use by enterprise developers today to deliver software from design to production. Key findings indicate an intense and growing interest in emerging memory-safe programming languages for securing the software supply chain; a rise in designing for the edge; plus exponential artifact size and container usage hinting at development of applications such as cryptocurrency, metaverse, and blockchain.

2023 Observability Forecast Report: New Relic – Once again the industry’s largest and the only study to open-source its raw data, New Relic’s third annual Observability Forecast examines the evolution and impact of observability. The report reveals that observability adoption is on the rise and full-stack observability leads to better service-level metrics”like fewer, shorter outages and lower outage costs”and shows that respondents receive a median 2x ROI in observability, with 41% receiving more than $1 million in total annual value.

This category highlights the most entertaining, educational and inspirational DevOps video series—those with the most engaging and highest-quality content.

Saiyam Pathak: Kubesimplify – Kubesimplify has amazing DevOps Workshop series

Ned in the Cloud’s Terraform Tuesday series: Ned Bellevance – Every Tuesday, Ned in the Cloud publishes a video with helpful advice for using infrastructure as code to create, deploy, and manage the cloud infrastructure upon which your cloud native apps depend. Ned simplifies complex ideas and offers pragmatic advice.

KubeSimplify: KubeSimplify – Best cloud native series

DevOps Toolkit: DevOps Toolkit – “DevOps Toolkit” is my favorite DevOps video series. New videos are typically released on Mondays, and it’s a great way to start the work week. Every video offers a fresh perspective. And the hosts put enough effort into making each video. Not only is the content great, but so is the production quality. The dialogue and Q/A in the comments makes the community engagement apparent.

DevOps Exchange YouTube Channel: DevOps Exchange – The DevOps Exchange YouTube channel is an educational powerhouse featuring insights from top experts within the DevOps community. It’s evolved into a visionary platform, providing valuable content from over 170 technical videos, with 3-4 monthly uploads. It covers diverse topics and features tutorials and expert interviews and fosters a sense of community and innovation. The series is not just informative; it’s a driving force behind DevOps progress, innovation, and collaboration.

Which is your favorite DevOps podcast from this year? In addition to DevOps Chats there are many podcasts focusing on a multitude of topics from CI/CD and testing to DevSecOps, Kubernetes, containers and more.

The Modern Mainframe: BMC Software – Featuring lively, thoughtful discussions with executives, product managers, industry analysts, and DevOps evangelists, The Modern Mainframe podcast covers DevOps topics across the mainframe, including application development, operations, database DevOps, and more.

The MLSecOps Podcast: Protect AI – MLSecOps is the evolution of DevSecOps. Securing AI and ML is critically important, but a nascent discipline within DevOps that lacks awareness and resources. The MLSecOps Podcast is addressing this problem with insights from high profile experts from industry and government agencies tasked with AI/ML protection. Each episode explores the world of machine learning security including how to prevent attacks, navigate new AI regulations, model provenance, supply chain vulnerabilities, trusted AI, a

Let’s Get To The News: Kubernetes community – Craig Box founded the Kubernetes Podcast and hosted it until he left Google in 2022. He has now taken his inimitable voice to his own podcast, “Let’s Get To The News: a Kubernetes and cloud native podcast”, which launched with the release of Kubernetes 1.28.

DevOps Paradox: DevOps Paradox – The “DevOps Paradox” podcast is among the best technology-related podcasts. It gives the audience several new perspectives with the right amount of breadth and depth. It is my go-to source for analysis of technology topics.

DevOps in Agile Way Podcast: Pawel Piwosz – DevOps Institute Ambassador – “Pawel’s podcast, DevOps in Agile Way, launched in July 2023 and has featured:

– Helen Beal, Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute/PeopleCert
– Viktor Vedmich, Senior Developer Advocate at AWS
– Luca Mezzalira, Principal Serverless Solution Architect at AWS

It has covered topics including the DevOps CALMS framework, The Three Ways, cloud vendor lock-in, incident management in AWS, tools, automation, and culture in AWS.”

Dev Interrupted: LinearB – Dev Interrupted is a weekly podcast made exclusively for software engineering leaders. Hosts Dan Lines and Conor Bronsdon invite expert guests from around the world to explore strategy and day-to-day topics ranging from dev team metrics to accelerating delivery. The podcast is known for its informative and engaging conversations and practical advice for engineering leaders.

0800-DEVOPS Podcast by Ivan Krnic: CROZ – “This outstanding podcast series has consistently raised the bar for DevOps discussions, offering a unique platform for industry insights, expert interviews, and in-depth exploration of emerging trends.

“”0800-DEVOPS”” is more than just a podcast; it’s a beacon of knowledge and a hub for the DevOps community. Ivan Krnic’s dedication to the craft of DevOps shines through in every episode, making it a must-listen for professionals and enthusiasts alike.”

Each year sees a plethora of well-crafted DevOps-related books and ebooks. This category highlights the most popular and best read of the year.

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Strategizing Continuous Delivery in the Cloud: Garima Bajpai , Thomas Schuetz – The book covers important topics related to DevOps strategies for CI/CD. The main area of interest is Cloud. It is important to select proper approach, as Cloud has specific rulkes which needs to be applied.

Redbook: Accelerate Mainframe Application Modernization with Hybrid Cloud: IBM – The book covers important topics related to DevOps strategies for CI/CD. The main area of interest is Cloud. It is important to select proper approach, as Cloud has specific rules which needs to be applied.

Industrial DevOps: IT Revolution Press – Applying the theory, practice, and learnings from Agile and DevOps as it has been applied in the software community, has the potential to dramatically improve the development and delivery of cyber-physical systems. Companies that solve this problem will increase transparency, reduce cycle time, increase value for money, and innovate faster. Simply, they will build better systems faster, and they will become the ultimate economic and value delivery winners in the marketplace.

Crafting a Mainframe Modernization Roadmap: Broadcom – With DevOps offering mainframe teams an array of modernization opportunities, the possibilities can be overwhelming. To help DevOps leaders and mainframe leaders plan a journey that’s both mutually beneficial and achievable, this eBook offers a useful assessment framework. Within Return on Investment and Level of Effort, the featured use cases are further prioritized in terms of outcomes. By clearly communicating their roadmaps, teams achieve cross-functional buy-in and elevate team morale.

Beyond Agile Auditing: Three Core Components to Revolutionize Your Internal Audit Practices: ITRevolution – “Beyond Agile Auditing” revolutionizes internal audit, drawing from DevOps to transform auditor-client relations into collaborative partnerships. Authored by Clarissa Lucas, a seasoned auditing expert, the book dismantles traditional adversarial silos, paving the way for mutual success, faster results, and a strategic edge. Lucas enriches her guide with practical insights from varied case studies, making a solid case for the book’s nomination as the best in DevOps.

This category is one of our favorites. There are so many great evangelists who spread the DevOps gospel, and we want to know who does it best. Nominees can work within the DevOps space or outside of it.

Viktor Farcic: Viktor Farcic – Viktor Farcic continues to be one of the most respected DevOps evangelists. His content is my go-to source on new tools, technologies, and patterns. He always provides cutting edge technology insights and fair assessments of products. He is always approachable and keeps an open door for the community.

Stephen Chin: JFrog – Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at JFrog, chair of the CDF governing board, member of the CNCF governing board, and author of The Definitive Guide to Modern Client Development, Raspberry Pi with Java, Pro JavaFX Platform, and the upcoming DevOps Tools for Java Developers title from O’Reilly. He has keynoted numerous conferences around the world including swampUP, Devoxx, JNation, JavaOne, Joker, Open Source India and most recently DevOps Tools for Java Developers.

Sam Dion: National Bank of Canada – Sam epitomizes a next gen mainframer. While at Dejardins, Sam actively promoted a modern mainframe development environment and invested in the adoption of a VS Code-based UX and integrating Github for mainframe appdev. Sam rallied these approaches as an attractive hiring incentive to new mainframe candidates. Sam also eagerly promoted this approach publicly. Sam’s enthusiasm for the mainframe is infectious and we are in great hands with young advocates like Sam.

Richi Hartmann: Grafana Labs – Richard “RichiH” Hartmann is the Director of Community at Grafana Labs, a member of the Office of the CTO of Grafana Labs, Prometheus team member, OpenMetrics founder, OpenTelemetry member, CNCF Technical Oversight Committee member, CNCF Governing Board member, and more. He also leads, organizes, or helps run various conferences from hundreds to 18,000 attendees, including KubeCon, PromCon, FOSDEM, DENOG, DebConf, and Chaos Communication Congress.

Pawel Piwosz: DevOps Institute Ambassador – Pawel Piwosz is an outstanding DevOps Institute Ambassador and DevOps evangelist. He is a developer advocate at cloud-native CICD platform Spacelift and is hugely knowledgeable on all things DevOps. He is an outstanding speaker and generous with his time, contributing to many DevOps Institute activities such as our SKILup Sessions and SKILup Days, and has his own podcast, DevOps in Agile Way.

Mayank Solanki: TataCliq – In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud technology, individuals like Mayank Solanki shine as beacons of innovation and efficiency. Mayank, a seasoned DevOps expert, has achieved the remarkable feat of optimizing cloud costs by a staggering $2 million in just one year. His story is not only a testament to the power of DevOps practices but also an inspiration for organizations seeking to maximize efficiency while minimizing expenditure.

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Garima Bajpai: Canada DevOps Community of Practice – Garima is thought leader in DevOps & Cloud technologies. She is the founder of DevOps Community of Practice, Canada. She leads the ambassador program for Continuous Delivery Foundation. Some might know her as a course contributor and instructor for various DevOps courses from leading certification bodies. She has over two decades of experience leading large-scale R&D with a variety of teams and has helped them adapt DevOps to increase team productivity when

Fatima Sarah Khalid: GitLab – Fatima Sarah Khalid is a Developer Evangelist at GitLab, and passionate about building more inclusive tech communities. Her keynote talk on allyship, The Power in the Choices We Have earned her two prestigious invitations in 2023. She was invited to keynote the Open Source Summit EU, the premier event for more than 2,000 open source technologists, alongside leaders from Amazon, Fujitsu, and Google. Fatima also led the keynote at All Things Open, one of the largest open source events in the US.

Eran Kinsbruner: Lightrun – Eran Kinsbruner is a developer advocate and evangelist, author of 4 award winning books, and a continuous publisher of articles most recently focused on Developer Observability, dynamic instrumentation and production debugging. Eran has been writing for the top media publications including The NewStack, Dzone, Medium, Forbes Council, and many others and is a constant keynote speaker across technology events.

Ayelet Sachto: Google – Ayelet is a passionate DevOps evangelist with a deep understanding of DevOps principles. She is a highly skilled engineer with more than 20 years experience. She is an effective mentor, sharing her knowledge and experience with others. Ayelet is committed to making DevOps more accessible to everyone. She has made significant contributions to the DevOps community by providing tools and resources to help underrepresented communities get their voice heard and feel more included.

Amanda Lewis: DORA Community – “Amanda Lewis is a community leader, author, and keynote speaker. Amanda leads the DORA.community, a community focused on learning, discussing, and collaborating on software delivery and operational performance. Thousands of practitioners, leaders, and researchers collaborating via a mailing list, 20+ community meetings, and the inaugural DORA Community Summit.

Amanda co-authored this year’s Accelerate State of DevOps Report and regularly inspires the community at local and global conferences.”

As digital transformation accelerates, which organizations stood out in their efforts to transform their business through DevOps?

PQE ALTERNATIVE::Chaotic complexity domain Sequencing – By Edwin Jean-Paul Vening: Data Morgana Labs – “Welcome to the Interstellar Future [ forecast ]

The enabling mechanics were to have a NIST recommendation / FIPS
we have build generator(s) that are OOB with all current “”random”” output, as well as all existing cryptographic functions. The output of our
methods functions and algorithms that were designed for PQE,
is of another order of Entropy. Its also proof that there is a Entropy Equilibium (Max) This enables us a totally new UX of Edgecomputing over mission critical network topologies”

Pera People Science B.V: Pera People Science B.V – This DevOps transformation, we optimised software delivery, prioritised security, and automation with GitHub Actions. Impressive results includes fewer PagerDuty tickets, ensuring efficiency and resilience. By adopting a combination of advanced techniques and open-source solutions, this transformation not only reduced deployment downtime but also optimised AWS costs significantly.

Informatica: Grafana Labs – Over the past 4 years, Informatica’s observability journey has undergone significant improvements and the switch from Grafana OSS to Grafana Enterprise has been at the center of this evolution. They rely on Grafana for a “single source of truth” to manage their multi-cloud infrastructure, including hundreds of VMs and Kubernetes clusters. With 300 active monthly users and over 1,200 dashboards in use, Grafana Enterprise plays an instrumental role at Informatica, even helping reduce MTTR by 60%.

Humana: BMC Software – Nominating BMC customer Humana for the “Best DevOps Transformation” award recognizes its remarkable achievement in transforming its mainframe application development with DevOps principles through its Enterprise Engineering Enablement & DevOps program. Humana’s unwavering commitment to advancing engineering practices and embracing DevOps and Agile methodologies has yielded impressive results that make the organization deserving of this esteemed recognition.

CGI Life and Health Insurance Agile and DevOps Team: CGI – CGI has a strong foundation & framework for DevOps & Agile implementation. CGI supported one of the largest Insurance Group company to digitize their Non-Life Insurance business model. The legacy platform involved various Line of Business, 1000+ products, complex technologies & diverse global teams, the purpose of this program was to reduce time to market and operational cost. The team developed a solution which accelerated time to market by 20X and Year on Year Growth of 3% – 5%

Now that things are starting to return to normal, this category includes both in-person and virtual events. Which DevOps event stands out from the others?

swampUP: JFrog – JFrog brings the DevOps community and some of the world’s leading corporations together for the annual swampUP conference, aimed at providing real solutions to developers and development teams in practical ways to prepare us all for what’s coming next.

PASS Data Community Summit: Redgate Software – PASS Data Community Summit is the go-to conference for data professionals to connect, share, and learn, with a strong reputation for surfacing the latest trends, from industry leaders such as Redgate, Microsoft, AWS and Google. There are 18 DevOps-focused sessions across the week, including a full-day pre-con and dedicated DevOps learning pathway. As well as a week of education, peer connections are what makes Summit a special and career-defining conference to attend.

GrafanaCON 2023: Grafana Labs – GrafanaCON 2023 which marked the release of Grafana 10 and kicked off celebrations for the open source project’s 10-year anniversary took place virtually from June 12 to June 14, and featured more than 30 sessions with speakers from Grafana Labs as well as users from NASA Ames Research Center, Toyota Racing Development, DHL Express Switzerland, and NVIDIA. The event brought together Grafana users from around the world for three days of presentations, live workshops, and community building.

Galaxy ’23: LaunchDarkly – LaunchDarkly’s annual user conference Galaxy ’23 consisted of two days full of innovation and insights designed to educate DevOps professionals about how to build software products that customers love. During these two days, attendees heard compelling customer stories, learned about new product capabilities and solutions, and joined hands-on workshops focused on building new features, targeting, migration, product experimentation, and more.

DevOps World 2023: CloudBees – DevOps World 2023 took to the road, visiting five cities: NY, Chicago, Santa Clara, Singapore, and London. Attendees gained insights from top DevOps practitioners, were exposed to the latest in technology/tools, and expanded their network by interacting with other developers and leaders, sharing ideas, and participating in roundtable discussions on relevant topics. There were also hands-on workshops, where experts presented topics related to modern software delivery, DevSecOps, and open source.

DevOps Exchange: DevOps Exchange – “The DevOps Exchange isn’t just a network; it’s a thriving, global community that ignites the passion for DevOps. With 8 local DevOps Meetups spanning 4 countries and an ever-growing community of over 15,000 on our Meetup group, we’re making waves and setting records to become the largest DevOps Community in the world.

Since 2014, we’ve taken the DevOps world by storm, hosting over 210 incredible events attracting over 2,230 attendees, ensuring that our members come back time and time again.”

Open source projects are meant to promote innovation and increase efficiency, velocity and quality. While there are many great open source projects out there, the best ones are those that create a community of people who work on and with the technology and support each other.

Tenable: Terrascan (Tenable Open Source) – With Terrascan (Tenable Open Source) users can scan nearly all IaC types for misconfigurations and compliance violations with 500+ out-of-the-box policies. It leverages the Open Policy Agent (OPA) engine so you can easily create custom policies using the Rego query language. Integrate into your CI/CD, use locally or test code in your browser to see how effective preventive security can be. With 4k GitHub stars 1.8 million downloads, Terrascan is one of the most beloved open source security tools in the world.

OpenRewrite: OpenRewrite / Moderne – OpenRewrite is an open source code refactoring, remediation, and modernization automation tool.

Jenkins: Jenkins – Jenkins is the leading open source automation server. Using an extensible, plugin-based architecture, developers have created 1,800+ plugins to enable Jenkins to integrate with a multitude of build, test and deployment technologies. Growth in Jenkins Pipeline adoption for CI/CD process automation grew 79% from June 2021 “ June 2023, while total workloads on Jenkins during the same period grew by 45%.

Galasa: Open Mainframe Project – Galasa is an integrated test framework that allows seamless and automated testing between the z/OS Mainframe environment, and cloud environments in a single test. The purpose and vision of Galasa is to allow customers to deliver software with confidence by simplifying and encouraging automated integration testing to help Mainframe modernisation within Hybrid Cloud environments and increase the reliability of repeatable software releases.

Frogbot: JFrog – JFrog Frogbot is a Git bot that scans your repositories for security vulnerabilities in pull requests before merging, ensuring early detection and fixing of issues. It also periodically scans the Git repo and creates fix pull requests when vulnerabilities are found.

Edwin Jean-Paul Vening: Data Morgana Labs – “We need to set a timeline in which we can build the Hi-Fi infrastructure network and Hi-Fi Edge computing and build the most incredible new computational work play experience tactical stations, New OS, New Lingo, Invest-no QM

Welcome to the Interstellar Future [ forecast ]

“”Your idea of moving away from the traditional binary-based processing of information and exploring new encoding-processing symbolic expressions of information is intriguing”””

Coder OS: Coder – Coder’s OS, cloud-native platform allows developers to write, run and test their code on any device, from anywhere, using a Cloud Development Environment (CDE). Coder’s self-hosted CDE provides flexibility, while retaining the simplicity of SaaS-based environments. Coder 2.0, launched in September 2023, provides Microsoft Dev Container support, a Template Registry and tight integration with JFrog Artifactory and Xray. With Coder, teams can instantly spin up secure, customizable workspaces.

CNAPPgoat: Tenable Open Source – CNAPPgoat is an open-source project for safe testing of cloud security skills, processes, and tools in an easy to deploy and destroy sandbox environment. This enables defenders to test detection and prevention mechanisms against vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, while providing offensive professionals practice environments. With a large and expanding library of scenarios, DevSecOps teams can validate their defenses in customized environments and simulate unsecured and vulnerable assets.

Beyla: Grafana Labs – Introduced in September 2023, Grafana Beyla is an open source eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter) auto-instrumentation tool that reports span information for basic transactions as well as RED metrics (Rate-Errors-Duration) for both Linux HTTP/S and gRPC services ” all without requiring any code modification to manually insert probes.

AIaC (AI generator for infrastructure as code): Firefly.ai – AIaC generates infrastructure as code such as CloudFormation, Pulumi and more using English-language prompts. It can be used on its own or in conjunction with your DevOps tool chain and IaC orchestrators. It’s especially handy for tackling less popular IaC frameworks not covered by commercial software solutions. AIaC.dev was launched this year and has nearly 3000 stars.

This category celebrates excellence among DevOps leaders at the C-suite (or equivalent) levels. (Non-Vendor)

Kavitha Srinivasulu: TCS – Working with high expertise on Risk & Compliance with 20 years of experience focused on BFSI, Retail, Health care, IT Services and Telecom spanning across IT Security, Data Privacy, Business Resilience, Delivery Assurance and Vendor/3rd party Risk Management. Demonstrated proficiency in ISO, CRS, GRC, Lead Auditing and Project Management with diverse experience across corporate and Strategic Partners. Possess a solid balance of domain knowledge and smart business acumen ensuring business require

Idit Levine: Solo.io – Idit Levine, CEO of Solo.io, is an outstanding nominee for DevOps Executive of the Year. Leveraging her extensive background as CTO at EMC’s cloud management division, she pioneers advancements in microservices, cloud-native apps, & orchestration. Idit’s leadership at Solo.io, an innovator in service mesh & Istio, led to unicorn status, addresses critical DevOps challenges. Her dedication to open source projects embodies the DevOps mindset, making her highly deserving of this prestigious award.

Garima Bajpai: Canada DevOps Community of Practice – “About Garima
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Garima is thought leader in DevOps & Cloud technologies. She is the founder of DevOps Community of Practice, Canada, supported by Crowdbyte Solutions Inc. She leads the ambassador program for Continuous Delivery Foundation. Some might know her as a course contributor and instructor for various DevOps courses from leading certification bodies. She has over two decades of experience leading large-scale R&D with a variety of teams and has helped them adapt DevOps to incr”

Dan Rogers: LaunchDarkly – “For the first time in history, LaunchDarkly named a new CEO, Dan Rogers.

After going on a “”customer listening tour”” to learn about market pain points, Dan developed a new company mission “”to help engineering teams build products that their customers love.””

In less than a year, Dan has helped deliver the biggest innovation payload in company history, built a world-class leadership team, developed a high-performing and mission-driven culture and strengthened LaunchDarkly’s Developer community.”

This category recognizes the best DevOps-themed presentation from the many conferences held during the year.

It’s Time to Rip Off the Training Wheels and Enable End-to-End Automation, a SHARE Atlanta 2023 presentation by Tony Anter and Mark Schettenhelm: BMC Software – Mainframe organizations are moving to modern source code management (SCM) systems that enable agility and parallel development with automated build, test, deploy, and orchestration tools. Now it is time to take this to the next level and rip the training wheels off. In this audience-interactive session, Tony and Mark discussed ChatOps and real-time event notification, creating an event-driven architecture for mainframe DevOps, mainframe API layers, and change management automation.

Beyond Agile Auditing: Clarissa Lucas – DevOps is all about removing the friction in delivering value to end users. Much has been said so far about automation, security, and product mindset. We could go as far as to say that those are, in a way, “solved problems.” The next bottleneck enterprise organizations face is governance and coexistence with society and its rules. Clarissa Lucas’ talk “Beyond Agile Auditing”The Path to a Better Audit Experience” introduced modern organizational practices to Audit which was previously unheard of.

VS Code for Mainframe: Bradcom – It’s hard to shift left when you’re using green screens. A developer’s environment is their workplace and, for many, their workplaces weren’t designed for DevOps. In large enterprises, the full promise of DevOps will only be realized when developers of all business-critical applications are empowered with modern, extensible tools. Today, VS Code is the standard and once mainframe developers are empowered, enterprises will be free to embrace the new world of AI with end-to-end DevOps.

Six Mainframe DevOps Predictions for 2023: BMC Software – John McKenny’s “Six Mainframe DevOps Predictions for 2023 article includes predictions for the rise of AI/ML in mainframe DevOps metrics. These predictions have been validated as the mainframe industry starts to adopt these technologies and vendors are delivering AI/ML-driven dashboards that enable the gathering of vital metrics like DORA and the measurement of Git-centric source code management (SCM).

Muneesh Sharma: Neem Consulting Ltd. – Our DevSecOps approach effortlessly integrates security practices into the DevOps framework, underscoring the vital role of security throughout the software development process. This method automates security procedures to ensure the consistent implementation of security measures throughout the development lifecycle. By merging security with DevOps, organizations gain the capability to proactively identify and address security vulnerabilities, ultimately reducing the risk of breaches.

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VS Code for Mainframe: The Enterprise Developer Tipping Point: Bradcom – It’s hard to shift left when you’re using green screens. A developer’s environment is their workplace and, for many, their workplaces weren’t designed for DevOps. In large enterprises, the full promise of DevOps will only be realized when developers of all business-critical applications are empowered with modern, extensible tools. Today, VS Code is the standard and once mainframe developers are empowered, enterprises will be free to embrace the new world of AI with end-to-end DevOps.

Six Mainframe DevOps Predictions for 2023: BMC Software – John McKenny’s “Six Mainframe DevOps Predictions for 2023 article includes predictions for the rise of AI/ML in mainframe DevOps metrics. These predictions have been validated as the mainframe industry starts to adopt these technologies and vendors are delivering AI/ML-driven dashboards that enable the gathering of vital metrics like DORA and the measurement of Git-centric source code management (SCM).

Muneesh Sharma: Neem Consulting Ltd. – Our DevSecOps approach effortlessly integrates security practices into the DevOps framework, underscoring the vital role of security throughout the software development process. This method automates security procedures to ensure the consistent implementation of security measures throughout the development lifecycle. By merging security with DevOps, organizations gain the capability to proactively identify and address security vulnerabilities, ultimately reducing the risk of breaches.