Events | DevOps Meetup Dallas

February 1, 2023

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm (Central Time)

February 1, 2023

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm (Central Time)

DevOps Professionals Meetup - Harness® Dallas, Texas Office

We look forward to you joining us on Wednesday, February 1st, 2023 at the Harness® Dallas, Texas office for a DevOps Professionals Meetup.

Bob Dyksen, Director of Automation at Evolutio, and Nick Durkin, Field CTO at Harness, will give a 20-minute talk. We will have time for open discussion, focused on sharing each others' current projects.

Come grab some fun swag, pizza/ appetizers, beer, drinks, and an awesome downtown Dallas office space while networking with DFW IT-peers.

‍The Content: Governance & Automation for Faster Digital Transformation

We'll focus on situations where enterprises have used governance in DevOps, CI/CD, and Automation to drive brand loyalty and increase customer satisfaction.

Cloud Cost Management
CI/CD Pipelines, automating deployments
Implementing SRE and DORA Metrics
Example reference architectures
Sharing stories, bounce ideas off peers

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NOTE: please RSVP by Monday, January 30th, 2022. We'll send an official calendar invite, so please accept or decline that for accurate counts. If you'd like to submit a short 10-minute presentation or have questions, please email aaron.abodeely@evolutiops.com.

Location Address: Harness HQ Dallas
2525 McKinnon St, 6th floor
Dallas, TX 75201, USA

Parking: parking garage is in the building, turn right into the gated parking garage then go to the top deck, G8

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Agenda (all times Central):

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5:00 pm
Commute: Start arriving to Harness Dallas Texas office, enter parking garage and park on the top deck
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5:30 pm
Optional Networking: Enter Harness office on the 6th Floor for networking with DevOps, cloud, and software technology peers
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‍6:20 pm
Presentation: 2023 State of DevOps, Best Practices, and Success Stories plus Q&A with Bob Dyksen, Director of Automation at Evolutio, and Nick Durkin, Field CTO at Harness
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‍6:45 pm
Network with peers
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‍7:30 pm
Depart

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Speakers & Location - Harness Dallas, Texas Office:

Presenter

Author

Bob Dyksen

Director, Automation, Evolutio

Bob Dyksen is the Director of Automation, leading Evolutio’s practice in the hyper-growth industry of Automation.

With his background in computer science and extensive technical experience in the development of software teams and products, he provides organizations with insight into the vast DevOps landscape, accelerating cloud migration and digital transformation initiatives.

Nick Durkin

Field CTO, Harness

Nick Durkin is Field CTO for Harness, the first Software Delivery Platform to use AI to simplify DevOps processes, including CI, CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Costs, Chaos Engineering, and much more. He is responsible for the organization's worldwide field engineering team, post-sales engineering team, and a portion of product. He previously held technical and executive roles at OverOps, DataTorrent, and Zelle (Early Warning), where he ran critical infrastructure for the United States government. He also served as lead architect on the Department of Homeland Security’s Financial Institution.