Bryan Finster

Value Stream Architect, Defense Unicorns

Bryan has over two decades of experience delivering and supporting mission-critical supply chain solutions for very large enterprises. He is the founder and former lead for the Walmart DevOps Dojo with hands-on experience both executing continuous delivery for production systems and helping other organizations find and remove the constraints that prevent a CD workflow.

Further Bryan is a co-author of Modern Cybersecurity: Tales from the Near-Distant Future, author of the 5-Minute DevOps blog on Medium, and a frequent speaker on all topics related to improving the flow of software delivery.

Bryan

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Impact
June 13
Why platforms don't matter
Organizations adopt developer platforms to boost delivery but often find that simply having one isn't enough. This talk focuses on the key to success: the people.
Bryan Finster
Value Stream Architect, Defense Unicorns
sponsored
Live Sessions
June 14
DevSecOps and Platform Engineering: the recipe to sleep well at night?
In this panel we will delve into the technical and cultural challenges of integrating security into development and explore how Platform Engineering and DevSecOps can enhance security by design.
Alan Shimel
Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Techstrong Group
Bryan Finster
Value Stream Architect, Defense Unicorns
Hila Fish
Senior DevOps Engineer, International Public Speaker
Hope Lynch
Sr. Director, Platform, CloudBees
Paul Nashawaty
Practice Leader and Lead Principal Analyst, Futurum Group

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