Hi everyone! My name is Johan Tegler from Lund, Sweden. I work in the IT department at Saab with DevOps, InfoSec etc. Saab makes airplanes, ships etc. I’m a big fan of IT Revolution. Locking forward to learn more about DevOps in three aspects: 1) the typical way with software and business, 2) Industrial DevOps, and 3) if possible: complex areas in the private and public sectors, like hospitals or governments.

Hello people! My name is Hugo Azevedo, joining from Colorado, USA. For the past 6 years, I have been working as a consultant/service provider in the Lean/Agile and most recently(last year) in the DevOps space representing Gitlab Inc. in Latin America. I am stoked to start getting my reading on and following discussion here with you all amazing curious people.

Greetings! I'm an IT manager at a mutual fund company in Boston, MA! I manage a Release Engineering team on the Operations side but prior to that I was a developer. Our firm is about 3 years into our digital transformation from waterfall to agile. Looking forward to meeting new people (even if virtually), discussing this great book, and learning how to use Slack!

Greetings! I'm an IT manager at a mutual fund company in Boston, MA! I manage a Release Engineering team on the Operations side but prior to that I was a developer. Our firm is about 3 years into our digital transformation from waterfall to agile. Looking forward to meeting new people (even if virtually), discussing this great book, and learning how to use Slack!

Hi, David Kumhyr joining. I'm in IBM Systems division and currently creating a IaaS/PaaS cloud for internal test and development. The political and working transformations needed are right out of the pages of the Phoenix Project and giving them each a copy has helped my team navigate those challenges while building our next gen systems and introducing DevOps.

Greeting! I am a Technical Program Manager at Autodesk in Boston! I manage cloud releases and have moved 4 cloud teams from shipping once every 5 months to every 5 days. Our teams are on a journey to move to the latest SAAS platforms and DevOps techniques! I enjoyed the Phoenix Project and am listening via Audible to the Unicorn Project! Great book and looking forward to active discussions!

Hey y'all! Mike Carey here, been with Freddie Mac for a year, spent over a decade with Walmart Labs before that. I'm leading up our DevOps initiative, trying to tie together the various other transformation efforts we have in flight; focus efforts on our lead time bottlenecks; and change the culture to one of continuous learning and experimentation. Happy to be here! I've got a lot of threads to catch up on... 🙂

👋 I lead a small team of DevOps coaches and appdev technicians (mostly cloud now) at Travelers Insurance. I’m in USA in Connecticut.

Hello all! 👋 I’m Laura, I’m tech lead of a cross functional team in Travelex and strong DevOps advocate, and all around culture of continuous leaning, experimentation and delivery. Just started reading the Unicorn Project, so I’ll try to catchup quick! Nice to me you all!

Hello all! 👋 I’m Laura, I’m tech lead of a cross functional team in Travelex and strong DevOps advocate, and all around culture of continuous leaning, experimentation and delivery. Just started reading the Unicorn Project, so I’ll try to catchup quick! Nice to me you all!

Hey All!, I'm Akshay, a seasoned Release Manager currently based out of Pittsburgh PA. I'm probably a little tardy on the TPP train as Im just getting through the weeds of it as we speak (About half way there). Nonetheless, the cultural shock and change the book is already showcasing is so telling you can feel it in your nerves. Love it and eagerly look forward to starting TUP soon! Happy to be here :)

Hi all, I'm Gar from Cork in Ireland. I manage a very small development team (2 others) working on a SaaS product. I've read TUP once now, and I'm interested in reading it again to find out how it applies to small teams.

Hi there everyone. I am Martin and I am from Prague, Czech rep. I have been running a small consulting/training company (10 people). We focus on strategic, project, process and self management. I have been in IT for almost 30 years and went through all areas. Mostly I have forgotten how to do it. But I still know what it means to program, install, support and operate information systems 🙂.

Hi there everyone. I am Martin and I am from Prague, Czech rep. I have been running a small consulting/training company (10 people). We focus on strategic, project, process and self management. I have been in IT for almost 30 years and went through all areas. Mostly I have forgotten how to do it. But I still know what it means to program, install, support and operate information systems 🙂.

Hi - I'm Chris, I work at a bank (UBS) as the Finance CTO (domain architect role), I'm a big fan of all of the books by IT Rev and really enjoyed the TUP. I finished Team Topologies just before this one. I felt a lot of pull to some of the pain points and topics in the book, sometimes a little too close to home 🙂 I look forward to meeting new people on here and sharing ideas.

Hi I’m Georgii from Russia. Work as a developer/team lead for Genesys, have been fascinated with DevOps since circa 2014. I wear a pager ;-)

Hi. I'm Dave Karow (on twitter as@davekarow). I'm a Continuous Delivery Evangelist at http://Split.io, which means I spend my time learning from folks that are pushing the limits/exploring new ways to deliver software and then I give talks, write blogs, do videos etc... Personally I'm a big fan of Progressive Delivery (gradual rollouts watched closely to limit blast radius and learn before exposing new code and new ideas to 100% of target population). The Phoenix Project, DevOps Handbook and Accelerate were already three of my favorite books helping "legacy" IT people understand why DevOps works. When Gene wrote Unicorn Project, he took that to another level. In the past, I've been an IT Project Manager at DHL, Product Manager at Gupta, Marimba, Keynote Systems, SOASTA, Product Marketeer at Keynote/SOASTA and Dev Advocate for Shift Left testing at BlazeMeter. Love to noodle about what works and what doesn't and to help folks get the paradoxes in DevOps (like faster to be safer, frequent sprints being more humane than 6-month death march, etc...).

Hi, Jonathan Martin joining. I just completed my holiday and getting back to work in the new year. I have a developer background, but over past 10 years I have been in project management and portfolio management. My organization is utilizing agile and I have progressed as a product owner. I enjoy being a coach and look forward to diving deeper into the TUP. Please feel free to link with me on LinkedIn.

Hi All! I'm Paul from Adelaide Australia. I do development for a small company on legacy 8 bit processors I would like to push some CI/CD into our process, and make my life easier.

Hi All! I'm Paul from Adelaide Australia. I do development for a small company on legacy 8 bit processors I would like to push some CI/CD into our process, and make my life easier.