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Josh Smith

Enterprise Architect

Josh Smith

Josh has been in in IT for 15 years, as a developer, lead dev, tech lead, architect, and enterprise architect. He's worked on big teams, small teams, and been on a team of one. In the process of all of this, he's learned a ton, and he loves to mentor and share that information.

He also loves strategy – laying out plans and figuring out dependencies, which order to do things in. Included in this is a deep love of the complicated business + people + culture + tech (especially tech that makes people's lives easier) of IT strategy.

PRESENTATIONS

But I Don't WANNA - Protecting Your Resources as a Skilled Knowledge Worker
Container Tools: The Next Generation
Coordinating Chaos: ChatOps for Human People
How to Technology Good - Tips for Implementation at Scale
Kubernetes Platform Security: A framework to think about it and some practical advice
One of Us – the Importance of Community in Culture Change
Serverless in Kubernetes: Portable Simplified Ops for Cloud-Native Workloads
Solving Software Delivery Pain: What Hurts and Why it Matters
The Business Agility Treasure Map: Charting a Course to Continuous Delivery
To Hug or to Strangle: Tips for Dealing with Monolith Pain