The DevOps Excellence Awards historically kick off the Computing event calendar with a bang, as hundreds of IT pros get in London to rejoice good results.
This yr we’re holding the awards at the Montcalm Marble Arch on the 14th March, where by finalists will be equipped to sizing up their competition wish every other properly right before the prizes are handed out.
Our judges are now sorting through the shortlist, and finalists can reserve a desk now.
The hard occupation of selecting the deserving recipients is down to our judging panel – and in this article are the individuals who’ll be earning people hard possibilities.
Aliaksandr Shulyak
Senior Internet site Dependability Engineer – Bloomberg
Aliaksandr is a cloud and DevOps engineer with extra than seven years of experience. An active convention speaker, Linux evangelist and open resource contributor, he has a solid passion for high quality.
Andy Slater
System Enablement Lead – Specsavers
With additional than 10 years’ practical experience in technology recruitment and consultancy, Andy’s emphasis is on electronic transformation folks, system and technology throughout the essential infrastructure, development, civil engineering and rail sectors. Doing work in just a quickly modifying and a diverse ecosystem of shoppers and operators, he assists form their expertise attraction / recruitment and range & inclusivity tactics, as very well as assisting demystify some of the buzz and buzz around clever cities, the ‘connected world’ / IoT and ‘digital transformation’ – all to set in location achievable recruitment designs that long term evidence attraction and retention of top rated Uk expertise.
Avish Jain
Products System and Administration – Remitly
Avish Jain is a seasoned item supervisor with above eight a long time of working experience foremost merchandise teams in the eCommerce and fintech house. He is a robust believer in cross-purposeful collaboration and has led cross-purposeful groups comprising of engineering, structure, product or service, analytics, details science and advertising at eBay, PwC and Remitly, to outline the merchandise roadmap and launch bare minimum viable products.
Exterior of operate, Avish enjoys a good Netflix binge, studying non-fiction guides on productivity and likely on bicycle rides on hilly countryside roads.
Ian Golding
Interim CIO – SThree Plc
Ian Golding has been Main Information and facts Officer, Main Specialized Officer and Knowledge Privacy Officer major world industrial technological innovation programmes for over 20 many years. He has a passion for fostering collaboration and innovation to exploit the positive aspects of technology and data in permanent, interim, fractional and private consulting roles.
Ian is currently Interim CIO at SThree Plc, a major STEM competencies provider, and was formerly Interim CIO at the Natural Record Museum, acquiring the engineering approach and vision to assistance its twin purpose as a centre of excellence in foremost scientific research and as a earth main museum.
In 2017, as the RNLI’s initial CIO (interim) he made the Institution’s very first digital, information and facts and technological innovation technique which includes new capabilities for fundraising, predictive analytics and knowledge-based insights that will aid the RNLl to crack the chain of activities that can tragically direct to drowning. Ian has also been Interim IT Director at Southern Housing Team and held Group CIO, Information Privacy Officer and Senior Companion roles for The ERM Team by means of its biggest development stage over 4 private fairness cycles, to 5,200 personnel across 140 workplaces around the world.
Ian is a Fellow of The Institute of Directors, a Fellow of the Royal Culture of Arts, a Fellow of the IET and a Chartered Qualified Fellow of The BCS. He is also an investor and mentors digital startups. By devoting time to assisting emerging enterprises and smaller investments to progress, Ian’s intention is to aid develop the digital ecosystem.
Jane Offer
Operational Director, Technological innovation and Adjust – The Regulation Modern society
Jane is the Operational Director for Technologies & Adjust at the Law Culture of England & Wales. Next a Law Diploma and the Trinity Bar Examinations, Jane joined Barclays Financial institution exactly where she experienced a prolonged and assorted career, with roles ranging from marketing and advertising to business transformation. She then joined RNIB as Head of IT, restructuring the IT purpose and architecture, and developing business enterprise partnerships, and job administration disciplines. As the first CIO at Citizens Assistance, Jane remodeled the IT perform and sent a sophisticated Microsoft Dynamics CRM implementation ahead of broadening into an unbiased consultancy part. Below, she supported significant charities and a federal government agency, working out her expertise in change, small business architecture, stakeholder administration and IT.
Jane joined the Regulation Culture in December 2016 as IT Director, supporting a major small business transformation programme and transitioning from a shared company with the regulatory entire body to establish the Law Society’s individual focused IT operate.
John Leonard
Group Exploration Director – Computing
John Leonard is Team Investigate Director for the Business Know-how Group at Computing. He has made and executed investigate scientific studies and analyses masking numerous of the areas of business enterprise technological know-how that are driving the way we live and perform nowadays.
Maharshi Jha
Computer software Engineering Chief – Meta / Fb
Maharshi Jha is a technology chief doing the job with Facebook/Meta, and an innovator in the house of cloud serverless know-how, in which he retains several patents. Maharshi qualified prospects groups in Meta and gives complex way. Before doing work at Meta, Maharshi was a senior technology leader at Capital A single.
Penny Horwood
Associate Editor – Computing
Penny is Affiliate Editor at Computing and focuses largely on range in tech and sustainability content material. She has much more than a ten years of information creation working experience and specialises in extensive variety element articles.
Pulak Agrawal
DevSecOps Guide and Senior Technolog Architect – Accenture
Pulak is a senior technology architect, a member of the IET, and prospects Accenture’s modern day engineering vertical. He has been in this area for the past 18 yrs, extensive in advance of it was referred to as DevOps. He started off his journey as a develop and release engineer hand-cranking jar documents, to playing the improvement and functions architect function helping organisations and advising the C-suite on bringing genuine modify. Pulak has witnessed the maturity of the area in very last decade, from ‘What is DevOps?’ to ‘DevSecOps/SRE’ today, and led Accenture’s DevOps apply in the earlier.
Skilled in retail, banking, telecom, healthcare, policing and general public service, Pulak has worked for in excess of 30 shoppers throughout 8 countries in engineering locations from COTS to microservices, from 128 Essential to Kotlin, from AIX5 to distroless, from Cruisecontrol to pipeline-as-a-assistance and from clickops to IaC & GitOps. He has contributed to the Group Topologies e-book and been a speaker at the DevOps Organization Summit.
Stuart Sumner
World-wide Vice President of Content – Computing
Stuart Sumner is Worldwide Vice President of Articles of The Channel Organization and former editor of Computing. Formerly he invested 10 several years as a programme supervisor in the IT business, working for firms these kinds of as the BBC, COLT, Nortel Networks and Equant. As a journalist he has also worked for Time Out and IPC Media. He is a regular technological know-how pundit and contributor to the BBC News channel, as nicely as a printed creator.
Suresh Rajasekaran
Team Product Manager – NVIDIA
Suresh is an accomplished engineering chief with above 16 years of field knowledge, and is at present a Team Product Manager at NVIDIA. In his current position he is targeted on assisting enterprises to undertake, accelerate and scale AI methods in their businesses, and has previously worked at firms which include Samsung, Adobe, and Autodesk. He is passionate about artificial intelligence and its profound effects on humans.
Suresh holds a Masters in Application Engineering from Carnegie Mellon College and an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth College of Business enterprise. He at this time lives in the San Francisco Bay Space with his spouse and two young children.
Terry Willis
Director of Technological innovation – Church of England
Doing the job in many sections of know-how for most of his profession, Terry has found the earth completely transform from analogue to electronic – various instances now! Largely he presents it a light assisting hand but occasionally it requirements additional of a agency shove in the appropriate direction. Following many years doing the job in the resourceful industries Terry has, additional not too long ago, spent time in the third sector and at present leads engineering for the Church of England, where he has an harmful fascination in the areas of cloud expert services, stability and digital anthropology in buy to design and style agile, safe and present day workplaces and platforms. He has a keen eye for rising tendencies in tech, and considers it an honour to be requested to judge these awards.
Tom Allen
Editor – Computing
Tom is the Editor for Computing, wherever he has been masking the United kingdom IT marketplace given that 2017. He is an marketplace veteran, producing his very first tech tale again in the mists of 2011, and specialises in masking topics close to sustainabile IT, variety and Website3 developments like blockchain and the metaverse. Tom regularly chats to foremost IT professionals all over the globe, from providers both large and modest – together with Microsoft, Kellog’s, Trainline, the Satisfied Business and Mars. He is normally on the lookout for the newest market place tendencies that affect IT leaders in the British isles and around the globe.
Tom has previously composed for a varity of B2B titles, which include all those serving the jewelry, pet and funeral industries – and indeed, he’s heard all the jokes.
Usually spotted with a notebook, grumbling about the Oxford comma.
The DevOps Excellence Awards choose position on the 14th March in London. Click on here to see the shortlist, or listed here to reserve a desk.