30 years experience as a Software Engineer/Lead/Architect with diverse industry experience: Banking, eCommerce, Healthcare, and SAAS/startups. As a former Senior Application Development Manager at Microsoft for 3 1/2 years with numerous hands-on Manager and Director level roles, I know I can solve any devops/software/automation challenge. I am a continuous learner, improver, mentor, teacher continually expanding my technical skills and tools. I learn new languages and tools in my spare time for fun and get even more excited when I can share it with others. Community Evangelist, Developer Advocate and International Presenter with over 134 technical presentations delivered: SUGCON Europe 2017, Sitecore Symposium 2016, Microsoft TechEd 2008, VSLive! Dallas, VSLive! Austin and hundreds of user groups and developer conferences. I look forward to discussing how can I help you achieve your software/solution needs and enable your developers to achieve more. I live by a few philosophies: Agile: As a TEAM, hardest/highest priority work first (CSM 12+ years) Build: Realistic Automation (100%?), chaos theory/resiliency, scalable Continuous Improvement/Learning: Iron Sharpens Iron DevOps: People & Processes Efficiency: Measure, Monitor, Adjust Feedback: Full cycle from users to developer Give back: Code - Open Source, Mentoring, Teaching, Sharing Measure: Everything. MTTR - Reduce Mean Time to Recover, KPI, OKR, etc.

David Walker

30 years experience as a Software Engineer/Lead/Architect with diverse industry experience: Banking, eCommerce, Healthcare, and SAAS/startups. As a former Senior Application Development Manager at Microsoft for 3 1/2 years with numerous hands-on Manager and Director level roles, I know I can solve any devops/software/automation challenge. I am a continuous learner, improver, mentor, teacher continually expanding my technical skills and tools. I learn new languages and tools in my spare time for fun and get even more excited when I can share it with others. Community Evangelist, Developer Advocate and International Presenter with over 134 technical presentations delivered: SUGCON Europe 2017, Sitecore Symposium 2016, Microsoft TechEd 2008, VSLive! Dallas, VSLive! Austin and hundreds of user groups and developer conferences. I look forward to discussing how can I help you achieve your software/solution needs and enable your developers to achieve more. I live by a few philosophies: Agile: As a TEAM, hardest/highest priority work first (CSM 12+ years) Build: Realistic Automation (100%?), chaos theory/resiliency, scalable Continuous Improvement/Learning: Iron Sharpens Iron DevOps: People & Processes Efficiency: Measure, Monitor, Adjust Feedback: Full cycle from users to developer Give back: Code - Open Source, Mentoring, Teaching, Sharing Measure: Everything. MTTR - Reduce Mean Time to Recover, KPI, OKR, etc.

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30 years experience as a Software Engineer/Lead/Architect with diverse industry experience: Banking, eCommerce, Healthcare, and SAAS/startups. As a former Senior Application Development Manager at Microsoft for 3 1/2 years with numerous hands-on Manager and Director level roles, I know I can solve any devops/software/automation challenge.

I am a continuous learner, improver, mentor, teacher continually expanding my technical skills and tools. I learn new languages and tools in my spare time for fun and get even more excited when I can share it with others.

Community Evangelist, Developer Advocate and International Presenter with over 134 technical presentations delivered: SUGCON Europe 2017, Sitecore Symposium 2016, Microsoft TechEd 2008, VSLive! Dallas, VSLive! Austin and hundreds of user groups and developer conferences.

I look forward to discussing how can I help you achieve your software/solution needs and enable your developers to achieve more.

I live by a few philosophies:

Agile: As a TEAM, hardest/highest priority work first (CSM 12+ years)
Build: Realistic Automation (100%?), chaos theory/resiliency, scalable
Continuous Improvement/Learning: Iron Sharpens Iron
DevOps: People & Processes
Efficiency: Measure, Monitor, Adjust
Feedback: Full cycle from users to developer
Give back: Code - Open Source, Mentoring, Teaching, Sharing
Measure: Everything. MTTR - Reduce Mean Time to Recover, KPI, OKR, etc.

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