Engineering Culture: An Essential Guide to Leverage Cloud, DevOps & Data for Business
A presentation at DASA Connect 2023 by Bruno Amaro Almeida
Keynote Session Leadership Engineering Culture: An Essential Guide to Leverage Cloud, DevOps & Data for Business Bruno Amaro Almeida #DASAConnect
Agenda 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Cloud, DevOps and Data: Paradigm Shift Evolution of Cost in Tech Pitfalls: Hard learn lessons Security and Compliance Core Building Blocks & Capabilities re(Shaping) Your Organization Establishing a SW CoE Platform Engineering x Rapid Development Learning & Upskilling Cx - Ex - Ex
Presenter Bruno Amaro Almeida Head of Technology & Architecture Fortum
Cloud Paradigm Shift • Trade Capital Expense with Variable/Operational Expense (CapEx > OpEx) • Enhanced IT capacity planning • Benefit from massive economies of scale • Focus on the Business, not on running and maintaining Datacenters • Empower and break silos. Increase speed and agility of development source: bmc.com
Evolution of Cost Dimensions in Technology
Lessons Organizations Learn The Hard Way • • • • This “stuff” is only for tech companies Cloud will immediately save me money DevOps culture automatically breaks silos No need for IT Operations Photo by Pawel Janiak on Unsplash
What about Security? • Easier to meet Security and Compliance Standards (PCI DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR, …) but not granted • Effortless to implement data encryption • Why is more important than How Source: AWS Shared Responsibility Model
Core Building Blocks & Data+AI Capabilities ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● OpenAI Speech to Text Text to Speech Image Recognition Translation Sentiment Analysis Forecast … AI/ML API’s Data Engineering ● ● ● Data Ingestion & Storage Data Preparation & Transformation Analytics and Business Intelligence AI/ML Platform ● ● Validate and Train Models Deploy Models
(re)Shaping Your Organization
Establishing a SW Center Of Excellence Open Steering Group for alignment and guidance: • Technology Strategy • Governance, Risk and Compliance • Cost Management • Documentation and Guidelines Highly aligned, loosely coupled
Evolving towards an bi-Operating Model
Innovation and Rapid Development
Learning and Upskilling • Self-Paced Learning Platforms • Instructor-led Training & Workshops • Lean Coffee Sessions • Fostering Tech Communities • Coaching and Mentoring
Customer Experience Vestibulum congue Engineering Experience Employee Experience
Thank you! #DASAConnect
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