Shift-Left by using Automation

During this talk Leo Visser will share his experience in using automation to shift left tasks done in an IT environment. Many organizations want to automate everything but when making plans often things get to big very quickly and before you know it there is a project doomed to fail from the start. During this talk Leo will explain how OGD managed to automate a lot of very common tedious jobs for the Red Cross without this becoming a project to big to manage. By using techniques from Agile and DevOps and good architectural practices the project was streamline and transformed to a continues optimization cycle which still works now. This talk will show these techniques and gives you tools to improve your own workflows no matter if they are big or small.

Leo Visser is a Technical Lead at OGD. At the moment he is part of a small (ca 12 people) the team which manages the whole IT infrastructure of customers. This team has multiple customers one being the Red Cross (Netherlands). Leo has experience in both the technical side as the more functional side of IT infrastructures. He worked for several customers where he optimized their work processes to something standardized and automated with the help of several tools. He is also a Microsoft certified expert for areas like Cloud Architecture, Core Infrastructure and Azure DevOps.