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Jun 05
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Introducing Our Newest CDF Ambassador – Helen Beal

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Hello there! I’m Helen Beal, a new CD Foundation Ambassador from Chichester in the UK. I’m also Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute so you can tell I’m a huge fan of the power of community. I’m also a DevOps coach, writer and speaker and strategic advisor. Books and words are a huge part of my life – I read constantly and have also written several novels with more in the pipeline. I also love playing Scrabble and Bananagrams.

This is me at home in Chichester, in the beautiful Priory Park. Behind me is the priory where William Blake was tried for sedition in 1803.

I’m really excited to have this opportunity to work closely with the Continuous Delivery community as it’s such an integral part of what we do in DevOps and I’ve been working with the software development lifecycle for my whole career, starting with Lotus Notes (remember that?!) in 1995! I write and speak about many different aspects of DevOps – recently I’ve been really focused on neuroscience in the workplace and value stream management. I also just did my first talk on the relationship between community and capitalism for TechStrongCon. Here’s a beautiful visual rendition of a recent talk by the wonderful MindsEyeCCF.

When I’m not DevOpsing, I tend to be out enjoying the beautiful British countryside. I’m a volunteer warden at a local nature reserve, Kingley Vale, where I pick up litter, ask people to put their dogs on leads and monitor species like the Chalk Hill Blue butterfly and one of our two UK snake species, the (lightly venomous) adder. Here’s me with a baby tawny owl.

I’m excited to be contributing to this community and meeting new people and learning new things. You can follow me on InfoQ here and Medium here. Find me on LinkedIn here and Twitter here.

Jun 05
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Introducing Our Newest CDF Ambassador – Alexander Raul

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My name is Alexander Raul – and I am extremely happy to join the Continuous Delivery Foundation as a Community Ambassador!  

I am the CEO of Rackner, which is a cloud native consultancy focused on Kubernetes and Open Source – so my day to day is really driven by projects in the ecosystem.  Continuous Delivery is a piece which doesn’t get as much credit as it deserves and where there’s still plenty of work to be done.  

I am looking forward to introducing projects like Spinnaker and Tekton to developers all over the globe – and let’s be clear, Continuous Delivery should make the developer’s job easier while improving operational capability.  If it only does one of the two, there’s probably a better solution.

May 28
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Introducing Our Newest CDF Ambassador – Shlomo Bielak

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Shlomo Bielak here. I am a CTO at a boutique SI in Canada trying to help anyone and everyone understand how to implement Continuous Deployment.

I think we have got down Continuous Delivery and Integration. Not-so-much the auto-deploy to production; that **** is complicated. I enjoy sharing on our webinars or with customers our Star-Trek approach to governance and CI/CD pipeline fitness.

Demo…Demo…Demo = Believe. I am all about sharing the practicing side of DevSecOps within CI/CD. Having invented governance engineering which is the operating model for security within CI/CD we know the complexities of making security fast within a DevOps mode. I share the model, process, milestones, and clear tasks to achieve those milestones, using an inner-source training plan to simplify your CI/CD journey.

I love publishing whitepapers and archetypes/exemplars to the market to better understand CI/CD which is their thought-leadership’s starting point – knowing your goal.I have been the keynote at CDF sponsor companies where they are looking to understand what the enterprise requires to be successful. I make sure my content hits the pain points and some self-deprecating laugh-points.

Today my desk is set for COVID. Tomorrow it is ready for conferences. Happy to be here supporting the CDF. Its business goal is at the core of our practice.

May 26
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Introducing Our Newest CDF Ambassador – Tiffany Jachja

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Hi Readers,

2020 has been a crazy year, yet the opportunities remain to connect, learn, and share throughout our communities, and so I’m thrilled to join the Continuous Delivery Foundation. As a newly minted member of the CDF Ambassadors program, I look forward to getting to know everyone. 

A little bit more about me: my name is Tiffany Jachja. I’ve lived in Maryland almost all my life (go Old Bay!). One of my goals is to become a catalyst for better software delivery. 

Me, the one time I decided to leave Maryland and live 2,000 miles away from home. 

I work as an evangelist at Harness. This is my team.

We believe in empowering developers to move fast without breaking things.

I joined at the start of 2020, excited to travel, connect, and share my experiences around software delivery. 

Of course with the shelter in place policies, the travel bit did not pan out. But I’m grateful and fortunate for the opportunities to contribute to digitally! 

Observe2020 was a day-long conference held in April about Observability. 

ONUG Digital Live was ONUG’s first virtual event held in May 2020. 

I’ve been enjoying the fact that many industry events and sessions are now free to attend. It gives people who normally would not be able to attend an event, the opportunity to grow new skills and learn more about specific topics.

As you can tell, I do enjoy being on stage.I look forward to a healthier and safer time. 

I’m grateful for all the had opportunities I’ve had to help organizations and teams accelerate their DevOps journeys. It’s very rewarding to be a part of a team that’s hit their stride and can deliver effectively.

Before joining Harness, I was a consultant at Red Hat. I focused on cloud-native application development, so helping enterprises adopt and work with applications living in the cloud. I spent the latter half of my time at Red Hat, focusing on DevOps practices and culture. 

It’s important to work with your people, processes, and technology properly when going on transformation journeys.

An area we can improve on within the tech space is sharing stories and leveraging the experiences of others. 

I believe becoming a CDF Ambassador gives me the opportunities to help drive that mission further. 

Stay passionate, caring, and safe during these times. 

Cheers,

-Tiffany

May 14
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Introducing our Newest CDF Ambassador – Zhao Xiaojie (Rick)

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My name is Zhao Xiaojie (Rick). I’m a software engineer at Alauda, which is responsible for developing a CI/CD platform. I’m the leader of the Chinese Localization SIG and a press contact for Jenkins in China, too, where a large developer community exists invisible from the west! 

I am passionate about promoting the Jenkins community and have done so in several ways, such as running Jenkins official social media channels, encouraging people to contribute tech articles, giving speeches about Jenkins at related conferences, and maintaining the Chinese Jenkins website. 

I am also the author of several open source projects such as the Simplified Chinese Plugin, Jenkins CLI. And I have participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) twice as a mentor.

I’m a very active author and contributor in open source. I believe that CI/CD can speed business value shipping for all teams. Advocating CI/CD open source projects is an excellent way to help other teams and individuals adopt DevOps best practices. I enjoy giving public speeches or organizing meetups related to CI/CD. In my opinion, working with the CDF offers me a lot of opportunities to spread information about open source projects. The CDF ambassador program can help us to gather much more CI/CD fans.

You can find me on GitHub.

Apr 23
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Introducing our newest CDF Ambassador – Yun “Forest” Jing (景韵)

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Hi CI/CD fans,

I’m Yun “Forest” Jing (景韵), a DevOps practitioner from China. I believe IT changes the world, and that DevOps changes IT.

You can read the blog First Online CI/CD Meetup in China Gets Over 5,000 Attendees. It is very inspiring to share knowledge and experiences in the community, so I’ve co-founded a local community called DevOps Times Community where there are almost 30,000 subscribers in our wechat official account. 

I’m also a Jenkins Ambassador and DevOps Institute Ambassador, too. I’ve organized the Jenkins Area Meetup and Jenkins User Conference China for 3 years. It was an honorable moment to win the Most Valuable Advocate of Jenkins community and to be Jenkins Ambassador in 2018, as well.

I, Xuefeng “BC” Shi and Tao Lei were on DevOps World 2018 San Francisco

Jenkins Ambassador Teams

My story with DevOps started from an email sent by my boss in 2014. He said, “make a study of DevOps.” And so it began. 

I found an internal community in our company where architects, developers, testers, and ops could meet together to understand and learn from each other.

Logo and Slogan of Internal DevOps Community

And I didn’t forget the work assigned by my boss . I’ve led from start to release an internal DevOps Guide to help all teams to practice DevOps.

The architecture of DevOps Guide in Chinese

2017 will be a memorable year for me. DevOpsDays Beijing 2017 has lit up DevOps in China. Lots of companies shared their experience about DevOps, such as Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Huawei, etc.

Patrick Debois and Me (Master and Newbie)

From 2017, I also started to be a full-time member of the community. I’ve co-organized the local DevOps event coined the DevOps International Summit (DOIS) and Jenkins User Conference in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen to share Agile, CI/CD, AIOps, DevOps practices and experiences in China.

I’ve joined the experts group to contribute to the DevOps Capability Maturity Model organized by CAICT, as well. Lots of companies could learn how to practice according to this model.

Not only focused on China, but also built the communication bridge with the global DevOps community and companies. For this, Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Alyssa Tong have really helped a lot.

 JUCC Shanghai 2017

Alan Shimel and Jayne Groll  have also inspired me to introduce more experiences from China to the world and also from the world to China. So, I’m a DevOps Institute Ambassador right now. It is a great team helping to share DevOps with the world.

Apr 16
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Introducing our newest CDF Ambassador – Marky Jackson

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Hello friends! I am Marky Jackson and I am so thrilled to be one of the newest CDF ambassadors.

I have been involved in open source for many years but my start in the world was rather rocky. I had a difficult childhood. I was shuffled from one boys’ home to another and had little control over my life. But I was tough and smart, and I emancipated at an early age, which allowed me to start living the way I wanted while I was still in my teens.

I studied computer science at UCLA and MIT and then spent 14 months as an intern at Jasmine Multimedia Publishing before joining companies such as Yahoo, AT&T, HP, Symantec and more.

I am extremely excited to be a part of this program because I get to make people smile by mentoring and being positive. I love public speaking, doing a meetup in person or virtual and helping people online. I get joy when a person gets involved in the open-source community.

The open source community is all about inclusion. We welcome people to contribute, and we try to express our gratitude for their hard work. The sense of unity and belonging is second to none with developers, coders, and engineers from around the world collaborating to advance our industry.

It takes a lot of time and effort to keep the open-source community going. Most of us are working after-hours to get things done, and we need help—lots of help. People think that you have to be an expert coder to join us, but that’s not true. There are plenty of ways to take part in. You can contribute error reports, write technical documentation, or even sponsor an application. There are plenty of ways to offer support. Just ask what you can do.

I look forward to meeting everyone and collaborating! You can find me at
@markyjackson5 on Twitter.

Mar 19
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Introducing our newest CDF Ambassador – Dheeraj Nayal

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Hello CDF Members,

This is Dheeraj Nayal located in India.

I am so excited to engage with all of you members associated with the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) as a newly appointed CDF Ambassador. 

Let me introduce myself to you !

I am currently working full-time as the Global community Ambassador and Region Head of APJ & MEA region at DevOps Institute, which is the world’s fastest and largest growing DevOps professional’s association consisting of vibrant Humans of DevOps community located worldwide.

I hold expertise as an emerging best practices evangelist and in building massive global, social and online communities with the commitment to connect the Humans of DevOps and Modern IT to advance the Skills, Knowledge, Ideas & Learning (SKIL) with ease, sharing and extensive collaboration. I am a frequent Speaker at local and international conferences and also the Core organizer of Global SKILup Day and Chief Evangelist of Ambassador program by DevOps Institute. Some of my public presentations are also available on YouTube for reference.  I am passionate about engaging with various community members & leaders spanned across Industries and domains worldwide.

In 2019, I traversed across the world for various speaking and organizing engagements for the community & Partners with key regions like US, Europe and executed a Asia-Pacific roadshow spanning across India, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia & New Zealand. Some of the glimpses from last year engagements while you can find more on my LinkedIn updates.

I am so excited to associate with CDF as an Ambassador for a variety of reasons. The core values of CDF with an Open-governance and vendor neutral model and providing guidance and resources to foster collaboration and eventually empowering developers, teams to produce and release high quality software is an unprecedented and fantastic initiative.

Since, I have been part of the global communities across multiple domains and regions as a member, facilitator, committee members, organizer – I am enthusiastic to contribute and support the global community of CD Foundation. As a CDF Ambassador, I would like to amplify and resonate the core values of CD Foundation to reach wider audience and networks while building an inclusive community of developers, vendors, Industry Partners, members and end users facilitating sustainable projects that are part of the broad and growing continuous delivery ecosystem.

I would love to engage with each one of you actively across platforms either in your nearby locations or at an upcoming Conferences or meetups or Online summit where I am either participating, speaking or organizing. There is so much to look forward to and so much more to share, learn and advance together as the Humans of CD Foundations. You can find me in some of the upcoming conferences or meetups below which are confirmed and also can connect with me on LinkedIn or Twitter with below details.

Twitter : @HumanOfDevOps

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/dheerajnayal/

Upcoming confirmed events in 2020 where you can find me: 

Mar 18
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Welcome our first cohort of CDF Community Ambassadors!

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By Jacqueline Salinas, CDF Director of Ecosystem & Community Development

Dear CDF Members –

Please welcome the first cohort of CDF Community Ambassadors (CDF CA)! You might be wondering what exactly is a CDF Community Ambassador (CDF CA)? Well, a CA is a passionate volunteer, representative of CDF, and Meetup super host & organizer. The vision of the CA program is to help grow the network of passionate CI/CD communities and connect them through various efforts that the CD Foundation is launching in 2020. The CD Foundation sees these CA’s as the troops on the ground rallying the community together. They are stewards of CI/CD education & best practices for their local community, active open source project contributors, and leaders helping drive awareness of open source projects.

These 13 folks have stepped up and committed to helping grow awareness about the CD Foundation, as well as, help us deploy new Meetup user groups in new locations as an effort to drive more events globally. These CA’s will continue to deliver CI/CD education to their local community and most importantly help recruit new Meetup members. These volunteers are vital to the CI/CD community and to the CD Foundation! Help me give them a warm welcome to the CD Foundation community. To help you get to know our CDF Community Ambassadors better, look for their individual blogs coming in the next few weeks.

Discover your local CI/CD Meetup Group here.

Prefer a more active role? Learn more about what it takes to become a CDF Community Ambassador. Here’s more about what the role of the CDF Community Ambassador entails:

o   The Community Go-To Resource for People Interested in CDF

As a Community Ambassador, you will be an important resource to people interested in the CDF and its corresponding projects. We will provide you with training on how to best represent the CDF and provide discount codes for you to attend CDF-sponsored events.

o   Help Local Users Learn More About CDF

As a Community Ambassador, you will organize and host a local CDF Users Group meetup. The CDF will provide resources to help you set up your meetup and ongoing support such as swag credits and reimbursements for costs associated with running a community event.

o   Represent the Community Publicly

As a Community Ambassador, you will be a public-facing community representative. You can choose the way you are most comfortable representing CDF whether that’s through public speaking or written content such as blogs. We will work with you to find the best fit and provide you with resources to help you be successful as either a speaker, a writer, or both!

Apply here: https://forms.gle/Wo71QJMiBnoGfbLE7

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