DevOps Mission Area

Leadership Team

The ATARC DevOps Pillar is a technical working group of government, academia and private industry thought leaders collaborating on topics of interest to the Federal mobility community. Working in collaboration with the cross-agency DevOps Federal Interagency Council (DFIC), the group’s goal is to provide the Federal Government with recommendations for methods to increase efficiency and reduce cost using cutting-edge DevOps solutions.

Annette Mitchell

Government Chair

Internal Revenue Service

Jennifer Kenny-Smith

Industry Chair

GitLab

Jeff Miller

Industry Vice Chair

NowSecure

Aaron Lippold

MITRE Chair

MITRE

Tracy Bannon

MITRE Chair

MITRE

Ivette Granier-Smith

ATARC Board Liaison

ASRC Federal

Christopher Crist

ATARC Board Liaison

US Transportation Command

Anil Karmel

ATARC Board Liaison

RegScale

DevOps Community of Practice

The DevOps Community of Practice (CoP) provides information technology and development staff and leadership throughout government the opportunity to share lessons learned, successes, benefits, and know how related to DevOps.

The DevOps CoP will meet on the fourth Tuesday of each month for 30 minutes. In each meeting, a presenter will have the opportunity to share experiences for 15 minutes, followed by a 15 minute Q&A session.

Brian Fox

Community of Practice Lead

Omni Federal

Low Code Development — Trailblazers Podcast

This podcast‘s objective is to aggregate and educate Government Agencies (federal, dod, state and local), academia and industry on the issues unique to Government regarding the adoption and roll-out of Low-code and to explore solutions to those challenges. The Low-code Project Team will support agencies understanding of how to use Low-code and Intelligent Automation technologies to make government better.

Bill Bunce

Industry Chair

Pega Systems

Working Groups:

CICD Pipeline

This group focuses on software and delivery approach while standing up an approach for DevSecOps CICD pipeline to stand up infrastructure.

The deliverable for this team is a software or presenting pattern for which tools could be used. View the deliverable’s first increment here.

John Soscia

Government Chair

Internal Revenue Service

Sameer Kamani

Industry Vice Chair

GitLab

Bill Schwartz

Advisor Chair

Nicole Mandes

Project Manager

Application Development and Development Operations

This group consists of colleagues from across various government agencies, private industry and academic organizations interested in topics related to the group’s name and meets to discuss trends in the industry and challenges our organizations experience specific to Application Development and Operations. Our bi-monthly meetings are designed to encourage participation, promote collaboration, place value on creativity and innovation while recognizing the tried and true. Our meeting discussions allow information and opinions to be shared in ways which are respectful within a fear-free environment.

Listen to this WG’s last podcast episode here!

Rayvn Manuel

Government Chair

National Museum of African American History and Culture

David Wray

Industry Vice Chair

Micro Focus Government Solutions

Nicole Mandes

Project Manager

ATARC

Metrics

This group seeks to understand operational metrics from tools already established and the Failure rates seen from pipeline. The focus of this team is on “how do we capture those customer relevant/focused/centric metrics when delivering capabilities through the pipeline? What value is the pipeline creating and how do we measure it?” This team’s deliverable is to come up with a model that would apply with most agencies in terms of baseline information.

In April 2022, the group published a DevOps Metrics-Performance Playbook.

Chazara Clark-Smith

Government Chair

Internal Revenue Service

Claire Bailey

Industry Chair

Veracode

Nicole Mandes

Project Manager

ATARC