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

Kiersten Patton
Program Manager
ATARC
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

Kiersten Patton
Program Manager
ATARC
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

Kiersten Patton
Podcast Manager
ATARC
Working Groups:
CICD Pipeline

John Soscia
Government Chair
Internal Revenue Service

Sameer Kamani
Industry Vice Chair
GitLab

Bill Schwartz
Advisor Chair

Hayley Dandreaux
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

Hayley Dandreaux
Project Manager
ATARC
Metrics

Chazara Clark-Smith
Government Chair
Internal Revenue Service

Claire Bailey
Industry Chair
Veracode

Nicole Mandes
Project Manager
ATARC