DevOps Working Group

Leadership Team

The ATARC DevOps Working Group 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.

Nicolas Chaillan

Government Chair

US Air Force

Jason Green

Industry Chair

Sonatype

Annette Mitchell

Government Vice Chair

Internal Revenue Service

Claire Bailey

Industry Vice Chair

Compuware

Working Group Project Teams

DevSecOps/CICD Pipeline Project Team

This team 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.

This team meets bi-weekly on Wednesday at 12:30 PM.

John Soscia

Government Chair

Internal Revenue Service

Jason Green

Industry Chair

Sonatype

Rajeev Dolas

Government Vice Chair

United States Patent and Trademark Office

John Morello

Industry Vice Chair

Palo Alto

Tyler Johnson

Industry Vice Chair

CloudBees

Brendan O'Leary

Industry Vice Chair

GitLab

The Application Development and Development Operations

This Working Group consists of colleagues from across various government agencies, private industry and academic organizations interested in topics related to the group’s name. Hosted by the Advanced Technology and Academic Research Center (ATARC), the group meets to discuss trends in the industry and challenges our organizations experience specific to Application Development and Operations.

Our weekly 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.

This team meets bi-weekly on Friday at 2:00 PM.

Pankaj Sharma

Industry Chair

Rigil

Rayvn Manuel

Government Chair

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Low Code Development Project Team

This project team is designing a low code playbook for government: A guidance for governance on low code with a white paper to help influence policy. We want to help folks understand the right fit for their agency, starter use cases, and adoption of low code development.

This project team meets bi-weekly on Thursdays at 12:30 PM.

Tracy Bannon

MITRE Chair

Ryan Hub

Government Chair

United States Coast Guard

Metrics Project Team

This project team 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.

Chazara Clark-Smith

Government Chair

Internal Revenue Service

Claire Bailey

Industry Chair

Compuware

Emerging Technology Project Team

This project team will examine the art of the possible, focusing on disruptive mobile technologies and innovation that will impact the way a government agency conducts its daily business. Among the technologies that will be examined will include Virtual SIMs, Controlled Unclassified Information for Voice, and Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Wearables Virtual Reality, 5G and Drones.

This team meets monthly on the 3rd Tuesday from 12-1 PM.

Lon Gowen

Government Chair

United States Agency for International Development

Lessons Learned/Agile Philosophy Project Team

This project team explores the conversation around lessons learned and the power of bringing folks together. The sessions are designed to be broader and more inclusive to all audiences in the form of virtual monthly presentations.

Brian Fox

Government Chair

General Services Administration