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

Annette Mitchell
Government Vice Chair
Internal Revenue Service

Aaron Lippold
MITRE Chair
MITRE

Jennifer Kenny-Smith
Industry Chair
GitLab

Claire Bailey
Industry Vice Chair
KWR Acuity Strategies

Jeff Miller
Industry Vice Chair
NowSecure

Bill James
Advisor Chair
FedSmarts
Working Group Project Teams
DevSecOps/CICD Pipeline Project Team

John Soscia
Government Chair
Internal Revenue Service

Rajeev Dolas
Government Vice Chair
National Highway Traffic Security Administation

Sameer Kamani
Industry Vice Chair
GitLab

John Morello
Industry Vice Chair
Palo Alto

Tyler Johnson
Industry Vice Chair
CloudBees
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.

Rayvn Manuel
Government Chair
National Museum of African American History and Culture

John Saling
Industry Vice Chair
Couchbase

David Wray
Industry Vice Chair
Micro Focus Government Solutions
Metrics Project Team

Chazara Clark-Smith
Government Chair
Internal Revenue Service

Claire Bailey
Industry Chair
KWR Acuity Strategies
Low Code Development Project Team
The objective of the Low-code Project Team 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.

Bradley Shepherd
Government Chair
USDOJ

Gabriel Lujan
Government Vice Chair
USDOJ

Bill Bunce
Industry Chair
Pega Systems

Chandra Rajalingam
Industry Vice Chair
TeXCloud Solutions