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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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