James Wickett and Gareth Rushgrove Interview - Velocity Santa Clara 2014

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James Wickett (Mentor Graphics) and Gareth Rushgrove (Government Digital Service) sit down at the 2014 Velocity Conference in Santa Clara, CA.

About James Wickett (Mentor Graphics):
James is involved in the DevOps and InfoSec communities and has a passion for helping big companies work like startups to deliver products in the cloud. He got his start in technology when he ran a Web startup company as a student at University of Oklahoma and since then has worked in environments ranging from large, web-scale enterprises to small, rapid-growth startups. From his work at Mentor Graphics, James helped launch four cloud based-products for the Embedded Software Division.

James is a dynamic speaker on topics in cloud computing, cloud security and Rugged DevOps. He is the creator and founder of the Lonestar Application Security Conference which is the largest annual security conference in Austin, TX. He holds the following security certifications: CISSP, GWAPT, GCFW, GSEC and CCSK.

About Gareth Rushgrove (Government Digital Service):
I'm a professional and experienced software developer based in
Cambridge, UK. By day I work for the UK Government fixing the internet. By night I curate the devops weekly email newsletter, hack on various open source projects, organise local meetups in London and write tutorials or articles about software development and web operations.

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