Keynote: The Operations Dividend by Joe Beda

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Channel: The Linux Foundation · 2016 · Science & Technology

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Keynote: The Operations Dividend - Joe Beda, Entrepreneur in Residence with Accel Partners and Advisor, CoreOS and Shippable.

Containers and Cloud Native are great technology, but what is the larger business context? Why should the pointy haired bosses care? In this talk, based on 10 years at Google, Joe makes a case for redefining roles to increase product velocity. 

About Joe Beda

Joe Beda is currently looking for his next job as an Entrepreneur in Residence with Accel Partners.  He is also advising CoreOS and Shippable.  He has been a professional software engineer for 18 years. Over his career at Google and Microsoft, he has built browsers, designed graphics APIs, connected to the telephone system, and optimized ads. Over the past five years, he started, managed and launched Google Compute Engine and helped to create, motivate and launch the Kubernetes project. Joe's current pet project is to make it easy to secure service to service communication with an open project called SPIFFE.

Joe holds a B.S. from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. He lives in Seattle with his wife, a physician, and his two children.

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