D1S3: Our Journey Building a Self Service Platform (Steve Wade & Gavin McNair)
Channel: Weaveworks, Inc.
Date: 2020-12-02

GitOps Days EMEA
Day 1 Session 3 

Our Journey Building a Self Service Platform 
Steve Wade & Gavin McNair
Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WzYSuWUMvswlvtQz1rjRuClHQoYOfMQ7/view?usp=sharing

Steve and Gavin will discuss how Mettle created a self service platform for developers allowing them to successfully deploy hundreds of changes to production per week with confidence.

Q&A: https://youtu.be/J79KStAjjGg

Bios:
Steve Wade is currently consulting as a Platform Engineer at Underwrite Me in London. Prior to this current role, Steve was Platform Lead at Mettle helping them build out their GitOps centric platforms. You may have heard him speak on The Art of Modern Ops podcast by WeaveWorks as well as on TGIK. Before Mettle, Steve was Principal Kubernetes Consultant at Apprenda providing Kubernetes training and implementation services.

Steve has served in technology leadership roles across multiple verticals including real estate, gaming, and the UK parliament. Steve has a BSc in Computer Science and is passionate about cloud-native software development and distributed computing. You can find him as @swade1987 on Twitter and GitHub.

Gavin McNair worked on the Platform Team at Mettle and is heavily involved in Kubernetes, Kafka and data architecture. Before this he co-founded the Sky Analytics platform within BskyB ingesting, anonymising and commoditizing data from many corners of the business. Gavin has been working in the Platform/Devops sector for well over 20 years across many financial companies including Trading Screen, iDealing, Interactive Investor, Reuters and other government related contracts.