Grant Smith
London
Bio: Grant has created and led high performance operations teams in some of the largest and fastest growing companies in the UK over the last 20 years. He has been at the forefront of the DevOps movement for the last 10 years. He’s driven real collaboration between Operations and Development teams in AOL, Electronic Arts, British Gas, the Department for Work and Pensions and Just Eat by implementing Infrastructure as code and driving application integration from continuous build systems. Grant has delivered game platforms running in the cloud enjoyed by millions of players per day, websites serving a billion page views per month and Europe’s largest Internet Of Things platform. In addition to writing Next Gen DevOps he has also published his own open source DevOps Transformation Framework available on Github. Grant is frequently sought out for his cloud, DevOps and SRE expertise and can be reached at grant@nextgendevops.com.