This week Jeffrey has a special episode for you all! It is recorded live, from the night before the Microsoft MVP Summit, at Jeffrey’s annual “Party with Palermo!” get-together for MVPs. Jeffrey gives an introduction to a number of MVPs who are attending the conference and reconnects with friends and colleagues in the software industry — 19 to be exact! You’ll want to stay tuned for this one to learn about what they’re currently up to in the industry and what they’re most looking forward to at t...
Apr 08, 2019•41 min•Ep. 31
Your host, Jeffrey Palermo, is excited to bring you this week’s episode with his guest, Ted Neward! Ted is an Independent Consultant and Architect, as well as a long-time columnist of CODE Magazine. He also teaches Android Development (using Java) and iOS Development at the University of Washington as a Guest Lecturer. In this week’s episode, Ted and Jeffrey are going to be talking about the ‘Ops’ (AKA the operations) side of DevOps. They discuss how operations is implemented in the DevOps movem...
Apr 01, 2019•54 min•Ep. 30
Today’s guest is Matt Mitrik, the Sr. Program Manager of the Azure DevOps Services Team. Matt has been working with ALM and DevOps tools for roughly 13 years. He joined Microsoft in 2006 and has been there ever since. Originally, his journey started at the TFS Team in migration tools, helping people get from the previous generation of version control and work tracking tools. Now, within the Azure DevOps Services Team, he’s working on Azure Boards, and is helping to build that integration between...
Mar 25, 2019•42 min•Ep. 29
Phil Haack joins the podcast to discuss DevOps at GitHub! Phil has an interesting and extensive career background. He started out as a Manager of Software Engineering back in 1997. Since then, he’s done a lot — but some of his recent highlights include: being the main Program Manager at Microsoft from 2007-2011 (responsible for ASP.NET MVC and NuGet), and leading the Client Apps team as Director of Engineering at GitHub. Now, most recently, he has founded his own company, Haacked, which he start...
Mar 18, 2019•46 min•Ep. 28
On today’s episode, Jeffrey Palermo welcomes back return guest, Greg Leonardo. Greg is a Cloud Architect at Campus Management Corp. and Webonology. Greg’s main focus is to help organizations with Cloud adoption and innovation. He’s been working in the IT industry since his time in the military (1993), and is a developer, teacher, speaker, and early adopter. He’s worked in many facets of IT throughout his career and is the President of TampaDev a community meetup that runs #TampaCC, Azure User Gr...
Mar 11, 2019•43 min•Ep. 27
This week, Jeffrey welcomes his guest, Beth Massi! Beth is the Product Marketing Manager for the entire .NET platform. She’s also on the Board of Directors for .NET Foundation. She has been with Microsoft for over 12 years, originally starting out as a Senior Program Manager. Beth fell in love with the .NET platform when it was first released in 2000 and hasn’t stopped working with it since — making her the perfect person to talk all things .NET with Jeffrey today! In this episode, they discuss ...
Mar 04, 2019•42 min•Ep. 26
Today’s featured guest is Martin Woodward! Martin is a Principal Group Program Manager on the Azure DevOps team at Microsoft as well as the Vice President of the .NET Foundation. Martin has been with Microsoft quite a while, joining back in 2009. When he first started with Microsoft, his focus was on open source, then bringing GitHub into TFS and Microsoft, and then helping with .NET team. He even created Microsoft’s original account on GitHub. In today’s episode, Martin and Jeffrey dive right i...
Feb 25, 2019•48 min•Ep. 25
On today’s episode, Scott Hunter joins your host, Jeffrey Palermo, to discuss DevOps capabilities in Azure. Scott is the Director of Program Management for .NET at Microsoft. When Scott first joined Microsoft back in 2007, he was working on the ASP.NET team. As the Director of Program Management of .NET, he and his team build .NET Core, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, managed languages (C#/F#/VB), as well as the Web and .NET Tooling for Visual Studio. Join Scott Hunter and Jeffrey as ...
Feb 18, 2019•44 min•Ep. 24
Simon Timms is a long-time freelance Software Engineer, multi-time Microsoft MVP co-host of ASP.NET Monsters on Channel 9, and also runs the Function Junction Youtube channel. He considers himself a generalist with a history of working in a diverse range of industries. He’s personally interested in A.I., DevOps, and microservices; and skilled in Software as a Service (SaaS), .NET Framework, Continuous Integration, C#, and JavaScript. He’s also written two books with Packt Publishing: Social Data...
Feb 11, 2019•39 min•Ep. 23
Paul Stovell, the founder and CEO of Octopus Deploy, joins the podcast today. Paul is an expert on all things automated deployment and Cloud operations. He started Octopus Deploy back in 2011, but prior to that, he worked as a consultant for about five years. Octopus Deploy is a pretty major player in the market. Their mission? To do automated deployments really, really well. Today, it helps over 20,000 customers automate their deployments, and employs 40 brilliant people. It can be integrated w...
Feb 04, 2019•41 min•Ep. 22
This week, your host, Jeffrey Palermo, is bringing you a special solo episode to discuss current industry news in the DevOps space, as well as some of his latest tips and strategies. Jeffrey has been incredibly passionate about DevOps for a while now — since 2006 to be exact. Earlier in his career, he was a founding board member of a group called Agile Austin, led the Austin .NET User Group for about 5 years, and founded the Azure Austin Group. Since 2005, he has really had a passion for helping...
Jan 28, 2019•40 min•Ep. 21
In this episode, Paul Hacker is joining the Azure DevOps Podcast to discuss DevOps processes and migrations. Paul is a DevOps Architect at Microsoft and has over 15 years of application, architecture, design, development, and management experience in Microsoft technologies. He has a depth of experience in ALM, Process Improvement, and Team Foundation Server. He’s also a fully self-taught engineer in Microsoft technologies. When Team Foundation Server first came out, he jumped on the bandwagon an...
Jan 21, 2019•37 min•Ep. 20
Today’s guest is Greg Leonardo, a Cloud Architect at Campus Management Corp. and Webonology. Greg’s main focus is to help organizations with Cloud adoption and innovation. He’s been working in the IT industry since his time in the military (1993), and is a developer, teacher, speaker, and early adopter. He’s worked in many facets of IT throughout his career and is the President of TampaDev — a community meetup that runs #TampaCC, Azure User Group, Azure Medics, and various technology events thro...
Jan 14, 2019•39 min•Ep. 19
Today’s episode is a bit of a special one — your host, Jeffrey Palermo, interviews his own older brother, Aaron Palermo. Aaron is a DevOps engineer, solution architect, and all-around cybersecurity expert. He works for a global cybersecurity services company, is a member of the Cloud Security Alliance, and is a co-author of the up-and-coming Software Defined Perimeter Specification Version 2. SDP is a full replacement for VPN — providing better protection to fully secure your data, devices, and ...
Jan 07, 2019•53 min•Ep. 18
In today’s episode, your host, Jeffrey Palermo, is joined by his guest, Gopinath Chigakkagari. Gopinath is Principal Group Program Manager on the Azure Pipelines product and is an expert on continuous delivery. He’s been with Microsoft for over 20 years, serving a variety of roles at the company — starting out as a developer, then becoming a program manager, and then transitioning to his current role as GPM for Pipelines. Today, Gopinath hits on some fascinating points and topics about Azure Pip...
Dec 31, 2018•31 min•Ep. 17
Today’s episode of the Azure DevOps Podcast is featuring Roopesh Nair, a Principal Lead Program Manager at Microsoft. He has over 20 years of experience in custom software. And at Microsoft, he works on the release capabilities in Azure Pipelines. Roopesh is incredibly passionate about DevOps and enjoys working with customers. In this episode, Roopesh gives an overview of the capabilities within Azure DevOps in terms of deploying software, gives his recommendations on how to quickly get started ...
Dec 24, 2018•36 min•Ep. 16
Today’s episode is all about the future of Azure Pipelines. To discuss this topic is Chris Patterson, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. Chris has been working at Microsoft for over 13 years — starting in 2005 as a Technology Specialist, then transitioned into his current role in 2006. His focus is on the Team Build features of Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services. In this episode, Jeffrey and Chris discuss how the infrastructure of Azure Pipelines is changing, what a buil...
Dec 17, 2018•40 min•Ep. 15
In today’s episode Jeffrey is joined by Jeremy Epling, Head of Product for Azure Pipelines and a Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft. He has been a leader at Microsoft for over 15 years in various roles. There’s a lot going on in the DevOps space with Azure right now — and in particular, with Azure Pipelines. Jeremy is incredibly passionate about the current progress being made and is excited to discuss all the new features coming to Pipelines in today’s episode! Topics of Discussion: [...
Dec 10, 2018•45 min•Ep. 14
In this episode, Jeffrey Palermo is joined by Jamie Cool to discuss what’s going on in Azure DevOps! Jamie is the Director of Program Management for Microsoft. In his role he manages dozens of Program Managers all around the world, shipping loads of features on the platform. He has been at Microsoft for 20 years now. When he was first interviewing out of college, he was very intrigued by the PM role, and so he tried out for the role at Microsoft — and the rest is history. Today, Jamie and Jeffre...
Dec 03, 2018•37 min•Ep. 13
In this episode, Jeffrey is discussing security in DevOps with his guest, Henry Been. Henry is an independent DevOps and Azure architect from the Netherlands. He enjoys working with development teams to create and deliver great software — and for him, this includes the full DevOps cycle; starting with discovering and planning new features and ending only when end users are satisfied. Henry’s interests include the Azure cloud, Agile, DevOps, software architecture and the design and implementation...
Nov 26, 2018•29 min•Ep. 12
In today’s episode, Jeffrey is joined by Eric Hexter, the Chief Technology Officer of Quarterspot LASO — a fintech company that produces lending platforms using machine learning. He built the company in the Cloud with DevOps as a foundational component of delivering the product. Eric has filled roles as CTO, Chief Architect, Developer, and Consultant. He’s spent most of his career working with web technologies, with a total of twenty years experience producing technology solutions that deliver b...
Nov 19, 2018•57 min•Ep. 11
This episode Jeffrey brings you a live recording from the Microsoft Ignite event. Today, he’s talking with several people, including Greg Leonardo, an Azure MVP and Cloud Architect; Josh Gaverick, an MVP in Application Lifecycle Management and an Senior Application Architect at 10th Magnitude; Rob Richardson, a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET who also builds web properties for small and medium sized businesses; and Colin Dembovsky, an ALM MVP and Cloud Solution Architect at 10th Magnitude. Tune in to h...
Nov 12, 2018•51 min•Ep. 10
Jeffrey Palermo is joined by Aaron Bjork on the Azure DevOps Podcast today! Aaron is a Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft where he directs all work in the areas of Agile project management, reporting, and collaboration for Azure DevOps Services. He’s a 16-year Microsoft veteran who has spent his career building products that promote and encourage team productivity. He is also a recognized Agile thought leader and speaks regularly with companies around the world on how to improve their ...
Nov 05, 2018•31 min•Ep. 9
This week, your host, Jeffrey Palermo, interviews Damian Brady. Damian is a Senior Cloud DevOps Developer Advocate at Microsoft, helping customers implement DevOps methods on the Microsoft platform. He’s been with Microsoft for just over a year now and formerly served as a developer for Octopus Deploy. In this episode, Damian and Jeffrey talk all things data science and machine learning. Damian answers key questions such as: what has been the biggest change in the area of data science since the ...
Oct 29, 2018•38 min•Ep. 8
In this episode, Jeffrey speaks with Lori Lamkin, Microsoft’s Director of Program Management. She has been leading the Visual Studio Team Services program management since the conception of Team Foundation Server in 2002 — that’s 16 years in the space of better shipping software using Microsoft technologies! She led the transition of the team to Agile methodologies, to open source reuse, to Cloud services, and Azure. Lori and Jeffrey discuss what’s next for Lori in and of her role as Director of...
Oct 22, 2018•38 min•Ep. 7
This week, your host, Jeffrey Palermo, brings you a recording, live from the Microsoft Ignite conference. He interviews Edward Thomson, the Principal Program Manager for Azure DevOps, the maintainer of libgit2 (the git library), a host of All Things Git (a podcast about Git), and the curator of Developer Tools Weekly (a weekly newsletter with developer tool news). After the tight-knit company Edward was a Software Engineer for — Teamprise — was acquired by Microsoft, Edward transitioned into the...
Oct 15, 2018•50 min•Ep. 6
This week, Jeffrey Palermo is joined by his guest, Dave McKinstry. Dave is a Program Manager with the Azure DevOps Services Community Team — connecting with partners and customers, spreading modern practises, and helping developers succeed with DevOps and Azure. Prior to his position at Microsoft, he has been in software services and technical sales for over 18 years. As a consultant, principal consultant, co-owner, and manager, he has always helped people efficiently build better software. He l...
Oct 08, 2018•35 min•Ep. 5
Welcome to the 4th episode of the Azure DevOp s podcast! Today, Jeffrey Palermo is joined by special guest, Steven Murawski. Steven is the Lead Cloud Ops Advocate at Microsoft and leads the Cloud Ops Advocacy team focused on DevOps SRE and Cloud Native scenarios with Azure. He is an active member of the Chef and WinOps communities and a maintainer for several open source projects including Chef, Habitat, and Test-Kitchen. Steve focuses specifically on infrastructure within Azure DevOps. This epi...
Oct 01, 2018•42 min•Ep. 4
This episode, Jeffrey Palermo welcomes his guest Sam Guckenheimer, to the podcast! Sam is the Product Owner for the Azure DevOps product line at Microsoft, and has been with the Microsoft team for the last 15 years. He has 30 years of experience as an architect, developer, tester, product Manager, project manager, and general manager in the software industry worldwide. His first book, Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System , was translated into 7 languages and recognized a...
Sep 24, 2018•42 min•Ep. 3
Welcome to the second episode of The Azure DevOps Podcast — with your host, Jeffrey Palermo. Jeffrey is joined by his guest, Donovan Brown, to discuss how to use Azure DevOps services. Donovan is a Principle DevOps Manager at Microsoft, helping developers do great things with DevOps methods on the Microsoft platform. He has been with Microsoft since December of 2013, and has been a developer for 20 years. This episode, Jeffrey and Donovan talk about the whirlwind it’s been since the launch of th...
Sep 10, 2018•45 min•Ep. 2
