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As the VP of Engineering at SPS Commerce, Paul Birkbeck leads the engineering teams for internally and externally facing analytics products, all of which are cloud-based.

His career is focused on successfully bringing big data solutions to market. He takes a holistic approach to this, which means having the right tech, people, processes, and culture in place.

He values engineering best practices, automation, agile, DevOps, and, above all else, a practical approach to building and deploying software.

“DevOps: What’s the Big Deal?”
Join Paul as he walks you through the real life DevOps journey taken by SPS Commerce, the worldwide leader in retail SaaS solutions. With over 400 people worldwide in the tech organization, shifting a culture is a complex task. Paul will cover some of the common challenges tech organizations face when shifting their culture to one that embraces DevOps, as well as the benefits SPS Commerce has enjoyed while transitioning.

Max is a passionate and innovative DevOps advocate who thrives on challenge and believes in success through collaboration. He has 18+ years of progressive experience in private and public organizations, helping clients to implement best practices around continuous deployment and scalable infrastructure. Max is also a decent developer with Master degree in Computer Science who just enjoys IT work too much A dilettante librarian with Master’s in Library and Information Science.

Max is a tenacious problem-solver with strong organizational, communication and management skills who brings energy, enthusiasm, and leadership to problem resolution. A life-long learner with an uncompromising approach to client satisfaction.

“Securing DevOps Pipelines”

DevOps practices are allowing businesses to stay ahead of the competition by delivering new features faster than ever before. As the frequency of production deployments increases, this business agility cannot come at the expense of security. With continuous delivery, how do you ensure your applications are secure and stay secure? How can you find and fix security issues early in the process? Establishing continuous security validation into your CI/CD pipeline can allow your application to stay secure while you are improving the deployment frequency to meet needs of your business to stay ahead of the competition.

Antanis has garnered over 15 years of experience in the IT sector after completing his engineering degree. Antanis strives to deliver excellence through continuous business delivery at his current role at SCI MarketView where he manages agile development teams. He strives to improve the client experience and simultaneous meet business objectives by coaching trams with accepted test-driven development (ATDD). Antanis garners the principles of unit testing so that a system can be sourced to production sustainably and instantaneously. Antanis constantly works towards sustainable product delivery while coaching, mentoring and empower team mates to problem solve effectively. Antanis combined experience with product development and management has led his to be an exceptional leader in the field.

“Challenges with Continuous Delivery”