Harsha Vardhan, Sr Director Software Engineering, Optum Global Solutions. In his current role, he is responsible for software engineering delivery for OptumHealth business. He is Agile evangelist, helped building product development organization and successfully implemented scaled agile in distributed teams. Harsha has 20+ yrs. of IT experience in Application/Product development. In the past, he worked with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd and Ford Technologies with diversified culture team in North America, Latin America, Ireland and The Philippines.
He has been contributing to Agile and DevOps communities in India and speaking to conferences such as Agile NCR, Agile Network India, Agile Mumbai, Agile Gurugram, Lean Kanban India and various meetups.
Value of DevOps - Journey from Automation to NoOps, are we keeping up the pace?
DevOps has been one of the game changers to accelerate Collaboration and Automation to drive Speed to Market (Development priorities) and Availability/ Stability/ Performance etc. (IT Operations priorities) for last 8+ yrs. Fast forwarding, Gartner's 2018 Hype Cycle for Performance Analysis named DevOps and AIOps as two areas that have gained the most momentum in the industry .In essence , AIOPS has helped in shaping DevOp smarter and intelligent i.e. DevOps Systems that Do -> Think -> Learn.
Engineering maturity of FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) companies are already in the journey of NoOps - the point where an IT environment becomes so automated that a dedicated team isn't even needed for managing tasks anymore.
For engineering teams to nurture the belief that "machines should solve known problems and engineers must focus on solving new problems," which essentially means saying NO to manual IT operations.
