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2019 DevOps Dozen Finalists Announced

We are proud to announce the 2019 DevOps Dozen finalists. When we first launched five years ago, I hoped the DevOps Dozen would grow into an award that would honor the best of the best in the maturing DevOps space.

This year, we have included three new categories: Best DevOps Practitioner of the Year, Best DevOps.com Podcast of the Year and Best DevOps Conference of the Year.

Our finalist are definitely the most outstanding leaders in DevOps. Congratulations to each and every one of the finalists in the 12 categories. It is quite an accomplishment to make it this far into the process. Whether you’re chosen as a winner or not, you should be proud to be part of such an impressive list, and don’t get discouraged as there will be more opportunities in the future.

Since the nomination process was opened to the public, our team has gone through thousands of votes to pick out the finalists in each category. It was not an easy task, as we couldn’t automate (DevOps) it—we had to do it by hand. Many thanks to the everyone here at DevOps.com for doing this.

The next step in the process is for the finalists in each category to submit a presentation on why they deserve the award. Please email your final presentation to dd@devops.com by Dec 15, 2019. That information will be passed onto our panel of judges who will then select the winners. The 12 (it is the DevOps DOZEN, after all) winners will be announced in December.

Thanks to everyone who voted and nominated candidates. Good luck to all of the finalists!

Alan Shimel

Editor-in-chief,

DevOps.com

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DevOps Dozen 2019 – Finalists

Category 1 - Best DevOps Solution Provider

This category recognizes the best consultant/solutions provider in DevOps—those helping companies in their DevOps journeys.

Broadcom

CloudBees

GitLab

IBM

JFrog

Plutora

Category 2 - Best DevOps Practitioner of the Year

DevOps is a team effort and team success depends on the work of every member. However, there always are few who go above and beyond the call of duty. Their passion, energy and enthusiasm is contagious. This category recognizes these real humans of DevOps.

Daniel Ritchie, Distinguished Engineer, Broadridge Financial Solution

Dinesh Ramamurthy, Engineering Manager, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc

Jasmine James, IT Manager - DevOps CoE at Delta Air Lines

Mark Moncelle, IT Architect, State Farm

Mirco Hering, Steward of the APAC Agile/DevOps practice at Accenture

Category 3 - Best DevOps Solution Provider Executive

We want to recognize the top executive at a DevOps tools or solution provider—not an executive leading a DevOps transformation within a company. Nominees can be any C-level executive, GM or SVP.

Ashok Reddy, Group General Manager at CA Technologies

Barry Baker, Vice President, IBM Z Software

Chris O’Malley, Chief Executive Officer, Compuware

Sacha Labourey, CEO and Founder at CloudBees

Shlomi Ben Haim, Co-founder and CEO at JFrog

Sid Sijbrandij, CEO at GitLab Inc.

Category 4 - Best DevOps.com Podcast of the Year

Which was your favorite DevOps Chat we’ve done this year? Check out our 2019 DevOps Chats on a multitude of topics ranging from CI/CD and testing to DevSecOps, Kubernetes, containers and more. Let us know which one you liked best.

Shift Right DevSecOps w/ Capsule8 & Pete Markowsky

CI/CD Scalability Lessons - Startup to Enterprise, CircleCI

Cisco DevNet - DevOps and the Programmable Network, Susie Wee

Jfrog Acquires Shippable - An Executive Conversation

Red Hat Developer Experience in the IBM Era, Brad Micklea

Category 5 - Best DevOps Book / eBook

There are so many great DevOps books and eBooks that have been published in addition to “The Phoenix Project.” This category highlights that are the most popular and make a great read.

DevOps Paradox by Viktor Farcic

Engineering DevOps by Marc Hornbeek

Project to Product by Mik Kersten

Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais

The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim

War and Peace and IT by Mark Schwartz

Category 6 - Top DevOps Evangelist

This category is one of our favorites. We are blessed in DevOps to have so many great evangelists who travel the world spreading the DevOps gospel. Nominees can work for a company in the space or not. This should be a really competitive category.

Baruch Sadogursky, Developer Advocate at JFrog

Brian Dawson, DevOps Evangelist at CloudBees

Jeff Keyes, Director of Product Marketing at Plutora

Matt Stratton, DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty

Robert Reeves, CTO at Datical

Rosalind Radcliffe, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect for DevOps for z Systems at IBM

Sanjeev Sharma, Vice President, Global Practice Director - Data Modernization & Strategy at Delphix

Category 7 - Best DevOps Transformation

This category recognizes organizations that are setting the bar in transforming their business through DevOps.

Allstate

Broadridge Financial Solutions

HSBC

Royal Bank of Canada

Société Générale

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Zions Bancorporation

Category 8 - Best DevOps Transformation Leader

We want to acknowledge the key leaders driving the charge within organizations that have had the most success with their DevOps transformations.

Courtney Kissler, Vice President, Global Technology, Nike

Fernando Cornago, Senior Director - Platform Engineering at adidas

Rajeev Mahajan, CIO Engineering & DevOps, HSBC

Russel Webster, VP & Sr. Mgr. - Delivery Tools & Services, DevOps Discipline Lead - Zions Bancorp

Shahin Mohammadkhani, Executive Director, Information Technology, Sony Pictures Entertainment

Category 9 - Best New DevOps Solutions Company

This category seeks to recognize newer companies that have made an impact in the DevOps space and we believe will be tomorrow’s leaders. Nominees must be in the DevOps market less than 24 months.

Enterprise Cloud Security

Continuous Software Delivery at Enterprise Scale

Redefining security for a software-defined world

Serverless Monitoring Platform

Observability platform (acquired by Splunk)

Automation Framework for App Lifecycle Management

Category 10 - Best DevOps Conference of the Year

There’s an IT-related conference somewhere on practically every day and even more DevOps related events coming up each year. With so many events to choose from, we thought it would be good idea to hear from the DevOps community about their top choices.

DevOps Enterprise Summit

DevOps World | Jenkins World

JFrog swampUP

KubeCon | CloudNativeCon

Red Hat Summit

Category 11 - Best DevOps Presentation of the Year

This category recognizes the best DevOps-themed presentation of the past year from any of the myriad conferences.

Expert Panel: Workplace Engagement & Countering Employee Burnout

Infrastructure as Code (Yes, it applies to z/OS as well) - Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM

Fireside chat with Chris O'Malley and Joe Aho of Compuware

Jenkins Performance: Avoiding Pitfalls, Diagnosing Issues & Scaling for Growth

Deliver Results, Not Just Releases: Control & Observability in CD

Category 12 - Best DevOps.com Article of the Year

DevOps.com publishes multiple new articles every day. Which was the best one? Let us know so we can recognize the author.

Mainframes: The Cloud Before the Cloud - Bob Reselman

Why DevOps is Like Football - Brian Dawson

Focusing on the True DevOps North Star: Continuous Improvement - Rick Slaide

DevOps Too ls Democratize the View From Both Sides - Dave Karow

Three Insights from the World’s Leading IT Organizations - Deepak Jannu

Linus Torvalds Sees Lots of Hardware Headaches Ahead - Mike Vizard

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The 2019 DevOps Dozen Categories

This category recognizes the best consultant/solutions provider in DevOps—those helping companies in their DevOps journeys.

We want to recognize the top executive at a DevOps tools or solution provider—not an executive leading a DevOps transformation within a company. Nominees can be any C-level executive, GM or SVP.

Which was your favorite DevOps Chat we’ve done this year? Check out our 2019 DevOps Chats on a multitude of topics ranging from CI/CD and testing to DevSecOps, Kubernetes, containers and more. Let us know which one you liked best.

There are so many great DevOps books and eBooks that have been published in addition to “The Phoenix Project.” This category highlights that are the most popular and make a great read.

This category recognizes organizations that are setting the bar in transforming their business through DevOps.

We want to acknowledge the key leaders driving the charge within organizations that have had the most success with their DevOps transformations.

This category seeks to recognize newer companies that have made an impact in the DevOps space and we believe will be tomorrow’s leaders. Nominees must be in the DevOps market less than 24 months.

This category recognizes the best DevOps-themed presentation of the past year from any of the myriad conferences.

DevOps.com publishes multiple new articles every day. Which was the best one? Let us know so we can recognize the author.

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Our Esteemed Panel of Judges

Alan Shimel

Editor-in-Chief and Founder,
DevOps.com & Security Boulevard
MediaOps Inc.

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Alan Shimel

Editor-in-Chief and Founder,
DevOps.com & Security Boulevard
MediaOps Inc.

Learn more about Alan >>

Jayne Groll

CEO
DevOps Institute

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Jayne Groll

CEO
DevOps Institute

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Mitchell Ashley

Director, Research Analysis on DevOps, Cybersecurity, Networking, IT, IoT, Cloud, MediaOps Inc.

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Mitchell Ashley

Director, Research Analysis on DevOps, Cybersecurity, Networking, IT, IoT, Cloud, MediaOps Inc.

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