CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

Christopher Lane

Chick-fil-A

Enterprise Architect

Atlanta, GA

https://chick-fil-a.com/

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Christopher Lane is a Principal Enterprise Architect with Chick-fil-A focused on Customer Technology Solutions (CTS). CTS' profile includes all customer-facing applications and services at Chick-fil-A, including our industry-leading Chick-fil-A One mobile application. Prior to joining Chick-fil-A, Christopher worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, as well as several startups in the Los Angeles and Nashville areas.

9:00am MST

AppDeveloperCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Mark Fussell, Program Co-Chair Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Platform Engineering Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Paula Kennedy & Stacey Potter, Event Co-Chairs Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

9:10am MST

The Power of Apache Pulsar. Harnessing Dapr to Build High Scale Messaging at FICO® - Hugo Smitter, FICO Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Platform Working Group Update - Atulpriya Sharma with Abby Bangser & Colin Griffin, Platform Working Group Leads Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

9:25am MST

Navigating the No-Code to Full-Code Spectrum - a Platform Engineering Journey - Jared Watts, Upbound & Maximilian Blatt, Accenture Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

9:45am MST

Tales from the Crypt: Application Packaging and Delivery Nightmares - Scott Rigby, Helm Maintainer & Sarah Christoff, Defense Unicorns Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

9:55am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Promoting Common Standards Without Sacrificing Tenant Autonomy - Lukas Gentele, Loft Labs Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

10:05am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Make Workloads, Not Infrastructure - Will Stewart, Northflank Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

10:15am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Intro to the CNCF App Development WG - Daniel Oh & Mauricio Salatino, WG Co-Chairs Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Sponsored Keynote: Containerization – It’s Not Just for CPUs Anymore: Introducing a Kubernetes-based Serverless Platform for AI Data Applications - Nathan Goulding, Vultr Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

10:20am MST

Sponsored Keynote: How Intuit Uses Argo, GitOps, and AI to Boost Developer Velocity - Edward Lee, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

10:25am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Application Networking is Broken - Platform Engineering to the Rescue! - Sanjeev Gupta, IBM Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

10:30am MST

Sponsored Keynote: The Twelve-Factor App, Rebooted: Essentials for Cloud Native Development - Vish Abrams, Heroku Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

10:40am MST

Building a Cutting-Edge Kubernetes Internal Developer Platform at NVIDIA - Carlos Santana, AWS & Feng Zhou, NVIDIA Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Dog Food Delight: How Argo Workflows Eats Its Own CI - Denise Schannon, Loft Labs & Tim Collins, Pipekit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Portals and Platforms, Two Ps in a Pod? How Good Interfaces Make for Good Operability - Jorge Lainfiesta, Rootly & Abby Bangser, Syntasso Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

11:15am MST

Event Discovery for Kubernetes Applications - Pierangelo Di Pilato & Christoph Stäbler, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Enhancing Compliance and Safety with Argo CD Ephemeral Access - Leonardo Luz Almeida & Vijay Agrawal, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD ⚡ Lightning Talk: Are You Really Ready to Adopt a Platform? - Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

11:30am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: The Hidden Discipline: Marketing Secrets for Engineering Platforms - Erica Hughberg, Tetrate Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

12:45pm MST

Panel: Measuring the Impact of Platform Engineering - Mallory Haigh, Humanitec; Nathen Harvey, Google Cloud; Kirk Hoganson, BambooHR; Heather Joslyn, The New Stack; Guillaume Caya Letourneau, Workleap Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

1:10pm MST

Space Age GitOps: Lifting off with Argo Promotions (Live Demo!) - Michael Crenshaw & Zach Aller, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

1:30pm MST

Your Cheat Code for API Authorization - Omri Gazitt, Aserto Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

1:40pm MST

GitOps Safety: Rendering Accurate ArgoCD Diffs Directly on Pull Requests - Dag Bjerre Andersen, Doubble & Regina Voloshin, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B

2:05pm MST

Streamlining Cloud-Native Development: Simplifying Dependencies and Testing with Microcks - Laurent Broudoux, Microcks & Daniel Oh, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Harnessing Crossplane and Dapr for DevOps: FICO’s Platform Engineering Journey to Increase Velocity - Hugo Smitter, FICO Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

2:10pm MST

Managing Application Dependencies in Argo CD - Christian Hernandez, Akuity Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

2:40pm MST

Fake It to Make It! - TDD of gRPC Microservices - Ed Crewe, EnterpriseDB Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Secure Your Systems the Better Way Using Policy-as-Code - Adriana Villela, ServiceNow Cloud Observability & Marino Wijay, Kong Inc. Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

3:20pm MST

Tuning Argo Rollouts for Thousands of Workloads - Carlos Sanchez & Roxana Balasoiu, Adobe Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Whoops! How Not to Accidentally Delete Everything - Dan Garfield, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Innovating at Scale: Building and Managing Modern Developer Platform in U.S. Bank - Poonam Garg & Carrie Pommier, U.S. Bank Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

3:55pm MST

Bridge the Gap Between Terraform and GitOps - Junze Bao & Alexander Matyushentsev, Akuity Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Ephemeral Environment Practices - the Good, Bad, and Ugly - Luke Philips & David Grizzanti, The New York Times Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD If You Build It, They Will Come - a Platform Modernization Journey - Ken Heaslip & Chloe Clarke, Canada Life Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

4:25pm MST

Developer Platform Consoles Should Be Dumb - Viktor Farcic, Upbound Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

4:30pm MST

Demystifying Argo Events: An Architectural Deep Dive - JP Zivalich, Pipekit Inc. & Becky Pauley, Venafi Jetstack Consult Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Stop Deploying Blind! Using Observability and Argo Rollouts to Light the Way - Kostis Kapelonis, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

5:00pm MST

Panel: Platform Adoption Strategies: Critical Roles When Investing in Platforms - Danielle Cook, StackGen; Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Red Hat; Simon Forster, CNCF Ambassador Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

5:30pm MST

Platform Engineering Day | Closing Remarks - Vijay Chintha & Paula Kennedy, Program Co-Chairs Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G