About
See how to unlock developer innovation with self-service while ensuring governance, security, and compliance. Explore how integrated toolchains, executive sponsorship, and customer-focused culture create golden paths for platform engineering. Learn how guardrails encourage the right behaviours and shared workflows drive efficiency, enabling a powerful, scalable, and secure DevOps platform. This session will include a live demonstration of the Harness platform.

Key Takeaways:

- Balance Innovation with Control – Enable self-service development while enforcing security, compliance, and governance through automated guardrails.
- Streamline Developer Workflows – Leverage integrated toolchains and golden paths to enhance efficiency, collaboration, and platform adoption.
- Drive Success with Executive Sponsorship – Foster a culture of shared responsibility, aligning leadership support with developer needs to accelerate DevOps transformation.
When
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 · 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (US & Canada) (GMT -4:00)
Presenter
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Martin Reynolds
Field CTO - Harness
My passion for Software Delivery is driven by facilitating success, fostering blameless accountability, and balancing development experience with security and governance requirements. DevSecOps practices impact the entire software lifecycle, and helping teams deliver exceptional software that is high quality, high value and secure is my ultimate goal.

Harness, a customer-focused company, aligns with my values and commitment to improving engineers' lives, making it the perfect next step in my career. My 30+ years in software development, architecture, and delivery in multiple technical environments and sectors ultimately led me to a transformative journey at Advanced, beginning as an Application Architect, and later becoming a Development Manager for 20+ educational products.

In 2013, I spearheaded Advanced’s cloud migration, marking my introduction to DevOps and the creation of Advanced's first DevOps team. As Director for DevOps and IaaS, I built dedicated squads and the broader community, mentoring and training to deliver at scale.