Switching lanes and finding a calling in DevOps with Melissa Parker

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DEVOPS

Sep 20, 2024

About Speaker

Mellisa Parker

Technology leader

Melissa Parker is a seasoned DevOps engineer with over 26 years of experience in the technology sector. Currently leading the DevOps team at a large insurance company in central New Jersey, Melissa’s journey began as an administrative assistant, where she honed her technical skills while assisting colleagues with computer-related issues. Her proactive approach led her to transition into a help desk analyst role, where she developed a solid foundation in IT. Over the years, Melissa has worn many hats, from quality assurance and project management to change and release management, ultimately finding her niche in the dynamic field of DevOps.

In 2018, Melissa took a significant step in her career by embracing the DevOps movement within her organization. Since then, she has been instrumental in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, implementing automation solutions, and fostering a culture of collaboration between development and operations teams. As a passionate advocate for continuous improvement, Melissa actively engages with her peers to enhance the developer experience, streamline processes, and optimize cloud resource management.

About Host

Sathya Narayanan Nagarajan

Co-founder and CTO, Amnic

Sathya is an experienced technologist with over two decades in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Electric Vehicles (EV), and Distributed Systems. As the Co-founder and CTO of Amnic, he drives the development of a cloud Intelligence Platform, emphasizing efficiency, cost reduction, and reliability. Sathya's leadership spans roles at Ola Electric Mobility, Ola Cabs, Yahoo and many internet companies. With 11 patents in AI, EV, and Distributed Systems, he is committed to knowledge sharing and guiding industry thought leaders.

Summary of Podcast

In this edition of AmnicCast, we are joined by Melissa Parker, a seasoned DevOps engineer with over 26 years of experience in the technology sector. Melissa shares her journey from an administrative assistant to leading a DevOps team at a large insurance company. She offers invaluable insights into her career development and the challenges she's faced along the way.

In this episode, we’ll look into topics such as the evolution of DevOps, the importance of automation in CI/CD pipelines, and strategies for fostering collaboration between development and operations teams. Melissa will also discuss best practices for cloud resource management and continuous improvement, providing listeners with actionable takeaways to enhance their own practices in the tech industry.

About Amnic

Amnic is a cloud cost observability platform, helping businesses measure and rightsize their cloud costs. Amnic helps businesses visualize, analyze and optimize their cloud spends, in turn building a lean cloud infrastructure. Amnic offers out of the box solutions that help breakdown cloud bills and provide greater visibility and understanding into cloud costs along with recommendations to lower spends, alerts and anomaly detection.

Amnic delivers a wide range of features including K8s visibility, cost analyzer, alerts and custom reporting, budgeting, forecasting and smart tagging. DevOps and SRE teams rely on Amnic to deliver a simplified view into their cloud costs, allowing them to maintain governance and build a culture of cost optimization. Setup in 5-minutes and get 30-days of free trial.

Visit www.amnic.com to get started.

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