Christos Galanopoulos
DevOps Engineer | Microsoft MVP
Athens, Greece
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Christos is a DevOps engineer and a Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as Code and DevOps MVP. He is a graduate of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he earned a degree in Informatics and Telecommunications. Moreover, Christos is a proactive and results-driven professional with a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions in fast-paced environments, providing a solid background in architecting, automating, and optimizing complex infrastructures.
Beyond his professional pursuits, Christos actively contributes to the tech community through his blog, open-source projects, and public speaking. He has authored cli tools like biceps-docs and bruh, and spoken to events like Global Azure Athens and Azureheads. As an advocate for continuous learning, he stays engaged with the community, embodying a philosophy of perpetual curiosity. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and helping others to grow and thrive in the tech industry.
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Streamlining Development Workflows
In today's fast-paced software development landscape, streamlining development workflows is essential for unlocking higher productivity and fostering innovation. In this session, we'll explore practical strategies for transforming your team's work by optimizing developer workstations, establishing golden paths, and enabling self-service environment provisioning. These practices help teams reduce friction, enhance collaboration, and deliver value faster.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How consistent, automated workstation setups using tools like Azure Dev Box and GitHub Codespaces can significantly enhance developer productivity.
- The impact of well-defined golden paths in reducing decision fatigue and boosting project success rates through scaffolding tools, template repositories, and Internal Developers Platforms (IDPs).
- How self-service environment provisioning enables developers to quickly set up reliable testing environments, removing delays with solutions like Azure Deployment Environments and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines
By the end of this talk, you will be able to:
- Simplify and standardize your development environments.
- Implement structured workflows that ensure efficiency and quality across projects.
- Empower your developers with the flexibility to innovate faster, without bottlenecks.
Policy-Driven Governance for Infrastructure Code
As organizations scale their cloud infrastructure, managing resources efficiently becomes increasingly complex. This talk addresses the concept of policy-driven governance, focusing on how the Open Policy Agent (OPA) enforces critical policies during infrastructure provisioning to mitigate risks such as misconfigurations and security vulnerabilities.
In this session, you will learn how OPA helps build secure, compliant, and resilient environments by:
- Addressing the key challenges of scaling infrastructure and the role of governance.
- Demonstrating how OPA enforces policies across the entire lifecycle, ensuring operational consistency.
- Showing how to integrate OPA seamlessly into deployment workflows.
Attendees can expect to gain insights into real-world applications of policy-driven governance using OPA. By the end of the session, they'll be equipped to implement OPA policies to ensure the management, security, and operational efficiency of their cloud infrastructure.
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