Michiel has worked in the IT Industry for over 20 years, started off as Java Developer and currently works as a Principal DevOps Consultant / Solution Architect at Xebia in The Netherlands and is co-writer of the book “Continuous Delivery for Managers”. Michiel specializes in DevOps, Continuous Delivery and full lifecycle software development programs and as such focuses on coaching Agile Teams, setting up central build environments, automating tests, automating deployments and implementing Docker based Container Platforms. Being technical at heart, he advocates the use of Continuous Delivery and DevOps practices at seminars and meetups but remains in touch with details by performing actual implementations at customer sites as well. Aside from being an automator, Michiel is Master trainer and one of the main content providers for the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) fundamentals training.