Pulak Agrawal
DevOps Practice Lead at Accenture UK with Director of Digital Security for Virgin Media O2
London, United Kingdom
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I am a thought leader in the cloud and DevSecOps space. Working with C suite stakeholders and Accenture partners to form IT strategy, advise, consult, architect, sell and deliver technology solutions. Having done technology strategy, cloud builds & migrations, implementations, operating models and bringing actual ways of working & culture change for clients, I bring a whole breadth and depth to any engagement. In parallel to external roles, as Accenture’s UKI DevOps practice lead own solutioning, operations, sales, PoV creation, QA, ownership of internal employee processes, and mentoring a group of 60+ people. Public Presence : Passionate about everything architecture, featured in the Team Topologies book, I am a judge for DevOps awards , teach courses on architecture & DevOps regularly, and an SRE enthusiast.
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Shift left security in ludicrous mode
VM (Virgin Media) Digital and security teams worked with Accenture as a blended squad and delivered a highly successful and effective DevSecOps project in Summer 2021. This was a marquee project sponsored by the CDO to address how to create a left shifted security approach to address long wait times for security approvals where impeding unlocking value into production. The dedicated project team moved the idea from conception to go live in 9 weeks. To power the change the team were the first application of the new container platform (Anthos) VM’s new Google Cloud Platform. Since the launch date, we’ve had zero incidents (security or otherwise) to date; deployments are highly performant and provide scalable customer-facing systems. This approach has brought a paradigm shift on how VM looks at security in releasing to production and a major mind shift in the culture.
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