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Romano Roth

Romano Roth

Global Chief of DevOps | Thought Leader | Coach | Trainer | Speaker | Lecturer | Organizer of DevOpsDays Zürich & DevOps Meetup Zürich | Bringing People, Process and Technology together to continuousl

Zürich, Switzerland

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Romano Roth is a pioneering thought leader in DevOps and platform engineering, with over two decades of experience in the technology sector. As the Global Chief of DevOps at Zühlke, Romano is responsible for shaping the global strategy and service portfolio for DevOps, platform engineering, and cloud solutions. His visionary approach has revolutionized software development across various industries, including finance, insurance, cybersecurity, electricity, healthcare, and aerospace.

Romano began his journey at Zühlke 22 years ago, evolving from an expert software engineer and software architect to a distinguished consultant, and eventually to his current role. Throughout his career, he has been driven by a singular passion: continuously delivering value while ensuring quality and automation. This passion naturally led him to the DevOps movement, where he has become a significant influencer.

Romano is the organizer of the monthly DevOps Meetup in Zürich and the president of DevOps Days Zürich, an annual conference that is part of the global DevOps movement. He also shares his expertise through his YouTube channel, which features over 200 videos on DevOps, architecture, and leadership. Additionally, Romano has authored more than 30 blog posts on these topics on his website.

His commitment to education and thought leadership extends to his role as a lecturer in DevOps leadership and agile methodologies at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Romano’s work emphasizes the transformative power of DevOps in modern enterprises, harmonizing people, processes, and technologies to continuously create value and foster innovation.​

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Finance & Banking
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • DevOps
  • Software Development
  • Cloud & DevOps
  • DevOps & Automation
  • Azure DevOps
  • DevSecOps
  • Agile software development
  • DevOps Transformation
  • DevOpsCulture
  • DevOps Skills
  • Leadership development
  • DevOps Journey
  • DevOps Enterprises
  • DevOps Agile Methodology & Culture
  • SecDevOps

What is the business case for DevOps?

Everyone wants to do DevOps. But only a few understand what DevOps is and what it does with your company. When you want to introduce DevOps in a company you need to convince decision-makers that it is worth investing money/time/resources into the DevOps transformation. They will ask you about the business case and the return on investment of DevOps. In this talk, I will show you how to convince the decision-maker about the business case and the return on investment of DevOps, so that you get the money/time and resources for your DevOps transformation.

Container Days 2019: What is the Business Case of DevOps?https://youtu.be/u_apBFUuMs0
DevOpsDays Zürich 2019: What is the Business Case of DevOps?https://vimeo.com/344516688

This talk will be fully updated with my newest experience and to the audience. I'm also currently working on a mathematical model to calculate the cost of unused features or poorly developed features. This will then be included in this talk.

How to architect for continuous delivery

You want to continuously deliver value to your customer whether you create a new product or maintain an existing product. To do this you need to architect for continuous delivery. This for sure includes a continuous delivery pipeline (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline). But it also includes that you architect your product for continuous delivery.
In this talk, I will show you, with concrete examples, how to architect for continuous delivery.

DevOps – Thinking in Systems & Value Streams

In today's world, everybody wants to do DevOps. But why? What problems are we trying to solve?
Together, we will take a step back and look at how you can architect for continuous delivery.

AI-Augmented DevOps with Platform Engineering

Explore the fusion of AI with DevOps and platform engineering to automate workflows, enhance efficiency, and drive innovation. Learn about cutting-edge tools, practices, and future trends.

The Digital Factory

Many companies are suffering from a lack of alignment between business and IT, silo thinking, and inefficiencies in product development, while time to market is becoming increasingly important.
These companies try to adapt DevOps in their organizations, but unfortunately, sometimes the DevOps approach is misunderstood, wrongly implemented, and it does not scale as expected.
We are entering the age of the industrialization of software development. The Digital Factory together with Platform Engineering will help industrialize digital product development across teams to efficiently develop products and improve the lives of our staff, time to market, quality, and alignment.
What you will learn:
- What are the current challenges
- What is DevOps
- How to scale DevOps
- Platform Engineering
- How to implement a Digital Factory

Why do we want to introduce DevOps?

Introducing DevOps in a large enterprise is difficult.
But wait – why do we want to introduce DevOps in the first place?
Good question. I will answer the question in my lightning talk and show you what happens when you introduce DevOps and what did not happen.

Romano Roth

Global Chief of DevOps | Thought Leader | Coach | Trainer | Speaker | Lecturer | Organizer of DevOpsDays Zürich & DevOps Meetup Zürich | Bringing People, Process and Technology together to continuousl

Zürich, Switzerland

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