About the Jeff Smith

Jeff Smith has been in the technology industry for over 15 years, oscillating between management and individual contributor. Jeff currently serves as the Director of Production Operations for Centro, an advertising software company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Before that he served as the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering at Grubhub.

Jeff is passionate about DevOps transformations in organizations large and small, with a particular interest in the psychological aspects of problems in companies. He lives in Chicago with his wife Stephanie and their two kids Ella and Xander.

Jeff is currently writing a book “Operational Anti-Patterns with DevOps Solutions” with Manning publishing due out in Spring of 2020. He’s also the chapter president of Blacks in Technology

Links Referenced:

@DarkAndNerdy
Article: The First DevOps Hurdle
BITCon
Blacks in Technology
Jeff's Book: Operations Anti-Patterns with DevOps Solutions

Overcoming Change Management Anti-Patterns through Automation with Jeffery Smith