Session Title

DevSecOps in practices - Finding a sweet spot between velocity, stability and security

Abstract

For engineering team, velocity of product development is of paramount importance towards end user satisfaction and revenue growth of the organization. Engineers are expected to be able to release code quickly to production, sometime even multiple times in day. However, reliability of the software systems also cannot be compromised – otherwise the benefits of rapid product development is quickly lost. It is also of equal or more importance to ensure that the software system maintains the highest level of security standards expected by the users to protect organization from significant risks of financial, reputational and regulatory.

The objectives of velocity on one hand and stability and security on the other seems to have a conflicting demand on engineering bandwidth. In this talk, we would like to discuss on certain aspects of DevOps practice and metrics that helps in achieving and maintaining a fine balance among these seemingly conflicting objectives.

Bio

Pinak Chakraborty is the Chief Information Officer for Airtel Payments Bank. At the bank, he is responsible for strategy and plans related to product designing and delivery and also ensures operational stability of the products and IT systems. In addition to this, he is responsible to bring in strong technical governance and world class systems to help take bank to its next phase of growth. Pinak has over two decades of experience in engineering leadership and applied research in building software products that provide a frictionless, responsive and personalised experience to end users. He has fourteen patents granted by the US Patent Office in the areas of application of machine learning and natural language processing. Pinak did his B.E in Computer Science and Engineering from NIT, Silchar and completed a post graduate certificate from IIIT-Hyderabad. He has also attended a General Management Programme from IIM-Calcutta.