Colin McNamara is the Director of DevOps for Dimension Data Americas. He manages DevOps and agile development organizations. The document discusses Dimension Data's work in areas like software development, systems integration, network design, toolchain development for deploying CI systems to cloud platforms, contributions to open source projects like OpenStack, OpenDaylight, Open vSwitch, and use of practices like agile software development. It also introduces Colin McNamara and describes his experience in areas such as SDN development, agile process consulting, and DevOps consulting. The document advocates for establishing a 72 hour stand down period where no coding is done from 11PM to 7AM to change the culture around midnight hacking and cutovers.

1. Colin McNamara
Director, DevOps DD Americas
Close your laptop and go to sleep!

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9. What do
we do?
50%
upstream
For Core Dev’s
Software Development, Systems
Integration, Network Design
DenicaCloud
Rosetta
Aviator
More
Toolchain for Deploying CI systems
and the associated tooling into and
along with various cloud platforms
Project Denica
Core Contributions
and solutions in
OpenStack
OpenDaylight
Open vSwitch
Puppet / Ansible
Agile / Lean Software
Development Practices
• SDN Development for
Multi Vendor Integrations
• Agile Process Consulting
• Cloud Platform
Development
• Systems Integration
• Upstream contributions
• DevOps Consulting
Extensive experience
with the following:
Aeronaut
Python Client Library for DD Cloud
and DD Cloud Files
Heira UI
Abstraction layer for Systems and
Network Deployment

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3rd Party
Controllers
Our Code
OpenStack Enterprise Virt Bare Metal

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3rd Party
Controllers
Our Code
OpenStack Enterprise Virt Bare Metal
AS 101
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Who is Colin
Director DevOps
Software Development :: DD AM
OpenStack Nut
Manage DevOps and Agile Dev
Organizations
Beard Growth Specialist
CCIE 18233, RHCE, ETC, ETC
@colinmcnamara
https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinmcnamara

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Team A
Team B

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72 Hour Stand Down
11PM to 7AM – NO CODING!
Focus on Non Standard
Metrics

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• Change the culture
• Midnight hacking isn’t great for
teams
• Change the legacy of the
midnight cutover

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41. @colinmcnamara
Thank you