Enterprise DevOps: About the Authors Sacha Labourey Nigel Willie Sacha is a native of Switzerland and graduated in 1999 With over 20 years’ experience working in IT for one of the from EPFL. While at EPFL, he started his first consulting world’s largest financial institutions, Nigel has experience business — Cogito Informatique. In 2001, he joined managing and delivering global transformation programs. Marc Fleury’s JBoss project as a core contributor and Starting his career as a developer, Nigel’s most recent role implemented JBoss’ original clustering features. Sacha was to deliver cross-platform DevOps automation went on to become GM for JBoss Europe, leading the capabilities to the enterprise. strategy and helping to recruit the partners that fueled the company’s growth in the region. In 2005, he was appointed From his experience, he understands many of the challenges CTO, overseeing all of JBoss engineering. and mistakes involved in a DevOps transformation; indeed, he claims to have made most of the mistakes himself. Nigel In June 2006, JBoss was acquired by Red Hat has also had the good fortune to work with a lot of highly (NYSE:RHT). As CTO, Sacha played a crucial role in skilled individuals, both as colleagues and across the integrating and productizing the JBoss software with Red industry. Nigel is a great believer that every initiative is Hat offerings. In 2007, Sacha became co-General Manager individual and any observations he makes are intended as of Red Hat’s middleware division. He left Red Hat in 2009 principles or guidelines, not rules. and founded CloudBees in March 2010. Follow Sacha on Twitter. For more DevOps insights from Sacha and Nigel, www.cloudbees.com/blog 9.