14 Jun THE JOURNEY – MY STORY Part 1
I share the first of my 3 part blog share on my career, the journey, the transformations and transitions over the past 9 years....
05 Jun DevSecOps – ITWeb2018SS Security Summit
- DevSecOps is the golden thread of security through the organisational fabric that focuses on application development. - This is the philosophy of bringing in security principles and practices into every stage in the lifecycle of application development - Application of Machu Picchu thinking ...
01 Feb DIGITAL ECONOMY – 8 NOVEMBER 2017
The world is in the exponential age. We are experiencing exponentials in many aspects of our lives. from energy, deep learning, robotics, virtual reality, biology and almost everything in between. With these exponentials come the disruptors, the technology companies that are disrupting the business models of today with technology solutions that shift the paradigm of our business and personal lives forward to places we are yet to imagine....
14 Dec A LOOK AT THE FUTURE OF BANKING
FinTech is making waves across the globe - but little is known or predicted about how this will shape banking in Africa. I sat down with KNect 365 on what the future could look like. ...
10 Nov FAST FISH FORUM – 27 AUGUST 2017
On the 29th August, FirstRand in partnership with BSG hosted the Fast Fish Forum at FNB Bank City. The forum titled “Demystifying the Data Science cookbook - Tasty meals or disasters waiting to happen?” focused on how to do Data Science projects right and some of the pitfalls in the delivery lifecycle. Post a short Data Science cookbook presentation – paired with delicious food from a great chef, the forum then moved to an emergent agenda that was participant directed....
27 Oct THE CODING GROUND
LEARN TODAY. CRAFT YOUR FUTURE. The Coding Ground aims to teach software craftsmanship to young people aged between 16 and 25 years of age who demonstrate an aptitude for software development and who have a positive attitude towards learning. Students are not expected to have any formal computer literacy training but should have the natural aptitude for computational reasoning which would make them naturally adept at software development....
11 Jul AFRICA DEVOPS DAY 28 JUNE 2017
I spoke at Africa DevOps on ChatOps. Many of you will be familiar with using Chat channels in the DevOps space, ChatOps formalises this practice. The most common definition of ChatOps is as follows: What is ChatOps? Conversations, put to work. ChatOps is a collaboration model that connects people, tools, process, and automation into a transparent workflow. This flow connects the work needed, the work happening, and the work done in a persistent location staffed by the people, bots, and related...
01 Apr DEVOPS TEAM TOURISM – Day 1
As part of DevOps practices - We held the first DevOps Team Tourism. ...
01 Apr CODING DEVSECOPS – Part 2
DevSecOps = DevOps + Security ( Sec ) In the world of DevSecOps as you may predict we have three teams working together. Development, the Security team and Operations. ...