Simon Merrick
Simon is a Senior Cloud Engineer at Trade Me with a background in software development with Python. Previously Simon was a contributor to OpenStack, an open source cloud platform written in Python which sparked his joy for Cloud and DevOps. Coming from a software development background Simon approached his cloud Journey like learning python - through writing code to build and automate cloud infrastructure.
Session
“We’d love to be able to do DevOps but we can’t because of our privacy security compliance requirements” is a refrain shared by many technology teams, saddled with security and compliance requirements. However, The last decade of software delivery has demonstrated that security, reliability, quality and speed are not zero-sum trade-offs.
In this talk we take a look at a payments platform team and how they navigated the red tape of PCI DSS to adopt DevOps principles and practices and how it helped them improve their security, software delivery and made maintaining and demonstrating compliance much easier.