2025-04-26 –, Barn
“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.
Simon is a generalist polyglot with a passion for all things Python, DevOps, InfoSec and Foss. As a Senior SRE with years of experience helping teams build and secure cloud platforms, Simon finds his calling striving for software delivery excellence - often in challenging regulatory landscapes - through the thoughtful application of Lean principles and DevOps practices. Simon is an active member of the New Zealand InfoSec community, Secretary of Python New Zealand and Treasurer of Kiwi PyCon - New Zealand's National Python conference.