J. Paul Reed joins us to share his views on release engineering, retrospectives, incident management, automation and the state of DevOps today.

Paul Reed has over fifteen years experience in the trenches as a build/release engineer, working with such storied companies as VMware, Mozilla, Postbox, Symantec, and Salesforce. He is an internationally recognized speaker on DevOps, release engineering, human factors, monitoring and operational complexity. He's written articles for O'Reilly, DZone, and Atlassian and is the author of DevOps in Practice.