Ravi Devineni

Sr. Director of Engineering, Northwestern Mutual

Ravi Devineni is a Senior Director of Engineering at Northwestern Mutual for a team responsible for DevOps, CI/CD, and Open source tooling for the enterprise. Ravi is also an active speaker, having spoken at several DevOps and Cybersecurity conferences.

Previously, Ravi worked at companies like Amplify and Oracle, holding various roles, including Developer, Architect, Database Administrator, and Engineering Manager.

Ravi

at PlatformCon

Standardization and security, a perfect match

This session talks about the challenges Northwestern Mutual faced with too many tools and too much choice. We talk about the idea of the "Paradox of Choice" and how it applies to platform engineering. Our approach to standardizing involved standardizing the tooling, the CI/CD pipelines, and implementing many guardrails. We also discuss the many cultural and organizational implications of this approach.

Sr. Director of Engineering, Northwestern Mutual

Vinny Carpenter

Vice President - Cloud & DevOps Engineering, Northwestern Mutual

A lawyer and an engineer walk into a bar and talk open source

Northwestern Mutual has been in technology since 1960. As we moved our workloads into AWS/Kubernetes, there were many unique challenges we encountered with the Open Source Maturity Model. This talk describes some of those challenges and the lessons learnt from that experience—some of which can help other companies in a similar boat to navigate these unpredictable waters safely.

Sr. Director of Engineering, Northwestern Mutual

Assistant General Counsel, The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company

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