Vinny Carpenter

Vice President - Cloud & DevOps Engineering, Northwestern Mutual

Vinny Carpenter is a Vice President of Engineering in Infrastructure and Cloud Services (ICS), leading the Cloud and DevOps Engineering organization at Northwestern Mutual (NM).

Vinny is an accomplished and results-driven Technology Leader with over 28+ years of experience and substantial success in directing enterprise-wide software development, engineering, and architecture in the education, manufacturing, financial services, and investment management industries, from large global multinationals to small entrepreneurial companies.

Vinny

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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

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