The average consumer relies on a myriad of websites throughout their daily life, from reviewing bank account balances to replying to email. Now imagine if those same websites were inaccessible to a massive chunk of users. How would that affect their experience with a company – and with the world?

Sean Feeney, cloud engineering practice director at Nerdery, pointed towards the lack of formalization as the reason why many are not clear with what a DevOps engineer does. “The rise of DevOps happened concurrently with increased adoption of cloud services, increased enterprise adoption of Agile practices, and an explosion of git tooling.

“We’re seeing tremendous growth opportunities in Phoenix as the city becomes another tech-centric hub on the West Coast,” says Adrian Slobin, CEO at Nerdery, which had established its presence in Phoenix out of shared office space.

"Google continues to push the envelope by getting more organizations into ML and now AI in a more intuitive fashion." Justin Richie, Nerdery Data Science Director, weighs in on Google Cloud AI Platform, announced at Google Cloud Next '19.

Because the technology industry is constantly evolving, the impactful work is in the decision-making, often with a group of people. To become a leader, it is important to be confident, to speak up and share your opinions freely, to back those opinions and be willing to debate for what you believe to be the right decision.

The ability to iterate on a product with a high volume, velocity and level of quality is the ultimate goal of the modern enterprise; every CEO wants a faster time to market. But keeping business practices agile is much easier said than done.