Guide to Balancing Speed and Control in DevOps

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Ioannis Moustakis

Ioannis is a Solutions Architect at AWS with a background in DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering. Talks about Cloud Infrastructure, Automation, CI/CD Pipelines, and Containerization. In his free time, he curates a personal blog at devopsmadness.com and moustakisioannis.medium.com. Opinions expressed are solely his own.

Education

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering

License and certifications

  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
  • CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Ioannis Moustakis

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