About

This site is developed and maintained by Julian Simpson. Julian’s mission is to help everyone get their code into production as soon as they can. Software is better when it works for us, not when we lose it in the cracks between teams.

Julian started his career as a PC technician. That was quite some time ago. Since then he has been a:

Freelance Internet Technician
ISP Helpdesk agent
Unix Systems Administrator
Build and release consultant at ThoughtWorks and other companies
Systems administrator, Puppet coder and operations manager at a startup.
DevOps Consultant at the Build Doctor Limited

Presently he is Global Security and Platforms Manager at Fuel50.

Headline Skills

Continuous Delivery
DevOps, with an emphasis on reconciling Development and Operations practices and teams
Build and release engineering for Java, Ruby, Python and .NET
Ruby and Python development
UNIX and Linux Systems Administration

Articles and publications:

Large Build Teams: help or hindrance?[PDF] Experience report from the Agile 2007 Conference
Refactoring Ant - essay in the ThoughtWorks Anthology
Deployment is The Goal - article for InfoQ
You Could Totally Use A Dependency Manager - CM Crossroads

Conferences and Talks:

Has attended every Citcon Europe, and DevopsDays Europe, ever
Organises the London Continuous Integration meetup
Agile 2007 - presented experience report above, and co-ran a workshop on Continuos Integration
XP Days 2007 - presented experience report
UKUUG Spring conference 2007 - Agile Systems Administration
QCon London 2009 - Continuous Integration from the Trenches
LRUG October 2009 - Drunken Build Monkey
QCon London 2010 - Silos are for Farmers
UKUUG Spring Conference 2010 - Hudson hit my Puppet with a Cucumber
Agile Comes To You keynote, 2011
BCS CMSG Conference - Silos are for Farmers
Agile 2011 - Continuous Integration - the Minimum Viable Product
Agile 2011 - Continuous Integration For the World
Yow! Australia - Adventures in Infrastructure as Code
Linux.conf.au 2015 - Surrounded by Graphs