Winner - Best Technology Leader (BIMA 100) Winner - Management Today Leadership Awards Deepak is a thought leader in Digital, DevOps, DevSecOps and Quality Engineering space. He is an active contributor to the tech community hosting and participating in multiple workshops and conferences globally. In his current role with Transform UK (part of NEXT 15), he is working with major public and private sector customers to enable their DevOps journey with a clear focus on quality and value metrics at every stage of the (people, process, platforms) transformation. Prior to Transform UK; Deepak has been leading Virgin Media’s B2B DevOps and QE teams where his team owned multiple cloud platforms responsible to serve 500+ million end users every month across 120,000 public and private customer venues. Over the past 10 years he has been working with multiple major private and public sector customers such as BT, Arqiva, AT&T, UK regional airports, NHS and has been a key contributor to Openstack platform development. Deepak also holds a master’s degree in Future computing at University of Kent with major focus on cloud security and artificial intelligence. Technical skills - DevOps, DevSecOps, Robotic Process Automation, Quality Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, WiFi, SDWAN, Cloud Computing, Google Cloud Platform, IaaS, SaaS, Microservices, Agile, Product Management, Design Thinking, Java, C/C++, Python Technical Certifications Oracle Certified Java Google Cloud Certified Associate DevOps Institute certified DevOps Leader Spirent Certified Performance Engineer Cisco Certified Network Administrator Atlassian Certified ITIL Intermediate - Release and Deployment BCS Certified Information Security Manager ISTQB Certified Test Manager A successful track record has led to recognition within the Quality engineering and DevOps sector: • Judge at the DevOps Industry Awards 2018, 2019. • Judge at the European Software Testing Awards 2017, 2018. • Speaker at the National DevOps Conference 2018, 2019. • Workshop host at the National DevOps Conference 2018. • Speaker at Cigniti Technologies Automation Forum 2019. • Won Virgin Media Sparkle Award for ‘Living Virgin Values’ in 2016, 2017,2018.