Bryan Finster

Joining ACI Worldwide to lead efforts to improve software delivery for their global payments systems.

Lead developer of the team of designers and engineers responsible for Defense Unicorns' web assets. Responsible for improving UX and SEO for both human and AI-driven search to increase discoverability and engagement.

Worked with Department of Defense customers and other DoD contractors to design secure, air-gapped software delivery solutions. Aided in discovery efforts to identify process and tooling gaps that hindered the Authority To Operate approval process.

• Co-created Linux Foundation's free 'Intro to DevSecOps for Managers' training.
• Led workshops to grow product interest; shared lessons with DoD programs and primes.
• Advised programs on roadblocks to continuous delivery and remediation approaches.

Worked closely with USAF Platform One's commanding officers and government leadership team on the changes needed to scale their delivery platform service to meet DoD-wide needs.

• Delivered open-source development metrics with a standard API and self-service training.
• Partnered with DoD Office of the CIO and USAF Chief Software Officer on a DoD-wide metrics strategy.
• Provided user feedback and OKR suggestions to close process/automation/security gaps to help Platform One delvier Day 1 Certificate to Field for platform users.

Founded Walmart's DevOps Dojo as a delivery platform service to help product teams learn the teamwork and development practices needed for continuous delivery. This was part of a broader enterprise strategy to use CD to transform Walmart Global Tech engineering practices.

• Launched DevOps Dojo to teach CD practices as a platform service.
• Built a six-week engagement model moving teams toward daily delivery.
• Created CD playbooks to help self-service learning; later open-sourced via DojoConsortium.org.
• Developed metrics tooling and an enterprise strategy to inform improvement without weaponizing metrics.
• Developed a scaling strategy to roll improvements to over 1,800 without growing Dojo budget by training and certifying senior engineers in Dojo techniques.

Responsible for leading product development for the global collection, aggregation, visualization, and gamification of delivery metrics for the enterprise.

• Refined gamified metrics to encourage trunk-based development, CI, and CD while avoiding perverse incentives.
• Designed aggregation for SVP/CTO-level summaries tracking enterprise delivery goals at the manager and SVP level.

Supported Walmart's grocery distribution centers, both domestic and international, in various roles from Programmer Analyst to Staff Software Engineer

• Implemented a large-scale modernization of Walmart's main global logistics systems, leading the transition from quarterly releases to true continuous delivery by decoupling the application using a reverse Conway maneuver by reorganizing teams from feature teams executing projects into product teams owning business capabilities.
• Led the discovery and implementation efforts to execute the extreme programming practices and testing methods required for teams to achieve daily production delivery.

Technical lead responsible for gathering requirements and implementing customizations for customers using EXE's warehouse management system, including Sun Microsystems, Whole Foods, Publix, and many others.

Short articles on improving teamwork, testing, workflow, leadership, metrics, and everything else in the value stream to enable continuous delivery.

Experience report from Walmart and John Deere on developing internal platforms, the impact of leveraging platforms to encourage CD, and the importance of both disciplined product management and training for internal platforms.

Free online video training series targeted at leadership to introduce DevSecOps principles and practices to people new to the topic.

A deeper look into popular metrics used for measuring software delivery, how they are being used destructively, and suggestions to improve how we measure delivery based on experiences implementing metrics driven improvement.

Author of a chapter on the importance of continuous delivery to all aspects of quality, including security and compliance.

A holistic strategy for improving delivery performance at enterprise scale based on the outcomes from Walmart.

A system and method for prioritizing store order processing using customer location information to optimize retail fulfillment operations.

Community project to establish a set of minimum practices for safe and effective continuous delivery in every delivery context.

Organization of individuals from several Fortune 100 companies sharing good practices for helping teams improve delivery.

Repository of open-source playbooks from the Enterprise Dojo Consortium to help the broader community learn from the Dojo community.