Greg Bledsoe is a Managing Consultant at Accenture in the DevOps architecture practice, where he leads the implementation of DevOps principles and practices. He brings twenty years of experience building performant, automated, cost effective environments, and was implementing DevOps principles before there was a term for it.  Greg is a regularly published author, frequent conference speaker, and has spent his career keeping platforms secure, scalable, and reliable. He is a certified ethical hacker and certified penetration tester, and led an infrastructure team with the same certifications at Personal, Inc (now teamdata.com), where they implemented multi-cloud PaaS. Greg has tackled large scaling challenges across multiple industry sectors, including managing the explosive growth of third-party credit card processor TSYS from a few million accounts to hundreds of millions, and building an extranet that securely connected hundreds of partners, clients, and vendors.