Damon Edwards is a Co-Founder and Vice President of Solution Advocacy for SimplifyOps, a provider of support and services for Rundeck users. Damon Edwards is also a co-founder of DTO Solutions, a consultancy where his focus is business and technology alignment and applying Lean and Agile principles to improving operational processes. Damon has spent over 14 years working with both the technology and business ends of IT operations and is noted for being a leader in porting cutting-edge DevOps techniques to large enterprise organizations. Damon is also a frequent conference speaker and writer who focuses on DevOps and operations improvement topics. Damon is active in the international DevOps community, including being a host of the DevOps Cafe podcast, an early core organizer of the DevOps Days conference series, and a content chair for Gene Kim's DevOps Enterprise Summit.