Seeding a culture of devops from day 1 is really difficult but absolutely essential. Come along on a tour of some of the practices that helped and hindered our pace and reliability in meeting doctor and patient needs for the NHS, such as shortening feedback loops for quicker product validation, learning from incidents, and finding the balance in giving engineers the right amount of privilege to encourage good practice.

Bharat Reddy has 15 years of software development and deployment experience in both the finance and healthcare sectors. He’s currently a tech lead in the Platform Team at Accurx, where he’s building out the cloud infrastructure and development platform to enable the engineering organisation to rapidly build out the next generation of healthcare communication. He is absolutely hustling you when he claims he’s not actually that good at pool.