Sometimes, good things are worth waiting for. I am happy to say that the voting for the DevOps Dozen finals is now open! There are 12 Categories with up to 12 finalists in each category. All of the finalists came from nominations by you our audience. In fact that is why it took so long for us to come up with the finalist list. There were over 1000 nominations and due to our own fault, we had to tabulate by hand. As a result we will keep voting open until November 18th.
We will publish all of the finalists in a subsequent article, but the are all available on the voting site. Congrats to all of the finalists! In many of these categories, it is going to be very hard to choose who to vote for.
You can only vote for one finalist in each category.
Here are the categories:
Please only one vote per person and we will be enforcing this on the backend. Any questions please contact us at [email protected]. If any of the finalists would like a badge to send people to vote please again contact us at [email protected]
Lets hope we have less controversy and rancor than in our US Presidential elections and good luck to all of the finalists!
Alan Shimel is founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, a Futurum company, and a member of Futurum's executive leadership team. A technology entrepreneur, media executive and industry commentator, Shimel has spent more than three decades building businesses, communities and media platforms serving enterprise technology professionals, including co-founding StillSecure, a network security company, and the DevOps Institute, a DevOps certification and training body. At Techstrong, he leads a portfolio of media brands including devopsy.kinsta.cloud, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Techstrong AI, Techstrong IT, Digital CxO, Platform Engineering, Techstrong Semi and Techstrong TV, along with a growing portfolio of events, educational programs and digital communities. With more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Shimel is a familiar voice in the space and was an early advocate of the DevOps movement, helping bring DevOps practices into mainstream enterprise technology. His work today spans cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud-native technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and digital transformation, and he hosts popular programs including Techstrong Gang, Shimmy Says and Still Cyber, After All These Years. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics from St. John's University and a Juris Doctor from New York Law School.