Every day, ITIVITI executes the orders of 29,000+ institutional clients on their popular securities trading platform, supporting 3,600+ physical connections and more than 38M messages daily. In 2015, the company embarked on a mission to transform their completely manual, unscalable deployment process into a fully automated deployment pipeline that is kicked off by users and driven by Slack. Given the high stakes, deployment failures simply could not be tolerated. And with more than 2,000 deployments a month, speed and efficiency were crucial too.

From people challenges to technology choices to build vs. buy decisions, this talk will describe ITIVITI’s DevOps journey: what happened, why it happened, how it succeeded, lessons learned, and what challenges remain. Come learn how one innovative enterprise streamlined software delivery while reducing risk, and how you can too.

Antoine started his career in the financial industry more than 12 years ago, working in trading rooms where he was involved in many different functions, such as commando development, functional support, and management. Antoine joined Ullink (merged with ITIVITI in 2018) almost 7 years ago to bring this trading room experience to their EMEA client service organization. After managing this division for more than 5 years, he moved into a program management role where he was in charge of DevOps initiatives and other integration programs. Antoine was recently appointed as the SVP - Head of Infrastructure Services, reporting to the CEO. In this role, he is tasked to further transform the infrastructure to a true infrastructure-as-a-service model, leveraging both his client-facing experience and his DevOps knowledge.

Lisa K. Wells is the Vice President of Product Marketing at XebiaLabs. Leveraging more than 25 years of experience in software, Lisa spends her time helping the company create value for the software development pipeline, crafting strategy, honing messaging, and generally herding cats. An Electrical Engineer who started her career in Applications Engineering, Lisa wrote three books on graphical programming before she moved to the ""Dark Side"" – product marketing. Here she found her niche helping companies effectively build, market, and sell technology that provides life-changing value to customers. Over the last 12 years, Lisa has been at the forefront of building winning product strategies and messaging for some of the world’s leading software tooling companies, working with SmartBear and CloudBees before joining XebiaLabs in 2015.