Telco Technology Lead & Co-founder
Steve has twenty-five years of IT experience working for top government and corporate organisations in Australia and the UK, including BNP Paribas, Vodafone and Credit Suisse.
Steve’s role at DevOpsGroup is intrinsic to the growth and development of the company, ensuring that our products and services evolve to meet the needs of the rapidly changing market and that DevOpsGroup remains a thought-leader and pioneer in the DevOps movement.
Steve’s passion is creating operationally excellent platforms for web applications that are secure, scalable and manageable. He is an expert across a wide range of technologies, with Microsoft web server infrastructure being a specialism.
In recognition of this expertise, Steve Thair has been made a “Regional Director” by Microsoft. Established in 1993, the program consists of 150 of the world’s top technology visionaries. Regional Directors are expert advocates who promote Microsoft products, services, and solutions by sharing their deep knowledge with groups such as customers, the press and industry analysts.
Prior to co-founding DevOpsGroup, Steve was the Web Operations Manager for Totaljobs and was responsible for running their online job board platform.
Steve blogs extensively and presents regularly at numerous meetups, webinars, and conferences around the world to evangelise the benefits of DevOps. In 2014 he co-founded the WinOps Conference and Meet-Ups which are dedicated to promoting DevOps in Windows environments.
In a previous post we talked a lot about the “Product-centric” approach to DevOps but what does this mean for the role of the Agile “Product Owner”?
I’ve had a few conversations lately, mainly with smaller start-ups or development houses, who tell me “yes, we work in a DevOps model”.
Is there still a role for IT Operations? Absolutely 100% (we believe that so much we started a company to offer application-centric cloud operations!).