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230<p><strong>Developer Advocacy Manager, GitHub</strong></p>
231<p>I'm a developer, speaker, and author specialising in DevOps, MLOps, developer process, and software architecture.</p>
232<h1 style="clear:both;">What do I do?</h1>
233<p>I'm a Senior Manager in the Developer Advocacy team at GitHub, based in Brisbane, Australia.</p>
234<p>Formerly a Cloud Advocate at <a href="https://developer.microsoft.com/advocates/?ref=damianbrady.com.au">Microsoft</a> for 4 years, and prior to that a dev at <a href="https://octopus.com/?ref=damianbrady.com.au">Octopus Deploy</a> and a Microsoft MVP, I have a 20+ year background in software development and consulting in a broad range of industries. In Australia, I co-organised the Brisbane .Net User Group, and launched the annual <a href="http://dddbrisbane.com/?ref=damianbrady.com.au">DDD Brisbane</a> conference.</p>
235<p>I regularly speak at conferences, User Groups, and other events around the world and over the Internet.</p>
236<p>Most of the time you'll find me talking to developers, IT Pros, and data scientists to help them get the most out of their DevOps and MLOps strategies.</p>
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