Kurt Madel is the Director, Worldwide Solution Architects for CloudBees and works out of their office in Richmond, VA. He has over 18 years of software engineering and architecture experience, including DevOps in real world scenarios. He and his team work with CloudBees customers, and internally with CloudBees product, sales, and engineering teams, to help customers learn and use the CloudBees continuous delivery platform architected for the enterprise. Prior to joining CloudBees he was an engineer at Capital One where he developed APIs for Apple Pay and helped lead their REST API initiative to include the streamlining of CI / CD processes. Based on his DevOps experience, Kurt provides a realistic, practical approach to help CloudBees customers realize continuous delivery.