Chris Sterling

Chris Sterling is Principal Product Manager for Spring Cloud Services at Pivotal (https://www.pivotal.io). Chris published the book Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change with Addison-Wesley in 2010 to provide a framework for teams and organizations to assess and manage debt in their software systems. Chris was a Certified Scrum Trainer with the Scrum Alliance for 8 years and taught thousands of people about how to apply Scrum/XP/Lean effectively. Chris has successfully supported organizational transformation across multiple verticals with organizations of 10 up to 800 people. Chris co-founded a company in 2009 called Agile Advantage focused on solving portfolio management problems to enhance the value that Agile teams can deliver ending in being acquired by Rally Software. Chris taught the “Advanced Topics in Agile Software Development” class at the University of Washington in the Agile Developer Certificate extension program. Chris brings his diverse experience and deep passion for technology when discussing topics such as Continuous Delivery, Cloud Native architecture, DevOps, Lean and Agile.