DevOps Midwest 2025

Not Just Another Tech Conference

Every software organization faces the same fundamental challenge: delivering innovation at speed while maintaining rock-solid reliability.

We all know what we need. What eludes most teams is the how.

That's precisely why Sketch Development is hosting DevOps Midwest 2025 – where pragmatic solutions replace theoretical ideals and real practitioners share what actually works.

Schedule

Time

Track One

Track Two

7:45 - 8:30

Registration/Breakfast

8:30 - 8:50

Opening Remarks

9:00 - 9:50

Data Gone in 60 Seconds: A Serverless ETL Heist - Paul Chin Jr.

The Art of Subtle Automation: Getting It Done Without Scope Creep - Olha Vovk

10:00 - 10:50

Mission Copilot Autofix: Securing the World’s Software with GitHub Advanced Security - Randy Pagels

From Chaos to Clarity: Revolutionizing Deployments in a Highly Regulated World - Michael Allen & Jeremy Poteet

11:00 - 11:50

Rapid Infrastructure Pitfalls & Positives - Naomi Dennis

AI Augmented Software Quality and Testing in the Delivery Pipeline - Lee Barnes

12:00 - 1:15

Lunch Keynote: Threat Researcher's Guide to the Threat Landscape - Kyle Wilhoit

1:30 - 2:20

Modernizing Legacy Code - While Not Bringing Down Prod - Joel Tosi

Embrace Systems Design and CLI - Shawn Horvatic

2:30 - 3:20

"It just works!" - The Rust Programmer's Rally Cry - Jeff Barczewski

Securing Git Repositories: Preventing Accidental Secret Commits with Gitleaks - Dewan Ahmed

3:30 - 4:20

Better Together: Leveraging Your Observability Tools as a SIEM - Mathias Palmersheim

DevOps to LLMOps: Taming Probabilistic Systems - Travis Frisinger

4:30 - 4:50

Closing Remarks

Experience, Not Just Exposition

This isn't another day of passively consuming slide decks. DevOps Midwest delivers a concentrated dose of insights from professionals who've implemented these practices across diverse industries with measurable results.

The difference? You'll do more than listen.

We've engineered this conference around hands-on learning because we understand that knowledge without application is just trivia.