J. Paul Reed has over 15 years’ experience as a build/release engineer, working with such storied companies as VMware, Mozilla, Postbox, Symantec, and Salesforce. In 2012, he founded Release Engineering Approaches, a consultancy incorporating a host of tools and techniques to help organizations "Simply ship. Every time." He has worked across industries—including financial services, cloud-based infrastructure, and health care—with teams ranging from 2 to 2,500 on tooling, operational analysis and improvement, cultural transformation, and business value optimization. He speaks internationally on release engineering, DevOps, operational complexity, and human factors and is a Master of Science candidate in Human Factors and Systems Safety at Lund University.