Chris has been developing software with Microsoft technologies for nearly fourteen years. She currently works at Monzo helping to build the future of banking. She has led teams delivering highly available Web APIs, distributed systems and cloud based services. She has also led teams developing internal build and deployment tooling using the unconventional mix of .Net codebases onto AWS infrastructure. Chris promotes practices we know as Continuous Delivery, including TDD, version control, and Continuous Integration.
In her spare time she is learning Portuguese and to play the Cello.
Follow chris on Twitter @ChrisAnnODell, check out the London Continuous Delivery Meetup group, and read Chris' contribution to the Build Quality In book of collected CD experience reports here.
Talks I've Given
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You Build it, You Run It – Why Developers Should Also Be On-Call
Featuring Chris O'Dell
Development of a feature doesn’t stop at deployment, your involvement continues for the lifetime of the product. If you want great power to control the choice of tooling and approaches, then you accept the great responsibility of ensuring it works, and remains working, in Production.
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London Dot Net and FullStack Bytes Festive Edition
Featuring Chris O'Dell, Dylan Beattie, David Whitney, Sebastien Lambla, Sam Elamin, Barbara Fusinska and Christian Heilmann
Together with some of the great speakers you've seen this year at Full Stack, London.NET and the Progressive.NET tutorials, we'll look back at what's happened in the developer community in 2016 - and ahead to what's coming up in 2017. With .NET Core running on Mac and Linux, bash...
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Knowing what went bump in Production - modern monitoring in .net
Featuring Peter Mounce and Chris O'Dell
In the world of .NET, monitoring your application has traditionally been to install WMI performance counters and let Operations sort it out. This means learning about how to install performance counters, how to do this via scripts in the cloud, how to get the data out of them, how to alert on...
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Team Transformation for Continuous Delivery
Featuring Chris O'Dell
Chris O'Dell will share the secrets of how 7digital approached the team transformation necessary for Continuous Delivery, leading to a discussion on team transformation and organisational change.
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