Damon Edwards

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Damon Edwards is Senior Director, Product at PagerDuty. Previously, Damon was a cofounder of Rundeck, the makers of the popular open-source runbook automation platform acquired by PagerDuty in 2020. Prior to Rundeck, Damon was the Managing Partner of DTO Solutions, a DevOps and Operations Improvement Consultancy. Damon has spent the past 23 years working with both the technology and business ends of IT Operations. He is noted for being a leader in porting cutting-edge DevOps techniques to large-scale enterprise organizations. Damon is a frequent conference speaker and writer who focuses on DevOps, SRE, and Operations improvement topics. Damon is active in the international DevOps community, co-host of the DevOps Cafe podcast, and a content chair for Gene Kim’s DevOps Enterprise Summit.

7 in the library17 talksPublishing since 2017
Cover of Beyond the IDE

Newest · 2026

Beyond the IDE

AI-assisted development has moved the bottleneck.

Free · Creative Commons2026 · Guidance paper · Ebook & PDF

In the library · 7

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Publications, talks, and the roles they came out of — one thread, newest first.

2026

Guidance paperBeyond the IDE

with Bill Bensing

2024

Guidance paperEnterprise GenAI Delivery Patterns

with John Willis, John Rauser & Patrick Debois

2024

Guidance paperAutonomous AI In The Enterprise

with John Willis, Dr. Tapabrata "Topo" Pal & 3 others

2023

TalkOperationalizing AI: The Race for an Unfair Business Advantage

Las Vegas 2023 · 19 min

2021

Guidance paperAccelerating Shared Services

with Charles Betz, Scott Prugh & 4 others

2020

Guidance paperIts Time For...ERP Disruption

with Pat Birkeland, Adrian Cockcroft & 4 others

2020

TalkSpoke at London 2020 and Las Vegas 2020

4 talks

2019

Guidance paperModernizing IT Operations in the Age of DevOps

with Josh Atwell, Jason Cox & 2 others

2019

TalkThe Last Mile Continued - Incident Management

Las Vegas 2019 · 33 min

2018

TalkSpoke at London 2018 and Las Vegas 2018

2 talks

2017

Guidance paperMaking Matrixed Organizations Successful with DevOps

with Ben Grinnell, Suzette Johnson & Kaimar Karu

2017

TalkKeeping Your DevOps Transformation from Crushing Your Ops Capacity

San Francisco 2017 · 29 min

2016

TalkSpoke at San Francisco 2016 and London 2016

3 talks

2015

TalkDevOps Kaizen Practical Steps to Start & Sustain a Transformation

San Francisco 2015 · 25 min

2014

TalkCan Other Enterprises Operate Like Netflix Does? A conversation with Netflix

San Francisco 2014 · 29 min

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