Ruston Vickers is Chief DevOps Architect and Senior Vice President of Product Management and Strategy of Application Delivery at CA Technologies. He is responsible of providing customers with counsel on their DevOps strategies to help them deliver higher quality software and services to market faster. With more than 20 years of experience in the software industry, Vickers has deep insight into how enterprises need to evolve their application development processes into DevOps strategies to address key business and innovation challenges. In 1999, Vickers founded ITKO bringing LISA to market in the distributed application space. The company was acquired by CA Technologies in 2011. Vickers earned his business degree from Texas Tech University. He is a frequent presenter and contributor at technology conferences and to publications as well as the technical editor and contributor to the best practices book, “Service Virtualization: Reality is Overrated.”