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Deanna started her career as an embedded programmer in the telecommunications industry, and was a significant contributor to Northern California having no internet for 2 days back in the late 90s. She now helps sponsors transition to Agile and DevOps and spends her days screaming “it’s the people, not the tools!” Deanna co-created the DevSecOps Capability Model (DCaM) and has helped write DevOps specifications for NIST. Deanna has two loves in her life - her dogs Grimbal and Curzon, which is why she’s always covered in fur.

I discovered programming writing BASIC on a Commodore 64, and I've been chasing that same spark ever since — now 20+ years deep, across IT consulting, custom software and web development, and cloud architecture. I've led teams in both the public and private sectors across a variety of industries, and what I really enjoy is solving problems and helping teams deliver quality software more often. These days I spend most of my time at the intersection of developer enablement and applied AI, and I've been volunteering with the DC DevOps community since 2019. I tend to equate developing software to martial arts and my favorite software book is the Tao of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee.

I am a Principal Software Engineer at The MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia where I do full stack development as part of the Transportation Innovation Center. My interests focus around mobile technology in aviation operations and modernization operations with cloud technology. Passionate about DevOps and process automation.

I’m a Principal Software Engineer and tech lead with twenty years of experience building and modernizing complex systems in the transportation, defense, and homeland security domains. I’m passionate about DevOps, GitOps, and finding ways to streamline software delivery through automation.