November 28, 2024

Fireside Chat with Andrew Boyagi

By
Fadi Boulos
BG

Andrew Boyagi is the Head of DevOps Evangelism at Atlassian. With a career dedicated to building high-performing teams, Andrew shares unique insights that bridge DevOps and platform engineering for maximum impact.

In this talk with Fadi Boulos, founder of Supportful, Andrew touches on topics such as DevOps, DevEx, AI, engineering culture, developer productivity, and many more.

Summary

Andrew discusses DevOps, DevEx, and platform engineering, emphasizing reducing developer friction (not measuring productivity) and using AI where it removes real operational pain, not just coding assistance. He also shares his career journey and highlights engineering culture built on learning, effort, and teamwork, plus async work, documentation balance, and values-driven leadership.

About the author

Fadi Boulos is the founder of Supportful, a software engineering consulting firm based out of Lebanon. He enables startups in the US and Europe to augment their teams with remote engineers from Lebanon, helping reduce the brain drain in the country and preserve the human capital of its small communities. Fadi has 20 years of experience working in the tech space in the UK, France, and Lebanon, and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nantes, France.

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