Meet John Willis

John Willis is an author of “Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge” and consultant in the technology industry. Previously, he held several prominent positions including Senior Director of the Global Transformation Office at Red Hat and Director of Ecosystem Development for Docker, which he joined after the company he co-founded (SocketPlane, which focused on SDN for containers) was acquired by Docker in February 2015. Previous to founding SocketPlane in Fall 2014, John was the Chief DevOps Evangelist at Dell, which he joined following the Enstratius acquisition in May 2013. He has also held past executive roles at Chef and Canonical. John was one of the earliest cloud evangelists and is considered one of the founders of the Devops movement. John is the author of 7 IBM Redbooks. He is also the co-author of the “Devops Handbook” and “Beyond the Phoenix Project” along with author Gene Kim.

John Willis has been a leader in the Devops community since the onset. He was the only American at the first Devops Day in Ghent and was co-organizer of the first US-based Devopsdays. He is also the co-author of the “Devops Handbook” along with authors Gene Kim and Jez Humble and the upcoming “Beyond the Phoenix Project” co-authored with Gene Kim.