DevOps in a Highly Regulated Industry - Donovon Carter - Dexcom

03/17/21 • 27 min

ShipTalk - SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Software Delivery

In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Donovon Carter who is a DevOps Engineer at Dexcom, a medical device company. Dexcom is one of the firms leading the charge against diabetes with CGM, constant glucose monitoring technology.
Donovon graduated from university with a political science degree, which comes in handy with all of the negotiations that a DevOps organization and engineer have to go through. Supporting the pipeline of innovation and regulatory requirements can be tricky. Donovon walks through how to balance innovation and regulation.
With any forward-thinking organization, wanting new technology is a constant. Donovon also helps balance how you should think about keeping your skills sharp with and without adopting new technology.

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Transcript

Ravi Lachhman 00:06
Hi, everybody! Welcome back to another episode of ShipTalk. Today I'm joined by one of our buddies, Donovon Carter, who's a DevOps engineer at Dexcom. For people who don't know you, Donovon, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Donovon Carter 00:20
Happy to be on the podcast today. I’m really excited to do this; this is the first time I've done a podcast in a long time. And by that, I mean, I was on a buddy's po