Marc Hornbeek is author for the DevOps Institute, DevOps Continuous Delivery Architect course and the DevOps Test Engineer course. 41-year senior member of the IEEE and has been awarded 2016 most outstanding engineer by the IEEE Western United States for lifetime achievements for automation applied to networks, development, testing, protocols, labs and DevOps. Marc has 39 years experience architecting, designing, developing and managing high-performance solutions for IT and engineering infrastructures deployed in commercial and government applications globally. Served as CEO, Board Member, founder, corporate executive, CTO, VP, General Manager, Principal Consultant, Senior Solutions Architect and Professional Engineer. Held key roles at Bell-Northern Research, Tekelec, ECI Telecom, GSI Lumonics, Vpacket, EdenTree Technologies, Spirent Communications and Trace3. Innovation lead over many successful automation, Lab-as-a-Service and DevOps projects for systems manufacturers and operators. Regular speaker, blogger, author and educator on topics including DevOps, Lab-as-a-Service and continuous test automation.