Shaaron A.  Alvares works as a Senior Manager, Cloud Agile Delivery at Salesforce. She has a global work experience leading product, organizational and cultural transformation across technology, aerospace, automotive, finance and telecom industries within various global Fortune 500 companies in Europe and the US. She introduced lean product and software development practices and led significant lean and DevOps practices adoption at Amazon.com, Expedia, Microsoft, and T-Mobile. Trainer, speaker, and writer, she is a news reporter and editor at InfoQ and Ambassador at the CD Foundation and the DevOps Institute. She speaks at The DevOps Enterprise Summit (2019, 2020, 2021), All Day DevOps (ADDO) 2019, 2020; DevOps World, DevOps Online, SDLF by CloudBees, GitLab Commit, etc. Shaaron published her M.Phil. and Ph.D. theses with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).