About Tracy Ragan
Tracy Ragan
CEO and Co-founder
Tracy is a recognized authority in software supply chain security and DevSecOps, with expertise in managing complex, decoupled architectures. She previously served on the OpenSSF Governing Board (2022-23) as a General Member Representative and is currently a member of the Technology Oversight Committee at the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). Earlier in her career, she was a founding Board Member of the Eclipse Foundation, collaborating with IBM to foster its ecosystem.
Named one of TechBeacon’s Top 100 DevOps Visionaries, Tracy is a sought-after speaker at prominent industry events such as CDCon, Open Source Summit, and TechStrong TV. She hosts TechStrong Women TV, highlighting the accomplishments of women in technology, and frequently contributes to expert panels for organizations like JFrog, TechStrong, and the Linux Foundation. Her insights have been featured in various technical publications focusing on DevOps and open-source security.
Before her current role, Tracy was the COO and co-founder of OpenMake Software, a build acceleration and audit tool adopted by over 400 enterprise development teams. She was also recognized as a Women in Technology (WIT) Honoree for her significant contributions to the DevOps field.
Tracy on DevSecOps Intelligence
Podcast and Interviews
- SBOMs and Cloud-Native Environments
- Digital Anarchist – DevOps Unbound
- TechStrong Women TV
- Open Source Summit TechStrong Interview
- Transformation in 10 – Tricentis Podcast
- Shiptalk by Harness hosted by Ravi Lachhman
- CDF Podcast – Configuration Management
- Open Source Underdogs
- Tracy on the Daily Drive Part 1
- Tracy on the Daily Drive Part 2
- OpenSSF Board Member Spotlight
- Shiptalk – Finding Your Tribe – Harness.io
- Pure Performance Podcast – What is Data-Driven Continuous Delivery aka CDv2 with Tracy Ragan
- TechBeacon – DevOps 100: Do Ops like a boss
- Software Delivery Leadership Forum 2020
- TechstrongTV September 2020
- On the modern architecture shift – KubeCon 2019
- Tracy Ragan talks about K8s Pipeline with Alan Shimel, Digital Anarchist, DevOps World 2019
Speaking Engagements
- Keynote Address – Open Source Summit -2023
- Emporous and Ortelius – Open Source Summit 2023
- Panel – What’s New with SBOMs – OpenSSF Days 2023
- AI Assisted Development – TechstrongCon 2023
- Action and Impact Panel: How OpenSSF and Industry Improve Open-Source Security – OpenSSF 2022
- TechStrong Cloud Native Days 2022 – Supply Chain Security and Microservices
- CDCon 2022 – Supply Chain and the Ortelius Catalog
- Taking GitOps Automation to the Next Level – KubeCon GitOpsCon
- DevOps.com Predict 2021 – Keynote Panelist
- DevOps.com Predict 2021 – Cloud Native Panelist
- “A Guide to Cloud Native Continuous Delivery” – AWS Marketplace January 2021
- “Three Basic Truths About Microservices” – Global SkillUps Days Festival 2020
- “Exploring the CD Landscape to build your ultimate pipeline with Tracy Ragan“, CD Summit – KubeCon 2019
- “Pivoting from Monolithic to Microservices”, DevOps World 2019