Put open source to work
July 16–17, 2018: Training & Tutorials
July 18–19, 2018: Conference
Portland, OR
Cade Thacker

Cade Thacker
Software Engineer Principal, The Home Depot

Cade L. Thacker is a software engineer principal (aka digital plumber) at The Home Depot. Cade is a passionate advocate for using technology to improve things in real life and works to empower teams in the transformation from waterfall to Agile and DevOps. He has worked at Google, Lockheed Martin, and a nonprofit helping families in financial crisis. He first installed Red Hat 5 back in 1997. His jobs have been a mile wide and in an inch deep: years of coding, followed by system administration and infrastructure build-outs, before returning to coding.

Sessions

1:45pm–2:25pm Wednesday, July 18, 2018
From waterfall to Agile: How open source helped build the foundation for change at The Home Depot (sponsored by The Home Depot)
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 Location: E141
Cade Thacker (The Home Depot), Jermaine Davis (The Home Depot)
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Cade Thacker and Jermaine Davis explain how The Home Depot built a culture of open source development. Along the way, they share perspectives on the coding, tooling, and processes that built institutional inertia to move the company into a position to disrupt retail. Read more.