Chris Blackburn

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Eye On A.I. · Real AI Transformation Costs HALF of Everyone's Salary for 2 Years | Chris Blackburn, Liatrio · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

And I think that really led into a lot of the stuff that I do.

So early in my career, I actually got into like system administration, both Unix, Solaris, as well as the early days of Linux and the network administration and all that type of stuff.

I really liked hooking computers and systems and all of that together.

Ultimately, really, that led right back into software development space, but kind of the stuff around it and what we now call software delivery.

So source control management, build automation and all of that, which turned into continuous integration and continuous delivery.

And then really when the DevOps movement happened, I feel like I found my space.

DevOps was such a huge part for me.

I think it aligned a lot to how I think about efficiency and not just efficiency for efficiency's sake, but efficiency of a system, the end-to-end system.

DevOps brought a lot of thinking around value stream mapping, lean techniques, systems thinking, and all that type of stuff.

And I got real deep into it and super nerdy about it and just love everything there.

It turns software and building digital products into a team sport rather than an individual sport.

It brought culture and process into the thinking a lot more.

And really just had this hyper focus of looking at the end to end of everything that's being built.

So we talk about that today.

We call it the from aha to cha-ching, the entire value stream and looking at everything that connects in there.

So ultimately that became the beginning of my, you know, real part of my career was kind of the DevOps movement and the purity of DevOps.

I live in Sacramento, California.

Sacramento is the state capital and really all the work in the area is state and federal government work.

And we all know how slow that moves.

And so I wanted to find something faster and better and more awesome.

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