J. Paul Reed is a Principal Consultant at Release Engineering Approaches and Visiting Scientist at Praxis Flow. He has over fifteen years' experience as a build/release engineer and has worked with companies such as VMware, Mozilla Corporation, Symantec, and various start-ups and clients across numerous sectors. Paul is the author of several whitepapers and articles on DevOps and continuous delivery and is a founding host of The Ship Show, a podcast covering "build engineering, DevOps, release management, and everything in between." He lives in San Francisco, tweets on @SoberBuildEng, and blogs at http://soberbuildengineer.com.