Hi, I am Rob 👋
I do DevOps-y stuff, mostly with C# and GitHub/Azure/Azure DevOps.
Work | Xebia 🔨
In my day job I work for Xebia Microsoft Services as a DevOps consultant & GitHub Trainer, helping our customers with whatever they need regarding DevOps. Whether it’s training, finding out some obscure issues, setting up their CI/CD pipelines, or helping them on their way to implement more DevOps patterns and practices, I help them with it. A lot of focus these days goes into improving their security setup, and looking at supply chain issues. Often I find myself helping teams with modern agile and DevOps practices in more of a coaching role. Focused on GitHub!
Trainer: GitHub Accredited and Microsoft Certified 🐠
I am a GitHub trainer for the GitHub (non-)developer, Copilot, Advanced Security, and GitHub Actions trainings. I also give several Bootcamps including a GitHub Advanced Security Bootcamp and the GitHub Partner Bootcamps that are needed to become a GitHub Accredited Trainer. Next to that I am a Microsoft Certified Trainer for AZ-900, AZ-204, and AZ-400 (DevOps on Azure track) as well as the AI-900 and AI-102 paths.
I’m also a LinkedIn Learning Instructor. My courses are:
- GitHub Advanced Security
- 25 GitHub configuration files you should be using
- GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
- GitHub Models - Enterprise AI Development
- Responsible GitHub Copilot: Creating Reliable Code Ethically
Books 📚
I have co-authored the following books:
- GitHub Actions in Action - Continuous integration and delivery for DevOps
- The GitHub Copilot Handbook - A practical guide for teams and enterprises
GitHub Actions in Action - Continuous integration and delivery for DevOps
| Cover | Description |
|---|---|
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Continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines help you automate the software development process and maximize your team’s efficiency. GitHub Actions in Action teaches you how to build, test, and deploy pipelines in GitHub Actions through hands-on labs and projects. |
Buy at Manning: Manning.com Buy at Amazon: Amazon.com
The GitHub Copilot Handbook: A practical guide to transforming the software development life cycle with GitHub Copilot
| Cover | Description |
|---|---|
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Cross-functional product teams are under constant pressure to build and ship faster, but too much time is lost to manual coding, slow reviews, and fragmented workflows. GitHub Copilot streamlines day-to-day coding so your team can focus on delivering value to users while maintaining high quality on real projects. Written by industry experts Rob Bos and Randy Pagels, this book shows how GitHub Copilot supports your work from start to finish. You’ll learn how to turn ideas into tasks, write code with fewer hiccups, spot problems earlier, and understand errors when things go wrong. You’ll also see how Copilot suggests improvements in pull requests and helps fix common build issues, enabling teams to keep moving and ship with confidence. You’ll integrate GitHub Copilot into daily routines, share it across roles, and make it stick with simple checklists and clear examples. You’ll also track what works, set guardrails, and build an internal community. By the end, you’ll know when GitHub Copilot helps – and when it doesn’t – and you’ll be ready to write, review, and ship code with confidence on real projects. |
Buy at Packt: PacktPub.com Buy at Amazon: Amazon.com
Bots 🤖
- GitHub Action updates: I created a bot to keep you up to date on new and improved actions on the GitHub marketplace. Follow the link here GitHub Actions Marketplace News and subscribe to the RSS feed for updates!
About ⚙️
- Name: Rob Bos
- Pronouns: He/Him
- Locale: The Netherlands
- GitHub: rajbos
- Mastodon: @Rob_Bos@mstdn.social
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bosrob
- Sessionize: sessionize.com/RobBos/
- Work: xebia.com
- Blog: devopsjournal.io
Video content 🎥:
Community | GDEX 🦦
I help out with the Global DevOps Experience (link, mostly with automating stuff and setting up the infrastructure we need each year. In the 2019 edition of Global DevOps Bootcamp we had over 10.000 attendees spread out all over the world, spending their free Saturday with our platform getting hands-on experience on DevOps topics. For the 2020 edition I’ve started vlogging about the relevant information/announcements/background stuff here and I have spoken about the event and platform for it several times. The session on DevOps Fest 2020 was recorded here.
Recorded conferences 🎤
Here are some of the recordings for conference sessions I have done:
| Year | Conference | Topic | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | GitHub Universe | Successfully scaling GitHub Copilot to thousands of developers | YouTube |
| 2023 | GitHub Universe | How to collaborate effectively using GitHub | YouTube |
| 2022 | NDC Security | Protect yourself against supply chain attacks through your pipeline | YouTube |
| 2022 | NDC Security | Protect your code with GitHub security features | YouTube |
| 2021 | GitHub Universe | How to use GitHub Actions with security in mind | YouTube |
| 2020 | DevOps Fest | How to run a global, cloud scale event for 10.000 people (GDBC) | YouTube |
Upcoming conferences 🎤
Conferences in 2024
| Date | Location | Topic | Conference | Session link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November | Bucharest, Romania | Protecting yourself from Supply Chain Attacks | DevCon.ro | link |
| October | San Francisco, USA | Lessons learned from enabling thousands of developers on GitHub Copilot | GitHub Universe | recording |
| March | Antwerp, Belgium | Protecting yourself from Supply Chain Attacks | Techorama Belgium | link |
Conferences in 2023
| Date | Location | Topic | Conference | Session link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15-19 | Nashville, TN, United States | GitHub Actions beyond CI/CD, GitHub security Features, Supply chain attacks | Visual Studio Live! | link |
| May 22-26 | Aarhus, Denmark | Protect your code with GitHub security features, workshop “Secure and Compliant Cloud Delivery Embracing DevOps with GitHub” | GOTO Aarhus | link |
| June 26-30 | Nurnberg, DE | Protect your code with GitHub security features | Developer Week 2023 | link |
| October 9-11 | Utrecht, NL | Protect your code with GitHub security features | Techorama NL | link |
| November 8-9 | San Francisco, US | Collaborating effectively using GitHub | GitHub Universe | recording |
Conferences in 2022
| Date | Location | Topic | Conference | Session link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2022 | Online | Protect your code with GitHub security features | User group: DotNetSheff UK | link |
| 4-7 April 2022 | Oslo | Protect yourself against supply chain attacks through your pipeline | NDC Security | link |
| 4-7 April 2022 | Oslo | Protect your code with GitHub security features | NDC Security | link |
| 4-7 April 2022 | Oslo | How to use GitHub Actions with security in mind | NDC Security | link |
| 23-25 May 2022 | Antwerp | How to use GitHub Actions with security in mind | Techorama BE | link |
| May 30th - June 2nd | Poland | 3x Protect your code with GitHub security features | Code Europe | link |
| 8-10 June 2022 | Virtual | I can hack your DevOps Pipeline | DevTalks Romania | link |
| 10-12 October 2022 | Utrecht, NL | Protect yourself against supply chain attacks through your pipeline | Techorama Utrecht | link |
Me:
I work at Xebia
Microsoft MVP since 2020
GitHub Star since 2024
LinkedIn Learning Instructor
Website stats 📈
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