Calvin Rodo (he/him)

Acting Director of SRE, Security, and Tooling, Canadian Digital Service (CDS)

Calvin Rodo is the Acting Director of SRE, Security and Tooling for the Canadian Digital Service. He has a long career in government starting out as a developer on Employment Insurance, with a short stint at the Canadian Coast Guard in their development group.

In 2017 he moved back to the Innovation, Information and Technology Branch (IITB) at ESDC where he worked on various innovation projects, provided guidance and advice on modern software development through IITB's Developer Community of Practice .

In 2019 he joined the Canadian Digital Service and was put in charge of the Backend and Cloud infrastructure for the Covid Alert App. Seeing a need to mature and grow technical operations at CDS he moved into the Internal SRE team where he has spent the last few years helping to build a technical operations group whose goal is to empower developer teams to deliver as fast as possible using modern tools and practices.

Sessions

Stage Takeover

Public digital takeover: The radical how - Canadian edition

November 5, 20243:45 PM EST – 4:30 PM EST

Main Stage

Last year, Public Digital wrote the Radical How, a guide for leaders who find themselves in environments that expect them to plan all aspects of delivery upfront but who know that this approach is the riskiest. See More.