Rob Bos

Netherlands Netherlands

Rob has a strong focus on ALM and DevOps, automating manual tasks and helping teams deliver value to the end-user faster, using DevOps techniques. This is applied on anything Rob comes across, whether it’s an application, infrastructure, serverless or training environments. Additionally, Rob focuses on the management of production environments, including dashboarding, usage statistics for product owners and stakeholders, but also as part of the feedback loop to the developers. A lot of focus goes to GitHub and GitHub Actions, improving the security of applications and DevOps pipelines. Rob is a Trainer (Azure + GitHub), a Microsoft MVP and a LinkedIn Learning Instructor and regularly shares his knowledge through blogs, videos, and speaking at international conferences.

Community Contributions

DevCon Romania - Protect yourself against supply chain attacks

As an industry, we are using third party packages and building components for lots of things. In this supply chain, there are lots of places for vulnerabilities. They can then be used to attack your DevOps pipelines! In this session, I will go over some common attack examples and show you a way to prevent them from happening. There are frameworks available in the industry that guide you through the process of becoming more mature in protecting not only your source code and application but also the packages you use and the pipelines you build them with. I'll demo some of GitHub's features that help preventing these types of attacks.
Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 11-07-2024

GitHub Universe 2024 - Successfully scaling GitHub Copilot to thousands of developers

There's a right and wrong way to roll out new technology. And spoiler alert: simply handing out licenses is the wrong way! In this session, Rob Bos, DevOps consultant and GitHub trainer at Xebia, will share his experience training thousands of engineers to effectively use GitHub Copilot. He'll walk through what a comprehensive rollout and enablement plan looks like and share how to help engineers scale any learning curves. Rob will also share lessons learned along the way to supercharge usage and impact.
Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 10-30-2024

LinkedIn Learning Course on GitHub Models

GitHub Models is a great place for developers to experiment with large language models (LLMs), especially if you’re an Azure developer who’s looking to test an idea or prototype an application. Integrating GitHub Models with Azure allows you to move logic back and forth as you work through each phase of a project. In this course, instructor Rob Bos shows you how to create prototypes and development paths in GitHub Models and then scale them for deployment in Azure. Along the way, gather insights to help you leverage the power of planning and practice, shifting your attention away from the more constrained options of GitHub Models to the more open and flexible features offered by Azure. This course is an ideal fit for Azure developers looking for a quick start guide to GitHub Models.
Video/Podcast / 10-27-2024

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