James La Spada has been a technology professional for a little over 10 years. He received his B.S. in Information Sciences and Technology from Penn State University and started his career in application development before graduation. Since then he has been very passionate with learning new technologies and bringing innovation to improve efficiency and quality. James had the opportunity to broaden his overall IT knowledge by working his way through different areas within technology. His overall career experience has been performance and automation, mobile native and web application development, application development, and his newfound passion DevOps.