DevSecOps Podcast – Modern Software, Real-World Delivery, and the Art of Not Trusting AI Blindly Guest: Jared Dohrman — Senior Systems Engineer, Cordant With Jared in the guest chair, the episode traces a career shaped by curiosity, community, and a willingness to wrangle idiosyncratic enterprise tooling while still finding time for tinkering with chicken-coop automation on weekends. Key Themes How Atlassian matured from grassroots tooling to enterprise staple Why Agile often fails when organisations assume tooling alone creates cultural change The ongoing tension between Excel dependency and modern pipeline automation AI as an assistant but not an arbiter Multi-cloud pragmatism and the case for Kubernetes-led abstraction The measurable business impact of well-designed DevOps and modernisation programs