# Patrick Debois ![[50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/2026-05-06 Patrick Debois.jpg|400]] Patrick Debois is a Belgian IT consultant widely credited as the "Father of DevOps." He coined the term "DevOps" and organized the first DevOpsDays conference in Ghent, Belgium in 2009, which sparked a global movement transforming how software is developed and operated. Debois's frustration with the disconnect between development and operations teams led him to seek ways to bridge the gap. Inspired by a talk by John Allspaw and Paul Hammond at Velocity 2009 ("10+ Deploys Per Day"), he organized DevOpsDays to bring together practitioners who shared his vision of collaboration over silos. ## Key Contributions - **Coined "DevOps"**: Combined "Development" and "Operations" into a movement - **DevOpsDays** (2009): Founded the conference series that spread DevOps globally - **Cultural shift**: Advocated for breaking down silos between teams - **Continuous improvement**: Promoted automation, measurement, and sharing (CAMS) ## DevOps Principles (CAMS) Debois helped popularize the CAMS framework: - **Culture**: Collaboration over silos - **Automation**: Reduce manual, error-prone tasks - **Measurement**: Data-driven decisions - **Sharing**: Knowledge exchange and transparency ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Patrick Debois]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[Patrick Debois]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## References - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Debois - https://devopsdays.org ## Related - [[DevOps]] - [[DevSecOps]] - [[Continuous Integration (CI)]] - [[Continuous Delivery (CD)]] - [[CI CD pipelines]]