I help teams change the way they ship — across cloud, security, governance, and the rough edges in between. A decade of consulting from Odecee to Contino to Liatrio; the last two years building small careful things directly.
I write about how good software gets delivered. I make tools for the friction I keep hitting. The occasional ten-page report nobody asked for.
Three eras of the same job, told as honestly as I can.
Started at Odecee in Melbourne. Joined Contino, eventually as Technical Principal. Lots of meetups, lots of workshops, a lot of "your CI pipeline is the bottleneck" conversations with VPs who'd never met it. Learned what enterprise transformation actually costs.
Years at Contino + Liatrio as Strategic Principal. Wrote most of what's in the writing section — the Manager README, the GSD pillar series, the DX work. Started Minimum Viable Thursdays. Realized the job wasn't really "DevOps" — it was business value, feedback loops, and people. Began saying that out loud.
Started building directly. AI-enabled tools, agent systems, generative interfaces. Devpipe collapses local feedback loops. The Guild walks teams through a five-persona audit. 41 experiments in various states of finished. The writing slowed but didn't stop — it just got weirder and more specific.
Updated periodically. Borrowed from Derek Sivers' /now.
My day job is at Amazon, and I keep this site as a personal space — free, no commerce. If any of the below sounds like a good use of an hour, my calendar is open.
30-minute coffee chats are how I meet most of the interesting people I've met. Principal-engineering questions, "I'm stuck on a fuzzy throughput problem", career conversations, or just a chat about DX, GSD, or AI-native tooling.
Book a 30-min call →I enjoy speaking at conferences, internal team sessions, and podcasts. Topics: developer experience, Good Software Delivery, platform engineering, AI-native dev tooling.
Email drew.khoury@gmail.com →Drew Khoury is a Strategic Principal with over a decade of experience helping enterprises ship software better. He's spoken at events including Melbourne Docker Meetup, Australasian Architecture Network, Kubernetes Cloud Native Computing Louisville, and Contino client events across Minneapolis, New York, and Chicago.
Current interests: developer experience as a throughput constraint, AI-native tooling for engineering teams, and the operating practices that turn "DevOps" from a slogan into a habit.
Most recent: A Well Architected Landing Zone (2022).
