Tracy Bannon is a passionate software architect who writes, speaks, teaches and practices her craft everyday.As an accomplished software architect, engineer, DevSecOps and digital transformation advisor, Tracy Bannon has worked across commercial and government clients. She is driven by understanding complex problems and working to deliver mission/business value at speed. As a long-time advocate for diversity in technology, she is helping to narrow the diversity gaps as a mentor, sponsor, volunteer and friend.

She is just as passionate about mentoring and training as she is about delivering valuable software! She loves community and knowledge building with teams, clients and the next generation of technologists by guest lecturing at universities, leading working groups and sharing experience stories. Another avenue for mentoring and community building is as a contributing journalist and Podcaster with 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝟱𝟬𝟱! 𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 (part of The Sourced Network).

Much of Bannon's time is invested as a senior principal in MITRE Corporation’s Advanced Software Innovation Center.

She also publishes, speaks and blogs to get the word out and is a featured speaker and panel moderator at industry events. She holds certifications from Microsoft, AWS, DevOps Institute, PMI, Scrum Alliance and the Software Engineering Institute (SEI).