Ruth Lennon

Ruth Lennon is a lecturer and researcher at the Atlantic Technological University, Ireland. She has particular expertise in the area of DevOps, DevSecOps and fields related to cloud computing. Her research work has guided government national policy through her chairmanship of the NSAI TC 2/SC 11 Cloud Computing and Distributed Platforms.  She also serves as the course lead for the Masters in DevOps, which she successfully delivered to multinational organizations both in person and online. 

Her research work in DevOps is highly regarded and her standard, ISO/IEC/IEEE 32675 DevOps — Building reliable and secure systems including application build, package and deployment has been recognised with an award by the IEEE Standards Organization. She has published over 30 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers and is a reviewer for several leading software engineering conferences and journals. Additionally, she represents Ireland at International systems and software standards meetings and is an active member of the ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC 38 working group that is responsible for the international standards for cloud and distributed computing and also the ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC 7 working group that is responsible for the development of a new international standards for software.

Recently she has been the co-editor of 2 new international ISO/IEC technical reports in the areas of DevOps and Agile practices. She is also the Vice Chair of the working group updating of IEEE 730 for software quality and secretary of the working group updating IEEE 828 on configuration management. She is the S2ESC advisor to P3131 Recommended Practice for Data Engineering with Heterogeneous Ecosystems and Data Sources for Efficient Data Processing, Management, and Consumption.

Ruth is the Global Chair of the ACM-W and previously served as the Chair of the ACM-W Europe celebrating, advocating and promoting women in computing. She is the first woman from Ireland in this role and the second from Europe in the 75 years of the ACM. Ruth has served on the executive committee of the IEEE UK & Ireland Women in Engineering SIG for almost 10 years. She has also served on other international, national, regional groups and conferences supporting diversity and inclusion.