Akond Rahman is an assistant professor at Auburn University. His research interests include DevOps and Secure Software Development. His research is sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). He received his PhD from North Carolina State University. He won the Microsoft Open Source Challenge Award in 2016, the ACM SIGSOFT Doctoral Symposium Award at ICSE in 2018, and the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE in 2019. He actively collaborates with practitioners from industry, such as practitioners from GitHub and WindRiver. To know more about his work visit https://akondrahman.github.io/.