Robin Yeman is currently the Space domain lead at Carnegie Mellon SEI. She is considered an expert in Agile and DevOps with over 28 years’ experience in software engineering. She was a senior technical fellow at the largest defense contractor where she focused on building safety-critical cyber-physical systems that include everything from submarines to satellites.  

Robin was an early adopter of Agile at scale with experience dating back to 2002 where she led a team of teams to obtain 3 straight years of obtaining 100% award fees from her customer. Her early success led her to continue applying Agile in more diverse environments and moved beyond applying Agile to software only projects to applying Agile to cyber-physical systems with stringent safety requirements.

She evolved to learning and applying DevOps and further into DevSecOps on large government programs which reducing lead time in delivering multiple systems across a wide variety of domains. Her enthusiasm for learning is applied both internally and externally where She advocates for continuous learning with multiple certifications including SAFe Fellow, SPCT, CEC, PMP, PMI-ACP, and CSEP. She is a Systems Engineering PhD candidate at Colorado State researching best practices to deliver complex safety critical solutions using Agile and DevSecOps.

She provides mentoring, guidance, coaching support, and conducts training classes to enable digital transformation for customers and teams. Key areas of focus include Systems Thinking, Digital Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile.  She has also led several efforts in Agile program execution and continues to lend her expertise on the development of Safety Critical Systems using Digital Engineering, DevSecOps, and Agile techniques and processes on management, schedule, cost, and technical performance.