EPAM Systems

With over thirty years of experience, he's a veteran leader in digital transformation and financial services marketing.

Throughout his career, Todd has led major digital initiatives and customer experience strategies for top-tier brands, including American Express, Citi, USAA, and EPAM Systems.

A true pioneer in the space, he began his digital banking career at JPMorgan Chase, where he developed and launched the bank's very first internet banking service.

Welcome, Todd.

Welcome to Fresh AI Workforce Wednesday.

Today we're looking at a new partnership between domino data lab and EPAM systems.

that's focused on bringing AI into production environments in life sciences.

This isn't about proof of concept work.

Right, and the timing here is interesting.

We've seen plenty of life sciences companies experiment with AI over the past few years, but moving those experiments into GXP validated production has been a real bottleneck.

Domino brings the platform side, build, scale, govern, while EPAM is embedding engineering teams directly with customers to handle the messy integration work.

That embedded model is worth highlighting.

I'm excited to be here.

Uh, I am John Picozzi, Solutions Architect at EPAM, and today my co-hosts are joining us, uh, for the, her last, her last show.

Well, hopefully not her last show, but her last guest-

[laughs]

You can find me online pretty much everywhere @nickxvan, N-I-C-K-X-V-A-N.

And I'm John Picozzi.

You can find me, uh, uh, personally at picozzi.com. You can find me on social media and drupal.org, @johnpicozzi, and you can find out more about EPAM at epam.com.

And we forgot to tell you again, Amber, but since this is your last show, you get the goodie bag.

The real win is embedding these checks into the CICD, not relegating them to a separate audit step.

And Hitesh Enshani of EPAM Systems said, quote, we're treating AI-generated code no differently than human code, but reviewing it faster and earlier.

Practically, that means AI-assisted review on every PR, SaaS, plus technology, dependency scanning enforced in CI, no bypass, automated API inventory and drift checks, security test cases generated alongside feature code, periodic AI driven red teaming against critical flows.

The key shift for us was moving security from a review step to a default part of the pipeline.

Welcome.

And we have Sandra Laughlin in the middle there, the chief learning scientist at EPAM Systems and the former director of the Office of Transformational Learning at the University of Maryland.

All right, we're gonna start off with a lightning round for all three of you.

So quick answers to this, but a little bit of explanation.

I think we're going to have to catalog all of those in the show notes.

I am John Pacozzi, Solutions Architect at EPAM, and my co-hosts are, joining us for the second week, Amber Matz, Developer Advocate at Tugboat.

Hello! And filling in for Nick this week, Nick is taking a well-deserved vacation, Stephen Cross, Developer Advocate Every Day.

Yeah,

And I'm John Pacozzi.

You can find me personally at pacozzi.com. You can find me on social media and Drupal.org at John Pacozzi.

And you can find out about EPAM at epam.com.

And if you've enjoyed listening, we've enjoyed talking.

Super, super interesting.

And one incredibly amazing event that we hosted for our clients, Commerce, PayPal, EPAM and Google Clouds.

I knew I'd get there, but Mariana giving me the names in the background.

She knows more than I do.

Welcome to Talking Drupal.

I'm John Pacozzi, Solutions Architect at EPAM.

And today we're doing things a little bit differently than normal.

We're doing one of our infamous or famous, depending on how you look at it, off-the-cuff episodes.

I'm John Pacozzi.

You can find me personally at Pacozzi.com on the social networks and Drupal.org at John Pacozzi.

And you can find out more about EPAM at EPAM.com.

And if you've enjoyed listening, we've enjoyed talking.