speaking
I am an international keynote speaker who has spoken on topics ranging from monitoring systems and hardware provisioning at scale, to the design and maintenance of effective devops engineering cultures. My talks and keynotes have been presented at events such as O’Reilly Velocity, QCon, Write/Speak/Code, The Lead Developer, Monitorama, and devopsdays. Selected recent talks include:
UNTITLED CONFIG GAME
In this keynote, I share multiple stories of incidents that were impacted by configuration management and discuss the various types of state that make up modern infrastructures and how they interact with config management workflows.
Designing Sustainable Ops Cultures
This talk discusses the various factors that contribute to professional burnout and covers ways that modern engineering environments can design ops teams and cultures in ways that help prevent burnout.
Heretical resilience - to repair is human
In this talk, I describe the Apache Snafu written about in the SNAFUCatchers’ Stella Report and share practical suggestions for growing organizational resilience in an engineering environment.
Building bridges with effective devops
This keynote covers the foundational pillars described in Effective Devops and discusses how they can be used to create an engineering culture that can help to prevent burnout.
Put some dev in your devops
This talk goes into detail about the development of a hardware provisioning toolchain, focusing on adding testability and deployment to an existing system with minimal disruption to users.
In addition to conference speaking engagements and training presentations, I have also been a guest speaker on industry podcasts such as The Ship Show and Arrested Devops. Recent highlighted episodes include:
real world devops
On an episode of Real World Devops, I talked about the different ways that teams can respond to production incidents and how those responses can help build safe learning environments and resilient engineering cultures.
the trans mission podcast
On the first episode of the Trans Mission Podcast, I joined Ryanne Fox, Lauren Granger, and Jamey Hampton for an empathetic conversation on trans experiences in the tech industry.
The Trans Mission Podcast, Episode 1