Details
- Name
- Ajuna Kyaruzi
- Title
- Manager, Technical Advocacy at Datadog
- Pronouns
- She / Her
- Location
- Atlanta, GA
- Website
- ajunaky.github.io
- linkedin.com/in/ajuna
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Bio
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Ajuna Kyaruzi leads the SRE & Platform Advocacy team at Datadog, focusing on helping engineering teams sustainably run large-scale systems through Incident Response and SLOs.
Ajuna Kyaruzi leads the SRE & Platform Advocacy team at Datadog. She cares about using software to help people sustainably run large-scale systems, focusing on Incident Response and SLOs. She loves community building and volunteers with multiple mentorship programs helping early-career folks break into tech. Previously she worked at Google as a Software Engineer on Google Maps and as a Site Reliability Engineer on Google Cloud.
Ajuna Kyaruzi leads the SRE & Platform Advocacy team at Datadog. She cares about using software to help people sustainably run large-scale systems, focusing on Incident Response and SLOs. She has spoken at 25+ conferences on observability, incident management, platform engineering, and engineering culture — including Dash, DevOpsDays, Google Cloud Next, AWS re:Invent, SREday London, DevNexus, and TEDxGrinnellCollege. She loves community building and volunteers with multiple mentorship programs aimed at helping early career folks break into tech, and ensuring they have successful careers. Previously she worked at Google as a Software Engineer on Google Maps and as a Site Reliability Engineer on Google Cloud. She is based in Atlanta, GA.
Ajuna Kyaruzi '17 manages the SRE & Platform Advocacy team at Datadog, focusing on incident response, service reliability, and helping teams sustainably run large-scale systems. At Grinnell College she majored in computer science and was a leader in the African Caribbean Student Union, Grinnell AppDev, and Women in Computing, among other groups. Ajuna began her career at Google, working on Google Maps and later as a Site Reliability Engineer for Google Cloud. Beyond her technical work, Ajuna is passionate about mentorship and expanding access to tech careers. She serves on the board of Africode and is a member of the Wilson Leadership Council, continuing her commitment to building strong, global communities in and beyond tech.
Speaking Topics
Available for keynotes, conference talks, panels, workshops, and fireside chats.
Observability & Incident Management
Practical talks on building observable systems, designing sustainable on-call practices, running effective incident response, and learning from failure. Includes SLOs, burn rates, post-mortems, and automation.
Developer Experience & Platform Engineering
How delivery teams can build self-service platforms that improve developer velocity, shift quality practices left, and reduce cognitive load. Includes internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and software delivery.
Leadership & Engineering Culture
Talks on empathy in engineering, building diverse and high-functioning teams, exercising authority at Staff+ levels, and navigating career transitions in tech. Often told through unexpected lenses — RomComs, Spades, game design.
Speaking Inquiries
Available for conference talks, keynotes, workshops, panels, and fireside chats. To discuss speaking at your event, reach out directly:
For a full list of past talks and recordings, see the Talks page.