Presentations, panels, and workshops — 2021 to present · 25+ conferences
A panel discussion on the current landscape of Internal Developer Platforms — where they've succeeded, where they're falling short, and what the next generation of IDPs needs to deliver for engineering teams.
A Women in Tech lunch panel on exercising authority and influence without formal management power — navigating the unique challenges of Staff+ IC roles, building credibility across teams, and leading through expertise rather than title.
Automation enables engineering teams to reduce duplication of effort and build consistency around observability. This talk covers how Datadog and Project44 created self-service platforms so engineers can automatically get observability into their systems — using infrastructure as code and out-of-the-box solutions.
A fireside chat on doing more with less — how small, focused teams can build and scale observability programs that punch above their weight. Covers prioritization, automation, and making the case for observability investment in resource-constrained environments.
A look inside how Datadog approaches software delivery — shifting quality and security practices earlier in the development cycle while improving developer experience and release velocity.
How automation reduces toil and improves response quality across the incident lifecycle — from detection and triage through to resolution and learning.
Spades is a cultural cornerstone in the Black American community and a team-based game where winning requires cooperation and trust — things also required for successful DevOps. This talk draws parallels between the strategy and communication lessons of Spades and building high-functioning engineering teams.
How engineering organizations can approach cloud cost optimization as an ongoing discipline — covering tooling, organizational patterns, and how to make cost visibility a first-class concern so teams can move fast without surprising the business.
On March 8th, Datadog had a massive global outage. It took more than 500 engineers across many teams over two days to coordinate the incident response. This talk covers the trigger, why it required such large-scale effort to resolve, and the technical and social lessons learned.
An ignite-style talk. RomComs are beautifully hilarious in the way their characters actively misunderstand each other at every turn. Incidents are not. This talk covers what happens when you respond to an incident like a RomCom main character — and what to do instead.
A practical introduction to observability using a Minecraft server as the system under study — covering metrics, logs, and traces through a lens that's approachable and fun.
You've saved the world (or at least your local dev environment) and are now eating celebratory shawarma. Now what? This talk explores post-incident practices — from post-mortems and incident reviews to root cause analysis and avoiding brittle fixes — and the hardest part: getting the ball rolling on real change.
A deep dive into SLO burn rates as a practical reliability tool — how to set meaningful error budgets, interpret burn rate alerts, and use them to balance reliability with feature velocity.
A panel discussion on the structural and cultural changes needed to build and retain diverse teams in DevOps and SRE — covering hiring, onboarding, sponsorship, and creating environments where engineers from underrepresented backgrounds can thrive.
Incident management is often reactive and exhausting. This talk covers how to build sustainable on-call practices and incident processes that protect engineers from burnout while improving system reliability.
Getting started with monitoring from scratch — covering the foundations of observability for teams that are new to the practice, with practical steps to go from zero visibility to meaningful instrumentation.
Romance novels and films are full of misunderstandings, miscommunications, and dramatic pivots — which turns out to be a surprisingly effective lens for examining what not to do during an incident. A fun, story-driven take on incident response best practices.
How to set yourself up for success by asking better questions, building stronger team relationships, and designing systems and processes with everyone in mind.
A TEDx talk on community, belonging, and the power of collective vision — exploring what it means to build something that outlasts you and why hope is a prerequisite for change.