2023 SLOconf Speakers

Adrian is a principal engineer leading cloud native resource orchestration for the Network and Edge Group in Intel. He has invested 20+ years becoming an expert on Cloud Native Orchestration, Service Orchestration and Management, Automation and Cloud Native Observability, with many of those years focused on applying and enhancing cloud technologies for some of the most demanding, high-performance, deterministic networking applications. Now he leads strategy, requirements, and architecture definition for cloud native resource orchestration of distributed networking application that span from the cloud to the edge. 

In the past, Adrian created and influenced the ecosystem to adopt Enhanced Platform Awareness which is a suite of platform enabled capabilities at different layers of orchestration stacks. He was one of the contributors of Management and Orchestration standards definition for Network Functions Virtualisation bringing platform aware virtualisation technology to the Communications Service Providers for high performance, interoperable NFV solutions. Adrian was a co-founder and first Technical Steering Committee lead of the Open Source Management and Orchestration (OSM) community.

Adrian is also a keen sports fan, loves outdoor sports and in particular Gaelic games, rugby and mountain biking.

Adriana is a Sr. Developer Advocate at Lightstep from Toronto, Canada, with over 20 years of experience in tech. She focuses on helping companies achieve reliability greatness through Observability, DevOps, and SRE practices. Before Lightstep, she was a Sr. Manager at Tucows. During this time, she defined technical direction in the organization, running both a Platform Engineering team, and an Observability Practices team. Adriana has also worked at various large-scale enterprises, including Bank of Montreal (BMO), Ceridian, and Accenture. At BMO, she was responsible for defining and driving the bank's enterprise-wide DevOps practice, which impacted business and technology teams across multiple geographic locations across the globe.

Adriana has a widely-read technical blog on Medium (https://adri-v.medium.com), which is known for its casual and approachable tone to complex technical topics, and its high level of technical detail. She is also an OpenTelemetry contributor, HashiCorp Ambassador (https://www.credly.com/badges/551d47a7-67cb-41bb-baeb-8c90f114f03a/public_url), and co-host of the On-Call Me Maybe Podcast (https://oncallmemaybe.com).

Alayshia Knighten is an Engineering Manager of Product Training at Honeycomb with many years of experience in the DevOps realm. Alayshia specializes in enhancing technical and team-related experiences while educating customers on their journey with and beyond observability. In her words, “Getting shit done while identifying how to accelerate at the person beyond the tooling is the real meat and potatoes.” She enjoys solving the “so, how do we solve that?” problems and meeting people from all walks of life. Her tiny hometown and Southern background inspire Alayshia. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, grilling, painting, and making random bird calls with her father.

Aleksandra works as an Engineering Manager at Nobl9.

Her over 10-year journey in software development started with being a software engineer and moved towards team leadership and management. Throughout her career, she strived to focus on what she feels is most important (in IT as in life): people. Translating it to Engineering Manager dialect: lead the engineering team to deliver best value to the end users, effectively combining Product and Engineering priorities. She explores the way SLOs can help here.

These days I am leading a team that is developing Service Level Management in New Relic. I love solving challenges at intersection of product and engineering, so I am creating tools for developers like myself.

Alexandra is an SRE Engineer at VMware. She is passionate about Cloud Native, Open Source, and Reliability Engineering communities. Although VMware is home, she was introduced to the Cloud while in IBM - Public Sector and then transitioned into IBM Cloud. She later gained additional hybrid cloud experience at Diamanti, focusing on E2E product support for their Kubernetes based appliance. She is excited about the industry's direction and hopes to contribute in a way that only helps improve the cloud space.

Ana Margarita is a Staff Developer Advocate at Lightstep and focuses on helping companies be more reliable by leveraging Observability and Incident Response practices. Before Lightstep, she was a Senior Chaos Engineer at Gremlin and helped companies avoid outages by running proactive chaos engineering experiments. She has also worked at various-sized companies including Google, Uber, SFEFCU, and Miami-based startups. Ana is an internationally recognized speaker and has presented at: AWS re:Invent, KubeCon, DockerCon, DevOpDays, AllDayDevOps, Write/Speak/Code, and many others.

Catch her tweeting at @Ana_M_Medina about traveling, diversity in tech, and mental health.

Andrew Clay Shafer evangelized DevOps tools and practices when DevOps was not a word before falling in love with SLOs in theory and practice. Living at the intersection of Open Source and Cloud Computing across two decades, they gained experience in every role in software delivery from support and QA to product and development. Andrew now focuses on engineering operable resilient socio-technical systems and communities as a founder of Ergonautic.

Andrew is a seasoned engineer with over two decades of experience in software development and reliability engineering. As a Distinguished Engineer at GitLab, he is responsible for the reliability and availability of GitLab's SAAS properties: GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated. He is a strong advocate for using SLOs, error budgets, and observability data to drive change and manage technical debt. Previously, Andrew co-founded the developer community site Gitter in 2012, where he served as CTO until its acquisition by GitLab in 2017.

Ashley is a software engineer on the SLO team at Datadog. When she’s not working, she enjoys mentoring future engineers at Emergent Works and exploring the transit history of New York City.

Christian has been rolling skeeball competitively in Brooklyn, NY for 11 years and nationally for 7 years. He started out as a straightforward 40-roller, as is both the conventional recommended starting approach and a widely regarded standard for high level competition. Eventually he started dabbling in hybrid rolling and came to develop a fine-tuned highly tactical strategy that minimizes risk and has virtually no ceiling, enabling him to compete with the best rollers in the world.

Dan is a veteran software engineer and technical manager with over 20 years of experience. He currently works on the Tome team at Atlassian, helping internal organisations to define and achieve their operational goals with SLOs.

Daniel Golant is a software developer based in New York City with an interest in how observability can increase engineering leverage. When not speaking you can find him watching tech talks on the treadmill or playing dominoes on the Lower East Side.

David is a Software Engineer at Meta. He is currently working in the Monitoring space, primarily focused on SLICK, the company’s SLO tracking platform. Previously, he was part of the GraphQL team at Meta, where he optimized cache performance and efficiency. Before joining Meta, David worked at Bloomberg as a full-stack developer in the Mobile Market Data team.

I'm a Senior Cloud Infrastructure and Devops Engineer at Zenduty - an incident management and response orchestration platform, trying my best to make sure that every service and application at our org is secure, reliable and accessible 24/7. I have experience working with and am passionate about cloud services, orchestration engines, enterprise networking, observability platforms and figuring out how they work best together. Looking to talk about my experiences and how we manage mission critical operations at an organisation that has no room to fail.

As the Senior Incident, Problem and Service Level Manager for Flexera, I have been building and expanding the function since joining Flexera, nearly 4 years ago.

Emily has over ten years of experience in scientific computing and engineering research and development. She has a background in mathematical analysis, with a focus on probability theory and numerical analysis. She is currently working in Python development, though she has a background that includes C#/.Net, Unity3D, SQL, and MATLAB. In addition, she has experience in statistics and experimental design, and has served as Principal Investigator in clinical research projects.

Formerly a computational chemist, Eric tries to bring some of those skills into SRE-land.

Fred is an Observability SRE in his day job and doesn't get to ride his bike 10k kilometers a year like he used to, so now he relies on science to help him stay in shape.

Greg is co-founder & CPO of CloudTruth. Prior, Greg was the founder & CTO of three cloud / SaaS companies in the data protection market.

Junior Site Reliability Engineer, working in an SRE enablement team at IAG.

Hezheng is a perceptive and persistent pioneer in applying technology to make the world a better place. At Merico, he leads the engineering and research team to build innovative algorithms to help developers quantify the impact of their work. Before this, his research focuses on empowering the next generation of education technology with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Hezheng got his bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University and was pursuing his Ph.D. in computer science at UC Berkeley.

Ioannis is the Director of SRE at Paddle.com. He is an SLO evangelist and practitioner with an obsession to measure anything that matters to the users and the business.

Jason is an SLO and developer expereince advocate that has held a number of technical leadership positions at Ford and Ford Credit over the past 20 years. He is currenlty heading up SRE for Model-e's Cloud Platform driving SLO adoption and SRE culture throug the org.

Jeff has built observability products and developer tools for more than 12 years. The first company he founded, CPUsage, was a pioneer in the serverless computing space before AWS Lambda existed. Later he joined New Relic pre-IPO to focus on new products. There he served on the team creating the company’s high-performance event database, before leading Real User Monitoring and growing the product into the company’s 2nd largest revenue generator. Jeff then joined PagerDuty pre-IPO where he worked on designing, building, and launching a suite of business analytics products. Jeff is an alumnus of the University of Oregon and works between Portland, Oregon and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Jessica Kerr is a developer of 20 years, conference speaker of 10, and ringleader of a household containing two teenagers and their cats. She works and speaks in TypeScript, Java, Clojure, Scala, Ruby, Elm etc etc. Her real love is systems thinking in symmathesy (a learning system made of learning parts). She works at Honeycomb.io because our software should be a good teammate and teach us what is going on. If you're into sociotechnical systems, find her blog and newsletter at jessitron.com.

Software Engineer, miniature painter, and avid note taker.

Kayla is an Enterprise SRE Platform Development Sr Mgr at Capital One to drive adoption of SRE best practices across all Capital One applications.

Before joining FinTech she was a Software Engineering Manager at Lockheed Martin supporting the Space Industry developing reliable flight software products for NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Artemis 1 mission that successfully broke the record for the farthest distance from Earth traveled by an Earth-returning human-rated spacecraft by ~20,000 miles.

Keri is a SRE working to help scale and secure the Nobl9 platform. Before that, she has worked in DevOps building secure and scalable solutions for internal users. She is also passionate about building a safe and diverse workplace and spends her free time hiking, woodworking, and 3D printing.

Natalia is a Product Manager at Nobl9. She enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve complex problems for customers. Before joining Nobl9 in the noble pursuit of reliable software, she spent 10 years developing, publishing, and managing various products for one of the world’s largest educational companies. Outside of work, you can find her hiking in the mountains, working on another art piece at a printing workshop, or playing video games.

Sal Furino is a Customer Reliablity Engineer. During his career he's worked as a TPM, SRE, Developer, Sys Admin, and IT support. While not working he enjoys cooking, gamings, traveling, skiings, and golfing. Sal lives in Queens with his parter and has a BS in Applied Mathematics from Marist College.

Sasha is Principal at a new venture, Ergonautic

With a degree in Computer Science, an MBA, and two decades of experience across development, operations, product management, and technical sales, Sasha Rosenbaum brings a unique perspective to optimizing the organizational flow of work, bridging gaps with empathy and insight.

Software Engineer with a track record of building & shipping complex software with primary focus on infrastructure and advanced backend systems. My experience includes working on high-throughput messaging infrastructure, trade execution engines, and large-scale monitoring and observability systems. Below are keywords that might be useful.