I speak at conferences and company events about distributed systems, operational excellence, and engineering culture. Happy to chat if you're looking for speakers.
Selected Talks:
"Incidents Are Features" — StrangeLoop 2025 How treating incidents as a product feature changed our on-call culture and improved system reliability.
"Scaling Your Platform Team from 5 to 50" — QCon SF 2024 Lessons learned (mostly the hard way) about growing a platform organization while keeping it effective.
"The Boring Technology Manifesto" — LeadDev NYC 2024 A defense of PostgreSQL, boring queues, and resisting the urge to rewrite everything.
"Debugging Distributed Systems" — SREcon 2023 Practical techniques for finding the root cause when everything is on fire and nothing makes sense.
Slides and recordings linked on my blog.