Bio

I currently work at The New York Times as a Staff Engineer & Tech Lead, focusing on making systems observable and reliable. Previous to The Times, I spent all of my career on edtech teams as an engineer, including Google for Education and other edtech startups. In my previous roles I have focused on building robust data pipelines, setting technical strategy, building excellent engineering teams & communities, and reliability management. Some more specifics include setting org-wide vision & strategy for observability, improving on-call processes, adopting chaos engineering practices, and cultivating culture that builds with the most vulnerable employees in mind first. I show care for others by holding them accountable to the best versions of themselves – and by buying them the occasional bubble tea. Feel free to reach out it you’re looking for speakers or writers on the following topics: leadership, building teams and communities, driving organizational change, observability, site reliability engineering, and especially combinations of these topics. My upcoming talks include: - DevOpsDays CopenHagen - DevOpsDays Zurich - SRECon APAC - DevOpsDays Amsterdam