Inspiring Talks for Forward-Thinking Organizations

Expert speaker on team leadership, technology trends, and organizational transformation.

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Speaking Topics

Thought-provoking talks customized for your audience and event goals.

Building Effective Teams

Learn strategies for creating high-performing teams that communicate effectively and drive results.

Future of Technology

Insights on emerging tech trends and how they're reshaping industries and careers.

Leadership in Transition

Navigate change management and lead teams through organizational transformation.

Featured Talks

Highlights from recent speaking engagements and presentations.

Vertically Integrated in Platform Engineering: Secrets to Success Operating the Company Within the Company Recording Available

Vertically Integrated in Platform Engineering: Secrets to Success Operating the Company Within the Company

SREDay · 2024

This session explores how platform engineering teams can operate as vertically integrated product organizations within their companies. It introduces practical strategies for improving internal alignment, communicating value in business terms, and advocating for resources by bridging the gap between technical execution and executive priorities.

Organizational HealthObservabilityPlatform Engineering
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Keynote | Pepperoni, Puppets, and Priorities: Demystifying SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs Recording Available

Keynote | Pepperoni, Puppets, and Priorities: Demystifying SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs

DevOpsPro Europe · 2023

This keynote untangles the confusion around SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs by connecting them to real-world priorities and customer expectations. Through accessible metaphors and a focus on product thinking, it highlights how service level definitions can guide feature development, manage technical debt, and bring clarity to the tension between speed, quality, and reliability.

ObservabilityMetricsDevOps
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Getting Good at Being Bad: Creating a Culture of Iterative Design Recording Available

Getting Good at Being Bad: Creating a Culture of Iterative Design

DevOpsDays Krakow · 2021

This talk makes the case for embracing fault tolerance and iterative design—not just in systems, but in organizational processes and leadership development. By drawing parallels between software practices and human decision-making, it illustrates how high-performing teams reduce risk and improve outcomes by designing for recovery, not perfection.

LeadershipOrganizational ResilienceInnovation
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Past Speaking Engagements

A comprehensive list of previous talks and presentations.

Vibe Coding in Healthcare: A Prescription for Heartburn

AI in Healthcare Forum · 2025

Vertically Integrated in Platform Engineering: Secrets to Success Operating the Company Within the Company

SREDay · 2024DevTalks Romania · 2024DevOpsDays Tokyo · 2024
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Keynote | Pepperoni, Puppets, and Priorities: Demystifying SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs

DevOpsPro Europe · 2023
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SLAs, SLIs, SLOs: Demystifying Reliability Metrics

DevOpsDays Krakow · 2023

Getting Good at Being Bad: Creating a Culture of Iterative Design

DevOpsDays Krakow · 2021
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Can Chaos Coerce Clarity from Compounding Complexity? Certainly.

ChaosConf · 2020
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Your Baby is Ugly. Let’s Be Friends.

DevOps Enterprise Summit · 2020

You’re the Captain Now: Becoming an Engineering Manager

JustDevOps · 2019

Monitoring, Alerting, and Paging: A Three-Part Guide to Incurring Human Costs In Engineering

DevOpsPro Europe · 2019DevOpsDays Phoenix · 2017
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Make It Rain: Finding Value In The Cloud

Iowa Tech Summit · 2018

Leading From The Trenches: Not All Heroes Wear Capes, Not All Leaders Wear Titles

Iowa Tech Summit · 2017

Taming the Technical Interview

Iowa Code Camp · 2017

Terminal Velocity: Doing DevOps Right by Removing CLIs from Production Environments

DevOpsDays Amsterdam · 2017
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It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine): Engineering for Crisis Response at Scale

SRECon 17 Americas · 2017
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