🗣️ Talks
have had the pleasure of speaking at numerous conferences, events, and meetups. Below are some of the talks I have given and abstracts I am currently working on.
Previous Talks
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Abstracts
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Orchestrating LLM Agents: Building Trustworthy Agentic Workflows in Production
The talk explores how to integrate LLM-based agents into ML pipelines through structured workflows, guardrails, and observability techniques that balance autonomy with reliability and control.
Engineering AI Data -
Typing at Scale: Prefect’s Journey to Safer Python
Prefect's journey to type completeness overcame challenges while enhancing code reliability and developer experience in large-scale Python development.
Engineering Python Open Source -
The Focus Fallacy: Why Busy DevRels Fail
Learn how ADHD management techniques can transform your DevRel strategy from scattered activities to focused impact, saving you from the exhausting treadmill of 'being everywhere' while actually going nowhere.
DevRel Open Source -
Failure is Always an Option
What Apollo Can Teach Us About Resilient Data Pipelines
Learn how Apollo's software engineering principles and failure management strategies can help us build more resilient data pipelines with modern orchestration tools.
DevOps Engineering Data -
Fuzzing Frontiers
Exploring Unknown Unknown Vulnerabilities
Explore Nuclei v3.2's innovative fuzzing features for enhanced security testing and vulnerability discovery.
Security -
The Renaissance of Community-Driven Security
An open-source, standardized language for describing security vulnerabilities that bridges communication gaps between technical and non-technical stakeholders in cybersecurity.
Security -
Shakespeare, Bacon, & the NSA
The story of a code-breaking Quaker poet from Indiana who hunted Nazi spies and her role in founding a modern science.
History Engineering -
Commercial Open Source Business Models
Explore sustainable business models for Commercial Open Source (COSS) companies, highlighting successes and failures through case studies like GitLab amidst industry challenges.
Open Source -
The imperative to stop being lazy and do better
This talk explores the importance of building accessible and inclusive software, highlighting common oversights in tech and emphasizing the need for developers to prioritize inclusivity in their products.
Engineering Accessibility Leadership -
As Strong as the Weakest Link
Securing the Software Supply Chain
Security -
Failure is not an option
What Apollo 11 can teach us about DevSecOps
DevOps Engineering -
The Asynchronous Enterprise
How do you build a $3 billion dollar company with zero offices and 1,200 team members in 65+ countries? Well let me tell you...
Engineering Leadership -
Black Mirror DevOps
Can we use DevOps practices responsibly to prevent dystopian technological futures?
DevOps Engineering