🗣️ Talks

Speaking at Hardly Strictly Security 2024

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.

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Abstracts

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
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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
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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
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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
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Fuzzing Frontiers

Exploring Unknown Unknown Vulnerabilities

Explore Nuclei v3.2's innovative fuzzing features for enhanced security testing and vulnerability discovery.

Security
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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
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As Strong as the Weakest Link

Securing the Software Supply Chain

Security
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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
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Black Mirror DevOps

Can we use DevOps practices responsibly to prevent dystopian technological futures?

DevOps Engineering

🗣️ Talks

Previous Talks

Abstracts

Orchestrating LLM Agents: Building Trustworthy Agentic Workflows in Production

Typing at Scale: Prefect’s Journey to Safer Python

The Focus Fallacy: Why Busy DevRels Fail

Failure is Always an Option

Fuzzing Frontiers

The Renaissance of Community-Driven Security

Shakespeare, Bacon, & the NSA

Commercial Open Source Business Models

The imperative to stop being lazy and do better

As Strong as the Weakest Link

Failure is not an option

The Asynchronous Enterprise

Black Mirror DevOps