Global CFP Day

March 2, 2019

Brainstorming a Topic for a Talk

What are you interested in?

• Metaphors to understand complex tech ideas
• Observability and monitoring
• Datadog
• How to understand a complex system (like Kubernetes) when you don't have prior knowledge of a similar system
• Remote work culture
• Working with people brand new to tech

What are you excited about?

• Refactoring an app that you pushed out the door really fast
• Etsy's devops practices
• CKAD videos
• Shortcuts for kubectl
• ReactiveOps best practices
• Using CI/CD to deploy apps
• Canary deploys
• Knowledge wiki

What are you really annoyed about?

• Lack of coaching/mentoring/teaching chops in senior engineers
• Lack of POC, LGBTQIA+ and white women in executive roles
• Imagining distributed systems

Template for a Bio (adapated from this hubspot article)

1. Open with your first and last name
2. State your current position and what you do
3. Include a professional accomplishment
4. Describe 1-2 things you do outside of work

Kim Schlesinger is Site Reliability Engineer at ReactiveOps. Prior to being an SRE, Kim was an Instructor, Web Developer, and Curriculum Designer for the Full-Stack Immersive Program at Galvanize, a code school based in Denver, Colorado. Kim loves working at the intersection of tech and adult education.

In her spare time, Kim is a CrossFit athlete and she is the Head of Education and Content for Develop Denver, a 2-day conference for developers, designers, strategists and tech leaders.

1 thing you liked

• Short and straight to the point

1 thing that can be improved

• Bio describes the "what" about you, but would love to hear something about the "why" and/or what you're passionate about

Meagan's Notes!:

• There's a lot of information on it that's really interesting!

• Also agree that finding the theme in it to tie things together ie education & tech! Also, how did you get into SREing (as someone who doesn't know much about it at all!)