Speaking & Community
Technology is better with people around the table.
I speak and run workshops about cloud platforms, security, and AI. I spend just as much time on the community work that happens between sessions.
Formats
Appearances
This is a growing selection of conference appearances. It doesn’t yet capture the many user groups, meetups, online talks, and community sessions that have also shaped my speaking journey.
AWS Community Day 2025 - Switzerland
Zürich, Switzerland
AWS Right-Sizing: Fine-Tune Your Migration for Peak Performance
A practical session on avoiding one-size-fits-all AWS migration choices by right-sizing compute and storage to improve both cloud performance and cost efficiency.
AWS Re:Invent 2024
Las Vegas, NV, USA
ACT168 Students and Young Professionals in Tech Fireside Chat & Meetup
Featured as a fireside-chat guest at AWS re:Invent 2024, sharing insights with students and early-career professionals navigating careers in tech.
AWS Community Day - West Africa 2024
Lagos, Nigeria
Unleashing Potential, Mitigating Risks: The Ethical Landscape of Generative AI
A thought-provoking look at how to realize generative AI's benefits responsibly by addressing bias, privacy, and misinformation to drive positive global impact.
DevOpsCon Berlin 2024
Berlin, Germany
Monitoring and Observability in AWS Cloud
Practical strategies for improving AWS workload reliability and performance through monitoring and observability, with real-world use cases.
DevOpsCon Berlin 2024
Berlin, Germany
Organizational Culture and DevOps
A people-first exploration of how collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement create the organizational culture needed for successful DevOps adoption.
AWS Community Day Nordics 2024
Copenhagen, Denmark
AWS Things You Wouldn't Do with Django, and How to Do Them
A practical guide to extending Django with AWS-native services to build secure, scalable cloud applications, from DynamoDB and Cognito to S3, App Runner, and Parameter Store.
AWS Community Day DACH 2023
Munich, Germany
Customizing Your AWS Well-Architected Reviews: A Technical Walkthrough
A technical walkthrough of a custom-built tool that uses the AWS Well-Architected API to generate tailored, client-ready Well-Architected Review reports.
Apollo GraphQL Summit 2022
San Diego, CA, USA
The Way of the Graph
How shifting from endpoint-based API design to graph thinking helps developers build more connected, flexible GraphQL APIs, even with legacy or non-graph data sources.
Topics I enjoy speaking about
- Cloud platform engineering on AWS
- Infrastructure as code in practice
- Cloud security, IAM and zero-trust networking
- Kubernetes and container platforms
- AI platform engineering, MLOps and agents
- Learning in public and technical writing
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