Marilag Dimatulac Svennevig
CTO at Dewise | Co-Founder Ulap.org | Microsoft Azure MVP
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Marilag is a solutions architect who is enthusiastic about sharing knowledge across borders, cultures & individuals. Her experience in Cloud and Software Engineering, combined with her passion for mentorship and developer wellness, drive her to tackle the tech upskilling challenge through communities. She’s the organizer of several Azure user groups and the co-founder of Ulap.org, a non-profit organization that helps train underrepresented youths within cloud, data and technology. She often talks about cloud architecture, product engineering, developer experience and leadership.
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Software Projects - A Tragedy
Software engineering is my one true love. And like many love stories, I have had my heart broken and shattered into a million pieces. How can we cope with the pain of failed software projects - when we give everything we have: long years of late-night debugging, intense weekends of deployment, romantic dinners spent alone in front of the monitor - only to see our creation obliterated and forgotten? Software development is not for the fainthearted. It can leave you with grief so deep that you attempt to just walk away from it all. I want you to know that you are not alone. I sometimes feel the same way too. Two decades of failures have left me with deep scars, but they also show a brand of bravery and the refusal to give up on something we believe in: that technology can and does improve lives and it is worth enduring the pain it causes to achieve that.
A practical guide for building internal developer portals
Every day, developers imagine, create, and deliver value—a beautiful process often hindered by a complex and chaotic engineering ecosystem.
Is it time to consider building a developer portal? Will it truly address these issues, or will it become just another unused tool?
An internal developer portal, when done right, serves as a home for engineering teams. It provides access to tools, data, documentation, and facilitates collaboration across teams. This is the first step towards boosting productivity and transforming your team into a high-performing unit.
In this talk, we will explore the benefits and challenges of implementing an internal developer portal. Learn how to get started with open-source frameworks or by building your own. Discover the key technical choices for designing self-service applications and strategies to drive adoption, enabling your engineers to focus on what they do best: solving problems.
Message Brokering and Event Driven Architecture on Azure
If you’re building highly distributed systems on the cloud, then you’re probably aware of the challenges of keeping your data consistent and your services resilient and scalable. Connecting different parts of your systems via messages & events, is a common pattern. But selecting the correct architecture with the right tech stack, can be tricky. Understanding the difference between Azure Queues, Service Bus, Event Grid or other open-source offerings, can be helpful in implementing the correct solution to your specific problems.
Defying the Divide - Finding daring ways to work together, even apart
If home is where the heart is, mine is broken into two. I'm from the Philippines, and I've been living in Denmark for a decade. I love both countries. That's why I chose to build a tech company in Copenhagen & Manila, and even volunteered to run the Azure User Groups for my two cities. If I was an Azure resource, I would turn on geo-replication in an instant. At times I wish I could auto-scale. Travel with zero latency. Load-balance. I've learned a lot, and I want to share it in this short talk. I learned that despite the distance that keeps us apart, making our jobs more difficult, our goals harder to achieve, we are still under the same cloud. We can make it work.
Azure Well Architected Framework in Action
Cloud Architects make a lot of decisions. When designing solutions on top of such powerful platform like Azure, it's best to have a framework that serves as a compass to guide you which way to go. In this session, let's take a look at how the Azure Well Architected Framework can help us build great solutions on the cloud & get ready to put it in action
Fast-track your teams to become cloud-native builders
As the value of digital products continue to grow, so does the number of modern development platforms on public, private and hybrid cloud.
But we can’t say the same with cloud skills.
What are innovations for, when there’s only few who knows how to use them?
As a cloud architect, I’ll share my journey working with cloud engineering teams of different size and maturity level. You’ll learn the technical tools and architectural patterns that truly accelerate delivery. Furthermore, you’ll discover the fundamental ways of organizing, upskilling, and tech-enabling teams to build cloud-native products fast.
Developer experience by design
Why should your organization adopt a strategy for improving developer experience? What could happen if it didn’t?
Many companies are now reorganizing their engineering teams to become product-centric and platform-enabled to accelerate innovation and stay ahead of the competition. Over the past years, I have been in the front seat of these transformations, implementing tools and architecting systems that increase developer productivity and work satisfaction through internal self-service portals, either custom-built or extending open-source frameworks. I’ve talked to hundreds of developers from product and platform teams, worked with tech leads and engineering managers, and debated with decision-makers to deeply understand what design choices to make to quickly deliver great software products without your team burning out.
In this session, I’ll share insights from a technical and business perspective, drawn from both failure and success stories that I continue to witness in my daily work in software product engineering.
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