Over the last few years of working in the DevOps space, I’ve experienced a lot of failures and successes to get where I’m at. I’ve brought down multiple services I’ve worked on, under-provisioned resources, and even burned out. But situations like these allowed me to re-evaluate my engineering processes, implementations, and even work/life balance. Sometimes things need to break or fall apart before they can get better.

I’ll share my journey from self-taught software engineer to site reliability engineer to developer advocate. These ups and downs have constantly reminded me to rethink the ways things I get things done, so I can get back up and make my processes, and systems more reliable. Join me as I shared what I’ve learned on my journey, so it can help you on yours.