Suzanne Daniels
Developer Productivity Global Black Belt
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Suzanne's passion is finding ways to help developers and engineers get the tools and skills to do what they do best: creating the software this world runs on while trying to innovate and make sense of buzzwords at the same time. She is an advisor for organisations on Developer Experience, Platform Engineering and adoption of (cloud)technologies.
Suzanne emcees/hosts at events and is a speaker on both technical topics and more in general on transformation & innovation. Also, she organises meetups and events.
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Platform Engineering: Enabling better DevEx
Developer Productivity, Velocity, 10X… We’re all familiar with the buzzwords, the promises of accelerated software development. Yet, in the trenches, we find ourselves waiting on cloud teams to close database tickets, juggling dependencies on our trusty laptops, and deciphering the intricacies of our platform. Even our technical debt has its own technical debt.
But fear not! Emerging from the shadows is a practice that promises to transform our Developer Experience. In this session, we’ll dive deep into our view on platform engineering. We’ll explore how it's principles can elevate developer experience, untangle complexity, and pave the way for you to become a happy and productive developer.
Join us as we unravel the mysteries of platform engineering, share hard-earned insights, and celebrate the products that propelled us forward from 2 year release cycles to the Microsoft you know today.
5 tips to burn out your engineers
In this lightning talk Suzanne gives you 5 quick tips to 10X burn out in your engineering organization.
Improving Developer Experience with Backstage
Onboarding is difficult, finding information can be a pain, collaborating across teams or domains is hard, and no-one likes context switching between cloud portals, CI/CD Tooling and whatnot. This and other modern frustrations are causing friction in the day-to-day lives of developers.
This friction is taking away pleasure, effectiveness, and will eventually result in bad code, people leaving or being burnt out. Investing in Developer Happiness is key, but where to begin? Should you build yet another portal? Implement that new DevOps platform? Try that Inner Source thing?
In this session we're discussing all of this and take a look at Backstage, an Open Source platform you can use to build an Internal Developer Portal with and massively improve your developer experience. Because happy developers write happy code.
Shift left, add it to the pile? How to keep developers productive and happy
The cloud native development ecosystem is expanding at an unprecedented and chaotic pace. With access to increasingly powerful technologies, developers should be well-positioned to drive innovation forward and work more creatively than ever. However, the problems they are attempting to solve have become more complex than ever.
While development is shifting to the right, the 'shift-left' movement piles up new tools and interfaces in the lives of developers, creating friction in the innovation process and ultimately limiting developers' ability to deliver.
In this session, Suzanne Daniels shares her insights on how organizations can overcome these challenges and improve developer velocity. She will discuss three key solutions that organizations can use to help their developers be more productive and shows how you can combine them using an internal developer portal.
Topics for discussion include:
- Why platform engineering is not just "the new DevOps," and why it's essential to improving developer velocity.
- How to improve collaboration between developers and other teams to streamline software development and speed up innovation.
- How a developer portal can help organizations embrace chaos, foster collaboration, and integrate solutions for greater productivity.
Building a Better Developer Experience with Platform Engineering
In this talk, we will explore the importance of platform engineering in software development. The talk will cover how platform engineering can help improve developer productivity and give practical tips on how to implement it. Attendees will learn about the significance of developer experience in platform engineering and how it can help streamline critical infrastructure tasks like security, governance, and observability. The talk will also cover strategies to augment developer experience in platform engineering, including automation and toolchain optimization looking at the Microsoft and GitHub landscape.
Details in this talk might change.
GitHub Copilot for coding and beyond: Tips, Tricks, and Stickers!
GitHub Copilot is the most popular AI assistant for engineers around the world, and for good reason. Like with every new technology, we must learn how to leverage it's capabilities to the fullest extent, and so we're all learning about prompt engineering and keeping up with the latest features while working on our hot pile of backlog.
This is your moment to kick back, and learn about effectively using Copilot for coding, and beyond. In this demo heavy session, Suzanne will share features of GitHub Copilot that can help any role in engineering to be more effective, how to improve your prompting skills, and stickers.
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JCON WORLD 2023 Sessionize Event
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Build Stuff 2023 Lithuania Sessionize Event
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NDC London 2023 Sessionize Event
DevOpsDays Tel Aviv 2022 Sessionize Event
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TechRadarCon22
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Update Conference Prague 2022 Sessionize Event
VMware explore
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MC and co-chair for BackstageCon conference 2022
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Little Rock Tech Fest 2022 Sessionize Event
Techorama Netherlands 2022 Sessionize Event
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