Conferences

I’m a passionate advocate for observability and OpenTelemetry. With years of experience in the field, I’ve dedicated my career to mastering the intricacies of system monitoring and enhancing visibility into complex architectures. My journey has taken me across numerous conferences, where I’ve had the privilege of sharing my insights and connecting with fellow enthusiasts. I believe that effective observability is the cornerstone of reliable and performant systems. My talks and workshops focus on leveraging OpenTelemetry to achieve comprehensive observability, optimize performance, and ensure system resilience. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to deepen your expertise, my goal is to provide valuable knowledge and practical strategies that you can apply to your own projects.

Conference Talks

Here are some of my recent and notable conference talks:

• KubeCon
  • North America
    • Mastering OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration
    • Controlling Your Data with the OpenTelemetry Collector
    • Unified Observability in Kubernetes and Beyond with OpenCensus
  • Europe
    • Log Support in OpenTelemetry
    • OpenTelemetry Collector: Telemetry Built Into All Software
  • China
    • Sampling in the Observability Era
    • Deep Dive: Jaeger
    • OpenTelemetry: Overview & Backwards Compatibility of OpenTracing + OpenCensus
    • Using Ambassador to Build Cloud-Native Applications
  • India
    • From Three Pillars to More with OpenTelemetry
• Devoxx
  • Greece: Mastering OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration
  • Poland: Making A Complex Task Easy with OpenTelemetry Automatic Instrumentation
• Google Cloud Next
  • OpenTelemetry and Observability at Shopify, Splunk, and Google
  • Complete Production Observability With OpenCensus
• Splunk .conf
  • [OBS1558B] Control Your Data, Control Your Deployment: Learn how to Process Data and Automatically Discover New Data Sources with OpenTelemetry!
  • [OBS1146C] OpenTelemetry: Meet the Developers
• Additional Conferences
  • Monitorama: OTel Me How to DIY O11y
  • O11yfest: Exporting Data with OpenTelemetry

Archive: VMware Talks

• VMworld
  • [MMC2884GU] Search Driven Log Analytics SaaS for Troubleshooting vSphere, VSAN and NSX Issues Using Machine Learning Algorithms
  • [8040] Turning up the Noise: How VMware’s Private Cloud Team is Getting Closer to the Heartbeat of their Infrastructure, Billions of Events at a Time
  • [8641] A Lot of Insight; No PowerPoint
• VMUG
  • Boston: From Symptoms to Root Cause to Remediation with vRealize Operations and Log Insight
  • Boston: 360 Visibility & Troubleshooting for the Modern Data Center Infrastructure – VMware
  • Providence: Log Insight Deep Dive
  • Norway: Log Insight (?ne+dle) to Value Deep Dive 
• vBrownBag
  • Fun with Log Insight APIs
  • Let’s Talk about Log Insight Webhooks
  • Log Insight Importer
• Blogger Talk
  • vRealize Webhooks
  • Log Insight