Women In GitOps (Panel)
Channel: Weaveworks, Inc.
Date: 2022-03-09

We are celebrating international women's day, GitOps Style. This empowering event will gather female role models who innovate, challenge and embrace the world of GitOps. Inspirational women who have achieved great success within the sector and will share stories of their journey. Furthermore, they will explore the question why is it important to “Get on Git Ops”.  

Becoming a maintainer can help women get a seat at the top table but the female voice needs to be heard in the discussion. This session will explore the challenges our panelists have faced whilst mining their insights into GitOps and deployment applications.

Bios:

Mae Large Staff Field Engineer at VMware,
Worked as a software developer/engineer throughout her career starting in the Philippines where she was born and raised. She had the opportunity to work in Finland and in India at a consulting capacity. She also worked for State Farm for 15 years in various roles focused on SDLC (software dev lifecycle) and drove the Delivery Engineering topic where she continuously simplified how features (code change) ultimately makes it to the hands of their customers. This same topic is what Mae is currently engaged on at VMware as a field engineer, focusing on providing a sustainable and secure software supply chain to our customers.

Cornelia Davis, Products, Alexa AI at Amazon, has spent that career at the forefront of technological innovation, starting out doing image processing algorithm development, moving to web-centric computing in the late 1990s, spent much of the last decade working in cloud-native software and infrastructure (yes, including Kubernetes) and now works on artificial intelligence and natural language processing. She is the author of Cloud Native Patterns: Designing change tolerant software. Cornelia currently works on Alexa products at Amazon.

Philippa Taprogge is Engineering Manager at Weaveworks.

Priyanka is a Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks. She has worked on a multitude of topics including front end development, UI automation for testing and API development. Previously she was a software developer at State Farm where she was on the delivery engineering team working on GitOps enablement. She was instrumental in the multi-tenancy migration to utilize Flux for an internal Kubernetes offering. Outside of work, Priyanka enjoys hanging out with her husband and two rescue dogs as well as traveling around the globe.

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