GitOps Days 2021: GitOps Panel - Sneha Rao, Kief Morris, & Cornelia Davis
Channel: Weaveworks, Inc.
Date: 2021-08-12

Day 2 (June 10) Session 1
GitOps Panel - Sneha Rao, Kief Morris, & Cornelia Davis

Panelists:
Sneha Rao, Principal Product Manager, Core Infrastructure, Spotify
Sneha Rao (she/her) is the Product Lead for Spotify’s Core Infrastructure. Her team builds and manages the service platform that powers thousands of developers to deploy 10s of thousands of microservices every day at speed, scale and safely. While developer productivity is her team’s top priority, they also counterbalance the chaos of speed by managing reliability, cloud cost, and latency to ensure the audio streaming never ends (or worse, slows down). Sneha has a demonstrated history of working on Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) at Spotify, The New York Times, Comcast, and NASA’s Socio-Economic Data and Application Center (SEDAC).

Kief Morris, Global Lead for Infrastructure Engineering, ThoughtWorks
Kief Morris (he/him) is a cloud, infrastructure, and platform engineering consultant with ThoughtWorks. He is the author of the O’Reilly book “Infrastructure as Code” (http://bit.ly/2PZFdfM). He works with teams to explore better ways to build and manage infrastructure using practices from the world of agile, lean, and DevOps. Originally from Tennessee, Kief moved to London in the dot-com days and has been there ever since.

Moderator: 
Cornelia Davis, Chief Technology Officer, Weaveworks
As the Chief Technology Officer at WeaveWorks, Cornelia Davis is responsible for the company’s technology strategy, inclusive of open source projects as well as commercial products. She is driven by the desire to help enterprises transform their business though the leverage of cloud platforms. She cut her teeth in the space of modern application platforms at Pivotal where she was on teams that brought Pivotal Cloud Foundry (Pivotal’s PaaS) and Pivotal Container Service (Pivotal’s Kubernetes Service) to market. She is the author of the book Cloud Native Patterns: Designing Change-tolerant Software.

An industry veteran with almost three decades of experience in image processing, scientific visualization, distributed systems and web application architectures, and cloud-native platforms, Cornelia holds the B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from California State University, Northridge and further studied theory of computing and programming languages at Indiana University.

When not doing those things you can find her on the yoga mat or in the kitchen.