Bio
Waldo is a Tech Evangelist for Datadog, which normally means that he gets to travel and meet people, and advocate on their behalf. He is a recovering SRE and Operations Engineer, has been active in the DevOps community for quite some time, and is keen on helping organizations stop hurting themselves. Despite being a raging introvert, he enjoys public speaking. In his spare time, he enjoys collecting hobbies that he doesn’t have the time to engage in. He hates writing about himself in the third person, and aspires to one day be a better bio writer.
My Talks
Agent of Change? Here's Your Helmet
As popularity of DevOps rises, more orgs want the benefits that a DevOps culture can bring, they get the idea that they can hire to "Bring the DevOps". In this talk I will describe what you're actu...
Conference Hugs: How Touching Other People Works
There are people who don't understand the protocol for touching other people at conferences. This is a primer based on a common protocol that most technical people can grasp: TCP.
Corporate Analgesia: How Your Org Chart is Actively Harming You
Contrary to fiction, numbness is not a superpower. Unless your org is checking for injury, it will only suffer more. I describe how aligning responsibility w/ authority allows injury to be felt & t...
Fear and Loathing in Systems Administration
DevOps doesn't matter. I will talk about ways that Systems / Operations teams can have a better quality of life, while providing better service, and developing better relationships with their comp...
Product Teams, the Wonder Drug for Burnout* (* take as directed)
If you organize your company around functional role rather than products, you may be causing more problems than you solve. There is a better way.
Pronouncing 'kubectl': The Definitive Guide
Many of us will use a tool or location or object without ever having heard it spoken aloud. While some try to retroactively define the correct pronunciation, it seems that the Kubernetes community ...
That Product Team Really Brought That Room Together
Many of the conflicts that we experience at work are the result of conflicting incentives, and this comes from how we are organized and incentivized. I will demonstrate what I consider to be the id...