Bio
Valarie Regas is a DevOps enthusiast, a Georgia Tech coding bootcamp graduate, and a veteran mommy. She holds a BA in Psychology and currently works as a Developer Advocate. After years being a stay-at-home mom, she decided to change her life by entering Tech, and has learned a lot along the way. She enjoys mixed martial arts fighting, table-top role playing games, public speaking, creating tiny humans, and political activism.
My Talks
Continuously Awesome: Using Jenkins to Build, Deploy, and Automate
DevOps is a culture, not just a set of tools. However, the tools help! Come meet my friend Jenkins. He'll help you reach CI/CD goals, and increase efficiency along the way.
DevOps: A Love Story
This romance involves the partnership of Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins. These technologies are a huge part of the DevOps movement, and are making the heart of many development teams flutter. Let ...
Guerrilla Job Fair: Getting Hired in an Unfair World
Resumes are worthless. In today's world, getting your dream job requires thinking outside of the box, taking risks, and disrupting the status quo. This talk helps people identify their true strengt...
Mothering A Dev Team: How Wardley Maps Saved My Parenting and My Job
This Mom is no stranger to bringing lessons learned via parenting into the workplace, and vice versa. I'll show you how to use Wardley Maps, and other planning strategies, to streamline your life, ...
Own Who You Are: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome: a global problem in the sphere of technology. What causes it? How do we stop succumbing to it and thrive in our careers?
Together, we'll explore myriad paths towards being the d...
Proper Care and Feeding of Jr. Developers
Jr. Devs require more than just a job; they need help from YOU. More than just a weekly coaching session, or odd email with feedback. This talk will focus on actionable tasks which can be implemen...
Rebuilding Together
Since March 2020, the world has changed, and the tech community has had to change along with it. Where do we go from here? How do we regain some of what we have lost, while looking forward to the f...
The Mom Advantage: Why Tech Needs Mommies
The life of a stay-at-home mom requires unique thought processes, specialized organizational skills, and myriad soft skills often missing in the workplace. Tech needs mommies.
Moms can revamp tec...
The Shiny New "Agile:" Ooops! We're Waterfall Again!
Sometimes, in our enthusiasm to streamline our development process, we accidentally move farther away from CI/CD, and the rapidity associated with DevOps Culture. Join me as we discuss how to ident...
Want to Start a Podcast? Don't Do This.
When my cohost and I started our technology podcast, we thought it would be simple. We talk, we record, we share. Done, right? NOPE.
Let me share the good, the bad, and the ugly of our experience ...