Laura Santamaria

Laura Santamaria

As a Lead Developer Advocate at Dell Technologies, Laura Santamaria loves to learn and explain how things work to bridge the gaps in engineering disciplines. She is a cohost for the the Cloud Native Compass podcast and was the curator for A Minute on the Mic, a cohost for The Hallway Track podcast, and the host of Quick Bites of Cloud Engineering. As a community member, she co-hosts multiple meetups in the Austin, Texas, area, including Cloud Austin. For many years, she taught Python for the Women Who Code Austin meetup, as well. She is an organizer for DevOpsDays Austin, DevOpsDays Texas, and PyTexas, all community-run conferences. For the past few years, she has been a returning program committee member for Open Source Summit’s Cloud Open track that explores cloud infrastructure and cloud apps. Outside of tech, Laura runs, reads, and watches clouds—the real kind.

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Make It Stick: DevOps culture and systems science DevOpsDays Raleigh 2024 April 2024

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How DevOps Is like Making Paper Airplanes DevOpsDays Chicago 2023 August 2023
Avoiding Community Collapse when Passing the Torch DevOpsDays Organizer Summit 2023 August 2023
What Cloud Engineers Could Learn from Clouds KCDC 2023 June 2023
Getting to DevOps: Musings of a DevRel on communities of practice DevOpsDays Raleigh 2023 April 2023
Getting to DevOps: Musings of a DevRel on communities of practice DevOpsDays Houston 2022 October 2022
Stand Back!: Building a scientific computing lab on public clouds with Python KCDC 2022 August 2022
What Cloud Engineers Could Learn from Clouds DevOpsDays Seattle 2022 July 2022
Stand Back!: Building a scientific computing lab on public clouds with Python PyTexas 2022 March 2022
Cultural Confusion: Bridging the gap between initiative and implementation All Day DevOps 2021 October 2021
Communication and Empathy across Remote and Distributed Teams DevOpsDays Boston 2021 September 2021
Legacy is a Frame of Mind Legacy of SoCraTes September 2021
Pick a Lane: The fallacy of generalists-only in DevOps DevOpsDays PDX 2021 September 2021
Engineering the Cloud: Exploring infrastructure as code in real life DevOpsDays Istanbul 2021 September 2021
Logging is a Team Sport: How to work within your org to log well DevOpsDays Seattle 2021 May 2021
Tanukis with Hammers: The dangers of third-party tooling Deserted Island DevOps April 2021
Leaving the Nest: Guidelines, guardrails, and human error Failover Conf 2: Fail Smarter April 2021
Hashicast Episode 27, Part 2 Hashicast Podcast March 2021
Hashicast Episode 27, Part 1 Hashicast Podcast March 2021
Doing It Live: Demos without panic 12 Clouds of Christmas 2020 December 2020
About the DevOpsDays Chicago 2020 event Arrested DevOps Podcast November 2020
Righting a Sinking Ship: Troubleshooting Systems with Available Data PagerDuty Summit 2020 September 2020
Mayday, Mayday: Starting a job with a production incident DevOpsDays Chicago 2020 September 2020
Logging is a Team Sport: How to work within your org to log well Dog Days of DevOps 2020 August 2020
Righting a Sinking Ship: Troubleshooting Systems with Available Data Halihax Meetup June 2020
Legacy Pipelines Legacy Code Rocks Podcast June 2020
Communication across Remote and Distributed Teams Cloud Austin Meetup April 2020
Empathy across Remote and Distributed Teams Austin DevOps Meetup April 2020 April 2020
Shifting to Where? Exploring paths to a cloudless world Spring Live 2020 March 2020
Making DevOps Beginner Friendly Arrested DevOps Podcast March 2020
The River of Data: Logging in the Modern Day Sysdig Breakfast Club February 2020 February 2020
Legacy is a Frame of Mind DeliveryConf 2019 January 2020
I Borked Prod: Initial troubleshooting of distributed systems in 5 minutes or less 12 Clouds of Christmas 2019 December 2019
All’s Fair in Logs and War: The importance of application event logging DevSecOpsDays Austin 2019 December 2019
Scaling Storage KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 November 2019
Log Better DeveloperWeek Austin 2019 November 2019
Righting a Sinking Ship: Troubleshooting Systems with Available Data Everything DevOps Meetup October 2019

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