Adriana Villela is a Principal Developer Advocate based in Toronto, Canada, with a focus on Observability, SRE, and DevOps practices. Previously, she managed a Platform Engineering team and an Observability Practices team at Tucows. Adriana has worked at various large-scale enterprises, both as an individual contributor and leader, including Bank of Montreal, Ceridian, and Accenture. Adriana is an international keynote speaker, maintainer of the OpenTelemetry End User SIG, blogger, host of the Geeking Out Podcast, CNCF Ambassador (2023-present), and 3x HashiCorp Ambassador (2022-2024).
Listing of Adriana's speaking engagements, webinar appearances, and podcast appearances.
- Observability Day NA 2024 - When Things Go Sideways: Troubleshooting the OTel Operator
- DevOps Days Montreal 2024 - Beyond Platform Engineering
- Portal Talks 2024 - Onboarding Doesn't Have to Suck
- Open Source Summit NA 2024 - Onboarding Doesn't Have to Suck
- Observable Lightning Talks - April 2024
- HashiTalks 2024 - KubeNomad: How to Run Kubernetes on Nomad
- Observability Day EU 2024 - Dude, Where's My Error?
- KubeCon EU 2024 - Prometheus & OpenTelemetry: Better Together
- KubeCon NA 2023 - Empowering Users Through Platform Engineering
- Observability Day NA 2023 - Observe Thy CI/CD Pipelines with OpenTelemetry
- All Things Open 2023 - Be Nice in the Sandbox: How Open Source Gets Competitors to Collaborate
- Sepbember 2023 Kubernetes Toronto Meetup
- DevOps Days Kyiv 2023 - The Case for Self-Service Tooling
- SLOConf Monthly - Observability Anti-Patterns
- Monitorama 2023 - Observability Anti-Patterns
- Open Source Summit NA 2023 - How to Be An Ethical Engineering Leader
- Cloud Native Rejekts EU 2023 - Landing Among the Stars: How Community Powers the Adoption of Open Source
- SLOConf 2023 - Translating Failure into SLOs
- DevOps Toronto April 2023 - Observability Anti-Patterns
- CTO Craft Con - Observability Anti-Patterns
- Observability Landscape as Code with Terraform
- DevTO #92 (2019) - Scaling with Ephemeral Pipelines
- Exploring Platform Engineering at KubeCon Salt Lake City | KubeCon SLC 2024
- The Humans of OpenTelemetry - Live from KubeCon NA 2024
- Cloud Native Islamabad - KuberTENes Birthday Bash
- DevOps.com - AI, DevOps, and the Future of Testing Centers of Excellence
- KubeCon Europe 2024 Highlights - Live Discussion
- Observability Panel with Charity Majors, Amy Tobey, and Adriana Villela
- DevOps Institute SkilUP Hours - Continuous Testing & Test Automation
- DevOps Institute SkilUP Hours - Toolchain Orchestration
- DevOps Institute SkilUP Hours - Observability with OpenTelemetry
- DevOps Unbound Roundtable - Living at the Intersection Between DevOps and Observability
- The SRE Show: Finding the Heart of SRE - How to Build an Empathetic SRE Practice
- Monthly Hashistack Live Chat
- OpenTelemetry 101 - NewRelic x Honeycomb x Lightstep Livestream
- SLOConf 2023 Panel - What Do SLOs Really Mean?
- Women in Observability: Then, Now, and Beyond
- CTO Craft Con 2023 - Debate: Tests vs Observability
- DevOps.com - What 2022 Taught Us About SRE's Future
- TechstrongTV - Living at the Intersection Between Testing and Observability
- TechstrongTV - Building a Platform and SRE Team
- The Landscape - Road to KubeCon NA 2024: Adriana Villela
- O11ycast Ep.#75 - O11yneering with Daniel Ravenstone and Adriana Villela
- Scaling Tech Podcast - Adriana Villela of Lightstep: Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability
- Cloud Native Podcast Ep14 - OpenTelemetry and the Need For Observability in Cloud Native Stacks at Scale
- Women in Cloud Native - Journey into Tech, OpenTelemetry, and Navigating Different Roles
- Enlightning - Observability 2.0: Not Just Another Buzzword
- KubiCast - Dez Anos de KuberTENes
- Is It Observable - Inside KubeCon Europe 2024: Exclusive Interviews & Cloud Native Updates
- Tracetest - Interview with Adriana Villela: OpenTelemetry End User Working Group
- KubiCast 142 - KubiCast & Geeking Out
- SRE Practitioner Series Ep19 with Adriana Villela, Sr. Developer Advocate
- KubeFM Podcast - Unpacking Observability, Ditching Prometheus
- Dose Ao Vivo - Conversa Com Adriana Villela
- Monthly Hashistack Live Chat
- OCMM Overtime: I Bake, Therefore I Code?
- OCMM Overtime: Talkin' About Talks
- Tech. Stron. Women. Ep18 - Observability and SRE Leaders
- Slight Reliability Ep39 - The Future of SRE with Adriana Villela and Ana Margarita Medina
- o11yCast Ep48 - Mastsering Migrations with Adriana Villela of Tucows