Lady Conference Speaker
Digital Sandwich Generation: Women’s Roles In Identity Management For Others (Alterconf Chicago, 2015)
I don’t know of any parenting books that tell you how to choose baby’s first handle. I don’t know of any self-help books that tell you how to help your parents create a digital estate plan. Both of these scenarios and many more are falling to the people who have always been responsible for maintaining…
The Seven Righteous Fights (Rubyconf, 2015)
Usually we think of compound interest as what adds magically to our retirement or makes our student loans last forever. But there is also a compound interest of technical debt, where a project is made harder and more expensive because of early “cost-saving” choices. I think it’s empowering for developers and other people involved in…
The New Sheriff in Town: Bringing Documentation Out of Chaos (Write the Docs, 2014)
By the time we get to mid-career, most of us have specialized, by technology, or organization type, or document type. We have a comfort zone. I have specialized in walking into chaos and creating order. I’ve done it enough times that I have a sequence of steps I follow. I imagine myself as a sheriff walking…
Upcoming appearances
Velocity Berlin
Minneapolis DevOps Meetup
DeliveryConf