My name is Adriana Villela, and I'm a Principal Developer Advocate based in Toronto, Canada, with a focus on Observability, SRE, and DevOps practices. Previously, I managed a Platform Engineering team and an Observability Practices team at Tucows. I've worked at various large-scale enterprises, both as an individual contributor and leader, including Bank of Montreal, Ceridian, and Accenture. I am 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 my 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