Wrangling your Management Chain

Thursday, 31 October, 2024 - 09:0010:30 GMT

Dave O’Connor and Todd Underwood

Abstract: 

This session is an opportunity for people to come together and discuss managing your management chain, facilitated by our knowledgeable guides. This is not a prepared talk or workshop—expect a less-formal session with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and to talk to other attendees who are interested in wrangling your management.

Dave O'Connor[node:field-speakers-institution]

Dave is an SRE Leadership practitioner, Advisor and Coach based in Dublin. He's been working on SRE and SRE-adjacent organisations for over 20 years, primarily as an SRE Lead at Google from 2004-2021. Since then, he has spent time leading SRE, Security and Infrastructure teams at Elastic and Twilio.

He's currently a Consultant/Advisor for Busy teams at Co-Servant Systems, and a coach specialising in tech leadership at all levels.

Todd Underwood[node:field-speakers-institution]

Todd Underwood recently lead reliability for the Research Platform at Open AI. Previously he was a Senior Engineering Director at Google leading ML capacity engineering in the office of the CFO at Alphabet. Before that, he founded and led ML Site Reliability Engineering and was the Site Lead for Google’s Pittsburgh office. He co-wrote "Reliable Machine Learning: Applying SRE Principles to ML in Production" (O’Reilly Press, 2022).

BibTeX
@conference {304272,
author = {Dave O{\textquoteright}Connor and Todd Underwood},
title = {Wrangling your Management Chain},
year = {2024},
address = {Dublin},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = oct
}