Engineering leadership · Platform teams
Every system is a business decision in disguise
The talk that reframes the floor: judgment, not tooling, is the scarce skill, and it can be taught.
Speaking Engagement
Talks rooted in systems I've actually built.
So here's the opinion: every system an engineer builds is a business decision in disguise, and the industry trains almost no one to see it. That's the talk under all the talks.
Talks I'll bring to your stage
Speaking from the floor, not just the stage.
Cloud & FinOps tracks
Cutting cloud spend without cutting performance
A field account of a 40% reduction with zero performance cost, and the decisions that made it durable.
Keynotes · Boardrooms
The translator's job
On bridging the technical floor and the boardroom, what gets lost between them, and who's paid to carry it across.
The proof
Opinions earned in the build, not the abstract.
40%
cloud spend reduced
90%
faster to ship
30+
products delivered
Plus 3+ podcast conversations and designed decks, the material is current, lived, and yours to vet before you book.
Book me.
Tell me about the event and the audience. I'll reply with fit, a tailored angle, and logistics.