Delivered
Feature Flags as Incident Evidence: Safer AI-Assisted RCA Workflows
Prerecorded presentation on feature-flag changes as evidence during incident investigation.
Conference speaking
Systems, recovery, and AI in practice.
Talks grounded in distributed-systems engineering, operational control, and lessons from production.
Completed presentations
Talks & recordings
Delivered
Replay-Safe Architecture: Building Event-Driven Systems That Can Recover With Confidence
Ordering, idempotency, replay boundaries, and reconciliation in event-driven platforms.
Delivered
AI SRE: Building Incident-Response Agents That Start the RCA Before You Do
Gathering telemetry, drafting an incident timeline, and retaining human control over response.
Delivered
AI SRE: Building Incident-Response Agents That Start the RCA Before You Do
AI-assisted incident investigation for cloud-native teams. KCD SF Bay Area Speaker 2026 credential.
Delivered
AI Gardening as a Security Discipline: Managing Context, Memory, and Entropy in Long-Running Agents
Co-presented a session on the operational and security consequences of accumulated agent context.
Delivered
AI SRE: Building Incident-Response Agents That Start the RCA Before You Do
Incident-response agents, observability evidence, and human approval.
Looking ahead
Upcoming speaking
Accepted engagements as of October 19, 2026. These are not counted as completed presentations.
Upcoming · accepted
When Event-Driven Systems Become the Source of Truth: Lessons from CDC, Kafka, and Replay-Safe Inventory Platforms
Accepted contribution using submitted slides with narration by the Raptors team. Proceedings Volume 1 contribution accepted; publication forthcoming.
Upcoming · accepted
Replay-Safe Platform Architecture: Recovering Event-Driven Systems With Confidence
Accepted presentation on platform recovery, event history, and reconciliation.
Speaker topics
Available sessions
A snapshot of my Sessionize topic catalog. A listed topic is not a record of a delivered talk.
AI Ops for Real Systems: Keeping Production AI Grounded with Fresh, Reliable Event Streams
Partitioning with Purpose: Kafka Producer Strategies that Cut Lag ~30%
CDC in the Real World: Debezium + Kafka Streams for Trustworthy Inventory
From RCA to PR: Safe Remediation Workflows with Autonomous Agents
AI SRE: Building Incident-Response Agents That Start the RCA Before You Do
From Prompting to Production: Guardrails for Autonomous Software Development Agents
AI Gardening: Managing Entropy in Agentic Engineering Systems
Experimentation for Platforms: A/B Testing Your Supply Chain & Routing
Reverse Logistics as a Platform: From RMA to Restock in Hours
Schema Governance That Scales: Contracts, Versioning, and Safe Evolution
Speed vs. Cost in Fulfillment: Optimizing What Actually Matters
Sessionize
Live event listings
The external feed may update after this portfolio’s October 19 snapshot. Event association does not independently establish presentation delivery.
Additional Sessionize listings include AgentCon Austin (June 1), Phoenix (June 10), and Saint Louis (June 25). The completed-talk record above is maintained separately.