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I am a developer advocate and speaker focused on observability, performance, and security for modern cloud-native systems. I speak and write about OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, DevSecOps, and developer productivity. You can book me for keynotes, conference talks, workshops, webinars, or podcasts on those topics.

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🚀 New Relic

Observability Platform Leader — Speaking, writing, and building content around observability, performance monitoring, and security.

Recent Talks & Videos

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Featured Blog Posts

• Unleashing the Power of Monitoring: Master Your WordPress with New Relic
• Observability as code for AI apps with New Relic and Pulumi
• A deep dive into zero-day vulnerability alerts with New Relic APM
• How to use IAST to prove exploitable vulnerabilities within your first-party code
• Mitigate the hidden security risks of open source software libraries
• Level up your security skillset with New Relic
• How to use CodeStream—and shift left your observability practice
• How to monitor Microsoft 365: Getting started
• How to monitor Microsoft 365: Observing AD FS

Workshops & Training

• WeAreDevelopers World Congress — How to instrument your application with OpenTelemetry to capture Traces, Metrics and Logs
• WeAreDevelopers World Congress — Vulnerability Management (SCA) and Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) in practice
• Scale Up 360 — SilverTours: A journey to Cloud, DevOps and Observability
• RETIT Software Performance Meetup @ Payback — Docker performance monitoring: best practices and guidance
• Stuttgart Cloud Foundry Meetup — Cloud Foundry monitoring with New Relic

Other Content

• KubeCon 2021 — Why Dapr and New Relic are better together? (with Microsoft) — screenshot
• Archived — Amazon Alexa skill for New Relic Insights (fun project)
• Internal customer & prospect enablement videos for account-based marketing

🔧 Open Source Contributions

Dapr Project

Distributed Application Runtime — Contributing documentation, components, and samples for observability integration.

• Documentation — Tracing integration, Metrics, and Logging with New Relic
  • GitHub PR history
• Components — Dapr components contributions
• Sample Project — Dapr + commercetools integration
• Blog — Observing Dapr applications with New Relic One

commercetools

Composable Commerce Platform — Contributing integrations and infrastructure-as-code support.

• Dapr output binding
• Terraform provider documentation

🔐 Security & DevSecOps

Snyk

Application Security Platform — Speaking and writing about security practices for developers.

• Information Security Event (mysecurityevent 2023)

  • Pitch night video presentation (starts at 34:30)
  • Talk: How to make developers and the security team happy

• Workshops & Content

  • Auvaria CloudDay Series - DevSecOps Workshop — Mitigating Risks in Software Supply Chain Security
  • Mission Secure Code — “Kein Raum für Risiken: Software-Lieferketten langfristig absichern” (microsite)

• Cross-Platform Content

  • Snyk blog: How to send Snyk vulnerability data to New Relic
  • Developing a security mindset: Tips for software engineers

📰 Interviews & Industry Recognition

• Onalytica

  • Who’s Who in Hybrid Cloud: Cloud Migration
  • Interview with Harry Kimpel

• Zoho Creator

  • Ft. Tech Gurus | Low-code Perspectives

• Community

  • Meetup Groups