# Public Content/Speaking

*Published November 23, 2021*

Source: https://www.kimpel.com/public-content/


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.

## Connect with Me

Find me across the web and social platforms:

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| **Blog & Code** | [Personal website/blog](https://www.kimpel.com/) • [GitHub](https://github.com/harrykimpel) • [Legacy blog](https://kimpel.wordpress.com/) |
| **Professional** | [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrykimpel/) ([posts](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrykimpel/detail/recent-activity/posts/)) |
| **Social** | [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/harry.kimpel.com) • [Mastodon](https://hachyderm.io/@harrykimpel) • [Twitter/X](https://x.com/harrykimpel) |
| **Video** | [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiGkgs7lrc0fe7WsXHCHABw) |

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## 🚀 New Relic

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

### Recent Talks & Videos

| Event | Topic + Link |
| --- | --- |
| WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 | [Unlocking the AI Black Box: Building Trust in the Era of Agentic Production](https://app.wearedevelopers.com/events/16/session/1011) |
| Microsoft Build 2026 | [Take AI agents from prototype to production with OpenTelemetry](https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/ODSP909?source=sessions) |
| Voxxed Days Thessaloniki | [Tracing event-based systems with OpenTelemetry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAzeWP5g8Pc&t=1s) |
| Kong API Summit 2025 | [End-to-End Tracing with OpenTelemetry and Kong](https://konghq.com/resources/videos/opentelemetry-kong-gateway-kafka-tracing) |
| KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2025 | [The Future of Observability: Trends, AI, and New Relic’s Vision for a Smarter Stack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzcGpJk-AqY) |
| Dapr Day 2024 | [Dapr and .NET Aspire - A New Era for Observability](https://youtu.be/NSQVg-1UJGk?si=HCwK93o9obppn8bO) |
| .NET Aspire Developers Day | [OpenTelemetry with New Relic and .NET Aspire](https://youtu.be/Fv7fPSDi53k?si=RNC3iYfcIo5jOrd4) |
| Legends of LambdaConf | [AI/LLM Monitoring](https://youtu.be/GCx0aApa0cY?si=_k29ff4Wf-j57CPp) |

[See all talks and videos](#all-talks--videos)

### (A snapshot of more) Talks & Videos

| Event | Topic + Link |
| --- | --- |
| Voxxed Days Thessaloniki | [Tracing event-based systems with OpenTelemetry by Harry Kimpel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAzeWP5g8Pc&t=1s) |
| Kong API Summit 2025 | [End-to-End Tracing with OpenTelemetry and Kong](https://konghq.com/resources/videos/opentelemetry-kong-gateway-kafka-tracing) |
| KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2025 | [The Future of Observability: Trends, AI, and New Relic’s Vision for a Smarter Stack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzcGpJk-AqY) |
| Dapr Day 2024 | [Dapr and .NET Aspire - A New Era for Observability](https://youtu.be/NSQVg-1UJGk?si=HCwK93o9obppn8bO) |
| KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2024 | [Sponsored Keynote: The Superpower of Observability - Context is King](https://colocatedeventseu2024.sched.com/event/1YKI2/sponsored-keynote-the-superpower-of-observability-context-is-king-harry-kimpel-new-relic) ([watch on YouTube](https://youtu.be/_1-YVmrPbuM?si=abbc5RSeZXIbznbX)) |
| .NET Aspire Developers Day | [OpenTelemetry with New Relic and .NET Aspire](https://youtu.be/Fv7fPSDi53k?si=RNC3iYfcIo5jOrd4) |
| LambdaConf 2024 | [How To Observe Your Blazor WASM With OpenTelemetry And Real User Monitoring](https://youtu.be/qaq-Hc1o0eI?si=C9QqLvKrGGWGwiIy) |
| Legends of LambdaConf | [AI/LLM Monitoring](https://youtu.be/GCx0aApa0cY?si=_k29ff4Wf-j57CPp) |
| DevOpsPro Europe 2024 | [Tracing Kafka with OpenTelemetry](https://youtu.be/HUONP5xrYnI?si=MY4R-_h1MUs_0y4_) |
| Confluent Meetup Copenhagen | [Tracing Kafka with OpenTelemetry](https://www.meetup.com/copenhagen-apache-kafka-meetup-by-confluent/events/298731831/) |
| New Relic Developers Day | [Live coding: Building a New Relic One Nerdpack for Error Budget Forecasting](https://youtu.be/yoFqSB4PTxQ?si=Pk8ZFdmSuTfwC1Q3) (German) |
| Data Byte Series | [Optimize AWS workloads faster with one-step onboarding and out-of-the-box insights](https://youtu.be/54skgSenvHE?si=QAtxg8mFg7mn8LtY) |
| New Relic | [How to Find vulnerabilities in your code with IAST](https://youtu.be/HMJAilOzZpw?si=bIZwaFzNqyZ_6M1y) |

### Featured Blog Posts

- [Unleashing the Power of Monitoring: Master Your WordPress with New Relic](https://newrelic.com/blog/dem/unleashing-the-power-of-monitoring-master-your-wordpress-with-new-relic?has_gdpr=true)
- [Observability as code for AI apps with New Relic and Pulumi](https://newrelic.com/blog/how-to-relic/observability-as-code-ai-apps-new-relic-pulumi?ref=kimpel.com)
- [A deep dive into zero-day vulnerability alerts with New Relic APM](https://newrelic.com/blog/how-to-relic/a-deep-dive-into-zero-day-vulnerability-alerts-with-new-relic-apm?ref=kimpel.com)
- [How to use IAST to prove exploitable vulnerabilities within your first-party code](https://newrelic.com/blog/best-practices/use-iast-to-proof-exploitable-vulns?ref=kimpel.com)
- [Mitigate the hidden security risks of open source software libraries](https://newrelic.com/blog/how-to-relic/mitigate-open-source-library-security-risks?ref=kimpel.com)
- [Level up your security skillset with New Relic](https://newrelic.com/blog/best-practices/level-up-your-security-skillset-with-new-relic?ref=kimpel.com)
- [How to use CodeStream—and shift left your observability practice](https://newrelic.com/blog/how-to-relic/how-to-use-codestream-and-shift-left-your-observability-practice?ref=kimpel.com)
- [How to monitor Microsoft 365: Getting started](https://newrelic.com/blog/how-to-relic/how-to-monitor-microsoft-365-getting-started?ref=kimpel.com)
- [How to monitor Microsoft 365: Observing AD FS](https://newrelic.com/blog/how-to-relic/how-to-monitor-microsoft-365-observing-ad-fs?ref=kimpel.com)

### Workshops & Training

- **WeAreDevelopers World Congress** — [How to instrument your application with OpenTelemetry to capture Traces, Metrics and Logs](https://cdn.kimpel.com/20230728-WeAreDevelopers-World-Congress-Workshop-Otel.png)
- **WeAreDevelopers World Congress** — [Vulnerability Management (SCA) and Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) in practice](https://cdn.kimpel.com/20230728-WeAreDevelopers-World-Congress-Workshop-SCA-IAST.png)
- **Scale Up 360** — [SilverTours: A journey to Cloud, DevOps and Observability](https://www.scale-up-360.com/de/it-infrastructure-operations/speakers#/)
- **RETIT Software Performance Meetup @ Payback** — [Docker performance monitoring: best practices and guidance](https://www.retit.de/12th-software-performance-meetup-payback/)
- **Stuttgart Cloud Foundry Meetup** — [Cloud Foundry monitoring with New Relic](https://eventil.com/events/stuttgart-cloud-foundry-meetup-ii)

### Other Content

- **KubeCon 2021** — [Why Dapr and New Relic are better together?](https://x.com/WJayesh/status/1389891344450023426) (with Microsoft) — [screenshot](https://cdn.kimpel.com/20210505-Kubecon-Dapr-Microsoft.png)
- **Archived** — [Amazon Alexa skill for New Relic Insights](https://www.kimpel.com/2017/11/03/fun-project-amazon-alexa-skill-for-newrelic-insights/) (fun project)
- Internal customer & prospect enablement videos for account-based marketing

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## 🔧 Open Source Contributions

### Dapr Project
>
> **Distributed Application Runtime** — Contributing documentation, components, and samples for observability integration.

- **Documentation** — [Tracing integration](https://docs.dapr.io/operations/observability/tracing/newrelic/), [Metrics](https://docs.dapr.io/operations/observability/metrics/), and [Logging](https://docs.dapr.io/operations/observability/metrics/newrelic/) with New Relic
  - [GitHub PR history](https://github.com/dapr/docs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Aharrykimpel+)
- **Components** — [Dapr components contributions](https://github.com/dapr/components-contrib/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Aharrykimpel+)
- **Sample Project** — [Dapr + commercetools integration](https://github.com/harrykimpel/dapr-commercetools-sample)
- **Blog** — [Observing Dapr applications with New Relic One](https://blog.dapr.io/posts/2021/01/26/observing-dapr-applications-with-new-relic-one/)

### commercetools
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> **Composable Commerce Platform** — Contributing integrations and infrastructure-as-code support.

- [Dapr output binding](https://github.com/dapr/components-contrib/pull/1652)
- [Terraform provider documentation](https://github.com/labd/terraform-provider-commercetools/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Aharrykimpel+)

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## 🔐 Security & DevSecOps

### Snyk
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> **Application Security Platform** — Speaking and writing about security practices for developers.

- **Information Security Event (mysecurityevent 2023)**
  - [Pitch night video presentation](https://www.linkedin.com/events/mysecurityeventpitchnight7044602195752726528/comments/) (starts at 34:30)
  - Talk: [How to make developers and the security team happy](https://cdn.kimpel.com/20230328-30-snyk.png)

- **Workshops & Content**
  - [Auvaria CloudDay Series - DevSecOps Workshop](https://events.auvaria.com/cloudday-series-devsecops-workshop-20220908) — Mitigating Risks in Software Supply Chain Security
  - [Mission Secure Code](https://web.archive.org/web/20220313045252/https://missionsecurecode.com/) — "Kein Raum für Risiken: Software-Lieferketten langfristig absichern" ([microsite](https://cdn.kimpel.com/20220316-17-mission-secure-code.png#floatright))

- **Cross-Platform Content**
  - [Snyk blog: How to send Snyk vulnerability data to New Relic](https://snyk.io/blog/snyk-security-vulnerability-new-relic-observability/)
  - [Developing a security mindset: Tips for software engineers](https://newrelic.com/blog/best-practices/security-mindset-tips?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=global-fy23-q4-security-mindset-tips-twitter-space-blog)

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## 📰 Interviews & Industry Recognition

- **Onalytica**
  - [Who's Who in Hybrid Cloud: Cloud Migration](https://onalytica.com/blog/posts/whos-who-in-hybrid-cloud/)
  - [Interview with Harry Kimpel](https://onalytica.com/blog/posts/interview-with-harry-kimpel/)

- **Zoho Creator**
  - [Ft. Tech Gurus | Low-code Perspectives](https://www.zoho.com/creator/decode/lc_perspectives_lowcode_in_digitalstrategy)

- **Community**
  - [Meetup Groups](https://www.meetup.com/en-US/members/217044190/#groups)