Shelby Spees

@shelbyspees
Los Angeles, CA
she/her

Site Reliability Engineer

DevOps

Observability

Distributed Tracing

Shelby Reliability Engineer (SRE). Visit my personal site at spees.dev.

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Resume

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Sep 2021 - Present

Site Reliability Engineer, Equinix

Mar 2020 - Jun 2021

Developer Advocate, Honeycomb.io

Jun 2018 - Mar 2020

DevOps Engineer, true[X]

Aug 2017 - Jan 2018

Site Reliability Engineer, Grindr

Portfolio

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log4j and learning from dependencies

https://twitter.com/shelbyspees/status/1389675529045897220

Honeycomb OpenTelemetry Java distro v0.2.0

Joined the OpenTelemetry docs-approvers team https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pull/540

writing

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"Leveraging OpenTelemetry Tracing to Tune Our Rails Monolith" on the Equinix Metal blog

"OpenTelemetry: What's a Collector and Why Would I Want One?" on the Equinix Metal blog

an intro to intro linguistics

speaking

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SLOconf 2022: "Intro to Tracing-Based SLOs"

SREcon22 Americas: "Tracing Bare Metal with OpenTelemetry"

"Shifting Left on Production Excellence with Observability" at DevOps Enterprise Summit North America 2021

DevOpsDays Boston: "Shifting Left on Production Excellence with Observability" https://twitter.com/devopsdaysbos/status/1442657825881313287