Speaker

Kris Nova

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Kris Nova is a Senior Developer Advocate for Microsoft with an emphasis in containers and the Linux operating system. She lives and breathes open source. She believes in advocating for the best interest of the software, and keeping the design process open and honest. She is a backend infrastructure engineer, with roots in Linux, and C. She has a deep technical background in the Go programming language, and has authored many successful tools in Go. She is a Kubernetes maintainer, and the creator of kubicorn, a successful Kubernetes infrastructure management tool. She organizes a special interest group in Kubernetes, and is a leader in the community. Kris understands the grievances with running cloud native infrastructure via a distributed cloud native application, and is authoring an O'Reilly book on the topic called Cloud Native Infrastructure.
Portland, OR November 4, 2017
Transcoding self worth into elegant software
Openly transgender, and will share stories about pre-transition and darkness contained therein

In this talk we explore my journey to discovering self worth through a painful and risky gender transition from male to female.
We learn about concrete lessons and valuable patterns uncovered as my love and respect for myself grew over time.
We compare the maturity of my software, my ability to work on a team, and ultimately lead and inspire engineers against my overall self appreciation and self worth.
The user will leave the talk clearly understanding the importance of taking a self health first approach to engineering, as well as understand the dangers of working in a technical space while loathing the person they have become.