I'm an SRE-turned-advocate who specializes in bridging the gap between high-scale Infrastructure and the people building on it. My mission is to build the education layer that turns AI from a speed booster into a reliable, production-grade engineering paradigm.
Self-taught engineer, then SRE at Uber running chaos experiments against production microservices. Since then I've worked the same adoption problem at three different stages: the chaos engineering category at Gremlin, built from zero when Netflix was the only well-known practitioner; OpenTelemetry and observability at Lightstep/ServiceNow, where the product and the standard already existed and the work was closing the gap between the pitch and where customers actually got stuck; and Crossplane at Upbound, an established CNCF project where the work was awareness, onboarding and time to first value.
- Measuring the context and cost overhead of agent tooling in practice
- A new home for AnaMMedina.com
- Building with DevTools, AI and OSS
Most of my code lives in other people's orgs, so it doesn't show up on this profile.
- Kubernetes Release Team, six consecutive cycles (v1.25 through v1.30)
- Kubernetes Code of Conduct Committee — kubernetes/community
- CNCF Ambassador, 2×
- AWS Community Builder, 2×
- KubeCon Program Track Chair
- Keptn Governance Board and Board of Advisors (past)
🎤 100+ public talks and counting.
- On Call Me Maybe - Cohost on 2 seasons (~27 episodes)
- Break Things On Purpose - Cohost on Season 2
- Guest of various other podcasts (InfoQ, HeavyBit)
- Crossplane & AI: The Case for API-First Infrastructure [Also published on CNCF Blog]
- Upbound Blog Example
- The New Stack
- Increment - Chaotic good
- Leading SRE with Empathy
- Tutorials Example - Chaos Engineering
- Tutorials Example - Getting Started with Observability
- Observability-Landscape-as-Code in Practice (originally posted as a Lightstep.com blog)
- KubeCon 2022 Retrospective
- ChaosConf (2018, 2019, 2021 co-organizer and MC)
- FailoverConf (2020 co-organizer and MC)
- Deserted Island DevOps (2022 co-organizer and MC)
- KubeCon NA 2025 - Tutorial: Build Your Internal Developer Platform With the Experts (Backstage, Argo CD, Crossplane, Kyverno)
- Coding project for Infrastructure-as-Code 3 ways talk
- Coding project for KubeCon NA '22 talk
- Example Partnership Workshops
- Featured on the Kubernetes Podcast from Google
- TECHNOLOchicas TV Ad - Spanish · English
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🗣️ English and Spanish. 📍 Based in the SF Bay Area, from Costa Rica and Nicaragua.