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Lean Coffee Discussions
Community discussions use the Lean Coffee Format. The goal of these discussions is to provide opportunities for the community to learn, listen, and collaborate. All types of participation is welcome, including active listening.
Most sessions start with a guest speaker who's presentation is recorded. Watch previous sessions.
Would you like to present at a community discussion? Please email dora-community-events@googlegroups.com
DORA Community Guides
Steve Fenton is an Octonaut at Octopus Deploy and a five- time Microsoft MVP with more than two decades of experience in software delivery. He has written books on TypeScript (Apress, InfoQ), Octopus Deploy, and Web Operations. Steve has worked in the role of Software Engineer, SDET, Development Manager, and Director of Product and Data in a range of startups, SMEs, and enterprises.
Denali Lumma is a technology executive with over 20 years experience in startup to public offering, small, midsize and global companies supporting teams responsible for customer-facing product development for B2C, B2B, healthcare and life sciences, and infrastructure teams responsible for technical platforms, security, privacy, compliance, corporate IT, quality, reliability, and availability. She has helped to build multiple unicorns as an early engineer at companies like Netflix, 23andMe, Okta, Salesforce, and Uber. Denali serves on the board for Savage Jazz Dance Company, distinguished by its disciplined dancers and instructors, and its dedication to the exploration of jazz music's range of expression. She is an investor in Steezy, making dance the next big global sport. Denali is Founder and CEO at Doubling, offering technical advisory services to portfolio companies at Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and other venture capital groups. Denali lives in Los Gatos, California with her husband and two children.
Betsalel (Saul) Williamson is an Electrical Engineer and has a broad range of experiences in community development and DevOps. He is the owner of Williamson Computing Services, LLC and helps companies implement best practices in DevOps and new product development. He is passionate about helping his peers and projects succeed. Saul has served on the boards of Pittsburgh chapters of PDMA and IEEE where he developed workshops, events, and conducted market research to help students and professionals engage with their local communities. Saul lives with sensory sensitivities and is a disability and LGBT+ advocate. He promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion practices that supply a healthy environment for everyone to learn and grow! Outside of work, Saul enjoys working on software hobby projects, traveling, and playing classical piano. He lives in Palm Springs, California.
Dhruv Agarwal thrives on bringing structure to chaos, building sustainable systems, and scaling high-performing teams. A builder at heart, he has spent the last decade crafting software, leading teams, and driving efficiency in engineering workflows.
Beyond technology, Dhruv is a passionate storyteller, hosting podcasts like The Change Story and The Tech Voyager, where he explores innovation, leadership, and transformation.
As the CEO of MiddlewareHQ, he is on a mission to help engineering teams streamline operations, improve efficiency, and build resilient systems for the future."
DORA Advocacy Team
Dave Stanke is a Developer Advocate for DORA, a program run by Google Cloud. He specializes in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and other flavors of technical relationship therapy. He loves chatting with practitioners: listening to stories, telling stories, sharing a healthy cry. Prior to Google, he was the CTO of OvationTix, a SaaS startup in the performing arts industry, where he specialized in feeding memory to Java servers. He chose on purpose to live in New Jersey, where he enjoys cooking, indie rock, and fatherhood.
Amanda Lewis is the DORA.community Development Lead and a developer advocate with Google Cloud, focused on DORA, DevOps, and Developer Productivity. Amanda has spent her career building connections across leadership, developers, product managers, project management, and operators through working on teams that developed e-commerce platforms, content management systems, observability tools, and supported developers. These connections and conversations lead to happy customers and better outcomes for the business. She brings her years of experience and empathy to the work that she does helping teams understand and implement DevOps and reliability practices.