Name: Observability & Developer Experience: Are We Making Devs’ Lives Worse?
Start: 2025-05-29T17:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-05-29T19:30:00+10:00
Location: Level 8/607 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000.

Back by popular demand! Observability Think Tank will be hosting session 2 this May. These sessions will be quarterly ongoing.

Dietaries catered and prizes/giveaways included at no cost.

Guest & Panel Speakers:

Host: Hilary Harrington (Datadog)
Confirmed: Yann Vigara - Fractional CTO @ Celestio, Damian Bisignano (Devops @ CashRewards), Erwin van der Koogh (Customer Architect @ Honeycomb), Matthew Moore (Principal Observability Strategist @ Datadog, ex-Splunk)

Agenda:

5:30pm-6:00pm: Welcome, Food & Drinks, Networking
6:00pm-6:30pm: Yann Vigara
6:30pm-7:00pm: Panel and Group Discussion; Matthew Moore (Principal Observability Strategist @ Datadog, ex-Splunk), Damian Bisignano - DevOps @ CashRewards, Erwin van der Koogh (Customer Architect @ Honeycomb)
7:00pm-7:30pm: Networking, Drinks

**Observability & Developer Experience: Are We Making Devs’ Lives Worse?**

* Are complex observability stacks making engineers less productive?
* Should we prioritize “invisible observability” that just works without dashboards?

Have questions or want to speak at an upcoming event? Reach out!

Hilary Harrington

Observability Think Tank

Technology

Security Metrics

Log Management

Performance Monitoring

DevOps

Network Management & Monitoring

Cloud Integration

Software Development

Metrics

DevOps Automation

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Data Analytics

Software Engineering

DevSecOps

Observability

Yann is a technologist, entrepreneur, and self-confessed observability nerd with over 15 years of experience in infrastructure, software engineering, and technical leadership. 

As a Fractional CTO, Yann partners with startups and scaleups to streamline software delivery, reduce cloud costs, and untangle technical debt. 

He's passionate about building better developer experiences and helping teams scale sustainably - without burning out. Yann’s brings a raw and thoughtful perspective on how modern tooling can both empower and overwhelm the engineers it's designed to serve.

Yann Vigara, Damian Bisignano, Erwin van de Koogh, Matthew Moore

Observability & Developer Experience: Are We Making Devs’ Lives Worse?

Level 8/607 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000.

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