Building and running a world class observability function

Location: Netwealth

Topic: Building and running a world class observability function

Panelist 1: Bharath Venkat Rajan is a Senior SRE at IBM Apptio, focused on building reliable and resilient systems. He believes observability is key to achieving this, enabling deeper understanding and proactive reliability. A strong advocate for observability, he is passionate about how it fundamentally changes how we understand and operate modern systems.

Panelist 2: Benny Lo is a Lead Cloud Engineer and Observability Specialist in MidnyteCity, a boutique technology consulting company in Melbourne. He has been focusing on observability uplift with a number of start-ups and scale-ups in the last couple of years helping them gain insight to improve their platform stability and support their growth. He is very passionate about helping people see the power of having single source wide event telemetry data and how it can make engineer’s life easier.

Panelist 3: Hilary Harrington Strategic Account Executive @ Datadog
Hilary Harrington is a Strategic Account Executive at Datadog based in Melbourne, where she partners with enterprises to transform digital operations through unified observability solutions. With a keen focus on enhancing system performance and streamlining DevSecOps practices, Hilary helps organisations reduce downtime and gain deep insights across their cloud environments. Beyond the technical side, she brings valuable business-level insights to the conversation. Recognising that tech teams often face challenges in securing budgets or justifying critical tech decisions internally, Hilary equips them with executive-level information and soft skills to articulate the strategic value of observability. Passionate about innovative technologies and a strong advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion, she offers a forward-thinking and inclusive approach to building and running world class observability functions.

Panelist 4: Erwin Van Der Kogh Customer Architect @ Honeycomb