Katherine is a senior operations engineer working at Etsy. She has taken her love of automation and operations and turned it into a specialization in monitoring, configuration management, and operational tooling development. Katherine has spoken at numerous industry conferences including Velocity, DevopsDays, and Monitorama about subjects such as infrastructure automation, scaling monitoring solutions, and cultural change in engineering.Katherine is one of the co-organizers of DevopsDays NYC, co-host of The Ship Show podcast, and helps run Ladies Who Linux in New York. She lives in Brooklyn with a perfectly reasonable number of cats, and in her spare time enjoys playing cello, rock climbing, and brewing beer.