Leon Adato
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website:https://www.adatosystems.com
github:LeonAdato
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mastodon:@leonadato@infosec.exchange
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- PyOhio2 editions2024–2025
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on a stage with
never shared a talk
who talks about the same things
- Edward Finkler9 talks
- Michael Toppa5 talks
- Adrienne Lowe5 talks
- PJ Hagerty26 talks
- Kent Beck14 talks
- Jameson Hampton9 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote: Looking Back at a Lifetime of Poor Tech Choices | PyOhio 2025 | 2025-07-26 |
Career stories track concrete outcomes: learning vi on Freenet leads to administering bind, writing HTML and dangerous Perl scripts becomes a side hustle… | ||
| Getting Away from it All | CodeMash 2025 | 2025-01-14 |
After 35 years in IT someone disconnects one day a week and reports it sticks without driving them mad, backed by 36 years of experience and specific routines… | ||
| Alerts don't suck, YOUR alerts suck | SREday London 2024 | 2024-09-19 |
Argues that alerts work when they are actionable now, not vague FYIs, and shows concrete fixes: replace one-off CPU thresholds with a baseline plus threshold… | ||
| "Technical Empathy" | PyOhio 2024 | 2024-07-27 |
Technical empathy means designing from the user’s perspective and verifying assumptions with concrete checks: provide alt text, captions, color‑blind… | ||
| Technical Empathy | DevOpsDays Montréal 2024 | 2024-05-27 |
Defines technical empathy as seeing a design from the user’s perspective and lists concrete steps: build accessibility first (use alt text, closed captions… | ||
| What Stan Lee taught me about working in tech | DevOpsDays Montréal 2024 | 2024-05-27 |
Comic-book metaphors map to concrete career habits: learn core skills like Git and subnetting (the sling ring analogy) so small tools compose into powerful… | ||
| Living an Unplugged Life as an IT Practitioner | DevOpsDays Seattle 2024 | 2024-05-14 |
Claims a decade of unplugging one day a week improves life quality while keeping a tech career intact, backed by routine, planning, and rules for reconnection… | ||
| Alerts Don't Suck YOUR Alerts Suck! | DevOpsDays Seattle 2024 | 2024-05-14 |
An argument that alerts fail because they are poorly designed not inherently bad, with concrete fixes: avoid one-off CPU or vendor-example rules, treat FYI… | ||
| The Four Questions (Every Monitoring Engineer gets asked) | Cloud Native & OSS Day Tel Aviv 2019 | 2019-12-03 |
Explains four concrete monitoring questions—why did I get this alert, why didn’t I get an alert, what is being monitored, what could alert—and gives actionable… | ||
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