About — in the speaker's own words
I started as a web developer after university with an Australian telco developing websites using Python and JavaScript. After a few years, I switched to product management looking after developer telco products such as an API for sending and receiving SMS where I overhauled the developer portal improving the developer experience. Then I switched back to engineering leadership looking after a team that was creating private and public cloud products where I launched a new private cloud product.
After a few years in the telco industry, I switched to Canonical where I lead a team of developer automating operations using and creating open source tooling.