Lisa is a former data analyst, now data engineer and software engineer interested in observability, validation, and reliability in data systems. Her background consists of a variety of start-ups, nonprofits, consulting firms, GovTech, and biotechnology. She is a Google Women TechMakers Ambassador, Linux Foundation LiFT recipient for Women in Open Source, founder and chair of the Vancouver Datajam, and lead maintainer of the BiocSwirl project. I am uber passionate about the intersection of dataops, distributed cloud computing, MLOps, and data science from an operations and technical perspective. I think in systems and that's why I love working on data pipelines. Weighing architectural decisions and leveraging the most out of developers and data teams with things like security, cross-functionality, and maintainability in mind is something I strive for.