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Ana Margarita Medina is a Staff Developer Advocate at Lightstep, where she speaks on all things SRE, DevOps, and Reliability and is a podcast host for On-Call Me, Maybe. She is a self-taught engineer with over 12 years of experience, focusing on cloud infrastructure and reliability in the last few. She is also part of the Kubernetes Release Team (v1.25 - v1.27) and has been advising CNCF's Keptn project since 2019. When time permits her, she leads efforts to dispel the stigma surrounding mental health and bring more Black and Latinx folks into tech. 

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Ana Margarita is a Staff Developer Advocate at Lightstep and focuses on helping companies be more reliable by leveraging Observability and Incident Response practices. Before Lightstep, she was a Senior Chaos Engineer at Gremlin and helped companies avoid outages by running proactive chaos engineering experiments. Ana is an internationally recognized speaker and has presented at: AWS re:Invent, KubeCon, DockerCon, DevOpDays, AllDayDevOps, Write/Speak/Code, and many others. Catch her on all social media as at @Ana_M_Medina talking about traveling, diversity in tech, and mental health.

She started her coding career as a middle schooler doing freelance work, went on to land paid engineering internships throughout high school and college, and eventually dropped out to work full-time in Silicon Valley. She has worked at various-sized companies like Google, Uber, Gremlin, SFEFCU, and a Miami-based startup. At Uber, she was an engineer on the SRE and Infrastructure teams, specifically focusing on chaos engineering and cloud computing. She also co-led a class action lawsuit for gender discrimination and racial discrimination, which settled in $10 million. 

Originally from a Nicaraguan family, Ana Margarita was born in Costa Rica and later moved to the United States, where her tech development took off in Miami. Her achievements have been a result of her persistence in not taking no for an answer and always finding a solution. As a Latina, she is breaking the glass ceiling within Silicon Valley and using her voice to encourage women in Hispanic/Latinx communities to learn how to code.