Amanda Sopkin
Amanda is an engineering manager with experience in platform and product development.
Amanda is an engineering manager with experience in platform and product development. She enjoys building systems that help teams deliver reliably excellent software. Based in Brooklyn, Amanda enjoys yoga and taking long walks in Prospect Park. She manages the OpenTelemetry team at Datadog, focused on improving Observability for OpenTelemetry users. Amanda has spoken on software engineering topics at conferences like PyCon, SeaGL, and Observability Summit.
Are you ready for agentic testing?
AI agents are no longer hypothetical — but are you ready to give them the keys to your test suite?
Helping your engineers find time to learn and upskill
Webinar recording: discover how to support your engineers to learn and practice new skills.
Meeting your people where they are
Amanda Sopkin breaks down some of the big ways in which people are different: communication styles, ways they prefer to receive appreciation, and attitudes towards career progression.
Building a better testing culture
How can engineering leaders create a healthy testing culture with clear strategies in place?
Refactoring: Managing technical debt before it blows up in your face
Amanda Sopkin invites you to come and learn how to develop your own framework for addressing technical debt as a company.
Crafting efficient on-call processes
In this panel, we’ll discuss the fundamentals of an effective on-call process - thinking about how to diagnose your current state, iterate and improve, and how to avoid mistakes along the way.
