New York

October 15–17, 2025

Berlin

November 3–4, 2025

Fred is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who has worked as a software engineer for over a decade and ended up with a healthy dislike of computers and clumsy automation. He’s a published technical author who loves distributed systems, systems engineering, and has a strong interest in resilience engineering and human factors.

Why people are at the center of systems

Framing systems as both social and technical