Effie Mouzeli, Wikimedia Foundation, and Lerna Ekmekcioglu, Clockwork.io
Effie spent several years in small organisations. Currently an SRE at the Wikimedia Foundation, she is counting Wikipedia’s rabbit holes so you don’t have to. [citation needed] She’s co-chaired SREcon23 and SREcon24 EMEA, and has been a long-time contributor. Her limited written work include a thesis no one read, a defunct Twitter account and sneaking a couple of articles into 97 Things Every SRE Should Know.
Lerna is a Sr. Solutions Engineer at Clockwork Systems where she helps customers meet performance and reliability goals with software solutions built on Clockwork.io’s foundational research. Prior to this, she was a Sr. Solutions Architect at AWS for 3 years. Before that, Lerna spent 17 years as an infrastructure engineer in large financial services companies focused on problems of scale like centralized authentication systems, distributed caching, and multi region cloud native deployments to name a few. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, sightseeing and backyard astronomy.
author = {Effie Mouzeli and Lerna Ekmekcioglu},
title = {Between Roles: Navigating the Pause in a Fast Moving Industry},
year = {2025},
address = {Dublin},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = oct
}