Colette Alexander, Resilience in Software Foundation
This session brings back the speaker of the "Three Lies We Tell Ourselves about Disaster Recovery and What to Do about Them" talk as an "Ask Me Anything" Session host. Designed as an informal extension of the presentation, this is an open space to dive deeper into the technical nuances and follow-up questions that didn't fit.
Colette has been working as an engineering leader in the software industry for 10+ years. Her obsession with learning from incidents and Resilience Engineering began while managing teams at Spotify. It eventually led her to pursue her Masters in Science at Lund University in Human Factors and Systems Safety. She has led organizations in SRE and observability at HashiCorp and Cognite. She also maintains an active composition and recording career as a rock cellist, and lives with her rescue dog, 2 kids and husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
author = {Colette Alexander},
title = {{AMA} with Colette Alexander},
year = {2026},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}