2026-09-23 –, Main Stage
The Krebs Cycle turns glucose into ATP. CI/CD turns code into deployments. Both are energy-intensive, feedback-driven, and fail without oxygen (or tests). Let’s compare cellular respiration to DevOps pipelines!
The tools we need to create better CI/CD pipelines are already within us - literally! By breaking down the building blocks to metabolism in the body, I want to show Engineers that biological science and computer science are inherently interconnected. If we can break down pipelines in the same way, we can see how to automate in the same efficient way that all of our bodies already do.
Hello, my name is Sophia! With a background in Biochemistry from UT Austin, I discovered a passion for coding in the DIY Diagnostics lab, where wet lab research and software development went hand in hand. After graduating in 2021, I began my career at GM as a Deployment Engineer/Analyst, later transitioning into a Software Engineering role observing real-time LLM based robotic systems on the plant floor. Now, as a Developer Advocate at Elastic, I draw on my experience optimizing and troubleshooting logs, traces, and metrics in high-stakes, in-plant production environments. I bring both technical depth and practical insight to the challenges of observability at scale.