Summary
Adriana Villela is an observability and developer advocacy leader with 7+ years of experience shaping OpenTelemetry and cloud-native practices across enterprises and OSS communities. Currently OpenTelemetry Community Manager and Principal Developer Advocate at Dynatrace, she combines hands-on SRE/DevOps platform design with public-facing roles as a CNCF Ambassador, podcast host, and prolific tech blogger. Her career spans building enterprise DevOps programs and Kubernetes-native CI/CD at organizations like BMO, Ceridian, and Tucows, and she has driven observable-first application design and standards adoption at scale. Beyond technical strategy, she’s known for community building—maintaining the OpenTelemetry End-User SIG, hosting the Geeking Out Podcast, and translating complex observability concepts into actionable guidance for engineers. An unusual blend of analytical engineering and storytelling, she balances serious technical leadership with a habit of rock climbing and a fondness for capybaras.
7 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Leadership Development Program, Leadership Development Program at BMO Institute for Learning
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Industrial Engineering at University of Toronto