Platforms need more than users. They need advocates.
Build platforms worth advocating for.
Building the most elegant tool is not enough, people also have to want to use it. Since the beginning of her career, Lian has worked closely with the community and learned how to get to the heart of the problem.
With a rare blend of deep technical understanding and communication skills, Lian can help your organisation thrive, embedded within your teams or consulting from the side.
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Platform Engineering
Lian brings years of experience with internal developer platforms in large-scale, regulated environments — banking, government, and beyond. She understands how to translate stakeholder and user requirements into grounded technical decisions about architecture, security, and user experience.
Using her technical expertise in Software Delivery and GitOps, Lian has helped implement CI/CD platforms from scratch and optimise existing platforms for developer success.
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Developer Relations
The teams that ship the right thing aren't guessing, they're listening. Understanding and welcoming contributions from users and stakeholders can accelerate your team immensely.
Whether you need support in Product Ownership, Stakeholder Management or standing up a DevRel function from scratch, Lian can help design and implement the systems to make sure you're building what your users actually need.
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Why Lian?
With keynotes, lightning talks, and panels at DevOpsDays, KubeCon, KCD, ContainerDays, and more across Europe and North America.
Grounded in improv and theatre, making technical content more engaging, memorable, and human.
Drawing from her experience as a platform engineer and DevRel, Lian has delivered clear, grounded talks on Kubernetes, GitOps, and cloud-native systems.
Invited to speak on GitOps, community building, and machine learning across a wide range of ecosystems and global events.
Appearing on DevOps Paradox, Beyond Coding, the Dutch Kubernetes Podcast, and others.
Guiding technologists from "not a speaker" to confident, compelling communicators.