Amara Diallo

Amara racked servers by hand in a university data center before containers existed, then spent eight years moving companies onto the cloud. At Skylane she designs the AWS and Kubernetes platform that runs more than 300 services, and she still takes her turn on call.

She teaches infrastructure through incidents: the image that was 2 GB for no reason, the IAM policy that let everyone read everything, the pod that restarted all night because nobody wrote a readiness probe. Each one becomes a habit you can apply on Monday morning.

She also covers what tutorials tend to skip, like cost, permissions and what to log, because those are what wake you up at night. From Amara you get a clear picture of what runs where, and the calm to read a failing deploy instead of guessing at it.

“I break things on purpose in class, so the first failing deploy you see isn't in production.”