ICCON | infra cloud conference

Explore the next infrastructure mindset

June 7, 2023 2-4.30 pm CT followed by happy hour

Target HQ (hybrid event)

“Solving Reliability and Efficiency challenges at Scale”

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connect. share. grow.

ICCON is a series of technical conferences and meetups to build and engage a community of engineers with the next infrastructure mindset.

ICCON delves into timely topics in four main tracks:

Systems, Network Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, & Data and Machine Learning.

We strive to create connections between engineers from all industries and facilitate working relationships. The focus is on building a community of engineers and leveraging people, platforms and possibilities to empower the “midnight developer”. ICCON comprises of several thousand ICCONic engineers and engineering leaders from diverse populations.

meet our speakers

Prathiba Dorairaj

Principal Engineer, Target

Prathiba Dorairaj

Principal Engineer, Target
Prathiba is a Principal Engineer working on the Digital Site Reliability Engineering Team at Target and has over 17 years of experience as an IT Professional. In the past, she has worked on Oracle and NoSQL databases like Cassandra and Elasticsearch. She was involved in leading and designing critical PCI database systems, deployment automation, maintenance of CI/CD pipeline using Chef, and migrating databases to Exadata Infrastructure. Currently Prathiba is acting as a catalyst to improve observability and reliability for guest experience and working on implementing availability as a service level objective and improving telemetry data.

Nathan Brezina -

Lead Engineer, Target

Nathan Brezina -

Lead Engineer, Target
Nathan is a Lead Engineer at Target on the Digital Site Reliability Engineering team. He has over 25 years IT experience with an emphasis on database systems and moving from proprietary to open source. In his current role he is focused on observability, understanding the guest experience, and working with SLO data and synthetic testing pipelines to isolate and detect issues, with the goal of increasing availability and minimizing guest impact.

Kyle Marek-Spartz

Director of Site Reliability Engineering, Shipt

Kyle Marek-Spartz

Director of Site Reliability Engineering, Shipt
Kyle is a critical thinker who cross-pollinates domains with an aim for continuous improvement. During the week, Kyle directs Site Reliability Engineering at Shipt. Twice a month, Kyle facilitates Resilience-Coffee.org, a virtual meetup discussing topics related to resilience engineering. Previously, Kyle worked on infrastructure automation at a cloud provider and has worked in domains such as government communications, speech recognition for medical research, cross-language recommender systems, and suborbital rocketry. Kyle is a lifelong Minnesotan who lives in Roseville with a toddler and a brilliant entomologist.

Roy Tewalt

Senior Principal Engineer, Shipt

Roy Tewalt

Senior Principal Engineer, Shipt
Roy is a Senior Principal Engineer at Shipt focusing on Site Reliability, Systems Engineering and DevOps. He is a passionate leader and mentor who loves designing and implementing systems that enable and accelerate the developers and teams around him. Since joining Shipt, Roy has helped modernize and scale Shipt’s observability platform and is now working on ways to leverage that platform to drive efficiency, scalability and stability. Before Shipt, Roy worked at Target and helped lead the technology driving Target Search and Target Drive-Up. He also has experience building software and systems in healthcare, news media and banking.

Taylor Corrello

Lead Engineer, Target

Taylor Corrello

Lead Engineer, Target
Taylor Corrello is a lead engineer on the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - Stores team at Target. She joined Target in 2018 and has worked on services to abstract the complexity of managing data for application teams and to improve the reliability of business-critical services required for stores checkout. Taylor and her team are currently using tracing data to gain deeper visibility into the entire checkout experience.

Bryan Bertz

Senior Engineer, Target

Bryan Bertz

Senior Engineer, Target
Bryan is a senior engineer on the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - Digital team at Target. He joined Target in 2021 and has been working on enabling tracing across the digital space. Bryan is a dedicated observability enthusiast who is passionate about empowering team members to gain a comprehensive understanding of their services from the guest perspective.

Kim Wier

Director of Engineering, Target

Kim Wier

Director of Engineering, Target
Kim Wier is a Director of Engineering at Target Corporation. Kim has been a leader at Target for many years, including rotations in both Real Estate and Target tech. This combination of business and technical backgrounds helps Kim as she leads the Efficiency Engineering team at Target. The mission of this team is to help Target provide near-real time utilization and cost data to engineers and leaders to help them understand their private and public cloud utilization. With this data the application teams can see their efficiency and are encouraged to optimize workloads while balancing reliability and performance.
Ron Tatro

Ron Tatro

Principal Engineer, Target

Ron Tatro

Principal Engineer, Target
Ron is an accidental FinOps Practitioner and Principal Engineer at Target focused on optimizing infrastructure costs through both commercial and compute strategies.
Ron Tatro

Shannon Schulte

Incident Response Engineer Manager, Shipt

Shannon Schulte

Incident Response Engineer Manager, Shipt
Shannon is a Minnesota native who loves to hike, paddle and backpack with her dog Boomer. She especially enjoys escaping to places where pagers can’t reach. Shannon has over 20 years of experience in a variety of roles that have involved making sure the production environment is happy, healthy, and running; 15 of those years involved going on call. This has ultimately led Shannon to her passion in Incident Management where she enjoys improving the process for all involved. Currently, Shannon has the opportunity to do this work at Shipt.

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Agenda

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Time

Presentation Title

Speaker Name

2:00 CDT

Welcome to ICCON

Shannon Schulte

Incident Response Engineer Manager, Shipt

2:05 CDT

Driving SLO Culture

Prathiba Dorairaj

Principal Engineer, Target

Nathan Brezina

Lead Engineer, Target

2:25 CDT

Q&A

2.35 CDT

Short Break

2:42 CDT

3:07 CDT

Applying a Product Lens to Site Reliability

Q&A

Kyle Marek-Spartz

Director of Site Reliability Engineering, Shipt

Roy Tewalt

Senior Principal Engineer, Shipt

3:17 CDT

Short Break

3:24 CDT

3:44 CDT

Staying Current with Tracing

Q&A

Taylor Corrello

Lead Engineer, Target

Bryan Bertz

Senior Engineer, Target

3:54 CDT

Short Break

4:00 CDT

4:20 CDT

FinOps @ Target

Q&A

Kim Wier

Director of Engineering, Target

Ron Tatro

Principal Engineer, Target

4:30 – 6:00 CDT

Happy Hour for in-person attendees