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

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.