Rachael is an accomplished software engineer who has dedicated the past decade to platforms. As Associate Director for container platform engineering at Fidelity International she helps drive platform initiatives that improve the developer experience in the enterprise environment. With a background in astrophysics, she brings a scientific mindset to engineering challenges and advocates for open-source and peer-review. She currently leads the greenfield build of a strategic Kubernetes platform on AWS EKS. Her work keeps her engaged with DevEx, the application lifecycle, and all things supply chain security.

Rachael is passionate about fostering collaborative, transparent, and scalable engineering cultures. Throughout her career, she has worn many hats, including Technical Leader, Cloud Architect, and Engineering Manager.Leading her to speak at major global events including KubeCon, CloudNativeCon and PlatformCon last year.

Rachael is also focused on challenging traditional organisational design through technology strategy. As a proponent of treating organisations as sociotechnical systems, she utilises Domain Driven Design and Team Topologies methodologies to redefine enterprise norms. In an ambition to share learning with wider audiences she’s a keen attendee of smaller bespoke conferences in London, proudly helping to found FastFlowConf in 2023.

Rachael is delighted to be invited to speak at QCon London to talk all things Developer Experience.