Theresa Neate
Technology | Engineering Leadership | Platforms | Developer Experience | Quality+Engineering
Workshops
Hands-on Intro to AWS and a Taste of DevOps, for Testers
(online) DevOps Girls - August 2020 TestBash Australia - October 2019 [Materials] DevOps Girls - October 2019 DevOps Girls - August 2019Whole team, and lean quality & QA
REA Group internal workshops - Feb 2016-2020 (groups of 5-20; every 3-4 months; per delivery squad or for new REA joins)10-week public speaking workshop for women first-time speakers
Showcased at TConf in 2018 and 2019 DevOps Girls at TConf 2019 DevOps Girls at TConf 2018Survival Tips for Women in Tech
Computershare internal event - April 2018Introduction to Continuous Integration
REA Group internal Buildkite training - March 2018Intermediate AWS in DevOps
DevOps Girls - August 2017Introduction to DevOps and AWS
DevOps Girls - February 2017Resume
DownloadWriting
2 chapters in:97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know
Book - O'Reilly Media - December 2020Testing and Quality: Correlation does not equal Causation
Medium - February 2020My 2019, a year of lows, and highs
Medium - December 2019My momentous 2018
Medium - December 2018Is DX the new UX? Usabilitity for Developers
TechTarget Modern Stack - December 2018Emotional Intelligence and dealing with change in the Workplace
TechTarget Modern Stack - August 2018Beanbags don't remedy your broken DevOps culture
TechTarget DevOpsAgenda - July 2018Cargo Cult DevOps
TechTarget DevOpsAgenda - June 2018The Definition of Done, revisited
TechTarget DevOpsAgenda - May 2018Do we (still) need testers?
REA Tech Blog - April 2018Shifting Ops to the left (too)
TechTarget DevOpsAgenda - March 2018The testing manifesto applied to devops
TechTarget DevOpsAgenda - January 2018When you have a separate DevOps team, you are not doing devops
TechTarget DevOpsAgenda - December 2017Systems thinking, devops and the support pager
TechTarget DevOpsAgenda - November 2017Lean QA - aka QA Ops
REA Tech Blog - July 2017Bug Bash - The Game
REA Tech Blog - March 2017About
Theresa Neate is an award winning senior leader with a background in service desk, software delivery, quality engineering and platform developer experience, who loves lean and agility and advocates for holistic system quality and systems thinking. She has an additional side interest in cloud, infrastructure and networking. She has also written on the subjects, including contributing 2 chapters to a published O'Reilly book.
Her career spans 3 decades of technology and leadership experience, much of it with well-known technology consulting and product companies. These include among others ThoughtWorks, Australia Post’s Digital Delivery Centre, digital icon REA Group, and more recently she held Directors of Engineering roles at consultancy Slalom Build, and at product companies Xero, GROW Inc, and Buildkite.
She is co-founder, co-organiser and trainer at DevOps Represent (formerly DevOps Girls). She also writes and speaks on topics of quality, systems thinking, lean, agile and devops. Her last formal qualification was a Diploma of Networking, while working full time in a leadership role. She’s a lifelong and eternally curious sceptic and learner.
You can find Theresa at https://theresaneate.net/ and at @theresaneate.
Content & Awards
Mentions & Awards
(2024) Judge: Women in Digital Awards, Australia (2023) Judge: Women in Digital Awards, Australia (2021) Finalist, Achievement category: 2021 Women in ICT awards (2021) Winner, Highly Commended: 2021 Women Leading Tech awards (2021) Finalist, Engineering category: 2021 Women Leading Tech awards (2018) Next 125 Awesome Testers You Should Keep Your Eye on AlwaysSlides
Conferences
The UX of DX - Nov 2024 Leadership for Intelligent Software Engineering - Aug 2023 Systems thinking, incidents, and the support pager - Nov 2021 DevOps Girls Lightning Talks (coached by Theresa) - Nov 2019 DevOps Mythbusting - Oct 2019 Developer Experience, and why does it matter? - Jun 2019 Evolving & Remaining Relevant as QA - Nov 2018 Lean QA: T-shaped QAs in the DevOps world - Nov 2018 The QA in DevOps (evolved!) - Nov 2017 Your place as QA in Ops - May 2017 Agile Testing - shifting quality to the left - 2015 Agile Testing - 2015Meetups
Melbourne Web Meetup: Testing and Quality: Correlation does not equal Causation - Feb 2020 Sydney Testers Meetup : Skills you need as a QA in DevOps (and how to bridge the gaps) - Jun 2019 Melbourne Agile and Scrum User Group Meetup: Agile DevSecOps - May 2018 Women Who Test Meetup: How to remain relevant as QA / Tester - Apr 2018Contact
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