Tiffany Jernigan
Hey! I am Tiffany and I am a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs and a CNCF Ambassador. I am focused on AI, Tempo (distributed tracing) and Pyroscope (continuous profiling). I was previously a developer advocate and/or software developer at VMware, Amazon, Docker, and Intel (and a hardware engineer). I started off by graduating from Georgia Tech in electrical engineering.
In my free time, I like to travel and dabble in photography (I took this photo of me).
You can find me on Twitter @tiffanyfayj, Bluesky tiffanyfay.dev and everywhere else via Linktree.
Blogs/Guides
Talks
Upcoming
| Event |
Location |
Talk |
| Open Source Summit |
Minneapolis, MN 馃嚭馃嚫 |
Hello World, Meet the Spanimals: Getting Started with Observability (30m) |
| Observability Summit |
Minneapolis, MN 馃嚭馃嚫 |
Exploring Observability with MCP Servers (30m) |
| dev2next |
Lone Tree, CO 馃嚭馃嚫 |
Hello World, Meet the Spanimals: Getting Started with Observability (60m) |
Past
2026
| Event |
Location |
Talk |
| KubeCon EU |
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 馃嚦馃嚤 |
Hello World, Meet the Spanimals: Observability for Beginners (30m) + Matthias Haeussler |
| SCALE23x |
Pasadena, CA 馃嚭馃嚫 |
Exploring Observability with MCP Servers (60m) |
2025
| Event |
Location |
Talk |
| MCP Summit |
Bellevue, WA 馃嚭馃嚫 |
Exploring Observability with MCP Servers (20m) |
| All Things Open (ATO) |
Raleigh, NC 馃嚭馃嚫 |
Panel: Agentic AI Has Arrived. What Does Work Look Like for Developers? (45m) + Tim Berglund, Lawrence Lockhart, Alex Williams |
| All Things Open (ATO) |
Raleigh, NC 馃嚭馃嚫 |
Let鈥檚 Generate Art with Kubernetes and Spring! (45m) |
| DevRelCon |
NYC, New York 馃嚭馃嚫 |
The Art of Vulgarization: Making Complex Ideas Accessible (25m) + Nancy Chauhan |
| Open Observability Summit |
Denver, CO 馃嚭馃嚫 |
Let鈥檚 Generate Art and Traces! (25m) |
| Devoxx Greece |
Athens, Greece 馃嚞馃嚪 |
Breaking conversational barriers through multi-modal distributed AI agents (40m) + Abhimanyu Selvan |
2024
| Event |
Location |
Talk |
| KubeCon NA |
Salt Lake City, UT 馃嚭馃嚫 |
Tutorial: OpenTelemetry Hands-on - Automatic and Manual Instrumentation for Java and Python Apps (1.5h) + Tobias Angerstein |
| All Things Open (ATO) |
Raleigh, NC 馃嚭馃嚫 |
Cloud Native Security for the Rest of Us (45m) |
| Devoxx Morocco |
Marrakesh, Morocco 馃嚥馃嚘 |
Stop giving root access and start securing your Kubernetes clusters instead (50m) |
| Devoxx Morocco |
Marrakesh, Morocco 馃嚥馃嚘 |
Distributed applications and Kubernetes: Better off with frameworks, service meshes or both (50m) + Matthias Haeussler |
| Container Days |
Hamburg, Germany 馃嚛馃嚜 |
Stop giving root access and start securing your Kubernetes clusters instead (30m) |
| VMware Explore/SpringOne |
Las Vegas, NV 馃嚭馃嚫 |
Let鈥檚 Generate Art with Kubernetes and Spring! (45m) |
| DevRelCon |
New York City, NY 馃嚭馃嚫 |
Code, Coffee, and Connections (7m) |
| KCD Munich |
Munich, Germany 馃嚛馃嚜 |
A hitchhiker鈥檚 guide to CNCF/OSS observability solutions around Kubernetes (30m) + Matthias Haeussler |
| Devoxx Poland |
Krak贸w, Poland 馃嚨馃嚤 |
Bootiful Kubernetes Operators (50m) + Timo Salm |
| KCD Z眉rich |
Z眉rich, Switzerland 馃嚚馃嚟 |
11 tricks to improve your productivity and reduce your frustration with Kubernetes |
| KCD Czech & Slovak |
Prague, Czech Republic 馃嚚馃嚳 |
11 tricks to improve your productivity and reduce your frustration with Kubernetes |
| Spring I/O |
Barcelona, Spain 馃嚜馃嚫 |
Magical Beans and Mystery (50m) + Timo Salm |
| GeeCon |
Krak贸w, Poland 馃嚨馃嚤 |
Bootiful Kubernetes Operators (50m) + Ties van de Ven |
| Java Day Istanbul |
Istanbul, Turkey 馃嚬馃嚪 |
Bootiful Kubernetes Operators (45m) + Ties van de Ven |
| Devoxx UK |
London, UK 馃嚞馃嚙 |
Stop giving root access and start securing your Kubernetes clusters instead (50m) |
| Devoxx UK |
London, UK 馃嚞馃嚙 |
11 tricks to improve your productivity and reduce your frustration with Kubernetes (30m) + Matthias Haeussler |
| Devoxx Greece |
Athens, Greece 馃嚞馃嚪 |
A hitchhikers guide to observe (Java) applications in Kubernetes (50m) + Matthias Haeussler |
| Devoxx France |
Paris, France 馃嚝馃嚪 |
11 tricks to improve your productivity and reduce your frustration with Kubernetes (30m) + J茅r么me Petazzoni |
| Devoxx France |
Paris, France 馃嚝馃嚪 |
A hitchhikers guide to observe (Java) applications in Kubernetes (45m) + Matthias Haeussler |
| JavaLand |
N眉rburg, Germany 馃嚛馃嚜 |
Bootiful Kubernetes Operators (40m) + Timo Salm |
| JavaLand |
N眉rburg, Germany 馃嚛馃嚜 |
9 (x2) tricks to improve your productivity and reduce your frustration with Kubernetes (40m) |
| Cloud Native Rejekts |
Paris, France 馃嚝馃嚪 |
A hitchhiker鈥檚 guide to CNCF/OSS observability solutions around Kubernetes (30m) + Matthias Haeussler |
2023
| Event |
Location |
Talk |
| Cloud Native Rejekts |
Chicago, IL 馃嚭馃嚫 |
7 tricks to improve your productivity and reduce your frustration with Kubernetes (30m) |
| Cloud Native Rejekts |
Chicago, IL 馃嚭馃嚫 |
Naming is hard, Kubernetes edition (5m) |
| SpringOne Tour |
Virtual 馃寪 |
Bootiful Kubernetes Operators (50m) + Timo Salm |
| Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) UK |
London, UK 馃嚞馃嚙 |
11 tricks to improve your productivity and reduce your frustration with Kubernetes (30m) + J茅r么me Petazzoni |
| Devoxx Morocco |
Taghazhout, Morocco 馃嚥馃嚘 |
Bootiful Kubernetes Operators (50m) |
| DevOps Days Madrid |
Madrid, Spain 馃嚜馃嚫 |
How to Make Kubernetes Rhyme with Prod-Readiness (30m) |
| Devoxx Belgium |
Antwerp, Belgium 馃嚙馃嚜 |
A hitchhikers guide to observe (Java) applications in Kubernetes (3h) + Matthias Haeussler |
| KubeCon China |
Shanghai, China 馃嚚馃嚦 |
A hitchhiker鈥檚 guide to CNCF/OSS observability solutions around Kubernetes (1.5h) + Matthias Haeussler |
| Container Days |
Hamburg, Germany 馃嚛馃嚜 |
How to Make Kubernetes Rhyme with Prod-Readiness (30m) + Matthias Haeussler |
| VMware Explore/Spring One |
Las Vegas, NV 馃嚭馃嚫 |
Bootiful Kubernetes Operators (45m) + Timo Salm |
| Golden Path to SpringOne |
Virtual 馃寪 |
Cloud Native Security for the Rest of Us |
| Enix Meetup |
Virtual 馃寪 |
Let鈥檚 deploy Kubernetes on 7 different cloud providers with Terraform (because why not) + J茅r么me Petazzoni |
| DevOpsDays NYC |
New York City, NY 馃嚭馃嚫 |
How to Make Kubernetes Rhyme with Prod-Readiness (30m) |
| Devoxx Poland |
Krak贸w, Poland 馃嚨馃嚤 |
Getting Started with Kubernetes (50m) |
| Spring I/O |
Barcelona, Spain 馃嚜馃嚫 |
Going Serverless with Spring Boot 3 (Workshop) + Timo Salm |
| Devoxx UK |
London, UK 馃嚞馃嚙 |
Distributed patterns compared: Frameworks vs. K8s vs. Service Mesh vs. eBPF (50m) + Matthias Haeussler |
| Devoxx Greece |
Athens, Greece 馃嚞馃嚪 |
Cloud Native Security for the Rest of Us (50m) |
| KubeCon EU |
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 馃嚦馃嚤 |
How to Make Kubernetes Rhyme with Prod-Readiness (30m) + Matthias Haeussler |
| Kubernetes Paris Meetup |
Paris, France 馃嚝馃嚪 |
Beyond cluster-admin: Getting Started with Kubernetes Users and Permissions |
| Devoxx France |
Paris, France 馃嚝馃嚪 |
Cloud Native Security for the Rest of Us (50m) |
| Devoxx France |
Paris, France 馃嚝馃嚪 |
Beyond cluster-admin: Getting Started with Kubernetes Users and Permissions (50m) |
| Berlin DevOps Meetup |
Berlin, Germany 馃嚛馃嚜 |
Let鈥檚 deploy Kubernetes on 7 different cloud providers with Terraform (because why not) + J茅r么me Petazzoni |
| Seattle Metro Kubernetes Meetup |
Seattle, WA 馃嚭馃嚫 |
Beyond cluster-admin: Getting Started with Kubernetes Users and Permissions |
| CloudNativeSecurityCon NA |
Seattle, WA 馃嚭馃嚫 |
Cloud Native Security for the Rest of Us |
| SpringOne Essentials Meetup |
Seattle, WA 馃嚭馃嚫 |
Bootiful Kubernetes Operators |
Pre-2023
WIP