Lisa Phillips is a seasoned technology professional with over 20 years of experience in internet and web technologies. She has led highly effective and productive technical operations and reliability engineering teams, implementing and managing internet services to ensure the highest levels of system availability and performance globally. Lisa has pioneered modern infrastructure for web-scale apps, from memcached to killing the Fail Whale at Twitter, to building and leading globally distributed teams of SREs for Fastly, where she is currently Vice President of Data Governance.

In her career, Lisa has held various leadership roles, including Vice President of Site Reliability Engineering and Senior MySQL DBA at Twitter, Director of IT at Big Fish Games, Director of Hosted Services and Operations at Six Apart, and Senior Systems Administrator at Livejournal.com. She also has a background in roller derby, as a founding member, skater, and alumni at Rat City Rollergirls, and is a roller derby coach and enthusiast.

With her experience in Linux server architecture and administration, scalability for high availability and fast growth, MySQL administration, managing and leading teams towards technical operational excellence, reliability engineering, and compliance, Lisa is a sought-after speaker and expert in her field.