Speaker

Julia Simon

Julia has worked in the cloud industry for the past seven years. She went from marketing manager to human resources professional, all while developing and building open source communities with the CNCF and DevOpsDays, among others. After a burnout and depression in 2019, she now shares her mental health journey publicly in order to normalize and create dialogue about this taboo topic. She aims to challenge how our industry (and society) views wellness and how this can be successfully integrated into the workplace. Julia gives talks about burnout and wellness (at a variety of conferences like Women Techmakers Montreal and Quebec, cdCon, and at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2021, MozFest 2022), and facilitates a bi-weekly burnout peer support group in the CNCF Slack workspace.