DevOps & Platform Engineering

Hands-On CI Optimization Workshop

with Abbe Piels

Thursday 24 September 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Stage 10

About This Session

A tactical, hands-on session where attendees optimize a real build pipeline live with Blacksmith. They’ll leave with practical insights, proven techniques, and a checklist to apply immediately to their own environments.

Topics

CI/CD
GitHub
GitHub Actions
Infrastructure

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Speaker

Abbe Piels

Member of Technical Staff · Blacksmith

Member of Technical Staff at Blacksmith

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Abbe Piels is a Solutions Engineer at Blacksmith, where she helps engineering teams make their CI faster and less painful. She spent the first stretch of her career as a software engineer before moving into solutions engineering. This shift was driven by realizing her favorite part of the work was always the collaboration: digging into a problem with someone, figuring out what they actually need, and helping them get there. Abbe studied Computer Science at the University of Rochester with a minor in public health, and has stayed active in Women in Computing, Girls Who Code, and the Grace Hopper community - mentoring engineers early in their careers and making the case that communication is a technical skill, not a soft one.