Diana Montalion
If you’ve read The Economist, donated to Wikipedia, or contributed to The World Monuments Fund, you’ve interacted with systems that Diana helped to architect.
She has 17+ years experience delivering initiatives, independently or as part of a professional services group, to clients including Stanford, The Gates Foundation and Teach For All. She is co-founder of Mentrix, a consultancy providing enterprise systems architecture, technology strategy, team leadership and systems development. She is also Principal Systems Architect for the Wikimedia Foundation.
Talks I've Given
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Integration Leadership
Featuring Diana Montalion
In this talk, we'll explore leadership as synthesizing knowledge, experience and good judgement into decisions based on valid reasons. Also, maintaining both personal and conceptual integrity in the face of systemic blockers.
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Mindshift: how thinking differently is essential for modern architecture
Featuring Diana Montalion
Many of our mental models have been optimised for feature-driven software delivery. No matter how performant our microservices are, if we don’t change our patterns we risk delivering the same system we already have. This talk explores how to make the Mindshift from feature-driven to event-driven....
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Keynote: Making a Case for Conceptual Integrity
Featuring Diana Montalion
Einstein (probably) never said, "if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough yet." He was a master at creating conceptual understanding though. When designing systems, Diana argues that if you can't make a case for it, you (probably) don't...
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Reasoning Systematically: the Art of Integration Leadership — 2 Half‑Day Workshops [SAG Digital 2021]
Led by Diana Montalion
This half-day workshop is part of the Software Architecture Gathering Digital — 2021. Join Diana Montalion and explore methods for providing integrative leadership by crafting sound reasoning.
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