Heather Thacker

Developer Advocate at Gatling

Heather is a Developer Advocate at Gatling where she enjoys building content and community around making performance testing approachable and essential to teams. Her perspective is shaped by four years as a software developer followed by two years advocating for DevOps best practices. She’s an international speaker that enjoys comparing theory with reality of software development lifecycles, using practical examples and analogies. Her goal is to give engineers different perspectives that will build the confidence they need to make performance a core part of their workflow.