Crystal Hirschorn is an experienced engineering leader with 20 years in the technology industry. Currently she is director of engineering at Snyk overseeing cloud native infrastructure platforms, SRE and cloud security.

Frequently speaking at conferences on the topics of resilience engineering, chaos engineering and DevOps — imparting both theory and practice gained from more than 15 years as a hands-on software engineer working in very diverse, complex systems. She was recently awarded one of the top 100 UK influencers in open source software by OpenUK.