---
title: "Whitney Lee"
category: "people"
role: "Senior Technical Advocate"
company: "Datadog"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitneylee/"
website: "https://whitneylee.com/"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Whitney Lee

## Profile
Senior Technical Advocate at [[datadog|Datadog]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitneylee/)
- [Website](https://whitneylee.com/)

## Biography
Whitney Lee is a creator and systems thinker who explores how observability, AI, and platform engineering connect across the cloud native ecosystem. She brings humor, depth, and clarity to complex technologies while building original frameworks that help others understand how systems fit together. She runs a vibrant YouTube channel, hosts [[datadog|Datadog]] Illuminated, has delivered 2 KubeCon keynotes, and combines storytelling and technical rigor to illuminate the human side of cloud native engineering.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-michael-forrester-build-a-platform-unleash-an-agent-on-it-and-watch-it-burn]] — Build a Platform, Unleash an Agent on it.... and Watch it Burn! (2026-06-29, 1:15pm-2:15pm)

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### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-michael-forrester-build-a-platform-unleash-an-agent-on-it-and-watch-it-burn|Build a Platform, Unleash an Agent on it.... and Watch it Burn!]]

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