Ten years ago, systems did work we couldn’t prove. Then we built observability through logs, metrics, and tracing.

We made invisible work visible because we learned you can’t debug what you can’t observe.

We haven’t done this for people. So talented engineers plateau and leave, managers can’t advocate without evidence, and the people we just trained disappear before they reach senior level.

Drawing from community work supporting 1,000+ technologists and building Receipts, I’ll show you how to capture impact in real-time, measure what matters (not what’s easy), and trace decisions to outcomes.

You’ll see what “observability for humans” looks like at three levels. Individuals tracking impact like incident logs, managers creating feedback loops like monitoring alerts, organizations building proof infrastructure like we build CI/CD.

Because if we can observe 47 microservices, we can observe one engineer’s impact.

Omodolapo Babatunde is a cloud engineer, product leader, and community builder focused on inclusive digital innovation. She has led design and growth initiatives and supports community-driven