#057 - From Pagers to Pair Programming: Navigating Massive Scale and AI with Stefana Muller (Salesforce)
From Kubernetes for Humans by Komodor
May 4, 2026 · 28 min · Season 4 · Episode 57
About this episode
Stefana Muller discusses her journey and the challenges of scaling Kubernetes infrastructure at Salesforce while integrating AI tools.
In this episode of "Kubernetes for Humans," Stefana Muller, VP of Infrastructure & Operations at Salesforce, shares her fascinating journey from technical support to navigating the massive scale of the Own Backup acquisition. Stefana dives into the immense multi-cloud Kubernetes challenges of scaling from 18,000 to over 52,000 clusters, standardizing environments across AWS and Azure, and leveling up security to meet stringent Salesforce standards. She also unpacks the transformative role of AI in modern operations, revealing how tools like Claude Code and Slackbot are shifting her team from basic troubleshooting to full AI pair-programming and automated code documentation, while ultimately emphasizing that human accountability in DevOps and SRE is here to stay
People in this episode
Guest: Stefana Muller
Topics covered
- Kubernetes
- AI in operations
- multi-cloud challenges
- DevOps
- scaling infrastructure
- pair programming
Keywords
- Kubernetes
- Salesforce
- AI
- DevOps
- multi-cloud
- infrastructure
- pair programming
- security
- scaling
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Salesforce, AWS, Azure
Products: Claude Code, Slackbot
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