[ATL-2026] Add speakers

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+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "AI as Skill Equalizer: Building Observability When You're Not a Specialist"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["vadim-uchitel"]
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+I'm a backend engineer with 25+ years of experience, but I'm not a Snowflake
+power user. I haven't memorized how to build HEX dashboards either. I had a
+problem: mobile attribution gaps. Users were tapping a CTA, but conversions
+weren't being credited. The tricky part wasn't "is there a bug?" It was where
+the signal was lost: event emission, ingestion, attribution windows, or
+something unknown. I knew the questions. I just couldn't translate them into
+Snowflake queries fast enough to keep the investigation moving. And contacting
+the data team to help with queries is a slow process.
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+AI changed the workflow. It handled the boring-but-critical mechanics (query
+structure, joins, aggregations) and helped me build dashboards, so I could
+focus on the investigation itself. The key detail: AI didn't solve the
+problem. I did. But AI was the tool that let me unblock myself and find the
+issues without filing a ticket or waiting for help. Have you ever been blocked
+by a skill gap that wasn't core to your job? This talk is for you.

content/events/2026-atlanta/program/vadim-uchitel.md

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+Title = "Speakers"
+Type = "speakers"
+Description = "Speakers for devopsdays atlanta 2026"
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content/events/2026-atlanta/speakers.md

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+Title = "Vadim Uchitel"
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/vadimuchitel"
+image = "vadim-uchitel.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "vadim-uchitel"
+Website = "https://fetch.com/"
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+Vadim Uchitel is a Principal Engineer at Fetch with over 25 years of software
+development experience. He began his career building real-time visualization
+software for NASA and DoD; his bdStudio tool is still used across multiple NASA
+labs today. After transitioning to backend web technologies, he helped scale
+Shipt's services and now works on cross-team systems architecture at Fetch.  A
+recurring theme in Vadim's work is finding creative ways to remove friction and
+democratize capabilities that once required specialized expertise.
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+Vadim is a regular DevOpsDays speaker, having presented on creative
+problem-solving in DevOps and SRE (2022) and building maintainable software
+(2023) at DevOpsDays Birmingham. Links to past talks are available on his
+[LinkedIn profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vadimuchitel).