Speakers

Felix Braun leads developer productivity at Alpenstack. He has spent five years measuring what actually slows engineers down — and un-shipping dashboards that didn't help.

Amara Diallo is VP of Engineering at Northbeam Software, where she built the platform org from 4 to 60 engineers. She writes about treating internal platforms as products.

Theo Van Dijk is a Senior Engineer at Canalworks. He has strong opinions about configuration files and the scars to back them up.

Leila Haddad is a Platform Architect at Coastline Bank, where she introduced golden-path templates to a 400-engineer org under heavy regulatory constraints.

Runs the developer-experience org at Substrate; ex-CI lead at a fintech.

Owen McAllister has led large-repo migrations at six companies as a principal consultant with Fieldstone Advisory. He collects migration failure stories the way others collect stamps.

Rohan Mehta is a DevRel Engineer at Skyline Data. He spends his days teaching teams to query their logs instead of grepping them.

Kofi Mensah is the Infrastructure Lead at Harborlight Media. He recently finished a two-year escape from a self-hosted legacy CI cluster and kept receipts.

Bianca Moretti is an Engineering Director at Helios Mobility. Her teams cut release lead time from six weeks to daily deploys across an embedded-plus-cloud stack.

Jasper Nguyen maintains quarry, an open-source build tool used by roughly 40,000 repositories. He reviews more CI configs before breakfast than most people see in a year.

Marcus Okafor is a Staff Developer Advocate at Cloudreach Labs focused on AI agents in production. He writes the newsletter 'Agents Weekly' and co-organizes the SF AI Tinkerers meetup.

Sana Qureshi is Head of Developer Experience at Papercrane. Her team owns onboarding, docs, and templates — and holds the company record for time-to-first-deploy: 11 minutes.

Priya Raman is a Principal Engineer at Latticework Systems where she leads the build-tooling platform team. She previously maintained the open-source task runner 'gantry' and has spoken at over a dozen developer conferences on build systems, CI reliability, and developer productivity metrics.

Carmen Ruiz is a Senior SRE at Meridian Retail, where she owns progressive delivery for 300 services on a two-person budget.

Hana Sato is a Security Engineer at Driftwood Security focused on supply-chain integrity. She ships guardrails that developers adopt voluntarily — her proudest metric.

Mateo Silva is a Staff Engineer at Quayside, where he instrumented the full path from ticket to deploy with OpenTelemetry and lived to talk about it.

Viktor Sørensen is a compiler engineer at Glacier Computing working on incremental type checking. He believes your CI is doing work your compiler already did.

Yuki Tanaka is a Staff Engineer at Railgun CI, where they work on distributed build execution. Previously they led the migration of a 4,000-package monorepo to remote caching.