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SPEAKER · DEVFLOW CONF 2027

Dana Kowalski

Engineering Manager · Substrate
Runs the developer-experience org at Substrate; ex-CI lead at a fintech.
SESSIONS · 3
13:00–15:00
WED · MAY 12
WORKSHOP LAB
Build Your Own Remote Cache
Platform & Infra·Workshop (120 min)
Hands-on workshop: build a content-addressed remote build cache from scratch, break it with the classic invalidation bugs, and fix them. Bring a laptop with Docker and Go.
15:15–16:00
WED · MAY 12
MAIN STAGE
Monorepo or Many Repos: A Decade of Data
Platform & Infra·Panel (45 min)·with Jasper Nguyen, Leila Haddad
Panel. Three people who have run both models at scale argue it out with numbers instead of vibes: build times, ownership boundaries, dependency drift, and what they would choose starting today.
9:00–9:30
FRI · MAY 14
MAIN STAGE
What 12 Months of DX Metrics Taught Us
Developer Experience·Talk (30 min)
A year after instrumenting the developer-experience org at Substrate: which investments moved the numbers, which dashboards got deleted, and the survey question that predicts attrition better than any metric.