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Olu Adeyemi
Engineering Director, Kestrel Health
Ships machine learning into clinical workflows, where being wrong is expensive.
- Evaluating Model Output When There Is No Right Answer — 15 May 2026, 10:15 – 10:45 · Room 2B
Aisha Bello
Director of Engineering, Finch House
Writes and speaks about engineering org design and developer productivity metrics.
- The Metrics We Stopped Collecting — 15 May 2026, 11:15 – 11:45 · Room 2B
Tom Bianchi
SRE Lead, Quanta
Keeps a very large Kubernetes estate boring.
- Two Years Without a Sev1: What Actually Changed — 15 May 2026, 10:15 – 10:45 · Room 2A
Yusuf Demir
Staff Engineer, Tidewater
Works on release engineering and the unglamorous parts of shipping daily.
- Release Trains That Nobody Has to Drive — 14 May 2026, 11:15 – 11:45 · Room 2A
Santiago Ferreira
Developer Experience Lead, Vantage Foundry
Looks after a monorepo forty teams commit to.
- One Repository, Forty Teams — 14 May 2026, 11:15 – 11:45 · Room 2B
Nadia Haddad
VP Engineering, Vela
Spoke at DevFlow Conf 2026 on platform migrations.
- Moving a Platform Without Moving the Teams — 13 May 2026, 10:15 – 10:45 · Room 2A
Pavel Horak
Infrastructure Architect, Meridian Freight
Serves search and retrieval for a logistics network that never stops moving.
- Retrieval Without the Vector Database — 15 May 2026, 11:15 – 11:45 · Room 2A
Hana Kobayashi
Compiler Engineer, Silverline
Writes compilers and, lately, the WebAssembly they target.
- Shipping a Compiler to the Browser — 13 May 2026, 11:15 – 11:45 · Room 2B
Dana Kowalski
Engineering Manager, Substrate
Runs the developer-experience org at Substrate; ex-CI lead at a fintech.
- Onboarding an Engineer in a Day — 14 May 2026, 10:15 – 10:45 · Room 2A
Greta Lindqvist
CTO, Alderwood
Has kept the same monolith in production, and profitable, for fifteen years.
- Fifteen Years of the Same Monolith — 14 May 2026, 09:00 – 09:45 · Main Stage
Marcus Okafor
Staff Developer Advocate, Cloudreach Labs
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… Show more
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.
- What We Learned Letting a Model Write the Boilerplate — 13 May 2026, 10:15 – 10:45 · Room 2B
Priya Raman
Principal Engineer, Latticework Systems
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… Show more
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.
- Ten Thousand Builds a Day: Making CI Boring on Purpose — 13 May 2026, 09:00 – 09:45 · Main Stage
Ingrid Solberg
Head of Data Platform, Fjordline
Builds the data platform the models upstairs are only as good as.
- The Data Platform Under the Model — 15 May 2026, 09:00 – 09:45 · Main Stage
Kenji Watanabe
ML Infrastructure Engineer, Orbital
Trains and serves large models on a budget.
- Fine-Tuning Was the Wrong Answer Three Times — 14 May 2026, 10:15 – 10:45 · Room 2B
Mei-Ling Zhou
Principal SRE, Cobalt Grid
Runs observability for a fleet large enough that the telemetry bill is a design constraint.
- The Observability Bill Nobody Read — 13 May 2026, 11:15 – 11:45 · Room 2A