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76%
senior dev or higher
1:11
speaker ratio
60+
practitioners
QCon San Francisco 2025 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
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Monday 17 November
10:35 Pacific DEKJ Session Mobile App From Founding Engineer to CTO to CEO – At the Same Startup Trisha Ballakur Co-Founder and CEO @Pointz, Forbes 30 Under 30 2025, Previously @Techstars and @Adobe As a college sophomore, I founded Pointz, initially building its core routing engine from scratch. I architected the platform’s safety rating algorithm, integrating geospatial data structures, crowdsourced inputs, and multi-criteria decision-making to deliver context-aware routing. 11:45 Pacific DEKJ Session Startups From Staff Platform Engineer to a 16z Founder: What I Wish I'd Known Gonzalo (Glo) Maldonado CTO & Cofounder of @Mocksi.ai, Staff Platform Engineer Turned Startup Founder, Turns Developer Platforms into Products, Temporal & MCP Fanatic The Technical Leadership Challenge: Every successful engineering team faces the same inflection point: transforming beloved internal tools into a legitimate platform business. 13:35 Ballroom A Session Startups Maximizing Success with Limited Time, Resources, and Energy: Lessons from Startup Engineering David Gudeman Co-Founder and CTO @Velocity AI Startups are the harshest environments for engineers. Limited time, resources, and energy force teams to make decisions under pressure — and those decisions can determine whether a company survives or stalls. 14:45 Ballroom BC Session AI The Future of Engineering: Mindsets That Matter When Code Isn’t Enough Ben Greene 4X Founding CTO, Co-Founder and CTO @Tessi, Co-Creator of FreeFormula.Exchange, CTO-in-Residence at Techstars Boston Since the first compiler, software has been a stack of human-friendly abstractions translated into machine instructions. The engineers who understood at least some of what was going on under the hood were essential—indispensable even. But now? 15:55 Seacliff D Unconference Unconference: Early Stage Startups 17:05 Pacific DEKJ Session Beyond the Build: Early-Stage Mindset for the Everything Engineer Aiyesha Ma Founding CTO @Nureon, Previously Founding CEO @FluidCloth, Technical Lead @Cisco Tetration, Data Science @OpsClarity & ModCloth In an early-stage startup, the lines between roles blur, and engineering can become less about building and more about what makes the company attractive.