2025 Schedule

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Monday, November 17th, 2025

07:15AM PST

Continental Breakfast - Pacific Level

09:00AM PST

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

From Friction to Flow: How Great DevEx Makes Everything Awesome

Nicole Forsgren

Grand Ballroom

10:10AM PST

Break

10:35AM PST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

How to Build an Exchange

Frank Yu - Coinbase

Ballroom A

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
Driving Reliability Through Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

Continuous Delivery for Foundational Platforms

Ian Nowland - Junction Labs

Seacliff ABC

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
Polyglot Platforms: Strategies & Practices to Enable Innovation

Designing AI Platforms for Reliability: Tools for Certainty, Agents for Discovery

Aaron Erickson - NVIDIA

Ballroom BC

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
Effective Engineering and Practices in Early Stage Startups

From Founding Engineer to CTO to CEO – At the Same Startup

Trisha Ballakur - Pointz

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

In person only Sponsored

The Future of Agentic AI: Architecting the Global Control Plane

Tyler Jewell - AKKA

Pacific LM

No Video Available
11:25AM PST

Break

11:45AM PST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Compiling Workflows into Databases: The Architecture That Shouldn't Work (But Does)

Jeremy Edberg - DBOS

Qian Li - DBOS

Ballroom A

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
Driving Reliability Through Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

Beyond Line Charts: Why Some Diversity in Telemetry Visualization Is Long Overdue

Yao Yue - IOP Systems

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Polyglot Platforms: Strategies & Practices to Enable Innovation

Confidently Automating Changes Across a Diverse Fleet

Casey Bleifer - Netflix

Ballroom BC

Advanced Topic

Track:
Effective Engineering and Practices in Early Stage Startups

From Staff Platform Engineer to a 16z Founder: What I Wish I'd Known

Gonzalo (Glo) Maldonado - Sanscourier

Pacific DEKJ

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

In person only Sponsored

Shift Left with Observability and AI Driven Development

Sean O'Dell - Dynatrace

Pacific LM

No Video Available
12:35PM PST

Lunch & Lunch topic discussions on Atrium level.
Women & Allies in Tech Lunch Session in Waterfront AB, Atrium level (Sign-up needed).

01:35PM PST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Parting the Clouds: The Rise of Disaggregated Systems

Murat Demirbas - MongoDB Research

Pacific DEKJ

Beginner Topic

Track:
Driving Reliability Through Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

Microservices Platforms: When Team Topologies Meets Microservices Patterns

Chris Richardson

Ballroom BC

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Polyglot Platforms: Strategies & Practices to Enable Innovation

In person only

Secure Software Supply Chain: Risk Prediction at the Speed of Development

Bishwajeet Paul - JPMorgan Chase

Seacliff ABC

No Video Available

Track:
Effective Engineering and Practices in Early Stage Startups

Maximizing Success with Limited Time, Resources, and Energy: Lessons from Startup Engineering

David Gudeman - Velocity AI

Ballroom A

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

In person only Sponsored

AI won't fix Developer Productivity (Unless you fix Context First)

Dennis Pilarinos - Unblocked

Pacific LM

No Video Available
02:25PM PST

Break

02:45PM PST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Matthew Liste - American Express

Ballroom A

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
Driving Reliability Through Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

In person only

Unconference: Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

Seacliff D

No Video Available

Track:
Polyglot Platforms: Strategies & Practices to Enable Innovation

Keeping the Mainline Green Across Diverse Language Monorepos

Dhruva Juloori - Uber

Pacific DEKJ

Beginner Topic

Track:
Effective Engineering and Practices in Early Stage Startups

The Future of Engineering: Mindsets That Matter When Code Isn’t Enough

Ben Greene - Tessi

Ballroom BC

Beginner Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

In person only Sponsored

AI Native Architecture for Java Applications

Pratik Patel - Azul

Pacific LM

No Video Available
03:35PM PST

Coffee Break & Snacks - Pacific Level

03:55PM PST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Architecting a Centralized Platform for Data Deletion at Netflix

Vidhya Arvind - Netflix

Shawn Liu - Netflix

Ballroom A

Advanced Topic

Track:
Driving Reliability Through Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity

Randy Shoup - Thrive Market

Ballroom BC

Track:
Polyglot Platforms: Strategies & Practices to Enable Innovation

Rust at the Core - Accelerating Polyglot SDK Development

Spencer Judge - Temporal Technologies

Seacliff ABC

Interview Available
Advanced Topic

Track:
Effective Engineering and Practices in Early Stage Startups

In person only

Unconference: Early Stage Startups

Seacliff D

No Video Available

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

In person only Sponsored

Building Zero-CVE Container Images at Scale: Patterns and Pitfalls

Natalie Somersall - Chainguard

Pacific LM

No Video Available
04:45PM PST

Break

05:05PM PST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

In person only

Unconference: Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Seacliff D

No Video Available

Track:
Driving Reliability Through Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix

Anirudh Mendiratta - Netflix

Benjamin Fedorka - Netflix

Ballroom BC

Track:
Polyglot Platforms: Strategies & Practices to Enable Innovation

Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit

Adrian Cockcroft - OrionX.net

Ballroom A

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Effective Engineering and Practices in Early Stage Startups

Beyond the Build: Early-Stage Mindset for the Everything Engineer

Aiyesha Ma - Nureon

Pacific DEKJ

Beginner Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

In person only Sponsored

Develop and Deploy a Trustworthy Multi-Agent System (Live Demo)

Tyler Jewell - AKKA

Pacific LM

No Video Available

Tuesday, November 18th, 2025

07:30AM PST

Continental Breakfast - Pacific Level

09:00AM PST

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

Hidden Decisions You Don’t Know You’re Making

Shawna Martell - Imprint

Dan Fike - Carta

Grand Ballroom

Interview Available
10:10AM PST

Break

10:35AM PST

Track:
Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

Monolith Down: Cleaning Up After the Great Identity Migration Disaster

Sonya Natanzon - Heartflow

Seacliff ABC

No Video Available
Advanced Topic

Track:
AI Engineering that Delivers: Blueprint to Impact

Engineering at AI Speed: Lessons from the First Agentically Accelerated Software Project

Adam Wolff - Anthropic

Ballroom BC

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

Lead Without a Ladder: How I Climbed Into Engineering Leadership

Pauline Jepp - TicketSwap

Ballroom A

Track:
Innovations in Front-End

Lessons Learned in Migrating to Micro-Frontends

Luca Mezzalira - AWS

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

In person only Sponsored

Building a Supercluster: What We Learned When We Hit Cloud Provider Limits

Prabhat Sharma - OpenObserve

Pacific LM

No Video Available
11:45AM PST

Track:
Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

Modernizing Relevance at Scale: LinkedIn’s Migration Journey to Serve Billions of Users

Nishant Lakshmikanth - LinkedIn

Ballroom A

Interview Available
Beginner Topic

Track:
AI Engineering that Delivers: Blueprint to Impact

Engineering AI for Creativity and Curiosity on Mobile

Bhavuk Jain - Google

Ballroom BC

Track:
The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

In person only

Panel: The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

Pauline Jepp - TicketSwap

Brad Grantham - LunarG

Kasia Trapszo - Netflix

Joe Cassavaugh - Puzzles By Joe

Pacific DEKJ

No Video Available

Track:
Innovations in Front-End

Building and Scaling UI Systems for Internal Tools at Meta

Cindy Zhang - Meta

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

In person only Sponsored

Vibes Won't Cut It: Agentic Engineering in Production

Chris Kelly - Augment Code

Pacific LM

No Video Available
12:35PM PST

Lunch & Lunch Topic Discussions on Atrium Level

01:35PM PST

Track:
Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

In person only

Unconference: Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

Seacliff D

No Video Available

Track:
AI Engineering that Delivers: Blueprint to Impact

In person only

Improving Meta Generative Ad Text using Reinforcement Learning

Alex Nikulkov - Meta

Ballroom BC

No Video Available
Advanced Topic

Track:
The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

A Solopreneur's Journey: From Engineer to Puzzle Master and Storyteller

Joe Cassavaugh - Puzzles By Joe

Ballroom A

Interview Available

Track:
Innovations in Front-End

From VR to Flat Screens: Bridging the Input and Immersion Gap

Dany Lepage - Lucky VR

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

In person only Sponsored

Building Agentic Workflows with MCP (AI Engineering that Delivers)

Sterling Chin - Postman

Pacific LM

No Video Available
02:25PM PST

Break

02:45PM PST

Track:
Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

Stripe’s Docdb: How Zero-Downtime Data Movement Powers Trillion-Dollar Payment Processing

Jimmy Morzaria - Stripe

Ballroom A

Interview Available
Advanced Topic

Track:
AI Engineering that Delivers: Blueprint to Impact

From Content to Agents: Scaling LLM Post-Training Through Real-World Applications and Simulation

Faye Zhang - Pinterest

Andi Partovi - Veris AI

Seacliff ABC

Interview Available
No Video Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

Beyond Coding: How Senior ICs Grow Influence and Drive Impact

Kasia Trapszo - Netflix

Ballroom BC

Beginner Topic

Track:
Innovations in Front-End

Designing Fast, Delightful UX With LLMs for Mobile Frontends

Balakrishnan (Bala) Ramdoss - Amazon

Pacific DEKJ

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

In person only Sponsored

A Day in the Life of a Senior Engineer: Navigating Context with AI

Vinay Perneti - Augment Code

Anand Kumar Sankaran - Workday

Pacific LM

No Video Available
03:55PM PST

Track:
Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

Migrating Uber Eats Feeds to Webview

Nick DiStefano - Uber

Seacliff ABC

Intermediate Topic

Track:
AI Engineering that Delivers: Blueprint to Impact

Dynamic Moments: Weaving LLMs into Deep Personalization at DoorDash

Sudeep Das - DoorDash

Pradeep Muthukrishnan - DoorDash

Ballroom BC

Track:
The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

Turning Outward: Growing From Code to Influence

Brad Grantham - LunarG

Ballroom A

Interview Available

Track:
Innovations in Front-End

In person only

Unconference: Innovations in Front-End

Seacliff D

No Video Available

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

In person only Sponsored

Uncovering the Coding Personalities of Leading LLMs

Anirban Chatterjee - Sonar

Pacific LM

No Video Available
04:45PM PST

Break

05:05PM PST

Track:
Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

Accelerating Netflix Data: A Cross-Team Journey from Offline to Online

Rajasekhar Ummadisetty - Netflix

Ken Kurzweil - Netflix

Ballroom A

Beginner Topic

Track:
AI Engineering that Delivers: Blueprint to Impact

Automating the Web With MCP: Infra That Doesn’t Break

Paul Klein - Browserbase

Ballroom BC

Advanced Topic

Track:
The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

In person only

Unconference: The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

Seacliff D

No Video Available

Track:
Innovations in Front-End

Why Fetch When You Can Sync? Building Local-First Apps on a Sync Engine Architecture

James Arthur - ElectricSQL

Pacific DEKJ

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

In person only Sponsored

Make Mechanical Advantage YOUR Advantage: How to Modernize and Futureproof Your Code with OpenRewrite

Mark Heckler - Moderne

Pacific LM

No Video Available

Wednesday, November 19th, 2025

07:30AM PST

Continental Breakfast - Pacific Level

09:00AM PST

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

Open Source, Community, and Consequence: The Story of MongoDB

Akshat Vig - MongoDB

Andrew Davidson - MongoDB

Grand Ballroom

10:10AM PST

Break

10:35AM PST

Track:
Architecting for Efficiency: Performance, Cost, and Maintainability

Producing the World's Cheapest Tokens: A How-to Guide

Meryem Arik - Doubleword

Ballroom A

Track:
The Stories Behind the Incidents

The Human Toll of Incidents & Ways To Mitigate It

Kyle Lexmond - Meta

Seacliff ABC

Beginner Topic

Track:
Empowering Teams with AI: Productivity and the Future of Software Development

Choosing Your AI Copilot: Maximizing Developer Productivity

Sepehr Khosravi - Coinbase

Ballroom BC

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
High-Performance Languages in Modern Development

The Rust High Performance Talk You Did Not Expect

Ruth Linehan - Momento

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

In person only Sponsored

Building Trustworthy Agentic Systems with Workflow Orchestration

Haven King - Orkes

Pacific LM

No Video Available
11:45AM PST

Track:
Architecting for Efficiency: Performance, Cost, and Maintainability

How Netflix Shapes our Fleet for Efficiency and Reliability

Joseph Lynch - Netflix

Argha C - Netflix

Ballroom A

Intermediate Topic

Track:
The Stories Behind the Incidents

When Incidents Refuse to End

Vanessa Huerta Granda - Enova

Seacliff ABC

Beginner Topic

Track:
Empowering Teams with AI: Productivity and the Future of Software Development

Accelerating LLM-Driven Developer Productivity at Zoox

Amit Navindgi - Zoox

Ballroom BC

Advanced Topic

Track:
High-Performance Languages in Modern Development

Instrumentation at Scale: Having Your Performance Cake and Eating It Too

Brian Martin - IOP Systems

Pacific DEKJ

Beginner Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

In person only Sponsored

Beyond Vector Search: Building Ultra-Resilient AI with Distributed SQL

Karthik Ranganathan - Yugabyte

Pacific LM

No Video Available
12:35PM PST

Lunch & Lunch Topic Discussions on Atrium Level.

01:35PM PST

Track:
Architecting for Efficiency: Performance, Cost, and Maintainability

Realtime and Batch Processing of GPU Workloads

Joseph Stein - SS&C Technologies

Ballroom A

Beginner Topic

Track:
The Stories Behind the Incidents

The Ironies of A^2 I^2

J. Paul Reed - Chime

Seacliff ABC

Beginner Topic

Track:
Empowering Teams with AI: Productivity and the Future of Software Development

Powering the Future: Building Your GenAI Infrastructure Stack

Merrin Kurian - Intuit

Ballroom BC

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
High-Performance Languages in Modern Development

When Every Bit Counts: How Valkey Rebuilt Its Hashtable for Modern Hardware

Madelyn Olson - AWS

Pacific DEKJ

Advanced Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

In person only Sponsored

Stop Scaling Problems; Start Scaling Sustainability: The High Performance & Efficient Enterprise Data Cloud.

Joe Houghes - Pure Storage

Pacific LM

No Video Available
02:45PM PST

Track:
Architecting for Efficiency: Performance, Cost, and Maintainability

From ms to µs: OSS Valkey Architecture Patterns for Modern AI

Dumanshu Goyal - Airbnb

Ballroom A

Advanced Topic

Track:
The Stories Behind the Incidents

Week-Long Outage: Lifelong Lessons

Molly Struve - Netflix

Seacliff ABC

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
Empowering Teams with AI: Productivity and the Future of Software Development

AI-Driven Productivity: From Idea to Impact

Jyothi Nookula

Ballroom BC

Beginner Topic

Track:
High-Performance Languages in Modern Development

Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust Into Existing Codebase

Lily Mara - Discord Inc

Pacific DEKJ

Advanced Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

In person only Sponsored

From Events to Actions: Building Apps That Respond to Users Instantly

Leo Sanches - Snowplow

Pacific LM

No Video Available
03:35PM PST

Coffee Break & Snacks - Pacific Level

03:55PM PST

Track:
Architecting for Efficiency: Performance, Cost, and Maintainability

Write-Ahead Intent Log: A Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale

Vinay Chella - DoorDash

Akshat Goel - DoorDash

Ballroom A

Intermediate Topic

Track:
The Stories Behind the Incidents

The Time it Wasn't DNS

Sean Klein - Microsoft

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Empowering Teams with AI: Productivity and the Future of Software Development

Trustworthy Productivity: Securing AI-Accelerated Development

Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan - AWS

Ballroom BC

Intermediate Topic

Track:
High-Performance Languages in Modern Development

Python, Numba, and Algorithm Design: Building Efficient Models in Financial Services

Chad Schuster - Milliman

Pacific DEKJ

Beginner Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

Beyond Code: Building a Personal Brand To Boost Your Career

Steef-Jan Wiggers - VGZ | InfoQ

Eran Stiller - Cartesian

Pacific LM

Beginner Topic
05:15PM PST

Thursday, November 20th, 2025

08:00AM PST

Light Breakfast - Seacliff Foyer

09:00AM PST

Certification

09:00AM PST - 12:00PM PST (3 hours)

Turn QCon insights into career-defining decisions.

Luca Mezzalira - AWS

Golden Gate

Training

HALF DAY

09:00AM PST - 12:00PM PST (3 hours)

Organizing for Fast Flow: A Practitioner's View on Implementing Team Topologies

Wes Reisz - Thoughtworks

Marina

Training

HALF DAY

09:00AM PST - 12:00PM PST (3 hours)

[SOLD OUT] Building Resilient Asynchronous and Event-Driven Systems

Tejas Ghadge - AWS

Nithin Vommi - AWS

Seacliff CD

Training

HALF DAY

09:00AM PST - 12:00PM PST (3 hours)

Building Intelligent Java Applications: A Developer’s Workshop

Dan Vega - Broadcom

Seacliff A

Training

HALF DAY

09:00AM PST - 12:00PM PST (3 hours)

Chat with your website using an LLM and open stack (Allycat)

Sujee Maniyam - Nebius

Seacliff B

12:00PM PST

 Lunch - Atrium Level

01:00PM PST

Training

HALF DAY

01:00PM PST - 04:00PM PST (3 hours)

[SOLD OUT] Leading and Analyzing Operational Incidents From Chaos to Resolution

Tejas Ghadge - AWS

Nithin Vommi - AWS

Seacliff A

Training

HALF DAY

01:00PM PST - 04:00PM PST (3 hours)

Fundamentals of Software Engineering in the Age of AI

Nate Schutta - Thoughtworks

Dan Vega - Broadcom

Seacliff CD

Training

HALF DAY

01:00PM PST - 04:00PM PST (3 hours)

Open Source Rag Pipeline With Docling + Data Prep Kit + Milvus + Open LLMs

Sujee Maniyam - Nebius

Seacliff B

Training

HALF DAY

01:00PM PST - 04:00PM PST (3 hours)

From Kubernetes-Native to Ai-Powered: Java With Langchain4j

Elder Moraes - IBM

Marina

Friday, November 21st, 2025

08:00AM PST

Light Breakfast - Seacliff Foyer

09:00AM PST

Training

FULL DAY

09:00AM PST - 04:00PM PST (7 hours)

Leading High-Performance Teams With Mindful Leadershi​p in the Age of AI​

Sam McAfee - Startup Patterns

Joan Brennan - Startup Patterns

Seacliff A

Training

FULL DAY

09:00AM PST - 04:00PM PST (7 hours)

Building Production-Ready AI Agents in the Open Source Ecosystem

James Busche - IBM

Mark Sturdevant - IBM

Seacliff B

Training

FULL DAY

09:00AM PST - 04:00PM PST (7 hours)

Production Ready Services With Spring Boot: A Deep Dive

Josh Long - Broadcom

Marina

Training

FULL DAY

09:00AM PST - 04:00PM PST (7 hours)

Agent MCP Workshop: Building Your Own Java-Based MCP Server

David Parry - Qodo

Seacliff D

Training

FULL DAY

09:00AM PST - 04:00PM PST (7 hours)

Platform Engineering in 2025, Factoring AI Into Every Component of the Platform

Bryan Oliver - Thoughtworks

Seacliff C

12:00PM PST

 Lunch - Atrium Level