Staff Plus Engineering
Beyond Coding: How Senior ICs Grow Influence and Drive Impact
Tuesday Nov 18 / 02:45PM PST
Many engineers reach a point where technical excellence alone isn’t enough to drive meaningful impact or advance their careers. Senior individual contributors must learn to influence without authority, build trust across teams, and navigate challenges like imposter syndrome to truly lead.
Kasia Trapszo
Principal Engineer @Netflix, Leading Architecture for the Commerce Platform
Accelerating LLM-Driven Developer Productivity at Zoox
Wednesday Nov 19 / 11:45AM PST
Over the past year, Zoox has invested in integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into internal developer workflows through a company-wide initiative called Zoox Intelligence (ZI).
Amit Navindgi
Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience @ Zoox, Leading Applied AI Initiatives
How Netflix Shapes our Fleet for Efficiency and Reliability
Wednesday Nov 19 / 11:45AM PST
Netflix runs on a complex multi-layer cloud architecture made up of thousands of services, caches, and databases. As hardware options, workload patterns, cost dynamics and the Netflix products evolve, the cost-optimal hardware and configuration for running our services is constantly changing.
Joseph Lynch
Principal Software Engineer @Netflix Building Highly-Reliable and High-Leverage Infrastructure Across Stateless and Stateful Services
Argha C
Staff Software Engineer @Netflix - Leading Netflix's Cloud Scalability Efforts for Live
The Ironies of AAII
Wednesday Nov 19 / 01:35PM PST
Details coming soon.
J. Paul Reed
Staff Incident Operations Manager @Chime
From ms to µs: OSS Valkey Architecture Patterns for Modern AI
Wednesday Nov 19 / 02:45PM PST
As AI applications demand faster and more intelligent data access, traditional caching strategies are hitting performance and reliability limits.
Dumanshu Goyal
Uber Technical Lead @Airbnb Powering $11B Transactions, Formerly @Google and @AWS