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Robert Brennan is the CEO of All Hands AI, the company behind OpenHands, an MIT-licensed software development agent. He has previously worked in natural language processing for Google, and in open source developer tooling related to REST APIs and the Kubernetes ecosystem.

Hi! I am Stef. I am currently a Research Scientist in Google DeepMind working on novel multimodal AI applications. Previously I was a Principal Researcher in the Center of Applied AI Research at the University of Chicago. I graduated with a Ph.D. in Creative AI Literacies 🎓 at the University of Washington Information School. My research focuses on Large Language Models and the design of Multimodal AI tools and resources 🖌️ and during grad school I built the first open-source platform for K12 AI Education - Cognimates. When I am not coding & writing papers 👩🏽‍💻 I love trail running, yoga, and riding my 🚲. I am a former AI Resident at X Moonshot Factory, product engineer at Fixie.ai, a Weizenbaum Research Fellow. An awardee of the NSF Formal Verification in the Field Grant and the Jacobs Foundation Grant. I was previously a LEGO Papert Fellow during my time as a master student at MIT researching with Prof. Mitch Resnick and the Scratch team.

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Adrienne is a Filipina software engineer, international speaker, author of Coding for Kids: Python, and a LinkedIn Learning instructor...essentially, an overachiever. She's published ""Looks Good To Me: Constructive Code Reviews"", a labor of love that she hopes will improve code reviews everywhere. Most importantly, she spends way too much money on coffee, desserts, and vintage clothing and ungodly amounts of time playing Age of Empires II.

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Sean is an AI Entrepreneur in Residence at Confluent where he works on AI strategy and thought leadership. Sean's been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from AI to quantum computing. Sean also hosts the popular engineering podcasts Software Engineering Daily and Software Huddle.

Peter joined Upfront in 2023 after spending most of his career as a founder. Before Upfront, Peter co-founded Macro, a workflow automation company, and Hyper Travel, a corporate travel solution that was acquired by Tradeshift in 2016. Prior to Hyper Travel, Peter was an early employee at Venmo, where he worked as a software engineer and product manager. He graduated from Princeton University with degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science. He is also a former YC founder (Summer, 2010) and alumnus of South Park Commons.

Toma is a Software Developer at Daytona where he's part of the Core company team. He enjoys giving conference talks, especially on topics about remote development.

Between theories on eventual impact of AGI and most basic of the LLM use cases (e-mail anyone?) - most product teams fail to utilize AI. This talk dives deep into actual use-cases and lessons learned at applying AI (not just LLMs) to Product Discovery, Research, Data, Shipping, and Evaluation at Kiwi.com. Goal is to use AI as a force multiplier for productivity, instead of a crutch, enabling Product teams to do more with less, while building products that are better for both the users, and the business. Boris provides a unique perspective of an engineer turned Product Manager, leading the highly-technical Flights Search domain at Kiwi, serving 100M+ of users per year.

Aadit Sheth is the founder of Prompts Daily, a leading AI newsletter read by top executives at Amazon, Meta, IBM, and HubSpot. As a prominent AI researcher and thought leader with an audience of 500K+, he delivers expert insights on AI's latest advancements and future impact.

Rasmus Lerdorf is known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995 and has contributed to a number of other open source projects over the years. He was an infrastructure architect at Yahoo! for more than 7 years and joined Etsy in 2012. He was born in Greenland, grew up in Denmark and Canada and has a Systems Design engineering degree from the University of Waterloo.

Håkon Wium Lie proposed Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) while working with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1994. Along with Bert Bos, he developed a set of ideas for web style sheets into a implementeable W3C Recommendation. As CTO of Opera Software he shepherded Opera's implementation, and he proposed the Acid2 test to ensure that all browsers complied. He is the chairman of YesLogic, which makes the Prince CSS-to-PDF formatter. In 2015, Håkon sailed from Lima to Easter Island on a balsa raft, making sure the world-wide web is truly world-wide. He holds a MS from the MIT Media Lab, and a PhD from the University of Oslo.

I'm a UI Engineer at DigitalOcean. I've spoken around the world about advanced/experimental CSS, image optimization, and the intersection of design and development.

Graphics editor, @nytimes investigations team. Open sourceror

Hi, my name is Charity, and I am professionally caremad about computers. I am an operations and database engineer and sometimes engineering manager. Right now I am the CEO and cofounder of Honeycomb, where we build observability for distributed systems. (“Monitoring” doesn't have to be a dirty word; give us a try.) Until recently I was a production engineering manager at Facebook. I spent 3.5 years working on Parse (both pre and post-acquisition by FB). I also spent several years at Linden Lab, working on the infrastructure and databases that power Second Life. I am the co-author of “Database Reliability Engineering” by O'Reilly. I was a classical piano performance major in college, but dropped out because it turns out I prefer not being dirt poor. I have been building systems and engineering teams ever since. I love startups, chaos and hard scaling problems, and somehow I always end up in charge of the databases.

As the Vice President of Developer Relations Strategy and Experience at Cisco, Grace Francisco is responsible for defining and growing Cisco's broad-based developer strategy. Creating new capabilities and programming for DevOps, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), cloud architects, and developers building for a cloud-first world, she is building an expanded ecosystem supporting cloud native architectures. She also leads Cisco DevNet, Cisco's 500,000-plus-strong developer community, which features programs that catalyze innovations and accelerate automation and digital transformation throughout the industry.

Hi, I'm Kent C. Dodds. I'm a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and I'm actively involved in the open source community as a maintainer and contributor of hundreds of popular npm packages. I am the creator of EpicReact.Dev and TestingJavaScript.com. I'm an instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters. I'm also a Google Developer Expert. I am happily married and the father of four kids. I like my family, code, JavaScript, and React.

Kathy Simpson is Director of Product Management at GitHub. Kathy has an engineering background and has always been a maker at heart with a passion for technology. Prior to Github, Kathy worked as Senior Product Manager at Heroku on the Human Interface Team and has taken products from early to prototypes to launch day consistently for the past 10 years.

Vitaly loves beautiful content and does not give up easily. Born in Minsk, Belarus, he studied computer science and mathematics in Germany. While writing algebra proofs and preparing for software engineering at nights in the kitchen, at the same time he discovered passion for typography, interface design and writing. After working as a freelance designer and developer for 6 years, he co-founded Smashing Magazine back in 2006, a leading online magazine for designers and developers. His curiosity drove him from interface design to front-end to performance optimization to accessibility and back to user experience over all the years.Vitaly is the author, co-author and editor of all Smashing books, and a curator of all Smashing Conferences. He currently works as creative lead of Smashing Magazine and front-end/UX consultant in Europe and abroad.

Hi, I'm Willian, I've been earning money doing FrontEnd since 2007 although I work on IT since 2004. I like to call myself as JS formatter and CSS tweaker since I don't really care about job titles. I'm very concerned about company culture, therefore, I love to be and shape the company I want to work by leading by example and giving nice and constructive feedback. Tech-wise, I'm a framework agnostic more than that, I prefer Web standards over frameworks.

Joyce Lin is the head of Developer Relations at Postman, a collaboration platform for API development used by 15M+ users to access bazillions of APIs every month. For developers, Postman is an everyday companion to visualize and test APIs more efficiently.

At Slack, we use one JavaScript codebase to build a multi-threaded desktop application, routinely interacting with native code. Managing large JavaScript codebases is challenging - we need a guarantee that the individual pieces fit together. In the desktop world, a small mistake is likely to result in a crash. To that end, we adopted TypeScript and quickly learned to stop worrying and love the compiler. See an introduction and a detailed account of porting a large code base, learn why exactly TypeScript is so popular, what the downsides are, and how you would slowly adopt it in your development.