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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.

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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.

Originally a self-taught software engineer, Louis is currently the cofounder and CEO of Bloop. Since 2021, Bloop has focussed on applying state-of-the-art AI models into products that help software engineers, with a particular focus on modernising legacy code.

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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.

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.

Saurabh is the CEO and Founder of Codeflash.ai, an AI tool that automatically optimizes the performance of Python code by finding the fastest way to write it. He has previous built performance tools for Nvidia and built machine learning models and systems for Meta and Cresta.

Morgante is the founder of Grit, a startup using static analysis and AI to automate common software development tasks with backing from Founders Fund. Before founding Grit, Morgante was a senior staff architect at Google, where he led the development of infrastructure automation tools and software modernization projects.

Hello everyone, I am Sandeep Kumar Pani, CEO of CodeStory. In my engineering career I have always worked on dev-tooling starting from my time at Meta where I worked on TestInfra and Engineering, supporting systems that were running 2k tests/second to now building Aide an AI native editor and achieving SOTA on swebench.

Jesse Robbins is a founder and investor focused on developer tools, infrastructure, and AI. Jesse is best known for founding Chef, a pioneer in cloud infrastructure automation, and starting the DevOps movement. These efforts combined to fundamentally improve the way teams build, deploy, and maintain software. Jesse is a General Partner at Heavybit, where he invests in and supports founders leading the next generation of developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and AI startups. He currently serves on the boards of Continue, Sanity, Mobot, and Memgraph, and advises technology companies like PagerDuty, Fastly, LaunchDarkly, CircleCI, LocalStack, Tailscale, Blockdaemon, and Replicated. Previously, Jesse worked at Amazon, where he was known as the ""Master of Disaster"" for improving website reliability and pioneering the Incident Management and GameDay Programs - now better known as Site Reliability and Chaos Engineering. He also founded the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference and edited the Web Operations book. Jesse’s work and life has been profoundly influenced by his experience as a trained firefighter and emergency manager, and he continues to volunteer as much as his schedule allows. Jesse lives in San Francisco, CA.

Carla is a software engineer and developer advocate at Auth0. She’s a language agnostic developer but enjoys working with Ruby and Python. When she’s not working you can find her going on walks with her dogs, hiking or going on a bike ride.

Ervin Jagatic is a product and technology leader with over a decade of experience in software development, program management, and product strategy. Currently serving as a Product Director at Infobip, he leads the definition and execution of AI product strategies and oversees cross-functional AI teams. Prior to this, Ervin was a Group Product Manager at Infobip, where he implemented product-led growth strategies, managing diverse stakeholders and driving collaboration across teams like Marketing, Customer Success, and Revenue. Before joining Infobip, Ervin spent over six years at Infinum, where he held several leadership roles, including Head of Client Services, overseeing delivery activities for a 350+ employee digital agency, and Team Lead Project Management, standardizing and implementing project management processes

Talia Kohan is a Lead Developer Advocate at Akamai Technologies and international keynote speaker who delivers content on building in the cloud, testing, and Linode. She enjoys helping developers understand how to build efficient applications in the cloud seamlessly and at scale.

Shiva Mahalingam is a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), specializing in digital transformation and cloud architecture. With over two decades of experience in the tech industry, Shiva has established himself as both a builder and an architect, expertly crafting solutions in Generative AI, Serverless computing, and cloud technologies. Throughout his career, Shiva has been the mastermind behind numerous complex systems, working with industry giants such as Cognizant, Hewlett-Packard, and Tata Consultancy Services. His hands-on approach to building scalable, efficient architectures has gained him valuable insights across telecom, retail, hospitality, and healthcare sectors. Shiva's expertise in constructing event-driven architectures, implementing cloud technologies, and integrating various middleware solutions positions him at the forefront of GenAI applications in enterprise environments. His unique blend of builder's intuition, architect's vision, and business acumen makes him an ideal guide for readers navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of generative AI and its practical applications in modern enterprise architecture. Shiva's approach combines the precision of a master builder with the foresight of a visionary architect, enabling him to construct and shape the digital future.

Barkha Herman is a technologist, experienced developer advocate, and the founder of WiTVoices and South Florida Women in Tech. With a deep understanding of technology and a love for fostering inclusive and diverse tech communities, Barkha is dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations to thrive in the rapidly evolving digital landscape. Currently, Barkha is thriving as a Developer Advocate at StarTree.ai, where she collaborate with developers, engineers, and product teams to create innovative solutions that streamline development processes and enhance user experiences.

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.

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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.