Speakers
Six practitioners, eight sessions. Every speaker runs the systems they talk about, and every one of them stays for the closing party.
Staff Engineer, Rendering, Kiln
Priya leads the rendering team at Kiln, where she rebuilt the page pipeline around streaming HTML and cut median load time by 41%. She sits on a browser standards working group and writes the newsletter Paint Flashing.
Director of ML Platform, Halcyon
Marcus runs the platform behind 300 million model calls a day at Halcyon. Before that he spent eight years in search relevance, which is where his distrust of vibes-based evaluation began.
SRE Lead, Tidewater
Elena has carried the pager for payment systems that are never allowed to go down. She leads reliability at Tidewater and is the author of Driftnet, an open-source trace sampler.
Design Engineer, Parallax
Jonas works where design files meet production CSS. At Parallax he maintains a component library used by 60 product teams, and he has strong opinions about :has().
Applied AI Engineer, Openfield
Amara builds agent systems that handle support for logistics operators at Openfield. She previously shipped speech models on mobile chips, which taught her to count every megabyte.
Principal Engineer, Marlin Systems
David is a database engineer at Marlin Systems, where he has moved petabytes between storage engines without a maintenance window. He teaches a yearly workshop on Postgres internals.