Kavya joined Upcurrent Energy after leading the platform team elsewhere, and now untangling a legacy migration. They are passionate about mentoring and have coached over a hundred engineers.

Dawit works on rolling out observability tooling as a Senior Researcher at Drift Software. They believe most engineering problems are communication problems in disguise.

Xiomara leads leading product discovery at Foothold Logistics. Outside of work, they write about engineering culture and mentor early-career builders.

Xiomara is a Head of Design at Whitestone Capital, where they running the SRE function. They believe most engineering problems are communication problems in disguise.

Based in India, Karl is currently DevOps Engineer at Lumens Display. When not at a keyboard, they are running, reading, or somewhere outdoors.

Marta works on scaling distributed teams as a Principal Engineer at Cinder Materials. Outside of work, they write about engineering culture and mentor early-career builders.

Holly works on running incident response as a Platform Engineer at Cypress Capital. They speak regularly at meetups across Germany and host a small podcast on the side.

Samira joined Foundry Works after leading engineering at two earlier startups, and now untangling a legacy migration. They are passionate about mentoring and have coached over a hundred engineers.

Octavia works on owning the design hiring pipeline as a Chief of Staff at Boulevard Media. Outside of work, they write about engineering culture and mentor early-career builders.

Lara joined Sable & Stone after running design ops at a Fortune 500, and now designing platform APIs. They contribute to open source and write a popular weekly newsletter.

Rui joined Umbra Security after leading engineering at two earlier startups, and now designing platform APIs. Outside of work, they write about engineering culture and mentor early-career builders.

Daniela joined Daystar Logistics after a stint in academic research, and now running the SRE function. Outside of work, they write about engineering culture and mentor early-career builders.