Monoliths: For skeptics
Yara Conti Helios Materials · Principal Engineer
Yara leads leading product discovery at Helios Materials. They contribute to open source and write a popular weekly newsletter.
Monoliths: Without heroics
Brigitte Rao Westfold Education · Cloud Architect
Brigitte joined Westfold Education after consulting for venture-backed teams, and now running incident response. Their work has been featured in industry publications and academic journals.
Naming Things: At scale
Valentina Schulz Citrine Labs · Group PM
Based in India, Valentina is currently Group PM at Citrine Labs. Outside of work, they write about engineering culture and mentor early-career builders.
Observability: On a budget
Bjorn Olafsson Jericho Defense · Infrastructure Lead
Bjorn joined Jericho Defense after a stint in academic research, and now shipping accessible interfaces. They are passionate about mentoring and have coached over a hundred engineers.
Onboarding: From first principles
Jonas Prasad Tideland Foods · CISO
Jonas leads coaching engineering managers at Tideland Foods. Outside of work, they write about engineering culture and mentor early-career builders.
Performance Budgets: For skeptics
Tanvi Nakamura Quayle Engineering · Data Scientist
Tanvi works on building developer tools as a Data Scientist at Quayle Engineering.
Performance Budgets: In the age of ai
Julian Brooks Meridian Bank · Senior Product Manager
Julian leads scaling distributed teams at Meridian Bank. They believe most engineering problems are communication problems in disguise.
Performance Budgets: The hard way
Kavya Tucker Tessera Cloud · Head of Operations
Kavya leads owning the design hiring pipeline at Tessera Cloud.
Platform Teams: With empathy
Rahim Danielsen Boulevard Media · Director of Product
Rahim works on growing the open-source community as a Director of Product at Boulevard Media. They contribute to open source and write a popular weekly newsletter.
Privacy by Design: The hard way
Paula Cohen Northwind Software · Accessibility Specialist
Paula joined Northwind Software after building the internal tools group at a previous company, and now modernizing the design system. They speak regularly at meetups across Netherlands and host a small podcast on the side.
Product Strategy: For startups
Carlos Bakker Tinderbox Games · Developer Advocate
Carlos works on coaching engineering managers as a Developer Advocate at Tinderbox Games. Outside of work, they write about engineering culture and mentor early-career builders.
Product Strategy: Without burnout
Jana Soto Indigo Genomics · Group PM
Jana is a Group PM at Indigo Genomics, where they shipping accessible interfaces. They are passionate about mentoring and have coached over a hundred engineers.