Judgment Is the New Bottleneck
Director+ plenary workshop at LDX3 New York on measuring engineering impact when code is cheap - why delivery pipelines are well-lit in the middle and dark at both ends...
The 2026 Software Engineering Benchmarks Insights
Roundtable discussion on AI-assisted development metrics across 4,800+ organizations - why creating more code faster doesn't translate to higher value delivery...
Executive Runtime: Two Decades of Infrastructure Leadership
Conversation with Johnny Austin on scaling Stripe's Data Platform from 30 to 180 people, systems thinking in infrastructure, and building for reliability at global scale...
Shipping Agentic Experiences - Going Beyond Pilots to Production
Panel discussion on taking AI agents from experimentation to production - strategies for building reliable, scalable agentic systems in enterprise environments...
Prompt to Production: Operationalizing AI in Engineering
Main stage panel on moving beyond clever prompts to production-ready AI solutions - building trust, measuring impact, and transforming the engineer's role...
Acceleration, Autonomy, and Accountability - a framework for successful platforms
Lessons from building three platforms across VMware, Stripe, and Apollo GraphQL - from Solis cost platform to ShuttleCrawler delivery platform to Monster async processing...
Growth in a Downturn
Keynote address on navigating engineering growth during economic uncertainty - strategies for building resilient teams and sustainable practices...
Infrastructure Engineering Deep Dive: Leading Data Platform at Stripe
Comprehensive interview on building critical data infrastructure, debugging velocity, managing distributed systems, and navigating organizational programs at scale...