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Sachin Malhotra is an engineer at Anthropic, where he works on the continuous-integration infrastructure that Anthropic's engineers build and ship on. Keeping CI healthy at a frontier AI lab used to mean a pager and a long queue of toil; today most of that day-to-day runs through a fleet of Claude agents that triage incidents, watch rollouts, review changes, and draft the work, while Sachin sets direction, checks their output, and makes the calls only a human should. He has spoken about agent-driven engineering at the Tech Crunch Disrupt 2026 and has taught hands-on sessions on working with Claude to thousands of engineers at enterprise companies. Previously, he lead machine learning infrastructure at Etsy and DNS systems at Microsoft.

Dominik is a tech lead on OpenAI’s Developer Experience team, focusing on bringing Codex and frontier agent capabilities to developers. Previously, he led Product & Design for Twilio’s Emerging Tech & Innovation team. Outside of work, he loves tinkering with cocktails, food, and photography.

David is the founder of Stately.ai and creator of XState, the most popular open-source state machine & statecharts library. He's a longtime advocate for event-driven modeling and visual diagramming as the foundation for reliable UIs and, increasingly, AI agents. When he's not at a computer keyboard, he's at a piano keyboard.

Jemima Abu is an award-winning product engineer, Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP, and Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies. She is passionate about diversity in technology and accessibility in web development.

Cory is an author, a 12 time Microsoft MVP, and international speaker. He has trained over 10,000 software developers at conferences and businesses worldwide. Cory has authored over a dozen courses on JavaScript, React, C#, testing, and web development on Pluralsight and Dometrain. He shares software development tips daily on X as @housecor.

Kiriti Badam is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, where he builds Codex. Previously, he was a founding ML-infrastructure engineer at Kumo.ai, where he helped take the product from an idea to a scalable multi-tenant platform training hundreds of models each day. Before Kumo, Kiriti built large-scale storage and data-processing infrastructure at Google, Databricks, and Samsung. He also teaches practical courses on designing production agentic applications and harness engineering.

Riccardo Erra is a developer advocate at Figma. He joined Figma as their first developer advocate in EMEA. Before joining Figma he worked as a software engineer for 15 years with the last few years spent as a design system engineer. At Figma he's empowering engineers to make the most out of the various Figma's tools tailored to developers.

James O'Reilly is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google, where he focuses on AI agent orchestration and multi-agent systems via Google Antigravity. Specializing in automated platform modernizations, James helps enterprise engineering teams safely migrate aging monoliths to highly optimized architectures. He loves building infrastructure that lets AI do the heavy lifting.

I’m an AI Agent Developer who has been coding with AI for the past six years,starting from the early days of GitHub Copilot. As one of Copilot and Cursor’s earliest users, I now primarily work on building coding agents and run workshops across different domains and speak frequently on AI productivity, helping developers unlock the full potential of AI-powered tools.

My expertise spans the full generative AI pipeline, from fine-tuning models and optimizing prompts to running rigorous evaluations and building scalable agents.

Grounded in a strong background in test architecture, I design AI agents that balance complexity with reliability. I focus on constantly refining and optimizing these systems to push the boundaries of what modern AI software can achieve

I’m a co-founder of Signal Analytics, where I’m hands-on building an AI-native product and engineering team from scratch. Previously, I led data science and engineering teams at BCG, taking AI and data products from idea to production. I have a love-hate relationship with AI/AI coding, and I share many of my thoughts on this on my blog (andreagao.com) and in public talks.

Creator of Nx, the monorepo platform, and Polygraph, the meta-harness for max agent autonomy. A former member of the Angular core team at Google. Victor has spent 15+ years developing high-performance frameworks and build tools for large-scale JavaScript applications.

I’m Preethi, a Senior Frontend and Design System Engineer with over five years of experience building scalable UIs, performance-optimized applications, and production-grade React design systems.

Also a technical author at freeCodeCamp, CSS-Tricks, and DigitalOcean, where I simplify complex system design without losing technical depth.

As a Co-Founder of the D for Design System community and Creator of the legooo React Design System, I focus on building intelligent frontend systems that work for both humans and AI.

Eugene Sergueev is a Director of Engineering at Flo Health, where he leads cross-functional teams building large-scale consumer product experiences across content, search, personalization, moderation, and social features.

He works at the intersection of product engineering, team effectiveness, and practical AI adoption. His current focus is making AI-powered development workflows measurable, reliable, governed, and production-ready — especially in environments where quality, privacy, and operational risk matter.

Piotr Karwatka is a hacker, entrepreneur, and investor focused on enterprise software and healthtech. He co-founded Divante, Vue Storefront, Callstack, and Open Loyalty. One of the first investors in ElevenLabs. He currently leads Open Mercato, an AI-powered open-source ERP/CRM platform, and the investment boutique Catch The Tornado.

Tisha Chawla is a Software Engineer at Microsoft, where she builds agentic systems engineered to run reliably against production data. Her work centers on the structural foundations of agent infrastructure: durable state management, deterministic execution frameworks, and self-healing orchestration layers that scale beyond isolated demos. Alongside Susheem Koul, she is the co-creator of AgentPlane, an open-source infrastructure layer built for teams deploying production-grade agents. Tisha is a published researcher with peer-reviewed papers in applied machine learning across venues like APNET (SIGCOMM) and ASONAM. A frequent speaker on developer productivity and deterministic AI architectures, she recently presented at the AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 in San Francisco and regularly delivers deep-dive technical sessions to engineering teams across Microsoft.

Susheem Koul is a Software Engineer at Microsoft with 7+ years of experience in product development, currently focused on designing and building agentic systems. His work spans distributed systems, AI agents, software architecture, and the challenges of bringing AI-powered systems into production. He is particularly interested in the intersection of AI and distributed systems, exploring topics such as agent reliability, observability, token governance, and deterministic execution.

He regularly speaks and writes about AI engineering, agentic systems, and software architecture. Susheem presented at the AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 in San Francisco and regularly delivers technical sessions to engineering audiences. Outside of work, he writes about the philosophy of learning, software architecture, and technology on his Substack.

Avindra Fernando is a Principal Architect with 13+ years of experience helping teams build scalable modern web apps. In 2021, he founded Taprobane Consulting to guide clients through architecture decisions, tech stack migrations, and AI-powered development and testing strategies. He also mentors teams, runs hands-on workshops, speaks at tech conferences, and helps companies improve quality, performance, and technical direction.

Maya is Lead Software Engineer in Salesforce, working extensively with JavaScript and frontend frameworks and based in Israel. She founded and is currently the organizer of the VueJS Israel Meetup Community, helping to create a strong playground for Vue.js lovers and like-minded developers. Maya is also a published author, international speaker and an open-source library maintainer of frontend and web projects. As a core maintainer of StorefrontUI framework for e-commerce, she focuses on delivering performant components and best practices to the community while believing a strong Vanilla JavaScript knowledge is necessary for being a good web developer.

Nathan is the EM of the Sharing squad at Grafana Labs and is based out of beautiful Monterey, California.

Shreshth Goyal is a Software Engineer at Curefit who builds AI systems that actually run in production. He spends his days orchestrating agents, wiring up LLM pipelines, and making sure retrieval does not hallucinate at scale. He writes about AI tooling on dev.to and moderates the community so the comments stay useful. He has a soft spot for edge devices, an unhealthy obsession with equity backtesting, and firmly believes most AI demos would not last a day in production.

Lorenzo Dal Col is the Vulkan and OpenGL Conformance Test Suite tech lead at Khronos and a software consultant specialising in 3D graphics. Over more than fifteen years he has built high-performance software and led engineering teams. He was product manager for ARM's Mali GPU developer tools and has architected real-time 3D engines for VR and AR. He works across Vulkan, OpenGL and Metal, mobile performance, and computer vision, and now builds development processes around AI agents. He is based in Italy and has spoken at GDC, Google I/O, and Nordic Game.

Kranthi Manchikanti is an AI engineering and solutions leader focused on taking AI systems from prototypes to production at enterprise scale. He has worked with global organizations on production AI architecture, developer platforms, agentic systems, and large-scale software modernization. He also runs The AI Runtime, a community and publication focused on production AI engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, and the systems behind reliable AI applications. Kranthi is also an NVIDIA Developer Champion and regularly brings together engineers and AI infrastructure teams through technical workshops, events, and conversations.

Hey! 👋 I'm Erik Hanchett, published author of Vue.js in Action (Manning) and the Ember.js Cookbook. For over a decade I've taught hundreds of thousands of developers how to ship better code, building Program With Erik into a 100,000+ subscriber YouTube channel along the way. I've keynoted frontend talks on stages across the globe, and I now bring that expertise to millions of builders as a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS.

I've been building digital products since I was 14, driven by a deep curiosity to turn ideas into tools that solve real problems. One of my first personal projects was an AI tutor I built to prepare for Greece's national exams. Using it daily helped me score in the top 0.1% nationwide without external instruction. I documented the journey in a YouTube video that's now been viewed over 70,000 times. I now work as a software engineer and DevRel at NOFire AI.