Speakers
Gergely Orosz
Gergely writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the #1 technology publication on Substack. Earlier, he worked at Uber, Skyscanner and Skype/Microsoft. He now researches cutting-edge software engineering approaches and industry trends at Big Tech and startups.
Gergely is the author of multiple books, including The Software Engineer’s Guidebook and Building Mobile Apps at Scale. He lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Laura Tacho
Laura Tacho is CTO at DX and co-author of the Core 4 developer productivity metrics framework. She's an experienced engineering leader and coach specialising in developer tools and distributed systems. Laura has worked with thousands of engineering leaders to improve their practices with data.
Kesha Williams
Kesha works at the intersection of AI architecture, engineering, and strategy, with more than 25 years of experience designing and delivering complex software and AI systems. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Keysoft, where she leads AI advisory, engineering, and enablement services that help organizations turn AI ambition into operational reality. An AWS Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hero, Kesha partners with enterprises and technology leaders to adopt AI responsibly, modernize engineering practices, and build AI systems developers can trust and sustain.
Santiago Valdarrama
Santiago Valdarrama is a Machine Learning Engineer with over two decades of experience building and scaling enterprise software and AI systems.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (2004) and a Master’s in Machine Learning from Georgia Tech (2019).
Santiago leads one of the most recognized online AI/ML Engineering cohorts, where he teaches thousands of engineers how to design, deploy, and monitor real-world AI/ML systems. He also consults for startups and enterprise teams, advising on AI/ML architecture, workflows, and strategies to productize models.
Over the years, Santiago has led high-profile projects for companies like Disney, NextEra Energy, Cisco, IBM, Dell, and Boston Dynamics.
His writing and technical insights reach over 600,000 developers every day.
Cole Medin
Tech leader leveraging AI to solve real business problems. Built and scaled AI solutions across multiple ventures - from custom agent architectures to enterprise RAG systems and local AI deployments.
Cole's biggest passion is teaching others how to leverage AI effectively. He runs a private AI community and a YouTube channel breaking down complex AI concepts into practical, hands-on guides and courses. His content spans both building AI agents and leveraging AI coding assistants in ways that truly scale.
Kunal Kushwaha
Kunal Kushwaha is a Senior Developer Advocate at CAST AI, where he leads developer relations in the EMEA region, focusing on cloud-native technologies and AI, helping companies modernize their infrastructure and adopt innovative solutions.
He is also the founder of WeMakeDevs, a community initiative where he mentors individuals in tech. His educational content on YouTube has been watched by millions. A passionate advocate for open source, Kunal regularly speaks at industry conferences on cloud, AI, and developer growth.
Lena Hall
Lena Hall is an expert in practical AI adoption, data engineering, cloud and pragmatic architecture, with extensive experience leading large, high-performing technical teams.
Lena is a Senior Director of Developer Relations at Akamai Technologies. She has 15+ years of deeply technical background as a solution architect, technical leader in large-scale data, analytics, machine learning, and cloud computing. Prior to Akamai, Lena worked as Head of Developer Experience, North America at Amazon Web Services and led Big Data Developer Relations at Microsoft. She is also a co-founder of Droid AI, helping people get real results from AI.
She frequently shares practical knowledge on her YouTube channel (https://youtube.com/@lena-hall) and LinkedIn (https://linkedin.com/in/lena-hall) and at industry conferences as an international keynote speaker.
Abhishek Veeramalla
Abhishek Veeramalla is a DevOps and Cloud practitioner, educator, and technical speaker known for his practical approach to modern software engineering. He works closely with developers and platform teams on building reliable, secure, and scalable cloud-native systems.
Abhishek is also the creator of a YouTube channel followed by over 500,000 subscribers, where he educates engineers worldwide on DevOps, Kubernetes, cloud computing, and emerging engineering practices. His talks focus on real-world production challenges, engineering accountability, and helping teams balance speed with quality in an era of AI-assisted development.
