top of page


Justin Kaeser: Taming the Beast - Better Bazel in IntelliJ.
Like this conference, over time Justin Kaeser has moved from Scala to Scale. Previously focusing on build tool support in the IntelliJ...


Leah McGuire: LLMs, what are they good for?
Leah has spent the last two decades working on information representation, processing, and modeling. She started her career as a...


Jeff Xu: Harnessing the Power of Dual Query Engines.
Jeff Xu is an accomplished veteran engineer specializing in enterprise big data software. With a passion for cutting-edge technologies...


Dean Wampler: Open Source Science vs. Open Source Software: What's Different? What's the Same?
Dean Wampler (Mastodon: @deanwampler) is an expert in AI/ML systems. He is the Engineering Directory for watsonx Platform Engineering at...


Stewart Stewart: Puzzles and Problem Solving with Scala Tooling
Stewart Stewart is a puzzle enthusiast, software engineer, hobby collector, bookworm, and wanderer with a love for intellectual...


Julien Le Dem: Ten years of building open source standards: From Parquet to Arrow to OpenLineage
Julien Le Dem is the Chief Architect of Astronomer and Co-Founder of Datakin. He co-created Apache Parquet and is involved in several...


Lei Gao: Harnessing the Power of Dual Query Engines.
Lei Gao is a seasoned Engineering Leader with a strong background in Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, and Machine Learning...


Ofer Mendelevitch: Why do LLMs hallucinate?
Ofer Mendelevitch is a data scientist and machine learning engineer. He holds a B.Sc. in computer science from Technion and M.Sc. in EE...


Paul Chiusano: Typed and compositional microservices in Unison
Paul Chiusano is co-creator of the Unison language and coauthor of Functional Programming in Scala. Typed and compositional microservices...


Shadaj Laddad: Hydro: A Stack for Faster Streaming Applications
Shadaj Laddad is a second-year PhD student co-advised by Alvin Cheung and Joe Hellerstein in the Sky Computing Lab at UC Berkeley, where...


Ryan Orendorff: Building private and secure applications...
Ryan Orendorff is a research engineer designing a compiler for fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) to make encrypted data processing...


Avi Press: Why Haskell is a Terrible Choice for Startups (And Why We Picked It Anyway)
Avi Press is a developer tool author, functional programming language enthusiast, and founder/CEO of Scarf. Avi loves thinking about and...


Bassem Yacoube: Using LangChain and LlamaIndex to customize LLMs on structured and unstructured data
Bassem Yacoube is a Lead AI/ML Solutions Architect with over 20 years of experience in the technology field (currently at OctoML.AI). He...


RJ Nowling: Streaming Feature Extraction for a ML Pipeline using Memphis.dev and Bytewax
RJ Nowling is a developer advocate at Memphis.dev and an associate professor of Computer Science at the Milwaukee School of Engineering....


Kerim Satirli: Gaming at Scale: What we learned from building our own multiplayer environment
Kerim Satirli is a senior developer advocate at HashiCorp, where he coaches operators and developers on sustainable infrastructure and...


Pete Hunt:Your Pipeline as a Function:applying functional programming principles to data engineering
Pete Hunt is CEO at Elementl, Inc. Previously: cofounder of the React.js project at Facebook, cofounder and CEO of Smyte (sold to...


Tikhon Jelvis: Better Code Design with Types and Concepts
Tikhon Jelvis is a software engineer who specializes in bringing ideas from programming languages and functional programming to machine...


Jonas Mueller: Keys to Data-Centric AI: Asking AI to Improve its own Dataset
Jonas Mueller is Chief Scientist and Co-Founder at Cleanlab, a company providing data-centric AI software to improve datasets via...


Sherin Thomas: Recipe for Building a Discoverable and Governed Data Platform.
Sherin Thomas is a Software Engineer with over 12 years of experience at companies like Google, Twitter, Lyft, Netflix, Chime. She works...


Dr. Ivan Perez: Open Source in Space: Challenges Developing and Adopting Open Source Tools for Aeros
Dr. Ivan Perez is a senior research scientist at KBR @ NASA Ames Research Center, and has been a member of the NASA Formal Methods Group...
bottom of page