

Kiah Imani
Developer Better-er @ LocalStack
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Kiah is a developer who advocates and evangelizes about all things cloud at LocalStack.
She is a public speaker who regularly presents at conferences and trade shows and is a self-proclaimed opinionated knowledge seeker. Kiah also moonlights as a co-founder of canna tech startup C-Trax.
Kiah has 13 years of experience covering both engineering and business roles and prides herself on bringing a unique perspective to building products from idea to deployment and navigating product-market fit.
In her spare time, Kiah enjoys blogging about community, tech, and startups at blkgrlcto.com
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The Future DevEx is Autonomous
AI agents are no longer science fiction. They can already test, debug, and even deploy applications with minimal human intervention. This shift means developer experience (DX) is evolving beyond human-first design.
Today, DX focuses on people through onboarding docs, tutorials, and SDKs. Tomorrow, it must also focus on AI through APIs, schemas, and metadata that agents can interpret, reason about, and act upon without manual guidance.
OpenAPI, JSON Schema, and GraphQL introspection are not just conveniences for developers. They are machine-readable blueprints that AI agents can use to understand and interact with your system.
In this talk, we will explore what it means to build AI-first developer experiences, why your next developer audience may not be human, and how you can prepare your platform for a world where the best developer on your team is an agent.
Prevent Burnout in a Toxic Agile Environment
We've all been at a company that did Agile completely wrong. From stakeholders who don't understand the development process leading to unreasonable deadlines, to scrum masters who fold under the pressure of these stakeholders. If you've been a developer for a while, you've definitely experienced this.
In this session, I'll teach you some practical steps to help advocate for yourself as an engineer and prevent burnout from a toxic Agile environment.
Target audience: Software Engineers
WTH is Chaos Engineering?! A Quick Look at Breaking Things on Purpose
Why would anyone intentionally break their own systems? Welcome to chaos engineering.
In this fast-paced talk, we’ll demystify the what and why behind chaos engineering, no Netflix sized infrastructure required. You’ll learn how small experiments in failure can help you uncover blind spots, harden your systems, and sleep better at night.
We’ll look at real-world use cases, tools that make it easy to get started locally, and how to run chaos experiments without blowing up production.
If you’ve ever shipped code with fingers crossed, this talk is for you.
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Kiah Imani
Developer Better-er @ LocalStack
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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