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.

WTH Happens When You Deploy to Kubernetes on AWS? A Visual Deep Dive

Deploying to Kubernetes on AWS can feel like a black box. You apply a manifest, resources spin up, and your application becomes reachable. But most devs never see what actually happens between that command and a live app.

This talk provides a clear, visual walkthrough of the full lifecycle of a Kubernetes deployment on AWS. We’ll trace what happens from the moment you run `kubectl apply`, to how the EKS control plane schedules pods, how worker nodes run your containers, how AWS load balancers are provisioned, and how traffic flows from the internet to your app.

This talk isn't about theory. It's about building a real mental model of how K8s and AWS work together behind the scenes. You will learn how core Kubernetes concepts map to AWS infrastructure and where to look when deployments fail or behave unexpectedly.

This talk is for developers and engineers who use K8s on AWS, or plan to, and want to move beyond treating it as magic. By the end, you will understand the architecture, components, and request flow well enough to debug issues confidently and design more reliable systems.

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.