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Kiah Imani

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

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Startups
  • starting a career in tech
  • 💼 Marketing & business skills targeted at indie developers or startups
  • Cloud & DevOps
  • Cloud Security
  • Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Security & Compliance
  • agile culture
  • Agile and Culture
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Policy as Code
  • open source
  • open source communities
  • Developer Communities
  • Open Source Software
  • Developer Relations
  • Developer Experience
  • Developer Culture
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Developer Advocacy
  • .NET
  • Visual Studio / .NET
  • ASP.NET Core
  • ASP.NET
  • .net core
  • identity & authentication
  • Security
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Identity
  • Incident Response
  • Diversity in Technology
  • chaos engineering
  • React

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.

Orlando Code Camp 2025 Sessionize Event

April 2025 Sanford, Florida, United States

NDC Security 2025 Sessionize Event

January 2025 Oslo, Norway

Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2024 Sessionize Event

March 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

.NET Conf 2023 Sessionize Event

November 2023

TechBash 2023 Sessionize Event

November 2023 Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, United States

LonghornPHP

November 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

KCDC 2023 Sessionize Event

June 2023 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Atlanta Cloud Conference 2023 Sessionize Event

March 2023 Marietta, Georgia, United States

KCDC 2022 Sessionize Event

August 2022 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

ChefConf '21: Online Sessionize Event

September 2021

Kiah Imani

Developer Better-er @ LocalStack

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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