Oleg Šelajev
AI and Developer relations at Docker.
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Oleg Šelajev is a developer advocate at Docker working on AI,developer productivity, Testcontainers. Developer. Author. Speaker. Java Champion, Microsoft MVP, Docker captain.
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Controls All the Way Down: The Anatomy of Loops
The model wars are becoming less interesting than the loops we build around them. Most teams are no longer asking whether a model can write code, call tools, or inspect a repo. They are asking a more uncomfortable question: what exactly is allowed to happen while the agent is doing that?
Today, many organizations treat AI control as a checkpoint at the end of the workflow: review the pull request, approve the deployment, inspect the output. That misses the real risk. An agent can leak secrets, mutate state, burn tokens, call the wrong API, or destroy a workspace long before a human sees the final result.
This talk breaks down agentic systems as nested control loops: model, tool, environment, workflow, and organization. For each loop, we’ll map the risks, the controls that actually work there, and the controls that only create a comforting illusion. Environment isolation, tool permissions, audit trails, cost policies, human approval, and sandboxing all matter, but they matter at different layers.
The goal is to give engineering leaders and platform teams a shared language for agent governance. Instead of asking “is this agent safe?”, we’ll ask better questions: which loop owns this risk, where is the enforcement point, what happens when the agent ignores the happy path, and how quickly can we recover?
Attendees will leave with a practical taxonomy for evaluating their own agent systems and a map of where their current controls sit versus where the actual risk lives.
Safety, speed, and governance in the agentic era
Letting an AI agent loose for solving development tasks is a productivity dream, until it decides to optimize your home directory, brick your system, or exfiltrate your private API keys. We want that YOLO mode speed, but developer laptops are treasure troves of credentials that represent massive security nightmares.
In this session, we’ll look at Docker Sandboxes: a new isolation primitive designed to let agents operate in a secure local cocoon with restricted filesystems and virtualized credentials. But host isolation is only half the battle. We’ll dive into the typical mess AI agents create, see why basic sandbox boundaries aren't enough to stop application-level data leaks, and walk through a multi-layered security workflow combining local sandboxing with tool-level governance and policy controls for running agents that you can actually trust.
You're absolutely right, it was your home directory!
Letting an AI agent loose for solving development tasks is a productivity dream, until it decides to optimise your home directory or brick your system by upgrading Python. We want that YOLO mode speed, but without the security nightmares. In this session, we’ll look at Docker Sandboxes: a new primitive designed to let agents operate in a restricted cocoon with limited access to the filesystem and controlled network and secret injections. We’ll dive into the typical mess AI agents create, see why basic isolation isn't enough, and walk through a workflow for running agents that you can actually trust.
Building AI workflows: from local experiments to serving users
Everyone can throw together an LLM, some MCP tools, and a chat interface, and get an AI assistant we could only dream of a few years back. Add some “business logic” prompts, and you get an AI workflow; hopefully a helpful one.
But how do you take it from a local hack to a production application? Typically, you drown in privacy questions, juggle npx commands for MCPs, and end up debugging OAuth flows before it hopefully starts to make sense.
In this session, we show a repeatable process for turning your local AI workflow experiments into a production-ready deployment using containerized, static configurations.
Whether you prefer chat interfaces or replace them with application UIs, you’ll leave with solid ideas for going from a cool demo to real applications without the existential dread of DevOps.
Ignore All Previous Instructions, But Like For Real
Have you ever dreamt of AI that is truly yours? Not the crude "let me stuff some details into the context of gpt-X and hope it works out", but truly having a model that is specific to problems you want to solve?
Realistically though, you won't be training half-a-trillion parameter models, and smaller ones which you can wrangle locally lack quite the je ne sais quoi of general intelligence.
The solution, of course, is fine-tuning! Which, if you're an application developer, looks scary and smells like Python and years spent on Ph.D in machine learning.
Let's make it more approachable! This session will demystify the world of fine-tuning, transforming it from a scary machine learning discipline into a practical application development tool.
We will cut through the jargon to make you less likely to start daydreaming about Spring Boot when someone mentions pokemon sounding machine learning words like LoRa or Unsloth.
You'll learn how to leverage tools developers use every day to fine-tune small, high-performance models, for example Gemma 3n, for custom tasks. And leave with the courage and concrete knowledge to start adapting LLMs' behavior to your problems at hand.
Your GPU misses pixels: 3D world-building with OSS
I got a mini drone for Christmas and, boy, did that open a rabbit hole. It turns out your GPU is capable of a lot more than just predicting the next word in a chat...
In this session, I’m going to show you how to take a collection of photos and turn them into a high-fidelity 3D models. We’re going to dive into what Structure from Motion and Gaussian Splatting are and how they work. We’ll look at a complete open-source pipeline: from the initial analysis and training to actually editing the rendered models.
If you feel like you have to touch the grass sometimes and want to do it in style, grab any device with a camera and come join me on this journey into the 3D world.
Securing AI agents
As AI agents become an increasingly integral part of modern application architectures, they unlock new capabilities and present new challenges related to security, trust, and governance. How can we secure these autonomous agents? How can we enforce policy and oversight without slowing down innovation?
Join me in exploring how engineering and security teams can build trust in AI and agent-based systems by reusing familiar and proven patterns from earlier eras such as microservices and containerized infrastructure.
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