Vladi Stevanovic
Head of Content at Maximize
Vicenza, Italy
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Vladi is a developer marketing and content leader with over a decade of experience turning complex technical products into content that drives awareness, adoption, and growth. Her background spans the full developer journey: from content, DevRel, community, and demand generation through product adoption and customer growth, at Multiplayer, Prisma, MongoDB, and Squarespace.
Across roles Vladi has worked at the intersection of technical content, developer relations, community, and growth. She has built content programs from the ground up, led developer and customer growth initiatives, shaped positioning and company narratives alongside founders, and created technical thought leadership published in The New Stack, LeadDev, and DZone.
At Maximize, Vladi leads the content practice across its portfolio, combining technical storytelling with distribution, SEO/AEO, community, and developer relations.
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The Swiss cheese fix: why PR quality needs layers
PRs sitting unreviewed for days. Reviewers skimming 500-line diffs. Rubber-stamp approvals on changes nobody fully understood. Most engineering teams quietly accepted that PR reviews were a known weak point as the cost of moving fast.
Then AI coding agents arrived and made it unsustainable, flooding review queues with high-volume, low-quality PRs.
The fix isn't a single solution. It's layers.
This talk introduces the Swiss cheese model as a framework for thinking about PR quality: stack enough imperfect defensive layers and you get a system more reliable than any individual component. The emerging layers (spec-driven development, multi-agent competition, automated verification, and giving agents the right runtime context from the start, etc.) each address a specific failure mode. None of them are mutually exclusive.
What you'll leave with: a concrete mental model for where your current review process is failing and what a layered verification system looks like.
The hidden cognitive cost of cloud-native sprawl: making (and surviving) hundreds of choices a day
Every day, cloud-native developers navigate an ecosystem that has exploded in complexity. Hundreds of tools to choose from and of configuration options, and thousands of micro-decisions daily.
This talk applies behavioral economics and cognitive psychology to explain why making technical choices is so mentally exhausting and what we can do about it.
You'll learn the science behind decision fatigue, how cognitive biases shape our architecture decisions, and practical strategies to reduce the cognitive load on your teams.
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Vladi Stevanovic
Head of Content at Maximize
Vicenza, Italy
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