Developer Productivity Engineering Tour: San Francisco
Join us in San Francisco at the Pinterest HQ for an afternoon focused on Developer Productivity Engineering and Developer Experience, with talks from Pinterest, Netflix, and Gradle.
Agenda
Meet leading Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) experts and turn your Developer Experience initiatives into a competitive advantage.
3:00 PM
Network
Join us for networking time before the event kicks off.
3:45 PM
Rooz M
4:00 PM
Charlie Gu
Since the popularization of LLMs in 2023, they have been adopted for a variety of tasks, such as summarization, search relevance ranking, text generation, and many more. At the core, all of these tasks are powered by the LLM and the associated prompt. We have discovered that a well-written prompt drastically improves the performance of the LLM for that specific task. During this talk, Charlie will discuss Pinterest’s journey to consolidate its prompt engineering process into a single, unified platform, covering stages from ideation and testing to production workflow. Charlie will also share how we leveraged auto-prompting techniques to further reduce human costs and enhance the quality of the prompts.
4:25 PM
Roberto P.
Aubrey C.
More details coming soon!
4:50 PM
Laurent Ploix
The CI experience can be frustrating in large projects. Changes can generate many types of build and test failures, not to mention the background flakiness. Figuring out what went wrong requires navigating several UIs and large log files. We present “failure summaries”, which dramatically reduce the time needed to understand failures.
5:15 PM
Network
Stick around to meet our speakers.
The Speakers
Speakers include expert DPE practitioners from some of the most innovative engineering organizations.
Roberto Perez Alcolea
Senior Software Engineer
Roberto is an experienced software engineer with a focus in JVM ecosystem, developer productivity and continuous delivery. He currently works at Netflix in the JVM ecosystem team, which provides the user experience for dependency management, building, packaging, and publishing JVM-based libraries and applications.
Aubrey Chipman
Senior Software Engineer
Aubrey Chipman loves to work on developer tooling/developer experience. She loves being part of a team where they can grow, support, and elevate each other to help others. She has a passion for development work and the associated coaching, influencing, and generally making ecosystems better.
Charlie Gu
Senior Engineering Manager
Charlie Gu is a dedicated data engineering professional with extensive experience in developing scalable internal tools to enhance employee productivity and the developer experience. He played a key role in developing and open-sourcing Querybook, significantly improving user experiences for Pinterest’s data users. As the Senior Manager of the Analytics Platform at Pinterest, he oversees multiple domains, including data cataloging, data analytics, internal tools platform, ML tooling, and GenAI tooling.
Laurent Ploix
Senior Product Manager
Laurent recently joined Gradle as a product manager. He joined Spotify in 2014 as a Product Manager for Continuous Integration, coinciding with the company’s rapid growth. He then led the Platform Insights team, which focused on understanding productivity through a multi-disciplinary approach combining data science, data engineering, and user research.