DPE Summit 2024

Speakers & Sessions

In this two-day, dual-track event, DPE and DX leaders shared their best practices, success stories, and lessons learned.

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Meet the Speakers

This year’s speakers included Developer Productivity Engineering and Developer Experience experts from some of the most innovative software organizations around.

Keynote Speakers

Byron Grogan

Byron Grogan

Gen Als: Empowering the Developer Journey at Every Step

Roberto Perez Alcolea
Aubrey Chipman

Roberto Perez Alcolea & Aubrey Chipman

Netflix’s Journey to Confident Automated Changes

Karim Nakad

Karim Nakad

Productivity Beyond Dashboards

Brian Houck

Brian Houck

Launching DevEx into SPACE! Helping Engineers Thrive in the Age of AI

Ty Smith
Adam Huda

Ty Smith & Adam Huda

This Year in Uber’s AI-Driven Developer Productivity Revolution

Aida Issayeva

Aida Issayeva

Android Builds: Simple Recipes to Enhance Developer Productivity

Karthik Nagesh

Karthik Nagesh

Framework to tackle API Dependency Management in Microservices

Jendrik Johannes

Jendrik Johannes

Boosting Developer Productivity Through Better Modularity

Sergei Chernov

Sergei Chernov

Speed Up Your Maven Build x10…Before You Move to Gradle

Ameya Ketkar
Gautam Korlam

Ameya Ketkar & Gautam Korlam

How We Automated Code Maintenance and You Can Too!

Ward Bonnefond
Douglas Crossley

Ward Bonnefond & Douglas Crossley

Reducing Build Times by 50%: A Story of Tools, Data, and Persistence

Juan Marcano

Juan Marcano

DragonCrawl: Shifting Mobile Testing to the Left with AI

Rui Abreu

Rui Abreu

Moving Faster and Reducing Risk: Using LLMs in Release Deployment

Michael Yoon

Michael Yoon

Strategies for Enhancing Performance of Large-Scale CI Builds

Aurimas Liutikas

Aurimas Liutikas

Taming the Monorepo Beast: Bearable Library Releases at Scale

Inez Korczyński

Inez Korczyński

Fighting Flaky Tests at Scale

Brian Demers
Sam Snyder

Brian Demers & Sam Snyder

Maintaining Builds at Scale

Daniel Tsui
Quess Liu

Daniel Tsui & Quess Liu

How Uber Innovated on Testing to Increase Quality and Productivity

Louis Jacomet

Louis Jacomet

Harnessing Data for DevProd Decisions: A Case Study

Prince Valluri

Prince Valluri

Pursuit of Universal Ownership

Etienne Studer
Laurent Ploix

Etienne Studer & Laurent Ploix

Gaining Actionable Cross-Project Build Insights

Timothy  Haagenson
Ben Burbank

Timothy Haagenson & Ben Burbank

DX Platform & Product Management: A Perfect Match

Caterina Curti
Chris Williams

Caterina Curti & Chris Williams

A Score for Pull Request Complexity – Its Impact on Cycle Time and How We Reduced it with AI

Jason Rhoades

Jason Rhoades

Data and Analytics in Service of DPE

Hakkim Alavudeen

Hakkim Alavudeen

Mobile Developer Productivity Engineering at Europe’s Largest Online Fashion Store

Yanina Ledovaya
Olga Lvova

Yanina Ledovaya & Olga Lvova

Three Words to Remember When Working with People’s Motivation and Productivity: Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness to Others

Simon Obstbaum
Yegor Denisov-Blanch

Simon Obstbaum & Yegor Denisov-Blanch

Stanford Research: Measuring Software Engineering Productivity

Adam Mccormick

Adam Mccormick

Psychological Safety and Performance

Andrew Trenk
Kanu Tewary

Andrew Trenk & Kanu Tewary

How Google Uses Bathroom Breaks to Improve Developer Knowledge and Productivity

Rebecca Fitzhugh
Maurits Evers

Rebecca Fitzhugh & Maurits Evers

How Atlassian Delivers Actionable Productivity Insights that Empower Teams

Luke Daley
Justin Merkel

Luke Daley & Justin Merkel

Improving and Automating Build Failure Investigations Using Semantic Embeddings

Lee Faus

Lee Faus

Building Software Factories with GitLab and Gradle

2024 Sponsors

The Developer Productivity Engineering Summit is developed and hosted by Gradle Inc. and brought to you by the company and its sponsors.