January 23, 2025 3:00 - 6:00pm

DPE Tour San Francisco

651 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94107

Pinterest Headquarters

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.

January 23, 2025 3:00 - 6:00pm

DPE Tour San Francisco

651 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94107

Pinterest Headquarters

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.

ThursdayThur

Jan 23, 2025

3:00 PM

Network

Networking Time

3:45 PM

Rooz M.

Event Introduction

4:00 PM

Charlie Gu

Path to Productionizing Prompt Engineering

4:25 PM

Roberto P.

Aubrey C.

Scaling Success: Unleashing the Power of Parallelizing Testing at Netflix

4:50 PM

Laurent Ploix

Why did my build fail? Improving the troubleshooting experience with failure summaries

5:15 PM

Network

Closing Time & Networking

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.

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