Speakers

Kent C. Dodds is a world renowned web development educator and engineer. He’s actively involved in the open source community. He is the creator of EpicWeb.dev, EpicAI.pro, the Epic Stack, EpicReact.dev, and TestingJavaScript.com. He’s a Microsoft MVP, GitHub Star, instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters, live streamer, and podcaster. Kent is married and the father of six kids and he lives in Utah.

Marina Wyss is a Senior Applied Scientist at Twitch, where she builds production AI/ML systems. She is also the founder of a content creation and coaching company that helps people move into sustainable careers in AI/ML. Since 2022, she has coached more than 200 people into AI/ML roles. Marina came into tech from a non-technical background herself, so her teaching covers both the technical skills and the mindset that success in a demanding field actually requires.

Angie Jones is the VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI Foundation where she guides how agentic systems are designed, implemented, and adopted across the global developer ecosystem. She is an award-winning teacher and international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software companies and conferences all over the world. As a Master Inventor, Angie is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than 25 patented inventions in the areas of virtual worlds, collaboration software, social networking, smarter planet, and software development processes.

Jeremy Bailey is a software engineer focused on building practical, maintainable systems and helping teams use AI without losing engineering judgment. He works across full-stack development, cloud infrastructure, and developer workflows, with an interest in how AI can reduce friction, improve feedback loops, and make software work feel better.

His current work explores where AI fits naturally into engineering practice: not as a replacement for craftsmanship, but as a tool that can support better debugging, review, testing, and collaboration.

Victor is the creator of Nx and Polygraph, the agentic monorepo platforms.

Victor has spent 20+ years developing high-performance frameworks and build tools for large-scale applications.

Apurva Misra is a machine learning engineer, speaker, and founder of Sentick, where she helps companies build practical, production-ready AI systems, from AI agents and automation to evaluation and observability.

She holds a Master’s from the University of Waterloo, where her research focused on detecting driver cognitive distraction, with work published in IEEE Access.

Apurva is an O’Reilly instructor and international speaker on agentic AI and AI engineering. Drawing on hands-on experience building production AI systems, she focuses on taking AI from demo to production in ways that are reliable, measurable, and economically viable.

Outside of work, she is learning Spanish and enjoys discovering hidden-gem eateries. Recommendations are always welcome.

Preston Lamb is a full-stack JavaScript developer, Angular GDE, and AI-driven engineer. When he’s not coding, he loves spending time with his wife and kids—whether they’re watching movies, playing games, camping, or playing and watching sports together.

Rainer Hahnekamp is co-founder and AI Engineer at Soverius AI, and a Google Developer Expert (GDE), with fifteen years building mission-critical enterprise systems.

He specializes in local LLMs and everything it takes to run them in production – the harness and loop engineering, retrieval, and agentic systems that turn a local model into something a company can depend on, with its data and source code never leaving the building.

Rainer has an academic foundation in Unsupervised Machine Learning from the University of Vienna.

Tracy is the CEO and Chief Technologist at This Dot Labs, a consultancy focused on helping leaders achieve their most ambitious digital initiatives through technology leadership and engineering talent.

She is also a Github Star, Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP, RxJS Core Team member, and a frequent keynote speaker at conferences.

You can find her on Linkedin at /in/tracyslee, on Twitter @ladyleet or at thisdot.co

Soumya Gupta is a Tech Lead and Applied AI Engineer at Uber, where she architects and scales production-grade Generative AI and Computer Vision solutions. Her work focuses on deploying agentic orchestration, multimodal modeling, and core machine learning primitives at global scale.

Felipe Perez is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, where he builds reliable AI agents, connectors, and high-trust products. Previously, he spent more than four years at Meta working on VR, recommendations, and developer infrastructure.

Kim is the Head of Developer Relations and Founding GTM Engineer working on security for agents at Keycard. Kim’s career is rooted in Identity, software engineering, and developer experience strategy. She enjoys teaching, mentoring, and learning from folks in the product technology space and loves to travel, overland, design stickers, and craft miniatures and artisan keycaps.

Michael Hladky is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) and Nx Champion with a deep focus on web performance, scalability, and AI-powered development. As CEO of PushBased, he helps teams and organizations design streamlined architectures, build blazing-fast applications, and establish modern, secure, and highly productive development environments.

With years of experience as an enterprise consultant and trainer, Michael is passionate about empowering developers through practical expertise and high-impact solutions. A dedicated community contributor, he speaks at international conferences, leads workshops, and organizes events to support and inspire fellow developers.