DeveloperWeek 2025

DeveloperWeek 2025

2:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP: Embracing Rust for Java and TypeScript Developers

Tuesday February 11, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST

DeveloperWeek PRO Stage

Ramnivas Laddad, Exograph, Co-founder

Rust has been the most loved programming language for the past eight years, as highlighted by StackOverflow's developer survey. Its acclaim is backed by adoption from tech giants like Microsoft, Google, and Meta. Rust's blend of expressiveness, performance, safety, and fearless concurrency makes it ideal for multi-core CPUs. Additionally, Rust's ability to compile into WebAssembly enables seamless execution in browsers and edge computing environments.

Mastering Rust can be challenging, especially for developers with a background in non-system languages. Adopting Rust with the right mindset and suitable projects is crucial for a smooth transition and successful implementation.

In this talk, we will explore Rust's core principles and provide practical guidance for developers experienced in Java, TypeScript, and like languages. We will highlight projects where Rust excels, offering high value with minimal risk.

Speakers

Ramnivas Laddad

Co-founder, Exograph

Ramnivas leads the development of Exograph, a declarative approach to backends written in Rust. He has led innovation in Spring Framework and Cloud Foundry since their beginning. Ramnivas is the author of AspectJ in Action, the best-selling book on aspect-oriented programming lauded... Read More →

Tuesday February 11, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
DeveloperWeek PRO Stage

Session Type PRO Workshop Day (Tues)
Conferences OpsWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP: GitHub Actions: Make Them Work for You! LIMITED

Tuesday February 11, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST

DevExec World Stage

Eleftherios Chrysochoidis, Chubb, Lead API Software Engineer

GitHub Actions offer robust and free CI/CD capabilities to streamline your development process. In this presentation, we'll dive into the core components of GitHub Actions and explore how they can be set to work for you by demonstrating various simple and advanced use cases!

GitHub Actions is an ideal tool for any project hosted on GitHub. It provides CI/CD features out of the box and is accessible to everyone without the need for extra infrastructure or setup. The declarative way of creating Actions makes their usage really easy, and its remarkable free layer provides sufficient limits even for big projects.

Especially for Open Source projects, where usually there is more than a single contributor, the need for CI/CD is huge. What will happen if you own an open source project and someone creates a Pull Request with really nice features but adds Security risks in the project (e.g. due to deprecated dependencies) or if they break some of the existing functionality? Would you be able to check all of them on your own? Maybe yes, but it would take much more time compared to having them all checked automatically by utilizing GitHub Actions.

Join me to explore how to make GitHub Actions run faster by utilizing caching mechanisms, build Reports for Testing, Coverage and Security issues and integrate them with any open Pull Request in the community, to have an automated evaluation of the suggested PR and get notifications for them.

Speakers

Eleftherios Chrysochoidis

Lead API Software Engineer, Chubb

Experienced Lead Software Engineer with Passion for Community EngagementWith over six years of experience in software engineering, building and maintaining robust applications, Eleftherios (or simply Lefteris) gained a deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot technologies.His passion... Read More →

Tuesday February 11, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
DevExec World Stage

Tracks & Topics DevOps, DevOps Certificate, Open Source Strategy
Session Type PRO Workshop Day (Tues)
Conferences OpsWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

3:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP: Bolster Your Bug Bounty – Code Search & Variant Analysis Techniques LIMITED

Tuesday February 11, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm PST

DeveloperWeek PRO Stage

Milan Williams, Semgrep, Senior Product Manager
Austin Theriault, Semgrep, Software Engineer

With so many repositories, organizations can struggle to locate and remediate recurring insecure code patterns. In this talk, you will understand the fundamentals of bug bounty programs, their importance, and common inefficiencies. Attendees will learn how to perform variant analysis, refine searches to reduce false positives and find vulnerabilities quickly. By leveraging these techniques, security teams can identify and reuse previous findings, extending the impact of their bug bounty program and significantly reducing costs. This technical session also provides a detailed architectural overview of building an in-house code search engine, drawing from our own experience. We'll share our wins & woes through multiple iterations, lessons learned, and preferred technologies. Our session concludes with a practical end-to-end walkthrough of a sanitized bug bounty report. Join us to gain knowledge to implement these strategies and technologies in your own engineering practice.

Speakers

Austin Theriault

Software Engineer, Semgrep

Milan Williams

Senior Product Manager, Semgrep

Milan Williams is a Senior Product Manager at Semgrep, where she helps security engineers and developers work together to ship secure software. She recently graduated from Harvard University with degrees in Computer Science and Physics. In her free time, you can find her running in... Read More →

Tuesday February 11, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm PST
DeveloperWeek PRO Stage

Tracks & Topics Enterprise, DevOps
Session Type PRO Workshop Day (Tues)
Conferences OpsWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PST

OPEN Session: 5 Things You Didn’t Know Were Possible with GitHub Actions LIMITED

Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST

Jessica Deen, GitHub, Staff Developer Advocate

Unlock the full potential of GitHub Actions in this 25-minute demo with Jessica Deen, staff developer advocate at GitHub. Jessica will guide you through advanced features, such as job summaries, matrix jobs, reusable workflows, and OpenID Connect for passwordless cloud deployments. You'll also learn more about artifact attestations and explore starter workflow templates to help streamline your CI/CD processes. You'll see how these powerful tools can enhance your development workflow, boost productivity, and ensure security.

Speakers

Jessica Deen

Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub

Jessica is currently a Staff Developer Advocate at GitHub. She previously worked for AWS and Microsoft. Before that, she spent over a decade as an IT Consultant / Systems Administrator for various corporate and enterprise environments, catering to end users and IT professionals in... Read More →

Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
OpsWorld Stage

Tracks & Topics DevOps
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, OpsWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

3:00pm PST

OPEN Session: The New “Outer Loop”: Leveraging AI to Test, Review, Merge, and Deploy Code Changes

Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST

Kenneth DuMez, Graphite, Developer Relations Lead

As AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT generate code at an unprecedented rate, the “outer loop”—reviewing, testing, merging, and deploying—becomes more vital than ever. In this talk, we'll explore why increased volume of AI-generated code elevates the need for robust oversight. Studies show that up to half of AI-generated solutions contain bugs or vulnerabilities, underscoring the continued importance of human-in-the-loop reviews.

In this talk we'll take a look at how next-gen developer tools can harness AI not just for coding, but to automate large-scale tests, streamline pull requests, resolve conflicts, and reduce noise in code reviews. By building an AI-powered, end-to-end platform that fully understands the codebase, teams can accelerate velocity without sacrificing quality. Attendees will learn real-world strategies and best practices for establishing an “outer loop” that safely and efficiently deploys high volumes of AI-generated code—ensuring continuous innovation without compromising reliability. We’ll also discuss pitfalls to avoid when integrating AI into existing pipelines.

Speakers

Kenneth DuMez

Developer Relations Lead, Graphite

Kenneth DuMez is the Developer Relations Lead at Graphite, the AI developer productivity platform that helps engineers create, review, & merge pull requests, stay unblocked, and ship faster. Kenneth is currently focused on educating developers around the world about best software... Read More →

Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
OpsWorld Stage

Tracks & Topics Gen AI / LLMs, Developer Experience (DX)
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:00am PST

OPEN Session: Elevating Cloud Security with a Graph-based Approach

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST

Roy Maor, Cisco, Algorithm Team Lead

It is evident that using a graph theory-based approach to reduce cyber security risk on the cloud is a need rather than a want. Having a reliable data model and a continuous mapping of your
cloud environment to a graph database yields value in two different aspects. First, visibility – gaining a deep understanding of the environment’s cloud architecture, and second, cloud risk
management – identifying critical attack paths in the environment and mitigating the risk they present. By finding the right connections between graph algorithms to cloud security
misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, gaining brand new visibility on faulty cloud architecture and turning it into high-value context-based risk insights becomes possible.

Speakers

Roy Maor

Algorithm Team Lead, Cisco

Roy Maor is an Algorithm Team Leader at Panoptica, Cisco's cloud application security product. Roy’s team drives the development of the product's trademark cloud graph, a dynamic engine detecting cloud security threats through graph theory models and algorithms. Roy is deeply passionate... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
OpsWorld Stage

Tracks & Topics DevOps, Cloud Management Certificate, Security Certificate
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpsWorld, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:30am PST

OPEN Session: Reducing Developer Toil: Agentic AI-driven Testing

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST

Animesh Mishra, Diffblue, Senior Solutions Engineer

Developer toil is real — days, even weeks, are spent conducting manual, repetitive, time-gobbling tasks like unit testing. And while GenAI coding assistants can support developers, they repeatedly fall short in performing complex TestQA tasks without human oversight.

The problem is compounded by the shortage of experienced testers, leaving developers drowning in QA testing rather than writing and innovating application code. Reports show 75% of developers’ time is spent on tasks other than code generation, resulting in 57% of developers admitting to skipping unit tests entirely.

For companies to succeed, code must be fool proof. So how can developers ensure testing is comprehensive and done with due diligence — and at scale?

The answer lies in reinforcement learning-based autonomous AI, which can eliminate up to 95% of the time developers typically spend on test writing. In this session, you will learn how to eliminate developer toil by automating manual and tedious test operations at scale (both locally and in CI), how the right tools can autonomously write and maintain unit tests for entire Java code bases, and how to ensure your unit tests for complex code are comprehensive.

This talk is designed for dev leaders looking to push the boundaries of what’s possible in Test/QA with emerging AI technology.

Speakers

Animesh Mishra

Senior Solutions Engineer, Diffblue

Animesh Mishra is a dynamic B2B Sales Engineer with a background in both engineering and sales. Animesh excels in understanding complex AI solutions and translating them into tangible business benefits for engineering teams. He's passionate about AI and its transformative impact on... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
OpsWorld Stage

Tracks & Topics DevOps, DevOps Certificate
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpsWorld, AI DevWorld, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PST

OPEN SESSSION: History of Auth

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST

Alex Patterson, FusionAuth, Solutions Engineer

Join Alex Patterson of FusionAuth on a captivating journey through the evolution of authentication—from ancient clay seals to modern biometrics. Blending history, tech milestones, and humor, this talk explores how humanity has secured identity and access across ages, offering insights for developers, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts alike.

Speakers

Alex Patterson

Solutions Engineer, FusionAuth

Alex is a Solutions Engineer at FusionAuth, specializing in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solutions. In this role, he works closely with clients to help them implement robust, secure authentication and authorization systems.Beyond his work at FusionAuth, Alex is the... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
OpsWorld Stage

Tracks & Topics DevOps
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpsWorld, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:00pm PST

OPEN Session: Say Goodbye to Toil: Automating Cluster Upgrades

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST

Frontend World Stage

Ben Ryves, GetYourGuide, Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Maggie Slukova, GetYourGuide, Staff Site Reliability Engineer

How difficult is it to minimize the toil of cluster upgrades while increasing confidence in deploying the changes?

Even when managed, cluster upgrades are an unavoidable part of cluster maintenance, yet they can also be a source of toil, stress and outages; either when upgrading Kubernetes itself or additional cluster components. Manually testing changes in staging clusters, deploying with a high sense of uncertainty - these time consuming tasks can be mitigated with tests. Add nifty automation and cluster management efforts are reduced to a bare minimum.

Is investing in cluster tests and automation worth it? Yes! This talk shows how a team of three engineers keeps multiple clusters continuously up-to-date with minimal time investment, effort and disruptions. By leveraging the e2e-framework and Helm, everything from Istio to cluster autoscaler is tested and seamlessly managed.

Speakers

Ben Ryves

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, GetYourGuide

Ben works as an SRE at GetYourGuide, building automation and testing tooling to provision production Kubernetes clusters. His main focus is networking, security, and resource optimisation.

Maggie Slukova

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, GetYourGuide

Maggie is a backend engineer turned SRE with a background in Mathematics. Her areas of focus are Kubernetes, Istio, cluster optimisation, autoscaling and automation. She loves building things, be it software, infrastructure, furniture or games.

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
Frontend World Stage

Tracks & Topics DevOps, Platform Engineering, Open Source Strategy
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpsWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:00pm PST

OPEN Session: The Laws of UX & UI Design

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST

Andrew Peterson, MESCIUS, Technical Engagement Engineer

This presentation focuses on UX and UI design, why they are important, and how to follow the industry's best practices. We will take a closer and more precise look at these best practices so you can create an app or website that will have an advantage over the competition.

Speakers

Andrew Peterson

Technical Engagement Engineer, MESCIUS

Andrew Peterson graduated from Utah University with a bachelor’s degree in Web Design and Development. Before joining MESCIUS as a Technical Engagement Engineer, Andrew worked his way up from a Technical Support Engineer to a Junior Software Engineer at Solcius. While studying web... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
OpsWorld Stage

Tracks & Topics Developer Tools, Enterprise
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpsWorld, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PST

OPEN Session: Optimizing CI/CD pipelines for High Performance

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST

Neha Surendranath, LinkedIn, Sr. Technical Program Manager

In this technical session, we will explore advanced strategies to enhance the efficiency and reliability of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. We will also discover how implementing GitOps workflows with Argo CD and Flux can automate deployments and ensure consistency across environments. We'll also delve into advanced deployment techniques such as canary and blue-green releases to minimize downtime and reduce risk.

Speakers

Neha Surendranath

Sr. Technical Program Manager, LinkedIn

I work as a Senior Program Manager at LinkedIn, where I lead the development and enhancement of key platform features that help millions of professionals connect and find job opportunities. My role is crucial as I oversee projects like the recent update to our job recommendation algorithm... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
OpsWorld Stage

Tracks & Topics DevOps, DevOps Certificate
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpsWorld, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP: Embracing Rust for Java and TypeScript Developers

Tuesday February 18, 2025 11:00am - 11:50am PST

VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek PRO STAGE

Ramnivas Laddad, Exograph, Co-founder

Rust has been the most loved programming language for the past eight years, as highlighted by StackOverflow's developer survey. Its acclaim is backed by adoption from tech giants like Microsoft, Google, and Meta. Rust's blend of expressiveness, performance, safety, and fearless concurrency makes it ideal for multi-core CPUs. Additionally, Rust's ability to compile into WebAssembly enables seamless execution in browsers and edge computing environments.

Mastering Rust can be challenging, especially for developers with a background in non-system languages. Adopting Rust with the right mindset and suitable projects is crucial for a smooth transition and successful implementation.

In this talk, we will explore Rust's core principles and provide practical guidance for developers experienced in Java, TypeScript, and like languages. We will highlight projects where Rust excels, offering high value with minimal risk.

Speakers

Ramnivas Laddad

Co-founder, Exograph

Ramnivas leads the development of Exograph, a declarative approach to backends written in Rust. He has led innovation in Spring Framework and Cloud Foundry since their beginning. Ramnivas is the author of AspectJ in Action, the best-selling book on aspect-oriented programming lauded... Read More →

Tuesday February 18, 2025 11:00am - 11:50am PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek PRO STAGE https://app.events.ringcentral.com/events/developerweek-productworld-ai-devworld-2025/reception

Session Type PRO Workshop Day (Tues)
Conferences OpsWorld, Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

12:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP: Bolster Your Bug Bounty – Code Search & Variant Analysis Techniques

Tuesday February 18, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST

VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek PRO STAGE

Milan Williams, Semgrep, Senior Product Manager
Austin Theriault, Semgrep, Software Engineer

With so many repositories, organizations can struggle to locate and remediate recurring insecure code patterns. In this talk, you will understand the fundamentals of bug bounty programs, their importance, and common inefficiencies. Attendees will learn how to perform variant analysis, refine searches to reduce false positives and find vulnerabilities quickly. By leveraging these techniques, security teams can identify and reuse previous findings, extending the impact of their bug bounty program and significantly reducing costs. This technical session also provides a detailed architectural overview of building an in-house code search engine, drawing from our own experience. We'll share our wins & woes through multiple iterations, lessons learned, and preferred technologies. Our session concludes with a practical end-to-end walkthrough of a sanitized bug bounty report. Join us to gain knowledge to implement these strategies and technologies in your own engineering practice.

Speakers

Milan Williams

Senior Product Manager, Semgrep

Milan Williams is a Senior Product Manager at Semgrep, where she helps security engineers and developers work together to ship secure software. She recently graduated from Harvard University with degrees in Computer Science and Physics. In her free time, you can find her running in... Read More →

Austin Theriault

Software Engineer, Semgrep

Tuesday February 18, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek PRO STAGE https://app.events.ringcentral.com/events/developerweek-productworld-ai-devworld-2025/reception

Tracks & Topics Enterprise, DevOps
Session Type PRO Workshop Day (Tues)
Conferences OpsWorld, Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

9:30am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Top Overspending on the cloud with AU

Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST

VIRTUAL OpsWorld

Philip Andrews, CAST AI, Field CTO

The cost of running applications in the cloud is astronomical, and it’s only going to get more expensive given the growing number of organizations that have started running and training AI models. Did you know that, on the average, companies spend on cloud computing almost three times what they should? Why? The answer is overprovisioning of expensive resources and equates to throwing money down the drain.

The solution is simple: automation.

In this session, I will:
Explain why organizations spend on average 3x more than they should on cloud resources - the vast majority of cost waste is the result of CPUs and memory that are provisioned but not utilized
Highlight the negative impact that has on organizations
Explain how it can be avoided via automation - Monitoring and recommendations are not enough. It’s impossible for a human to optimize their cloud infrastructure in real-time. Automation is necessary and automation is cool.
Showcase a couple of examples of companies that have automated cloud resourcing and the benefits they’ve received.

Speakers

Phil Andrews

Field CTO, Cast AI

As Field CTO, Phil is responsible for working with customers to educate and encourage kubernetes best practices that lead to optimal cloud costs. With more than 15 years of experience in a wide range of positions he is able to balance resiliency, performance and cost to help customers... Read More →

Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL OpsWorld https://app.events.ringcentral.com/events/developerweek-productworld-ai-devworld-2025/reception

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual, Virtual Exclusive

9:30am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: GitHub Actions: Make Them Work for You!

Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:30am - 10:20am PST

VIRTUAL Cloud Native World

Eleftherios Chrysochoidis, Chubb, Lead API Software Engineer

GitHub Actions offer robust and free CI/CD capabilities to streamline your development process. In this presentation, we'll dive into the core components of GitHub Actions and explore how they can be set to work for you by demonstrating various simple and advanced use cases!

GitHub Actions is an ideal tool for any project hosted on GitHub. It provides CI/CD features out of the box and is accessible to everyone without the need for extra infrastructure or setup. The declarative way of creating Actions makes their usage really easy, and its remarkable free layer provides sufficient limits even for big projects.

Especially for Open Source projects, where usually there is more than a single contributor, the need for CI/CD is huge. What will happen if you own an open source project and someone creates a Pull Request with really nice features but adds Security risks in the project (e.g. due to deprecated dependencies) or if they break some of the existing functionality? Would you be able to check all of them on your own? Maybe yes, but it would take much more time compared to having them all checked automatically by utilizing GitHub Actions.

Join me to explore how to make GitHub Actions run faster by utilizing caching mechanisms, build Reports for Testing, Coverage and Security issues and integrate them with any open Pull Request in the community, to have an automated evaluation of the suggested PR and get notifications for them.

Speakers

Eleftherios Chrysochoidis

Lead API Software Engineer, Chubb

Experienced Lead Software Engineer with Passion for Community EngagementWith over six years of experience in software engineering, building and maintaining robust applications, Eleftherios (or simply Lefteris) gained a deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot technologies.His passion... Read More →

Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:30am - 10:20am PST
VIRTUAL Cloud Native World https://app.events.ringcentral.com/events/developerweek-productworld-ai-devworld-2025/reception

Tracks & Topics DevOps Certificate, Open Source Strategy
Session Type PRO Workshop Day (Tues)
Conferences Virtual, OpsWorld
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Say Goodbye to Toil: Automating Cluster Upgrades

Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST

Ben Ryves, GetYourGuide, Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Maggie Slukova, GetYourGuide, Staff Site Reliability Engineer

How difficult is it to minimize the toil of cluster upgrades while increasing confidence in deploying the changes?

Even when managed, cluster upgrades are an unavoidable part of cluster maintenance, yet they can also be a source of toil, stress and outages; either when upgrading Kubernetes itself or additional cluster components. Manually testing changes in staging clusters, deploying with a high sense of uncertainty - these time consuming tasks can be mitigated with tests. Add nifty automation and cluster management efforts are reduced to a bare minimum.

Is investing in cluster tests and automation worth it? Yes! This talk shows how a team of three engineers keeps multiple clusters continuously up-to-date with minimal time investment, effort and disruptions. By leveraging the e2e-framework and Helm, everything from Istio to cluster autoscaler is tested and seamlessly managed.

Speakers

Ben Ryves

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, GetYourGuide

Ben works as an SRE at GetYourGuide, building automation and testing tooling to provision production Kubernetes clusters. His main focus is networking, security, and resource optimisation.

Maggie Slukova

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, GetYourGuide

Maggie is a backend engineer turned SRE with a background in Mathematics. Her areas of focus are Kubernetes, Istio, cluster optimisation, autoscaling and automation. She loves building things, be it software, infrastructure, furniture or games.

Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
OpsWorld Stage

Tracks & Topics DevOps, Platform Engineering, Open Source Strategy
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpsWorld, Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

3:00pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: The New “Outer Loop”: Leveraging AI to Test, Review, Merge, and Deploy Code Changes

Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST

VIRTUAL OpsWorld

Kenneth DuMez, Graphite, Developer Relations Lead

As AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT generate code at an unprecedented rate, the “outer loop”—reviewing, testing, merging, and deploying—becomes more vital than ever. In this talk, we'll explore why increased volume of AI-generated code elevates the need for robust oversight. Studies show that up to half of AI-generated solutions contain bugs or vulnerabilities, underscoring the continued importance of human-in-the-loop reviews.

In this talk we'll take a look at how next-gen developer tools can harness AI not just for coding, but to automate large-scale tests, streamline pull requests, resolve conflicts, and reduce noise in code reviews. By building an AI-powered, end-to-end platform that fully understands the codebase, teams can accelerate velocity without sacrificing quality. Attendees will learn real-world strategies and best practices for establishing an “outer loop” that safely and efficiently deploys high volumes of AI-generated code—ensuring continuous innovation without compromising reliability. We’ll also discuss pitfalls to avoid when integrating AI into existing pipelines.

Speakers

Kenneth DuMez

Developer Relations Lead, Graphite

Kenneth DuMez is the Developer Relations Lead at Graphite, the AI developer productivity platform that helps engineers create, review, & merge pull requests, stay unblocked, and ship faster. Kenneth is currently focused on educating developers around the world about best software... Read More →

Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
VIRTUAL OpsWorld https://app.events.ringcentral.com/events/developerweek-productworld-ai-devworld-2025/reception

Tracks & Topics Gen AI / LLMs, Developer Experience (DX)
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

10:00am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Elevating Cloud Security with a Graph-based Approach

Thursday February 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST

VIRTUAL OpsWorld

Roy Maor, Cisco, Algorithm Team Lead

It is evident that using a graph theory-based approach to reduce cyber security risk on the cloud is a need rather than a want. Having a reliable data model and a continuous mapping of your
cloud environment to a graph database yields value in two different aspects. First, visibility – gaining a deep understanding of the environment’s cloud architecture, and second, cloud risk
management – identifying critical attack paths in the environment and mitigating the risk they present. By finding the right connections between graph algorithms to cloud security
misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, gaining brand new visibility on faulty cloud architecture and turning it into high-value context-based risk insights becomes possible.

Speakers

Roy Maor

Algorithm Team Lead, Cisco

Roy Maor is an Algorithm Team Leader at Panoptica, Cisco's cloud application security product. Roy’s team drives the development of the product's trademark cloud graph, a dynamic engine detecting cloud security threats through graph theory models and algorithms. Roy is deeply passionate... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL OpsWorld https://app.events.ringcentral.com/events/developerweek-productworld-ai-devworld-2025/reception

Tracks & Topics DevOps, Cloud Management Certificate, Security Certificate
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpsWorld, OPEN Session, Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

10:30am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Reducing Developer Toil: Agentic AI-driven Testing

Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST

VIRTUAL OpsWorld

Animesh Mishra, Diffblue, Senior Solutions Engineer

Developer toil is real — days, even weeks, are spent conducting manual, repetitive, time-gobbling tasks like unit testing. And while GenAI coding assistants can support developers, they repeatedly fall short in performing complex TestQA tasks without human oversight.

The problem is compounded by the shortage of experienced testers, leaving developers drowning in QA testing rather than writing and innovating application code. Reports show 75% of developers’ time is spent on tasks other than code generation, resulting in 57% of developers admitting to skipping unit tests entirely.

For companies to succeed, code must be fool proof. So how can developers ensure testing is comprehensive and done with due diligence — and at scale?

The answer lies in reinforcement learning-based autonomous AI, which can eliminate up to 95% of the time developers typically spend on test writing. In this session, you will learn how to eliminate developer toil by automating manual and tedious test operations at scale (both locally and in CI), how the right tools can autonomously write and maintain unit tests for entire Java code bases, and how to ensure your unit tests for complex code are comprehensive.

This talk is designed for dev leaders looking to push the boundaries of what’s possible in Test/QA with emerging AI technology.

Speakers

Animesh Mishra

Senior Solutions Engineer, Diffblue

Animesh Mishra is a dynamic B2B Sales Engineer with a background in both engineering and sales. Animesh excels in understanding complex AI solutions and translating them into tangible business benefits for engineering teams. He's passionate about AI and its transformative impact on... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL OpsWorld https://app.events.ringcentral.com/events/developerweek-productworld-ai-devworld-2025/reception

Tracks & Topics DevOps, DevOps Certificate
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpsWorld, AI DevWorld, OPEN Session, Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

11:00am PST

[Virtual] OPEN SESSSION: History of Auth

Thursday February 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST

VIRTUAL OpsWorld

Alex Patterson, FusionAuth, Solutions Engineer

Join Alex Patterson of FusionAuth on a captivating journey through the evolution of authentication—from ancient clay seals to modern biometrics. Blending history, tech milestones, and humor, this talk explores how humanity has secured identity and access across ages, offering insights for developers, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts alike.

Speakers

Alex Patterson

Solutions Engineer, FusionAuth

Alex is a Solutions Engineer at FusionAuth, specializing in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solutions. In this role, he works closely with clients to help them implement robust, secure authentication and authorization systems.Beyond his work at FusionAuth, Alex is the... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL OpsWorld https://app.events.ringcentral.com/events/developerweek-productworld-ai-devworld-2025/reception

Tracks & Topics DevOps
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpsWorld, OPEN Session, Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: The Laws of UX & UI Design

Thursday February 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST

VIRTUAL OpsWorld

Andrew Peterson, MESCIUS, Technical Engagement Engineer

This presentation focuses on UX and UI design, why they are important, and how to follow the industry's best practices. We will take a closer and more precise look at these best practices so you can create an app or website that will have an advantage over the competition.

Speakers

Andrew Peterson

Technical Engagement Engineer, MESCIUS

Andrew Peterson graduated from Utah University with a bachelor’s degree in Web Design and Development. Before joining MESCIUS as a Technical Engagement Engineer, Andrew worked his way up from a Technical Support Engineer to a Junior Software Engineer at Solcius. While studying web... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
VIRTUAL OpsWorld https://app.events.ringcentral.com/events/developerweek-productworld-ai-devworld-2025/reception

Tracks & Topics Developer Tools, Enterprise
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpsWorld, OPEN Session, Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual