DevFlow Conf 2027

Samuel leads engineering at Pathfinder Robotics, where models plan and humans still hold the stop button.

Tobias maintains three open-source agent libraries and one very long changelog. He cares about docs more than demos.

Sofia manages two platform teams and treats developer experience as a reliability concern.

Kwame works on inference runtimes and open-model deployment on hardware that was never meant for it.

Mei-Lin is a founding engineer at Tessellate, building structured-output tooling for teams who need model responses to be parseable on the first try.

Diego works on evaluation tooling and spends most of his week arguing that a benchmark you cannot reproduce is a rumour.

Marcus Okafor is a Staff Developer Advocate at Cloudreach Labs focused on AI agents in production. He writes the newsletter 'Agents Weekly' and co-organizes the SF AI Tinkerers meetup.

Amara builds retrieval systems that survive contact with real users. She has spent eight years on search infrastructure and now leads the applied AI group at Northwind Labs.

Grace designs and ships AI features end to end, and has opinions about streaming interfaces that she will share at length.

Priya Raman is a Principal Engineer at Latticework Systems where she leads the build-tooling platform team. She previously maintained the open-source task runner 'gantry' and has spoken at over a dozen developer conferences on build systems, CI reliability, and developer productivity metrics. SBEK-PORTAL-BIO-01

Priya runs the platform team at Lumen Systems, where she is responsible for the inference tier that everything else quietly depends on.

Yuki bridges research and product, mostly by writing the harness nobody else wants to write.

Elena has migrated four companies from notebooks to production and has strong opinions about which parts of that journey are optional.

Jonas has been on call for GPU fleets since before it was fashionable. He writes about scheduling, spot capacity and the true cost of a token.