Technical Leadership

Session Startups

From Staff Platform Engineer to a 16z Founder: What I Wish I'd Known

Monday Nov 17 / 11:45AM PST

The Technical Leadership Challenge: Every successful engineering team faces the same inflection point: transforming beloved internal tools into a legitimate platform business.

Speaker image - Gonzalo (Glo) Maldonado

Gonzalo (Glo) Maldonado

CTO & Cofounder of @Mocksi.ai, Staff Platform Engineer Turned Startup Founder, Turns Developer Platforms into Products, Temporal & MCP Fanatic

Session Technical Leadership

Turning Outward: Growing From Code to Influence

Tuesday Nov 18 / 03:55PM PST

As individual contributors we sharpen our technical chops striving to improve our code and craft. But you may become aware you can do more, and could help others and the team. The path to make that shift isn’t always clear.

Speaker image - Brad Grantham

Brad Grantham

Software Architect and Team Lead @LunarG - Responsible for Cross-Platform, GPU-Independent Graphics API Capture and Replay Technologies