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QCon San Francisco 2025
Nov 17–19, 2025 · Hyatt Regency San Francisco (Embarcadero), San Francisco, CA, United States
- Conference
- QCon Software engineering
- Dates
- Nov 17, 2025 – Nov 19, 2025
- Venue
- Hyatt Regency San Francisco (Embarcadero)
- Place
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 850Recap: 'Thank you to the 850+ senior software engineers, architects, and team leads'; '90+ software leaders' spoke.
- Website
- qconsf.com
- Recorded
- 31 sponsors · 98 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Conference Nov 17-19, trainings Nov 20-21, 2025. Talks from qconsf.com/schedule/nov2025.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference (3 days) (until June 10) | $2,320 | Jun 10, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| Conference (3 days) (until November 11) | $2,970 | Nov 11, 2025 | web.archive.org | |
| Conference (3 days) (after November 11) | $3,250 | — | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 31
Platinum 3
Bronze 12
Startup 5
- Authentik · Start-Up
- Browserbase · Start-Up
- Pandorian · Start-Up
- Parseable · Start-Up
- Valkey · Start-Up
Speakers and talks 98
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akshat Vig | MongoDB | Keynote | Open Source, Community, and Consequence: The Story of MongoDB | — |
| Andrew Davidson | MongoDB | Keynote | Open Source, Community, and Consequence: The Story of MongoDB | — |
| Dan Fike | Carta | Keynote | Hidden Decisions You Don’t Know You’re Making | — |
| Michelle Brush | Keynote | Humans in the Loop: Engineering Leadership in a Chaotic Industry | — | |
| Nicole Forsgren | — | Keynote | From Friction to Flow: How Great DevEx Makes Everything Awesome | — |
| Shawna Martell | Imprint | Keynote | Hidden Decisions You Don’t Know You’re Making | — |
| Aaron Erickson | NVIDIA | Speaker | Designing AI Platforms for Reliability: Tools for Certainty, Agents for Discovery | — |
| Adam Wolff | Anthropic | Speaker | Engineering at AI Speed: Lessons from the First Agentically Accelerated Software Project | — |
| Adrian Cockcroft | OrionX.net | Speaker | Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit | — |
| Aiyesha Ma | Nureon | Speaker | Beyond the Build: Early-Stage Mindset for the Everything Engineer | — |
| Akshat Goel | DoorDash | Speaker | Write-Ahead Intent Log: A Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale | — |
| Alex Nikulkov | Meta | Speaker | Improving Meta Generative Ad Text using Reinforcement Learning | — |
| Amit Navindgi | Zoox | Speaker | Accelerating LLM-Driven Developer Productivity at Zoox | — |
| Anand Kumar Sankaran | Workday | Speaker | A Day in the Life of a Senior Engineer: Navigating Context with AI | — |
| Andi Partovi | Veris | Speaker | From Content to Agents: Scaling LLM Post-Training Through Real-World Applications and Simulation | — |
| Anirban Chatterjee | Sonar | Speaker | Uncovering the Coding Personalities of Leading LLMs | — |
| Anirudh Mendiratta | Netflix | Speaker | Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix | — |
| Argha C | Netflix | Speaker | How Netflix Shapes our Fleet for Efficiency and Reliability | — |
| Balakrishnan (Bala) Ramdoss | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Designing Fast, Delightful UX With LLMs for Mobile Frontends | — |
| Ben Greene | Tessi | Speaker | The Future of Engineering: Mindsets That Matter When Code Isn’t Enough | — |
| Benjamin Fedorka | Netflix | Speaker | Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix | — |
| Bhavuk Jain | Speaker | Engineering AI for Creativity and Curiosity on Mobile | — | |
| Bishwajeet Paul | JPMorgan Chase | Speaker | Secure Software Supply Chain: Risk Prediction at the Speed of Development | — |
| Brad Grantham | LunarG | Speaker | Turning Outward: Growing From Code to Influence | — |
| Brad Grantham | LunarG | Panelist | Panel: The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership | — |
| Brian Martin | IOP Systems | Speaker | Instrumentation at Scale: Having Your Performance Cake and Eating It Too | — |
| Casey Bleifer | Netflix | Speaker | Confidently Automating Changes Across a Diverse Fleet | — |
| Chad Schuster | Milliman | Speaker | Python, Numba, and Algorithm Design: Building Efficient Models in Financial Services | — |
| Chris Kelly | Harness | Speaker | Vibes Won't Cut It: Agentic Engineering in Production | — |
| Chris Richardson | — | Speaker | Microservices Platforms: When Team Topologies Meets Microservices Patterns | — |
| Cindy Zhang | Meta | Speaker | Building and Scaling UI Systems for Internal Tools at Meta | — |
| Dany Lepage | Lucky VR | Speaker | From VR to Flat Screens: Bridging the Input and Immersion Gap | — |
| David Gudeman | Velocity Technology Solutions | Speaker | Maximizing Success with Limited Time, Resources, and Energy: Lessons from Startup Engineering | — |
| Dennis Pilarinos | Unblocked | Speaker | AI won't fix Developer Productivity (Unless you fix Context First) | — |
| Dhruva Juloori | Uber | Speaker | Keeping the Mainline Green Across Diverse Language Monorepos | — |
| Dumanshu Goyal | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | From ms to µs: OSS Valkey Architecture Patterns for Modern AI | — |
| Eran Stiller | Cartesian | Speaker | Beyond Code: Building a Personal Brand To Boost Your Career | — |
| Faye Zhang | Speaker | From Content to Agents: Scaling LLM Post-Training Through Real-World Applications and Simulation | — | |
| Frank Yu | Coinbase | Speaker | How to Build an Exchange | — |
| Gonzalo (Glo) Maldonado | Sanscourier | Speaker | From Staff Platform Engineer to a 16z Founder: What I Wish I'd Known | — |
| Haven King | Orkes | Speaker | Building Trustworthy Agentic Systems with Workflow Orchestration | — |
| Ian Nowland | Junction Labs | Speaker | Continuous Delivery for Foundational Platforms | — |
| J. Paul Reed | Chime | Speaker | The Ironies of A^2 I^2 | — |
| James Arthur | ElectricSQL | Speaker | Why Fetch When You Can Sync? Building Local-First Apps on a Sync Engine Architecture | — |
| Jeremy Edberg | DBOS | Speaker | Compiling Workflows into Databases: The Architecture That Shouldn't Work (But Does) | — |
| Jimmy Morzaria | Stripe | Speaker | Stripe’s Docdb: How Zero-Downtime Data Movement Powers Trillion-Dollar Payment Processing | — |
| Joe Cassavaugh | Puzzles By Joe | Speaker | A Solopreneur's Journey: From Engineer to Puzzle Master and Storyteller | — |
| Joe Cassavaugh | Puzzles By Joe | Panelist | Panel: The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership | — |
| Joe Houghes | Pure Storage | Speaker | Stop Scaling Problems; Start Scaling Sustainability: The High Performance & Efficient Enterprise Data Cloud. | — |
| Joseph Lynch | Netflix | Speaker | How Netflix Shapes our Fleet for Efficiency and Reliability | — |
| Joseph Stein | SS&C Technologies | Speaker | Realtime and Batch Processing of GPU Workloads | — |
| Jyothi Nookula | DataRobot | Speaker | AI-Driven Productivity: From Idea to Impact | — |
| Karthik Ranganathan | Yugabyte | Speaker | Beyond Vector Search: Building Ultra-Resilient AI with Distributed SQL | — |
| Kasia Trapszo | Netflix | Speaker | Beyond Coding: How Senior ICs Grow Influence and Drive Impact | — |
| Kasia Trapszo | Netflix | Panelist | Panel: The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership | — |
| Ken Kurzweil | Netflix | Speaker | Accelerating Netflix Data: A Cross-Team Journey from Offline to Online | — |
| Kyle Lexmond | Meta | Speaker | The Human Toll of Incidents & Ways To Mitigate It | — |
| Leo Sanches | Snowplow | Speaker | From Events to Actions: Building Apps That Respond to Users Instantly | — |
| Lily Mara | Discord | Speaker | Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust Into Existing Codebase | — |
| Luca Mezzalira | — | Speaker | Lessons Learned in Migrating to Micro-Frontends | — |
| Madelyn Olson | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | When Every Bit Counts: How Valkey Rebuilt Its Hashtable for Modern Hardware | — |
| Mark Heckler | Moderne | Speaker | Make Mechanical Advantage YOUR Advantage: How to Modernize and Futureproof Your Code with OpenRewrite | — |
| Matthew Liste | American Express | Speaker | Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure | — |
| Merrin Kurian | Intuit | Speaker | Powering the Future: Building Your GenAI Infrastructure Stack | — |
| Meryem Arik | Doubleword | Speaker | Producing the World's Cheapest Tokens: A How-to Guide | — |
| Molly Struve | Netflix | Speaker | Week-Long Outage: Lifelong Lessons | — |
| Murat Demirbas | MongoDB | Speaker | Parting the Clouds: The Rise of Disaggregated Systems | — |
| Natalie Somersall | Chainguard | Speaker | Building Zero-CVE Container Images at Scale: Patterns and Pitfalls | — |
| Nick DiStefano | Uber | Speaker | Migrating Uber Eats Feeds to Webview | — |
| Nishant Lakshmikanth | Speaker | Modernizing Relevance at Scale: LinkedIn’s Migration Journey to Serve Billions of Users | — | |
| Paul Klein | Browserbase | Speaker | Automating the Web With MCP: Infra That Doesn’t Break | — |
| Pauline Jepp | TicketSwap | Panelist | Panel: The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership | — |
| Pauline Jepp | TicketSwap | Speaker | Lead Without a Ladder: How I Climbed Into Engineering Leadership | — |
| Prabhat Sharma | OpenObserve | Speaker | Building a Supercluster: What We Learned When We Hit Cloud Provider Limits | — |
| Pradeep Muthukrishnan | DoorDash | Speaker | Dynamic Moments: Weaving LLMs into Deep Personalization at DoorDash | — |
| Pratik Patel | Azul | Speaker | AI Native Architecture for Java Applications | — |
| Qian Li | DBOS | Speaker | Compiling Workflows into Databases: The Architecture That Shouldn't Work (But Does) | — |
| Rajasekhar Ummadisetty | Netflix | Speaker | Accelerating Netflix Data: A Cross-Team Journey from Offline to Online | — |
| Randy Shoup | Thrive Market | Speaker | Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity | — |
| Ruth Linehan | Momento | Speaker | The Rust High Performance Talk You Did Not Expect | — |
| Sean Klein | Microsoft | Speaker | The Time it Wasn't DNS | — |
| Sean O'Dell | Dynatrace | Speaker | Shift Left with Observability and AI Driven Development | — |
| Sepehr Khosravi | Coinbase | Speaker | Choosing Your AI Copilot: Maximizing Developer Productivity | — |
| Shawn Liu | Netflix | Speaker | Architecting a Centralized Platform for Data Deletion at Netflix | — |
| Sonya Natanzon | — | Speaker | Monolith Down: Cleaning Up After the Great Identity Migration Disaster | — |
| Spencer Judge | Temporal | Speaker | Rust at the Core - Accelerating Polyglot SDK Development | — |
| Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Trustworthy Productivity: Securing AI-Accelerated Development | — |
| Steef-Jan Wiggers | VGZ | InfoQ | Speaker | Beyond Code: Building a Personal Brand To Boost Your Career | — |
| Sterling Chin | Postman | Speaker | Building Agentic Workflows with MCP (AI Engineering that Delivers) | — |
| Sudeep Das | DoorDash | Speaker | Dynamic Moments: Weaving LLMs into Deep Personalization at DoorDash | — |
| Trisha Ballakur | Pointz | Speaker | From Founding Engineer to CTO to CEO – At the Same Startup | — |
| Tyler Jewell | AKKA | Speaker | The Future of Agentic AI: Architecting the Global Control Plane | — |
| Tyler Jewell | AKKA | Speaker | Develop and Deploy a Trustworthy Multi-Agent System (Live Demo) | — |
| Vanessa Huerta Granda | Enova | Speaker | When Incidents Refuse to End | — |
| Vidhya Arvind | Netflix | Speaker | Architecting a Centralized Platform for Data Deletion at Netflix | — |
| Vinay Chella | DoorDash | Speaker | Write-Ahead Intent Log: A Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale | — |
| Vinay Perneti | Augment Code | Speaker | A Day in the Life of a Senior Engineer: Navigating Context with AI | — |
| Yao Yue | IOP Systems | Speaker | Beyond Line Charts: Why Some Diversity in Telemetry Visualization Is Long Overdue | — |