Linda Haviv is a Staff Developer Advocate at Anyscale and founder of CodingCrystals.com, best known for her wildly nonlinear path from philosophy major and professional singer to site reliability engineer and AI infrastructure advocate. After graduating summa cum laude as Baruch College's salutatorian, teaching herself to code at The Flatiron School, and spending years as a JavaScript developer and SRE at Fox Corporation, she joined AWS as a developer advocate before landing at Anyscale — the company behind Ray, the open-source distributed computing framework that powers OpenAI's ChatGPT training. She uses her platform to demystify AI infrastructure for developers everywhere, and sells STEM-inspired crystal jewelry on the side.
Shawn 'Swyx' Wang is a Singaporean-American developer, writer, and community builder who left a $350K hedge fund career to teach himself to code at 30 - then coined the term 'AI Engineer,' built one of tech's most influential AI podcasts (Latent Space), and launched the AI Engineer conference series that put 15,000 developers in rooms together to figure out what this job actually is.
Mehdi Ouazza is a Brussels-based Data Engineer and Developer Advocate at MotherDuck with 10+ years in the data space. He is the first DevRel hire at MotherDuck, a DuckDB-powered cloud analytics startup, where he grew social media by 450% and built a YouTube channel to 900K+ views. Creator of the 'Mehdio's Tech (Data) Corner' newsletter on Substack, founder of DataCreators.Club, and a prolific speaker and open-source contributor, Mehdi is known for demystifying data engineering and AI careers with humor, playfulness, and radical honesty.
Delba de Oliveira is a Staff Developer Advocate and DX Engineer at Vercel who built Next.js Docs and the Next.js Learn platform, teaching millions of developers about React and Next.js. She transitioned from medicine and customer service into engineering, famously entering tech when a colleague asked her to 'open a GitHub issue.' Known for her visually rich educational content, conference keynotes at Next.js Conf, and her hobby as a videographer, she combines technical depth with storytelling instinct - bridging complex concepts and accessible learning in the React ecosystem.
Kelsey Hightower is one of the most recognized figures in cloud-native computing - a self-taught engineer who rose from sleeping in his car to becoming a Distinguished Engineer (L9) at Google. Co-author of 'Kubernetes: Up and Running' and creator of the legendary 'Kubernetes The Hard Way' tutorial, he spent nearly a decade evangelizing Kubernetes and cloud-native practices before retiring from Google in 2023. Known for his disarming candor, human-first philosophy, and gift for making complex infrastructure accessible, Kelsey now serves as Board Director at Civo and continues to shape the future of platform engineering, AI, and open source sustainability.
Liz Fong-Jones is a Technical Fellow at Honeycomb.io, renowned SRE practitioner, co-author of 'Observability Engineering' (O'Reilly), and one of the most influential voices in the observability and platform engineering space. With 18+ years in software engineering spanning Google (11 years) and Honeycomb, she bridges deep technical expertise with fierce advocacy for labor rights, trans inclusion, and workplace equity. She led the Google Walkout Strike Fund in 2018, founded the Solidarity Fund by Coworker, and sits on the OpenTelemetry governance committee - all while speaking at every major SRE and DevOps conference on Earth.
Paul Kinlan is the Lead for Chrome and Web Platform Developer Relations at Google, where he has spent over 16 years championing the open web. From growing up watching his dad repair computers on the Wirral in North West England, to launching Google Web Fundamentals, killing the 300ms click delay, and shepherding tools like Lighthouse, Squoosh, and Workbox into developers' hands, Kinlan has been the web's tireless advocate inside one of its most influential companies. Now he is turning his lens toward AI's impact on the web through his newsletter and blog AI Focus.
Una Kravets is a Staff Developer Relations Engineer at Google Chrome, leading the UI & Tooling DevRel team. She is one of the most influential voices in modern CSS and web standards, having championed features like container queries, anchor positioning, scroll-driven animations, and customizable select menus. A prolific speaker at 80+ conferences worldwide, co-host of The CSS Podcast, and creator of CSSgram, Una bridges the gap between browser engineering and the developer community with a mission to make the web platform better for everyone.