Geoffrey will share his philosophy of DevX, what matters and what you need to focus on to bootstrap DevX.

Geoffrey Teale has been programming for 40 years, a professional software engineer for 25 years and DevXer since 2017.  Despite his best efforts, he probably learned something along the way.

Let’s delve into the nuanced world of developer experience in observability. We'll explore key elements of developer experience for observability and share insights into what is key to enable any developer to detect and resolve errors before they become problems.

Seamless integration, clean UI/UX, Following standards, intuitive SDKs, and striking the right balance between observability and performance. A deep dive into how these factors shape the developer journey. Join me for a candid conversation that goes beyond the surface of developer experience and gets deeper into what makes a difference.

Some of the finest leaders are the ones who remember what it was like to work their way up from the bottom or who can foresee themselves in other positions.

As corporations are being taken over, we have seen a shift in how companies function on a human level. In this session, you’ll learn how to use empathy driven development as your superpower to become a better engineer.

The talk would start by demystifying the myths, followed by how to embed empathy in your engineering practices. We'll focus on how developer empathy plays a major role in every stage of your career, be that as a mentee or a mentor, a junior or a senior engineer, etc.

This talk is going to be beneficial for everyone, no matter the experience level. From junior engineers to seniors, community members, managers, etc. This talk is suited for all the technology teams, enterprise leadership, or open source communities as they will learn how to elevate their work with developer empathy, in every field.

Empathy is the root of open source and communities. It's what makes us human and builds a thriving culture. This talk will benefit the ecosystem as we'll learn how to implement the highly overlooked developer empathy practices in our day to day lives along with some of the mistakes to avoid.