Buildkite Meetup, 6 Mar 2025: San Francisco, CA

Strategies for Efficient Scaling:
Detecting and Solving Developer Bottlenecks as you Scale

Join us for an exclusive Buildkite meetup with surprise special guests, brought to you together with Oso. Unlock developer productivity by effectively managing scale across several key areas and hear from team leaders who excel at putting plans into practice.

During this session we'll learn and discuss things like:

Early warning signs that tools/processes won't scale
How to identify bottlenecks before they become critical
Frameworks for deciding when to refactor vs replace
Real examples of scaling challenges and solutions

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Strategies for Efficient Scaling: Panel Discussion

6 March 2025

5:30pm - 8:30pm

1 Hotel

8 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA

Food and beverages provided, as well as unique swag giveaways

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Your panel for the night

Moderator

Spriha Tucker

Field CTO, Buildkite

Spriha Tucker is Field CTO at Buildkite. She previously co-founded Aviator.co (a devtools-for-monorepos company), and worked at Google on a number of developer-facing products including Search ads APIs, Android dev tools, Fuchsia OS etc. At Buildkite, she also runs the Elevator Group, an invite-only vetted community of engineering leaders who come together to exchange insights across the industry. She's passionate about bringing both technical depth and engaging discourse to conversations around dev-productivity topics.

Special guest speakers

Ben Poland

Staff Platform Engineer

Ben is a Staff Platform Engineer at Faire (ex BlackBerry), currently focused on CI/CD and Developer Productivity.

He has over 15 years of experience spanning virtual and cloud infrastructure, DevOps, DevEx, and lots more. He lives in Waterloo (Canada) with his wife, 2 sons (7 and 9), and their black shih-poo (15).

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Kunal Khanna

Head of DevOps & Edge platform

Kunal Khanna is an engineering leader with a passion for building reliable and scalable systems. He currently leads the DevOps and Edge Platform teams at IBM Watson Orders, where he focuses on AI inference deployments, observability, and CI/CD automation. Over the years, he has worked in leadership roles at MCD Tech Labs, Poynt, and Synopsys, tackling platform engineering, release automation, and large-scale distributed systems. He’s especially interested in AI safety and automation, developing frameworks for telemetry, self-healing systems, developer efficiency and effectiveness and scalable AI platforms.

Outside of work, Kunal is a proud father of two daughters (5 and 2) and loves spending time outdoors with his family. He enjoys fostering curiosity in STEM and findingthe balance between technology and life. His goal is to create systems that not only driveinnovation but also prioritize reliability and ethical considerations.

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