AI and Engineering Productivity: Debating the Headlines
Rafe Colburn
Chief Product and Technology Officer @ Etsy
Jesse Adametz
Sr. Director of Engineering, Platform Engineering @ Twilio
Eirini Kalliamvakou
Research Advisor @ GitHub
Collin Green
Senior Staff UX Researcher @ Google
Brian Houck
Sr Principal Applied Scientist @ Microsoft
Abstract
Attendees will hear different perspectives on AI measurement, governance, and the shape of teams in the future.
About the panelists
Rafe Colburn
Chief Product and Technology Officer
Rafe Colburn is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Etsy. Previously, Rafe served as Chief Product and Technology Officer at Depop, where he was responsible for driving the vision for Depop's end-to-end user experience while building a high performing product organization. Previous to Depop, Rafe served as Vice President of Engineering at Etsy and was responsible for Etsy's Ads, Fulfilment, Seller Experience, Marketing Technology, and Landing Experience teams. He has authored numerous articles, papers, and books on Web development.
Jesse Adametz
Sr. Director of Engineering, Platform Engineering
Jesse is the Senior Director of Engineering for Developer Platform at Twilio. Previously, Jesse led Infrastructure Engineering at Segment — a market leading customer data platform (CDP), that helps you collect, clean, and activate your customer data, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) at Invoca — a leader in Conversation Intelligence, and pioneered the Data Engineering function at Graphiq — a Knowledge Graph of over 25 billion curated relations, acquired by Amazon in 2017 to power Alexa. Jesse is deeply passionate about fostering DevOps as a culture and practice for teams to grow themselves into high-performing service owners, who can deliver reliable, scalable, and secure products to their customers. He is a strong advocate of continuous improvement, sustainable engineering practices, and building diverse teams.
Eirini Kalliamvakou
Research Advisor
Dr. Eirini Kalliamvakou is a Research Advisor at GitHub, and leads research that deciphers developers' motivations, needs, behavior, and how tools support them. Her insights shape product thinking, strategic storytelling, and leadership decisions across the company. Eirini often speaks about developer productivity, happiness, and the impact of AI on individuals, teams, and organizations.
Collin Green
Senior Staff UX Researcher
Collin Green is the user experience research lead for the DevIntel team at Google. Trained in cognitive psychology, he has done HCI and UX research in aerospace, medicine, consumer products, and software engineering. Collin's team seeks to understand the experience and productivity of engineers and other knowledge workers at Google using surveys, behavioral research, qualitative investigations, and quantitative analysis. Collin co-edits the column "Developer Productivity for Humans" in IEEE Software magazine.
Brian Houck
Sr Principal Applied Scientist
Brian Houck is an Applied Scientist on Microsoft's Engineering Thrive team. His work combines large-scale telemetry analysis, field experiments, surveys, and qualitative research to uncover the technical, cultural, environmental, and organizational factors that shape developer productivity and wellbeing. He is best known for his work on the SPACE framework for developer productivity and for his work measuring and improving developer experience in large engineering organizations.
