Plenary Panel

Panel: software that outlives its authors

Name: Panel: software that outlives its authors
Start: 2027-05-20T17:15:00+02:00
End: 2027-05-20T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Main Hall, The Foundry Hall

Three people who inherited, maintained or retired large codebases discuss what makes a system easy to hand over, and what we owe to whoever comes next.

Questions from the audience are collected on paper cards in the hallway all day.

Maintenance
Teams

Speakers

Marit Haldane

Principal Engineer, Kelvin Forge

Marit has spent fifteen years carrying a pager for systems that other people depend on. She writes and speaks about legibility, small interfaces and teams that sleep.
Amara Nwosu

Open-source maintainer, Independent

Amara has maintained a widely used parsing library for ten years and now works full time on the economics of keeping projects alive. She is a founding member of a maintainers cooperative.
Priya Raghunathan

Director of Platform, Orbitrail

Priya leads a platform group of forty engineers that migrated a decade-old monolith without a freeze. She reviews capacity plans for fun and for a living.