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Derek is currently working as an SRE at Tetrate, a U.S.-based company specializing in Service Mesh technologies. In his role, he focuses on building a platform that empowers developers to safely and efficiently operate and manage cloud resources by themselves using programming languages like Go and Python.
The session
AI: The End of Jobs or the Start of Freedom?
AI is rewriting what it means to be a developer. This session explores how engineers can evolve alongside AI, becoming better problem-solvers while also using modern AI tools to independently build and iterate on products faster than ever.
- Track
- Builder track
- Format
- talk
- Date
- Saturday, 17 October 2026
- Venue
- QUT Gardens Point P Block, Brisbane City
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