TechLead Conference 2025: AI in Orgs
as the organisers put it
TechLead Conference 2025: AI in Orgs talks, workshops, videos, speakers and partners
who it's for
engineering managers, Android engineers, platform engineers, tech leads, developer experience engineers, engineering leaders, devops engineers
topics
treating technical debt as mindset; migrating Retrofit to Ktor; convention plugins and remote Gradle cache; JDK21 with G1 for build tuning; baseline profiles and Compose Multiplatform; SonarQube-driven tech debt dashboards; AI-assisted repo bots and IDE agents; Paparazzi and screenshot tests; automated CI auto-fixes and metabase dashboards; system design interview timeboxing and framing; developer experience measurement and DX surveys
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| I don't have any technical debt | Jason Toms | 39m |
Claim: the Bank ID Android app used by millions of Norwegians becomes faster to change by treating technical debt as mindset not backlog item. Teams replace… | ||
| Systems Design interviews for people who hate Systems Design interviews | Chris Ward | 33m |
Explains why system design interviews are replacing live coding and gives concrete tactics: timebox and high-level first then deep dive, ask about offline… | ||
| The Impact of App Platform Teams | Adam Ahmed | 36m |
A mobile platform team for a 30‑engineer org with four platform engineers standardizes builds with convention plugins, runs a remote Gradle cache and slim CI… | ||
| Common pitfalls in engineering teams and how to avoid them | Renaud Mathieu | 51m |
Seven recurring failure modes get mapped to the seven deadly sins and paired with concrete fixes: use a sequencer column, a red bin for unworkable tickets and… | ||
| No More ‘Someone Else’s Problem’: Tackling Tech Debt at Scale | Florian Mierzejewski | 36m |
Sixty Android engineers, ~550 modules, and ~300 PRs/week drive a concrete system that visualizes and prioritizes tech debt: a one-month prototype by a single… | ||
| I don't have any technical debt | Jason Toms | 27m |
Claims a production Android app used by millions of Norwegians (NRKTV, BankID context) reaches near-zero technical debt by cultural rules: developers own… | ||
| Ship - Hype: Rolling Out AI at Scale to 60 Android Engineers | Ilya Savin | 35m |
Qonto rolls AI into a 60+ Android org by starting with a safe sandbox (Dust) for compliant LLM access, then adding a repo-aware bot (30 daily users) and Cloud… | ||
| Beyond the Hype and Hyperbole | Jeffrey Namnum | 35m |
Teams report using GitHub Copilot, Codex, Gemini and Cursor (with scoped cursor rules) to generate code, scaffold tests and ship features; one team claims AI… | ||
| Cross-Platform Strategy for Engineering Leaders | Jeffrey Namnum | 30m |
Reports from teams that embed Flutter as a static library inside a native game engine show a production SDK serving 200 million players and working across… | ||
| Building a Strong Engineering Culture – Chuck Greb | Chuck Greb | 38m |
Roundtable captures concrete practices that build culture: prioritize psychological safety so juniors ask questions, adopt servant leadership and shared… | ||
| From Developer Experience to Business Value | Thomas Belk, Clinton Teegarden | 34m |
Capital One’s Android teams describe DevX around a 6–7 realistic score after creating a platform team that developers say improves timelines and stability… | ||
| Prioritization, Refactoring, and Keeping You Codebase Healthy | Sergii Zhuk | 47m |
Shows concrete prioritization patterns: allocate 5–25% time or a quarter-end buffer week, or run one-week hack weeks; migrate risky libraries… | ||
| Rethinking Measurement for High-Performing Teams | Brian Adams | 41m |
Argues for team-level measures tied to business ROI rather than individual vanity stats, showing concrete tooling and outcomes: tracked PR-review lag via… | ||
| Growing Pains: Scaling and Re-architecting Apps Under Fire | Lauren Darcey | 40m |
A Reddit Android platform team describes a multi-year Kotlin migration that starts with file-by-file conversions, hits a risky last mile with the main… | ||
| Handling Skill Specialization as an Engineering Leader | Sumayyah Ahmed | 40m |
Engineer timeline: moved from using phones to probe cars via CAN bus and Bluetooth to building design system tokens at Comcast and framework code at Square… | ||
| AI-Driven Developer Productivity at Scale | Mike Nakhimovich | 37m |
Practical playbook for immediate use: hook PRs into GitHub Actions to run model-based code reviews against OpenAI or Claude, use Cloud Code or Codeex as… | ||
| Strategies to Help You Lead Effectively | Rona Kilmer | 39m |
Defines management as short‑term execution and leadership as creating systems and vision, then gives concrete practices: put your phone away during… | ||
| Building a Strong Engineering Culture – Stacy Devino | Stacy L Devino | 42m |
Claims measurable change: a team cuts headcount in half after a full rewrite and revenue doubles every year; another effort grows demand from $550M to $3.1B in… | ||
| The Engineering Playbook for Growing Android Teams | Eric Maxwell | 43m |
Company runs ~200 engineers on a single monorepo with ~2 million LOC and ~5,400 Gradle modules across 10 apps, and describes an architecture built on… | ||
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