Panel: Managing Code at Scale

Rooz Mohazzabi, Jonathan Schneider, Dov Katz, Szczepan Faber, Klaus Haeuptle, and Robert Miles

Tuesday, 4:00 PM EDT - COMPASS ROSE WEST

Join a panel of trailblazing engineering leaders who are shaping how the industry thinks about scaling software development. From navigating technical debt to responsibly integrating generative AI, this conversation will cover the hard-won lessons and emerging strategies for managing massive codebases.

We’ll dive into:

Impact of developer time spent on code refactoring.
The influence of generative AI code creation on automated code refactoring.
Techniques for ensuring genAI authored code is high quality, maintainable, and secure—and proving it meets standards.
Organizational challenges of managing large-scale code changes, including PR overload, developer trust, and risk mitigation.
Measuring the impact of technical debt across large software organizations and driving leadership action.
Risk assessment and mitigation strategies when rolling out changes that affect thousands of developers.
The role of auto-refactoring in developer portals and real-world use cases for integration.
Challenges and lessons learned from using generative AI for testing and dead code removal at scale.

Come with questions—this panel is built to spark insight and honest discussion.

About Rooz Mohazzabi

VP @ Moderne

Developer tools GTM and community leader at Moderne. Ex Gradle, co-founder of SF Java User Group and SF Android meetup. Organizer of DPE Summit and Silicon Valley Productivity Engineering meetup.

About Jonathan Schneider

Co-Founder & CEO @ Moderne

Jonathan is co-founder and CEO at Miami-based Moderne which automates software maintenance activities at scale. He founded OpenRewrite at Netflix and went on to found the Micrometer project as a member of the Spring Team. Jonathan is the author of SRE with Java Microservices (OReilly). He is an Army veteran and two time bronze star recipient.

About Dov Katz

Managing Director, Distinguished Engineer @ Morgan Stanley

Dov Katz is a distinguished engineer at Morgan Stanley, specializing in DevOps and developer productivity. With a deep passion for enhancing software development practices, Dov has played a critical role in shaping Morgan Stanley’s engineering culture through innovative tooling, automation, and scalable infrastructure solutions.

In addition to their technical leadership, Dov servs as Chairman Emeritus of FINOS (the Fintech Open Source Foundation).

About Szczepan Faber

Engineering Leadership @ AirBnB

Humble maker of great tools for engineers
Founder of Mockito framework, member of Shipkit team
Core engineer of Gradle 1.x and 2.x.
Tech Lead of Development Tools at LinkedIn
Obsessed with software quality (via clean tests!!!) and continuous delivery (via Gradle automation!!!)
User of GitHub, Twitter, and LinkedIn