Panel: Managing Code at Scale
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 Szczepan Faber
Helping developers get more done, maker of Mockito and other open source, principal engineer at Airbnb
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About Klaus Haeuptle
Klaus Haeuptle is a Distinguished Software Engineering in the Developer Experience Team at SAP. In his current role he is driving improvement initiatives and leading a large community with more than 5k software engineers. Before he worked as software engineer and architect in supply chain management, procurement, finance and governance risk and control.
Harald Aamot is a medical informatics and distributed-systems specialist whose work centers on large-scale refactoring and cloud transformation. He helps enterprises modernize complex, data-heavy platforms by automating code migration, reducing technical debt, and aligning to standards using OpenRewrite and ecosystem tools. His expertise spans cloud-native architectures, microservices on SAP BTP, in-memory computing with SAP HANA, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and privacy-preserving analytics in regulated environments. As a development expert, he champions developer experience, performance, and reliability to accelerate delivery while maintaining security and compliance and governance. Harald speaks on scalable code transformation, pragmatic legacy-to-cloud paths, and building trustworthy, sustainable software at enterprise scale.
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About Dov Katz
Dov Katz is a Managing Director and 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 serves as Chairman Emeritus of FINOS (the Fintech Open Source Foundation).
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About Rooz Mohazzabi
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.
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About Jonathan Schneider
Jonathan Schneider is co-founder and CEO at Moderne, which automates software migrations, security and maintenance at scale. A recognized Java Champion, Jonathan founded OpenRewrite, an auto-refactoring tool, at Netflix and later founded the Micrometer project while a member of the Spring Team. He co-authored “Automated Code Remediation: How to Refactor and Secure the Moderne Software Supply Chain” (O’Reilly) and authored “SRE with Java Microservices” (O’Reilly). An Army veteran, Jonathan is also a two-time recipient of the Bronze Star.
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