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Presentation: Theme Systems at Scale: How To Build Highly Customizable Software

Guilherme Carreiro — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:30:00 GMT

Shopify Staff Engineer Guilherme Carreiro discusses building and scaling highly customizable platforms. Using Shopify’s Liquid theme system as a case study, he explains how to balance extreme design flexibility with low-latency performance under massive traffic. He shares insights on implementing secure domain-specific languages, native code extensions, and resilient developer tooling.

By Guilherme Carreiro

Presentation: From Legacy to Sovereignty: Driving the Future of Insurance through Platform Engineering

Sergiu Petean — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:35:00 GMT

Sergiu Petean discusses the strategic journey of evolving DevOps into platform engineering within heavily regulated enterprise environments. He explains how to maximize efficiency using dynamic reference architectures, align platform KPIs directly with board-level business goals, reduce cognitive load via custom team topologies, and maintain innovation sovereignty through open-source technology.

By Sergiu Petean