Circle

Swarmia Circle 2025 is a wrap! Catch the recordings to hear how seasoned software engineering leaders approach measuring and improving business outcomes, developer productivity, and developer experience.

Speakers

John Cutler

Head of Product

Dotwork

Nathen Harvey

DORA Lead

Google Cloud

Meri Williams

CTO

Pleo

Otto Hilska

CEO

Swarmia

Rebecca Murphey

Field CTO

Swarmia

Alex Plugaru

CTO

Gorgias

Emily Nakashima

VP of Engineering

Honeycomb

Max Kanat-Alexander

Executive Distinguished Engineer

Capital One

Reasoning about developer productivity

Speaker: Otto Hilska

The three pillars provide a framework for measuring and improving engineering effectiveness across three interlinked perspectives: business outcomes, developer productivity, and developer experience.

Your operating system as a design problem

Speaker: John Cutler

We tend to think of ways of working as a boring process question. In this talk, John will challenge that belief by offering an alternative perspective grounded in service design, behavior design, platform thinking, and more.

Get better at getting better

Speaker: Nathen Harvey

Nathen shares insights about software delivery performance metrics and the surprising impacts of AI adoption on development teams. His presentation reveals that while AI increases developer job satisfaction and flow, it can temporarily decrease overall throughput and stability.

5 things I wish I would have known sooner about scaling

Speaker: Meri Williams

Having scaled a number of teams at different speeds, Meri talks through some of the inflection points you’ll experience, how to navigate them, and reflect on all the things they wish they’d known earlier.

Setting goals around engineering effectiveness

Panel: Rebecca Murphey, Emily Nakashima, Alex Plugaru, and Max Kanat-Alexander

Rebecca Murphey interviews seasoned engineering leaders about their take on goal-setting around business outcomes, developer productivity, and developer experience.