I am a software architect and technology leader with 26+ years of experience building large-scale systems, leading engineering organizations, and helping companies solve hard problems in scalability, architecture, and execution. I have served as CTO and technology leader for more than 15 years, worked across multiple industries, and helped build products and platforms that created business value over $100M . My current focus is on AI-first software engineering: how organizations can use AI not just as a coding assistant, but as a force multiplier across the entire SDLC. I am particularly interested in agentic workflows, AI-augmented delivery, architecture-led development, and the future role of engineers in a world where implementation is increasingly automated.
Topic Title
THE LAST PROGRAMMER: The Future of Software Development
Topic Description
What if the people in this room are among the last generation of programmers who actually read and write code? Software development is approaching a historic transition. Developers will not disappear—but programming as we know it will. Instead of manually translating ideas into thousands of lines of code, future developers will describe intent, design architectures, set constraints, and command intelligent machines that build the software for them. The developer of the future will not simply write code. They will orchestrate intelligence. This talk explores that transition—from coder to architect, from programmer to machine commander—and asks a provocative question: If machines write the code, what will it mean to be a programmer?