Juan Caraballo
I'm Juan Caraballo, an Infrastructure and Reliability Engineer from the Dominican Republic, currently based in Lisbon, Portugal.
I started my career as a Django developer at the Utah Water Research Laboratory, where I spent nearly a decade, before moving into data engineering and eventually infrastructure and site reliability.
Outside of work, I'm drawn to the connective tissue between fields like physics, biology, ecology, and computer science, and I try to bring that cross-disciplinary lens to the way I think about engineering problems.
Session
We like to treat software architecture as a technical discipline, so when an architecture rots we go looking for technical causes. But every decayed system I've ever seen had a perfectly good plan behind it. The mess didn't come from the code. It came from how the people building it talked to each other, or stopped talking to each other. That's Conway's Law, and it just got a plot twist: a growing share of those conversations now happen with AI assistants instead of with teammates.
This talk follows one fictional organization across three eras of its life, on a single network graph of people, teams, services, and code that evolves on screen, to find out what all those private conversations are doing to your software.