Developer Productivity Engineering Meetup at Pinterest Eng office in SF

The SV Productivity Engineering meetup team are hosting our first in-person meetup of 2025 at Pinterest Engineering HQ in San Francisco sponsored by Gradle, Pinterest, and Netflix.

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Join us for a three hour event focused on Developer Productivity Engineering and Developer Experience at Pinterest SF engineering offices with talks from Pinterest, Netflix, and Gradle.

AGENDA
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm - Networking and Socializing

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm
Path to Productionizing Prompt Engineering
Charlie Gu, Sr. Engineering Manager, Pinterest

4:25 pm - 4:50 pm
Scaling Success: Unleashing the Power of Parallelizing Testing at Netflix
Aubrey Chipman and Roberto Perez Alcolea, Sr. Senior Software Engineer, Netflix

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Why did my build fail? Improving the troubleshooting experience with failure summaries
Laurent Ploix, Senior Product Manager, Gradle

5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Networking and Socializing

TALK #1
Path to Productionizing Prompt Engineering
Charlie Gu, Sr. Engineering Manager, Pinterest
Path to Productionizing Prompt Engineering
Since the popularization of LLMs in 2023, they have been adopted for a variety of tasks, such as summarization, search relevance ranking, text generation, and many more. At the core, all of these tasks are powered by the LLM and the associated prompt. We have discovered that a well-written prompt drastically improves the performance of the LLM for that specific task.

During this talk, Charlie will discuss Pinterest’s journey to consolidate its prompt engineering process into a single, unified platform, covering stages from ideation and testing to production workflow. Charlie will also share how we leveraged auto-prompting techniques to further reduce human costs and enhance the quality of the prompts.

TALK #2
Scaling Success: Unleashing the Power of Parallelizing Testing at Netflix
Aubrey Chipam and Roberto Perez Alcolea, Sr. Senior Software Engineer, Netflix
[talk description coming soon]

TALK #3
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Why did my build fail? Improving the Troubleshooting Experience with Failure Summaries
Laurent Ploix , Sr. Product Manager, Gradle
The CI experience can be frustrating in large projects. Changes can generate many types of build and test failures, not to mention the background flakiness. Figuring out what went wrong requires navigating several UIs and large log files. We present “failure summaries”, which dramatically reduce the time needed to understand failures.