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Conferences, lectures, and public deep dives — on software architecture, engineering leadership, AI in the SDLC, and system reliability.
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- AI made development faster: how can we tell?Measure AI impact through adoption, time and flow, and economic impact. Real studies, limits of inference and a practical team evaluation protocol.AI Dev Live 2026#AI#Leadership#Platform
- Understand Before Deciding: How I Learn New Topics with AIHow I learn with AI: map the topic, choose sources, check contradictions, and design an experiment. AGENTS.md, skills, and an investigation of OKF through work on polomodov.tech. A 30-minute talk.pmclub upskill week#AI#Leadership#Career
- Harness: Past, Present, and Future of the Layer Between the Model and the WorldA Giga Conf 2026 talk: how the agent harness evolved, what it is made of, how Claude Code, Codex and Cursor differ, three ways to view it, why permissions stay out of the model, and proving value via repeatability and cost.Giga Conf 2026Fellow#AI#Architecture#Platform
- How AI Changes the Tech Lead’s RoleA Podlodka Techlead Crew roundtable on AI economics, engineering expertise, code review, and tech lead accountability. Alexander Polomodov and Rafael Tonakanyan; recording and discussion summary.Podlodka Techlead CrewDiscussion#AI#Leadership#Career
- IDE vNext: Who Will Build a Home for AI Agents?A DotNext 2026 roundtable on development environments for AI agents: IDEs and terminals, context, reviewing changes, and the engineer’s role. Recording and discussion summary.DotNext 2026DiscussionFellow#AI#Platform#Career
- State of AI4SDLC: How AI Is Changing the Software IndustryDotNext 2026 keynote: Chad Fowler's Regenerative Software, seven primitives that survive code replacement, migration examples, and the engineer's changing role. Slides, recording, and summary.DotNext 2026Fellow#AI#Platform#Architecture
- Kubernetes: Too Complex?Alexander Polomodov on DevOps Deflope #62: Kubernetes complexity, cognitive load, internal developer platforms, and AI agents’ access to a cluster.DevOps Deflope · #62PodcastFellow#Architecture#SRE / Reliability#Platform
- How AI Will Change Software Development: Programmers, Teams, and IT CompaniesAlexander Polomodov on Organized Programming #92: product engineers, enterprise AI adoption, platforms, knowledge, development economics, and junior training.Organized Programming · Kirill Mokevnin · #92Podcast#AI#Leadership#Career
- When Code Became Cheap: Where Are Value, Responsibility, and Expertise Now?Deep Tech Night panel: AI business value, agent permissions, safe architecture, junior training, and engineering workload. Recording and summary.Deep Tech Night · YandexDiscussion#AI#Leadership#Career
- AI4SDLC: What I Would Do Differently If I Knew Then What I Know NowWhat to buy, adapt, and own in AI4SDLC—from the end-to-end stack to verifiable episodes, stable prefixes, and specialist modelsDeep Tech NightFellow#AI#Architecture#Platform
- The CTO’s First 90 DaysHow to begin the transition before day one, research the company, negotiate the mandate, spend the first month listening, and pass probation with measurable outcomesStratoplan · CTO ProgramCTO#Leadership#Career
- State of AI4SDLC: How AI Shifts Bottlenecks Across Software DeliveryThe IT Picnic edition adds the methodology and survey invitation for AI4SDLC Research 2026. The core talk explains how AI moves bottlenecks from coding to defining, reviewing, and delivering changes.IT Picnic 2026 · T-BankFellow#AI#Platform
- Adopting AI in a Large Fintech: Choosing an Agent Stack ConfigurationEight agent-stack configurations, data and authority paths, Bank of Russia guidance, and a target portfolio for a large fintechPodlodka AI Engineers Club · T-BankFellow#AI#Architecture#Platform
- AI Dev Podcast #8 / Claude Dualism: How Not to Overdelegate Permissions to Claude/CodexA TechTrain podcast discussion on moving from vibe coding to AIDLC through agent skills, documentation in Git, ADRs, traceability, security reviews, and governed autonomyAI Dev Podcast · TechTrainPodcastFellow280 views6 likes#AI#Architecture#Platform
- State of AI4SDLC: How AI Shifts Bottlenecks Across Software DeliveryHow AI accelerates coding and moves bottlenecks to intent, review, tests, and delivery; agent-first platforms, evals, and flow metricsTurbo ML Conf · T-BankFellow137 views6 likes#AI#Platform
- AI Dev Podcast #7: Security, Agents, and the Future of DevelopmentA TechTrain podcast discussion on agentic development risks, evals, token economics, new SDLC threats, and non-human identitiesAI Dev Podcast · TechTrainPodcastFellow296 views9 likes#AI#SRE / Reliability#Platform
- Generation of EverythingA QAk-QAk podcast on AI generation in software development, the engineer role, and production processesQAk-QAk · T-BankPodcastFellow#AI#Platform
- State of AI4SDLC: How AI Changes Development Processes in Large CompaniesIndustry research, a large fintech AI platform (Spirit, Nessy, T-Cover Agent), and the new engineering workSaint HighLoad++ 2026Fellow204 views10 likes#AI#Platform
- State of AI4SDLC: from AI assistants to agentic developmentAI4SDLC Research, SE 2.0, spec-driven development, and evals for SDLC agentsAI Dev Conf 2026Fellow470 views20 likes#AI#Platform
- AI Yesterday, Today, TomorrowAn AI Dev Conf panel discussion on context, agentic coding, metrics, policies, evals, and production outcomes from AI in developmentAI Dev Conf 2026DiscussionFellow170 views2 likes#AI#Leadership#Platform
- AI Dev Podcast #2: Architecture in the AI EraA TechTrain podcast discussion on LLMs, multi-agent systems, SOE 2.0, the new architect role, context, and reuseAI Dev Podcast · TechTrainPodcastFellow1,597 views31 likes#AI#Architecture#Platform
- From AI-Native Organization to AI-Native Leadership: The CTO Role in 2026What happens to the CTO when tools, management units, and engineering economics changeStratoplan - Management 2026Fellow#AI#Leadership
- State of AI4SDLC: Research, Processes, and the Team Lead's RoleHow AI is changing engineering culture and what it means for DevOpsDevOps Conf 2026Fellow430 views17 likes#AI#Leadership
- How AI Changes Engineering Culture and What It Means for Team Leads and EngineersAI4SDLC research, transition to AI-native processes, and the team lead role transformationYandex · Dream TeamleadFellow34,579 views182 likes#AI#Leadership
- How to Really Prepare for a System Design InterviewInterviewer expectations, candidate mistakes, architectural thinking, and systematic preparation{ между скобок }InterviewFellow3,460 views98 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- AI in SDLC: from assistants to agentsCopilots, MCP/A2A, AlphaEvolve, SE 3.0 and large fintech cases (Spirit, T-Cover Agent)AI Boost 2025Fellow1,488 views42 likes#AI
- System Design Interview: Don't Copy Big TechWhy system design interviews matter, how to design the format outside big tech, what to assess, and how to adjust task difficultyRupor Lida 3Fellow444 views18 likes#Architecture#Career
- AI in SDLC: why just allowing Cursor isn't enoughCopilots, vibe coding, MCP, Platform Engineering and Google, ByteDance, Uber, Datadog casesCTO Conf X 2025Fellow2,683 views87 likes#AI#Platform
- Round Table: Tech Lead and the Individual Contributor TrackHow the tech lead role emerges, its business value, and growth along the IC track without going into managementTechLead Conf 2025DiscussionCTO406 views15 likes#Career#Leadership
- Reliability and Security: Foundation or Optional?Emergent system properties, ATAM, STRIDE, Google/Netflix/AWS cases, and the Spirit platformPHDays Fest 2025Fellow145 views8 likes#SRE / Reliability#Architecture
- Site Reliability Engineering and the Individual Contributor RoleAn interview on SRE, reliability, on-call, observability, engineering ownership, and career growth after SeniorTired Tech DirectorInterview677 views22 likes#SRE / Reliability#Career#Leadership
- System Design Interview: Keep It or Kill It?A discussion on the System Design Interview: what it tests and whether the skill matters in real workHighLoad++ 2024DiscussionFellow1,091 views28 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- Hard Skills Maxed Out — What's Next?Soft skills for engineers: Cynefin, T-Growth, planning, responsibility, communicationSoft WeekendCTO676 views16 likes#Leadership#Career
- How and Why to Measure Engineering ProductivityA repeat of the MTS True Tech Day talk on DORA, SPACE, DevEx, QUANTS, and T-Meter: the same core slides, a different recording at D-day 2024.D-day 2024CTO178 views4 likes#Leadership#Platform
- What Can a System Analyst Become?An InSAit podcast on system analyst career paths, product thinking, and white papersInSAit · T-BankPodcast#Career#Product#Architecture
- Architecture in a Large Fintech: Yesterday, Today, TomorrowEvolution from COTS to in-house dev, Spirit and AI-native architectureArchDays 2024Fellow1,924 views46 likes#Architecture#AI
- Architecture at the Start: Preparing for SuccessA Podlodka Techlead Crew discussion on reliable architecture, retries, self-healing, and failure resiliencePodlodka Techlead CrewDiscussionFellow1,176 views21 likes#Architecture#SRE / Reliability
- How to Structure Teams for Business DemandsTeam Topologies, Conway's Law, cognitive load, and a large fintech caseSelectel Meetup 2024CTO546 views12 likes#Leadership
- Managing Effectiveness in Tech and ProductA panel discussion on engineering effectiveness, Discovery and Delivery metrics, and scaling practicesBezvotetogovotvsego · AvitoDiscussionCTO861 views27 likes#Leadership#Product#Platform
- Architecture in a Large Fintech: How We Design SolutionsDDD, ADR/RFC, guilds, tech radar, internal PaaS, and trade-offsT-Dvor 2024Fellow#Architecture
- Case Roulette: Examples of Bad ArchitectureA discussion on signs of bad architecture, recurring mistakes, and ways to prevent architectural problemsPodlodka Techlead CrewDiscussion830 views24 likes#Architecture#Leadership
- How and Why to Measure Engineering ProductivityDORA, SPACE, DevEx, and QUANTS through T-Meter. Start with this MTS True Tech Day recording and slides; the later D-day talk uses the same deck.MTS True Tech Day 2024CTO2,903 views68 likes#Leadership#Platform
- MLOps in Theory and PracticeA podcast discussion on MLOps, the connection between data engineering, ML engineering and app engineering, and BigTech production practicesT-Education · HSEPodcastFellow2,100 views60 likes#AI#Platform
- The Full-Cycle Engineer: What It Takes and How to Become OneWhat technology companies expect from developers after DevOps and shift-left, why platforms matter, and how to grow beyond SeniorSDE Conference 2024Fellow897 views34 likes#Architecture
- Professional Communities in CorporationsA panel discussion on why corporations need professional communities, how to measure their effectiveness, and how to build leader-independent practicesBezvotetogovotvsegoDiscussionCTO465 views15 likes#Leadership#Career
- White paper: Google's Hybrid Approach to ResearchA discussion on R&D at Google, the hybrid approach to research, and collaboration between research and product engineering teamsCode of ArchitectureDiscussionFellow787 views27 likes#Leadership#Platform
- How to Form Team Structure for Business DemandsTeam Topologies, Conway's Law, cognitive load, and a large fintech caseYaTalks 2023 · YandexCTO1,995 views63 likes#Leadership
- How RnD Appears in Large Tech CompaniesGoogle, Amazon, Yandex, large fintech — four models of RnD emergenceTeamLead++ ConfCTO234 views8 likes#Leadership
- Secure by designA SafeCode Live discussion on Secure by design, secure development, SBD competencies, and secure system designSafeCode LiveDiscussionFellow715 views8 likes#Architecture#Platform
- How a Professional Can Stay Motivated to Keep LearningA Weekend Talk discussion on career growth, lifelong learning, books and white papers, talks, and personal motivation in ITWeekend Talk · Frontend WeekendPodcastCTO1,001 views30 likes#Career#Leadership
- Public System Design Interview at ArchDays 2023Designing an A/B testing platform: experiments, assignment service, metrics, and architectural trade-offsArchDays 2023Public interviewFellow24,901 views440 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- Technical Leaders at TinkoffAn ITBizRadio discussion on technical leadership roles, interviews, hard and soft skills, CTOs, Delivery Managers, tech leads, and architectsITBizRadio · CxO TalksDiscussionCTO2,033 views52 likes#Leadership#Career
- Designing Reliable SystemsRisk, SLOs, monitoring, and resilience patterns for distributed systemsSmartDev 2023Fellow0 likes#SRE / Reliability#Architecture
- Designing Reliable Systems — Is It Worth the Effort?Risk, SLOs, monitoring, and resilience patterns for distributed systemsStachka · Nizhny NovgorodFellow357 views11 likes#SRE / Reliability#Architecture
- Public Troubleshooting Interview for SRE EngineersA live SRE interview walkthrough: Yellow, payment drop, hypotheses, metrics, and Lead engineer behaviorDevOops 2023Public interviewFellow9,836 views231 likes#SRE / Reliability#Interviews
- How to grow when you're already a Senior System AnalystCompetency matrix, growth process and 4 career tracks after SeniorFlow Conference 20231,169 views32 likes#Career
- White paper: Large-scale cluster management at Google with BorgA Code of Architecture discussion on Borg, Google's cluster management, SRE, reliability, and platform engineeringCode of Architecture · IT Fest KazanDiscussionFellow516 views15 likes#SRE / Reliability#Platform#Architecture
- Tinkoff, People Management, Teams, and MeaningA livestream on Tinkoff's engineering organization, team management, architecture practices, and development effectivenessBezvotetogovotvsegoDiscussionCTO666 views29 likes#Leadership#Platform#Product
- Improving Software Development FlowArchitecture, processes, and metrics for better flow — Five Ideals, Conway's Law, DDD, EDAIT Fest · Kazan2,193 views78 likes#Architecture#Leadership
- Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational DatabasesA Code of Architecture discussion on Amazon Aurora's design, redo logging, quorums, durability, and cloud-native databasesCode of ArchitectureDiscussionFellow637 views19 likes#Architecture#Platform
- System Design Through the Lens of ReliabilityA podcast discussion on reliability in system design, architecture interviews, SRE practices, and common design mistakes503 Podcast · JUG Ru GroupPodcastFellow#SRE / Reliability#Architecture#Interviews
- Technical Interview: Architecture SectionA public architecture interview for a C++ developer: system design, section flow, and mistakes on both sidesC++ Russia 2023Public interviewFellow1,589 views49 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- How and Where Should an Engineer Grow After Senior?Career paths after Senior, Staff+ levels, competency matrix, and engineer growth processIT's Tinkoff Java Meetup 2023CTO4,993 views#Career#Leadership
- White paper: Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization SystemA Code of Architecture discussion on Zanzibar, ReBAC, relationship tuples, authorization in distributed systems, and SpiceDBCode of Architecture · Kod ZheltyyDiscussionFellow1,440 views#Architecture#Platform
- How to Hire Technical ManagersProcess, interviews, evaluation — an inside view from a large fintechTeamLead ConfCTO7,598 views228 likes#Leadership
- Who Will We Become When We Grow Up? Alexander PolomodovA career discussion for systems analysts: growing toward architecture, skills, and materials for developmentTech Analyst Club · JUG.RUDiscussionFellow725 views25 likes#Career#Architecture
- Software Architecture Basics: Architecture CharacteristicsA discussion on architecture characteristics, trade-offs, SLOs, cost, and practical use of Fundamentals of Software Architecture{ mezhdu skobok }DiscussionFellow1,937 views47 likes#Architecture#SRE / Reliability
- Fintech Trends: Cloud TechnologiesWhat cloud is, IaaS / PaaS / SaaS, Kubernetes, and how it reshapes fintech strategiesFintech School 20234,022 views118 likes#Platform
- The Distributed Computing ManifestoA Code of Architecture discussion on Amazon's distributed systems manifesto, SOA, microservices, workflow-based model, DDD, and data domainingCode of Architecture · Kod ZheltyyDiscussionFellow2,233 views#Architecture#Platform
- How to Pass a System Design InterviewSeven System Design Interview steps: requirements, boundaries, flows, technology choices, scaling, and candidate behavior.ArchDays 2022Fellow67,199 views1,771 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- Public System Design Interview at ArchDays 2022Designing a hotel booking service: requirements, system boundaries, and architectural trade-offsArchDays 2022Public interviewFellow98,401 views1,796 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- The Evolution of the Technical LeaderFrom teamlead (~10) to Engineering Manager (~50) to CTO (~150+): how focus and skills shiftSouth HUB 2022CTO852 views29 likes#Leadership#Career
- An ARCHI-important StageA QAk-QAk podcast on architecture design, the architect role, requirements, quality attributes, and differences between web and mobile architectureQAk-QAk · Kod ZheltyyPodcast547 views#Architecture#Product
- Channel. Product. PlatformMobile bank evolution: from channel to product and superapp platform with release trainsSaint HighLoad++ 2022CTO1,254 views37 likes#Platform#Product
- System Design Interview: Estimation and Interview FrameworkA podcast discussion on back-of-the-envelope estimation, the System Design Interview framework, requirement clarification, and architecture trade-offs{ mezhdu skobok }PodcastFellow3,775 views88 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- How to Grow When You're Already a SeniorThe post-Senior career fork: Team track vs Tech track, the path to CTO and to FellowDotNext Spring 20223,986 views125 likes#Career
- Interview with Alexander PolomodovA DotNext 2022 interview on engineering growth, career tracks, and post-Senior developmentDotNext 2022InterviewCTO357 views10 likes#Career#Leadership
- Roundtable. How to become a seniorWho a senior is, what skills to develop, and how interviews, conferences, and training affect the career pathDotNext Spring 2022Discussion2,248 views63 likes#Career#Interviews
- Assessing SRE Skills in InterviewsSystem design vs troubleshooting: USE / RED / Golden Signals and why one stage remainedDevOps Conf 2022Fellow22,042 views457 likes#Interviews#SRE / Reliability
- Technical Interview: Architecture SectionA public architecture interview for a C++ developer: system design, section flow, and mistakes on both sidesC++ Russia 2022Public interviewFellow13,082 views212 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- Architects: Becoming an Ideal Team PlayerA podcast discussion on the architect role, teamwork, system design, architecture characteristics, and strategic trade-offsKem Ty Stal · TinkoffPodcast#Architecture#Leadership#Career
- Building an Architect CareerA podcast discussion on architect career growth, the 20-minute rule, tech radars, social connections, and architecture practices at TinkoffChitaem VmestePodcast#Architecture#Career#Leadership
- The Design Section in Tech InterviewsDesign section structure, back-of-envelope sizing, and Senior+ evaluation criteriaArchDays 2021Fellow18,709 views457 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- Evolutionary Architecture in PracticeA Tinkoff Agile Conference 2021 talk on fitness functions, -ilities, modularity, and incremental change at scaleTinkoff Agile Conference 2021Fellow2,752 views70 likes#Architecture
- Reshaping Mobile Bank Development for BusinessPlatform, release train, and Conway's Law — modularity and feature team autonomyTechLead Conf 20211,118 views36 likes#Product#Architecture
- DevOps Culture: Myths and RealityWho, what, and how — DevOps myths, the reality of Team Topologies and Engineering MaturityAGIMA DevOps Meetup1,820 views49 likes#SRE / Reliability#Leadership
- What is a CTO from Startup to IPOThe org S-curve and CTO role evolution: Coder → Delivery → Architect → All-in-oneHighLoad++ Spring 2021CTO5,086 views153 likes#Leadership#Career
- The SOLID Team LeadManagement fundamentals for engineers through OOP and SOLID — feature teams, competency matrix, contractsTeamLead Conf 2021CTO10,559 views218 likes#Leadership
- Product Approach to ITIT as a service vs IT as a product, Bank 4.0, and the transition to a product modelMail.Ru MeetupCTO#Product
- Architecture at ScaleSoftware / Solution / Enterprise Architecture, RFC, ADR, and working groupsArchDays 2020Fellow5,243 views106 likes#Architecture
- Modern Approaches to Software DevelopmentClean Architecture, data evolution, microservices, DevOps, IaaC, and Data MeshDevfest 2020Fellow1,988 views104 likes#Architecture
- Digitalization and TechnologiesDigital transformation by ThoughtWorks, Bank 4.0, and TechRadarRussoft WebinarCTO136 views#Product
- The Web in the Mobile-First EraStatistics, web evolution from 1989 to 2020, and web developer prospectsGDG PartyCTO769 views40 likes#Product
- Round Table: Platform Teams — Value or Hype?Why platform teams, how they differ from inner source, and what problems they createTechLead Conf 2020DiscussionCTO741 views12 likes#Platform#Leadership
- Evolution of tinkoff.ru over 3 YearsFrom monolith to micro-frontends, a microservice CMS, and personalizationArchDays 2019Fellow6,063 views98 likes#Architecture
- Postmortems or How We Learn from FailuresBlameless postmortems, Etsy, Google SRE Book/Workbook, and our templateConferenceFellow931 views15 likes#SRE / Reliability
- Alexander Polomodov and Kirill Zuev: Studio CFT Live at CodeFest 2019A Studio CFT live discussion on software development, architecture, and engineering practices in fintechStudio CFT · CodeFest 2019Discussion162 views3 likes#Architecture#Leadership
- The Web Through a Backend Engineer's Eyes: What Comes NextA backend engineer's view of how code, storage, systems, infrastructure, and automation evolvedGetIT Meetup109 views5 likes#Architecture#Product
- Development Culture at Tinkoff.ru: From Monoproduct to EcosystemWhat / how / who: strategy, processes, architecture, testing, infrastructure, and the team lead's role in Tinkoff.ru growthCodeFest 20191,256 views19 likes#Leadership#Product#Architecture
- How We Hire and Motivate EmployeesHiring practices, employee motivation, and team development in Tinkoff.ru acquisitionBinary District · Teamlead MeetupCTO1,527 views39 likes#Leadership#Career
- “The Helmsman” in the Business WorldWhy Kubernetes won and why CNCF certifications matter (CKA, CKAD, KCSP)Yandex463 views11 likes#Platform
- tinkoff.ru Acquisition: From Banner Click to Personalized PagePerformance marketing, frontend tinkoff.ru, SEO, personalization, and acquisition team topologyHighLoad++ 20181,395 views19 likes#Product#Architecture#Platform
- The Development Manager Career PathFrom Junior to CTO: steps, the Senior ≠ Teamlead and Teamlead ≠ CTO forksYandex Meetup 2018CTO2,813 views50 likes#Career#Leadership
- Scaling a Team TenfoldHow a frontend lead stays sane: five steps of team growth 4 → 40, evolving architecture, and the lead's roleSaint TeamLead Conf 20182,183 views47 likes#Leadership#Architecture#Career