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Carolina Code Conference

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27Speakers
28Sponsors
26On the bill · sessions
43Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Carolina, in alphabetical order.
Aaron Augustine
Senior Software Engineer
Adam Anderson
Cybersecurity Greybeard & Thought Leader in Business-Driven Sales · ThreatCaptain
AJ Danelz
Cloud-Native | Streaming | Full-Stack Dev · Rygen
AL Rodriguez
Developer
Amit Kulkarni
Site Reliability Engineer · Michelin North America
Amon Otis Poston
Software Engineer · NTSH
Benjamin Overcash
System Architect · CoLinx, LLC
Cameron Presley
Owner of Small Batch Solutions - Professional Problem Solver · Small Batch Solutions
Craig Kerstiens
Postgres @ Snowflake · Snowflake
David Mackey
Software Engineer / Owner · Eccentric Quality Solutions LLC
Diana Pham
Developer Advocate · Vonage
Doug Cone
Inteligence Applied
Eugene Willis
Application Analyst
Gene Gotimer
DevSecOps Engineer · Praeses
Gregory Noe
LDAP Support Team Lead · Symas Corporation
Houston Haynes
Founder of Braidpoint · Braidpoint
Jack Teitel
Founder & CEO · Title AI
Joshua Ballanco
Principal Software Engineer · Manhattan Metric, LLC
Marty Heyman
CoFounder · Symas Corporation
Neviar Rawlinson
IT Governance Manager
Paul Jarrett
Software Engineer
Paul Sullivan
Senior Software Engineer · ThoroughCare
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
FlywheelPlatinum
Michelin USA - Michelin IT EngineeringGold
ThoroughCareGold
Times 20 Consulting (X20)Gold
Zelvin SecurityGold
CoLinxSilver
Purpose FinancialSilver
RygenSilver
SimpliphySilver
Simply BinarySilver
SymasSilver
Agreeable DataBronze
Circuit Board MedicsBronze
Fly.ioBronze
Go FigBronze
GroxioBronze
RobojuiceBronze
STEM Search GroupBronze
The Intersect GroupBronze
The Orange ByteBronze
AI in Production ConferenceCommunity, Media & In-kind
Fire Forge Crafted BeerCommunity, Media & In-kind
Gig City ElixirCommunity, Media & In-kind
HackGreenvilleCommunity, Media & In-kind
OpenWorksCommunity, Media & In-kind
SynergyMillCommunity, Media & In-kind
Tech After FiveCommunity, Media & In-kind
ZulipCommunity, Media & In-kind
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Agenda

Selected from 26 sessions on the bill.
  • Friday 10:00am

    Preventing Bugs with Better Types - An Intro to Type Driven Design

    Have you ever shipped a logic error to production? What about writing code that allowed you to do something that violated business rules? Wouldn’t it have been nice if the code its…

  • Friday 10:30am

    A Look at OpenLDAP - The Directory Database

    This talk will be a relatively high level overview of Directory Databases (LDAP as defined in RFC 4000 and friends). Directory Services was an international effort in the 1980s but…

  • Friday 10:45am

    Elixir & AI: Coding at Ludicrous Speed

    A recent industry study benchmarked AI coding models across 20 programming languages. Elixir came out on top - 97.5% of problems solved, the highest of any language tested. Higher …

  • Friday 11:15am

    It Is Time to Reconsider Protobuf

    Protobuf adoption remains low despite years of maturity, but not for the reasons most developers think. The real barrier is not complexity or tooling; it is that most developers ha…

  • Friday 11:30am

    Proactive Batch Observability: Automate File Freshness and SLA Monitoring

    Modern observability focuses on APIs and microservices, yet many business-critical workflows still depend on batch jobs and file-based data pipelines. When these systems fail, they…

  • Friday 12:00pm

    My Little Claude: Codegen Isn’t Magic

    How do AI code generators like Claude Code perform with languages with a very small public corpus? Mere months ago, a typical “Ask a user their name and then greet them” prompt res…

  • Friday 1:30pm

    From Pixels to Patterns: A Pragmatist’s Guide to Computer Vision

    Computer Vision (CV) is one of the most powerful and transformative fields in AI, yet it can often feel like an intimidating black box of complex math and specialized hardware. But…

  • Friday 2:00pm

    Event-Driven Autoscaling with Kubernetes and KEDA: Practical Strategies for Modern Applications

    Kubernetes has become a cornerstone of modern application deployment, but many teams still rely on basic CPU and memory metrics when scaling their workloads. This seminar provides …

  • Friday 2:15pm

    Indelible Malware: Etherhiding and the future of Cyberthreats

    A recent innovation in malware hosting known as Etherhiding threatens to disrupt the conventional means of combating cyberthreats. Etherhiding is the process of hosting malware wit…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 43 companies show up, and 4 bet on three roles at once?

43 companies. four are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
4All threespeak · spons · exh
24Sponsoringsponsor only
15Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Symas Corporation·CoLinx, LLC·Rygen·ThoroughCare

Speakers by seniority

26% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite14%
  • Founder / Owner622%
  • Manager / Lead519%
  • Engineer · IC1037%
  • Other roles519%

Of 27 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01Symas CorporationSp·S2V
  2. 02CoLinx, LLCSp·S1V
  3. 03RygenSp·S1V
  4. 04ThoroughCareSp·G1V
  5. 05Agreeable DataSp·B
  6. 06AI in Production ConferenceSp·C
  7. 07Circuit Board MedicsSp·B
  8. 08Fire Forge Crafted BeerSp·C
  9. 09Fly.ioSp·B
  10. 10FlywheelSp·P
  11. 11Gig City ElixirSp·C
  12. 12Go FigSp·B
  13. 13GroxioSp·B
  14. 14HackGreenvilleSp·C
Sponsors by tier
platinum1
4% of 28
gold4
14% of 28
silver6
21% of 28
bronze9
32% of 28
community, media & in-kind8
29% of 28