Speaker
Abstract
Developer Experience teams are quite popular these days as organisations understand the value of optimising for developers productivity.
At Monzo, we have a Developer Experience team that aims to meaningfully increase velocity by landing exceptional developer experiences, for example we delivered a Feature Flag and Experimentation Platform across Monzo to increase experimentation by 50%.
In this presentation, we bring you insights and learnings from our experience, with particular focus on:
- Getting the right people and tools in place for a successful Developer Experience team
- Building impactful Developer Experiences that matter
- Communicating effectively about the impact of a Developer Experience team
Interview
I am an Engineering Manager, focusing on enabling my teams to achieve operational excellence in order to deliver delightful experiences to the rest of the engineering organisation at Monzo.
Developer Experience (DexEx) is still a very new practice and I believe it is not well understood across organizations. I want to share my experience building and operating DevEx teams.
Any engineer who wants to make an impact in the DevEx space, or any engineering leader who wants to learn how to support engineers in this space.
I want them to be convinced that you need strong product acumen to be a great DevEx engineer.
I see a lot of potential in platforms that enable integration between AI agents to leverage multiple models across user flows, and not limited to discrete tasks.
Topics
QCon London 2025 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
Part of the track
Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience Hosted by Blanca Rojo Executive Director, Distinguished Engineer and Cloud Engineer @UBSFrom the same track
Monday 7 April
10:35 Churchill (Ground Fl.) Session developer productivity Productivity Is Messing Around and Having Fun Holly Cummins, Trisha Gee Developer satisfaction, developer joy, and business results are strongly correlated. Developer productivity frameworks like SPACE recognize this, with Satisfaction being a key metric. And yet - our jobs are frustrating, filled with mindless work, and free of joy. How do we fix that? 11:45 Churchill (Ground Fl.) Session pair programming Continuous Delivery Is Not Possible Without Pair Programming: Lessons From SpareBank 1 and SINTEF in Norway Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom, Ola Hast In the autumn of 2021, SpareBank 1, one of the largest savings banks in Norway, decided to take a new direction by significantly increasing how often we deployed to production, going from daily to hourly frequency. 13:35 Churchill (Ground Fl.) Session Platform Engineering Achieve Optimal Efficiency for your Developer Experience Teams Fabien Deshayes Engineering Manager - Platform & Developer Experience @Monzo, Previously @Spotify Developer Experience teams are quite popular these days as organisations understand the value of optimising for developers productivity. 14:45 Fleming (3rd Fl.) Session Coding From Autocomplete to Agents: AI Coding State of Play Birgitta Böckeler Global Lead for AI-assisted Software Delivery @Thoughtworks, Software Developer, Architect, and Technical Leader, 20 Years Experience in Technology After almost 2 years of intense attention givent to coding assistants, at the beginning of 2025, many organizations were disappointed by the measurable results. The recent arrival of coding assistance agents though has stirred up and reset expectations and the hype. 15:55 Churchill (Ground Fl.) Session Your Platform is Not an Island: Embracing Evolution in Your Ecosystem Rachael Wonnacott Associate Director for Container Platform Engineering @Fidelity International As with most forms of engineering it is easy to talk about theory in the abstract, but typically more nuanced to implement. Platform engineering is no exception. While the term has become increasingly popular over the last few years, it is a concept that is organically evolving within industry. 17:05 Rutherford (4th Fl.) Unconference Unconference: Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience