Priya Ramanathan
Principal Engineer, Saltpan Cloud
Melbourne
Priya has spent fourteen years on hosting and platform teams and leads Saltpan Cloud's reliability practice.
WDAA national conference
Build for the long run
Two days, three streams and one room full of people who maintain the web for a living.
19–20 Aug 2027
Yarra Wharf Conference Centre, Southbank
About the conference
WDAA DevConf is the association's national conference for web professionals. Two days of talks, panels and hands-on workshops across three concurrent streams, with opening keynotes and closing plenaries that bring everyone back together. Attend in person in Melbourne or follow the plenaries and the front-end and back-end streams online.
Online passes stream both plenaries each day plus the Front-end and Back-end streams live, with recordings for 60 days. Workshops are in person only.
Speakers
Practitioners who build, run and look after the web for a living. Select a speaker for their bio and sessions.
Principal Engineer, Saltpan Cloud
Melbourne
Priya has spent fourteen years on hosting and platform teams and leads Saltpan Cloud's reliability practice.
VP Engineering, Bluewater Learning
Brisbane
Daniel leads a 60-person engineering team building online learning products for schools and universities.
Design Systems Lead, Paperbark Studio
Sydney
Mei Lin builds and maintains design systems for public sector and retail clients.
Staff Engineer, Driftwood Pay
Melbourne
Tom works on data isolation and caching for a payments platform used by small businesses.
Engineering Manager, Northgate Civic Tech
Canberra
Grace manages delivery teams building digital services for local and state government.
Accessibility Specialist, Grevillea Health
Adelaide
Hannah audits and fixes patient-facing health services and trains product teams in accessible design.
UX Engineer, Grevillea Health
Adelaide
Sione designs and builds forms and booking flows for a network of community health clinics.
Platform Engineer, Kookaburra Freight Co
Perth
Ravi looks after messaging, queues and integrations for a national freight business.
Engineering Manager, Westerly Energy Retail
Melbourne
Callum moved from senior developer to managing a team of nine and writes about the transition.
Engineering Director, Westerly Energy Retail
Melbourne
Amara leads engineering for a mid-sized energy retailer and sits on the WDAA board.
Learning and Development Lead, Tallowood Digital
Hobart
Kirsten designs onboarding and mentoring programmes for technology teams.
Senior Engineer, Driftwood Pay
Sydney
Arjun works on public APIs and developer experience, and hires graduate engineers each year.
Senior Front-end Engineer, Mallee & Finch
Melbourne
Luca builds high-traffic retail storefronts and has run server components in production since 2026.
DevOps Lead, Saltpan Cloud
Melbourne
Elena builds deployment pipelines and runs internal workshops on safe release practices.
Independent consultant, Papadakis Web
Geelong
Zoe has run an independent web development practice for eight years, mostly for not-for-profits.
Interaction Designer, Coastline Media
Sydney
Yuki designs interaction and motion for a digital news publisher's web and mobile apps.
CTO, Tallowood Digital
Hobart
Ben runs engineering at a twelve-person software company and keeps its cloud bill small.
Principal Engineer, Riverbend Insurance Group
Sydney
Nadia reviews technical proposals across a large engineering organisation and mentors senior engineers.
Web Performance Lead, Coastline Media
Sydney
Jess leads web performance for a publisher whose pages reach millions of readers a month.
Head of Delivery, Saltbush Digital
Brisbane
Marcus leads delivery at a digital agency working with retail and tourism clients.
Front-end Architect, Mallee & Finch
Melbourne
Oliver looks after the CSS architecture and component library for a large commerce product.
Principal Engineer, Riverbend Insurance Group
Sydney
Sam led the three-year migration of a legacy quoting system to a modern stack.
Developer Advocate, Saltpan Cloud
Melbourne
Leilani runs a speaker mentoring scheme and helps first-time speakers get on stage.
Data Engineer, Bluegum Analytics
Perth
Noor builds data pipelines and language-model features for analytics customers.
Machine Learning Engineer, Bluewater Learning
Brisbane
Fatima builds and evaluates AI tutoring features used by secondary school students.
Inside the programme
Keynotes open each day and closing plenaries bring everyone back together. In between, three streams run side by side.
River Room / streamed online
8 sessions
Bridge Room / streamed online
8 sessions
Lantern Room / in person only
8 sessions
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