From the Front Lines: Solving Real-World Tech Challenges at Sky, PayPal, and Bitcoin Association

📅 Sep 10, 2025

🕣 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM EDT

We often focus on what technologies do, but it's how they do it that defines real-world success or failure. This talk explores how performance, resilience, security, scalability, and cost-efficiency have shaped some of the world's most demanding platforms.

Drawing on real engineering stories, we'll go behind the scenes to uncover:

• Sky's mysterious performance issues: The root cause of problems in their complex application stack.

• PayPal's fraud detection system: How it became 10x more effective than the industry standard.

• Bitcoin's near derailment: Non-functional design flaws that almost stopped a technological revolution.

If you're curious about the hidden forces behind high-stakes technology decisions, this talk is for you.

Speaker

Behrad Babaee

Principal Solutions Architect