Beyond the Build: Rise of the Product Engineer
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May 27, 2026 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA
Join technical leaders from Nooks, Decagon, Parallel, and OpenAI for a deep dive on the emerging product engineer-- the technical operator who owns the full motion.
Today, the top 1% of engineers are not just shipping. They're shaping what gets built AND how it reaches market.
We'll discuss:
Turning the right customer signals into engineering initiatives
Mental models for treating GTM as a systems problem
Building the ideal feature feedback loop from the field
Lessons from deploying in complex customer environments
Schedule:
6:00 - 6:30pm: Doors Open (good eats & drinks provided)
6:30 - 7:30pm: Expert Panel and Q&A
7:30 - 8:30pm: Closing & Networking
Panelists:
Rohan Suri, CPO and Co-Founder @ Nooks | prev. ML researcher at Stanford AI Lab
Breuer Brass, RVP of Solutions @ Decagon | prev. Head of Research
Alex Laubscher, Field CTO @ Parallel | prev. Founding Engineer
Shail Pokhral, Codex, Forward Deployed Team @ OpenAI | prev. Lead Software Engineer
Date:
May 27, 2026
Time:
6:00 PM
8:30 PM
Event website: https://luma.com/l75r3gjo
Event type:
Business
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