Speaker: May Walter
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Co-Founder and CTO @Hud
May Walter is Co-Founder and CTO of Hud, focused on bridging the gap between complex production environments and AI code generation.
May is a software engineer, researcher, and serial CTO with deep roots in operating system internals and cloud runtime optimization. Prior to Hud, she built and led engineering organizations as CTO at Santa and Bond (acquired by REEF Technology). Earlier in her career, May spent eight years working as a vulnerability researcher, cybersecurity engineer, and engineering leader in a highly demanding intelligence technology environment.
Across these roles, May led hundreds of engineers and security researchers and has become an expert in both runtime internals and scaling engineering organizations.
May has a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA. She is a frequent speaker on the topics of low-level internals engineering, leadership, and engineering culture.
Session
Beyond Observability: Implementing Runtime Guardrails for Production AI Agents
Agentic engineering thrives in controlled environments but often falters in dynamic production systems.