scala.byethebay.io: Brennan Saeta Interview

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Scale By the Bay 2019 is held on November 13-15 in sunny Oakland, California, on the shores of Lake Merritt: https://scale.bythebay.io. Join us! ----- Brennan Saeta Coursera Inc Staff Software Engineer, Technical Committee Chair, Information Security Officer Mountain View, CA Websitetwitter.com/bsaeta Brennan Saeta leads the team responsible for the development environment, core libraries, and the common infrastructure powering the production site at Coursera. Since joining the company, Brennan has written deployment tooling, developed internal frameworks, built a secure Docker-based environment for grading programming assignments, and architected Coursera’s 2nd generation infrastructure–including the migration from PHP to Scala. Brennan also wears that hat of Information Security Officer and is responsible for protecting Coursera’s users and their data. Brennan enjoys sharing his learnings via blog posts (http://betacs.pro, https://building.coursera.org), open source code (https://github.com/saeta), and speaking at conferences.