GitHub Design Engineering spotlights Impeccable creator Paul Bakaus & Figma's Dr. Setor Zilevu & other exceptional makers at the GitHub HQ in San Francisco.

4-6 PM

Come see where AI & design engineering are going next. Learn how the people closest to the edge turn new possibilities into meaningful work, & how they decide what is worth putting into the world. Learn more about Impeccable in @cassidoo's walkthrough of Impeccable in the new GitHub Copilot app to learn more about Paul's new skill. Watch Dr. Zilevu's talk at Config 2026 on Own The Loop.

Who is Paul Bakaus? Paul Bakaus is a product engineer, two-time founder, & creative technologist who has spent more than 20 years working where code, design, & culture meet. He created jQuery UI, helped shape Chrome DevTools, AMP, Web Stories, & Spotter Studio, & has consistently built tools that make creative work faster & more expressive.

Today, he is the founder & CEO of Renaissance Geek, whose first product, Impeccable, helps AI coding agents understand design & has already reached more than 40,000 GitHub stars & 300,000 installs. https://github.com/pbakaus

Who is Setor Zilevu? Dr. Zilevu is a computer scientist & AI researcher who has built his career at the intersection of AI & UX. He earned his Ph. D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Virginia Tech, developed the Z Methodology for human-AI collaboration, & created a clinically tested stroke-rehabilitation platform.

After leading consumer AI research at Meta, he is now a Staff Researcher at Figma focused on AI evaluations. He was named an MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 & created NYU Tandon's UX for AI curriculum. https://setorzilevu.com/