Mar 31
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Niels Bantilan (Union) Keynote at the Coding Agents Conference at the Computer History Museum, March 3rd, 2026. Abstract // Building agents isn’t just coding—it’s surviving infrastructure, and Niels Bantilan knows the brutal truth: durable, self-healing, debuggable systems beat flashy features every time, because if your agents can’t handle failure, they’re just expensive paperweights. Bio // Niels is the Chief Machine Learning Engineer at Union.ai, and core maintainer of Flyte, an open source workflow orchestration tool, author of UnionML, an MLOps framework for machine learning microservices, and creator of Pandera, a statistical typing and data testing tool for scientific data containers. His mission is to help data science and machine learning practitioners be more productive. He has a Masters in Public Health with a specialization in sociomedical science and public health informatics, and prior to that a background in developmental biology and immunology. His research interests include reinforcement learning, AutoML, creative machine learning, and fairness, accountability, and transparency in automated systems.