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Keynote: Built to Evolve: 13 Years of GraphQL - Elena Bukareva, Software Engineering Manager & Braxton Bragg, Senior Product Manager, Meta
Tuesday May 19, 2026 9:25am - 9:45am PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
In 2015, we promised GraphQL would be "easy to learn and use". Ten years, and hundreds of billions of daily API calls later, we've learned that not all our hopes and promises turned out to be true.

This keynote is an honest retrospective from inside Meta. We'll share which assumptions didn't survive contact with thousands of engineers, the complexity traps we fell into, and what’s driving the new wave of GraphQL adoption and popularity at Meta.

Whether you're GraphQL-curious or GraphQL-exhausted, this is a rare look behind the curtain and a preview of what re-inventing GraphQL at scale actually looks like.
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Elena Bukareva

Software Engineering Manager, Meta
Software Engineering Manager at Meta, leading the Mobile GraphQL Platform. Focused on building scalable, intuitive GraphQL infrastructure and tooling that powers mobile experiences at global scale. Passionate about platform engineering, API design, and enabling product teams to move... Read More →
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Braxton Bragg

Senior Product Manager, Meta
Product manager with 13 years experience on a variety of consumer-facing products. I currently support the Mobile GraphQL platform at Meta.
Tuesday May 19, 2026 9:25am - 9:45am PDT
Grand Ballroom II - IV
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