Peter Malina

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About

Peter Malina is a Google Developer Expert for Cloud and Director of Engineering at Kiwi.com, where he leads teams building platform solutions. Passionate about fostering high-performing engineering cultures, Peter champions the use of innovative technologies. He strongly advocates customer-value-driven engineering and explores how technology can be strategically applied for AI automation and impactful business outcomes.

Session at Gophercamp 2026

The Self-Building Gopher

We've been in the era of agents since the start of 2025. But how do we move from "cool demo" to a tool we don't hesitate to use in production, without spending eight hours debugging an agent's hallucination? This session explores the journey of building and scaling coding agents within the Go ecosystem. We will move beyond the hype of tools like Claude Code and Codex to focus on the engineering discipline required to make them useful. Key highlights include: - The "Test-First" Mandate: Why testing agents from day one is the only way to prevent infinite debugging loops and resource waste. - The Self-Building Gopher: A practical demonstration of using Claude Code and Go to create an agent capable of extending its own capabilities. - Architecture for Autonomy: How to structure a Go codebase so that an agent can safely navigate, implement "skills," and self-correct through a native feedback loop.