Technical Talks

Joey Baker

Senior Engineering Manager | Render

Build Reliable Voice Agents With Durable Execution

Workshops

Production-grade voice agents are only as reliable as the infrastructure orchestrating them. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll connect LiveKit voice conversations to Render Workflows for reliable, resumable background processing. Durable execution patterns using @app.task decorators and asyncio.gather calls let parallel workflow steps like policy verification, fraud detection, and damage analysis run without babysitting infrastructure, and automatic retries keep agents resilient when downstream services misbehave. Attendees will leave with a working voice agent that hands off to a fault-tolerant background pipeline on Render.

Senior Engineering Manager

Joey Baker

Render

Joey Baker is a seasoned engineering leader at Render, where he led the charge on building Render’s AI Runtime, a suite of tools that power agents, data pipelines, and other highly concurrent workloads. Before Render, he spent nearly six years at Discord, where he built and scaled high-performing teams and shipped popular features like Discord's App Platform, video calls, and screen streaming. He particularly enjoys “building the machine that builds the machine”.