Building for Core Devs: How OP Labs Accelerates Protocol Engineering

Mon, Jun 16, 2025, 03:26 PM · 11:42

What happens when you start treating your core devs as customers, and build out specialized tooling, platforms and processes to make their work easier and their lives better? On this talk, I’ll share how the Platforms engineering team at OP Labs identified the pain points that Protocol devs face when working with the OP Stack (especially around testing and releases) and built dedicated devnets tooling, new E2E testing frameworks, and updated release pipelines to speed up our release cadence and improve our confidence in OP Stack releases and hardforks.