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Alina Astapovich

Alina Astapovich

Platform Engineer at Storytel

Alina Astapovich is a Platform Engineer at Storytel, where she builds and runs AI agentic systems. She has spent the past couple of years working with AI agents, and holds a master’s degree in Neurotechnologies and Software Engineering along with a Solutions Architect certification.

She has a natural fascination with the parallels between the human brain and the systems we build — the thread running through her XXL keynote. Alina is an active conference speaker, regularly sharing her work on AI agents and platform engineering with the wider tech community.

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How Memory Works, from the Human Brain to AI Agents

Level 200 English Dec 8, 2026 · Apenheul

AI agent memory sounds complicated until you realize there is already a perfect example of it: your own brain. Each type and technique of agent memory matched to the part of the brain it mirrors — then shown at work in a real agentic system in production: how it decides what to remember, how it recalls the right thing at the right moment, and how it forgets the rest.

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