Joel Spolsky is cofounder of HASH, a startup working on the Block Protocol, an open standard for data-driven, structured blocks, so that web applications are both human and machine readable.

He was the CEO and co-founder of Stack Overflow, a network of Q&A sites visited by over 100 million people every month. He is a globally-recognized expert on the software development process. His website Joel on Software (joelonsoftware.com) is popular with software developers around the world and has been translated into over thirty languages. As the founder of Fog Creek Software (now Glitch) in New York City, he created FogBugz, a popular project management system for software teams, and Trello, a popular online project management application. Joel has worked at Microsoft, where he designed VBA as a member of the Excel team, and at Juno Online Services, developing an Internet client used by millions. He has written four books: User Interface Design for Programmers (Apress, 2001), Joel on Software (Apress, 2004), More Joel on Software (Apress, 2008), and Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky’s Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent (Apress, 2007). Joel holds a BS from Yale in Computer Science. Before college he served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a paratrooper, and he was one of the founders of Kibbutz Hanaton. Today he serves as the co-founder of HASH.

Arik Shtilman is CEO and co-founder of Rapyd, the leading fintech-as-a-service platform. Arikfounded Rapyd in 2016 with a singular goal in mind: to provide all the tools businesses need tocreate payment, payout and fintech experiences anywhere in the world.Prior to starting Rapyd, Arik realized there was a massive need to create a way for fintechapplications to scale globally so businesses could invest in expansion – not spend critical timeattempting to build complex payments infrastructure. To solve this glaring challenge hinderinggrowth in the payments space, Arik launched Rapyd as the first “Fintech-as-a-Service” productin the industry, the category-leading full stack of integrated payments, commerce and financialservices capabilities that can be seamlessly embedded into any application. Now, by partneringwith Rapyd, businesses and consumers anywhere in the world can easily engage in local andcross-border transactions in any market.Before Rapyd, Arik founded ITNavigator, a cloud-based contact center and unifiedcommunications platform which was acquired by Avaya in 2013. Arik’s expertise in buildinghigh-growth companies leveraging cutting-edge technologies to meet global customer demandis proven in Rapyd’s fast-paced yet steady growth. Since Rapyd’s launch in 2016, Arik hastaken the company global with offices in Dubai, Tel Aviv, London, San Francisco, Singapore,Reykjavi, Amsterdam and Miami.

David Singleton is chief technology officer at Stripe, where he is responsible for guiding its engineering and design teams as they build economic infrastructure for the internet. Since joining Stripe, David has helped grow the technology org across the US and developed new engineering hubs in Singapore and Dublin as well as Stripe’s fifth hub, remote engineering, across the globe.

David joined Stripe after an 11-year career at Google where he was VP of Engineering leading product development and coordinating more than 15 different hardware partnerships. Prior to Google, David spent three years at Symbian, the pioneering mobile phone operating system, developing operating system software and leading handset development projects for Nokia and Samsung smartphones.

David has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, skiing, and tinkering with neural networks. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two kids.

John is an award-winning game designer, level designer, and programmer whose work portfolio includes 130 games, of which 107 have been published commercially. John Romero has co-founded eight widely successful game companies, including id Software, Gazillion Entertainment, and Loot Drop. He co-owns Loot Drop and Romero Games. He is regarded as one of the world’s best game designers and his products have won over a hundred awards to prove it. Furthermore, John Romero is fully a self-taught designer and programmer, drawing inspiration from early Apple II programmers.

Brenda Romero is an award-winning game designer, Fulbright scholar, entrepreneur, artist, writer and creative director who entered the video game industry in 1981.

Miško Hevery is the CTO at Builder.io, where he is helping to empower anyone to create blazing fast sites. Previously he has worked at Google, where he created Angular, AngularJS and was co-creator of Karma. Before focusing on making the web better, he brought testing culture to Google and the world through his blog. Miško started his career by designing digital circuits and moved to databases, full-stack development, and finally, front-end frameworks, giving him a unique perspective. He understands all of the layers from the web down to a transistor.

Anu Bharadwaj is the President of Atlassian, focused on bringing Product, Business, Design and Engineering teams closer together to deliver innovative products that customers love while supercharging the growth of Atlassian’s businesses.

As an accomplished executive with nearly 20 years of experience in leading transformations and building billion-dollar businesses for high-growth startups and enterprises, Anu brings deep expertise across Product, Operations, and Engineering to help teams deliver customer-focused growth. As COO of Atlassian, she was responsible for scaling a distributed workforce in 13 countries while leading Atlassian’s SaaS transformation, building the Cloud enterprise business, and scaling cloud platform teams. Before Atlassian, she held various leadership roles at Microsoft, and launched multiple products for the Visual Studio ALM team.

Anu is deeply passionate about growing diverse teams and making the world a better place through technology and effective philanthropy. She serves on the board of Outsystems, advises young and emerging companies (Snyk, Xembly) and is part of the Operator Collective venture fund that pioneered the collective venture model to empower diverse founders.

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Dan is a software engineer on the React team at Meta.

Working with Microsoft technologies since VB6 I've been there, and done that. My main interest right now is helping fellow developers in whatever way is good, mentoring or coaching, writing blog posts, building SDKs, and anything that helps make someone's work day a bit more enjoyable. For that purpose, I've created https://www.wearedotnet.io together with a fellow community member.

Wei Hu is the Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Oracle. He leads the development of mission-critical database capabilities as well Blockchain, Kubernetes, Microservices, and Globally Distributed Databases.Mr. Hu has B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has been with Oracle since 1998, holds more than 40 patents, and is the author and co-author of several books and papers.

Anna John originates from Stockholm, Sweden and moved to Barcelona 3 years ago to join the online bank N26.From traveling around the world to Head of Engineering at an international fintech company, starting her career late and without a proper university degree Anna has proven that anything is possible if you set your mind on it.

Mike Butcher (M.B.E.) is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch. He has written for UK national newspapers and magazines and been named one of the most influential people in European technology by Wired UK.

He has spoken at the World Economic Forum, Web Summit, and DLD. He has interviewed Tony Blair, Dmitry Medvedev, Kevin Spacey, Lily Cole, Pavel Durov, Jimmy Wales, and many other tech leaders and celebrities. Mike is a regular broadcaster, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, CNBC, Channel 4, Al Jazeera and Bloomberg.

He has also advised UK Prime Ministers and the Mayor of London on tech startup policy, as well as being a judge on The Apprentice UK. GQ magazine named him one of the 100 Most Connected Men in the UK.

He is the co-founder ThePathfounder.com newsletter; TheEuropas.com (the Annual European Tech Startup Conference & Awards for 12 years); and the non-profits Techfugees.com, TechVets.co, and Coadec.com.

He was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2016 for services to the UK technology industry and journalism.

Hi, I am Francesco. I am 39, from Rome, Italy.I am a Computer Scientist who worked from 2017 to 2020 on the Copernicus project for the European Space Agency.I have been active on Social Media since January 2020, especially Twitter, YouTube, and Discord.I became a Docker Captain in June 2021I've interviewed 200+ Developers on my YouTube Channel.I am currently creating content about Web3. AndCurrently Developer Advocate at daily.devI do live-coding sessions, and I love creating short videos

Dr. Rahima Yakoob, has more than 15 years of experience in IT and Automotive. Rahima is currently heading the Software Development team at Porsche AG. Before Porsche AG, Rahima worked in several expert and leadership positions at Mercedes-Benz AG. Rahima has completed her PhD in Automotive Supply Chain and is a visiting professor at University Esslingen for MBA module Digital Transformation.

Martin Wezowski is the Chief Futurist, and Head of NVT Future Hub, for SAP’s Technology & Innovation. With a drive to "lead from the future" and a mission to to unfold what is next for the future of human work, our global ecosystems, and SAP. Martin crafts future outlooks, concepts, defines and runs long term innovation frameworks.

He is lecturing as a faculty member of Futur/IO, a European future institute and other education programs. He moved across a range of disciplines from UX, to systems, to define innovation visions and strategies. 2017 he was named 1 of 100 most innovative minds in Germany as the “Software visionary” (“Handelsblatt”).

"I want to innovate what we call "work" out-of our lives. We are shaping SAP's innovation vision; the empathic symbiosis between humans and machines, investigating how we learn technology, and most of all, how technology learns us, especially when tech moves forward faster than how we, leaders, developers, humans seem to manage the implications"

Maezza Romero is a Community Manager at Romero Games. With 5 years of experience in the industry, she has used her acquired skills to build and manage large community spaces, such as the Romero Games Discord which has recently celebrated 7,000 members.

The Romero Games Twitter, the company’s biggest social media page with nearly 9,000 followers is a fun and nostalgic space for fans of Romero’s legacy titles such as DOOM and Quake, offering discussions on what DOOM weapon one would bring to a desert island, and other lively user polls and QnA. The current social media landscape is challenging, with new platforms overtaking the next.

In 2023, fast-form video content is the meta, so Maezza has had to adapt her social media management to platforms such as TikTok and Instagram Reels. By utilising traditional social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as modern platforms, Maezza creates content for diehard Millennial and Gen-X fans.

Yenny is a Senior Director of Engineering at RapidAPI. We make it easier to find, connect to, and manage APIs across multiple cloud environments - from the world’s largest API Hub. Previously, my teams and I worked on Conversational AI at Rasa and Adtech at Yelp. I have led organizations with between 4 and 40 people.An engineer at heart, I enjoy solving problems. For an engineering leader, problems come in the shape of organizational, people, and technical challenges. I support organizations to achieve Radical Clarity by asking the why and digging deep into these problems.

Ire Aderinokun is an independent User Interface Engineer from Lagos, Nigeria. She is an invited Google Expert, specialising in the core user interface technologies of HTML, CSS, and Javascript, but is interested in all aspects of technology. She is a co-founder of Helicarrier (YC S18), a company building cryptocurrency infrastructure for Africa, and is passionate about how this technology can support global financial freedom.With a decade of experience in the industry, Ire has shared her knowledge though her blog, bitsofco.de, and speaking at conferences around Africa and the world.

Keren is a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience in the industry.

She holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and is passionate about React and learning new technologies. Keren volunteers as a program manager at Baot, a community that supports women in R&D in their professional growth. She instructs and inspires developers to write blogs in her tech blogging workshops. Keren has experience as a dev community leader and a co-organizer of meetups and events. And in her not-so-spare time, she studies psychology. Her hobbies include drawing, photography, and singing.

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Olivier Gaudin is a software engineer who co-founded Sonar 15 years ago. As its CEO, Olivier has built a global multi-billion dollar company by helping developers build better code. Today, 7 million developers and over 400,000 organizations utilize the Sonar solution to achieve a Clean Code state.

As Co-founder and CPO of WeAreDevelopers, Thomas Pamminger has helped shape the platform into a leading job hub for Europe's developers, hosting a transformative congress to empower this community

Former CEO of Wollzelle, Thomas revolutionized digital experiences for clients like Gucci and launched two influential SaaS products, Fluxiom and Maiko, serving customers worldwide, showcasing his dedication to advancing the digital landscape.

Julia Furst Morgado is a Global Technologist on the Product Strategy team at Veeam Software based in New York City. Her passion is making Cloud Native technologies and DevOps best practices easier to understand by sharing her knowledge and experiences. She is also committed to empowering communities as the organizer of the NY Code & Coffee Meetup, AWS Community Builder, Women Techmakers Ambassador and Girl Code Ambassador.

Rowdy Rabouw is a web developer with over 25 years of experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. Currently, he is a Front-End Focused Senior DevOps Engineer working on Vue.js and Node.js projects with special attention for accessibility. Rowdy loves watching superhero movies and Formula One races and enjoys riding on his mountain bike to unwind.

Angie Jones is the Global Vice President of Developer Relations for TBD, Block’s new business unit focused on decentralized technologies. She is an award-winning teacher and international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software companies and conferences all over the world.

As a Master Inventor, Angie is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than 25 patented inventions in the areas of metaverses, collaboration software, social networking, smarter planet, and software development processes.

Scott Chacon is the former cofounder of GitHub; now cofounder of GitButler, a next generation version control client, based in Berlin. Scott helped grow GitHub from 4 cofounders to 450 employees over 8 years, eventually being acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Scott is also the author of Pro Git, published by Apress and found online at git-scm.com. In unrelated news, he holds a WSET Level 3 certification in Wines and Spirits and owns a dog rescue outside of Berlin.

Prashanth is a proven technology executive with extensive experience leading and scaling high-growth global organizations. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s Cloud & Infrastructure Services portfolio of businesses, including the Managed Public Clouds, Private Clouds, Colocation and Managed Security businesses.

Before that, Prashanth held a range of senior leadership roles at Rackspace including Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s high growth, global business focused on the world’s leading Public Clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Alibaba Cloud, which became the fastest growing business in Rackspace’s history.

Prior to joining Rackspace, Prashanth was a Vice President at Barclays Investment Bank, focused on providing Strategic and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) advice for clients in the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) industries. Prashanth was also a Manager at Capgemini Consulting where he managed Operations transformation engagements and consulting teams across the US. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an M.Eng in Engineering Management from Cornell University and a B.S. in Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Maine.

After finishing my masters in software engineering I headed toward iOS development, since then I developed a wide variety of iOS apps.Software development is my passion, quite lucky that I love what I am doing, a never ending story with learning new stuff.Accessibility topic for apps has been lately a topic that interests me, making apps accessible for all people is a must as it is also considered a human right.

From studying fashionmanagement, to working in fashion, to completing a bootcamp, Valeria is a typical new-generation developer who likes to think about problems in a creative way and approaches problem thinking from a different perspective.

Software Architect by choice, Engineering Manager by accident and REBT practitioner by need. Fourteen plus years in the industry have taught me some stuff which I turn into written, drawn and recorded content. Proud father of 1 kid & two blogs!

Igor Todorovski is a technical leader at IBM, where he serves as the Technical Lead for the z/OS Open Source initiative. With over 15 years of experience in the field, Igor is a seasoned expert in open source technologies and has played a vital role in bringing a wide range of tools and languages to the z/OS platform, including Node.js, OpenSSL, Git, Vim, Bash, and Swift. Through his leadership, he has successfully ported these technologies to the platform, making them accessible to a wider audience.

Daniel is a core team member of Nuxt - previously a CTO of a SaaS startup. His open-source work has a focus in the Vue.js and Nuxt ecosystems and he's involved in consultancy with companies around the world, particularly around JAMstack, serverless and software architecture. He's based in the North East of England where he lives with his family, three cats, and a dog.

Ivan is the Engineer's Editor - a writer, editor, and entrepreneur who helps tech people tell their stories as the Director of Developer Content at Infobip - a leading global communication platform and Croatia's first unicorn - and Founding Editor of Netokracija, the most successful tech media company in the region that he started at age 22.

He has trained 100s of engineers to write in his "Writing for Engineers" workshops that have helped numerous tech teams in companies such as Photomath, Sofa Score, Raiffeisen Bank, and Deutsche Telecom with their developer content and employer branding.

Fanny Jimenez is Chief of Staff at Business Insider Germany. She was previously Head of the Career, Life and Science department and Interim Head of Audio, Video & Social Media. She holds a doctorate in psychology and is an expert on all topics between psychology and business. She has taught business journalism at the BSP Business & Law School Berlin - Hochschule für Management und Recht, is the author of the book "Ich und mein Spleen" and hosts the psychology podcast "NEVER MIND - Psychologie in 15 Minuten".

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Isabell Heider studied IT-Security and Forensics (M.Eng.) at Wismar University of Applied Sciences. She is working as associate security consultant at IBM and is active as IBM Quantum Ambassador and Qiskit Advocate.

I am a data scientist with a passion for quantum computing. I completed my Master's degree in Computational Physics at Stockholm University, where I gained a solid foundation in both physics and computing. After graduation, I became a data scientist at IBM - Vienna.My personal innovation topic is quantum computing. As an IBM Quantum Ambassador, I am dedicated to sharing my knowledge and excitement about this cutting-edge technology with others.

Timo Salm is the first Solutions Engineer for Developer Experience in EMEA at VMware, focusing on the VMware Tanzu Application Platform and commercial Spring products. In this role, he’s responsible for educating customers on these products' value, vision, and strategy and ensuring that they succeed by working closely on different levels of abstractions of modern applications and modern infrastructure. Before Timo joined Pivotal and VMware, he worked for more than seven years for consulting firms in the automotive industry as a software architect and full-stack developer.

Kent Inge has been working with Software Engineering since 2005. In that time he has contributed to numerous projects and systems. He has also published several academic and a couple of opinioin pieces on various toopis in Software Engineering. His current interests reolve around green and sustainale software engineering, model based methods and security.

Ramona is a software engineer with roots in quality assurance. She owns both views of the product - that of a tester and a developer. Ramona primarily uses this to strengthen trust in test automation and support the testers and developers alike, becoming a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, Women Techmaker Ambassador, and Cypress ambassador.

As Field CTO, Alex is responsible for working with sales, marketing, product, and engineering to articulate the value Rapid's API Hub platform provides to our customers. After holding a number of roles at Rapid, Alex’s ability to speak about the product and company strategy from a technical perspective is vital to the company's success. Alex joined the RapidAPI team after meeting the team at a hackathon they were sponsoring and immediately recognized the value that Rapid was providing to developers around the world.

Thomas Chauchefoin (@swapgs@infosec.exchange) is a Vulnerability Researcher in the Sonar R&D team. With a strong background in offensive security, he helps uncover and responsibly disclose 0-days in major open-source software. He also participated in competitions like Pwn2Own or Hack-a-Sat and was nominated for two Pwnies Awards for his research on PHP supply chain security.

With more than 10 years of experience with digital products and business models, Pascal Schäfer has worked in and advised companies of all sizes: from start-ups and SMEs to corporations and multinationals in a wide range of industries. In doing so, he has gained experience in working with all types of teams: internal teams, development agencies, freelancers, coaches.Today, he leads the community and sourcing team of Malt, a freelancer marketplace that brings together 60,000 companies and 500,000 independent professionals of all professions.

Dr. Humera Noor Minhas developed her love for data early on in her professional life and is still amazed by its power. She did her doctorate in Computer Vision and Machine Learning and has almost twenty-five years of experience in leading teams working with (big) data. She’s passionate about making a difference in people’s lives and this is reflected in the projects she picks up. Currently, Dr. Humera is responsible for ad-filtering enablement as Director of Engg. at eyeo.

Graduated from Technical University Braunschweig in the field of automotive engineering in 2017 and started working as an Automotive Systems Engineer for IAV GmbH. The main focus for the first two years was on connected functions and in-vehicle communication – which covers the communication design as well as timing and performance evaluation of such. Afterwards, the focus shifted to integration and reconfiguration of automotive applications using containers and suitable management platforms.

Olaf currently leads the technical/professional services at Edge Delta, and edge observability startup. Prior to Edge Delta he has built and lead post sales technical teams at metadata management company Alation (1 year) and at observability and security company Sumo Logic (7 years)

I am an Engineer at Deutsche Bank Berlin Technology Centre. Starting with JavaScript, I am experienced in lots of programming languages and currently work with Python and C++. I enjoy working with both languages and would like to share my knowledge with the WeAreDevelopers community about the best practices for their combination.

As an experienced software engineer with a background in developing successful React and React Native apps, I am passionate about teaching and mentoring others in the tech industry. I am particularly dedicated to supporting and empowering women in tech and inspiring young girls to pursue careers in technology. Along with my technical knowledge, I am also a frequent speaker at tech conferences, where I share my insights and knowledge with the community.

Tomas loves PHP and connecting people, so he founded Czech & Slovak PHP Community [Pehapkari](https://pehapkari.cz) in 2015, where all PHP developers can share their knowledge, chat on Slack or grab a beer.His **passion is open-source for lazy people** - instant upgrades and coding standards. He takes care of [Rector](https://github.com/rectorphp/rector) and [EasyCodingStandard](https://github.com/Symplify/EasyCodingStandard) packages.

Matt Butcher (CEO) is a founder of Fermyon. He is one of the original creators of Helm, Brigade, CNAB, OAM, Glide, and Krustlet. He has written or co-written many books, including "Learning Helm" and "Go in Practice." He is a co-creator of the "Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes" series. These days, he works mostly on WebAssembly projects such as Spin, Bindle, and Bartholomew. Matt holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He lives in Colorado.

Llywelyn Griffith-Swain is a Senior Manager Heading up SRE for Cloud Engineering. He is a leading on the technical delivery of the Telco As A Service platform and also heads up the UK Digital SRE function. Having been worked as a test management, network engineering, IT Operations lead, SRE and SRE management Llywelyn is passionate about all things SRE and Platform Engineering. He also enjoys playing the piano, hiking and rock climbing

Dr. Oliver Wäldrich has more than 20 years experience in java software development projects. In his role as a software architect and software engineer he supports teams at DKB to realize complex software projects using software engineering approaches. He is especially interested in improving and optimizing communication and development processes in cross-functional teams.

Dana is CEO and Co-Founder of paged, a Social-Tech Startup fostering inclusion in the digital space.During her studies in cognitive science, she has been involved in various research projects investigating the visual system e.g. at University of California, Berkeley and New York University.With this science background, she now devotes all her passion to paged, developing different AI accessibility solutions for more inclusion of neurodiverse people to digital content.Dana has been selected as Voice of Economic Transformation 2023 by Bertelsmann Stiftung and is Tech Speaker at OMR 2023.

Alex is a web development consultant in his twenties. When not working on open-source projects like Nuxt, he gives talks at conferences, writes blog posts or consults other companies on web development with a focus on Vue and Nuxt.

* Graduated in mathematics* Holistic perspective on computers: former developer, sysadmin, security officer, university teacher and even computer salesman* Now a security consultant specializing in application security* Open source lover

As a consultant with more than 10 years of experience in software engineering under my belt I have seen both awesome and awful code. The cloud and its way of working and interacting amazes me, but I'm also excited about the most theoretical and basic foundations of software engineering, architecture, and collaboration in general to build great software.

As a Product manager, Digital designer and front end developer for over 20 years, Fredrik has dabbled with most things web related and is currently leading product management of the popular Open Source rich text editor TinyMCE.

Paul Gerste (@pspaul95) is a Vulnerability Research in the Sonar R&D team. In the last months, he has been hunting bugs in popular JavaScript and TypeScript applications, yielding critical vulnerabilities in projects such as Rocket.Chat, NodeBB, and Blitz.js. Paul has also been a CTF player and organizer for some years and loves to hack all web-related things.

Mikkel Mørk Hegnhøj is the head of product and developer relationship at Fermyon. He has a long background in product management, customer success, and developer engagement at Microsoft, working on products such as Service Fabric, Azure Kubernetes Services, Azure Container Instances, and the open-source project Virtual Kubelet. He’s passionate about developer and operator experiences, with a mission to make the path from idea to reality frictionless and quick. Mikkel lives in a tiny and beautiful village in Denmark.

Liran Tal is a software developer, and a GitHub Star, world-recognized for his activism in open source communities and advancing web and Node.js security. He engages in security research through his work in the OpenJS Foundation and the Node.js ecosystem security working group, and further promotes open source supply chain security as an OWASP project lead. Liran is also a published author of Essential Node.js Security and O'Reilly's Serverless Security. At Snyk, he is leading the developer advocacy team and on a mission to empower developers with better dev-first security.

Aarik Mudgal is a passionate Engineering Manager with an industry experience of 8 years and a certified cloud architect. Also, he’s a DevOps and SRE enthusiast. He has been part of Metro Digital GmbH for over two years. He is working for many initiatives, such as METRO X, an initiative focused on core wholesale business revolving around Products, Services, Consulting, Digital tools, Equipment, and Marketplace.

Always been passionate about web development, mostly focused on the front-end and full-stack TypeScript. I especially work with React and NestJS. Since 2018 I'm focused on shipping quality software and building great products with xtream.

As a software architect, consultant and trainer at embarc Software Consulting GmbH, Falk Sippach is always on the lookout for that spark of passion that he can ignite in his participants, customers and colleagues. He has been supporting mostly agile software development projects in the Java environment for over 15 years. As an active part of the community (co-organizer of the JUG Darmstadt), he also likes to share his knowledge in articles, blog posts, as well as in presentations at conferences or user group meetings and supports the organization of various events.

Axel is a technical enterprise architect at powercloud since a bit more than 2 years. In his 15 years of various experience in all sizes of enterprises he developed a knack, a love, a passion for 3 things: Pipelines, Containers and the Infrastructure as Code.

Bastian Eicher is a software engineer at DeepL, focusing on containerization, observability and all things C#/.NET. Bastian loves brainstorming API designs, automating deployment processes and sharing cool new ways to build stuff on Kubernetes. He maintains a number of open-source projects, such as TypedRest (https://typedrest.net/) and Zero Install (https://0install.net/).

Tatiana Chervova is a Lead Technical Consultant at NTT DATA with 8 years of experience in designing and implementing enterprise applications.She holds a M.Sc. in Computing in the Humanities from University Bamberg and has worked on numerous projects in automotive industry.She started as a Java developer and now focuses on topics such as cloud-native application development, microservices, containerization and DevOps practices.Outside of work, Tatiana enjoys hiking in Bavarian Alps, she is also a passionate knitter.

Zaid Zaim is a passionate technologist - As a Spatial Computing Expert at Ignore Gravity (IG), Zaid's responsibilities span a spectrum of exciting and innovative areas. His advocacy work involves building and nurturing communities in the AR/VR space, fostering an environment of collaborative growth and learning. Zaid is instrumental in establishing a solid foundation for IG and potential partners to make their mark in the Metaverse, a testament to his forward-thinking and visionary approach.

Zaid adds a dose of fun to technological innovation. Projects he is leading ranges from Cultural Heritage to Healthcare using MR for Dentistry.

Zaid's unwavering commitment to technology has made him a global multiplyer for MR - His efforts in sharing knowledge on MR technologies and engaging with tech and dev communities worldwide have earned him the coveted Microsoft MVP award.

By "Ignoring Gravity" – the marriage of the tangible world and the digital sphere – paints the picture of an immersive, boundless future he is helping shape.
Today, he is continuing his learning journey at CODE University of Applied Sciences in Berlin.

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Marco Plaul is a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, where he leverages his experience to help enterprise retail customers bring their ideas to life. While he works across a wide range of technologies, Marco has a track record of diving deeper with customers Serverless, IoT and Machine Learning topics.

I'm a Content Creator, indie developer, and digital nomad.I write a bunch of stuff about building IT businesses and production-ready apps. Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, and my blog.Since my teenage years, I have worked as a freelance full-stack developer mostly with startups and small businesses. In 2020 I decided to use this knowledge to scale a digital agency and try to build something for myself. As of 2022, I'm building businesses in public, and helping developers become entrepreneurs.

Radu is the co-founder and CTO of Fermyon, a startup building the next generation of cloud computing using WebAssembly.He is an open source software engineer passionate about WebAssembly, distributed systems, and artificial intelligence.In the past he worked at Microsoft Azure in the DeisLabs research and development team, where he was a core maintainer for multiple server-side WebAssembly and distributed systems projects.He is an avid learner, loves classical music, and enjoys a good bubble tea with a bicycle ride.

Richard Bown helps organisations confidently approach legacy systems and tech debt through best practice, architecture, team and organisational approaches. He's worked for over 25 years in the development and deployment of software and IT systems.

Giorgio Boa is a full stack developer and the front-end ecosystem is his passion. He started to develop applications in 2006 and in 2012 he falls in love with JavaScript. He is also active in open source ecosystem, he loves learn and studies new things. He is very ambitious and he tries to improve himself every day.

Reka has been working as a software developer since 2005, mainly in Python since 2019.She worked as a senior software engineer in fintech. Besides the customer-facing financial products, she also created CLI tools and cookiecutters for internal usage.Since October 2021: Sourcery* Building the DSL for project-specific code quality rules.* Converting the Sourcery CLI into a primary tool (alongside the IDE plugins, which had been the main focus before). Since October 2022: developer advocate, maintaining Sourcery's open source repos. She's an enthusiastic runner and chess player.

Eleftheria is a Community Manager at Hashnode and a front-end developer/UX researcher from Greece. She creates educational content for several platforms such as Packt, Udemy, Skillshare, at the same time, she produces motivational talks and how-to videos on her YouTube channel. She is self-motivated and working hard to make this world a little bit better every day. When she isn’t glued to a computer screen, Eleftheria spends time working out and strolling in nature. Her friends would describe her as easy-going and the fastest chocolate eater.

Stefan is co-author of Domain Storytelling: A Collaborative, Visual, and Agile Way to Build Domain-Driven Software (Addison-Wesley). He studied Software Engineering and has a PhD in computer science. Since 2005, Stefan has worked for WPS – Workplace Solutions, helping teams develop software that does the right job the right way.

Justyna works as a Group Product Manager at DeepL. She is responsible for the Core Platform track, you can also blame her for the early versions of DeepL Write. She has explored many sides of IT before: programming, R&D, academia, translations, product, engineering, leadership. She has finally recognised product as the place to be, as she enjoys the impact of the role and the challenges brought by indirect leadership. Justyna lives in Poznań, Poland with her husband, two little daughters and one very big dog. She runs an airbnb in a Polish forest, very popular among the citizens of Berlin.

Roland H. Grabner is professor of Educational Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychology, University of Graz, Austria. Before this position, he worked as postgraduate researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and at the University of Göttingen, Germany. His research focuses on innovative ways to enhance cognitive performance and learning and on talent development in various domains.

Nele Uhlemann is a Developer Advocate at Fiberplane. Her passion is helping the open source community use and understand Fiberplane’s technologies and build a bridge between business and technical users to leverage the full potential of Business Process Management. Nele works as a consultant at Fiberplane, leading workshops with developers and business users. Therefore, she understands the need to find a common language to enable agility in both domains.

Rupak Chakraborty leads the Machine Learning team at eyeo, which is focused on developing deep learning-based ad-filtering algorithms for AdBlock and Adblock Plus. He started his career at Adobe, where he has worked across many core product teams like Acrobat. His prior work has mostly focused on developing large-scale language-agnostic text classification and modeling systems. When he is not busy with work he likes to get his hands dirty with state-of-the-art Machine Learning algorithms. On a personal front, he is an avid traveler and has visited more than 60 countries in the last 4 years.

Falk Langer graduated its PhD in computer since at University Augsburg in 2015. From 2006 to 2014 he was working as research assistant ta Fraunhofer Institute for Embedded Systems and Communication Technologies ESK in Munich. From 2014 he is team-manager at IAV GmbH responsible for automotive software development with focus on safety and security. Since 2020 he holds an endowment professorship for “Connectivity and Services Automotive Software” at University of Applied Sciences Mittweida.

Currently working with the CKEditor 5 core team on the editor framework, its ecosystem, and developer experience. Ex-developer turned into a product person but still codes for fun and brain practice. Strong opinions weakly held, and often overruled by his two kids.

After my study of computer science I started working for Capgemini as a Software Engineer in 2019. Now I have 4 years of development experience and worked with MuleSoft for over 2 years. In this time I always worked in agile projects for our clients.

A software engineer for 20 years, Dennis has worked remotely or in hybrid work setups for the majority of his career. Dennis has a strong background in developing and maintaining hospitality, business, financial banking systems, e-commerce, and entertainment applications. Often he worked independently, but considers himself a perfect team player with experience in leadership.

Filip Hric is a DevRel at Replay.io He teaches testers about web development and developers about testing. Filip is a Cypress.io ambassador, leads a “Learn Cypress.io” community on Discord and he has a blog at filiphric.com where he publishes Cypress.io tips. He’s an international keynote speaker and leading expert on test automation in Cypress.io. As author and instructor of live Cypress workshop, he taught hundreds of testers and developers about good practices and advanced concepts for testing in Cypress. Enjoys running, playing guitar and spending time with his wife and four children.

Hila Israeli, a senior software engineer with over 8 years of experience, a scrum master and a public speaker.While working at OwnBackup she was a leading part in building 3 different products from scratch to production.Hila graduated Bs.C in Computer Science and Economics from Tel Aviv University.Was a speaker at two big tech conferences and speaks and organizes meetups for women engineers.Lives with her husband in Tel Aviv, is passionate about hiking, running, and, of course, learning new things.

I'm keenly interested in the ways code communicates to two different audiences at once, the computer as well as other people. This lead me to my current role in improving the development experience at Shopware.Next to my daily work, I'm also one of Shopware's popular Code Camps organizers, which hopes to promote a playful understanding of code in school-aged children.In my off time, I'm a programming language nerd with an interest in functional programming and distributed systems.

Sebastian Schrittwieser is a member of the Security and Privacy (SEC) research group at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Vienna. In 2014 he completed his PhD in technical sciences in the field of information security at the Vienna University of Technology. His research interests include software protection, web application security, and psychological aspects of information security.

Phil is a software engineer in the Vodafone Foundation Instant Network team. After a 28 year career as an Electronic Engineering Technician, Load Balancing and Traffic Management Engineer, Platform Engineer and Automation Engineer; from Planet Online to Vodafone Group Cloud and Hosting. He now gets to work on everything from Linux Kickstart to web apps for the Instant Network team. Outside work he likes film photography, sewing, climbing and building bikes.

Joel Lord (@joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by travelling at various conferences all across the globe.He graduated from college in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he was always in the industry.

Coder, open-sourcerer, developer experience enthusiast, software architect, and entrepreneur. At work, I oversee and consult in enterprise legacy systems modernization for fortune 500s to small businesses. Outside work I love helping NGOs as a full-stack developer and mentor.

Ekaterina specializes in end-to-end AI productization, encompassing the entire process from development to optimized deployment of discriminative and generative AI solutions. Formerly a research engineer in medical image analysis, she holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has authored peer-reviewed publications in image-based 3D reconstruction, localization and tracking.

Maurice Brinkmann is the Product Owner of STACKIT Cloud Foundry with Schwarz IT, who currently focusses on customers’ success with Platform as a Service. Maurice is passionate about PaaS in general and Cloud Foundry in particular. He enjoys supporting the business by driving challenging IT projects and diving deep into innovative solutions. His professional background includes diverse roles, e.g. as Enterprise IT Architect, Intrapreneur, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Consultant, Scrum Master and QA Team Lead in different enterprises.

I'm a health coach for 5 years in Berlin helping individuals with their physical and emotional issues using techniques from Keinesiology, Chinese medicine, yoga, herbalism, Cranial Sacral therapy and massage therapy.

A community-first technologist for Kasten by Veeam Software. Based in the UK with a key focus on technologies such as cloud-native, automation & data management.His role at Kasten is to act as a technical thought leader, community champion and project owner to engage with the community to enable influencers and customers to overcome the challenges of Cloud-Native Data Management and be successful, speaking at events sharing the technical vision and corporate strategy whilst providing ongoing feedback from the field into product management to shape the future success.

Studied Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin with a Master’s degree in 2016 with a focus on databases, web technologies and compilers.Started working for Capgemini in 2011. Currently as a Senior Software Engineer with focus on Java full stack development, integration architecture and MuleSoft.

Born in Spain, mother is from Argentina and my dad is Colombian.Last 10 years I’ve been based out of Berlin. Apart from tech in general, I have a passion for great music, craft beer and grilling.I enjoy attending conferences, sometimes as a volunteer and mostly as a regular attendee.

Michael is a Software Engineer at DeepL and responsible for the Design System team.Since 2019, he has been a UX Engineer specializing in Design Systems and how they can help companies not only deliver consistent UX, but also work more efficiently.Previously, Michael had the opportunity to work with great designers and developers at the renowned agency Jung von Matt. He worked on projects for clients like Google and BMW.However, his love for design and development was ignited in 2004. He wrote his first browser game prototype using PHP and created the graphics with MS Paint.

Tomaž Bratanič is a network scientist at heart, working at the intersection of graphs and machine learning. He has applied these graph techniques to projects in various domains including fraud detection, biomedicine, business-oriented analytics, and recommendations.

Arlemi Turpault leads Developer Advocacy at Postman, the API platform. He started his career as a software engineer doing research and development for Augmented Reality solutions, then naturally turned to developer relations as a deep advocate for great user experiences and access to knowledge.Based in London (UK), and when not interacting with other community members, he can be found reading fantasy books or pretending to be a guitar hero on Rocksmith.

David works as Program manager at Dynatrace's Open Source Program Office. He is driving process, compliance and security efforts around Open source within the company, as well as contribution and the creation of new projects. He also supports projects in their early stages, helping drive adoption and community development for Keptn, OpenFeature and OpenTelemetry, working closely with the engineering teams. David is member of the InnerSource Commons and TODO Group, furthermore he fosters collaboration with foundations and participation in the community and conferences.