WeAreDevelopers World Congress is honored to host a top-notch lineup of speakers who are at the forefront of technology and innovation.
Each year, we are privileged to bring together visionary thinkers, industry leaders, and innovative developers who are not just shaping the future of technology, but redefining it.
Please welcome the first batch of confirmed speakers, and stay tuned as we continue to unveil more exceptional talents joining our lineup.
Scott Farquhar is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Atlassian, a global software company which builds tools to help teams unleash their potential. More than 300,000 large and small organisations across the world use Atlassian’s collaboration products like Jira, Confluence and Trello to help their teams work better together. Scott is also a Co-Founder of Pledge 1%, a movement that inspires early-stage corporate philanthropy.
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.
Scott has been a developer for 30 years and has been blogging at https://hanselman.com for 20 years! He works in Open Source on .NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, Oregon. Scott has been podcasting for over 800 episodes of http://hanselminutes.com over 15 years and 700 episodes of http://www.azurefriday.com. He's written a number of technical books and spoken in person to over one million developers worldwide! He's also on TikTok, which was very likely a huge mistake.
Fascinated by software development since his childhood in Germany, Thomas Dohmke has built a career building tools developers love and accelerating innovations that are changing software development. Currently, Thomas is Chief Executive Officer of GitHub, where he has overseen the launch of the world’s first at-scale AI developer tool, GitHub Copilot. Before his time at GitHub, Thomas previously co-founded HockeyApp and led the company as CEO through its acquisition by Microsoft in 2014, and holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from University of Glasgow, UK.
Sitting on GitHub’s Executive Leadership team, Demetris Cheatham is currently the Chief of Staff for the CEO of GitHub, where she acts as the CEO’s trusted partner to move all of software development forward. Demetris is particularly passionate about the evolving nature of open source in the age of AI. Before her time as COS to the CEO, Demetris was Senior Director for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Strategy at GitHub, the Global Diversity and Inclusion at Lead at Red Hat, and was formerly the first woman and youngest Executive Director to lead the National Bar Association, the United States’ oldest and largest international network of over 65,000 predominantly African-American attorneys and judges.Demetris earned a B.S. in Computer Science with honors from North Carolina A&T State University and a JD/MBA from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and the University of Maryland Robert F. Smith School of Business.
Aleph Alpha Founder & CEO Jonas Andrulis is a serial entrepreneur and former AI R&D manager at Apple’s Special Projects Division (SPG). For several years, Jonas Andrulis has been at the forefront of the development towards transformative AI. His experience ranges from innovative academic experiments to building and operating petabyte machine learning pipelines for computer vision and language processing.
Douglas Crockford is at least partly to blame for the incredible success of JavaScript. He also discovered JSON, the world's best loved data interchange format. He was a researcher at Atari, Director of Technology at Lucasfilm, Director of New Media at Paramount, and a Distinguished Architect at Yahoo and PayPal. He is the author of "JavaScript: The Good Parts_ and _How JavaScript Works".
Constantijn van Oranje leads Techleap.nl, the initiative to turn The Netherlands into a European
powerhouse for tech companies. He and his team run programs and connect a community of the
most promising and ambitious startup & scaleup founders in The Netherlands. Techleap also works
with stakeholders like the government to improve the conditions for tech entrepreneurs to scale
their companies.
He is member of the National Growth Fund Investment Committee, Board member of the NATO
Innovation Fund, Fellow at Deloitte Centre for the Edge and Senior Advisor Digital Technology &
Macro Strategy at Macro Advisory Partners in London and New York. Additionally, he is ambassador
of the European Innovation Council.
Constantijn co-founded StartupFest Europe, which is still the biggest start-up event ever organised in
The Netherlands. Previously, he was Chief of Staff to VP Neelie Kroes at the European Commission in
charge of the Digital Agenda and led the Brussels office of the RAND Corporation following jobs at
Booz Allen & Hamilton, IFC and the Cabinet of EC Commissioner Hans van den Broek.
Aside from innovation and technology, Constantijn van Oranje is passionate about art, music,
photography, and nature.
Denis Yarats is the Co-founder and CTO of Perplexity, the conversational "answer engine" that provides precise, user-focused answers to queries — with in-line citations. Denis co-founded the company in 2022 after working as a research scientist at Facebook. He has a PhD in Computer Science from NYU and you can find him on Twitter/X and LinkedIn.
Jan is a quantum physicist and co-founding co-CEO of IQM, building next-generation quantum computers. IQM has assembled an exceptional team of international professionals to build quantum computers for high-performance centers, academia, and industry. IQM has raised €128 million in Series A2 funding (in 2022), largest ever funding round raised by a European quantum computing company. Jandid his doctorate on superconducting quantum circuits at TU Munich and worked as a Marie-Curie Fellow in Helsinki at Aalto University, where he holds the title of docent. In 2023, he was selected as Founder of the Year by Handelsblatt. In 2020, Capital magazine selected him as one of 40 under 40 in Germany and he received an entrepreneurship award from the KAUTE Foundation. Jan was in the Board of the European Innovation Council EIC and holds a Board seat in the European Quantum Industry Consortium QuIC. He is also and member of the German Federal Economic Senate, an EIC Scaling Club Council member, member of the Hall of Future, as well as a Digital Leader and Global Innovator at the WEF.
Suzie Prince is the Head of Product, DevOps at Atlassian. She has 20 years experience building agile and developer tools. Suzie has been leading high-performing teams at Atlassian for 4 years, delivering products that power software development teams worldwide. Before joining Atlassian, she spent 15 years at ThoughtWorks, where she introduced Agile and DevOps practices to numerous global Fortune 500 businesses. Suzie is passionate about creating software that balances user, customer and business needs and loves empowering her teams to deliver value quickly, frequently and sanely.
David Simas is the Managing Director of Research and Impact at Emerson Collective, where heworks to develop in-depth research projects and distributes findings and analysis in service ofEmerson's priorities including democracy, immigration, education, and climate.
A native of Taunton, Massachusetts, David was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff toMassachusetts Governor Deval Patrick in 2007. He then joined President Obama’sadministration in 2009 as a Deputy Assistant to the President, working with senior advisorsDavid Axelrod and David Plouffe. In 2012, he served as Director of Opinion Research forPresident Obama's reelection campaign. Following the reelection, Mr. Simas returned to theWhite House as Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Political Strategy andOutreach. In 2016, President Obama selected Mr. Simas to serve as Chief Executive Officer ofthe Obama Foundation. Mr. Simas holds a B.A. in political science from Stonehill College and aJ.D. from Boston College Law School. He is the son of two Portuguese immigrants and lives inLos Angeles with his wife, Shauna, and their two daughters.
Noga Mann is an Engineering Manager at Figma, focused on bridging the gap between design and development, and enhancing collaborative product development with Dev Mode.
Committed to diversity and inclusion in tech, Noga founded QueenB, a non-profit connecting university students with teenage girls to teach coding and help young women launch their tech careers.
Dr. Carola Lilienthal is senior architect and managing director of WPS - Workplace Solutions GmbH and has been developing software architectures according to the principles of Domain Driven Design with her teams for more than 15 years. She is author of the books "Sustainable Software Architecture" and "Domain-Driven Transformation".
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.
John Woods joined the Algorand Foundation as CTO in 2022. Prior to joining the leadership team he worked as Chief Architect of Cardano at IOHK. John has held roles leading software architecture and applied cryptography at a number of firms including Informatica and ConsenSys.
Chris Wysopal is Veracode's CTO and co-founder. He is one of the original vulnerability researchers and an early member of L0pht Heavy Industries, which he joined in 1992. He is the author of netcat for Windows and one of the authors of L0phtCrack. He has testified on Capitol Hill in the US on the subjects of government computer security and how vulnerabilities are discovered in software. He published his first advisory in 1996 on parameter tampering in Lotus Domino and has been trying to help people not repeat this type of mistake for 15 years. He is also the author of "The Art of Software Security Testing" published by Addison-Wesley.
Peter Bosch is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CARIAD, the software company of the Volkswagen Group. Prior to his appointment on June 1, 2023, Bosch was Member of the Board of Management for Production at Bentley from 2017 to 2023, where he was largely responsible for the successful realignment and restructuring of the company to become the market leader for sustainable, modern luxury vehicles.
Bosch joined the Volkswagen Group in 2011 and was initially responsible for optimizing the strategy, processes and structures of production for the Volkswagen brand worldwide. Prior to that, he was a senior director at Oliver Wyman, where he held various management positions.
Peter Bosch studied economics at the LMU Munich and mechanical engineering at the TU Munich. He lives near Munich with his family. In addition to his position as CEO of CARIAD, Bosch is a member of the Board of Directors of Scout Motors, where he supports the development of a manufacturer of electric trucks and SUVs for the Volkswagen Group in the USA.
Kris Rasmussen is the Chief Technology Officer at Figma, where he leads the engineering, security and data science teams. Prior to joining Figma in 2017, Kris served as engineering lead and a technical advisor at Asana, where he co-authored many aspects of the framework and infrastructure that powers the company's realtime collaborative features. Before Asana, Kris co-founded RivalSoft Inc., a web-based application that gives companies an internal hub for market information, and served as Chief Architect at Aptana.
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.
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.
Ulrich Irnich is Vodafone Germany’s CIO and a member of its Executive Committee. He leads the customer-focused IT strategy, digitalisation, new technologies and the modernisation of IT processes and systems.He has a 32-year track record in the IT and telecom industries, palying an instrumental role in driving Unitymedia’s agile and digital transformation as CIO. At Telefónica he orchestrated the company’s radical simplification and transformation.He has a degree in electrical engineering and in his spare time he enjoys running marathons and cycling. He's married with two adult sons.
Ray Eitel-Porter is a Senior Adviser for Responsible AI. He was previously Accenture’s Global Lead for Responsible AI developing solutions for data and AI ethics, advising clients and building Accenture’s own AI compliance program. He remains engaged as an Accenture Luminary. He has held leadership roles in data and AI for the past 15 years working across many industries. Ray led the formation of Accenture’s Strategic Partnership with The Alan Turing Institute and co-chairs the UK government’s Data Skills Taskforce. He initiated the UK’s first national data science prize for schools, in association with TeenTech. Ray holds an MA from Oxford and an MBA from INSEAD. He is fluent in German, having lived in Munich for many years.
Alex Soto is a Director of Developer Experience at Red Hat. He is passionate about the Java world, software automation and he believes in the open-source software model. Alex is the co-author of Testing Java Microservice, Quarkus cookbook, Kubernetes Secrets Management, and GitOps cookbook books and contributor to several open-source projects. A Java Champion since 2017, he is also an international speaker and teacher at Salle URL University. You can follow him on Twitter (@alexsotob) to stay tuned to what’s going on in Kubernetes and Java world.
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.
His responsibilities include the positioning of Intel products and solutions in the AI environment. Together with his cross-site and inter-organizational team, Stephan Gillich plans and implements strategies for AI technologies worldwide and with a specific focus on the EMEA region.
Within Intel, Stephan has held various management positions with responsibility for technology and the positioning and marketing of relevant products for businesses and end-users.
He holds a degree (Dipl. Inform. Univ.) in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich.
Daniel Tao is the Head of Engineering for DevOps Products at Atlassian, leading the engineering organization responsible for developer-focused experiences including Bitbucket Cloud and the Open DevOps solution in Jira Software. He has overseen initiatives at Atlassian including Bitbucket's migration from the data center to AWS, a strategic shift to supporting enterprises in the cloud, and launching a new beta product (Compass), among many others. Dan's professional experience includes time at Google, ThoughtWorks, and several startups.
Madona S. Wambua is the Founder and CTO of Jibu Labs, an Author, a Keynote Speaker, an Android Expert, and has over a decade in software engineering. She is also a Women Tech Makers Ambassador and AnitaB.org Co-Chair, a host of Tech Talks with Madona, and a developer who enjoys sharing her Android knowledge and teaching others how to make Android applications.
Angie Jones is the Global Vice President of Developer Relations for TBD, Block’s newest business unit focused on open and 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 27 patented inventions in the areas of collaboration software, social networking, smarter planet, virtual reality, and software development processes.
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.
Gift Egwuenu is a Developer Advocate at Cloudflare. She has over 6 years of experience in web development and building tools to help businesses grow. In her previous role, she worked as a front-end developer. She is now working in developer relations.
Gift shares her experience in Web Development, Jamstack, and career-related topics, with the goal of helping people level up their skills in the industry.
Carlos Sanchez is a Principal Scientist at Adobe Experience Manager, specializing in software automation, from build tools to Continuous Delivery and Progressive Delivery. Involved in Open Source for over 15 years, he is the author of the Jenkins Kubernetes plugin and a member of the Apache Software Foundation amongst other open source groups, contributing to several projects, such as Jenkins or Apache Maven.
Being associated with the industry since 2004, I have lent my expertise predominantly in the solution architecture field. I have gained accolades for revolutionising the scalability of frontend architectures with micro-frontends, from increasing the efficiency of workflows, to delivering quality in products. My colleagues know me as an excellent communicator who believes in using an interactive approach for understanding and solving problems of varied scopes.
I helped DAZN becoming a global streaming platform in just 5 years, now as Principal Architect at AWS, I'm helping our customers in the media and entertainment space to deliver cost-effective and scalable cloud solutions.
Moreover, I'm sharing with the community the best practices to develop cloud-native architectures solving technical and organizational challenges.
My core industry knowledge has been instrumental in resolving complex architectural and integration challenges. Working within the scopes of a plethora of technical roles such as tech lead, solutions architect and CTO, I have developed a precise understanding of various technicalities which has helped me in maximizing value of my company and products in my current leadership roles.
I'm Anja, Principal Fullstack Engineer working at Mister Spex @ Berlin, Germany. We are right now breaking down a monolith and replacing parts of it by future-ready technology. Previously, I have worked for eBay.
Also, I'm sports enthusiast and current local champion in wakeskating. I love to find and cross the borders of what seems achievable.
Michael Hunger has been passionate about software development for more than 30 years.
For the last 14 years, he has been working on the open source Neo4j graph database filling many roles, most recently leading Product Innovation.
As a developer Michael enjoys participating in exciting and ambitious open source projects and contributing and writing software related books and articles. Michael spoke at numerous conferences and helped organized several of them.
Michael helps kids to learn to program by running weekly girls-only coding classes at local schools.
Arno is responsible for the development of all think-cell software products. He oversees our R&D team, quality assurance and customer care. Before founding think-cell, Arno worked at Microsoft Research and McKinsey. Arno studied computer science and management and holds a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech with a specialization in computer graphics.
Matthias Henze, aka Matze, has been serving as CEO of Jimdo for 18 years, is a curator for the German Founder's Award, and an expert in solo self-employment and micro-enterprises. As a founder, he has steered Jimdo to become a leading provider of software tools and services for these target groups. Additionally, Matze promotes the visibility of self-employed individuals, among other initiatives, through the Jimdo-ifo Business Climate Index. He hails from Göttingen and spent formative years of his childhood in Oman and the USA. He pursued his studies in Business Admin. in Kiel and Gothenburg.
Hendrik Ebbers (@hendrikEbbers) is a Java Champion, JSR expert group member and JavaOne Rockstar. He works as a contractor for Swirlds Labs on the public Hashgraph of Hedera. Hendrik is the founder and leader of the Java User Group Dortmund and gives talks and presentations in user groups and conferences around the world. His JavaFX book “Mastering JavaFX 8 Controls” was released in 2014 by Oracle press. He contributes to several open source projects including JakartaEE and Eclipse Adoptium. Hendrik is a member of the AdoptOpenJDK TSC and of the Eclipse Adoptium WG.
Maxim Salnikov is an Oslo-based cloud and tech community geek. He is a webdev maestro who builds apps since the end of the last century and shares his extensive web platform experience by speaking & training at developer events around the world. Daytime, Maxim is boosting cloud skills at the country scale by leading developer engagement in Microsoft Norway. In the evenings, you'll find him organizing the country's main web & mobile meetups, and two full-scale tech conferences.
Martina is a Google Developer Expert in Angular and web technologies. As a senior frontend developer, she focuses on implementing highly scalable software solutions with Node.js and Angular. Besides giving workshops as an Angular trainer, she founded RheinNeckarJS, is a core member of the ngGirls Team, co-organizes the local Angular Heidelberg user group and the German Angular conference NG-DE.
What to say about this exceptional young person? She is a true Wunderkind! Alex developed an interest for science, programming, physics and chemistry since the early age of 12. Today, at the age of only 19, she already holds a Bachelor degree with distinction from the Technological University Dublin and is widely considered as one of the great generational talents. She was part of various programs at the MIT, CERN and IBM. She has received various honors and accolades and besides studying Molecular Medicine she also speaks regularly about Quantum Computing and Machine Learning at international conferences.
Alayshia Knighten has many years of experience in the DevOps realm. Alayshia specializes in enhancing technical and team-related experiences while educating customers on their journey with and beyond IaC. Previously, she spent time at Honeycomb.io, educating people on Observability. In her words, “Getting ish done while identifying how to accelerate at the person beyond the tooling is the real meat and potatoes.” She enjoys solving the “so, how do we solve that?” problems and meeting people from all walks of life.
Linda Stauffenberg is a strategic advisor specializing in driving people centric change and transformation initiatives within complex organizations. She is co-founder and managing director at Experience One, a digital transformation and innovation partner for companies like Mercedes-Benz, BOSCH, AOK, ZEISS, Sparkassen Group. Her expertise lies in changemaker positioning and coaching as well as delivering change programs to help companies to become customer centric and to establish innovation culture.
Evan Lezar is a Senior Systems Software Engineer on the Cloud Native team at NVIDIA. His focus is making GPUs and other NVIDIA devices easily accessible from containerized environments. This includes driving development and adoption of the Container Device Interface (CDI).
Trainer, consultant and programming architect with focus on Angular. Google Developer Expert (GDE) and Trusted Collaborator in the Angular team who writes for O'Reilly, the German Java Magazine, and windows.developer. Regularly speaks at conferences.
Around 10 years of experience in different areas of AI in different fields. Including e-commerce, oil & gas, banking & now Meta.Around 10 years of experience in different areas of AI in different fields. Including e-commerce, oil & gas, banking & now Meta.
Main achievements:
- Currently ML Engineer at Meta working on Malware Detection (London);
- Built Computer Vision team for Petronas (Kuala Lumpur);
- Graduate course in AI at Stanford;
Dr. Johanna Pirker is a computer scientist focusing on development, research, and education of games and VR experiences is an active and strong voice of the local indie dev community. She has lengthy experience in designing, developing, and evaluating games and VR experiences and believes in them as tools to support learning, collaboration, and solving real problems. She started in the industry as QA tester at EA and still consults studios in the field of games user research. In 2011/12 she started researching and developing VR experiences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the moment she is Ass.Prof. for game development at TU Graz and researches games with a focus on AI, HCI, data analysis, and VR technologies. Johanna was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of science professionals.
Kevin Klues is a distinguished engineer on the NVIDIA Cloud Native team. Kevin has been involved in the design and implementation of a number of Kubernetes technologies, including the Topology Manager, the Kubernetes stack for Multi-Instance GPUs, and Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA). When not working, you can usually find Kevin on a snowboard or up in the mountains in some capacity or another.
Daniel is a Germany-based Software Engineer who cares not only about building great products but also invests a lot in fostering a great engineering culture. Before joining the corporate world, he co-founded two startups and worked as a freelance software engineer.
Alejandro is the Director of Engineering, Science & Product at Zalando SE, where he leads a cross-functional technology organisation of department heads, managers, principals and ICs. He is responsible for one of Zalando's large-scale central data platforms, a large portfolio of (10+) products, and SOtA machine learning systems powering critical use-cases across the org. Alejandro is also the Chief Scientist at the Institute for Ethical AI, where he contributes to policy and standards on responsible machine learning, and has led EU policy contributions including the AI Act, Data Act, DSA, etc.
Adora Nwodo is a multi-award winning Software Engineer. She currently works at the intersection of the Metaverse, Cloud Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence and is passionate about the Cloud and Emerging Technologies. She is also an Advisory Board member for DevNetwork.
Adora is the Author of the popular book "Cloud Engineering for Beginners". This book is currently helping a lot of people start their career as Cloud Engineers. She is also the author of “Beginning Azure DevOps, ” a book published by Wiley, and “Confident Cloud,” a book published by Kogan Page.
Jose, a Venezuelan Lead Software Engineer in the U.K., with a decade of experience, drives innovative solutions. Committed to promoting diversity in tech, he's a Google Developer Group organizer, Ignite JAVA/Spring leader, and Affiliate Professor at the University of Glasgow. An engaging speaker, Jose simplifies complex tech concepts, making them accessible to all.
Eberhard Wolff has 20+ years of experience as an architect and consultant - often on the intersection of business and technology. He is Head of Architecture at SWAGLab. As a speaker, he has given talks at international conferences and as an author, he has written more than 100 articles and books e.g. about Microservices and Continuous Delivery. His technological focus is on modern architectures – often involving Cloud, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Microservices or NoSQL.
Darrel Idiagbor is a seasoned full-stack engineer who currently works as a software engineer, backend at Elli. He holds a first-class degree in computer science from Covenant University and has a wealth of experience in the tech industry. Darrel has made significant impacts at uLesson, where he built out the web application in just two months, amongst others Darrel's impactful contributions also include leading the technology division of Farmstripe. Darrel is currently working on B2B initiatives in the EV Charging company Elli.
Carsten is Head of Financial Innovation & Digital Solution at Finanz Informatik (FI), the digitization partner of the Sparkassen bank group. He is responsible for various initiatives, including the internally developed Low Code platform and the Open Banking solution for the Sparkassen financial platform. With his team, Carsten works on new and sometimes experimental approaches for faster and simpler application development, as well as the implementation of new technologies such as voice and chat bots to create innovative customer experience.
Raniz is a programmer, architect, speaker and coach at factor10, helping companies achieve software excellence with a business focus.
As a problem solver at heart, he jumps at complicated problems and believes that as much as possible should be automated, reproducible and stored as code.
Antoine is Principal Product Designer at Yelp and an Indiepreneur currently living and working in Hamburg. He successfully founded, designed, grew, and sold multiple bootstrapped SaaS companies. He is now working on Fernand, the ultimate custom messaging tool for modern SaaS.
Asrar leads targeted developer engagement within Google Cloud, driven by a deep passion for fostering vibrant connections within the global developer community. His primary objectives include driving key initiatives to boost developer engagement, amplifying advocacy efforts, forging strategic in-kind partnerships with developer communities, and fostering sustained global engagement among developers. Additionally, Asrar is dedicated to advancing developer learning and upskilling initiatives to empower developers to achieve excellence in their careers.
Zan is a developer advocate at CircleCI, on a mission to educate and inspire developers on the topics of CI/CD, DevOps, and software quality.
Across his career he has worked in companies of various sizes, from enterprises to own startups, and everything in between, and across industries as diverse as retail, AI, and developer tools.
He’s passionate about serverless technologies, mobile development, and developer experience. Outside of work, he enthuses over airplanes, craft beer, and the Oxford comma.
Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j and author of The Definitive Guide to Modern Client Development, Raspberry Pi with Java, Pro JavaFX Platform, and the DevOps Tools for Java Developers title from O'Reilly. He has keynoted numerous conferences around the world including Devoxx, DevNexus, JNation, JavaOne, Joker, swampUP, and Open Source India. When he is not traveling, he enjoys teaching kids how to do AI, embedded, and robot programming together with his daughters.
Timo Salm is the first Solution Engineer for Developer Experience at Tanzu by Broadcom in EMEA, focusing on internal developer platforms and commercial Spring products. In this role, he's responsible for educating customers on the value of these products and ensuring that they succeed by working closely on different levels of abstractions of modern applications and modern infrastructure.
Before Timo joined Pivotal, which VMware and now Broadcom acquired, he worked for consulting firms in the automotive industry as a software architect and full-stack developer.
Hadi has been in the IT Industry for over three decades and has been involved in a variety of technologies and platforms. He has been speaking at industry events for over two decades and is a renowned international keynote speaker. Hadi is currently VP of Developer Advocacy and Head of Open Source Department at JetBrains, where he oversees some of the key projects and products for the company, including Kotlin.
Georg studied computer science with a focus on web and network technologies but decided to become an app developer when the first iPhone was released. He spends most of his professional time architecting and developing apps using Kotlin Multiplatform, Flutter, native technologies and more recently also Python and LLMs.
With more than ten years of experience, he has a strong focus on application architecture, data modeling, testing and code quality. He gave talks at WeAreDevelopers, meetups in Munich and has taught a course on mobile app development at Hochschule Furtwangen.
Alex is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS with 20 years of IT experience in expert and leadership roles. He is a strong advocate of agile and DevOps practices, and he enjoys seeing serverless, cloud-native and event-driven architectures deployed at scale. He has delivered large transformation projects and successfully developed own and customers’ businesses. He is a trained and experienced speaker, having presented at a wide range of events.
Andrew is a Distinguished Engineer and also the Senior Director Software Communities, within the Open Source Software group at Arm where he leads the Open Source Office and also many of the relationships Arm has with the wider open source community. He has spent over 20 years in open source most of which has been in the enterprise. He is actively involved in a variety of projects and communities, sitting on a number of project and Foundation Boards including FreeBSD, Rust, Xen and Yocto Project.
Matthias Niehoff works as Head of Data & AI and Data Architect for codecentric AG and supports customers in the design and implementation of data architectures. His focus is not so much on the ML model, but rather on the necessary infrastructure and organization to help data science projects succeed.
Ed is an Engineer and Marketer experienced in advanced vehicle technology, model-based design (MBD), and distributed ledger technologies (DLT). He is passionate about leading interdisciplinary teams, building user-centric solutions, and connecting with developers and organizations in technology sectors.
Currently, Ed works at Swirlds Labs, growing the Hedera network and helping developers get on board with Web 3. He is also pursuing a graduate degree in Management at Harvard.
• Managing Partner & Pricipal Consultant at Software Quality Lab
• More than 35 years of experience in software development in various industries and roles (Developer, Software Architect, Project Manager, Tester, Development Manager, Product Manager, Product Owner, Managing Director)
• Lecturer at several conferences (ASQF, ESE, Embedded meets Agile, iqnite, MedConf, OOP, ReConf, STEV, Software Quality Days, SPS, VÖSI Software Day, Embedded World, AutomationSTAR, WeAreDevelopers, …).
• Vicepresident of Austrian Testing Board
Ramona is a developer advocate and 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.
Jim is a seasoned technology executive with a passion for building meaningful connections. With an impressive career spanning over two decades, he has held pivotal roles in organizations of all sizes. As CTO of MeisterLabs, he continues to drive technological excellence, blending technical prowess with emotional intelligence to foster innovation and teamwork. Jim's career is a testament to his commitment to leveraging technology for connection and success in today's dynamic digital landscape.
Hendrik Lösch is a management consultant and architect at ZEISS Digital Innovation. The focus of his work is on the development and evaluation of software, based on Microsoft technologies. He also enjoys writing and talking about his work as well as his enthusiasm for clean code, software evolution and test automation in its various forms.
Andrew is a failed sports science student who wanders into software engineering by virtue of luck and the necessity to find a job in a hurry. Through the grace and patience of his colleagues, he has spent nearly the past decade learning how to be a software engineer, systems engineer, site reliability engineer and student of human factors. Most recently, he has been learning how to become an engineering manager and trying to pass on what knowledge he has gained so far to the next generation of software adventurers.
Ines Akrap is a Frontend Software Engineer passionate about optimizing websites to be fast, sustainable, and provide the best user experience for every user. She works in Storyblok as Solutions Engineer. She enjoys sharing her knowledge with others through talks, podcasts, workshops, and courses. Her current biggest project is teaching one little human risk management and words.
Dieter is a seasoned Solution Engineer with over 20 years of experience developing and optimising applications across various industries. With a strong background in software development, he deeply understands the challenges and needs of developers and clients alike.
At DataStax, Dieter empowers his clients using advanced data technologies and best practices to implement generative AI applications, helping them accelerate development cycles and deliver cutting-edge solutions.
Passionate about developer empowerment, he provides tools and technologies that catalyze innovation and efficiency.
Steve is a Quality Analyst who works to build empowered teams, capable of delivering and taking ownership of quality. He has worked on a wide variety of products, from mainframes to microservices and has a particular interest in complex socio-technical systems and how we work with them.
He is passionate about complexity theory, building quality into culture and testing as part of continuous delivery in modern, distributed architectures. Outside of work, Steve enjoys travel and mountains.
Nelly Sattari loves problem-solving and is passionate about driving minds to engage with technology. She is a software engineer and Tech Engineering Manager at Atlassian based in Sydney, Australia and has spent her entire career involved in the IT industry.
While her background is in full-stack development, today her focus is on building teams who create modern applications. A leader in local IT communities, she regularly facilitates knowledge-sharing platforms, supports user groups and nurtures beginner expertise, while steering clear of buzzwords for a more practical and tangible approach.
Ilya is a Cloud Native Architect, Founder of InfraPulse, Google Developer Expert on Cloud, Ph.D. in Engineering, CNCF CKA, GCP PCA.
Ilya is an expert in the world of cloud technologies and distributed systems. He helps SMBs to earn more and spend less with proper cloud decisions.
He also likes coffee, motorcycles, and travel.
Niels Tanis has got a background in .NET development, pentesting and security consultancy. He is Microsoft MVP and has been involved in breaking, defending and building secure applications. He joined Veracode in 2015 and right now he works as a security researcher on a variant of languages and technologies related to Veracode’s Binary Static Analysis service. He is married, father of two and lives in a small village just outside Amersfoort, The Netherlands.
A self-motivated and energetic enthusiast willing to accept challenges in life, availing every
opportunity to constantly learn and improve. Accustomed to leading and working in groups and
an effective communicator. Committed to empowering and educating others. I believe in hard work and being a kind human and helpful to others. Loves to travel.
My portfolio: https://ayesha54.github.io/developerFolio
Michel de Ru currently holds the position of Head of Solution Engineering at DataStax, where he oversees the Technical Solutions team for Astra DB in the EMEA region. His role involves guiding the team to enhance business value for customers by leveraging Astra DB's capabilities in Vector Search and Generative AI. Astra DB, known for its robust NoSQL framework based on Apache Cassandra, is integral for real-time, business-critical applications.
Kevin is a Java Champion, software engineer, author and international speaker with a passion for Open Source, Java, and Cloud Native Development & Deployment practices. He currently works as developer advocate at Red Hat where he gets to enjoy working with Open Source projects and improving the developer experience. Kevin is actively involved in Open Source communities, contributing to projects such as Quarkus, Knative, Apache Camel, and Podman (Desktop).
Lucille is an Engineering Manager at Canva working on developing and deploying tools that are making developers life easier. She started her career as a Software Engineer in France before moving to New Zealand.
She is passionate about crafting software, valuing the diverse perspectives brought by individuals from varied backgrounds. Committed to fostering growth and knowledge-sharing within the tech community, Lucille actively contributes as a co-organizer of Go meetups in Auckland where she gives talks and develops workshops that empower and educate fellow enthusiasts in the field.
I started my career in machine learning by participating in kaggle competitions, two times achieving top-1% results in contests with 1000+ participants. After that worked at MTS (biggest Russian telecom), VK (Russian most popular social media), and Yandex focusing on recommender systems. Now I'm working at JetBrains focusing on AI Code Completion (product demo: https://youtu.be/DLBiJ5kYUFg).
Jens Happe is responsible for the software engineering teams at Chrono24, an online marketplace for luxury watches with over 9 million monthly active users. He is passionate about fast-growing tech companies and the complexity that arises there, from organizational challenges to growing technical complexity. In recent years, Jens built a consulting firm that helps fast-growing tech companies scale their software development. While at SAP, he built a performance engineering team that helped development teams build highly scalable applications. He also holds a PhD in software engineering.
Reinhard’s focus relies on security testing of IT and industrial cyber-physical systems. Based on his prior experience in cyber defense, he works with companies to develop security capabilities and secure products. Reinhard is an experienced instructor and develops tailored security trainings. His mission is to apply research methods (combinatorial security testing) to industrial applications, like automotive, embedded or cloud.
Elmar works both as a researcher and a founder. Elmar wrote his PhD thesis on static code analysis and is still active as a researcher in software quality analysis. In 2009, he co-founded CQSE GmbH and since helps teams in using analysis tools more effectively. Elmar frequently talks at research conferences (e.g. ICSE, ICPC) and industry events (e.g. GTD, OOP, JAX). He was elected best speaker at Clean Code Days, Software Quality Days and Java Forum Stuttgart. Elmar was named Junior Fellow of the GI in 2015.
Max is a senior software engineer at Nx, where he's focused on building Nx Console, the UI for Nx & Lerna. Loves open source, Typescript and taking apart problems one step at a time.
As a fully remote worker, you will hopefully find him enjoying a sci-fi book on the beach, exploring new cities or taking in a view after work.
Madalena Costa, a distinguished Product Designer at Glanceable, is passionate about weaving technology and design. With her deep roots in the design community as a leader for Ladies that UX Lisbon and a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador, she has been at the forefront of design innovations. She also hosts the 'Down the Rabbit Hole' podcast, shedding light on emerging tech trends and design principles.
Hannah is an experienced engineering manager, coming from a Software engineering background developing versatile mobile applications on Android. She is a Google Developer Expert for Android who mentors, writes technical articles, and speaks at technical conferences to motivate others to pursue careers in tech. Aside from work, Hannah loves to bake and read books in her free time.
Started and exited 4 companys, currently leading a team of over 100 Engineers at a SaaS with thousands of customers across 30+ countries
Angel Investor, working closely with fast growing Startups and mentoring both CTOs and CEOs
Writing about being a CTO in a SaaS company at https://jcamarate.substack.com
Hey,
I love building things: Developer Relations @ Telekom, Communities @ GDG Berlin Android or strange things with all sorts of materials.
I'm happy to chat about technology, languages, communities, speaking at conferences and meetups, my cats and everything else. :) ZeBadgeMan
Francesco is a senior software engineer at Sentry, where he helps build the JavaScript SDKs powering thousands of websites worldwide. He lives in Vienna, Austria, where he loves to drink good coffee and play boardgames. Outside of work, he loves to travel around Europe by train.
I've been a software developer at heart for ten years and am interested in everything related to software development, like containerization and orchestration, machine learning, security, and the cloud. I work as an Associate Manager @ Accenture in Munich, Germany. I love fishing, Microsoft Flight Simulator, and TikTok.
Egyptian living in Hungary. I have studied Computer Science BSc. I have 3 years of experience in software development. Working currently at IBM. I have mainly worked with Web Development on several projects mostly with Angular and NodeJS. I am currently studying Artificial Intelligence MSc.
Markus Over graduated in computer science at RWTH Aachen university in 2012, after which he spent a few years as an independent video game developer. Since 2015 he's been working in web development with a focus on interesting algorithmic problems of any kind. Since 2020 he's been breaking down language barriers at DeepL.
Ozan Sazak is a Software Engineer at Edge Delta, mainly focusing on design, deployment and maintenance of Clickhouse database servers on Kubernetes. Ozan is interested in technologies like Go, Linux, eBPF, Kubernetes, and concepts around distributed systems. Beyond his technical role, Ozan also engages with the tech community, leading local technical reading clubs.
Marcel started his career with classic ASP and luckily moved on to modern tech stack over time without limiting himself to a certain technology. He doesn't know why but Spring was a faithful companion for many years now while frontend technology changed a few times.
Soroosh is a software engineer and software architecture enthusiast, passionate about building simple but impactful solutions. With over 10 years of experience in diverse domains, including Telecom, Media & Entertainment, and E-Commerce. He has worked with small startups and large enterprises serving 80 million active subscribers. Currently working as a consultant at Bol.com (the biggest e-commerce in the Netherlands) via Code Nomads Amsterdam. Soroosh strongly believes in the power of collaborative learning and enjoys sharing his experiences and insights with other developers.
Loïc leads Theodo e-commerce department as technical director.
He advise clients, from startups, scale-ups to large groups on how to build e-commerce platforms.
This position allows him to discover various technical architectures on various business context, and to extract and recommand the best practices from each.
He is also owner of innovation on e-commerce technologies at Theodo.
David is an independent software consultant based in London focusing on iterative software delivery, developer mentoring and cultural change - mostly working with London-based organisations and start-ups.
David has previously served as the chief coding technical architect for JustGiving, and helped market-leading organisations including JUST-EAT, Trainline and Vodafone improve their technical capabilities.
Jonas is an experienced software developer renowned for solving challenges with creative approaches. He lent his skills to industry giants like NASA, Bosch, and Telekom. Beyond coding excellence, his creative prowess has garnered recognition. He appeared on TV presenting a Rube Goldberg machine and accepted three film awards in New Zealand, England and Germany. His teenage band’s catchy song “Metropole Ruhr” not only won a music competition in 2010 but is still played today in local hardware stores in Western Germany.
Oleg is a passionate Open Whatever advocate: software, hardware and communities. He is a TOC member in the Continuous Delivery Foundation. Oleg is a core maintainer and board member in Jenkins, and also WireMock and OpenFeature co-maintainer. Oleg has a PhD degree in hardware design and volunteers in the Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation. He created a few pet projects like Testcontainers for C/C++ or FaaScinator. CNCF and CDF Ambassador, Testcontainers Champion
Oleksii Ishchenko, VP of Engineering at Elopage (B2B, SaaS, Fintech), began his career as a Software Engineer over 20 years ago, and moved to Senior Management roles. His extensive experience includes:
15+ years building and leading development teams
10+ years in startup environments
Managed 100+ FTE teams
Expertise in SaaS, Insurtech, Healthcare, Gaming, Real Estate, and Fintech
Oleksii is passionate about mentorship, eagerly sharing his leadership and architectural knowledge.
Pierluigi came to IT via a degree in computer science and jobs as a software engineer and architect. He quickly realized that IT experts are often reduced to their coding skills and left out of decisions. So he skilled up beyond code and focused on the early phases of IT projects: the Why and What. Soft skills are a silent game changer for IT quality and especially for career advancement. After various management positions, he made it to C-level and finally set up his own e-learning academy for soft skills in IT. He is known for his thought-provoking and humorous presentations at conferences.
Leading a Software Engineering team, our mission is to optimize performance for external software companies on Intel CPU, GPU, and NPU. We specialize in enhancing commercial and digital content workflows, including AI, Rendering, Video Editing, and more. With a focus on next-gen Intel products, we actively seek feedback to drive innovation and excellence.
I'm a developer who loves frontend, backend, infrastructure, networking, and embedded. I've been leading small teams and I like to mentor. I've switched a couple of programming languages and platforms because knowing at least two different ways to get things done gives at least two possible solutions.
Software engineer with a decade of experience in the design and development of complex distributed systems, including high-loaded microservices and large data storage. Worked with the majority of the most popular and established technologies. I am passionate about non-trivial solutions that empower engineers to make a better world!
An experienced software engineer, Álvaro has worked in top tier global banks and small software vendors. Having majored in Physics, he brings curiosity, intensity and an analytical mind to the table. He has a robust foundation in understanding the interplay between finance and technology, and has a track record of delivering impactful projects with a focus on reliability, evolvability, and thorough testing.
UX Designerin und Visionärin bei der Novatec Consulting GmbH.
Während meinen verschiedenen Tätigkeiten in Softwareunternehmen, Startups oder auch als Freelancerin war es mir immer wichtig das Thema UX voranzutreiben und die bestmögliche Lösung für Nutzer*innen zu erschaffen. Dafür ist mir der Austausch mit Software Engineers von Anfang sehr wichtig. Ich beziehe sie direkt in die Konzeptphase mit ein, finde gemeinsame Kompromisse und Lösungen. Denn nur zusammen gelingt es ein großartiges Produkt zu entwickeln.
Digital Technology enthusiast with more than 15 years of experience & education in industrial software and building technologies. Extensive experience gained at both lead corporations and startup teams in development of IIoT platforms, disruptive digitalization / software solutions and ecosystems.
Mrinalini (Mrina) has been "hacking" away at tech projects since the age of 14! Her first project was programming her TI-84 calculator to be able quickly find the hypotenuse of a right triangle. Since then she has been in constant pursuit of employing CS to enable her curiosity; be it building a text messaging COVID bot or a motion detector for her pup's sleep. She is a UC Berkeley Alumnus and currently works as a Developer Relations Manager at CKSource.
Working since 11 years for Germany's biggest financial daily "Handelsblatt", since 2020 as Italy correspondent in Rome. Since 2022 covering as well Web3, Crypto and NFTs and building the first newspaper driven NFT community in Europe. Moderated several events in Germany and Italy. Founder of the digital art platform VistaVagabond.xyz in 2023.
Hi I am Wendelin from Vienna, Austria.
I am a Fullstack developer at WhizUs. In the Frontend I worked with React, Vue and Angular and in the backend with nodejs, bun and Java (Spring Boot).
I am married and have 2 kids. In my free time I love to work on my home assistant smart home.
Data Scientist with over 10 years of experience in design, development and implementation of data-driven solutions for cross-functional teams in organizations.
Over the span of this decade, I have had the pleasure of working with high performance innovation-driven teams, from startups in Silicon Valley, Berlin, Cluj to global organizations such as Mercedes, Fedex and many more.
Specializes in advanced statistical modeling, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, deep learning algorithms and generative AI models, model management etc.
Sasha is an experienced software developer with a rich background, in IT for more than 20 years. He worked with different stacks in backend, frontend and mobile fields, but since 2018 his main interest is Flutter. Sasha is a Chief Software Engineer and Head of Flutter Discipline in EPAM. Also, he is Flutter and Dart GDE and Co-Organizer of Flutter Berlin community.
Sven is developer and software-quality consultant at CQSE GmbH. He studied computer science at TU Darmstadt and PUC de Rio de Janeiro and did his PhD in software engineering at TU Darmstadt. Sven is a requested (keynote) speaker on software quality topics at conferences, meetups, companies and universities around the world, drawing inspiration from his vast project experience working with CQSE’s many customers across all industries.
Andre (Pietsch) has been working for Splunk for more than 5 years now. He "splunked" for a customer before and was always keen to check his approaches with others. He started as a developer and knows the challenges that come with the job. He always proclaims that the job of a developer is to create value for the company and not to be the operations monkey for a tool. He now concentrates on Observability and OpenTelemetry cause these are releveating the most annoying pains of the DevOps community.
Stan Girard is the creator of Quivr, an open-source Generative AI personal assistant, which gained remarkable traction in the tech community (20k+ stars on Github in 4 months). Alongside his tech pursuits, he maintains a blog at primates.dev, helping developers and IT enthusiasts. With his recent venture into Generative AI, Stan combines innovation with practicality as he continues to explore to AI-driven solutions.
Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and Angular, also an OpenJs Foundation Member, Nicolas is a French FontEnd specialist and User Interface Designer from Metz, France.
He works as a Developer Advocate and Senior Staff Engineer at Sfeir Luxembourg. Besides that, Nicolas is a speaker, and likes to contribute to the community by giving talks, trainings, writing articles or participating in open source projects like NG Zorro
I'm a Full Stack Developer in NearForm. I work mainly with Node.js and React. In my free time I like to read books and articles, cook, and walk in the nature.
Take a look at my YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/@alfonsograziano
Desiree is a software developer, technical leader and Emerging Tech Lead at Thoughtworks Germany with over 10 years of experience in agile developing software across multiple industries. Passionate about Agile methodologies, software, and hardware development, she is also delighted to use emerging technologies and techniques to solve real-world problems by creating value now through cute-edge technologies.
Adnan is an author, failed startup founder, and ex-Free CodeCamp leader. Adnan has spent the last 5 years building open-source developer tooling in the Observability and Big Data space. He is currently leading the Developer Relations efforts for Tracetest.io.
Dennis dives deep into machine learning algorithms like a kid in a candy store, leveraging his engineering chops to architect optimized ML solutions on AWS that make sci-fi tech seem pedestrian. His passion for understanding both the mathematical intricacies of neural networks and the gritty details of cloud infrastructure enables Dennis to geek out with anyone from high-level executives to hardcore developers. Dennis dreams in data science, envisions inferencing at the edge, and innovates machine learning to reality on AWS every day.
I'm a Software Developer working in the mobile gaming industry for several years. I love working on all aspects of infrastructure solutions and greatly enjoy participating in meetups, game jams and community events. If you see me at the conference, I'm always happy to chat.
I'm a senior technology executive focused on building high-performance product teams and organizations.
I was born and raised in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. I'm a football fan - playing and watching. I love to read and travel. I also love to connect with people and learn from them. I'm always up for a friendly coffee chat. I believe education can change the world, so I volunteer as much as I can to coach the next generation of leaders.
François Martin is a senior full stack software engineer at Karakun AG, living in Switzerland. He is an active open source contributor and co-author of the two open source JavaFX frameworks WorkbenchFX and PreferencesFX and an active member of the Swiss Testing Board.
Mesut has been working for around 18 years starting from Intern Software Engineer to Director of Engineering in different companies, projects and teams. Though delivering value in companies such as Thoughtworks, Trivago, MOIA and more, he gained experience in leadership, software development and architecture in leading cross functional teams from 5 to 50 developers in several industries.
He has passion about "Creating High Performance Teams", "Tech Excellence", "Building Safe Environments", "Servant Leadership" and "Mentoring and Enabling People"
My name is Marcel Sim. I have worked for more than 20 years in IT and for 10+ years in the Observability space, where I, for example, built up Instana in EMEA. Starting as a classical IT consultant, I transitioned to a hybrid model, combining my IT knowledge with sales, and moved on to a leading sales role in EMEA.
At Dash0, I am focusing on building up the whole brand, including the go-to-market model and the marketing activities.
Thomas is founder of LAINIE.ai. Thomas previously owned product strategy for NGINX's SaaS and Management product portfolio. He previously worked for multiple Internet/tech startups going back to the mid-1990's, HashiCorp, VMware, Oracle Cloud, and created LegalGuru, an early AI legal advisor app that was pitched at San Diego Startup Week 2018. Thomas is also a past college professor with degrees in law and business. He has a patent in data security/integrity and is working on additional patents in the security and AI spaces.
I have been a Software Engineer since 2013, specializing in front- and backend development.
I am experienced in developing web, cross-platform, and native mobile REST and GraphQL applications.
I am keenly interested in software design and its different approaches, like DDD or clean architecture. Additionally, I enjoy exploring new technologies and programming paradigms, like functional programming.
Sharing knowledge is also a priority for me, as I have actively participated in company tech talks, mentored colleagues, and supervised students in their theses.
Fullstack Software Design Engineer at Mattermost. He has helped with the re-architecturing of the new version of the mobile app, written in React Native. Confident with React, React Native and Go, and always happy to learn new things. Fun fact: studying psychology for fun.
During my studies I discovered my enthusiasm for technology, innovation and programming. After a few years in larger corporations such as Continental and IBM, I moved to the IT service provider MaibornWolff. Today, I work there as a software engineer in agile teams designing various digital products.
Started coding at the age of 16 (in 2008).
Since 2023: Lecturer (part-time) at University of Applied Sciences Fh Joanneum Graz. Course: Web Application Development.
Since 2023: AVL DiTest, Development Engineer Software
2019 – 2022: TBK Automatisierung und Messtechnik GmbH, Head of Software Development, Software development and customer projects
2017 – 2019: Pull-off Software Solutions GmbH, Software Architecture & Development
2016 – 2017: Siemens AG, Firmeware Developer
2010 - 2015 Computer Science (Bachelor and Master) - Graz University of Technology
Passionate software architect, full-stack developer and speaker with enthusiasm for technology, architecture and organization. Develops and maintains data-driven software, focusing on customer value. He enjoys educating and training himself and others — A proud founding member of the Hacker School.
Krzysztof is a photographer, globetrotter, and public speaker. He works as a Principal Research Engineer at [GitHub Next](https://next.github.com/), where he designs and builds the next generation of developer tools such as GitHub Copilot or Copilot Voice.
After the work, Krzysztof is an open-source software maintainer passionate about functional programming (especially F#), editor tooling and developer experience - he has created and maintained several OSS projects varying from language servers to web frameworks to VSCode plugins.
Sami is an original team member from Vaadin. With the mission of "empowering developers to build cool things", he is an experienced web application developer. He has built web applications and reusable components for web development for Vaadin and other web frameworks. Taking software where it has not existed before, the current hobby is a hardware project for his sailing boat and using the MQTT as the backend.
Angelika Shvets, a software developer based in Israel.
I've been in the IT industry since 2004.
Over the last 6 years, my work has primarily involved software development, encompassing research, implementation, integration, and testing of systems of varying complexity.
Prior to my current role, I spent 8 years as a full-stack web application developer.
In the early stages of my career, I gained a solid foundation with 5 years of experience as a system administrator.
I also served as a system administrator in the military.
I hold a Masters in Mathematics and Computer Engineering.
I work at NTT Data as a Cloud Solution Architect with a clear focus on cloud infrastructure and architecture, DevOps and Platform engineering. I can look back on a total of 8 years of experience working with Kubernetes and cloud technologies, especially AWS. And in case I am not working on AWS, then I mainly work on topics in the area of DevOps and everything that has anything to do with cloud and cloud native development.
Sebastian Leuer completed his master's degree in media informatics at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences in 2019. Since then, he has been a research associate at the German research institute Fraunhofer IEM. His tasks and research topics include training software engineers to become Security Champions as well as the development of tools for secure software development and programming languages, especially for C# and the .NET runtime. In the recent past, he worked together with customers on industry-leading, high-precision static code analysis.
For Sascha Lehmann, it was already evident with his first PC in which direction the journey was going. Through desktop and backend development in the .NET environment, he found his true passion over the years, web development. As an expert in Angular and the UI/UX environment, he helps customers with their daily challenges and projects at Thinktecture AG in Karlsruhe. Of course, he doesn't keep his knowledge to himself but passes it on to others with a lot of dedication so they can share his passion for web development.
Andreas arbeitet als Principal Software Architect bei adesso SE. Er ist ein JVM Veteran erster Stunde, kann sich für eine Vielzahl an Programmiersprachen begeistern. Als Pragmatiker gehen ihn Lösungen gehen für vor Technik. Unter anderem ist er an der Online Community „Architecture Antipattern“ beteiligt.
Juarez Barbosa Junior is a Senior Principal Java Developer Evangelist at Oracle. Previously, an Azure Developer Relations Lead at Microsoft, and a Thought Leader and Technical Evangelist at IBM.
He has 20+ years of professional experience, having held senior leadership roles in DevRel, software engineering, and startup-related initiatives.
His knowledge comprises Java, Python, Cloud Computing (Oracle OCI, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, and AWS), DevOps, IaC, CI/CD, and Cloud Native.
Pawel Adaszewski is a Senior Software Consultant at ZEISS Digital Innovation in Görlitz, Germany. In his daily work, he tries to overcome the challenges of the Industrial IoT world using the AWS cloud. His main tasks include designing and building automatically provisioned serverless cloud infrastructures.
Alexis Yushin is the Founder and CTO of Apexive, a rapid software development agency. He pioneered internet access in Ukraine at 16, bringing the internet to the region for the first time. Yushin relocated to The Netherlands at 19, working for one of the country’s first ISPs. There, he created NSD, a foundational program for resolving internet domain names. His tenure as CTO at Blink and roles at SpareIO and Skype underscore his tech prowess. Yushin found a passion for piloting and was a private jet pilot and Scandinavian Airlines captain before returning to tech and launching Apexive.
Hartmut Armbruster is a senior software engineer with many years of experience designing and building solutions for high-load projects using distributed technologies. Over the past 6 years he has been working in real-time data processing at HSBC, NEX Group plc, Deutschebahn on mission critical platforms. Striving to see the bigger picture, passionate about architecture, combining, integrating, and bringing all things together.
I'm Francesco, 43 years old, senior software engineer specialized in web applications living in Giussano, Italy.
I have more than 18 years experience in frontend and backend technologies. I've worked in international teams for many different companies (eBay, Pirelli, currently @ sysdig)
Megan Cook has spent over 15 years delivering software in a range of industries. She’s been everything from a developer to an agile coach. She currently serves as the Head of Product for Jira Software, driving the vision of agile work management to support any team. Megan eats, sleeps, and breathes agile teams and is passionate about helping software teams thrive.
James Clancey is the Head of Developer Relations at Locofy.ai. Previously Meta (VR), Microsoft (Principal PM Architect), and Xamarin (Technical Advisor to the CEO). He lives in Anchorage, Alaska, balancing a tech career with family life, including his wife, four children, 2 Hairless cats, and about 200,000 bees. James is known for engaging talks that blend deep technical expertise with personal stories, highlighting his passion for technology's impact on both professional and personal levels. He enjoys discussing beekeeping, 3D printing, VR, game development, life in Alaska.
Over 30 years of experience as a software developer, startup builder and visionary. I am always open to question the status quo.
I worked as a CTO for a OTTO company with 80 people. And currently I am building e-commerce platforms and mobile applications for the better good as a freelancer.
My favorite language are Scala, Kotlin and Rust.
Sander ten Brinke is a Microsoft MVP and Lead Software Engineer at Arcady, a Dutch IT consultancy firm based in Zwolle. He loves working with .NET, Azure, CI/CD and a whole lot more. He always stays up to date with all new technology and loves sharing his knowledge with everyone by speaking, blogging, podcasting and more!
Blockchain educator and developer focused on Ethereum, smart contracts and Bitcoin. MSc in digital currencies. She has been working with technology for over 20 years. Speaker in world conferences since 2018, also she won awards at Ethereum hackathons. She was listed in Cointelegraph Brazil top 50 and top 2 women.
Martin is a Product Manager working for Oracle. He joined Oracle in December 2021 after eight eventful years working for @Enkitec in Europe and other exciting engagements.
Martin’s work focuses on JavaScript support for the Oracle Database, DevOps & SRE, and anything remotely related to “the cloud”, Cloud Native Applications, and automation.
In addition to running a weblog since 2003, he published three books about Oracle, all highly regarded by their readers. Martin has been acknowledged multiple times for his knowledge and willingness to share his knowledge with the community.
A programming enthusiast since childhood, inspired by a fascination with computer games. His professional journey involves working with various technologies such as Spring Framework, Angular, React, and NestJS. He believes that continuous learning and knowledge-sharing are crucial in the dynamically evolving IT industry. Last year, he set a goal to educate others through active participation in conferences and local meetups. He is the initiator and organizer of the Toruń Web Development Meetup, where local developers can share their experiences and learn from one another.
Aydin Mir Mohammadi, Partner und Architekt bei bluehands erstellt seit mehr als zwanzig Jahren Software. Er ist spezialisiert auf die Entwicklung verteilter komplexer Fachanwendung auf Basis der Microsoft Technologien.
Aydin ist Mitinitiator der .NET User Group Karlsruhe, Organisator der Green Software Development Karlsruhe und host des #nossued Open Space. Darüber hinaus engagiert er sich bei der Ausbildung von jungen Softwareentwickler:innen als Dozent an der Dualen Hochschule Karlsruhe.
Johannes Stern holds a PhD in computer science and has over 15 years of experience in professional software development, ranging from hard real-time systems to frontend applications. His passion is Clean Code and testing as an integral part of development. His mission as a conference speaker is to encourage other developers to empower themselves and to become aware of their often underestimated influence on what software is written and on how the whole development process is organized.
Mackenzie is a developer advocate with a passion for DevOps and code security. As the co-founder and former CTO of a health tech startup, he learnt first-hand how critical it is to build secure applications with robust developer operations.
Today as the Developer Advocate at GitGuardian, Mackenzie is able to share his passion for code security with developers and works closely with research teams to show how malicious actors discover and exploit vulnerabilities in code.
Markus is a technologist that has been developing software since the late 90s and now mostly specializes in cloud-native applications.
In his current role as a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, he helps his customers build well-architected, scalable and cost-efficient solutions using AWS technology.
As a subject matter expert for serverless applications, Markus also work with customers on the most complex topics in the serverless domain and provides thought leadership in the form of blog posts and public speaking.
Christian is a Global Customer Solutions Manager at AWS. He is passionate about automotive, AI/ML and developer productivity. Christian supports some the world’s largest automotive brands on their cloud journey, encompassing technology as we as cloud and business strategy. Before joining AWS, Christian worked at BMW Group in both hardware and software development in various projects including connected navigation.
Theresa has worked as a people-centric facilitator and team coach in software companies incl. ShareNow and netgo software for 4 years. She has chosen an iterative and incremental way of working since Covid turned the world upside down. Her strong speaking skills were recognized at the Berlin Agile Camp and the PANDA Tech & Software Contest in 2021.
Now a happy Agile Coach, she is a former, depressed diplomat-to-be turned into a sad sustainability manager-for-real before discovering servant leadership. Living as an European citizen, she studied and worked in Germany, France and the UK.
Jose Alonso is a seasoned SRE at Amadeus where he also plays the role of DevOps Ambassador, representing a community of 600+ members. With expertise in software development, data analysis, and DevOps practices in various organizations, including Amadeus, CERN, and the European Central Bank.
Over the years he has been involved in several software engineering projects, ranging from developing children's educational apps to predicting anomalies of CERN services or operating highly critical applications processing more than 10k mission-critical transactions per second for the travel industry
Developer advocate at ING with more than 15 years of experience designing, developing and maintaining Android, Java SE/EE and Spring applications. Strong focus on getting things done with the Agile mindset. Love to share knowledge on the latest Java language, EE and Spring improvements by giving workshops and talks as well as participating in them.
Joseph is a security expert who empowers developers to ship secure software through his research and education work at the GitHub Security Lab. His recent contributions include video content with combined 1M+ views packed with practical security tips, and the free game gh.io/securecodegame for software developers who want to build a security skillset with 3K+ players worldwide in the first 6 months. As a speaker with 36 talks in the past 2 years, he captivates audiences with his insights and dynamic presentation style.
Önder is a GDE in Web Tech with a focus on Capabilities & Installability and he's the maker or pwa-asset-generator. JavaScript and the web have been his passion since late 90s and nowadays he enjoys it at its full while working as an independent contractor. He believes in team work and he shares his knowledge with the communities as a co-organiser and speaker. He's also interested in photography, movies and dancing.
Björn Stahl is a Software Architect at the kreuzwerker GmbH. He is advising customers on architecture decisions, the tradeoffs and how to leverage the advantages of cloud concepts. Besides the day to day work he is interested in architectural concepts, high-traffic-low-latency applications and performance optimizations in the Java world.
Technical Co-Founder and Head of Product Development for 3 International Startups, building and managing teams bringing digital transformation to domains such as Energy Management, Building Automation, Asset Tracking, and Consumer Electronics.
10+ years of experience as an Embedded Systems and Computer Engineer, working in design and development of products across industries such as IoT, Autonomous Driving, Automotive Engineering, Aeronautics, Industry 4.0, and Robotics.
Simon is a tech person with an entrepreneurial mindset and experience in leading engineering teams. He likes to operate at the interface between technical systems and business processes.
In the past years, he has founded and sold a startup, built the digital lab of a German Mittelstand company, and now combines both aspects as the CTO of the Venture Builder wattx. Since wattx's building digital solutions and ventures, he has been part of a team that tackles challenges from building an online healthy food store to engineering an IoT solution that reduces scrap in wet-milling processes.
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My name is Ume, and I’m a first-gen undergraduate student at the University of Maryland!
I have been an active public speaker for the past year, and am looking to speak at any events that revolve around tech mentorship + diversity! I have spoken to over 5000 individuals worldwide, and hope to increase that number. I've spoken on panels, at workshops, and was a speaker series co-host for Kode With Klossy this summer! Most recently, I spoke to over 800 attendees at Google’s DevFest in NYC! I was one out of 9 speakers at the event, and was given the opportunity to close the event.
Joshua Töpfer is a senior consultant at INNOQ. He has been working exclusively with the Remote Mob Programming methodology for over three years, developing distributed systems and web applications. He is one of the maintainers of mob.sh and regularly coaches teams that want to try Remote Mob Programming.
At the forefront of Meta's Reality Labs Team, I'm passionately driving global collaborations with tech developers. My mission is to discover and fund groundbreaking virtual and mixed reality experiences/applications, shaping the future of the Meta Quest platform with innovation and excitement!
Thijs is a passionate DevOps engineer and front-end development enthusiast, with a unique edge as an AI-powered developer. As an AI-powered developer, Thijs integrates cutting-edge AI tools into his development process. This allows him to improve code quality, boost productivity, and be any profession, ensuring that his projects stay ahead of the curve.
Thijs primarily builds native apps and websites using all modern JavaScript frameworks, Blazor, and Flutter. He has a guilty pleasure for CSS and enjoys working closely with UX designers.
Mihai leads a team of development engineers who builds software that ensure the clients are safe and secure during their banking experience.
Before moving to a leadership position, Mihai has been a development engineer for more than 8 years. He still enjoy to write code for different initiatives assigned to his team.
Mihai enjoys sports, travelling around the world and building small projects in order to stay connected with the changes in the software industry.
Fili is a technical SEO consultant, ex-Google engineer, frequent conference speaker and was a senior technical lead in the Google Search Quality team. At Search Brothers he offers SEO consulting services with SEO audits, SEO training and successfully recovers websites from Google penalties.
Ewald is a Quality and (test-)Automation advocate, consultant and engineer. He has worked with many companies, technologies, domains, and most important of all: many different people!
He is a father, a husband, an outdoorsman, a musician and a voice for quality engineering!
The laws and principles of quality are not limited to the world of ‘software development’. They can be found in all aspects of life and it is the single most important source of inspiration to all of Ewald’s workshops, talks and stories.
I have been self-employed in software development for nearly 20 years now and have already written thousands of pages of requirements. In doing so, I've noticed how much better offers function when they don't just cover the bare minimum and are 2-3 pages long, but instead detail everything, and how much easier everyone involved finds the progress of the project becomes, as it is easier to follow the status. As a result of a huge project that was awarded to someone else who sold cheaply and then bungled the work, I've made it my task to make software offers comparable.
Carl is a seasoned software developer with nearly a decade of experience, boasting a rich background in the education and online learning industry, where his expertise in developing recommendation engines, digitization, content management platforms, and predictive analysis solutions has made significant impacts. At Osedea, Carl excels as a technical lead and AI specialist, with a specialized focus on LLMs and RAG architectures.
Backend engineer with 15 years of experience.
Designed systems for telecom, fintech, video streaming platforms and e-commerce. One common thing among all of experience is my love of backend. As a Backend developer and a competitive coder, I like to solve complex problems. I started my career as a coder in C++ language and continued learning different languages java, kotlin, go
I was working as tech lead to help creating cool retail banking applications for 5 years. Last 2 years, I am working as a Product tech lead with leading e-commerce in Netherlands Bol.com
Carsten is a passionate web developer whose career spans almost 20 years of professional software development in various companies and industries.
Currently, he holds the position of Principal Engineer at Plan A in Berlin, where the enjoyment of coding is merged with a commitment to fighting climate change.
He is a regular speaker at developer conferences and has authored technical articles for various publications. He is also a LinkedIn Learning instructor and author of a book about Clean Code in PHP.
Balkrishna works as an engineering lead at ING Bank. He is also a frequent speaker at renowned tech conferences. He has passion for continuous learning and genuine desire to sharing knowledge. He enjoys crafting elegant solutions while solving complex challenges. Although he has been working with Java for many years, he finds latest developments in Java quite exciting.
In his free time, he enjoys playing chess. The analytical thinking and foresight used in chess is something he finds useful in software development.
As tech lead at Verivox Data Science, Elisabeth had the end-to-end responsibility for migrating the ML infrastructure from an on-prem to a cloud setup, including the rollout of DevOps and MLOps best practices (clean code, unit testing, IaC, CI/CD).
Florian Mair is a technologist that helps customers in Germany succeed and innovate by solving business challenges using AWS Cloud services. Besides working as a Solutions Architect, Florian is a passionate mountaineer, and has climbed some of the highest mountains across Europe.
Philipp is a full-stack software enthusiast with a passion for cloud and serverless development. With more than 20 years of experience in software development he has possibly made every mistake possible, and learned a lot from them.
Rafał works as a software engineer for Transition Technologies PSC. Being in the industry since 2007 he develops his passion for the software at every possible moment. He believes that being pragmatic in our field is very helpful and proves that by switching technologies he uses whenever there is a need or an opportunity to learn new concepts. Started with .NET back-end solutions, he quickly became a web guy and then he got his head around different kind of mobile technologies and VR/AR. Also a Microsoft MVP in Mixed Reality.
Lutske de Leeuw is a Software Engineer at Luminis. A full-stack engineer with focus on Java and Angular. Loves machine learning, boardgames and cats. Wants to share knowledge, so everybody can benefit from it. Has the goal to speak on an European conference about a technical subject within 2 years.
B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering
M.Sc. in Computational and Data Science
Research Associate at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Computer Vision Group
One year as Machine Learning Engineer in Start Up environment
Since 2023 Software Developer Algorithms at Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
I am a software engineer, focusing mostly on the Front-end, in a love-love relationship with Javascript. I worked professionally on all Big Three Frameworks (But secretly I love React the most, please don't tell my Vue-on-all-projects company)
I am forever trying to strike a balance between my desire to ship stunning UI and bringing fast and great value from a Product perspective but also trying to merge the cleanest, easily maintainable code I can possibly write.
Tim te Beek is a staff software engineer at Moderne, which automates software refactoring at scale. He has extensive experience contributing to and presenting on Open Source software within the Java ecosystem. Previously he worked as a consultant specializing in migration engineering and developer productivity.
Julia started as a trainee at Finanz Informatik (FI) in 2019. During the 15-month program, she was able to work on many exciting topics early on and contribute her strengths to different teams. She has built up a company-wide network, which is particularly helpful in her current job. Today she is a specialist consultant in recruiting and hr-marketing and focuses on inspiring new talents for FI. In addition, she works on the topic of visibility of talents within the own company and network-building across company boundaries.
Chief DevOps and Senior Software Engineer at Kodius. Has been programming since the age of 10 and acquired vast experience across domains such as fintech, healthtech and has recently (~2 years ago) ventured into DevOps to solve key problems we had as a platform provider for our clients.
Has a keen eye for details, loves algorithms, and also loves learning how things work (including kubernetes :) ).
Maximilian Otto is a full-stack developer from Hamburg, Germany.
In 2020, he and his brother developed an app where you can connect with other people based on your interests.
The brothers founded the company Biga Software GmbH which now supports its customers in software development and architecture.
Maximilians works mainly with Java, Node (Typescript, Nestjs), and Flutter.
He also holds training for professional software developers to improve their skills in various coding-related topics like building clean and readable code or design patterns.
Unique combination of enterprise and scientific backgrounds. Started as JavaScript web front-end back in 2007 ended up being senior software architect. Spent 5 years being a core developer of a widely used SCADA framework used to control and data acquisition at large scale research facilities all across Europe. Helped San Diego Supercomputer Center, California to succeed in their project of designing and implementing a K8s platform for protein data base search engine.
Software Engineer passionate about innovation, standardization, and developer marketing.
Currently leads a team in charge of bringing Apryse, iText products, and PDF to the next level. This is done through a few means and responsibilities; prototyping, market research, standardization, and developer marketing.
Truly believes in empowering people to be autonomous, critical, and entrepreneurial.
I'm a dedicated and highly skilled Backend Software Engineer with a strong passion for Distributed Systems and Cloud-Native Development.
My key areas of expertise include:
- Backend Development (Go, Python, Rust)
- Distributed Systems (Microservices, Service Mesh, Message Queues)
- Cloud-Native Technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless)
- Scalable & High-Performance Systems
- Continuous Integration & Deployment (CI/CD)
Pawel Skiba is a veteran technologist, accomplished author, and a visionary in the field of IoT and AI. With over a decade of experience in programming and architecting corporate IT solutions, Pawel has been at the forefront of technological innovation, leading the way in both thought and action.
Currently serving as the lead manager of a team of engineers specializing in custom IoT and Edge AI solutions delivering solutions across 4 continents.
Dilvan Akkaya is an emerging Software Architect and TypeScript Developer passionate about Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Scrum. Currently contributing to the startup experial, focused on market research solutions, he navigates the complexities of the domain with enthusiasm. With a background in economics, he found a love for analytical thinking and a business-driven approach to development. As the Scrum Master and software architect at experial, he is actively shaping backend architecture supported by Scrum and DDD practices, embracing challenges as opportunities for growth.
Joachim has been at Amazon Web Services since 2019 and supports Enterprise customers with the adoption and use of AWS services. He enjoys speaking on stage and spreading cloud knowledge. His favorite topic in the cloud area is cost optimization and high scale events. You should ask him about it! Before joining AWS, he worked at Adidas, Sivantos, and a smaller travel software company as a Solution Architect, Development Lead and Senior Developer. When he isn’t supporting customers on their inevitable journey to the cloud, he is enjoying playing and watching Sports.
Yuliya is a Software Development Consultant at Xebia. With over a decade-long journey in IT across various international environments, she has played multiple roles from software developer to team lead and scrum master, each enriching her professional outlook. Yuliya is passionate about crafting clean, well-architected solutions and streamlining processes for efficiency. She strongly advocates for collaborative and harmonious work environments and finds fulfillment in supporting others in their professional growth.
Marin Niehues founded his first start-up at the age of 20. It was then that he discovered his passion for developing organisational structures that actually just work.
At the age of 21, he then joined a consulting boutique as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach. As part of this role, he was able to provide operational and strategic support to companies internationally in their agile transformations and organisational development.
Today, with Niehues Consulting, he supports international clients to build structures that can place continuous value on the market.
Erick Henrique is a product designer who transcends conventional boundaries to
create impactful and elegant solutions. With his creative vision, he helps the team
land ideas and steer clear paths, bringing clarity to complex problems and ensuring that products are aligned with business objectives. He is an idea catalyst and aprovocateur of innovative solutions, capable of solving challenges through
unconventional approaches.
John's journey in software development began as a PHP developer, but he later transitioned to frontend development and became passionate about all things related to Javascript. While working as a Data DevOps Engineer in a previous role, John had the opportunity to learn Python, SQL, and AWS, which added valuable skills to his toolkit. He now considers himself a Fullstack developer, with a particular affinity for serverless development. John is excited about creating modern, cloud-native applications and delivering top-notch solutions for his clients.
Abiodun Olowode is a Senior Engineering Manager at Factorial in Barcelona, who made the switch to software engineering from Avionics engineering. Prior to transitioning into engineering management, she worked as a Senior Software Developer on several core teams and a Developer Experience Team.
She is very enthusiastic about sharing her knowledge and breaking down complex technical concepts, via writing and speaking.
She's always up for a new challenge, especially when it involves making the world a better place one line of code at a time.
Benjamin spent the first 15 years of his career as a software developer and trainer. He decided in 2016 to make test automation his main profession and is working for trivago N.V. in Germany as a Test Automation Engineer. His focus shifted more to backend and API testing after five years as the core developer of trivago's in-house UI test automation framework.
Benjamin is the author of the book "Writing API Tests With Karate" and maintains several open source projects. Also, he is a well-known conference speaker and author on testing, automation and software craftsmanship topics.
Nikita is the CEO of Neon. He is passionate about deep tech, data infrastructure, and system software.
Prior to Neon, Nikita co-founded SingleStore, a unicorn data and analytics company valued at over $1.3 billion. Prior to founding SingleStore, Nikita worked as a senior engineer at Facebook, and before that at Microsoft on the SQL Server product.
Nikita has a Ph.D. in computer science from St. Petersburg. During college years Nikita received a bronze medal in ACM ICPC, and international student programming competition.
Shirin is a Senior Data Scientist at Verivox, Berlin, and has over six years of experience in Machine Learning and MLOps with a focus on building recommendation engines and projects related to customer churn, lifetime value, and segmentation with big data.
Additionally, Shirin has a background in Finance and has worked on the application of Reinforcement learning in the field of Finance and portfolio management.
An IT industry veteran with 15 years of experience, starting from hands-on technical roles to leading engineering teams in security-critical sectors. Passionate about coaching, development, teaching, and supporting others.
In 2016 he was included in the "100 Faces of Innovation" volume published by Financial Times, and so far his courses on Cybersecurity, AI, and NFTs attracted over 180K students.
At this point, George is working for ING Bank, while also participating in events related to DevOps, Cybersecurity, and Blockchain/NFTs.
Experienced software engineer. I serve a great team as an engineering manager. I speak at .NET conferences about developer tooling and best practices.
Since 2018 I've been working in the Languages Team at Sonar in Geneva, developing Roslyn code analyzers to empower developers to write Clean Code for C# and VB.NET. Before that, I started my career at Microsoft, where I worked in the team that enabled Office 365 customers to acquire and manage their subscriptions.
Julian Totzek-Hallhuber is a manager solution architects at Veracode. As a specialist in application security with almost 20 years of experience in the IT security environment, he has expertise in the areas of application development, penetration testing and web application security. He is also the author of numerous articles, a regular speaker at trade fairs and has participated in projects for www.webappsec.org.
Sebastian has been working at think-cell Software since its founding in 2002. In the last few years, among many other things, he has ported think-cell to run on macOS. He is also the maintainer of the typescripten project which lets programmers call JavaScript libraries from C++ code compiled to WebAssembly in a convenient and type-safe way. He enjoys leaving his desk from time to time to talk at international C++ conferences.
Phil is a developer advocate for Sonar and Google Developer Expert. He's been in the web industry for 10 years building with JavaScript and Ruby. He can be found hanging out at meetups and conferences, playing with new technologies and APIs or writing open source code online. Sometimes he makes his own beer, but he's more likely to be found discovering new ones around the world.
Phil tweets at @philnash and you can find him elsewhere online at https://philna.sh.
Robert Hoffmann is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS. Before, he worked for market leading smart device and telecommunication brands, pioneering cloud native applications during the early days of Docker and Kubernetes. At AWS, he is supporting some of the world’s largest retail brands on their cloud journey. Robert is passionate about observability, infrastructure as code and developer productivity.
Luis Ventura is a Software Engineer at Codacy. He studied Informatics Engineering at the University of Coimbra, and worked as a researcher with the Software and Systems group, focused on the dependability of NoSQL databases. After working in fraud detection and the CCaaS areas,
he began to work at Codacy, on their automated code quality tool.
Started career in international teams developing and delivering custom device management and IoT solutions for leading telecom providers worldwide. During this time leading technical teams in the delivery of customer solutions and in PreSales, which included as well the creation of architectures and cost estimates. As a solution engineer at Couchbase, he now focuses on challenging solution consulting, such as application modernization and development as well as multi-cloud strategies and especially edge computing with a focus on sustainable high user experience.
As a Senior Developer Advocate at Nylas, Ram prioritizes empowering and educating developers on how to use Nylas' APIs to create innovative products, features, and services. Ram can typically be found conversing with the Nylas developer community in order to better understand their needs and facilitate product development that helps to maximize their value. Prior to Nylas, Ram was a senior software engineer at Drop and Rangle.io. He holds a degree in electrical engineering from Ryerson University.
Tobias Münch is CTO at Münch Gesellschaft für IT-Solutions mbH (MITS), where Tobias is responsible for the
Technology stack that is responsible for individual developments and products. He also actively trains his employees in the Technology stack and also uses it practically in various projects. The supervised projects and products originate primarily from the finance and veterinary medicine sectors.
In addition to his work at MITS, he is doing research at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences on the research project Vet: ProVieh, which is the aim is to set up an internet-protected Business 4.0 solution for farm animal practices. The project is funded by the EFRE-fund.
In this research project, Tobias deals with the resilience of distributed software systems. In the current
The research area focuses on web apps and their client-side architecture.
Christian Liebel is a developer with a passion for modern web technologies. He has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and a Google Developer Expert (GDE) and speaks at user groups and conferences worldwide. As a member of the W3C Web Apps working group, he helps push the boundaries of the web.
Marco is a Senior Consultant at codecentric. He is a passionate advocate of software craft and code quality. Marco lectures regularly at well-known conferences and is author of several programming books. When he is not organizing the Softwerkskammer Nuremberg (developer meetup), he is probably explaining to his son how to program robotic turtles.
Edoardo is a Developer Relations Engineer at SparkFabrik, a company that helps organisations build digital products with open source technologies. He has a strong software developer and team leader background, working on various projects and platforms. He is passionate about creating and sharing content that educates and inspires other developers, such as tech talks, videos, podcasts, conferences, and more. He enjoys connecting with the developer community and promoting the benefits of open source software.
Martin is currently the Engineering Director for Canva's Ecosystem Group and brings 15 years of experience in building high-performing software teams across the globe. In recent roles, he's played engineer leadership roles for teams from 50 to 400 people at MYOB, Serko, and Visa. Martin has spoken on leadership, programming and systems design at events and conferences in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Tabitha Kleine is business unit manager at Finanz Informatik (FI). Together with her team she is responsible for developing modern, simple and secure banking applications for the credit business of the Sparkassen Finance Group.
After various positions at Deutsche Bank and she joined FI in 2005. There, she initially worked as a product manager and project manager in application development. Through this, she discovered her passion for leading teams and quickly took on more leadership responsibility alongside her technical responsibilities.
I am a highly experienced software engineer who has seen it all, from Midrange Systems to Micro Services.
Through all of this, I was guided by my passion for software engineering and software architecture.
For more than 15 years I have been working on the JVM and the Java ecosystem and have seen many of the frameworks
I hold Oracle Certified Java Programmer (OCP) and Sun Certified Business Component Developer (SCBCD/OCPBCD).
At Team Rockstars IT I am a Special Agent and I frequently speak at international conferences.
I have just had a book published on Cloud-native Jakarta EE
Martin Sakowski is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. He supports German enterprise customers on their journey to the cloud. He has a strong background in building digital platforms and serverless stacks. With this experience he loves to dive deep into architectures and development processes to drive performance, operational efficiency, and increase the speed of innovation.
Raphael Manke is a full-stack developer and consultant with five years of experience in developing serverless applications in the AWS cloud. AWS CDK changed his way of defining infrastructure as code dramatically and he likes to share his experiences and challenges along the way.
Jonathan is a library developer at think-cell. In his spare time, he works on various C++ open source libraries for memory allocation, cache-friendly containers, or parsing. He also blogs at foonathan.net and is a member of the C++ standardization committee.
I have been a Web Developer for over 13 years. I had experience working as a single web developer, as a member of big teams in FinTech, and as a Team Lead of a small team.
I enjoyed working on web 3D projects. I am a speaker & organizer of tech meetups and conferences. Taught web basics. I like tech communities and modern technologies.
Last 7 years, I have been living in Luxembourg and holding a Luxembourg JavaScript meetup. In 2023, I started to work as a Developer Relations Engineer at Kadena.
My passions are 🎮 video/board games, 🏞️ traveling, 🤿 diving, animals, good infographics.
Backend Engineer with 8 years of professional experience.
Started programming with C at the age of 13 (2004). Studied Pure Mathematics from 2009 to 2013 (BSc), researched Logic (MSc) until 2015, and worked as a Software Engineer at CafeBazaar (Iran's Google) at the same time. Moved to Geneva to research in Geometry and Physics (2016), then to Germany to study Computer Science, to Amsterdam to work at PicNic, and then back to Germany to work at AppTec GmbH. Now working at Jodel.
Christoph Menzel is a software developer by heart and has been part of the inovex team as Head of Mobile & Web Development since 2022. For him, clean code and test automation are two fundamental components of good software development.
He supports his customers in optimizing development processes, holds workshops on topics such as unit tests, clean code or continuous integration & delivery and actively shares his knowledge at conferences, barcamps or in articles.
Alexandra Waldherr holds a degree in chemical engineering and currently completes her studies in molecular medicine and drug development.
Her passion for quantum computing started to grow from experiments back in 2018. Since then, she has been part of various projects, and together with Somya Rathee and Nico Einsidler founded the Quantum Society Austria in 2021.
Alexandra has worked at BASF, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, CERN and the European Space Agency. She is Fellow at the Stanford Center for Responsible Quantum Technology.
Marc Klefter has an extensive (20+ years) background as an engineer, entrepreneur, consultant, trainer and international speaker. As CTO of the Swedish consultancy firm Edument he helps clients to build cloud native systems, with a special focus on domain modeling, system design and event-driven architecture.
Chief Innovation Officer and a co-founder of Makimo, a Polish custom software development company. Graduated from Łódź University of Technology, he’s been programming for about 15 years now. During university, he started his interests in leadership and has been developing these competences in Independent Students’ Association Region of Łódź, Toastmasters International and Software Development Association Poland. Acknowledged public speaker, a winner of a Toastmasters speech contest on a national level in Poland. Personally he’s fascinated with philosophy, humans, technology and the future.
Maish Saidel-Keesing is a Senior Enterprise Developer Advocate at AWS with over 20 years of trailblazing IT expertise. His visionary leadership in architecting intricate systems has driven industry evolution, with a keen focus on cloud, automation, and open-source solutions.
Renowned for his extensive knowledge in containers, DevOps, and open source, Maish empowers professionals to harness these realms effectively. His specialization in AWS Cloud, containers and agile practices reshapes business landscapes.
As Head of Product at Algorand Foundation, Alessandro oversees the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the adoption of the Algorand protocol. Alessandro has an MBA with specialization in Digital Finance from IE Business School, and worked as a software engineer; a background combining the technical, business, and user experience skills to deliver innovative and scalable solutions that meet the needs of a diverse and growing industry. He is passionate about leveraging blockchain technology to create a more inclusive, efficient, and transparent financial system.
Hans Elstner is the regional speaker for Thuringia of the start-up association and founder and CEO of rooom AG, which was founded in 2016. The Thuringian company offers companies worldwide a web-based platform to create their own digital worlds, showrooms, events and more. Hans was involved with computers and programming from an early age, managed the first company networks of his school friends' parents at the age of 14. He founded his agency for digital transformation 15 years ago, when he realized how much 3D technologies could help his customers.
Colleagues Doraly Chezeu Sukem (senior developer) and Esha Agrawal (data scientist) from ING are passionate about big data and predictive maintenance. They leverage machine learning and optimization to drive impactful projects. With expertise in predictive anomalies, credit risk and pricing domain complex financial data is unravelled to ensure sound decision making.
They also contribute to high school programs, aiming to instill an early interest in technology roles among students.
Passionate Software Engineer with a strong background in technology and a desire to constantly learn and grow.
I have always been fascinated by technology since a young age and aspired to turn my passion for programming into a career. My first "Hello World" was a turning point for me, and I have never stopped updating my skills and knowledge in the field.
At the same time, I have a strong passion for marketing, funnel optimization, product development, and business.
I dedicate a portion of my time experimenting with new solutions in these areas on projects that interest me.
Microsoft MVP, Microsoft 365 Consultant, Power Platform Developer
Luise helps customers around the globe to improve their business processes and to get rid of everything that only keeps them busy. She is a member of the Microsoft 365 platform community (PnP) team and supports developers in extending Microsoft 365. She loves all things community, open-source, stickers, and the number 42.
Dominik Galler, a seasoned computer scientist, began programming at age 12 and has a deep love for Java. He has held roles from developer to architect and project manager. Passionate about OOP, DDD, and Microservices, Dominik excels in making complex concepts accessible.
Olena working as a consultant with the main focus on building .Net Cloud Applications. She is passionate about event-driven architecture, clean code, and modern cloud-based application development.
She has previously worked in a service company based in Ukraine and took a part in the creation of various products from small startups, B2B applications, to enterprise platforms.
As Microsoft MVP for Azure, Olena is contributing to the community sharing her gained knowledge at international conferences, user groups, and community meetups as a speaker.
Daniel Oh is a Java Champion and Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat to evangelize developers for building cloud-native apps and serverless ob Kubernetes ecosystems. He's also contributing to various cloud open-source projects and ecosystems as a CNCF ambassador for accelerating DevOps adoption in enterprises. He's speaking at lots of technical seminars, workshops, and meetups to elaborate on new emerging technologies for enterprise developers & DevOps teams.
I’m a Software Engineer and a Developer Advocate at Google in London. I build tools, demos, tutorials, and give talks to educate and help developers to be successful on Google Cloud on topics such as serverless, event-driven architectures, and LLMs.
Konstantin Diener is CTO at cosee. He has been developing software for more than 20 years. His CTO role made him shift his focus to (agile) leadership topics and to Product Management eventually. Nowadays he's mainly interested in building the right products.
Konstantin speaks at conferences and was author of „DevOps Stories“, a column about culture, leadership, agile and DevOps.
Nathaniel is a Developer Evangelist at Twilio working to create magical moments for developers with their products. His life goals are to have Batman's brains, Deadpool's humour, T'Challa's fashion sense, Killmonger's Wokeness, and Thanos' determination! He serves the Javascript community in the UK and the rest of Europe
Mohammed is a community catalyst, a true open-source believer who has contributed to many open-source projects. Mohammed has extensive hands-on, cross-industry experience in designing, building and evolving distributed applications at scale. He's one of Google developer experts in cloud, and work @Spotify as SrBackend engineer.
Markus and his teams have been working on IDE tools for Java and database development, as well as various open-source projects for 20 years. Markus is CEO and co-founder of MicroStream, the company behind the Eclipse open-source projects EclipseStore, Eclipse Serializer, and RapidClipse IDE. He is also the editor-in-chief for the free JAVAPRO magazine in Germany and the founder and co-organizer of the Java community conference series JCON. He is an independent editor for several magazines, and a speaker at numerous international developer conferences, user groups, and meetups.
In his role as Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, Dirk Fröhner supports enterprise customers to reach their goals better using the cloud, push ahead digitalization, and allow more space for innovation. For this, he contributes his wealth of experience in backend development, software architecture, devops principles, and knowledge of human nature - all of which he built up during 20+ years of professional experience.
Matthew is Head of Web Standards at Samsung R&D Institute UK, leading a team that’s contributing to the evolution of the web, and the Samsung Internet browser, through the development of new standards at W3C. Matthew is a member of W3C’s Technical Architecture Group, which is responsible for stewardship of the web platform. Matthew has extensive accessibility experience, as an academic, consultant, and as co-chair of W3C’s Accessible Platform Architectures working group, which helps others ensure their specifications promote accessibility, and develops solutions for accessibility barriers.
Cleyra is a Venezuelan Software Engineer based in United Kingdom. Her passion for web development and user experience have led her to focus her career on creating products that are easy to use and accessible to everyone. She is also a promoter of diversity and inclusion in the tech industry and is always looking for ways to promote equal opportunity and representation, in her role as Women Techmakers ambassador, Women Developer Academy Mentor, Google Developers Group organiser and in her role as Affiliate Professor at University of Glasgow.
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