More than 300 speakers are going to share their knowledge and experience with an amazing audience. The line-up consists of true experts from the developer world, including some of the most sounding names from the industry.
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Joel Spolsky is cofounder of HASH, a startup working on the Block Protocol, an open standard for data-driven, structured blocks, so that web applications are both human and machine readable.
He was the CEO and co-founder of Stack Overflow, a network of Q&A sites visited by over 100 million people every month. He is a globally-recognized expert on the software development process. His website Joel on Software (joelonsoftware.com) is popular with software developers around the world and has been translated into over thirty languages. As the founder of Fog Creek Software (now Glitch) in New York City, he created FogBugz, a popular project management system for software teams, and Trello, a popular online project management application. Joel has worked at Microsoft, where he designed VBA as a member of the Excel team, and at Juno Online Services, developing an Internet client used by millions. He has written four books: User Interface Design for Programmers (Apress, 2001), Joel on Software (Apress, 2004), More Joel on Software (Apress, 2008), and Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky’s Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent (Apress, 2007). Joel holds a BS from Yale in Computer Science. Before college he served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a paratrooper, and he was one of the founders of Kibbutz Hanaton. Today he serves as the co-founder of HASH.
Arik Shtilman is CEO and co-founder of Rapyd, the leading fintech-as-a-service platform. Arikfounded Rapyd in 2016 with a singular goal in mind: to provide all the tools businesses need tocreate payment, payout and fintech experiences anywhere in the world.Prior to starting Rapyd, Arik realized there was a massive need to create a way for fintechapplications to scale globally so businesses could invest in expansion – not spend critical timeattempting to build complex payments infrastructure. To solve this glaring challenge hinderinggrowth in the payments space, Arik launched Rapyd as the first “Fintech-as-a-Service” productin the industry, the category-leading full stack of integrated payments, commerce and financialservices capabilities that can be seamlessly embedded into any application. Now, by partneringwith Rapyd, businesses and consumers anywhere in the world can easily engage in local andcross-border transactions in any market.Before Rapyd, Arik founded ITNavigator, a cloud-based contact center and unifiedcommunications platform which was acquired by Avaya in 2013. Arik’s expertise in buildinghigh-growth companies leveraging cutting-edge technologies to meet global customer demandis proven in Rapyd’s fast-paced yet steady growth. Since Rapyd’s launch in 2016, Arik hastaken the company global with offices in Dubai, Tel Aviv, London, San Francisco, Singapore,Reykjavi, Amsterdam and Miami.
David Singleton is chief technology officer at Stripe, where he is responsible for guiding its engineering and design teams as they build economic infrastructure for the internet. Since joining Stripe, David has helped grow the technology org across the US and developed new engineering hubs in Singapore and Dublin as well as Stripe’s fifth hub, remote engineering, across the globe.
David joined Stripe after an 11-year career at Google where he was VP of Engineering leading product development and coordinating more than 15 different hardware partnerships. Prior to Google, David spent three years at Symbian, the pioneering mobile phone operating system, developing operating system software and leading handset development projects for Nokia and Samsung smartphones.
David has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, skiing, and tinkering with neural networks. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two kids.
John is an award-winning game designer, level designer, and programmer whose work portfolio includes 130 games, of which 107 have been published commercially. John Romero has co-founded eight widely successful game companies, including id Software, Gazillion Entertainment, and Loot Drop. He co-owns Loot Drop and Romero Games. He is regarded as one of the world’s best game designers and his products have won over a hundred awards to prove it. Furthermore, John Romero is fully a self-taught designer and programmer, drawing inspiration from early Apple II programmers.
Brenda Romero is an award-winning game designer, Fulbright scholar, entrepreneur, artist, writer and creative director who entered the video game industry in 1981.
Miško Hevery is the CTO at Builder.io, where he is helping to empower anyone to create blazing fast sites. Previously he has worked at Google, where he created Angular, AngularJS and was co-creator of Karma. Before focusing on making the web better, he brought testing culture to Google and the world through his blog. Miško started his career by designing digital circuits and moved to databases, full-stack development, and finally, front-end frameworks, giving him a unique perspective. He understands all of the layers from the web down to a transistor.
Anu Bharadwaj is the President of Atlassian, focused on bringing Product, Business, Design and Engineering teams closer together to deliver innovative products that customers love while supercharging the growth of Atlassian’s businesses.
As an accomplished executive with nearly 20 years of experience in leading transformations and building billion-dollar businesses for high-growth startups and enterprises, Anu brings deep expertise across Product, Operations, and Engineering to help teams deliver customer-focused growth. As COO of Atlassian, she was responsible for scaling a distributed workforce in 13 countries while leading Atlassian’s SaaS transformation, building the Cloud enterprise business, and scaling cloud platform teams. Before Atlassian, she held various leadership roles at Microsoft, and launched multiple products for the Visual Studio ALM team.
Anu is deeply passionate about growing diverse teams and making the world a better place through technology and effective philanthropy. She serves on the board of Outsystems, advises young and emerging companies (Snyk, Xembly) and is part of the Operator Collective venture fund that pioneered the collective venture model to empower diverse founders.
Dan is a software engineer on the React team at Meta.
Working with Microsoft technologies since VB6 I've been there, and done that. My main interest right now is helping fellow developers in whatever way is good, mentoring or coaching, writing blog posts, building SDKs, and anything that helps make someone's work day a bit more enjoyable. For that purpose, I've created https://www.wearedotnet.io together with a fellow community member.
Wei Hu is the Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Oracle. He leads the development of mission-critical database capabilities as well Blockchain, Kubernetes, Microservices, and Globally Distributed Databases.Mr. Hu has B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has been with Oracle since 1998, holds more than 40 patents, and is the author and co-author of several books and papers.
Anna John originates from Stockholm, Sweden and moved to Barcelona 3 years ago to join the online bank N26.From traveling around the world to Head of Engineering at an international fintech company, starting her career late and without a proper university degree Anna has proven that anything is possible if you set your mind on it.
Mike Butcher (M.B.E.) is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch. He has written for UK national newspapers and magazines and been named one of the most influential people in European technology by Wired UK.
He has spoken at the World Economic Forum, Web Summit, and DLD. He has interviewed Tony Blair, Dmitry Medvedev, Kevin Spacey, Lily Cole, Pavel Durov, Jimmy Wales, and many other tech leaders and celebrities. Mike is a regular broadcaster, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, CNBC, Channel 4, Al Jazeera and Bloomberg.
He has also advised UK Prime Ministers and the Mayor of London on tech startup policy, as well as being a judge on The Apprentice UK. GQ magazine named him one of the 100 Most Connected Men in the UK.
He is the co-founder ThePathfounder.com newsletter; TheEuropas.com (the Annual European Tech Startup Conference & Awards for 12 years); and the non-profits Techfugees.com, TechVets.co, and Coadec.com.
He was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2016 for services to the UK technology industry and journalism.
Hi, I am Francesco. I am 39, from Rome, Italy.I am a Computer Scientist who worked from 2017 to 2020 on the Copernicus project for the European Space Agency.I have been active on Social Media since January 2020, especially Twitter, YouTube, and Discord.I became a Docker Captain in June 2021I've interviewed 200+ Developers on my YouTube Channel.I am currently creating content about Web3. AndCurrently Developer Advocate at daily.devI do live-coding sessions, and I love creating short videos
Dr. Rahima Yakoob, has more than 15 years of experience in IT and Automotive. Rahima is currently heading the Software Development team at Porsche AG. Before Porsche AG, Rahima worked in several expert and leadership positions at Mercedes-Benz AG. Rahima has completed her PhD in Automotive Supply Chain and is a visiting professor at University Esslingen for MBA module Digital Transformation.
Martin Wezowski is the Chief Futurist, and Head of NVT Future Hub, for SAP’s Technology & Innovation. With a drive to "lead from the future" and a mission to to unfold what is next for the future of human work, our global ecosystems, and SAP. Martin crafts future outlooks, concepts, defines and runs long term innovation frameworks.
He is lecturing as a faculty member of Futur/IO, a European future institute and other education programs. He moved across a range of disciplines from UX, to systems, to define innovation visions and strategies. 2017 he was named 1 of 100 most innovative minds in Germany as the “Software visionary” (“Handelsblatt”).
"I want to innovate what we call "work" out-of our lives. We are shaping SAP's innovation vision; the empathic symbiosis between humans and machines, investigating how we learn technology, and most of all, how technology learns us, especially when tech moves forward faster than how we, leaders, developers, humans seem to manage the implications"
Maezza Romero is a Community Manager at Romero Games. With 5 years of experience in the industry, she has used her acquired skills to build and manage large community spaces, such as the Romero Games Discord which has recently celebrated 7,000 members.
The Romero Games Twitter, the company’s biggest social media page with nearly 9,000 followers is a fun and nostalgic space for fans of Romero’s legacy titles such as DOOM and Quake, offering discussions on what DOOM weapon one would bring to a desert island, and other lively user polls and QnA. The current social media landscape is challenging, with new platforms overtaking the next.
In 2023, fast-form video content is the meta, so Maezza has had to adapt her social media management to platforms such as TikTok and Instagram Reels. By utilising traditional social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as modern platforms, Maezza creates content for diehard Millennial and Gen-X fans.
Yenny is a Senior Director of Engineering at RapidAPI. We make it easier to find, connect to, and manage APIs across multiple cloud environments - from the world’s largest API Hub. Previously, my teams and I worked on Conversational AI at Rasa and Adtech at Yelp. I have led organizations with between 4 and 40 people.An engineer at heart, I enjoy solving problems. For an engineering leader, problems come in the shape of organizational, people, and technical challenges. I support organizations to achieve Radical Clarity by asking the why and digging deep into these problems.
Ire Aderinokun is an independent User Interface Engineer from Lagos, Nigeria. She is an invited Google Expert, specialising in the core user interface technologies of HTML, CSS, and Javascript, but is interested in all aspects of technology. She is a co-founder of Helicarrier (YC S18), a company building cryptocurrency infrastructure for Africa, and is passionate about how this technology can support global financial freedom.With a decade of experience in the industry, Ire has shared her knowledge though her blog, bitsofco.de, and speaking at conferences around Africa and the world.
Keren is a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience in the industry.
She holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and is passionate about React and learning new technologies. Keren volunteers as a program manager at Baot, a community that supports women in R&D in their professional growth. She instructs and inspires developers to write blogs in her tech blogging workshops. Keren has experience as a dev community leader and a co-organizer of meetups and events. And in her not-so-spare time, she studies psychology. Her hobbies include drawing, photography, and singing.
Olivier Gaudin is a software engineer who co-founded Sonar 15 years ago. As its CEO, Olivier has built a global multi-billion dollar company by helping developers build better code. Today, 7 million developers and over 400,000 organizations utilize the Sonar solution to achieve a Clean Code state.
As Co-founder and CPO of WeAreDevelopers, Thomas Pamminger has helped shape the platform into a leading job hub for Europe's developers, hosting a transformative congress to empower this community
Former CEO of Wollzelle, Thomas revolutionized digital experiences for clients like Gucci and launched two influential SaaS products, Fluxiom and Maiko, serving customers worldwide, showcasing his dedication to advancing the digital landscape.
Julia Furst Morgado is a Global Technologist on the Product Strategy team at Veeam Software based in New York City. Her passion is making Cloud Native technologies and DevOps best practices easier to understand by sharing her knowledge and experiences. She is also committed to empowering communities as the organizer of the NY Code & Coffee Meetup, AWS Community Builder, Women Techmakers Ambassador and Girl Code Ambassador.
Rowdy Rabouw is a web developer with over 25 years of experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. Currently, he is a Front-End Focused Senior DevOps Engineer working on Vue.js and Node.js projects with special attention for accessibility. Rowdy loves watching superhero movies and Formula One races and enjoys riding on his mountain bike to unwind.
Angie Jones is the Global Vice President of Developer Relations for TBD, Block’s new business unit focused on decentralized technologies. She is an award-winning teacher and international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software companies and conferences all over the world.
As a Master Inventor, Angie is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than 25 patented inventions in the areas of metaverses, collaboration software, social networking, smarter planet, and software development processes.
Scott Chacon is the former cofounder of GitHub; now cofounder of GitButler, a next generation version control client, based in Berlin. Scott helped grow GitHub from 4 cofounders to 450 employees over 8 years, eventually being acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Scott is also the author of Pro Git, published by Apress and found online at git-scm.com. In unrelated news, he holds a WSET Level 3 certification in Wines and Spirits and owns a dog rescue outside of Berlin.
Prashanth is a proven technology executive with extensive experience leading and scaling high-growth global organizations. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s Cloud & Infrastructure Services portfolio of businesses, including the Managed Public Clouds, Private Clouds, Colocation and Managed Security businesses.
Before that, Prashanth held a range of senior leadership roles at Rackspace including Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s high growth, global business focused on the world’s leading Public Clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Alibaba Cloud, which became the fastest growing business in Rackspace’s history.
Prior to joining Rackspace, Prashanth was a Vice President at Barclays Investment Bank, focused on providing Strategic and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) advice for clients in the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) industries. Prashanth was also a Manager at Capgemini Consulting where he managed Operations transformation engagements and consulting teams across the US. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an M.Eng in Engineering Management from Cornell University and a B.S. in Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Maine.
After finishing my masters in software engineering I headed toward iOS development, since then I developed a wide variety of iOS apps.Software development is my passion, quite lucky that I love what I am doing, a never ending story with learning new stuff.Accessibility topic for apps has been lately a topic that interests me, making apps accessible for all people is a must as it is also considered a human right.
From studying fashionmanagement, to working in fashion, to completing a bootcamp, Valeria is a typical new-generation developer who likes to think about problems in a creative way and approaches problem thinking from a different perspective.
Software Architect by choice, Engineering Manager by accident and REBT practitioner by need. Fourteen plus years in the industry have taught me some stuff which I turn into written, drawn and recorded content. Proud father of 1 kid & two blogs!
Igor Todorovski is a technical leader at IBM, where he serves as the Technical Lead for the z/OS Open Source initiative. With over 15 years of experience in the field, Igor is a seasoned expert in open source technologies and has played a vital role in bringing a wide range of tools and languages to the z/OS platform, including Node.js, OpenSSL, Git, Vim, Bash, and Swift. Through his leadership, he has successfully ported these technologies to the platform, making them accessible to a wider audience.
Daniel is a core team member of Nuxt - previously a CTO of a SaaS startup. His open-source work has a focus in the Vue.js and Nuxt ecosystems and he's involved in consultancy with companies around the world, particularly around JAMstack, serverless and software architecture. He's based in the North East of England where he lives with his family, three cats, and a dog.
Ivan is the Engineer's Editor - a writer, editor, and entrepreneur who helps tech people tell their stories as the Director of Developer Content at Infobip - a leading global communication platform and Croatia's first unicorn - and Founding Editor of Netokracija, the most successful tech media company in the region that he started at age 22.
He has trained 100s of engineers to write in his "Writing for Engineers" workshops that have helped numerous tech teams in companies such as Photomath, Sofa Score, Raiffeisen Bank, and Deutsche Telecom with their developer content and employer branding.
Fanny Jimenez is Chief of Staff at Business Insider Germany. She was previously Head of the Career, Life and Science department and Interim Head of Audio, Video & Social Media. She holds a doctorate in psychology and is an expert on all topics between psychology and business. She has taught business journalism at the BSP Business & Law School Berlin - Hochschule für Management und Recht, is the author of the book "Ich und mein Spleen" and hosts the psychology podcast "NEVER MIND - Psychologie in 15 Minuten".
Isabell Heider studied IT-Security and Forensics (M.Eng.) at Wismar University of Applied Sciences. She is working as associate security consultant at IBM and is active as IBM Quantum Ambassador and Qiskit Advocate.
I am a data scientist with a passion for quantum computing. I completed my Master's degree in Computational Physics at Stockholm University, where I gained a solid foundation in both physics and computing. After graduation, I became a data scientist at IBM - Vienna.My personal innovation topic is quantum computing. As an IBM Quantum Ambassador, I am dedicated to sharing my knowledge and excitement about this cutting-edge technology with others.
Timo Salm is the first Solutions Engineer for Developer Experience in EMEA at VMware, focusing on the VMware Tanzu Application Platform and commercial Spring products. In this role, he’s responsible for educating customers on these products' value, vision, and strategy and ensuring that they succeed by working closely on different levels of abstractions of modern applications and modern infrastructure. Before Timo joined Pivotal and VMware, he worked for more than seven years for consulting firms in the automotive industry as a software architect and full-stack developer.
Kent Inge has been working with Software Engineering since 2005. In that time he has contributed to numerous projects and systems. He has also published several academic and a couple of opinioin pieces on various toopis in Software Engineering. His current interests reolve around green and sustainale software engineering, model based methods and security.
Ramona is a software engineer with roots in quality assurance. She owns both views of the product - that of a tester and a developer. Ramona primarily uses this to strengthen trust in test automation and support the testers and developers alike, becoming a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, Women Techmaker Ambassador, and Cypress ambassador.
As Field CTO, Alex is responsible for working with sales, marketing, product, and engineering to articulate the value Rapid's API Hub platform provides to our customers. After holding a number of roles at Rapid, Alex’s ability to speak about the product and company strategy from a technical perspective is vital to the company's success. Alex joined the RapidAPI team after meeting the team at a hackathon they were sponsoring and immediately recognized the value that Rapid was providing to developers around the world.
Thomas Chauchefoin (@swapgs@infosec.exchange) is a Vulnerability Researcher in the Sonar R&D team. With a strong background in offensive security, he helps uncover and responsibly disclose 0-days in major open-source software. He also participated in competitions like Pwn2Own or Hack-a-Sat and was nominated for two Pwnies Awards for his research on PHP supply chain security.
With more than 10 years of experience with digital products and business models, Pascal Schäfer has worked in and advised companies of all sizes: from start-ups and SMEs to corporations and multinationals in a wide range of industries. In doing so, he has gained experience in working with all types of teams: internal teams, development agencies, freelancers, coaches.Today, he leads the community and sourcing team of Malt, a freelancer marketplace that brings together 60,000 companies and 500,000 independent professionals of all professions.
Dr. Humera Noor Minhas developed her love for data early on in her professional life and is still amazed by its power. She did her doctorate in Computer Vision and Machine Learning and has almost twenty-five years of experience in leading teams working with (big) data. She’s passionate about making a difference in people’s lives and this is reflected in the projects she picks up. Currently, Dr. Humera is responsible for ad-filtering enablement as Director of Engg. at eyeo.
Graduated from Technical University Braunschweig in the field of automotive engineering in 2017 and started working as an Automotive Systems Engineer for IAV GmbH. The main focus for the first two years was on connected functions and in-vehicle communication – which covers the communication design as well as timing and performance evaluation of such. Afterwards, the focus shifted to integration and reconfiguration of automotive applications using containers and suitable management platforms.
Olaf currently leads the technical/professional services at Edge Delta, and edge observability startup. Prior to Edge Delta he has built and lead post sales technical teams at metadata management company Alation (1 year) and at observability and security company Sumo Logic (7 years)
I am an Engineer at Deutsche Bank Berlin Technology Centre. Starting with JavaScript, I am experienced in lots of programming languages and currently work with Python and C++. I enjoy working with both languages and would like to share my knowledge with the WeAreDevelopers community about the best practices for their combination.
As an experienced software engineer with a background in developing successful React and React Native apps, I am passionate about teaching and mentoring others in the tech industry. I am particularly dedicated to supporting and empowering women in tech and inspiring young girls to pursue careers in technology. Along with my technical knowledge, I am also a frequent speaker at tech conferences, where I share my insights and knowledge with the community.
Tomas loves PHP and connecting people, so he founded Czech & Slovak PHP Community [Pehapkari](https://pehapkari.cz) in 2015, where all PHP developers can share their knowledge, chat on Slack or grab a beer.His **passion is open-source for lazy people** - instant upgrades and coding standards. He takes care of [Rector](https://github.com/rectorphp/rector) and [EasyCodingStandard](https://github.com/Symplify/EasyCodingStandard) packages.
Matt Butcher (CEO) is a founder of Fermyon. He is one of the original creators of Helm, Brigade, CNAB, OAM, Glide, and Krustlet. He has written or co-written many books, including "Learning Helm" and "Go in Practice." He is a co-creator of the "Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes" series. These days, he works mostly on WebAssembly projects such as Spin, Bindle, and Bartholomew. Matt holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He lives in Colorado.
Llywelyn Griffith-Swain is a Senior Manager Heading up SRE for Cloud Engineering. He is a leading on the technical delivery of the Telco As A Service platform and also heads up the UK Digital SRE function. Having been worked as a test management, network engineering, IT Operations lead, SRE and SRE management Llywelyn is passionate about all things SRE and Platform Engineering. He also enjoys playing the piano, hiking and rock climbing
Dr. Oliver Wäldrich has more than 20 years experience in java software development projects. In his role as a software architect and software engineer he supports teams at DKB to realize complex software projects using software engineering approaches. He is especially interested in improving and optimizing communication and development processes in cross-functional teams.
Dana is CEO and Co-Founder of paged, a Social-Tech Startup fostering inclusion in the digital space.During her studies in cognitive science, she has been involved in various research projects investigating the visual system e.g. at University of California, Berkeley and New York University.With this science background, she now devotes all her passion to paged, developing different AI accessibility solutions for more inclusion of neurodiverse people to digital content.Dana has been selected as Voice of Economic Transformation 2023 by Bertelsmann Stiftung and is Tech Speaker at OMR 2023.
Alex is a web development consultant in his twenties. When not working on open-source projects like Nuxt, he gives talks at conferences, writes blog posts or consults other companies on web development with a focus on Vue and Nuxt.
* Graduated in mathematics* Holistic perspective on computers: former developer, sysadmin, security officer, university teacher and even computer salesman* Now a security consultant specializing in application security* Open source lover
As a consultant with more than 10 years of experience in software engineering under my belt I have seen both awesome and awful code. The cloud and its way of working and interacting amazes me, but I'm also excited about the most theoretical and basic foundations of software engineering, architecture, and collaboration in general to build great software.
As a Product manager, Digital designer and front end developer for over 20 years, Fredrik has dabbled with most things web related and is currently leading product management of the popular Open Source rich text editor TinyMCE.
Paul Gerste (@pspaul95) is a Vulnerability Research in the Sonar R&D team. In the last months, he has been hunting bugs in popular JavaScript and TypeScript applications, yielding critical vulnerabilities in projects such as Rocket.Chat, NodeBB, and Blitz.js. Paul has also been a CTF player and organizer for some years and loves to hack all web-related things.
Mikkel Mørk Hegnhøj is the head of product and developer relationship at Fermyon. He has a long background in product management, customer success, and developer engagement at Microsoft, working on products such as Service Fabric, Azure Kubernetes Services, Azure Container Instances, and the open-source project Virtual Kubelet. He’s passionate about developer and operator experiences, with a mission to make the path from idea to reality frictionless and quick. Mikkel lives in a tiny and beautiful village in Denmark.
Liran Tal is a software developer, and a GitHub Star, world-recognized for his activism in open source communities and advancing web and Node.js security. He engages in security research through his work in the OpenJS Foundation and the Node.js ecosystem security working group, and further promotes open source supply chain security as an OWASP project lead. Liran is also a published author of Essential Node.js Security and O'Reilly's Serverless Security. At Snyk, he is leading the developer advocacy team and on a mission to empower developers with better dev-first security.
Aarik Mudgal is a passionate Engineering Manager with an industry experience of 8 years and a certified cloud architect. Also, he’s a DevOps and SRE enthusiast. He has been part of Metro Digital GmbH for over two years. He is working for many initiatives, such as METRO X, an initiative focused on core wholesale business revolving around Products, Services, Consulting, Digital tools, Equipment, and Marketplace.
Always been passionate about web development, mostly focused on the front-end and full-stack TypeScript. I especially work with React and NestJS. Since 2018 I'm focused on shipping quality software and building great products with xtream.
As a software architect, consultant and trainer at embarc Software Consulting GmbH, Falk Sippach is always on the lookout for that spark of passion that he can ignite in his participants, customers and colleagues. He has been supporting mostly agile software development projects in the Java environment for over 15 years. As an active part of the community (co-organizer of the JUG Darmstadt), he also likes to share his knowledge in articles, blog posts, as well as in presentations at conferences or user group meetings and supports the organization of various events.
Axel is a technical enterprise architect at powercloud since a bit more than 2 years. In his 15 years of various experience in all sizes of enterprises he developed a knack, a love, a passion for 3 things: Pipelines, Containers and the Infrastructure as Code.
Bastian Eicher is a software engineer at DeepL, focusing on containerization, observability and all things C#/.NET. Bastian loves brainstorming API designs, automating deployment processes and sharing cool new ways to build stuff on Kubernetes. He maintains a number of open-source projects, such as TypedRest (https://typedrest.net/) and Zero Install (https://0install.net/).
Tatiana Chervova is a Lead Technical Consultant at NTT DATA with 8 years of experience in designing and implementing enterprise applications.She holds a M.Sc. in Computing in the Humanities from University Bamberg and has worked on numerous projects in automotive industry.She started as a Java developer and now focuses on topics such as cloud-native application development, microservices, containerization and DevOps practices.Outside of work, Tatiana enjoys hiking in Bavarian Alps, she is also a passionate knitter.
Zaid Zaim is a passionate technologist - As a Spatial Computing Expert at Ignore Gravity (IG), Zaid's responsibilities span a spectrum of exciting and innovative areas. His advocacy work involves building and nurturing communities in the AR/VR space, fostering an environment of collaborative growth and learning. Zaid is instrumental in establishing a solid foundation for IG and potential partners to make their mark in the Metaverse, a testament to his forward-thinking and visionary approach.
Zaid adds a dose of fun to technological innovation. Projects he is leading ranges from Cultural Heritage to Healthcare using MR for Dentistry.
Zaid's unwavering commitment to technology has made him a global multiplyer for MR - His efforts in sharing knowledge on MR technologies and engaging with tech and dev communities worldwide have earned him the coveted Microsoft MVP award.
By "Ignoring Gravity" – the marriage of the tangible world and the digital sphere – paints the picture of an immersive, boundless future he is helping shape.
Today, he is continuing his learning journey at CODE University of Applied Sciences in Berlin.
Marco Plaul is a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, where he leverages his experience to help enterprise retail customers bring their ideas to life. While he works across a wide range of technologies, Marco has a track record of diving deeper with customers Serverless, IoT and Machine Learning topics.
I'm a Content Creator, indie developer, and digital nomad.I write a bunch of stuff about building IT businesses and production-ready apps. Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, and my blog.Since my teenage years, I have worked as a freelance full-stack developer mostly with startups and small businesses. In 2020 I decided to use this knowledge to scale a digital agency and try to build something for myself. As of 2022, I'm building businesses in public, and helping developers become entrepreneurs.
Radu is the co-founder and CTO of Fermyon, a startup building the next generation of cloud computing using WebAssembly.He is an open source software engineer passionate about WebAssembly, distributed systems, and artificial intelligence.In the past he worked at Microsoft Azure in the DeisLabs research and development team, where he was a core maintainer for multiple server-side WebAssembly and distributed systems projects.He is an avid learner, loves classical music, and enjoys a good bubble tea with a bicycle ride.
Richard Bown helps organisations confidently approach legacy systems and tech debt through best practice, architecture, team and organisational approaches. He's worked for over 25 years in the development and deployment of software and IT systems.
Giorgio Boa is a full stack developer and the front-end ecosystem is his passion. He started to develop applications in 2006 and in 2012 he falls in love with JavaScript. He is also active in open source ecosystem, he loves learn and studies new things. He is very ambitious and he tries to improve himself every day.
Reka has been working as a software developer since 2005, mainly in Python since 2019.She worked as a senior software engineer in fintech. Besides the customer-facing financial products, she also created CLI tools and cookiecutters for internal usage.Since October 2021: Sourcery* Building the DSL for project-specific code quality rules.* Converting the Sourcery CLI into a primary tool (alongside the IDE plugins, which had been the main focus before). Since October 2022: developer advocate, maintaining Sourcery's open source repos. She's an enthusiastic runner and chess player.
Eleftheria is a Community Manager at Hashnode and a front-end developer/UX researcher from Greece. She creates educational content for several platforms such as Packt, Udemy, Skillshare, at the same time, she produces motivational talks and how-to videos on her YouTube channel. She is self-motivated and working hard to make this world a little bit better every day. When she isn’t glued to a computer screen, Eleftheria spends time working out and strolling in nature. Her friends would describe her as easy-going and the fastest chocolate eater.
Stefan is co-author of Domain Storytelling: A Collaborative, Visual, and Agile Way to Build Domain-Driven Software (Addison-Wesley). He studied Software Engineering and has a PhD in computer science. Since 2005, Stefan has worked for WPS – Workplace Solutions, helping teams develop software that does the right job the right way.
Justyna works as a Group Product Manager at DeepL. She is responsible for the Core Platform track, you can also blame her for the early versions of DeepL Write. She has explored many sides of IT before: programming, R&D, academia, translations, product, engineering, leadership. She has finally recognised product as the place to be, as she enjoys the impact of the role and the challenges brought by indirect leadership. Justyna lives in Poznań, Poland with her husband, two little daughters and one very big dog. She runs an airbnb in a Polish forest, very popular among the citizens of Berlin.
Roland H. Grabner is professor of Educational Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychology, University of Graz, Austria. Before this position, he worked as postgraduate researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and at the University of Göttingen, Germany. His research focuses on innovative ways to enhance cognitive performance and learning and on talent development in various domains.
Nele Uhlemann is a Developer Advocate at Fiberplane. Her passion is helping the open source community use and understand Fiberplane’s technologies and build a bridge between business and technical users to leverage the full potential of Business Process Management. Nele works as a consultant at Fiberplane, leading workshops with developers and business users. Therefore, she understands the need to find a common language to enable agility in both domains.
Rupak Chakraborty leads the Machine Learning team at eyeo, which is focused on developing deep learning-based ad-filtering algorithms for AdBlock and Adblock Plus. He started his career at Adobe, where he has worked across many core product teams like Acrobat. His prior work has mostly focused on developing large-scale language-agnostic text classification and modeling systems. When he is not busy with work he likes to get his hands dirty with state-of-the-art Machine Learning algorithms. On a personal front, he is an avid traveler and has visited more than 60 countries in the last 4 years.
Falk Langer graduated its PhD in computer since at University Augsburg in 2015. From 2006 to 2014 he was working as research assistant ta Fraunhofer Institute for Embedded Systems and Communication Technologies ESK in Munich. From 2014 he is team-manager at IAV GmbH responsible for automotive software development with focus on safety and security. Since 2020 he holds an endowment professorship for “Connectivity and Services Automotive Software” at University of Applied Sciences Mittweida.
Currently working with the CKEditor 5 core team on the editor framework, its ecosystem, and developer experience. Ex-developer turned into a product person but still codes for fun and brain practice. Strong opinions weakly held, and often overruled by his two kids.
After my study of computer science I started working for Capgemini as a Software Engineer in 2019. Now I have 4 years of development experience and worked with MuleSoft for over 2 years. In this time I always worked in agile projects for our clients.
A software engineer for 20 years, Dennis has worked remotely or in hybrid work setups for the majority of his career. Dennis has a strong background in developing and maintaining hospitality, business, financial banking systems, e-commerce, and entertainment applications. Often he worked independently, but considers himself a perfect team player with experience in leadership.
Filip Hric is a DevRel at Replay.io He teaches testers about web development and developers about testing. Filip is a Cypress.io ambassador, leads a “Learn Cypress.io” community on Discord and he has a blog at filiphric.com where he publishes Cypress.io tips. He’s an international keynote speaker and leading expert on test automation in Cypress.io. As author and instructor of live Cypress workshop, he taught hundreds of testers and developers about good practices and advanced concepts for testing in Cypress. Enjoys running, playing guitar and spending time with his wife and four children.
Hila Israeli, a senior software engineer with over 8 years of experience, a scrum master and a public speaker.While working at OwnBackup she was a leading part in building 3 different products from scratch to production.Hila graduated Bs.C in Computer Science and Economics from Tel Aviv University.Was a speaker at two big tech conferences and speaks and organizes meetups for women engineers.Lives with her husband in Tel Aviv, is passionate about hiking, running, and, of course, learning new things.
I'm keenly interested in the ways code communicates to two different audiences at once, the computer as well as other people. This lead me to my current role in improving the development experience at Shopware.Next to my daily work, I'm also one of Shopware's popular Code Camps organizers, which hopes to promote a playful understanding of code in school-aged children.In my off time, I'm a programming language nerd with an interest in functional programming and distributed systems.
Sebastian Schrittwieser is a member of the Security and Privacy (SEC) research group at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Vienna. In 2014 he completed his PhD in technical sciences in the field of information security at the Vienna University of Technology. His research interests include software protection, web application security, and psychological aspects of information security.
Phil is a software engineer in the Vodafone Foundation Instant Network team. After a 28 year career as an Electronic Engineering Technician, Load Balancing and Traffic Management Engineer, Platform Engineer and Automation Engineer; from Planet Online to Vodafone Group Cloud and Hosting. He now gets to work on everything from Linux Kickstart to web apps for the Instant Network team. Outside work he likes film photography, sewing, climbing and building bikes.
Joel Lord (@joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by travelling at various conferences all across the globe.He graduated from college in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he was always in the industry.
Coder, open-sourcerer, developer experience enthusiast, software architect, and entrepreneur. At work, I oversee and consult in enterprise legacy systems modernization for fortune 500s to small businesses. Outside work I love helping NGOs as a full-stack developer and mentor.
Ekaterina specializes in end-to-end AI productization, encompassing the entire process from development to optimized deployment of discriminative and generative AI solutions. Formerly a research engineer in medical image analysis, she holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has authored peer-reviewed publications in image-based 3D reconstruction, localization and tracking.
Maurice Brinkmann is the Product Owner of STACKIT Cloud Foundry with Schwarz IT, who currently focusses on customers’ success with Platform as a Service. Maurice is passionate about PaaS in general and Cloud Foundry in particular. He enjoys supporting the business by driving challenging IT projects and diving deep into innovative solutions. His professional background includes diverse roles, e.g. as Enterprise IT Architect, Intrapreneur, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Consultant, Scrum Master and QA Team Lead in different enterprises.
I'm a health coach for 5 years in Berlin helping individuals with their physical and emotional issues using techniques from Keinesiology, Chinese medicine, yoga, herbalism, Cranial Sacral therapy and massage therapy.
A community-first technologist for Kasten by Veeam Software. Based in the UK with a key focus on technologies such as cloud-native, automation & data management.His role at Kasten is to act as a technical thought leader, community champion and project owner to engage with the community to enable influencers and customers to overcome the challenges of Cloud-Native Data Management and be successful, speaking at events sharing the technical vision and corporate strategy whilst providing ongoing feedback from the field into product management to shape the future success.
Studied Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin with a Master’s degree in 2016 with a focus on databases, web technologies and compilers.Started working for Capgemini in 2011. Currently as a Senior Software Engineer with focus on Java full stack development, integration architecture and MuleSoft.
Born in Spain, mother is from Argentina and my dad is Colombian.Last 10 years I’ve been based out of Berlin. Apart from tech in general, I have a passion for great music, craft beer and grilling.I enjoy attending conferences, sometimes as a volunteer and mostly as a regular attendee.
Michael is a Software Engineer at DeepL and responsible for the Design System team.Since 2019, he has been a UX Engineer specializing in Design Systems and how they can help companies not only deliver consistent UX, but also work more efficiently.Previously, Michael had the opportunity to work with great designers and developers at the renowned agency Jung von Matt. He worked on projects for clients like Google and BMW.However, his love for design and development was ignited in 2004. He wrote his first browser game prototype using PHP and created the graphics with MS Paint.
Tomaž Bratanič is a network scientist at heart, working at the intersection of graphs and machine learning. He has applied these graph techniques to projects in various domains including fraud detection, biomedicine, business-oriented analytics, and recommendations.
Arlemi Turpault leads Developer Advocacy at Postman, the API platform. He started his career as a software engineer doing research and development for Augmented Reality solutions, then naturally turned to developer relations as a deep advocate for great user experiences and access to knowledge.Based in London (UK), and when not interacting with other community members, he can be found reading fantasy books or pretending to be a guitar hero on Rocksmith.
David works as Program manager at Dynatrace's Open Source Program Office. He is driving process, compliance and security efforts around Open source within the company, as well as contribution and the creation of new projects. He also supports projects in their early stages, helping drive adoption and community development for Keptn, OpenFeature and OpenTelemetry, working closely with the engineering teams. David is member of the InnerSource Commons and TODO Group, furthermore he fosters collaboration with foundations and participation in the community and conferences.
Wolfgang Ettlinger is heavily interested in the technical aspects of IT security, in particular application security. In the past decade he has gathered experience with a broad range of languages, technologies and frameworks in e.g. penetration testing, source code review and secure software development projects. He is responsible for the identification of dozens of CVEs affecting products from Citrix, Oracle, Symantec, Sophos, Trend Micro, etc.
Entrepreneur * Challenger * Deep thinker and technologist at heart * Hands-on Salesforce expert, Certified Technical Architect * Digital strategy and innovation expert
Olaf currently leads the technical/professional services at Edge Delta, and edge observability startup. Prior to Edge Delta he has built and lead post sales technical teams at metadata management company Alation (1 year) and at observability and security company Sumo Logic (7 years)
Inclusion advocate, content strategist and UX compliantHello world! I'm Marcy Ericka, a social tech UX writer, content strategist andformer editor-in-chief of WeLoveDevs. I was the first woman hired there, racialized and LGBTQIA+.I realised that few people like me are represented in tech: I chose to take a more committed stance to promote inclusion at any cost with UX and content strategies.All my conferences are empathy-driven! :)
Software Engineer with good professional experience in the IT field. In the last few years, he has been engaged with the development of projects such as a Mobile Application for a Commercial Communication Management System, Mobile Application to Provide Services in Cuba, as well as a Data Management System for the Records of Children’s Development. During these projects, Andrés gained substantial experience in the mobile development process, as well as in the other steps involved in building software, such as application testing, deployment, version control, code reviews and flutter mastering.
Nico Enking has been working as a Software Architect and Developer Experience Engineer at Finanz Informatik since 2018. Professionally, he is particularly interested in optimizing process landscapes and improving the daily work of developers at Finanz Informatik. He pays special attention to modern and lean technology stacks in both the frontend and the backend. In his personal life, Nico enjoys working on full-stack development projects, gaming, and bot development for chat apps. He also occasionally dedicates time to data scraping and ethical hacking.
As SVP of Customer Operations at Applause, Julia is responsible for EMEA's Solution Delivery, Testing Services and Community Management functions. In addition, she leads the European part of the global Accessibility Testing Offer and supports customers in the holistic quality assurance of their digital products and services. Before joining Applause, Julia worked as a project portfolio manager and management consultant, e.g. at Kearney, and is a Certified Program Consultant for SAFe (Scaled Agile).
Thomas Chauchefoin (@swapgs@infosec.exchange) is a Vulnerability Researcher in the Sonar R&D team. With a strong background in offensive security, he helps uncover and responsibly disclose 0-days in major open-source software. He also participated in competitions like Pwn2Own or Hack-a-Sat and was nominated for two Pwnies Awards for his research on PHP supply chain security.
Balázs started in software security 15 years ago as a researcher in various EU projects (FP6, FP7, H2020) while also taking part in over 25 commercial security evaluations: threat modeling, design review, manual testing, fuzzing. While breaking things was admittedly more fun, he's now on the other side, helping devs stop attacks at the (literal) source. To date, he has held over 100 secure coding training courses all over the world about typical code vulnerabilities, protection techniques, and best practices. His most recent passion is the (ab)use of ML systems when it comes to code security.
I am a driven and creative professional with many years of consulting experience and a passion for unleashing the potential in organisations as well as people. With a background in software development and architecture I love to combine my technical experience with my skills within management & organisation.I am also a passionate driver of equality and diversity within the Tech industry and a strong believer that inclusion and empowerment of diverse minds is a prerequisite to stay relevant, inventive and creative. Nominated for the Impact of the Diversity award 2021.
Alex joined Zühlke as Lead Software Architect in September 2017 and developed into his current role as Principal Cloud Architect & People Lead Cloud. He’s responsible for consulting on and implementing challenging software projects with a focus on cloud architecture, cloud modernization and connected devices and leads the german cloud team.For over 15 years I gained a broad background in a multitude of roles, software architecture methodologies and technologies in domains such as robotics, automation, finance and medical software.
Clemens Helm, a full-stack developer from Vienna, has been coding for nearly two decades. Experienced in various backend and frontend technologies, his curiosity drives him to explore new languages and tools. Clemens has led tech teams, served as CTO, and founded his own startup. With experience in 100+ software projects, he now shares his knowledge through talks and meetups.Recently he has founded the DevCraft Academy, a comprehensive program to help junior developers level up their skills and knowledge, aiming to turn them into coding gurus in record time.
Llywelyn Griffith-Swain is a Senior Manager Heading up SRE for Cloud Engineering. He is a leading on the technical delivery of the Telco As A Service platform and also heads up the UK Digital SRE function. Having been worked as a test management, network engineering, IT Operations lead, SRE and SRE management Llywelyn is passionate about all things SRE and Platform Engineering. He also enjoys playing the piano, hiking and rock climbing
Tomas loves PHP and connecting people, so he founded Czech & Slovak PHP Community [Pehapkari](https://pehapkari.cz) in 2015, where all PHP developers can share their knowledge, chat on Slack or grab a beer. His **passion is open-source for lazy people** - instant upgrades and coding standards. He takes care of [Rector](https://github.com/rectorphp/rector) and [EasyCodingStandard](https://github.com/Symplify/EasyCodingStandard) packages.
Matt Butcher (CEO) is a founder of Fermyon. He is one of the original creators of Helm, Brigade, CNAB, OAM, Glide, and Krustlet. He has written or co-written many books, including "Learning Helm" and "Go in Practice." He is a co-creator of the "Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes" series. These days, he works mostly on WebAssembly projects such as Spin, Bindle, and Bartholomew. Matt holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He lives in Colorado.
As a Product manager, Digital designer and front end developer for over 20 years, Fredrik has dabbled with most things web related and is currently leading product management of the popular Open Source rich text editor TinyMCE.
As Field CTO, Alex is responsible for working with sales, marketing, product, and engineering to articulate the value Rapid's API Hub platform provides to our customers. After holding a number of roles at Rapid, Alex’s ability to speak about the product and company strategy from a technical perspective is vital to the company's success. Alex joined the RapidAPI team after meeting the team at a hackathon they were sponsoring and immediately recognized the value that Rapid was providing to developers around the world.
Liz Moy is a Developer Advocate at Evervault, a platform that provides encryption infrastructure for developers. Previously she served on the Developer Evangelism team at Twilio, scaling an international team focused on hackathons and workshops for developers at Fortune 500 companies. Her software engineering origin story started writing Python at a company where she had a mouse for a boss. You can find her console logging her way through a demo or curled up with a book next to her fluffy tuxedo cat, Sanderson.
Dr. Oliver Wäldrich has more than 20 years experience in java software development projects. In his role as a software architect and software engineer he supports teams at DKB to realize complex software projects using software engineering approaches. He is especially interested in improving and optimizing communication and development processes in cross-functional teams.
Mustafa Toroman is a technology professional and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at run.events, a company that provides a platform for organizing and managing events. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and has held various technical and leadership positions in companies around the world. Mustafa has a deep understanding of software development, cloud computing, and IT infrastructure management. He has expertise in building scalable and resilient systems that can handle large amounts of data and traffic. He is also a strong advocate for DevOps and believes in continuous improvement and learning. Toroman is a Microsoft Azure MVP (Most Valuable Professional), a frequent speaker at technology conferences and events, and also and a community leader organizing meetups and events. He is also a published author and has written several books on Microsoft technologies and cloud computing.
Intercultural family (Danish/German and Scottish/Polish), lived in the US, studied in Germany and New Zealand. I studied German and English-Speaking Cultures at the University of Bremen, first to become a teacher but later switching for cultural science and communications, focussing on intercultural mediation. Went on to analyze emergency communication at mass rescue evacuation trainings within international teams and gave integrational courses to refugees while also working as a trainer and coach. Eventully I ended up working in Ecommerce.
Marco is the founder and Managing Director of Mainmatter, a Digital Product and Web Engineering consultancy working with international clients. He has been in tech since the late 90s and worked with various technologies from .NET to Rails, Elixir and Phoenix, TypeScript and Rust. He advises international teams on architecture, technology choice, process, and developer infrastructure. He is passionate about developing sustainable and reliable products and organizations based on strong foundations.
* Graduated in mathematics * Holistic perspective on computers: former developer, sysadmin, security officer, university teacher and even computer salesman * Now a security consultant specializing in application security * Open source lover
Tomislav is CTO and partner in Nephos, a company that successfully supports the digital journey of its clients. Before joining Nephos, he worked for Microsoft for ten years, helping organizations of all sizes leverage the power of cloud services. His current focus is the world's leading cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, and GCP), DevOps, AI, and IoT. He spends much of his time transferring knowledge through hackathons, workshops, and lectures for customers around the globe. He is a prominent speaker at numerous conferences, helping individuals and businesses successfully apply the technology.
Nerd, cryptic and dev girl ! Passionate about mobile apps and Xamarin, joined the 'Xamarin' dev world more then3 years ago. Passionate about UX and UI, with an eye on cross-platform solutions, mostly for Xamarin.Forms. In the last 3 years, has focused on UI testing, best practices, continuous integration, and optimization for Xamarin apps. Also curioso about AI and ML.
Mohit Sharma is working as a Developer Advocate at MongoDB, helping developers architect clean and testable app’s. He has been working with Android for more than 10 years, since Android 2.2, previously with OLX group and believes that sharing knowledge is the best way of learning something new.
Isabell Heider studied IT-Security and Forensics (M.Eng.) at Wismar University of Applied Sciences. She is working as associate security consultant at IBM and is active as IBM Quantum Ambassador and Qiskit Advocate.
Stefan Baumgartner is an architect and developer based in Austria. He is the author of "TypeScript in 50 Lessons" (Smashing Magazine, 2020) and "The TypeScript Cookbook" (O'Reilly, 2023). In his spare time, he organizes ScriptConf and Rust Linz. Stefan enjoys Italian food, Belgian beer, and British vinyl records.
Christian Giesswein has studied Business Informatics in Vienna and is developing with .NET since he has been a child. He is speaking for years in the German area about .NET, the CLR and in special about WPF. In Austria he has founded his company "Giesswein Software-Solutions" (www.software.tirol) and is developing software in the Austrian Alps.
Jens Claes is a Senior Software Engineer at DataCamp where he works on the Workspace product. Inside DataCamp, he is a true advocate for making everything type-safe. He’s always on the lookout for ideas from other languages that could be ported over to the TypeScript world. He loves writing code that is pleasant to read and easy to maintain and always looking for a challenge.
Markus and his team have been working on IDE tools for Java and database development for almost 20 years. He is the product owner of the RapidClipse IDE project, which is a free Eclipse distribution and visual Java IDE. Markus is co-founder and CEO at MicroStream, editor in chief for the free JAVAPRO magazine in Germany, and organizer of the Java conference JCON. He is an independent editor for several magazines, and speaker at many developer conferences, user groups, and meetups.
Irina is passionate about everything related to programming languages theory and strive to apply theory on practice to improve the user experience of software developers. After earning a master's degree in programming language design, Irina works at TypeFox as a language engineer, where she helps clients create their own programming languages and development environments.
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.
Erick Wendel is a professional content creator and Node.js core committer. He has given more than 100 tech talks in over 10 countries around the world. He's awarded with the most important awards in software development for JavaScript: Microsoft MVP, GoogleDevExpert, and GitHub Stars. He has trained more than 100K people around the world as a professional instructor and content producer at his own company https://erickwendel.com
Andre is a Partner in Earlybird's Munich office where he focuses on enterprise software investments with a particular interest in developer, data and productivity tools, alongside AI-centric products and robotics. Moreover, he is an avid writer at datadrivenvc.io and leads Earlybird's Engineering team in building their proprietary AI-powered platform EagleEye.Andre has a background in CS and conducted his Ph.D. at the Technical University of Munich on the topic of "Machine learning and the value of data in venture capital".
Ramona is a software engineer with roots in quality assurance. She owns both views of the product - that of a tester and a developer. Ramona primarily uses this to strengthen trust in test automation and support the testers and developers alike, becoming a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, Women Techmaker Ambassador, and Cypress ambassador.
A Java developer that saw the light and embraced Internet Explorer 6 as his digital overlord.With 20 years of experience in the field I’ve seen how we reinvent the wheel to fit the new shiny framework.As software architect I’m responsible for finding the best, most simple and elegant solutions for our clients. Which always has and will include web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Instead of fighting the platform we should embrace it.We try to continuously improve, but we also need to help each other which is why I love to share my experiences and mistakes.
It's never easy to describe oneself, especially when one is interested in so many different topics and fields and I guess that says something about who I am afterall. I find it fun and entertaining to teach difficult subjects through exotic methods and stories and people seem to also have fun while I do so.I believe in the union between science and human values (read fun) and I often work and participate in non-profit organization and projects which aim to bring culture and scientific knowledge.
More than 15 years of experience where I solve problems, eventually using a programming language. My career focus is to have good code quality that can have performance and scalability, making development fun.
Justas is an Electronics Engineer turned Software Developer. From his earliest years, Justas loved taking things apart to see how they work. Several decades later, nothing really changed - still taking things apart, still trying to figure out how everything works under the hood. Currently, Justas is a Tech Lead at Nord Security, working on next generation security products.
Thorsten Jakoby is a consultant for IT-Architectures and Cloud Migrations at Novatec in Germany. He is currently technical lead for an enterprise-scale cloud migration at a global client. With a background of 10 years in distributed applications Thorsten enables both customers building cloud architectures and students entering the IT and cloud world. Prior to his role at Novatec he led a company specialized in cloud-based startup projects. Besides his role as consultant, he also speaks on meetups and conferences (like Cloud Foundry Summit EU, W-JAX, OOP).
Richard Fichtner is Principal Software Architect at XDEV Software GmbH and has worked in the software industry for more than 20 years, often at the interface between business and technology. He is involved in the open-source community to spread knowledge about Java technologies. Richard is a leader of the Java User Group Oberpfalz, recognized as Oracle ACE and holds a Master of Science degree in applied computer science. He is passionate about enabling developer productivity and supports teams in the use of cloud solutions. His interests are Java, clean code, cloud and new technologies.
Cheuk has been a Data Scientist in various companies. Cheuk also contributes to multiple Open Source libraries.Besides her work, Cheuk enjoys talking about Python on personal streaming platforms and podcasts. Cheuk has also been a speaker at various conferences. Besides, Cheuk also organises events for developers. Believing in Tech Diversity and Inclusion, Cheuk organizes workshops and sprints for minority groups. In 2021, Cheuk has become a Python Software Foundation fellow.
Passionate software craftsman with 25+ years experience in a broad spectrum of development technologies and platforms. Mostly focusing on .NET/C#, the Microsoft development stack and cloud-native software architectures. Key focus also on Microsoft Azure as well as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Observability, monitoring and securing these environments are key aspects. Currently extremely interested in the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr).
Imran spends most of his time with a foot each in the React/TypeScript world and PHP, but comes from a background in 8-bit programming and emulator development; his passion is to find fun projects that span multiple fields of development.
With over 14 years of experience in leading software teams and designing, developing, and maintaining software applications across various technical environments and business domains, Hamase Kasiri's expertise lies in understanding and managing stakeholder needs and translating them into technical requirements. She excels at managing, organising, and prioritising technical and functional demands to ensure timely project completion. Passionate about process optimisation through agile methodology, she constantly seeks innovative approaches and modern technologies to enhance team performance and deliver exceptional value to stakeholders.
Michael is a passionate full-stack developer and has been working in the IT industry for more than 15 years. Companies from the gaming industry, online advertising, automotive and real estate sectors appreciate his dedicated approach to the design and implementation of complex, distributed systems and web applications based on the latest web technologies (C#, .NET and Microsoft Azure).
Companies have called on Jemiah Sius to develop complex customer enablement workflows that drive customer success and platform adoption.Jemiah Sius is the Head of Developer Experience within New Relic’s Growth Marketing organization. With a keen focus on improving developers’ enablement and advocating the importance of maintaining reliable software systems, Jemiah’s work involves:Scaling developer engagement programs and partnershipsDeveloping open-source applications and code examplesCreating technical content and documentation
Tobias started his career as a freelance web developer in the late 90s and has since worked on hundreds of projects of varying sizes and lengths - from a single person to multiple teams, from a few days to several years - and in many different roles: Consultant, crafter, coach, and... well, architect. He is a strong advocate of diversity and inclusion in the tech industry, and an active member of the European Software Crafters and Domain Driven Design communities.
As a Developer Advocate at MongoDB, Karen Huaulmé (pronounced “You-Old-Maid” - but with no d’s) collaborates with developers to unleash their creativity across all aspects of data and technology. She loves to trigger that “aha” moment in the minds of developers - when they recognize a better path to simplify and accelerate their projects.Prior to MongoDB, Karen spent her career working with video game developers at Nvidia, Amazon, and Twitch. In her free time, Karen embarrasses her 2 kids, spoils her dog, and feeds her addiction to adventure travel - not necessarily in that order.
James is an experienced JavaScript engineer with over 10 years building full-stack JS applications. As a Principal Engineer at the BBC he drove the early adoption of React, Redux and GraphQL. More recently he worked at Mixcloud where he led the team that built out browser-based live streaming for DJs. Now working at Sendbird, he spends his time optimizing the DX of communication APIs that power the conversations of over 300 million users.
As an experienced software engineer with a background in developing successful React and React Native apps, I am passionate about teaching and mentoring others in the tech industry. I am particularly dedicated to supporting and empowering women in tech and inspiring young girls to pursue careers in technology. Along with my technical knowledge, I am also a frequent speaker at tech conferences, where I share my insights and knowledge with the community.
I'm Michele, Italian from Sicily, I became a gopher in 2018 and before then I used to work in Java, Scala and C++. Besides programming, I enjoy swimming, cooking and learning languages: currently, I'm learning Japanese. I always like to discover and develop new things.
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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.
Jiří Činčura is .NET, C# and Firebird expert. He focuses on data and business layers, language constructs, parallelism, databases and performance. He works as a software engineer for Microsoft. Frequent speaker and blogger at www.tabsoverspaces.com.
Milan is an Apple Certified Trainer, Consultant and Software Engineer, experienced in software development and training of developers on all levels of knowledge. Deeply focused to Swift since the very beginning of life of this programming language. He works for Apple Authorized Training Centre – Crossover. Helping beginners, and experienced developers to improve knowledge, in general development, machine learning, augmented reality and other. Milan is also a sailboat skipper, combining development training with sailing with its goal to maximize motivation and knowledge adoption for attendees.
I am a manager turned software developer. I made this switch when I realized that writing code was more fun than making Powerpoints. I currently work as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) - a developer with a focus on automated testing. I care deeply about ensuring that software that is a joy to build and a pleasure to use. Like the good developer I aspire to be, I've single sourced further information here: https://anupam.de/about
Daniël has been working on TiDB and related projects. Before that he worked on scaling MySQL for a large company that sells hotel rooms. One of the side projects he has been working in is the MySQL protocol dissector in Wireshark.
Tino Šokić is a security professional, CEO of DobarDan.net, and working with the biggest companies in the world to help them make antidotes to cybercrime. He loves playing guitar and singing, reading books (even though he could never put them down), learning new things for himself and teaching others what he knows best - information security. Tino believes that helping other people is his ultimate goal in life, so you'll see him at conferences giving talks, going on TV, or just hanging out with friends talking about all sorts of topics related to IT security or technology in general.
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Andreas spent most of his professional life and a career of over 25 years integrating "backend" applications. From Enterprises to Startups, and then in "in the cloud".Andreas dabbled with Virtual Reality already in the 90s. Now he cares about new paradigms to interact with computers.He cannot stop talking about technology, he received the MVP and Regional Director awards from Microsoft.Andreas helps customers as a trusted advisor, external CTO and innovation consultant, he loves to work with a great team of skilled individuals.He acts as CTO for MR and Applied AI for daenet.
Philipp lives to demo interesting technology. Having worked as a web, infrastructure, and database engineer for more than ten years, Philipp is now working as a developer advocate at Elastic — the company behind the Elastic Stack consisting of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. Based in Vienna, Austria, he is constantly traveling Europe and beyond to speak and discuss about search, databases, infrastructure, and security.
Alexander Hurbean studied "Software Engineering and Internet Computing" and worked for several years as a developer and data science engineer. His main activity was the independent planning and development of complete software solutions of various sizes in the field of NLP. During his studies at the Vienna University of Technology, he deepened his knowledge in the field of IT security, with a focus on penetration testing, network security, blockchain technologies, applied cryptography, and building and securing of large IT infrastructures.
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Sylvia is a senior software engineer and/or engineering manager. Her preferred role includes some IT management but also enough hands-on development work to keep her dev skills sharp. Her main interest lies in exploring new technologies in the space of mobile apps and web technologies. She is currently playing with Flutter, Firebase, and some ML for Android but might change focus as new technologies pop up. Sylvia leads the GDG Cape Town chapter.
Lead architect of DAENET GmbH ACP Digital Corporation, Microsoft's long-term Gold Certified Partner and leading technology integrator specialising in Microsoft technologies with a strong focus on Cloud Computing, IoT and Machine Learning. Damir is Microsoft's Regional Director and Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional for Microsoft Azure. He is known as a developer, architect, speaker and author. He is also a professor for software engineering and cloud computing at the University of applied sciences in Frankfurt am Main (Germany).https://damirdobric.me
Lars is an Evangelist at Giesecke+Devrient, a global company specialized in payments, connectivity, identities, and digital infrastructure. An engineer at heart, they are working to bring modern financial services to people.
JC Schlieker specializes in software architectures and software frameworks and has been working for Finanz Informatik since 2017. He is a problem solver and project enabler, creating prerequisites, designing strategies, fitting topics into organizational frameworks, or simply acting as a sparring partner for his team. Moreover, JC can be found wherever processes can be optimized and automated with his clear focus being on scalability. In his personal life, he devotes himself to his family, tinkering with hardware, and gaming.
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Tatiana Chervova is a Lead Technical Consultant at NTT DATA with 8 years of experience in designing and implementing enterprise applications. She holds a M.Sc. in Computing in the Humanities from University Bamberg and has worked on numerous projects in automotive industry. She started as a Java developer and now focuses on topics such as cloud-native application development, microservices, containerization and DevOps practices. Outside of work, Tatiana enjoys hiking in Bavarian Alps, she is also a passionate knitter.
Gerta is co-founder and COO of LocalStack, where she and her team are obsessed with building tools for extraordinary Developer Experience (DevEx). LocalStack is the leading platform for local cloud development, based on the hugely popular open source framework with 37k+ stars on Github.Prior to founding LocalStack, Gerta led Product Management for AI/ML based test automation solutions at Tricentis and consulted enterprises across the globe on best practices from a people, process and tooling perspective on efficiently setting up their testing practices.
Jose Maria "Chema" Valera Reales is a Software Developer since 2013. When he is not working as a Tech Lead at Lautsprecher Teufel GmbH, he likes to collaborate on different Open-Source projects, especially Phel-Lang or his own project Gacela. Reading, writing, and sharing knowledge about software testing, new approaches to pair-programming, and improving team collaboration also consume a big chunk of his time.
Oliver Sturm is Training Director at DevExpress. In the last 30 years he has gathered vast experience as a software developer and architect, consultant, trainer, speaker and writer. He is a frequent presenter at international events and lives in rural Scotland.
Tanja is a software engineer with a passion for solid software architecture and smooth user experience. She loves learning and sharing knowledge. Since 2017 she is trying to make the web a more inclusive space by advocating for web a11y. Her other favourite topics are browser rendering and performance. Currently she works at inovex GmbH as a full stack web developer in a technical leadership role, developing and optimising high scale Angular applications. In her free time, Tanja organises events as a part of Karlsruhe GDG, goes climbing, builds things and cares for her urban garden.
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.
Will is a Staff Developer Advocate at Miro and has been in the Developer Relations space for the last 6 years at organizations like Zoom, Miro, and Meetup. He's passionate about all things API-related and the interconnectedness of the web.
Alternating between software engineering and technical education roles, Tom Wheeler's career spans more than 25 years and multiple industries. Prior to joining Temporal, he worked at Cloudera, Boeing, WebMD, and A.G. Edwards. Tom enjoys learning new things and teaching them to others, leading to presentations at conferences, including Strange Loop, Strata, OSCON, JavaOne, and APIDays Paris.
Jon Geater is co-founder and chief product officer at RKVST. He has deep expertise in cryptography, cybersecurity and blockchains serving mobile, IoT, payments and industry while managing large global teams and driving corporate strategy. Jon is a serial leader of open standards at the board committee level, having served GlobalPlatform, Trusted Computing Group, OASIS, the Digital Twin Consortium and Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger. He currently serves as co-chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Supply Chain Integrity, Transparency and Trust (SCITT) Working Group.
A senior developer with experience in software development with Java, C#, Angular/Typescript, specializing in Java. Experienced in developing, testing and deploying applications in agile environments.
Diana is a Software Engineer at Apple . Her main passion is to create side projects that will automate her life. These can be of any field, from 3d modeling and printing to furniture design, hardware and software.Diana holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and 6 years of experience as a Software Engineer in 4 different companies.Other than that, she is a mother of 2 cats and an iRobot: Chiara, Alberto, and Albrecht respectively.Follow her on Twitter:@gastrin_diana and @thankyouthanks3 (her polite bot)
Alla Pavlova, is a freelance sourcing trainer and Interim Tech Recruiter, based in Amsterdam. Winner of "The most influential sourcer in NL in 2022". Building tech teams from 2008 for tech startups and gaming companies like Miro, GameHouse, Viber, Dott, Blendle, Relive, and others. Currently scaling Riot Games Singapore studio.Also, she is contributing to tech communities and leading Slack Community Amsterdam Chapter. In her free time, she loves programming on Scratch and playing computer games.
I am basically an eternal onlooker. I've always defined myself as a backend developer, but I don't disdain poking around on the other side of the code either. I work as a software engineer at Intré, a company that espouses this ideology; as a good introvert, I like to frequent the community world, contributing, when I can, with active proposals. I am co-founder of the DDD Open and Polenta and Deploy communities, and an active member of other communities such as Blazor Developer Italiani. I am an Azure Solution Architect and Azure IoT Developer
Mattias has worked with Databases and MySQL for more than 15 years. Before joining PingCAP, he worked for Booking.com, where he spent a significant amount of time on MySQL. And before that he worked at MySQL/Sun/Oracle on the MySQL Server code.
I am a Senior Backend Engineer at Miro, specializing in Java development. Prior to Miro, I held roles as a Java Software Engineer at Klarna and Yandex, gaining valuable experience in backend development. I hold a Master's degree in Computer Science from ITMO University.
Stefan Schöberl is researcher and senior software engineer in the software science area at the Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH (SCCH) in Upper Austria. He has studied Software Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria / Campus Hagenberg. He is also external lecturer at the same university.
I am a master's student at UC Davis and a Software Engineer at Fermyon Technologies. I am passionate about making technology easier to access for developers. I mainly contribute to the development of open-source SDKs for dynamic languages like Javascript and Python for Spin.
I have more than 19 years of experience in the IT area and 15 years of experience in Product Management focused on working with teams and stakeholders to develop impactful products and services, from strategy to launch. As a Tech Partner of Globant Europe, my focus is on identifying business opportunities considering the different countries, defining training strategies for the upcoming demand, definition and review of practices, employer branding strategies and guarantee the culture of Continuous Feedback and Learning.
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Anna Leushchenko is a mobile development expert, passionate about quality software, from Ukraine. She is Google Developer Expert in Dart and Flutter, and Women Techmakers Ambassador. Anna talks and blogs about cross-platform development, contributes to OSS, and mentors talented women in tech.
After finishing my masters in software engineering I headed toward iOS development, since then I developed a wide variety of iOS apps.Software development is my passion, quite lucky that I love what I am doing, a never ending story with learning new stuff.Accessibility topic for apps has been lately a topic that interests me, making apps accessible for all people is a must as it is also considered a human right.
Since 2010 I'm developing iOS apps & frameworks for different purposes.I'm a TDD enthusiast focusing on writing readable, understandable, and efficient tests and incorporating this practice in my daily work and projects. Recently I've begun digging into all things related to Accessibility.
Peter Kröner arbeitet als Webtechnologie-Experte im ganzen Land. Seit dem Erscheinen seines Buchs „HTML5: Webseiten innovativ und zukunftssicher“ 2010 ist er als Trainer und Berater für JavaScript, HTML5, React, TypeScript und andere Webtechnologien tätig. Zuvor war er selbstständiger Webdesigner und -entwickler. Er bloggt, podcastet und entwickelt Projekte rund um moderne Webtechnologien.
Simona is a seasoned professional in the tech industry with a deep passion for innovation with degrees in Computer Science, Modern Languages, Business and Marketing from national and international universities and she acts as IT Projects Director within Pentalog and Founder & CEO within Global Women TechLeaders.Simona's passion for driving innovation and empowering others in the tech industry is evident in her active involvement in industry events, mentorship programs, and thought leadership initiatives. She believes in the power of collaboration and is always eager to share her knowledge.
Josip has been involved with computers for the better part of his life. Started with web development back in high school. Since then he's moved to backend and DevOps. Loves security stuff and is obsessed with optimising everything. Works in Zagreb as CTO @ Sofascore
Co-founder of OramaSearch, the next-generation full-text search engine that runs at the edge! Also: TC39 Delegate, Google GDE, Microsoft MVP, Published Author, International Speaker.
Michael Irwin has been part of the container space since 2016, where he worked at Virginia Tech on various applications and built a "container-as-a-service" platform. He was a recognized Docker Captain for five years before joining Docker last year, where he's now a part of the Developer Relations team. He's passionate about making development easier for all and breaking down complex concepts into simpler ideas. He also teaches university courses on containers and k8s.Outside of work, you'll find him spending time with his family of six kiddos or working on various home renovation projects.
“A soldering iron in one hand and a 5 year vision in the other”George is a designer, engineer and technologist, inventing future product interfaces with a prototype-everything attitude.He dives deep into technology and engineering without ever losing sight of the experience, working with global technology and mobility brands to deliver advanced R&D projects with emotional hardware interactions.George lectures internationally on design masters courses in Salzburg, Delft and New York, plus occasional conference talks (TEDx, IXDA, FITC, Ars Electronica).
Onur has been a .NET developer for 20 years. F# has drastically changed how he programmed. Onur has worked in as a software architect in a telecom company solving NP-hard problems. Onur was the lead engineer, for Dubai int'l Airport automated border control systems and currently he is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft's People Experiences team.
Maxim has spent the last 20 years building massively distributed systems for Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Uber. Among other things, he led the design and development of the AWS SQS backend, and AWS Simple Workflow Service. At Uber, Maxim led the effort on open source projects Cherami and Cadence Workflow. Since October 2019, Maxim has been the CEO/Cofounder of Temporal Technologies. Its flagship open source project temporal.io is redefining the way large-scale reliable applications are developed and operated.
Eldert is always enthusiastic about embarking on new journeys with the Cloud, and Azure in particular. He is very passionate about growing his dreams and teams, and goes above and beyond to help those with the same spark. Eldert comes from a background as a cloud solution architect and Technology Lead, was an Azure MVP for 5 consecutive years, and is now working as a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft for Azure Service Bus. In these roles he has demonstrated experience in building and maintaining relationships at all levels.
Robert is a passionate Software Developer disguised sometimes as a Consultant, Architect or Speaker. During more than 25 years on various Enterprise Projects he experienced all roles and responsibilities from developer on small projects to lead architect on a large multi-national project.
Eddy is a passionate Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience with a focus on front-end web development, but also expanding in other areas of interest. Eddy also runs his part-time agency called Brabant Web.
• Senior Developer & Dev Advocate @VueStorefront • Ambassador @nuxt_js, @Storyblok, @algolia • @GoogleDevExpert in Web Performance • Sharing knowledge about Nuxt / Vue / Perf • Open Source Evangelist
Software Developer and IT consultant currently working at Sopra Steria Sweden. He supports private companies and state authorities with their digital transformation journey. He is specialized in .NET platform and teaches programming in C# and software engineering at the University College of Enterprise and Administration in Lublin. At the free time, he studies psychology, criminology and Swedish language.
Passionate about helping others, Pato is currently a Staff Developer Advocate at PayPal and he has become a member of several developer communities like the Google Developer Experts on Angular and Web Technologies, Google Women Techmakers Ambassadors, Microsoft MVP, Auth0 Ambassadors, Media Developer Experts at Cloudinary, Twilio Champ, AWS Community Builder, Postman Supernova and SpringBoard, mentor.
Lars Kölker studied business informatics at the Weserbergland University of Applied Sciences (HSW). He works as a full stack developer at AMCON Software GmbH, is self-employed in the field of software development and is a freelance lecturer at HSW. His tech stack mainly includes web technologies like TypeScript, React, HTML, CSS, but also object-oriented programming languages like C#.
Christian is a freelance fullstack developer writing code in languages like Java, Kotlin, Typescript and Javascript. He enjoys writing software and helping others.
I am working as a developer for about 8 years. My business areas of interest are fintech, security products. Currently I am leading a 5 people team at NordSecurity where we develop security products. Hobbies include pub quizzing, running, escape rooms
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.
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Andreas researches and develops optical systems using extreme ultra violet (EUV) light since 2010. After various positions at research institutes (Max-Planck institute for nuclear physics, Stanford University, SLAC), he now leads the optics design group developing DUV and EUV lithography objectives.
Software engineer with years of experience in full stack development, DevOps and data engineering.Instructed a year long full stack development course and helped students get their first roles.Spoke in current and previous work environments around several subjects such as K8S, AWS, programming paradigms, programming languages and in conferences such as DevGeekWeek.Eager to teach and learn from other professionals around the world.
Wesley is a Coding Architect at Xpirit in Belgium, where he helps organizations to build better applications, helps teams to improve their skills and organizes workshops to share his knowledge.He's also a Microsoft Azure MVP, crew member at Techorama, board member of the VISUG meetup in Belgium and speaker at conferences and meetups.
Mirna Alaisami is a Senior Consultant at Novatec Consulting GmbH with focus on Cloud Technologies and Platforms. She supports and advises customers on building cloud architectures and migrating to various cloud platforms. She also develops and delivers training topics related to microservice development and CI/CD with the technology stacks of Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry. Prior to that, she worked for 3 years as a software developer with various languages and web-focused frameworks such as Java, JavaScript, PHP and Angular. In addition to her role as a consultant, she actively blogs for Novatec, supports meetups and user groups, has been guest lecturer at different universities around Stuttgart, and speaker at various conferences and meetups (such as Cloud Foundry Summit EU/NA, Cloud Foundry Meetups, IT-Tage Frankfurt, Frankfurter Entwicklertag).
Lorenzo is a computer engineer passionate about Scala development. He is involved in many open source Scala projects and maintains libraries downloaded millions of times every month. Lorenzo Joined Codacy five years ago as linters maintainer and now helps building the DevOps Intelligence Platform to help engineers manage their code quality.
Daniel is a core team member of Nuxt - previously a CTO of a SaaS startup. His open-source work has a focus in the Vue.js and Nuxt ecosystems and he's involved in consultancy with companies around the world, particularly around JAMstack, serverless and software architecture. He's based in the North East of England where he lives with his family, three cats, and a dog.
Marius' passion is to test the latest communication technologies and to speak about them. Originally from the Black Forest in Germany, he started his software-development career as a UI developer in sunny California. During this time, he learned to love web technologies like JavaScript in general and the entire Node.js ecosystem.After many ugly fights against CSS, he relocated to Munich, working as a Developer Evangelist at Twilio. In this role, he tries to inspire his peer developers around the globe to build cloud-native apps with excellent customer engagement.
Markus Harrer is a software engineer who's passionate about improving the way we do software development. He specialized in the analysis of software data such as source code, application performance data or version control repositories to show the underlying problems of the symptoms we face on the surface.
Cedric Clyburn, Developer Advocate at Red Hat, is an enthusiastic software technologist with a background in Kubernetes, DevOps, and container tools. He has experience speaking at several conferences and events, including DevNexus, DevConf.US, and TheDevConf. Based out of North Carolina.
Natale Vinto is a Software Engineer with more than 10 years of expertise on IT and ICT technologies, and a consolidated background on Telecommunications, DevOps and Linux operating systems. As a Solution Architect with a Java development background, he spent some years as EMEA Specialist Solution Architect for OpenShift at Red Hat. Today Natale is a Developer Advocate Lead at Red Hat and author of "Modernizing Enterprise Java" and "GitOps Cookbook" for O'Reilly, helping people within communities and customers have success with their Kubernetes and cloud native strategy.
Tobias has been working in software development for over 20 years. He has worked as a full-stack developer and throughout the years working with a plethora of tools and technologies giving him substantial experience in fields ranging from UX/UI design, CSS knowledge up to CI/CD pipelines.Tobias is also quite active in the community and is running the German Cypress meetup community, is a Cypress ambassador and co-organizes the NgNiederrhein Angular meetups and JSUnconf, so make sure to go check those out as well!
Cassandra Faris is passionate about the human side of tech. She is the Community Manager for Kasten by Veeam, a Kubernetes data management platform. Her career has focused on training, marketing, hiring, and mentoring. As an international speaker, she teaches tech prod how be more inclusive, advance their careers, and care for their mental health. She is President of Stir Scholarship for women pursuing tech degrees. She has an MBA in Organizational Leadership. When she's not busy with the tech community, she's a tabletop gamer, corgi mom, and soccer fan who travels as much as possible.
As a Software Engineer working at Mbition GmbH, I am focused on Open Source software development. I have spent the last few years working as a Backend Engineer with a DevOps mindset with cloud and container technologies. This gave me the opportunity to learn a lot and work with exciting new technologies. I am absolutely passionate about anything system-related and especially Kubernetes, for better or worse! I have also developed a strong interest in Go and I am currently using it in several projects.
Markus is a Java Champion, former Java EE Expert Group member, founder of JavaLand, reputed speaker at Java conferences around the world, and a very well known figure in the Enterprise Java world. You can follow him @myfear on Twitter and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/markuseisele/
16 Years of experience in the field of Automated Driving and Driver Assistance Systems at Volkswagen GroupLeading the function development teams for Automated Driving and Parking at AudiMBA with focus on strategic management and organizational developmentPhD Statistical Signal Processing and Sensor Data Fusion - Technical University MunichElectrical and Information Technology - University of Karlsruhe
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.
Senior Solution Architect at Red Hat engaging with customers on new open source topics, practices and technologies from data science, cloud native to IoT and Edge in Austria.Speaker at user groups, VMworld and driving open communities since 2005
Gregor Neumeyer is Head of Digital Channels & Technology Exploration of UNIQA Insurance Group. In his role he is responsible for the websites, mobile apps and web apps of UNIQA in Austria. As well he works together with a team of tech experts on the exploration of new technologies to turbocharge UNIQA in their digital transformation.
Desirée is a Computer Engineer with a master's degree in Cybersecurity Management. She started working in the IT area in 2015 as a Java Web Developer and Software tester at Eptisa TI, continuing her path as a Web Developer at NTT DATA in SAP Cloud Platform programs and Blockchain. She joined Start pack as a Full Stack Engineer for blockchain projects. Currently working at Vodafone, where she is actively contributing to their technological advancements.
Sami is passionate about developing innovative AR and VR solutions for various industries and exploring new possibilities in this field. He brings his extensive experience in immersive technologies to his work at Vodafone's Tech Innovation Center in Dresden, where he is responsible for research and development of AR/XR applications.
As a System Engineer at Kasten by Veeam, I worked on all topics related to DevOps and Kubernetes. Through my years of data center consulting, I bring together the still important topics such as business continuity with modern IT architectures.
Hans-Peter Grahsl is a Developer Advocate at Red Hat. He is an open-source community enthusiast and in particular passionate about event-driven architectures, distributed stream processing systems and data engineering. For his code contributions, conference talks and blog post writing at the intersection of the Apache Kafka and MongoDB communities, Hans-Peter received the Confluent Community Catalyst award 3 times in a row and became one of the founding members of the MongoDB Champions Program. He is a regular speaker at international tech-related and developer conferences for several years.
Sonya is a Senior Security Advocate and a lifelong traveler who lived in the Middle-East, North Africa and Asia. Always looking for new challenges – she made a career change from International Business Consultant in Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Singapore to Full Stack Software Engineer in South Korea to Cybersecurity in the United Kingdom.Sonya is a DevSecOps/Cloud Security Advocate and a public speaker in the world tech scene. She is also a mentor for women in tech, a cybersecurity writer for FreeCodeCamp publications and an active member of the tech community in the UK.
Lorenzo is a computer engineer passionate about Scala development. He is involved in many open source Scala projects and maintains libraries downloaded millions of times every month. Lorenzo Joined Codacy five years ago as linters maintainer and now helps building the DevOps Intelligence Platform to help engineers manage their code quality.
Dr. Gernot Starke (INNOQ Fellow), coach for methodical software architecture, (Co-)founder of arc42.orgGernot has been involved in development of complex systems for various business domains, e.g. finance, automotive, logistics, and telecommunications. He works on improving software quality, pragmatic system evolution and pain-free technical documentation.Gernot has written numerous books on software architecture and patterns, regularly publishes technical articles and shares his experiences at conferences and meetups.He lives in Cologne, likes Yoga, good food and decent espresso.
For 10+ years, Trutz has been building 2D and 3D mixed reality interfaces for the web and XR glasses like Hololens, Magic Leap and Meta Quest.He combines his background in entrepreneurship and engineering to build the future of spatial computing in Vodafone's Tech Innovation Center in Dresden.When he is not busy revolutionizing the AR/VR industry, you can find him meditating on mountain tops, to be reminded of the always-present beauty and simplicity of the natural world around us.
Sven is the “Partnerships Lead” for the Application Store at CARIAD which is part of the Volkswagen Group. Prior to joining CARIAD and moving into the automotive sphere, he spent over a decade working in the media industry working on the tech, platform and content side respectively.
Stévan is Product Manager for Red Hat, focused on developer tools and cloud technologies, working on Podman Desktop. Driven by the belief that great applications could be built only in exceptional development environments, Stévan closely works with customers and upstream communities chasing any opportunities to simplify developers’ life.
Ben is an architect and a developer at INNOQ. He barely puts up with bad code and does not shy away from enormous refactorings. He shares his ideas of software quality and proper software development as trainer, consultant and speaker at conferences and meetups.It is important to him that we recognize that the attitude of a team is crucial for good software quality and far exceeds the value that is provided by technology alone.
Passionate software developer, happy to work on the Backend if possible. Focus on cybersecurity and secure software development.Occasionally also active in the DevOps area.Without Opensource - without me :-)
Fabian Quosdorf is an XR/MR/AR enthusiast with a passion for interaction concepts and "real-world" applications. After 15 years in the gaming and film industry he is building cutting-edge apps on MR/AR space
Paul is a Software Engineer at Red Hat working on Podman and related container tools, with a focus on the network stack (netavark and aardvark-dns). He believes in Open Source and is always looking to help people in the community.
I'm a hands-on software engineer, nowadays focusing mainly on application integration for the past years. I worked on many exciting projects in the energy sector. I started coding using C# and extended in the past year into Java, Python and some other languages.
Clemens Hübner studied mathematics and computer science and graduated with a master's thesis on security in agile development models. After working as a software developer and in penetration testing, he joined inovex in 2018 as a security engineer. Today, he supports development projects at the conception and implementation level, trains colleagues, and advises on DevSecOps.
Tom learned to program in MS-DOS TurboC and transitioned over several programming stacks over time until he landed a leadership role. There he puts his passion for leading people with his enthusiasm for software development to make great products for customers.
Mithun Dhar, in his role as VP & GM of the Developer tools & programs BU, partner across the organization and champion the voice of the developer from the outside in. Prior to joining Red Hat, Mithun was Vice President of Developer Relations at HERE Technologies. At HERE he and his team focused on growing the developer community increasing the developer community’s ability to harness the power of location intelligence and engagement with the HERE Open Location Platform (OLP). Prior to this he was a Director of Developer Relations and Strategic Communications for SAP Concur. |
Louëlla Creemers is a web developer from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, with a passion for .NET development. At the early stage of her career she’s also a successful content creator, teacher, blogger, and public speaker. She has built a strong following of over 30,000 people on social media, thanks to her technical expertise and her commitment to helping others learn and grow in their careers. You can find her on Twitter and Linkedin, sharing different kind of educational posts or dad jokes.
Stephan has joined Red Hat 2019 as a Business Development Professional in Austria. He started his professional career as a Software Developer and later moved into Technical Sales, Solution Sales and Management. He was working for several companies in and around IT, particularly IBM and SWIFT. After a personal time-out, he has spent 3 years at universities as a program director of a Master and MBA program around Digital Transformation. This has lead him smoothly to Red Hat where he enjoys engaging with customers and partners around technical and cultural transformations.
Anuradha is a frontend developer, working on making the web more accessible, one website at a time. She is passionate about exploring new technologies and sharing knowledge through tech articles and talks. She has been recognized as GDE, MVP, MDE, and WTM Ambassador. As an accessibility advocate, she aims to spread awareness and empower the community toward achieving the common goal of inclusion through technology. When she is not coding, she loves traveling, exploring museums, reading books, and sketching.
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
Timothy started coding at age ten and hasn't stopped since. He built and ran an agency for over twenty years, architecting and delivering large-scale mobile and business process automation projects for startups, government and enterprise customers and running teams of up to 100. Following his time with AWS as a Senior Customer Delivery Architect, Timothy joined MongoDB and is now a Senior Mobile Specialist Solutions Architect.
B.Sc in Computer engineering. Programming since 2005. A skilled and innovative Senior Software Engineer with expertise in mobile application security, VoIP protocols, and real-time programming. With a strong background in analyzing and reverse engineering code.
A 10-year veteran of the mobile security and forensics industry. Proficient in Android an IOS internals, Yoni is researching and implementing defenses for mobile applications. Whether it runs native code, Java or Objective-C, if it’s installed from an application store Yoni can protect it.
Alex Warren is a senior developer at Stack Overflow, with over 15 years experience of building web applications. He is the Tech Lead for a team working on adding AI-powered features to Stack Overflow and Stack Overflow for Teams.
Roland Wammers studied business administration at the Avans Hogeschool in Breda, NL and has been dealing with various aspects of data management and analytics since the turn of the millennium. He has been able to gain experience as an external IT consultant for more than ten years and has been involved in many national and international projects. Since January 2022 he supports SingleStore as an Enterprise Solutions Engineer in extending SingleStore's reach through architecture consulting and prototypical implementation of new solutions.
Markus Dreseler is an engineer in Snowflake's Query Execution team. Located in the Berlin office, he works on reducing the runtime cost of queries by optimizing low-level primitives such as process management and logging. Before joining Snowflake, Markus worked in the research group of Prof. Plattner at HPI in Potsdam.
There, he re-engineered the open-source research DBMS Hyrise. This work has found its way not only into the corresponding research publications, but also into several open- and closed-source products.
Dylan Beattie is an independent consultant who has been building data-driven web applications since the 1990s. He’s managed teams, taught workshops, and worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s a Microsoft MVP, and he regularly speaks at conferences and user groups all over the world.
Dylan is the creator of the Rockstar programming language, and is known for his live music shows featuring software-themed parodies of classic rock songs. He’s online at dylanbeattie.net and on Twitter as @dylanbeattie.
Cathrin ist seit Januar 2014 Full-Stack Entwicklerin bei TNG Technology Consulting, wo sie ihrer Programmierleidenschaft in verschiedenen Kundenprojekten nachgeht. Aus der Vielfalt an Projekten sind ihr viele Pitfalls und BestPractices bekannt. Ihre Schwerpunkte sind Software-Architektur, Testautomatisierung und User Experience mit Hilfe moderner CSS Technologien.
Ivan is the Engineer's Editor - a writer, editor, and entrepreneur who helps tech people tell their stories as the Director of Developer Content at Infobip - a leading global communication platform and Croatia's first unicorn - and Founding Editor of Netokracija, the most successful tech media company in the region that he started at age 22.
He has trained 100s of engineers to write in his "Writing for Engineers" workshops that have helped numerous tech teams in companies such as Photomath, Sofa Score, Raiffeisen Bank, and Deutsche Telecom with their developer content and employer branding.
Philipp Kremer works as a software developer at IONOS. In this role, he creates frontend applications with Vue.js for the hosting product "Deploy Now", writes middleware classes with Java and takes care of the documentation of Deploy Now with Gridsome. Philipp Kremer has been part of IONOS since January 2022.
After Philipp Kremer completed his training as an IT specialist for application development in 2021, he worked as a software developer at SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH.
Dr. Andreas Liebl is Managing Director of the appliedAI Initiative and the appliedAI Institute for Europe with the goal to "Shape Europe's innovative power in AI" by working on advancing organizations to highest levels of AI maturity and by creating state of the art AI applications. He is Steering Committee member in the Global Partnership on AI and serves as expert regarding innovation and commercialization next to other advisory roles. He previously was one of the Managing Directors of UnternehmerTUM, worked for McKinsey and did his PhD at the Technical University of Munich.
Mike has been causing chaos on the internet for more than a decade, he's been around to see a lot happen (and sometimes help it along). He loves building and learning in the open and sharing what he gains along the way via streams and other means.
As Director of Developer Relations at Nylas, Ash Arnwine is passionate about empowering and inspiring developers to create innovative solutions and build the next generation of software through rich communications APIs. Ash and his team connect, inform, and gather feedback from the Nylas developer community in order to better understand their needs and facilitate product development that helps developers maximize their value with Nylas. Ash previously built the Developer Experience team at Adobe for their Creative Cloud Platform and Ecosystem.
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.
Diana is an international business leader passionate about building and leading international teams that play a critical role on the way technology will transform our lives.Born and raised in Barcelona, Diana has spent all her career working in the IT Industry, in Europe and North America, holding a variety of roles in engineering and business development organizations.
She currently leads the EMEA Cloud Adoption team at Oracle. This is a team of 150+ cloud engineers that work closely with customers to create a robust and unique experience across their entire cloud adoption lifecycle.
After an amazing journey to create the AWS CDK, CDK8s, JSII and Projen, Elad started Monada. Monada’s mission is to democratize the cloud by reimagining cloud development from the ground up (pun intended of course). Elad lives in Tel-Aviv with his husband and 4-year-old twins, and in his spare time attends Burning Man and sweats at the local CrossFit gym. Elad gave talks in previous CDK Days and in front of large audiences at multiple conferences. Elad’s talks are usually heavy on the live-coding, because that’s basically the only thing he really knows how to do.
Passionate software developer and architect. Proud father. #CloudNativeNerd. Leander is the CTO at QAware. He’s continuously looking for innovations in software engineering and ways to combine and apply state-of-the-art technology in real-world projects. As a speaker at national and international conferences he shares his tech experiences and he teaches cloud computing and software quality assurance as a part-time lecturer.
Maik Wietheger has been with Finanz Informatik since 2008. He began his career as an IT specialist for system integration but quickly followed his passion and switched over to the field of software development. After 10 years of experience as a developer and recently serving as the technical lead for the OSPlus frontend framework, he made a career switch within the company in 2018, transitioning into architecture management as a software architect.
Since then, Maik has been responsible for the middleware in the “Multichannel Architecture” project and has been involved in the introduction of an on-premise private cloud platform for the Sparkassen bank group in Germany for the past 4 years.
Matti Nannt is the co-founder of Formbricks, an open source survey and experience management solution that recently went through the Github Accelerator. He has a background in computer science and has been a startup founder and educator in the startup space for the past 10 years.
Sohrab is a former COO/CTO of different SaaS products in different verticals over 15 years.Additionally, he has been advising C-level technology leaders at McKinsey and as an independent.
With his insights on pain points for SaaS teams he co-founded Orquesta.cloud, a collaboration platform for SaaS product teams to infuse their products with the power of LLMs.
A graduate of Zagreb's Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, David was passionate about two things: embedded systems and cars, the two things he found at Rimac Technology more than 5 years ago. Since then, he has had the unique opportunity to work on the next generation of hypercars, with a special focus on his favorite one, the Rimac Nevera.
Ferhan Ozkan is leading the mission to create a global ecosystem of XR innovators and utilize it for solving the challenges of the industry.
In addition to his role as elected Vice-Chair of the IEEE VR/AR Standards Group, he is leading XR Bootcamp, a global online academy, offering cutting-edge VR/AR development courses to experienced developers and researchers developed by professionals and taught by the world's XR masterminds. XR Bootcamp alumni work at organizations like Accenture, Meta, Snap, HP, Autodesk, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon University.
I'm an iOS Engineer with 6 years of experience in the iOS area. I've been working with Objective-C, Swift, Kotlin, and C++. I have expertise in building applications and constructing CI / CD for iOS. I'm the one who gets motivated when something seems "impossible" - I accept this challenge and dig as deep as required until the goal is reached.
My interests go beyond iOS, and I grow knowledge in neighboring areasIn the morning, I go for a run with my dog and grab a coffee afterwords.
Moritz is a platform architect, Open Source maintainer and contributor in the Kubernetes Ecosystem with a strong interest in information security and automation. He's employed at Form3 and currently operating a true multi-cloud Kubernetes platform across three cloud providers and bare-metal.
Caterina is a Developer Advocate at Atlassian, focused on helping developers build apps that add additional functionality to the Atlassian products. When she is not working, you can find Caterina admiring the oceans and beaches throughout Australia, or out playing with a dog.
Michael has been using data to make the world a better place for over a decade. He has been at Stack Overflow for 2 years and is keenly interested in helping every technologist learn more, faster through StackOverflow.com.
Outside of work, Michael has a wife and 4 daughters. He also helps with technology at solarcarchallenge.org/challenge/
Starting from Game Engineering, Alexandra made her way into the jungle of the corporate world. With her passion for tech-human interaction, she is navigating as web developer at Schwarz IT inHouse apps to their holy grail.
Augustinas is the Director of Engineering at CAST AI. He spent the last decade building private and hybrid clouds at the largest banking institutions in the world, working from Lithuania and Singapore. In his free time, Augustinas enjoys mountain biking, reading books, and playing video games.
With 9 years of experience as a Full-Stack Tech Lead, the 29-year-old professional brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the table.
Having studied Computer Sciences with a focus on Software Engineering, they have successfully built several projects from scratch, demonstrating their proficiency in gathering requirements, modeling, estimating, and developing.
Their development stack revolves around PHP and Vue.js, enabling them to provide innovative and creative solutions for complex challenges. With a passion for problem-solving, they are constantly seeking new opportunities to contribute their skills in the ever-evolving world of software development.
Tom Tovar is CEO and co-creator of Appdome, the mobile industry’s first no-code mobile solutions platform. Tom also leads Appdome's Cyber Security Research team. The cyber research team has access to 100Ms of “sentinel” data points tracking threats and attacks on mobile users and apps globally. Prior to Appdome, Tom served as executive chairman of Badgeville, an enterprise engagement platform acquired by CallidusCloud, and as CEO of Nominum, a DNS security and services provider that was acquired by Akamai.
Bogdan Vlad is co-founder and CTO at genezio.
Bogdan has worked with several startups, including Clever Taxi and Vector Watch. At Vector Watch, Bogdan was responsible for developing and maintaining the core services from VectorOS and continued to work on the Bluetooth Stack of the Fitbit Mobile Application after Fitbit acquired the company. His expertise led him to become a Staff Engineer at Fitbit. He was responsible for growing and leading the teams from Bucharest.
Bogdan holds a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel University.
Padma has 13 years of experience in Software Industry. As Solutions Engineer she helps partners and customers with appropriate solutions for their business requirements and provides technical suggestions and support when needed. She also imparts Zoho Creator product training for the partners.
Enrico works at ALDI International Services as a Software Engineer. With his years of experience in system administration he has discovered his passion software development.
He likes to design software that is able to act in a complex environment of services for integrating data systems.
Dugald Morrow studied electrical engineering at the University of Sydney. His software career started in the development of mission critical applications including a submarine combat system, air traffic control system and traffic and transport management system.
He worked in a number of startups and other ventures before joining Atlassian in 2013. Dugald joined Atlassian as a developer and was initially involved in the development of various integrations. In 2015, Dugald joined the Ecosystem team and led the teams responsible for the Connect platform. Dugald joined the Developer Advocacy team in 2020 where his current focus is Forge.
Meet Elise Bentley, a whirlwind of ideas, forward motion, and data-driven strategies. Over the last 10+ years, she’s skillfully applied her marketing and technology expertise across a range of industries, organizations, and innovative start-up ventures (all with exits). In her current role as Global VP of Marketing, she leads a cross-functional, globally remote, and multi-talented team of 31 people, as part of the multi-million dollar business that champions product-led growth strategies to build open source and paid software products.
Fanny Jimenez is Chief of Staff at Business Insider Germany. She was previously Head of the Career, Life and Science department and Interim Head of Audio, Video & Social Media. She holds a doctorate in psychology and is an expert on all topics between psychology and business. She has taught business journalism at the BSP Business & Law School Berlin - Hochschule für Management und Recht, is the author of the book "Ich und mein Spleen" and hosts the psychology podcast "NEVER MIND - Psychologie in 15 Minuten".
Kendrick is the Director of Technology at Codacy, and is passionate about sharing knowledge on code quality and engineering excellence. Kendrick joined Codacy in 2022, and was previously a scale-up engineering manager in 2 other organizations, a Scrum Master and PHP/JS engineer.
Neil Mansilla is a developer advocate at Atlassian, supporting the global ecosystem of developers and partners that build apps on the Atlassian platform. Before finding his passion for developer relations and partnerships, Neil worked as a software engineer across several industries, including e-commerce, real estate, and healthcare. Neil is a former serial hackathon participant (and winner) who, despite hanging up his gloves, may still be available for a pizza-fueled 24-hour coding marathon if the right conditions are met.
Originally a PhD in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, I left my clumsy domestic robots after falling in love with the weird imagery created by AI. I currently work as a Deep Learning Engineer in Canva in the Image Generation space, improving diffusion models with respect to safety/bias, quality, and licensing of training data.
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.
Lead Software Engineer at Zeiss driving development of frontend component libraries and standardisation.
Worked in different domains such as online healthcare, sports and finance at MindDoc, SkyDeutschland Accelerator and JP Morgan. Master's Degree in Informatics from Technical University of Munich.
Jan is a Software Security Architect and has been working for Finanz Informatik since 2020. Jan's passion for programming languages and the resulting programs has accompanied him since his youth. Eventually, he developed an interest in reverse engineering his applications to discover vulnerabilities and optimize his code. Currently, Jan is primarily dedicated to the holistic security hardening of software development processes, ensuring application security throughout the entire product lifecycle. In his personal life, he expands his knowledge by developing his own hardened cloud platforms.
I work as a software engineer at Miro, focusing on developer experience and exploring what makes a truly successful developer platform. Before switching to developer platforms I had worked with the rule engines, trying to make business logic more transparent and maintainable for business stakeholders.One of my areas of interest now is merging my experience as a backend engineer with frontend work and taking the best of both worlds.
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 was 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 TinyMCE.
Former Yahoo, Mozilla, Microsoft. JavaScript and Accessibility expert. Worked on Chromium Developer Tools. Author of the Developer Advocacy Handbook, LinkedIn Learning and Skillshare Trainer. Cinephile.
Anastasiia works in the development for more than of 11 years, including experience in e-commerce as well as game development. Anastasiia has a lot of experience with various software architectures in different domains. Currently working as an Associate Director of Engineering at Soundwide, helping to build an engineering culture and engineering strategy in her team. Based in Berlin, Germany.
Anastasiia is also one of the organisers of PyBerlin meetup based in Berlin.
Andrej is a Co-founder and CTO of 4ptO Venture Labs - a Web3 development agency. In the past nine years, Andrej worked as a full-stack developer on numerous projects, including web-solutions, mobile apps, wearables, IoT, dApps, and smart contracts. With a passion for emerging technologies, Andrej fully transitioned to Web3, working on multiple chains and building products that bridge the gap between Web2 and Web3. He currently focuses on cross-chain communication and developer tooling.
Hauke Brammer is a senior software engineer at DeepUp GmbH, where he has been working since March 2022. He has a wealth of experience in machine learning, microservices, and cloud-native applications, and is particularly interested in MLOps.
In addition to his technical expertise, Hauke is also a seasoned speaker with experience presenting at conferences, meetups, and other events. He has given talks on a variety of topics related to software engineering and data science, and is excited to share his knowledge and experience with the audience at the World Congress.
Fabian Aulkemeier is a software architect at Finanz Informatik, the central digitalization partner for the Sparkassen Bank Group. A central theme in his career has been the simplification of enterprise software development and delivery through modularization and reuse.
His current focus lies on extending the multichannel platform for the German Sparkassen Banks towards machine learning capabilities. Apart from his interest in technology Fabian enjoys hiking in the mountains, riding bikes, and homemade pasta.
It's me, a security engineer with more than 10 years of experience in AppSec/MobSec and Pentest. Since 2020 I help companies to establish Security in their development processes and promote DevSecOps.
I have a diverse background that spans business management, digital transformation, marketing, and ESG. I currently serve as the Chief Operating Officer for OTP Leasing, part of OTP Group, acting as a change agent for the company’s operations. I manage marketing, IT, strategic projects, customer care, client service, quality control, and logistics. I am Board member at Global Women in Tech and Board Member of the UniHub – Bucharest University’s Entrepreneurial Students Organization.
I occasionally serve as a mentor and speaker, covering topics such as communication, marketing, leadership.
Katharina Löhrke is a Software Developer at Finanz Informatik since 2015, designing and developing frontend and backend applications with Java and JavaScript in the context of the core banking system OSPlus in the field of payments.
She has a special interest in Java and its programming language concepts, particularly paying attention to high-quality and elegant code. To forward her knowledge in and passion for Java, Katharina has been giving lectures in both programming basics and advanced programming in Java at a university of applied sciences.
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.
Mirko Ross, born 1972, is an internationally recognized activist, expert, speaker, publicist and researcher in the field of Cyber Security. Mirko has been member of the Expert Group on Internet Security of Things of the European Cyber Security Agency ENISA and advises the EU Commission and the German Government as an expert. He is also active in international committees and research projects in the field of cyber security. In 2018 he founded asvin.io, with the aim of increasing cyber security in the AI and Software Supply Chain and providing software solutions for this purpose.
Valentin, a DevRel at Solana Foundation and a SolanaU Ambassador, brings a wealth of blockchain knowledge and insight. His expertise is key in cultivating the Solana developer community and propelling innovative blockchain applications.
Crístian Viana is an Android developer with more than 8 years of experience in mobile development. He works at Eurowings Digital GmbH for the past 2 years and is interested in UI topics. In his free time, he's usually traveling or playing video games.
Jürgen joined Couchbase at the beginning of this year. Before he gained a lot of experience with QA, DevOps and OLAP solutions on several positions for companies like Micro Focus or Hewlett-Packard. Jürgen did study computer science at Fachhochschule Augsburg.
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Sebastian has been working at think-cell 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.
I believe in blue sky thinking. In seeing the big picture and empowering my teams to realize the impossible! I love to build software products, teams and companies that make the world a better place to live in. I'm a firm believer in experimentation. In cutting through the clutter to create purposeful products that change how we live. My production strategy is grounded within truth seeking, in quality over quantity and above all authenticity.Partnerships and customer relationships professional with over 15 years experience in the tech industry spanning: product marketing and sales.
More than 8 years of experience as journalist and media manager.
Experience in audience development and how to get the right content to the right audience. Trying to figure out what journalistic content with AR components young people could like on Snapchat.
Growth hacker for traffic and digital subscriptions.Passionate about great stories, digital business models and distribution strategy.
Since 2021Eurowings Digital - Managing Director &Eurowings - Chief Information Officer2008 - 2021 Lufthansa Technik AG in Hamburg - Senior Director of Application Development and User ExperienceUntil 2008 studied Computer Science and Business in Kaiserslautern, Wake Forest and Moscow
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Khaled is one of the co-founders and the CTO of code intelligence. At code intelligence, he helps develop CI Fuzz, a platform to enable developers to integrate fuzzing in the normal development process. Before starting code intelligence, he worked on his PhD at the university of Bonn in the area of binary code analysis and reverse engineering. He also worked at Fraunhofer FKIE as a malware analyst.
Co-founder & Chief Developer Experience Officer of Vue Storefront - biggest Open Source eCommerce frontend project, co-organizer of Wrocław Vue.js meetups, Web Performance geek since 2017, proud cat owner.
Microsoft MVP (verified)
√Lucas is a Brazilian dev who works as Senior Software Engineer at Klarna. Technology lover and, since 2011, works with Web applications and JavaScript. He's also a Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP, and Docker Captain who has been talking about technology for over 6 years both nationally and internationally. Member & Contributor to Node.js, TC39 Outreach, KEDA Project, and the TypeScript language.
Despite working as a Solutions and Cloud Architect for many years and developing large scale systems and solutions, I also have a passion of programming things on the opposite side of the scale, such as microcontroller boards.
Antonia Hahn is python software developer at GFT. Furthermore she is specialized in the fields of data analysis and machine learning. She is mainly working in projects for our customers from the industry sector.
A trained actor with a curious background: from Theatre Studies, to Q/A, to Business Intelligence development, to full stack web development, I am the resident specialist PHP Developer Advocate at Global Cloud Communications giant Vonage. I founded Birmingham, UK's current PHP usergroup BrumPHP, as well as being on the Fusion Meetup team. I mentor, write and speak on PHP, Javascript, DevOps, DevRel and tech culture. I pretended to be a DJ on the way.
At the FreeTech Academy, I am responsible for the in-house training of tech talent, organize their practical assignments in-house, and take care of interdisciplinary projects.I began my career at Airbus Defence & Space. I worked there for six years in the innovation area and in-house consulting, among other things, before joining Axel Springer in 2018. In my free time, I devote myself to flying and I am actively involved in the Swedish Chamber of Commerce.
Studied mathematics and computer science. Software developer roles across multiple industries. Moved on to the Software Architect role and leading role. Since 09/2022 Lead Cloud Native Solution Architect at Zeiss.
Dipl.-Ing. Electrical Engineering, TU Braunschweig1995-2002 Software Engineer and Teamlead SiemensVDO, Regensburg2002-2013 Teamlead Automotive Network Technologies Volkswagen, Wolfsburg2013-2015 Carmeq, Berlin, Senior ManagementSince 2016 Head of Car Security and Product Security Officer Volkswagen, Wolfsburg
Microsoft MVP (verified)
I'm a CISO and University Professor active in the areas of databases, information security, privacy, and forensic analysis. Author of the books: Writing T-SQL Queries for Beginners Using Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Securing SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server on Linux. Microsoft MVP (Data Platform since 2009). Speaker on many regional IT conferences, events, and panels.
I am a data scientist with a passion for quantum computing. I completed my Master's degree in Computational Physics at Stockholm University, where I gained a solid foundation in both physics and computing. After graduation, I became a data scientist at IBM - Vienna.My personal innovation topic is quantum computing. As an IBM Quantum Ambassador, I am dedicated to sharing my knowledge and excitement about this cutting-edge technology with others.
Nura Kawa is a Research Scientist at neurocat (Berlin, Germany), a startup that delivers innovation in the development of safe and secure AI systems. She researches methods for the development of AI applications that are highly functional, but also reliable and responsible. Nura holds an MSc in Statistics and Data Science from KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) and a BA in Statistics from UC Berkeley (Berkeley, USA).
The creator of popular open source projects like PostCSS, Autoprefixer, and Browserslist.Administrators in Wikipedia.Once during his visit to Baikonur spaceport, guide was not able to join the group and he entertained all group.
David is Coding Architect at SQUER, a Viennese Software Company, which is working with different stacks and environments, but always an overarching mission: connect ideas and provide impact — with technology. He spends much of his time on the frontlines tackling the challenges of scaling software and complex domains, with a strong focus on reactive systems, cloud-native architectures and state of the art web technologies. David enjoys sharing his knowledge as a speaker at conferences and as a lecturer for his post-diploma courses at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna.
Toma is a 23-year-old Software Developer with 6 years of experience. He works at Daytona where he's part of the Core company team. He enjoys giving conference talks, especially on topics about remote development.
Lian always wanted to save the worldAfter a failed attempt at becoming a lawyer, she decided to do something with computers instead. Working as a Fullstack Software Engineer, she got into attending tech events and giving talks on Machine Learning. During this time, she discovered her passion for building community and providing a safe and productive environment for all, which led to her co-organising the community conference ServerlessDays Amsterdam.Currently, Lian lives in Amsterdam and works as Developer Advocate at Tilt Dev, trying to make developing on Kubernetes easy and fun.
I am a software engineer with over 6 years of experience in writing scalable and secure web applications using Angular. I am a software engineer at Hubs. I am a husband of one, an angular enthusiast, and the lead host of Angular Africa on Angular Nation.
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.
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Joel Spolsky is cofounder of HASH, a startup working on the Block Protocol, an open standard for data-driven, structured blocks, so that web applications are both human and machine readable.
He was the CEO and co-founder of Stack Overflow, a network of Q&A sites visited by over 100 million people every month. He is a globally-recognized expert on the software development process. His website Joel on Software (joelonsoftware.com) is popular with software developers around the world and has been translated into over thirty languages. As the founder of Fog Creek Software (now Glitch) in New York City, he created FogBugz, a popular project management system for software teams, and Trello, a popular online project management application. Joel has worked at Microsoft, where he designed VBA as a member of the Excel team, and at Juno Online Services, developing an Internet client used by millions. He has written four books: User Interface Design for Programmers (Apress, 2001), Joel on Software (Apress, 2004), More Joel on Software (Apress, 2008), and Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky’s Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent (Apress, 2007). Joel holds a BS from Yale in Computer Science. Before college he served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a paratrooper, and he was one of the founders of Kibbutz Hanaton. Today he serves as the co-founder of HASH.
Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++ aswell as the author of The C++ ProgrammingLanguage (4th Edition) and ATour of C++ (2nd edition), Programming:Principles and Practice using C++ (2nd Edition), and many popular and academicpublications.
Dr. Stroustrup is a member of the US National Academy ofEngineering, and an IEEE, ACM, and CHM fellow. He received the 2018 CharlesStark Draper Prize, the IEEE Computer Society's 2018 Computer Pioneer Award, and the 2017 IET Faraday Medal.
He did much of his most important work in BellLabs. His research interests include distributed systems, design, programmingtechniques, software development tools, and programming languages.To make C++ a stable and up-to-date base forreal-world software development, he has been a leading figure with the ISO C++standards effort for more than 30 years.
He holds a master’s in Mathematicsfrom Aarhus University, where he is an honorary professor in the ComputerScience Department, and a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University,where he is an honorary fellow of Churchill College.
Anu Bharadwaj is the President of Atlassian, focused on bringing Product, Business, Design and Engineering teams closer together to deliver innovative products that customers love while supercharging the growth of Atlassian’s businesses.
As an accomplished executive with nearly 20 years of experience in leading transformations and building billion-dollar businesses for high-growth startups and enterprises, Anu brings deep expertise across Product, Operations, and Engineering to help teams deliver customer-focused growth. As COO of Atlassian, she was responsible for scaling a distributed workforce in 13 countries while leading Atlassian’s SaaS transformation, building the Cloud enterprise business, and scaling cloud platform teams. Before Atlassian, she held various leadership roles at Microsoft, and launched multiple products for the Visual Studio ALM team.
Anu is deeply passionate about growing diverse teams and making the world a better place through technology and effective philanthropy. She serves on the board of Outsystems, advises young and emerging companies (Snyk, Xembly) and is part of the Operator Collective venture fund that pioneered the collective venture model to empower diverse founders.
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.
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.
As Chief Decision Scientist at Google Cloud, Cassie Kozyrkov advises leadership teams on decision process, AI strategy, and building data-driven organizations. She is the innovator behind bringing the practice of Decision Intelligence to Google, personally training over 20,000 Googlers. Prior to joining Google, Cassie worked as a data scientist and consultant. She holds degrees in mathematical statistics, economics, psychology, and neuroscience.
I am the creator of Ruby on Rails, co-owner of 37signals, best-selling author, Le Mans class-winning racing driver, antitrust advocate, investor in Danish startups, frequent podcast guest, and family man.
Katrin Lehmann has been the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Mercedes-Benz Group AG and Mercedes-Benz AG since April 2024, with a global responsibility for IT across all divisions, brands and markets.
Previously, she was Vice President IT Sales/Marketing & Home of Tech at Mercedes-Benz AG. The focus of her work was on the digitalization of all sales processes, including IT-based marketing, sales and after-sales activities.
She started her professional career in the SAP sphere in 2001. Since 2004, she has held various management positions in consulting as well as in solution and business development within the SAP Group. In 2015, she took on the role of Program Lead in Strategic Program Management and became the Global Chief Data Officer in 2017. Afterward, she was appointed as Senior VP of S/4 HANA Cloud Data Development. In her last position as Senior VP of Customer Innovation & Maintenance at the Product Engineering Group at SAP SE, she oversaw customer and industry-specific software development, software maintenance and innovation from 2020 to 2023.
Katrin Lehmann holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Mannheim Business School. She is married with four children and enjoys competitive swimming and triathlons.
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.
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.
Dan is a software engineer on the React team at Meta.
Miško Hevery is the CTO at Builder.io, where he is helping to empower anyone to create blazing fast sites. Previously he has worked at Google, where he created Angular, AngularJS and was co-creator of Karma. Before focusing on making the web better, he brought testing culture to Google and the world through his blog. Miško started his career by designing digital circuits and moved to databases, full-stack development, and finally, front-end frameworks, giving him a unique perspective. He understands all of the layers from the web down to a transistor.
David Singleton is chief technology officer at Stripe, where he is responsible for guiding its engineering and design teams as they build economic infrastructure for the internet. Since joining Stripe, David has helped grow the technology org across the US and developed new engineering hubs in Singapore and Dublin as well as Stripe’s fifth hub, remote engineering, across the globe.
David joined Stripe after an 11-year career at Google where he was VP of Engineering leading product development and coordinating more than 15 different hardware partnerships. Prior to Google, David spent three years at Symbian, the pioneering mobile phone operating system, developing operating system software and leading handset development projects for Nokia and Samsung smartphones.
David has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, skiing, and tinkering with neural networks. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two kids.
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.
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".
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 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.
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.
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.
Brenda Romero is an award-winning game designer, Fulbright scholar, entrepreneur, artist, writer and creative director who entered the video game industry in 1981.
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.
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a best-selling author, speaker, educator, and highly sought after expert in Bitcoin and open blockchain technologies. He is known for making complex subjects easy to understand and highlighting both the positive and negative impacts these technologies can have on our global societies. As an educator, his mission is to educate as many people as possible, in as many places as possible, in as many languages as possible, about Bitcoin and open blockchains.
Andreas has served as a teaching fellow for the free Introduction to Digital Currencies course offered to the public at the University of Nicosia. Along with co-authoring the course curriculum, Andreas has also written two best-selling technical books for programmers, Mastering Bitcoin and Mastering Ethereum. He has published The Internet of Money series of books, which focus on the social, political, and economic importance and implications of these technologies. In addition to these books, he has authored hundreds of syndicated articles on security, cloud computing, and data centers; and is a frequent speaker at technology and security conferences worldwide. His live talks are always unique, unscripted, and combine economics, psychology, technology, and game theory with current events, personal anecdote, and historical precedent.
Andreas has been interviewed by Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, and Financial Times for his industry expertise. He has been a repeat guest on The Joe Rogan Experience and London Real. He has been featured in numerous documentary films, and is a permanent host on the Let’s Talk Bitcoin podcast with more than 400 episodes recorded to date. He has also appeared as an expert witness in legal cases and regulatory hearings around the world, including the Australian Senate Banking Committee and the Canadian Senate Commerce, Banking and Finance Committee. Currently, Antonopoulos is working on his sixth book and third technical work, Mastering the Lightning Network. To learn more about Andreas’ work visit Patreon.
Tanya Janca, also known as SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of ‘Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’. She is also the founder of We Hack Purple, an online learning academy, community and podcast that revolves around teaching everyone to create secure software. Tanya has been coding and working in IT for over twenty years, won countless awards, and has been everywhere from startups to public service to tech giants (Microsoft, Adobe, & Nokia). She has worn many hats; startup founder, pentester, CISO, AppSec Engineer, and software developer. She is an award-winning public speaker, active blogger & streamer and has delivered hundreds of talks and trainings on 6 continents. She values diversity, inclusion and kindness, which shines through in her countless initiatives.
Jeremy Keith lives in Brighton, England where he makes websites with the splendid design agency Clearleft. You may know him from such books as DOM Scripting, Bulletproof Ajax, HTML5 For Web Designers, Resilient Web Design, and, most recently, Going Offline.
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.
Rajeev Rajan is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Atlassian. Rajeev joined the company in May 2022 and is responsible for Atlassian Engineering, IT, Security and Trust, and the Engineering Operations teams. His focus areas include the company's continued transformation to Cloud, Developer Platform, and Product lines. Additionally, he is passionate about continuing to develop Atlassian’s world-class engineering organization and making it a top choice for aspiring engineering talent worldwide. A long-time resident of Washington state, Rajeev previously acted as the Vice President and Head of Engineering for Facebook and Head of Office for Meta in the Pacific Northwest Region. Prior to Meta, Rajeev spent more than two decades with Microsoft, first joining as an intern in 1994. During his time there, he worked on many products, culminating in Office 365 where he built and led the team responsible for all of the Cloud Infrastructure for Office 365. Rajeev is married with two children and a spunky yellow lab named Rayna. He and his wife are very involved in and passionate about a number of efforts that uplift the local community, ranging from the arts to STEM programs.
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.
Kriti Sharma creates AI technology to help address some of the toughest social and business challenges of our time — from domestic violence to productivity to mental health and inequality. Sharma was recently named in the Forbes "30 Under 30" list for advancements in AI. She was appointed a United Nations Young Leader in 2018.
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.
Ire Aderinokun is an independent User Interface Engineer from Lagos, Nigeria. She is an invited Google Expert, specialising in the core user interface technologies of HTML, CSS, and Javascript, but is interested in all aspects of technology. She is a co-founder of Helicarrier (YC S18), a company building cryptocurrency infrastructure for Africa, and is passionate about how this technology can support global financial freedom.With a decade of experience in the industry, Ire has shared her knowledge though her blog, bitsofco.de, and speaking at conferences around Africa and the world.
Martin Wezowski is the Chief Futurist, and Head of NVT Future Hub, for SAP’s Technology & Innovation. With a drive to "lead from the future" and a mission to to unfold what is next for the future of human work, our global ecosystems, and SAP. Martin crafts future outlooks, concepts, defines and runs long term innovation frameworks.
He is lecturing as a faculty member of Futur/IO, a European future institute and other education programs. He moved across a range of disciplines from UX, to systems, to define innovation visions and strategies. 2017 he was named 1 of 100 most innovative minds in Germany as the “Software visionary” (“Handelsblatt”).
"I want to innovate what we call "work" out-of our lives. We are shaping SAP's innovation vision; the empathic symbiosis between humans and machines, investigating how we learn technology, and most of all, how technology learns us, especially when tech moves forward faster than how we, leaders, developers, humans seem to manage the implications"
Hey! 👋 I'm Sebastián Ramírez (tiangolo), the creator of FastAPI, Typer, SQLModel, and other open source tools, mainly using Python.I'm currently a Staff Software Engineer at Forethought while also helping other companies as an external consultant. 🤓
I've been a web developer for 25 years. I love the web and am committed to making it bigger, better, faster and more accessible to everyone.
Armin Ronacher is Director of Engineering at Sentry and leads the team responsible for client SDKs and event processing. He's obsessed with beautiful APIs and systems and created the Python Flask framework.
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.
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.
Tanmay Bakshi is a 16-year-old Canadian author, AI and ML Systems Architect, TED & Keynote speaker, Google Developer Expert for Machine Learning, and IBM Developer Advocate. He has addressed over 200,000 executives, students, and developers worldwide at conferences, universities, financial institutions, and international companies. The United Nations, Linux Foundation, Apple, SAP, IBM, KPMG, Microsoft, and Walmart are a few of the organizations he has keynoted for.
Tanmay has been covered in the media, being featured in the Toronto Star, on the front page of The Vancouver Sun, pictured on stage doing what he loves to do - sharing his knowledge with the world, in Forbes and CNBC, as well as in Bloomberg Businessweek as a Young Entrepreneur, in The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, just to name a few.
His YouTube channel called “Tanmay Teaches” is where he shares his research and knowledge with audiences of all ages, and is the host of the live series “Tech Life Skills with Tanmay”. He has had the honour of being the recipient of the Life Mentor Award by the Hon. Lt. Governor of Manitoba, Twilio Doer Award, Knowledge Ambassador Award, and Global Goodwill Ambassador at LinkedIn.
He has developed machine learning powered systems, such as "Heart ID", a deep neural network based Electrocardiogram-based identification system, which won HPCWire's Readers’ Choice Award for Best Use of High Performance Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence. He's also worked on lower level software, like an ultra low-latency call tracer utility that can scale to trillions of function calls, and is powered by LLVM, for the IBM Db2 codebase.
Bear Douglas leads Developer Relations at Slack, where she and her team help developers build more pleasant and productive ways to work. Before Slack, she led the Developer Relations teams for the mobile and data platforms at Twitter, and worked on native mobile DevRel at Facebook and Parse. She's passionate about developer experience, great documentation, and a cappella music.
"Dr. Annika von Mutius ist Co-Founder & Co-CEO von Empion, dem ersten AI-basierten automatisierten Headhunting-System, das Bewerbende und Unternehmen auf Basis von Werten, Skills und Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen matcht. Von Mutius studierte an der WHU und promovierte zu Individualisierungs-Modellen in der Mathematik. Sie arbeitete vor ihrer eigenen Unternehmensgründung für ein Robotics Startup im Silicon Valley und wurde kürzlich in die Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe Liste in der Kategorie Technologie aufgenommen.
Dr. Annika von Mutius is Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Empion, the first AI-based automated headhunting system that matches applicants and companies based on values, skills and personality traits. Von Mutius studied at WHU and earned her PhD on individualization models in mathematics. She worked for a robotics startup in Silicon Valley before founding her own company and was recently named Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe in the ""tech"" category."
Hung Lee is the Editor of leading industry newsletter Recruiting Brainfood. He is an industry professional with over 15 years experience as an agency recruiter, Recruitment manager, Internal Head of Talent, recruitment trainer, founder of award winning online recruiting platform WorkShape.io, and now Editor and Community builder at Recruiting Brainfood - the best weekly newsletter in recruitment. Hung lives and works in London
Ich bin CEO von EMBRACE. EMBRACE ist eine progressive Markenfamilie und bündelt innovative Angebote aus den Bereichen Recruiting, Retention und HR-Tech. Unser 250 köpfiges Team eint ein gemeinsames Ziel: Wir wollen die Arbeitswelt menschlicher, optimistischer und technologischer gestalten. Denn wir glauben: Jeder Mensch verdient den bestmöglich passenden Job und Arbeitgeber.
** this talk is for leaders and managers (not HR/recruiters) **
Katrina Collier works with companies and leaders to fix talent acquisition and candidate experience, from start-ups to corporates. She is one of 2 people globally delivering design-thinking workshops specifically for recruitment, that swiftly help companies fix the real issues preventing successful hiring. She has 2 decades of experience, is the Author of The Robot-Proof Recruiter and upcoming book Conquer Hiring, and has spoken at industry leading conferences on 5 continents.
Ben is passionate about sourcing, growing and developing talent. He has helped to change the way in which companies align the right people, with the right opportunities at the right time.
Specialties: Scaling, Problem Solving, Employment Branding, Business Partnering, Creating Shared Vision, Workforce Planning, Executive Search, Employee On-boarding and Team Leadership.
Out of work, he is a voluntary Government Councillor and Chair of the Personnel Committee as well as a a volunteer lifeguard and an avid sports fan.
Gründerin & MD neue fische, MD SPICED Academy CEO DACH,Future Group Dalia arbeitete über 20 Jahre für Unternehmen wie AOL Europa und Bertelsmann. Sie war maßgeblich am Aufbau der BMG Music Company sowie am Geschäftsaufbau der Bertelsmann Education Group beteiligt. Mit ihrer neue fische - School and Pool for Digital Talent startete sie 2018 ein für Deutschland einzigartiges berufliches Qualifizierungsangebot.
Seit Sommer 2022 hat sie zusätzlich die Leitung der SPICED Academy übernommen.
Nathalie Marie Pérez Sievers has been working for more than 10 years on topics related to people & culture and diversity, equity & inclusion.
After working in start-ups, digital agencies and in the corporate world, she founded The People Hub and has since been supporting companies in strategic topics around P&C and DE&I. She is a certified business trainer, speaker, and LinkedIn content creator.
In her role as a business trainer and consultant, she empowers and guides companies to implement and execute lasting people & culture and diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives.
Her credo is: A plan doesn't change your (working) life. A decision, and the first step does.
Working with Microsoft technologies since VB6 I've been there, and done that. My main interest right now is helping fellow developers in whatever way is good, mentoring or coaching, writing blog posts, building SDKs, and anything that helps make someone's work day a bit more enjoyable. For that purpose, I've created https://www.wearedotnet.io together with a fellow community member.
Alla Pavlova a winner of the most influential sourcer of 2022 award in the Netherlands. She creates tailored sourcing training for tech recruiters and sourcers. Alla has been building tech teams since 2008 for tech startups and gaming companies like Miro, GameHouse, Viber, Dott, Blendle, Relive, and others. Currently scaling Riot Games Singapore studio. Also, she is contributing to tech communities and leading Slack Community Amsterdam Chapter. In her free time, she is conducting sourcing parties (ask her to join) and playing computer games.
Eva-Maria is a public speaker and the Global Director of Employer Branding & Communications at Dynatrace. Leading one of the most innovative employer branding teams, she and her department are key contributors to the impressive growth of Dynatrace from 1,000 to +4,000 employees in the last years. Eva-Maria’s approach to succeed in this hyper-growth environment is her passion for people-centric and value-based approaches.
He started his HR career in recruiting at a Viennese B2B fintech and subsequently led talent acquisition departments at two Unicorns. Within the last seven years, Thomas scaled organizations from 50 to over 3,000 employees across Europe. He then co-founded pplwise with Mina Golesorkhi to help companies achieve their growth goals. pplwise specializes in recruiting & consulting in HR.
Coaching people in high-stress roles, women in tech, leaders and future leaders by bringing clarity to your current circumstances, helping you to identify what you really want, what is holding you back, and to adopt the needed behaviors in order to achieve your goals. Coaching areas are career, career transition, interviewing skills, leadership skills and personal growth.
Passionate about improving the developers’ job seeking experience.
Experienced in working with businesses, functions and geographies on focused initiatives with world-wide impact.• Effective at improving company performance through employee engagement. Solid experience in leading focus groups and leadership workshops aiming at designing action plans to improving organizational performance.
DevRel Lead at WeAreDevelopers. Vue/Nuxt enthusiast. Newly interested in AI-generated imagery. Brewing his own coffee with style & learning how to fly in his free time.
Marcus Merheim is active in the world of human resources for more than 11 years, dealing with a wide range of HR topics. His focus is on employer branding, recruiting and retention as well as new work and digitization. As the founder of hooman EMPLOYER MARKETING, he and his team operate at the interface of HR and marketing. In addition to his role as host of the ZEIT Talent Podcast, Marcus is chairman of the department "Future of Work" at the German Association for the Digital Economy (BVDW)
Microsoft MVP, Microsoft 365 Consultant, Power Platform DeveloperLuise 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.
Rimma Pitkewitsch is a business psychologist, professional business coach and, above all, a passionate recruiter with a big heart for Talent Acquisition & Attraction, People & Culture and Tech. She is primarily concerned with the question of how comspace can acquire new talents on the one hand and retain those who are already in the company on the other. And she does this with measures that are sustainable, target group-specific and needs-oriented. She is convinced that the Employee Life Cycle should be viewed holistically and that each phase should be taken very seriously. Because in her view, this is the only way to build interpersonal relationships at the professional level that are authentic, honest and long-term.
Als Mitbegründerin und COO von voiio, eine 360 Grad Work-Life-Plattform, bringt Kerstin Michels eine besondere Perspektive ein. Sie hilft, Arbeitsumgebungen zu gestaltet, die das Wohlbefinden der Mitarbeiter fördern und nicht zuletzt auch auf die Bedürfnisse der Gen Z abgestimmt sind.
Cathy is European Head of Talent Acquisition at Thoughtworks, having joined the company in 2019. Before her time at Thoughtworks she spent over 20 years in Tech, working in different environments (agency, RPO and corporate roles) holding various TA positions at other global tech companies.
Cathy is a strength based leader and an avid learner, who continuously looks for innovative opportunities for the function and company to optimize the complete candidate experience.
With origins in the analog media world, Tobias has gradually fallen for his digital enthusiasm: Through experience in internal communication via lead generation, he is now seeking to sustainably place the employer brand of the ever growing technology company diconium. So far, so promising: also thanks to strong communities like the WeAreDevelopers.
Introducing Alexandra, a captivating individual with deep roots in Transylvania and a childhood steeped in the enchanting culture of Austria. Five years ago, her path took an unexpected turn while working as an executive assistant, leading her to discover an unwavering passion for the art of recruiting. Inspired by this newfound calling, she embarked on a transformative journey, pursuing a master's degree in HR Management to solidify her expertise.
For the past two years, Alexandra has excelled in Talent Acquisition at zooplus, specializing in the intricate world of tech roles. Recently, she embarked on a new adventure as the Head of People & Culture at WeAreDevelopers, where she is the driving force behind the creation of a thriving people department, forging new pathways and shaping a vibrant organizational culture. Beyond her professional accomplishments, Alexandra has also become an office dog expert, spreading joy and sharing invaluable canine wisdom wherever she goes.
Katja is a communications strategist with 24 years of experience in the U.S. and German market. She tells compelling and meaningful stories for relevant target groups. Her professional experience includes Edelman New York, eBay Germany and, since 2012, Bertelsmann. The topics of internal communications and employer branding have now accompanied her for 20 years. As a leader, direct contact with her employees is extremely important to her: being close, being interested in the people behind the contract. Her company’s vision: Everyone deserves the best possible job and employer fit.
Adnan Pavlović is a marketing expert and team leader with experience working in advertising agencies and the IT industry. Joining WeAreDevelopers at the early startup stage helped the company scale up, focusing on business development, content & communication strategies, and enabling new market opportunities. He is responsible for conducting an annual developer survey inside the WeAreDevelopers community. Awarded with BalCannes and WebAward.me acknowledgments for creativity in marketing communication. Often participates in producing regional feature films and documentaries, including projects awarded with the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Julia Hauska, derzeit Head of Recruiting bei der TTI Group, hat als Instituts- und Verlagsleitung über ein Jahrzehnt die größte DACH-weite Recruiting-Studie BEST RECRUITERS aufgebaut und internationalisiert und als Schnittstelle Arbeitgeber:innen & Bewerber:innen-Markt sowie als Geschäftsleitung einer Online Marketing Agentur Unternehmen bei der Entwicklung und Umsetzung zeitgemäßer Recruiting-Performance unterstützt.
Jonas Krauspe ist ein freiberuflicher Experte für digitale Strategie und digitale Produktentwicklung, Interim-Manager und freiberuflicher Berater mit einem starken Fokus auf die Gesundheits- und Life-Science-Branche. Als CEO und CPO hat er zwei Startups gestartet und über 60 Projekte als Interim-Manager, Experte und Berater abgeschlossen.
Dr. Anne Katharina Rhode is member of Thoughtworks Global Strategy Team and Head of Organizational Design. Before that she was the Head of Professional Services at Thoughtworks Germany for 6 years. Katrin joined Thoughtworks with more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, she was working as a software developer, consultant and has held various management positions. As a leader her passion is building and working with high performing teams, who transform businesses and organizations. Diversity and gender equality have always been core values of Katrin.
Originally from Hong Kong, Yenny is an engineering and product executive based in Germany. Previously, Yenny and her teams worked on API Devtools at Rapid, Conversational AI at Rasa, and Adtech at Yelp. She has led international organizations with between 4 and 40 people. Yenny is experienced in building effective hybrid and distributed product teams. She specializes in the B2B SaaS space and she has a track record supporting enterprise transformations in startups. She takes pride in cutting through ambiguity and providing her teams with the business context to lead.
Dominik has been working in the IT environment for almost 20 years and had the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in various roles. As a Developer, Manager or Director, he has driven software development ahead in various companies. He joined ALDI SOUTH in 2016 and is currently responsible for our department Stores Checkout. Dominik embodies agility and has been a major force in driving the agile transformation at ALDI. His simultaneous pragmatism helps him not only in daily business but also on camping vacations with his family.
Nathalie Gierth von der iTentity GmbH hat eine etwas andere Herangehensweise um Stellen zu besetzen, Sie sagt: "Ich besetzte keine Stellen, ich baue Sie um den Menschen drum herum!" Des Weiteren wird Sie erklären warum wir den Alterungsprozess und damit die unterschiedlichen demografischen Phasen eines Lebens stets jährlich neu betrachten müssen und wie man sich damit loyale Mitarbeiter sichert.
Pauline is Team Lead for Talent Acquisition Management @powercloud, the fastest growing billing and CRM system in the energy industry. Together with her team, Pauline is responsible to find, attract and hire the best talents to drive company's growth. Besides that, Pauline is a passionate Recruiting Trainer and Speaker at the People Skills Club.
Agnes Koller, Head of Scientific Research at career Institute & Publishing, has been responsible for the BEST RECRUITERS study since 2014. Based on a treasure of data stemming from more than 15 000 employer examinations, she has been continuously analyzing the development of recruitment in the German speaking area. As a data nerd with a passion for quantifiable recruitment performance as well as edgy employer branding, Agnes helps companies to detect blind spots along their candidate journey and turn them into strengths. She has more than 20 years multifaceted experience in HR, marketing and training, teaches recruitment at the Burgenland University of Applied Sciences and gives her best to juggle every day’s challenges as a working toddler mom ;-)
Martin Tillert ist Partner Director DACH bei G-P (Globalization Partners) und verantwortlich für den Aufbau und die Pflege von Partnerschaften zu Unternehmen im Bereich Remote Work. Mit über zwanzig Jahren Erfahrung in Tech-Unternehmen wie Oracle, Microsoft und Indeed hat er umfassende Kenntnisse im Bereich Technologie, Vertrieb und dem Aufbau von Partnerbeziehungen erworben. Martin ist davon überzeugt, dass Technologie in vielen Lebensbereichen Vorteile bietet und möchte Unternehmen dabei helfen, die Hürden der globalen Arbeit zu senken. Durch seine Arbeit bei Indeed hat er tiefe Einblicke in den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt gewonnen und verfolgt nun mit großem Interesse die Entwicklungen auf dem globalen Arbeitsmarkt. Bei G- P arbeitet Martin daran, Beziehungen zu Partnerfirmen aufzubauen. Dabei reicht das Spektrum von Payroll über Remote Work Management Consulting bis hin zu HCM-Systemen, HR-Rechtsberatung oder Steuerberatungen. Martin ist begeistert von der Möglichkeit, innovative Lösungen für die Arbeitswelt von morgen zu entwickeln und diese aktiv voranzutreiben und damit Komplexität zu reduzieren und Unternehmen sowie Arbeitnehmern und Arbeitnehmerinnen den Zugang zu globalen Arbeitsmärkten zu erleichtern.
Nadja has been working in employer branding and recruiting for over 10 years and leads the Talent Attraction team in ALDI SÜD's international IT. She knows the needs of the tech target group and helps to ensure that ALDI SÜD is perceived as an attractive IT employer. She likes to break new ground and challenge the status quo.
Oliwia is Business Development lead B2G at CareerFoundry, where she passionately assists students in pursuing career changes into tech. With the mission to make career transitions accessible to all, she strives to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds.Prior to joining CF, she has been working in the Global Mobility industry where she was freeing talent from borders.
Dr. Christoph Hardt ist seit über 15 Jahren in der Beratungs- und Interimbranche tätig, u.a. als McKinsey-Berater, Comatch-Gründer und jetziger Malt Deutschland CEO.
I studied German and English-Speaking Cultures at the University of Bremen, first to become a teacher but later switching for cultural science and communications, focussing on intercultural mediation.
Went on to analyze emergency communication at mass rescue evacuation trainings within international teams and gave integrational courses to refugees while also working as a trainer and coach. Eventully I ended up working in Ecommerce.
Linda is a multifaceted professional with extensive experience in both the tech recruiting industry and the field of Gestalt Therapy. With over 5 years as a Tech Recruiting Partner, she has reviewed hiring processes and helps to ensure implement diversity and inclusion directly in the hiring processes.
Linda is also known for her close collaboration with Gazelle, a well-respected leader and content creator in the industry. She sees Gazelle as a role model and has learned much from their innovative practices and approach to recruiting. She is committed to sharing her knowledge and expertise with others in the industry and is always looking for ways to collaborate and learn from her peers.
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.
Mein Name ist Brian Struck und ich bin seit 2016 bei der BCM Solutions GmbH in der Geschäftsleitung als Managing Director / Prokurist tätig.
Ich möchte dir gerne einen Einblick geben, mit welcher Philosophie ich es zusammen mit meinen Kollegen geschafft habe, aus einem Unternehmen mit 12 Mitarbeitern innerhalb von 6 Jahren ein Unternehmen mit bald mehr als 200 Mitarbeitern zu formen.
Starting his career as software developer in late 80s, Rudi Bauer has gathered more than 29 years of management and leadership experience in the HR, IT and advertising industry.
