Keynotes
Alexandre Bauduin
Test engineer @ House of Test
Alex is a 51 years old, world traveler. He worked in consulting firms, gaining experience in several fields (medical, manufacturing, aerospace, pay TV, data warehouse to name a few) in different countries ( Switzerland,…
Alexandru Bolboaca
CTO, Mozaic Works
Alex is a polyglot programmer, trainer and coach at Mozaic Works. He has worked for almost 15 years in software development, for various industries and in various european countries and UK.Alex co-facilitated the first…
Andrey Adamovich
Software Architect at Aestas IT
Andrey Adamovich is a software craftsman with many years of experience in different lifecycle phases of software creation. Andrey's love is JVM ecosystem. In recent years, he tries to apply JVM goodness to DevOps…
Andrey Adamovich
Software Architect, Aestas IT
Andrey Adamovich is a software craftsman with many years of experience in different lifecycle phases of software creation. Andrey's love is JVM ecosystem. In recent years, he tries to apply JVM goodness to DevOps…
David Schmüdde
Creative Technologist at Beyond the Frame
David Schmüdde is an artist and computer programmer who has been building experiences and creating stories for broad audiences for the last 15 years. His work has been broadcast on traditional outlets such as…
Gerard Meszaros
Independent Consultant, CTO & Author at FeedXL PTY LTD
Gerard Meszaros is an independent software development consultant and trainer with 30+ years experience in software and nearly two decades of experience in agile methods. He started doing eXtreme Programming in 2000 and quickly…
James Lewis
Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks
James Lewis is a Principal Consultant for ThoughtWorks UK. He has helped introduce evolutionary architecture practices and agile software development techniques to various blue chip companies: investment banks, publishers and media organisations. James Lewis studied…
James Shore
Principal at Titanium I.T. LLC
James Shore teaches, writes, and consults on Agile development processes. He is a recipient of the Agile Alliance's Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice, co-author of /The Art of Agile Development/, and…
Michael Feathers
Director at R7K Research & Conveyance
Michael Feathers is the founder and Director of R7K Research & Conveyance, a company specializing in software and organization design. Prior to forming R7K, Michael was the Chief Scientist of Obtiva and a consultant…
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
President of Wirfs-Brock Associates
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock president of Wirfs-Brock Associates and IEEE Software's Design Columnist, is a well-known and respected object-oriented practitioner. She invented the way of thinking about objects known as Responsibility-Driven Design and is the lead author of Object…
Romeo Kienzler
Chief Data Scientist at IBM Watson IoT
Romeo Kienzler holds a M. Sc. (ETH) in Information Systems, Bioinformatics & Applied Statistics (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). He has nearly two decades of experience in Software Enineering, Database Administration and Information Integration.…
Sandro Mancuso
Software Craftsman & founder of Codurance at Codurance
Software craftsman, author of The Software Craftsman, founder of the London Software Craftsmanship Community (LSCC) and Codurance. Sandro has been coding since a very young age but only started his professional career in 1996. He has worked for…
Simon Brown
Independent Consultant
Simon Brown lives in Jersey (the largest of the Channel Islands) and works as an independent consultant, helping teams to build better software. His client list spans over 20 countries and includes organisations ranging…
Tom Gilb
Independent Computer Software Professional
Tom Gilb is an American systems engineer, consultant, and author, known for the development of software metric, software inspection, and evolutionary processes. He coaches managers and product owners, writes papers, develops the courses, and…
Speakers
Adrian Bolboacă
Programmer, Trainer, Coach at Mozaic Works
Adrian is a programmer, trainer and coach. His passion is helping teams produce high quality software, both on technical and organizational sides. He worked in organizations in many industries like energy, e-commerce, ERP/CRM, embedded…
Aki Salmi
Programmer at Rinkkasatiainen
Aki does not believe in magic. He makes it happen. Aki is a hiking guide of Suomen Latu and is using the leadership principles learned in such an agile environment in his daily work…
Aki Salmi
Programmer, Rinkkasatiainen
Aki does not believe in magic. He makes it happen. Aki is a hiking guide of Suomen Latu and is using the leadership principles learned in such an agile environment in his daily work…
Alastair Smith
Software Developer at Redgate Software Ltd.
Alastair is a developer at Redgate. While he enjoys writing C# on the back end and HTML/CSS/JavaScript on the front end, he's tried a number of languages over the last decade and found his real…
Alastair Smith
Software Developer at Cloud Hub 360
Alastair is a developer at Cloud Hub 360. While he enjoys writing C# on the back end and HTML/CSS/JavaScript on the front end, he's tried a number of languages over the last decade and found…
Alastair Smith
Software Developer, Cloud Hub 360
Alastair is a developer at Cloud Hub 360. While he enjoys writing C# on the back end and HTML/CSS/JavaScript on the front end, he's tried a number of languages over the last decade and…
Alexandra Marin
Software developer at crossplatform.io
Alexandra Marin has developed software for Fortune 500 companies in the pharmaceutical, logistics, gaming, video on demand, health, fitness and agricultural industries. Her focus is mobile and crossplatform development with Xamarin, but she's also…
Alexandru Badiu
Development Lead at Corbis
Alexandru Badiu works at Branded Entertainment Network by day and is an amateur game developer and musician by night. He's also a full time Mr. T impersonator and a long time ago cofounded Drupal…
Alin Pandichi
Software Developer, MozaicLabs
Alin is a software developer, trainer and facilitator at Mozaic Works in Bucharest, Romania. He is organizing Coding Dojo meetings, coderetreats and open space discussions within the Bucharest Agile Software Meetup Group. He previously spoke at…
Andrea Mocci
Postdoctoral researcher @ REVEAL Group
Andrea Mocci is a postdoctoral researcher of the REVEAL Group, headed by Prof. Michele Lanza, at University of Lugano. He is Alma Mater is Politecnico di Milano in Italy, where he got a B.Eng.…
Andreas Leidig
Developer / Agile Mentor at msgGillardon AG
Andreas Leidig has broad experience in object oriented software development and agile practices. He started programming years ago with Smalltalk and worked as an agile coach for a few years. Nowadays he is working…
Armagan Amcalar
Head of Software Engineering, unu GmbH
Armagan is the Head of Software Engineering at unu GmbH, and is currently working on building the infrastucture for the future of mobility. A software architect well versed in both the backend and frontend…
Bart Szulc
Senior Quality Engineer, Spartez / Atlassian
Tester at heart. One could say, born to test. Keeping hands dirty with test automation and scripting since started professional career.Designing strategies, architecting, delivering frameworks and test environments for web and mobile applications. Actively involved…
Boris Gonnot
Head of Feature Development Teams at BISAM
Boris is Head of Feature Development Teams at BISAM. Prior to BISAM, Boris worked at Allianz GI where he held various positions: Software architect, Head of the Java Development Platform and Architecture & Engineering…
Chris Ward
Writer, Developer and Designer at Gregarious Mammal
Chris is a developer advocate and Technical Writer. Loves to talk when given the chance and is an Enthusiastic Amateur at just about everything.
Chris Ward
Writer, Developer and Designer, Gregarious Mammal
Chris is a developer advocate and Technical Writer. Loves to talk when given the chance and is an Enthusiastic Amateur at just about everything.
Claudia Rosu
Software Engineer at MozaicLabs
Claudia is a software developer heading her way towards Software Craftsmanship. With experience in multiple industries, including e-commerce and eHealth, her focus is to deliver quality software. Agile, Lean and XP practices are in daily use…
Clément Bouillier
Software Craftsman at DevLyon
Clément Bouillier worked as a software developer/architect since 2004. He spent 9 years in consultancy companies, working for several clients, then started as an independent since 2013. I focused on agility since 2005, and on software…
Condoiu Iuliana
Service Platform Developer at Orange Services
I am a Software Developer for 5 years now. I was working on multiple projects such as: on-line shops, device management platform, big data as a service platform etc.
Cristian Andrei Calin
IT Solutions Architect at OLPS Romania
Just your random IT guy tring to make heads or tails of this thing called Openstack.
Csaba Házi
CEO at Webabstract
Csaba is author, speaker and User Experience (UX), expert and evangelist. He is also the co-founder of Webabstract, a rapidly growing international UX agency.His data-driven, down-to-earth “Seven Step UX” framework has helped companies ranging…
Csaba Patkos
Team Lead at Syneto
I believe that technology should be a part of our everyday life. It should be seemless, easy to use, and help us get through the day. That is why I am working at Syneto.…
Csaba Patkos
Team Lead, Syneto
I believe that technology should be a part of our everyday life. It should be seemless, easy to use, and help us get through the day.That is why I am working at Syneto. I…
Dan Billing
Test Jumper at Medidata
Dan has been a tester for 15 years, working within a diverse range of development organisations, mostly in the south west of England. He currently works at Medidata, in London, where most of his…
Dan Serban
Data Engineer
Dan Serban is a data engineer who is passionate about large-scale distributed systems and cares about producing clean, elegant, maintainable, robust, well-tested Scala code.
Daniel Carral
Lead Software & Innovation Consultant at trendig
Dani works as a Lead Software & Innovation Consultant at trendig, where he applies critical and out of the box thinking to help teams and organizations to achieve their objectives. Passionate about code quality…
Daniel Dughila
Senior JavaScript Engineer at Orange
Daniel is a Senior Software Engineer specialized in JavaScript development, with over ten years of experience.Passionate about sharing his knowledge, he gets involved in every aspect of the software lifecycle from requirements analysis, domain…
Dave Aronson
T. Rex, Codosaurus, LLC
Dave has about three and a half decades of professional software development experience, in a wide variety of languages, techniques, domains, etc. He is the T. Rex (yes, that's his real title) of Codosaurus,…
David Mihal
Blockchain Engineer, Freelance
Blockchain engineer & digital nomad. I'm passionate about building Web 3.0 on top of the Blockchain and other decentralized technologies.In the past I was a software engineer at Google in NYC. I worked on the…
David Völkel
Developer & Coach, codecentric AG
David is a developer/consultant for Codecentric, a TDD maniac and co-organizes the Software Craft Meetup Munich.
Diego Lemos
Software Engineer at Pivotal
Diego is a software engineer at Pivotal, working on Cloud Foundry. Prior to Pivotal, Diego worked for startups, software houses, consultancy companies and investment banks in Brazil, France and the United Kingdom. During his…
Diego Lemos
Software Engineer, Pivotal
Diego is a software engineer at Pivotal, working on Cloud Foundry. Prior to Pivotal, Diego worked for startups, software houses, consultancy companies and investment banks in Brazil, France and the United Kingdom. During his…
Eduards Sizovs
IT Entrepreneur, Software Development Coach
Eduards is a hands-on software architect, energiser, leader of Latvian Software Craftsmanship Community, organizer of the biggest software development conference in Latvia – DevTernity and a training center for experienced developers – DevChampions.
Elise Micheals
Sales Engineer | Global Leader | Network Speaker, Toptal
Elise Micheals is a Sales Engineer for a tech company, working entirely remote and living her life as a digital nomad. Through her travels, she's been able to speak with teams from all walks…
Erik Talboom
Agile & Lean Coach, Trainer, Software Craftsman, Collaboration Architect at Co-learning
If one would have to describe Erik Talboom in one line, it would no doubt be “loves helping people”. Helping others seems to be his drive for as long as he can recall: back…
Flavius Stef
VP at Syneto
Flavius likes to be part of teams that make things happen. At Syneto, he leads the efforts of the engineering team producing the hardware design and operating system of the company's data storage products…
Florin Coros
Co-founder and Partner at iQuarc
Florin Coros is a passionate software architect and developer who has been working for more than 10 years in a wide variety of business applications using Microsoft technologies. He is particularly interested in distributed applications,…
Franziska Sauerwein
Software Craftswoman at Codurance LTD
Franziska has worked as a software developer and consultant for three years before moving to London to join Codurance. Her passions include Test Driven Development, Refactoring, XP techniques and high quality software development. She…
Gabriel Calin
Senior Software Development Engineer
Gabriel is a Software Development Engineer at Orange Romania, where he's been developing mission critical software for the last 4 years. His main area of focus is the real time and high volume parallel…
Georgiana Mania
Software Engineer
Georgiana studied Computer Science at Politehnica University in Bucharest. Since graduation (in 2009), she has been working as software engineer covering several programming languages, technical stacks and business domains.In 2015, PhD Alexandru Gherega helped…
Gordon Morrison
Owner, VS Merlot
Gordon Morrison is an innovator, inventor, consultant, author, and speaker. Gordon has spoken at NASA/IEEE Joint Conference, SSTC-Online.org conference, IEEE meetings, U of Missouri, U of Houston, Lockheed ATL, SRI International, CodeRage5, and the…
Hamad Anwar
Vice General Manager / Director Of Technology, ekuep.com
Hammad is the Vice General Manager of ekuep.com, the first/largest B2B e-commerce retailer of restaurant and cafe equipment which also was awarded the best B2B website of the year in 2017 and 2018 in…
Henk Boelman
Cloud Solution Architect, Heroes
Henk Boelman works as an Azure Solutions Architect at Heroes in the Netherlands. He started out as a software developer in the late '90s and later moved on to the role of architect. He…
Houssam Fakih
Software Developer at Arolla
I'm a software engineer at Arolla. In my work, I try to bring value to final users, to my team, to my company. My aim is to deliver zero-defect clean code.
Hugo Messer
Owner at Bridge Global
Hugo Messer is a successful entrepreneur with tremendous experience running distributed software development teams. For ten years he has been running Bridge Global, a fully distributed offshore software company with developers all over the…
Ionut Balosin
Software Architect, Luxoft
Software Architect @ Luxoft with 10+ years of experience in a wide variety of business applications. Particularly interested in software architecture and performance & tuning topics. Regular speaker at external conferences (e.g. GeeCon, JokerConf,…
Ionuț G. Stan
Software Developer at Eloquentix
Ionuț G. Stan is a software developer at Eloquentix where he works on backend services using Scala. His current interests revolve around functional programming techniques, programming languages and compilers.
Jakob Holderbaum
Consultant at ThoughtWorks Germany
I am working as a consultant with ThoughtWorks Germany. I am a passionate software craftsman with a strong embedded software background and a high interest in everything related to security.
Joe Wright
Technical person at Arnold Clark
Joe helps people deliver software that's well designed, fully tested and released early. He coaches teams to adopt agile engineering practices with a focus on XP, clean code and continuous delivery. Joe changes roles…
Joel Lord
Technical Director, Spiria
Joel Lord is an international speaker specialized in new technology. He is passionate about IoT, AI, Javascript and the web in general. In his spare time, Joel also shares his findings via his blog…
Johan Peeters
Software Security Architect
I am an independent software architect with a special interest in security.In 2004 I was so appalled at the poor security I encountered in my daily practice, I turned to friends and colleagues in…
Karina Popova
Head of Development at Link Mobility
Karina is a well-known speaker, has been worked as DevOps Lead last 10 years. She has confident communication, leadership skills across different levels, developed through international professional interaction and engagements with representatives of various…
Lemi Orhan Ergin
Agile Software Craftsman at Craftbase
Lemi Orhan Ergin has been working as Agile Software Craftsman at Craftbase, a company of Software Crafters building their dreams in Istanbul. He has been actively developing software since 2001. He has worked as software architect,…
Liviu-Stefanita Baiu
Senior Business Analyst | Analysis Discipline Lead at Endava Romania
Liviu Stefanita-Baiu has worked as a full-time Business Analyst for the last 5 years, in a couple of companies, in an Agile environment. He successfully (as said by the clients and the teams) participated…
Marijan Mihaljev
Levi9 IT Services
Marton Kodok
Senior Software Architect at REEA
Márton is a romanian Google Developer Expert(GDE) senior software architect at REEA/Tirgu Mures who led the implementation of complex and distributed systems serving millions of users for companies like LogoMix, WaterSmart, Ausschreibungsdienste and many…
Mayank Saxena
Enterprise Architect (Chief Architect and Data Management), ABN AMRO Bank
Mayank is an experienced consultant in technology strategy, architecture and innovation. He brings with him experience performing different roles (architect, product owner, program, project & change manager) in different industry verticals (Banking, Retail, Manufacturing, Telecommunications,…
Mey Beisaron
Software Engineer @ Appsflyer
Software Engineer by day, Hackathons winner by night; Inspired by the hackathon atmosphere, I like to venture into personal projects, learn new technologies and languages, and constantly expand my horizons by taking on new…
Michael Boeynaems
Security Architect Colruyt Group
Michael Boeynaems has a strong interest in cyber security matters, ranging from high-level architectural challenges to technical implementations. As an IT security architect at Colruyt Group, he has the chance to prepare their organization for the future…
Michel Grootjans
Technical Agile Coach at SmallSteps
Michel Grootjans has been programming since the age of 12. He has programmed strange machines like the TI 99-4A, the Atari 2600, Mac128, HP28, Apple II, Siemens PLC's using languages like Basic, Pascal, C,…
Michel Grootjans
Technical Agile Coach, SmallSteps
Michel Grootjans has been programming since the age of 12. He has programmed strange machines like the TI 99-4A, the Atari 2600, Mac128, HP28, Apple II, Siemens PLC's using languages like Basic, Pascal, C,…
Mihai Zugravu
Project Manager at Lola Tech
Mihai is a former corporate guy with an awesome self proclaimed sense of humour. Always trying to challenge status quo for the best, continuously improve on things and sometimes positively influence stuff. He started…
Milen Dyankov
Senior Consultant at Liferay
Milen is senior consultant at Liferay helping some of the biggest European companies succeed in today's rapidly changing virtual reality by engaging their customers, partners, and employees. Before joining Liferay in 2012 he spent…
Monica Obogeanu
Product Manager at Eventrix.co
In the almost 10 years spent in the industry, Monica has gained knowledge and practical experience in multiple roles, working in various contexts. Motivated by her desire to help people, she has now found her true calling: bringing…
Nicolas Fränkel
Software Architect at hybris software
Software Architect with 15 years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Generally focused on Java and JavaEE technologies,…
Opher Vishnia
Creative Developer at Eko
Opher is a multidisciplinary creator, invested in many different and often unrelated fields at the same time: computer science, art, music, design, math, game development and more. For the past three years Opher has…
Ovidiu Deac
Consultant & trainer, ed-IT.ro
I'm a software engineer interested in functional programming, clean code and agile development.I started my career in 1998 and, after working with imperative languages for more than 10 years, I moved into functional programming…
Patrick Baumgartner
Software Craftsman at 42talents
Patrick works as a Software Craftsman, passionate Agilista, Coach and Trainer at 42talents. His biggest goal is to improve everyone’s workplace in IT. Learning new stuff from others and with others is a thing…
Patroklos Papapetrou
Software Gardener at FoodTec Solutions
Patroklos Papapetrou is a software architect, addicted to software quality and an agile team leader with more than 15 years of experience in software development. He believes and invests in people and team spirit…
Pedro Santos
Software Craftsman, Codurance
Pedro is a software craftsman with over twenty years experience. Passionate about the web, distributed systems and mobile technology. Advocate of agile practices and the software craftsmanship movement. Has been key in bringing Software…
Peter Kofler
Code Cop
Peter Kofler is a software developer since 17 years and still enthusiastic about writing code. He likes his code being in order. Obviously he is fanatic about code quality. After years of harassing his…
Peter Kofler
Code Cop
Peter Kofler is a software developer since 19 years and still enthusiastic about writing code. He likes his code being in order. Obviously he is fanatic about code quality. After years of harassing his…
Philipp Krenn
Developer advocate at Elastic
Philipp is a Developer Advocate at Elastic, spreading the love and knowledge of full-text search, analytics, and real-time data. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and meetups about all things search & analytics,…
Philipp Krenn
Infrastructure | Developer Advocate, Elastic
Philipp is part of the infrastructure team and a developer advocate at Elastic. He is frequently talking about full-text search, databases, operations, and security. Additionally, he is organizing multiple meetups in Vienna.
Radu Marinescu
Professor of Software Engineering at UPT
Radu Marinescu professor of software engineering at the Politehnica University of Timisoara, is a researcher focused on the areas of quality assurance and software evolution. He has authored the Object-Oriented Metrics in Practice (2006) book, a…
Raimo Radczewski
Software Craftsman
Raimo Radczewski is a freelancing software craftsman living in Berlin, Germany. He's organizing Berlin's Software Craftsmanship Community where he supports craftspeople with professionalizing and sharpening their skills, but also reflect on their current practices…
Ricardo J. Mendez
Founder at Numergent
I've been a professional software developer for over 20 years, and a hacker and tinkerer for even longer. I've moved from financial analysis on large banking systems, to juggling around medical data, to performing…
Roberto Judet
Software Engineer, Syneto
Software craftsman, building next-gen IT infrastructure for small and medium businesses at Syneto. Enthusiast about new innovations which can make society better, especially cryptocurrencies. Likes to drink beers at music festival and hackathons.
Robin Danzinger
Software Developer
Since his graduation in computer science in 2008 Robin Danzinger works as software developer and consultant. He has gained deep knowledge in both enterprise software with Java and web development with JavaScript. Robin loves…
Sara Hourani
Lecturer in Law at Middlesex University London
Dr Sara Hourani is a Lecturer at the School of Law, Middlesex University London. Sara holds an LLB degree from Grenoble II University (France), an LLM in International Trade Law and a PhD in…
Silvia Schreier
Domain Architect
As domain architect at METRONOM Silvia Schreier brings together business and IT in the exciting domain of Customer Order Fulfillment at METRO's wholesale business. With her strong background on web architecture she seeks to build and operate products with a sustainable architecture…
Stefanie Hasler
Software Consultant, codecentric
Stefanie has been developing Software for five years now, in the last two focusing on web technologies. She focuses on delivering reliable, maintainable software using the best tools for the job.
Sumanth Damarla
Mozilla Tech Speaker at Mozilla Foundation
Sumath Damarla is a Security Evangelist, part of Mozilla Hyderabad Community, India, and part of Mozilla Tech Speaker team. He conducted a series of events related to Web security. Closely working with Mozilla Cloud security team,…
Thibaud Courtoison
Consultant, Zenika
Passionate about any and all challenges, I likes to write scripts to facilitate my life. Attracted to continuous learning, I joined Zenika in order to collect and share knowledge on various subjects, even if…
Thierry de Pauw
Agile Technical Coach
Longtime (15+ years) software engineer, Jack of All Trades, apprentice devops. Passionate about software engineering in the broad sense. Always searching for simple and easy to understand solutions. I like to help teams in…
Thomas Coopman
Thomas Coopman has been fascinated with computers since he was a kid. Playing around at first, became programming later and after learning some programming for himself and a small detour starting studies for nursing,…
Thomas Sundberg
Developer, Think Code AB
Thomas Sundberg is an independent consultant and contractor based in Stockholm, Sweden.He has been working as a developer for more than 25 years. Thomas has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Royal…
Tim Perry
Tech lead and Open-Source Champion at Softwire
By day Tim Perry is a tech lead and the open-source champion at Softwire, building great software for Softwire's clients and helping them give back to the wider development community. By night he's a…
Tugberk Ugurlu
Software Developer at Redgate Software
I am a web guy, Microsoft MVP and software developer specialized mainly on .NET Web technologies. I've worked at the tourism industry to build tourism software services and products for long time and now,…
Viv Richards
Senior Test Engineer, Vizolution
Viv Richards is a senior test automation engineer, a blogger and a community bumble bee. In his spare time he enjoys teaching children to code as a CodeClub volunteer as well as bringing communities…
Vlad Stoian
Software Engineer at Pivotal
Vlad is a Software Engineer, currently working at Pivotal on projects related to CloudFoundry and RabbitMQ. He's passionate about algorithms, awesome software tools and he would like to automate himself out of existence. Some…
Vlad Zelinschi
Technical Lead, GDE (Google Developer Expert) at 3Pillar Global
Vlad is a pragmatic frontend engineer, Google Developer Expert and an avid caffeine consumer. He loves surrounding himself with ever smiling people and he's constantly pushing his limits in order to become abetter professional.…
Voicu Cristiana
Software Developer at Orange Services
Cristiana is a software developer at Orange, currently working on a private cloud based on Openstack. She has 5 years experience in software development on big projects and a master degree on parallel and…
Xavier Detant
CTO at Zenika
Co-organiser of several meetups and the SoCraTes France Unconference, knowledge sharing is at the heart of my mindset.
Yegor Bugayenko
CTO at Teamed.io
Yegor is a CTO and co-founder of Teamed.io, a software development company with a unique approach to management of distributed teams; a regular blogger at www.yegor256.com; a proud holder of PMP and OCMEA certifications;…