Speakers

I've been working as a .NET developer for over 16 years now in a variety of industries including government, retail and manufacturing. But I've been hacking around with computer code since I was old enough to read my Dad's copy of the ZX Spectrum BASIC coders manual. I've been speaking about Functional C# at various user groups and conferences around the UK, USA, Europe and Australia and am particularly interested in seeing just how far we can push C# without breaking it. I'm currently working on a book for O'Reilly publications about functional programming with C#. Expected to appear in [...]

Ramona is a software engineer and aspiring speaker with a passion for creating inclusive and accessible applications. She likes to spread awareness about this topic and hopes to inspire people both in her daily work and by taking the stage whenever she gets the chance.

I am an Android Developer, working in and around IT since 2013. Java-trained with full stack interests, but now fully embracing Android. Come talk to me about creating an accessible app for all, Compose and fun team outings.

Robin is an enthusiastic developer with experience on both smaller and bigger projects. He loves to work with different cultures and languages, and all issues that arise from that. Whenever he gets the chance, he’ll happily tell you all about it!

A developer that is curious to understand how things work. Has around 10 years of experience, loves coding, making things, and breaking things, and also likes to help teams work better together.

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Sergès Goma is a Paris-based software developer specialized in JavaScript. When she's not fixing codebases, she gives motivational speeches mostly aimed at junior and would-be developers as well as participating in the tech women's empowerment online community Motiv'Her.

Between having a family life, doing several radio shows and podcasts for Dutch radiostation KINK and attending (online) conferences and usergroup meetings, Stefan tries running a company called Ingewikkeld. Having worked with PHP and several of its open source products since the late 90s, he still likes it for getting the job done.

Senior web developer. At Netgen for the past 10 years. Team lead. Project(s) Tech lead. The annoying one with all the rules. Likes code same as cars - 15 years old and barely working.

A graduated Computer Engineer, Rafael Dohms has vast experience in the PHP ecosystem as a Developer, Speaker and Contributor. Addicted in building communities he has founded various groups where ever he lives, currently he is to blame for AmsterdamPHP. Developer by career but teacher by vocation he travels the world sharing interest in quality code, innovation and building careers. In his free time you will likely find him gaming or contributing to open source projects. His contribution hit list includes many projects, from PHP itself to frameworks like Symfony, Zend and projects such as Doctrine and Composer. His hobby is [...]

Alexandre is a Symfony Lead Developer at Wanadev, a company based in Lyon. They are creating an application allowing 3D modeling of your home directly in your browser, with the possibility of photorealistic rendering. As well as giving talks at official Symfony events, Pimcore, PHPers and Malt Academy, Alexandre's involvement in the PHP world was strengthened by contributing to PHP and Symfony's source code and documentation. He then continued this dynamic by joining Sensiolabs (the company that created Symfony), as well as writing his first book, "Clean Code in PHP" in October 2022.

James is a consultant, trainer and developer at Roave, working in software for over 20 years. His goal is to improve the quality of software products that teams deliver.

Mike has been working in web application development for 13 years, including time as a CTO and startup founder. Through working on business critical systems with real time elements Mike has learned the value of comprehensive logging & monitoring, redundant checks on applications & infrastructure, and of course well written testable code. He has a strong desire to train & mentor the next generation of web engineers.

He loves all things Open Source and strongly believes in empowered, effective engineers. Martijn has worked in small teams on infrastructure for the last twenty years and seen the good, as well as the bad sides of agile and devops.

I'm Gina Peter Banyard I'm a PHP Core dev paid by the PHP Foundation. I also maintain the PHP Documentation and lead translator for the French translation of it.

I'm Soumaya Erradi and I'm a software developer and an IT teacher. I'm high skilled in web development (frontend and backend), specialized in developing enterprise applications using Angular. Currently, I'm working as frontend lead developer in a team focused on blockchain app development. I'm also holding coding courses and meetups to deepen technical and business issues related to Blockchain and Smart Contracts. As a speaker at conferences I bring advanced Angular topics, tips for the integration of smart contracts and best solutions for decentralized applications and web3.

Juliette Reinders Folmer is an opinionated, passionate busy-body with a prolific portfolio of contributions to various high profile open source projects over the years. She is co-author of PHPCompatibility, initiator of PHPUnit Polyfills and created the PHP Cheatsheets. Juliette regularly speaks at conferences and is always happy to discuss how we can all contribute to changing both the dev-culture as well as our code, to be _better_. Juliette is self-employed and based in the Netherlands.

Like you, Pim is on a quest to do things a little bit better every time. As a scrum developer, he has extensive experience with solid coding, patient mentoring and tackling big projects using Domain Driven Design. Presentations by Pim are always fun, engaging and conversational. But don't fret; if you just want to listen and let others speak, it *will* be worth your time. Pim has joined Superscript in 2022 where the complexities of tech and insurance meet each other in the <3 of software.

I've been a backend developer for around twelve years, first in Java, then PHP and more recently in Go. I've worked in companies of all sizes: from a 400-person company to a 15-person startup, then scale-ups like Lydia, Ornikar and now Foxintelligence.

Software architect by profession but mathematician by education, Arnout has his interests on the boundary between the two, where formal modelling and logical reasoning meet practical problems and pragmatism. He works at Moxio, where he solves complex information management problems with innovative software, and aims to grow a culture of learning and quality. In his free time he contributes to a number of open source projects, like PHP_CodeSniffer, Symfony and the PHP core, and maintains a number of packages himself.

PHP developer since 2004, working on API's in Symfony since 2016

Ondřej is a full-time open-source software developer. He likes pointing out mistakes in other people's code so much that he created PHPStan, a popular static analyzer that focuses on finding bugs in code without running it. He shares his experience at conferences across the world, offers his expertise as a consultant, and organizes trainings.

Gary Hockin helps businesses build with confidence as an associate at Roave. He is a talented and evocative speaker, a cultivated author of impressively entertaining blog posts, and records elegant and informative screencasts and videos. Gary's also a contributor to the Laminas project and is argumentative enough to be on the community review team. When Gary had a real job, he was a developer of at least "competent" standard with over 20 years experience. When not developing, speaking about developing, reading about developing or writing about developing, Gary enjoys playing computer games and arguing with his two kids. Gary has [...]

Derick Rethans is a PHP internals expert and author of Xdebug. He works as an independent contractor and consultant on PHP extensions and related projects. He works for the PHP Foundation to improve PHP, and continues to contribute to the PHP project in numerous forms (Date/Time Extension, Xdebug, PHP 4.4/7.4 Release Manager, etc). He is a frequent lecturer at conferences, the author of php|architect's Guide to Date and Time Programming, and the co-author of PHP 5 Power Programming.

With 20+ years of experience in web development, he has seen technologies come and go. He has done work in multiple languages but he specializes in backend development in PHP. As a lead engineer, he values communication above technical specialization. He enjoys the puzzle of a piece of code and the fact that there's always more solutions to be found for a problem.

Mark Niebergall is a security-minded PHP Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead at a cybersecurity software company, with many years of hands-on experience with PHP projects. He is the Utah PHP User Group Co-Organizer, a regular conference speaker, and a PHP-FIG Secretary. Mark has a Masters degree in MIS, is CSSLP and SSCP cybersecurity certified, and volunteers for (ISC)2 security exam development. Mark enjoys endurance sports, being outdoors, and teaching his five sons about writing code.

Nic Wortel is an independent software consultant and trainer. After working as a software engineer for over 10 years, he started to offer consulting and training workshops to help other teams improve their software development processes. From time to time, he speaks at meetups and events about Agile software development, DevOps, and related topics.

Tejas Chopra is a Senior Software Engineer, working in the Data Storage Platform team at Netflix, where he is responsible for architecting storage solutions to support Netflix Studios and Netflix Streaming Platform. Prior to Netflix, Tejas was working on designing and implementing the storage infrastructure at Box, Inc. to support a cloud content management platform that scales to petabytes of storage & millions of users. Tejas has worked on distributed file systems & backend architectures, both in on-premise and cloud environments as part of several startups in his career. Tejas is an International Keynote Speaker and periodically conducts seminars on [...]

Rowdy Rabouw is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies 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.

I'm Shruti Balasa, a full stack web developer and a Tech Educator from India. I like to make web development simple for beginners through my courses, Youtube tutorials and eBooks. Some of my latest courses include "Laravel 9.0 Essentials" and "Advanced Laravel" on LinkedIn Learning and "CSS Grids Simplified" and "CSS Flexbox Simplified" on Laracasts. I'm a Tailwind CSS evangelist with most of my Youtube videos dedicated to help beginners learn the framework. I'm an author of two eBooks "Complete Guide to CSS Flex & Grid]" and "Level up with Tailwind CSS" with a combines sales of 1800 across 80 [...]

Lianne is an award-winning cyber anthropologist and security transformation leader with experience in the retail, healthcare, finance, private and non-profit sectors. Her consultancy, The AnthroSecurist, enables teams in complex organisations to understand each other’s motivations, identify barriers that have prevented good security practices in the past, and provide practical steps and insights to increase collaboration between the security team and the rest of the organisation. Lianne is also the Head of SecOps for the largest greenfield technology project in Europe where she builds strategies to create sustainable security cultures throughout the organisation. As a respected speaker, Lianne has delivered talks [...]

Lily is a senior software engineer on the profiling team at Datadog. Prior to Datadog, she was on the frontend infrastructure team at Slack. She has 8 years of frontend development experience. She started her career in San Francisco, but now resides in Paris with her family.

Hey world ! I'm Marcy Ericka, a social tech writer, content strategist, founder of Merci Marcy and The Safe Place. I'm a former editor-in-chief of WeLoveDevs for 2 years. I was the first woman hired there. Yes, on top of that, I was the first racialized and LGBTQIA+ woman. I quickly realised that few people like me are represented in tech. I then chose to take a more committed stance to promote diversity by breaking through the pretense of corporate values. To sum up my journey : I am an advocate for creating real cohesion within teams, enabling them to [...]

A lifelong technologist, starting coding at the age of six, Jeff has been in the industry for over 24 years. He has a love for CyberSecurity, especially the human elements of it. Working for a consultancy, he's seen the world change to be product and service focused, and bangs the drum for ensuring that everybody is involved in delivering secure and usable offerings.

Kilian is a front-end developer with over 20 years of experience that switched from building websites to building apps to build websites with. He is interested in modern web development, desktop app development and new technologies, and regularly speaks about topics like responsive websites, design systems and Electron. Kilian is a frequent open source contributor.

Joralf is a member of the management team and a (technical) project manager at Infi, a digital agency based in Utrecht. He loves building self-managing teams in which business and developers work together in harmony. In his spare time he's one of the organizers of the DomCode meetup, a cross-language user group for web developers in the Utrecht area.

Experienced software engineer with a deep passion for software products, Jeb has been developing software since the age of 14. When not writing code, catch him kitesurfing or desperately trying to get some tolerable sound out of his drums and guitar.

By day Erwin is a DevOps engineer at Fullstaq, consulting companies on how to best implement cloud native principles on the public cloud and how to develop applications to fully embrace what new technologies can offer. At night he turns into a chindōgu engineer (look it up on wikipedia, it's awesome). Tinkering with stuff like adding music to his home elevator or connecting his garage door to the internet. His presentations always come with a dose of humor and self-deprecation. And if it all works out, you'll learn something too.

During my studies I discovered my enthusiasm for technology, innovation and programming. After a few years in larger corporations such as Continental and IBM, I moved to the IT service provider MaibornWolff. Today, I work there as a software engineer in agile teams designing various digital products.

Christian is a freelance fullstack developer writing code in languages like Java, Kotlin, Typescript and Javascript. He enjoys writing software and helping others.

Craig is a Software Engineer from New Zealand, currently travelling the world, freelancing, teaching and consulting! He's an Angular GDE, and he loves using all kinds of technologies to build cool things that help teams build cool things!

I have over 20 years of experience as a software engineer and technical lead in various industries including eCommerce, Aerospace, and Fintech. As an open-source contributor, I have shared expertise and connected with the wider developer community. As a blogger, I have written extensively on software and data engineering topics. I am now part of a global innovative financial technology platform where I focus on APIs and Developer Experience.

Bert is the founder of PowerDNS, software that powers a significant fraction of the Internet. He also did government cybersecurity work, and co-founded a software company in that field. These days Bert does DNA research and until recently was part of the government board that regulates the Dutch intelligence and security agencies. Bert is now a part-time technical advisor at the Dutch Electoral Council ("FEC")

Alexandra is a technical writer for Google Chrome, helping developers build a better web. Prior to Google, she was a technical writer, web developer, digital marketer, and one-time off-Broadway stage manager.

Aakansha is passionate about Free and open-source software (FOSS) and loves deep diving into the internals of Javascript and React. Being one of the core maintainers of Excalidraw, she spends most of the time with Canvas. She leads the FOSS meetups in Bangalore, India. Beyond her tech interests, she is a big foodie, loves traveling, and spending quality time with her family.

Michelle Sanver works as a senior software developer and architect at Liip. A self organised Swiss web agency. Michelle loves anything community related and is a big advocate of Open Source. She is a code- passionate colourful geek with an expertise in backend development API's and the Symfony framework. With more than 20 years of PHP experience she is eager to share her extensive knowledge.

Ivo is the founder of app agency Egeniq. For the past twelve years Egeniq has been building large scale apps for media and other companies. He is also the founder of the Appdevcon conference for app developers.

I am a passionate iOS engineer with more than seven years of experience. I have worked in start-ups and big companies both in Iran and in Denmark, where I am currently based. AI and mobile are my two big passions, and when I get to mix them it is my dream come true. I love sharing knowledge and learning. I am an Engineer by day 👩🏻‍💻 and a movie geek 🎥 by night. And according to Spotify, I listened to 105 different genres last year 🎧

Tom Colvin is CTO of Apptaura, the app development specialists; and Conseal Security, the mobile app security experts. He has been a developer for over 20 years and worked with Android since Cupcake, and is also Google Developer Group lead for Hants & Surrey (UK)

With over 10 years of Android development experience, Zachary moved into DevRel at the start of 2021. While turning to the dark side and moving into management he's still very passionate about Android and all things mobile!

As the Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn focuses on web performance, software scalability, and content delivery. He demonstrates content-driven and technical messaging through presentations, videos, books, blog posts, social media posts, podcasts, and other media. Thijs is a published author and wrote "Getting Started with Varnish Cache" and "Varnish 6 by Example". As a public speaker, he has a track record of over 270 presentations in 20 different countries, where he is often praised for his energetic and engaging presentation style. As an evangelist, Thijs is also active in many open-source communities, most notably the Varnish and PHP [...]

Severn Everett, currently employed as a backend developer at Apiumhub, has spent more than a decade in the software engineering industry and has worked in software development companies in the United States, India, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. His tech stack repertoire has also varied considerably with the years, with experience in projects that used Java, Kotlin, C++, Python, Ruby, and Go. However, the JVM and Spring Boot ecosystems remain the domains in which he retains the most knowledge and interest.

Sanne is what you would call an enthusiastic and results-oriented mobile developer. She is a true all-rounder who can develop cross-platform using KMM, native iOS and native Android. She always takes a critical look at the chosen architectures and solutions. She is passionate about her profession and enjoys thinking about further developments, choosing the right technology for the customer and figuring out how to improve development speed when scrum is slowing it down. Critically thinking along in how the process can be accelerated is something she is always working on. Her agile mindset, enthusiasm and analytical skills make her indispensable [...]

As Technical Evangelist @ AWS, Seb is inspiring builders to unlock the value of the AWS cloud, using his secret blend of passion, enthusiasm, customer advocacy, curiosity and creativity. Sébastien worked for the last 20+ years with large enterprises and startups alike to help them to transform their business requirements into technical solutions, to unlock the value of software, mobile applications and to scale systems to meet customer demand. Before joining the Evangelist team, he built & lead the AWS Technical Training team in EMEA, then he built & lead the Alexa Solution Architecture team in UK, France, Italy and [...]

Roy is an entrepreneur, speaker and author from The Netherlands and, in his own words, 'wants to make the world a better place through tech'. He has been giving talks and trainings to developers worldwide on technologies like GraphQL, React and TypeScript. Most recently he wrote the book Fullstack GraphQL.

Robert is an engineer who gets a kick out of starting, building mobile apps and backends for companies that have or want to have a large user base. Works in an agile and lean way to validate and improve future products with users and customers. Conducting research and analysis in order to come up with solutions to business problems and help to introduce these into the organisation.

Rob Allen is a software developer with many years experience in a variety of interesting languages. He's particularly interested in APIs and the ecosystem around them along and contributes to Slim Framework, rst2pdf & Apache OpenWhisk along with other open source projects. Rob is a published author and based in the UK where he runs Nineteen Feet Limited, focussing on API consultancy and development. In his spare time, Rob blogs at [akrabat.com](https://akrabat.com) and can often be seen with a camera in his hand.

As a developer I've always been more interested in the process rather than the outcome. I'm intrigued by team dynamics, communication and agile coding. I've worked in small and large teams and explored many different aspects of software development. As CTO of WeDevelop I aim to create the best possible landscape for software development, helping people thrive and develop stories that matter.

Rens van der Vorst teaches, writes and researches our relationship with technology. He writes funny and bestselling books on technology and offers a combination of stand-up and conten as a keynote speaker. His newest book is called Digital Gremlins! Rens searches answers on questions like: Does technology make our lives better? And, what is exactly meant by better? Rens van der Vorst is leading a research - project into a free online tool that helps people think about the impact of technology (www.tict.io), designed various card & boardgames and created www.ceptcha.com an alternative for the inhumane CAPTCHA.

As a senior developer advocate on the Firebase team at Google, Peter Friese is dedicated to helping developers build amazing experiences and high-quality apps using Firebase on iOS, Android, and the web. With a passion for empowering developers and fostering innovation, Peter works tirelessly with the Firebase team to make his vision of "cutting short the time to magic" a reality. Peter is also the author of the book Asynchronous Programming with SwiftUI and Combine: Functional Programming to Build UIs on Apple Platforms and host of the YouTube show Better Safe than Sorry, which explores best practices for building secure [...]

Senior iOS Developer with around 8+ years of experience in Native App Development Based out of 🇮🇳 currently in 🇬🇧 Co-organiser of SwiftLeeds Conference, Leeds, UK Write articles about iOS app development on https://unknowndefault.com/

Odin started working on Android as a hobby when he was is high school, and got his first job as a Software Engineer after University. At the moment he enjoys working at DNB Bank as an Android Software Engineer where he works on the most popular finance app in Norway. If he has time, he likes to contribute to open-source projects in relation to Jetpack Compose.

So far talked at two Docker Community All Hands and a few local meetups. Was awarded the Docker Community Leader award in September 2022. Started programming with C at the age of 13 (2004). Studied Pure Mathematics from 2009 to 2013 (BSc), researched Logic (MSc) until 2015, and worked as a Software Engineer at CafeBazaar (Iran's Google) at the same time. Moved to Geneva to research in Geometry and Physics (2016), then to Germany to study Computer Science, to Amsterdam to work at PicNic, and then back to Germany to work at AppTec GmbH. Now working at Jodel.

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.

Software engineer with over 25 years experience, including 18 on Apple platforms. Known for his groundbreaking presentations and community organizing, Mike also happens to be one of the best debuggers on the planet.

Mo is the Head of Mobile and a Lead Developer at Theodo UK, having worked on several projects with startups and established enterprises to create cross-platform mobile application in React Native. He's passionate about React Native, MobileDevOps, and pushing the boundaries of combining code across web and mobile. Before joining Theodo, Mo was a full-stack developer at Nasdaq. He is a graduate from the University of Edinburgh.

Matthijs Klaver is a creative strategist at Move Agency with a passion for apps. With 7 years of experience and a background in design, he shifted into his strategic role in 2021 and is now dedicated to helping clients get the most out of their apps by considering end-users, market trends, business goals, and technology. Matthijs is always on top of the latest trends and developments, and he loves thinking outside the box to come up with solid strategies that help clients move forward. With his design background, Matthijs always looks at things from a creative perspective, resulting in visually [...]

Lead Integration Architect at BlueRush, Inventor and UX/architecture Lead Consultant. 26 years of experience in the industry. Product Director at Bciti Principal UX prototype developer for Google / Motorola / Nokia / Amazon during the smartphone development age (2007 to 2011) Founder of TasteFilter (start up attempt) .. and so on ;)

Michiel Rook is a very experienced, passionate and pragmatic freelance IT consultant from the Netherlands. Working as a coach, software developer & architect, and a strong leader, he considers it his mission to help companies significantly improve their software quality and delivery process. Currently, he focuses on adopting Continuous Delivery & DevOps principles, culture and tooling, legacy software transformations, and cloud migrations. Michiel is a regular speaker at (international) conferences and events.

Marc is a Sr Developer Advocate at Diagrid with a strong focus on event-driven architectures in the Azure cloud. He loves helping developers to achieve more every day. You might have seen Marc at a developer meetup or conference since he's a regular speaker in the area of Azure cloud & serverless technologies. He started Azure Functions University, a free and open source learning curriculum on GitHub, where everyone can learn about Azure Functions at their own pace. From 2019 to 2023 Marc received the Microsoft Azure MVP award for his community contributions. In his spare time, Marc likes to [...]

Marco is a back-end software developer with experience in design, development and testing high scalability and distributed cloud applications. He loves to use his expertise in software development to help others solve problems and create solutions. He has contributed to a number of open source projects and is an active member of the open source community

Mobile dev since Cupcake. Android GDE. Kotlin enthusiast. Dogs make me happy.

I'm this Spanish guy born in Belgium living in Germany. Yes, I'm European. I'm also one of the C64 generation in the 80s. I started Pro Software Development late 90s but my political career which started in 2011 grew up on me and overtook my love for computers. I prefer to love the planet and so after personal achievements like being a vegan and avoiding to fly as much I am now on a crazy endeavour which is to try to reach the European Parliament.

I am an experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. While at university, I excelled as a student and used my skills to serve as a mentor to others. In my second year there, I began working as Software Engineer and continued my professional path in various IT companies. In 2018, I have started diving deeper into cross-platform development, more specifically - Flutter. That also marks the beginning of my technical Flutter-related blog on Medium as well as participation in various GDG meetups, conferences such as DartUP or Flutter Global Summit. [...]

If I say 'Use', you say 'the Platform' ! Together with his fellow front end developers, Maarten raises iO's HTML, JavaScript and CSS bar to a whole new level. With tools such as Vue.js, Nuxt.js and OpenAPI and many others in his proverbial tool belt, he builds modern web projects that excel in speed and usability. Next to grinding keys, he's also a passionate tattler about how Open Source software should get more recognition, as it is the cornerstone of our current-day digital society.

Lorna is a technology leader, published author, and expert open-source engineer hailing from Yorkshire. She boasts a solid background in software engineering, developer relations, cloud data technology and APIs, and her passion is in improving developer experiences in these areas. Discover more about Lorna on her website https://lornajane.net

Lena is an Android developer with curiosity for iOS. She got interested in mobile development during her computer science degree at TU Dresden and has been creating Android apps ever since. She is currently inspired by Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile and enjoys sharing her experience with it.

 When she's not programming, Lena loves going on adventures, hiking around Europe, surfing, skiing, freediving and regaining strength with the best local cuisine she can find.

I am an iOS developer for more than 7 years. For the last 5 years I have been working for XM, where my main focus is to deliver secure features without complicating the user. In addition, emphasising on creating documentation and knowledge sharing for team growth is something that I enjoy a lot.

Software Engineer at Google Firebase. Currently maintaining Firebase Admin SDKs on Node.js, Python, Java, Go, and .NET.

Joseph Katsioloudes and his team at the GitHub Security Lab work at the forefront of Open Source Security that they shape every day through research and education. Joseph chose this career path because from a very young age, security was his own way to provide ethical and dedicated service to organisations and the society as a whole. He holds two engineering degrees, a Bachelors of Engineering in Computing from Imperial College London and a Masters in Cyber Security Engineering from the University of Warwick. His most recent contributions include video content made specifically for software developers interested in growing their [...]

Game designer and Flutter developer.

Joost van Dijk is a developer advocate at Yubico. He focuses on securing digital identities and accelerating the adoption of open source authentication standards as part of Yubico's developer program.

Jos is a designer at Move with a passion for creating clear, clean and pixel-perfect user interfaces. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, Jos has honed his skills in creating intuitive and effective designs for a broad range of clients. He is dedicated to staying up-to-date with the latest design trends and technologies, and is always looking for new ways to work better and smarter.

Sharing the Seattle pandemic lifestyle with his wife, daughter, and their four cats, Jeff Watkins spends his time coaching folks through career & life transitions, mentoring developers, killing robot dinosaurs, and looking forward to the day he can go back to teaching public speaking workshops. Jeff has been building software for more than three decades and is currently an engineering manager for ClassPass. He is a ten year veteran of Apple and has 13 years of iOS development experience. He’s worked on core iOS frameworks and apps delivered via the App Store. It’s not his fault Game Center had either [...]

Jan Jaap has been developing (accessible) apps for 10 years. Since 2018, Jan Jaap has specialized in making apps accessible by supporting accessibility features and assistive technologies. He was the lead accessibility developer for the Dutch COVID-19 apps, which resulted in the first fully accessible government apps in The Netherlands.

Solutions Architect @ AWS, Jerome is also organiser of the Geneva Serverless Meetup. After years of development (mainly backends & APIs), Lambda and serverless in general was a revelation. Now Jerome is helping his customers in their journey to the cloud, with a focus on modern applications and serverless.

Avid learner, passionate about  platforms. Writing mostly Swift code for iOS and macOS and occasionally doing Web Development.

I am a passionate and enthusiastic software engineer who loves to create solutions which are actively used by users to solve real problems. In 2001 I started to create software professionally. Since 2012 I have been designing and implementing back-end and mobile applications for organizations with user bases of several hundred of thousands to millions of users. From high performance back-end systems which run on AWS to native Android apps for consumers. I like a challenge and continuously keep my knowledge up to date and share it with great enthusiasm to the public and with my team. To keep my [...]

Giorgi is a software developer with more than a decade of experience. He works mainly with C#, ASP.NET Core, REST, GraphQL, WCF, Xamarin, Android, iOS, Entity Framework, AWS, Azure, SQL Server, and Oracle. Giorgi is an open-source author and contributor on GitHub and a member of the .NET Foundation.

Hidde is an Indie App Developer based in Manchester. After working as a Digital Product designer for over a decade, he switched to working full-time on his apps for all Apple platforms. A deep background in design helps him build apps focusing on quality and great simplicity. Creator of Petey, Gola, Volo, NowPlaying and more

Gijs van Veen is a Senior Developer for Splendo Health, a digital health company based in The Netherlands and USA. He has worked on apps from Takeaway.com, Tacx, Jedlix, X.Bike, and currently the Splendo Health apps. He is a lead architect for Kaluga, an Open-Sourced Kotlin Multiplatform Framework aiming to simplify KMP development for mobile developers.

Gerald Versluis is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft working on .NET MAUI. Since 2009 Gerald has been working on a variety of projects, ranging from frontend to backend and anything in between that involve Azure, ASP.NET and all kinds of other .NET technologies. At some point he fell in love with cross-platform and mobile development with Xamarin. Since then he has been an active community member, writing, tweeting and presenting about all things tech. Gerald can be found on Twitter @jfversluis, blogging at https://blog.verslu.is or liking and subscribing on his YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/GeraldVersluis

Spent 10 years at Google first as a business technology consultant and then as a manager of teams across Northern Europe, advising the world's biggest brands how to maximise the potential of cloud, SaaS and Big Data. Joined Bitrise early in 2022 to help mobile organisations elevate their CI/CD, saving them time and money, so they can focus on increasing the impact of their apps to make the world a better place.

Filip Babic is a senior Android developer from Croatia, and a Google Developer Expert for Android & Kotlin. He's currently working on building awesome things with Jetpack Compose, teaching people about topics in Android and Kotlin and sharing his knowledge in various types of community engagement. Altruistic when it comes to consulting and mentoring, trying to give help to everyone, whenever possible, motivated by the ideology that the Android ecosystem we live in is only as good as we make it. Writing a large number of articles, tutorials, and guides, both through self-publication on Medium and through the RayWenderlich team. [...]

iOS Engineer, everything-swift lover and design enthusiast | I go by `TheInkedEngineer`, for obvious reasons.

Fatih has studied Computer Engineering in his bachelor's degree. He got his master's degree in "Natural Language Processing" and he was a research assistant for 2 years. After that, he started working as a freelance mobile developer for 2 years. He joined DNB Bank as a Senior Android Developer and now he is an Android Lead in DNB Bank for Norway's top used finance app "Mobilbank" and the savings app "Spare".

Evgeniya is a Data Evangelist at Toloka AI, a global tech company that offers a unified environment to support data-related processes across the entire machine learning lifecycle. Evgeniya’s background is in Artificial Intelligence & Data Engineering, with a broad range of experience as a developer analyst, machine learning engineer, solution architect, and business analyst. She’s currently working on her master’s degree at The Technical University of Munich.

Ennio Brands is Technical Strategist at Move. Over 15 years experience in platform and app development. Ennio has been responsible for over dozens of mobile apps that are still being used by millions of users today. As a Technical Strategist he now helps clients and organisations with their digital ambitions and writes and talks about digital innovations.

Eliza is an Android developer advocate at Amity, and a Google Developer Expert on the Google Assistant and conversational AI. She has been involved in the tech communities since 2013 as a volunteer, organizer, lead, and a speaker. In her spare time, she loves traveling, reading, doing puzzles, board games, and long walks with her dog.