Alex Bordei is a full-time WordPress enthusiast and a part-time IoT hobbyist.

Always a dreamer and crazy about system interactions, he is trying understand and to integrate everything in order to always obtain a new system.

Powered by a rainbow mind and always playing, he found the theorem that proves that the sky is the limit.

Iulian has 12+ years of engineering experience, managing development teams, projects, and customers. He started his career as a .NET developer and now his focus is on delivering Agile projects, working closely with the team, the product owners and the customer to define the vision and produce high quality, scalable software solutions. He enjoys traveling and in his spare time, he is a TV shows enthusiast.

Ioana has more than 9 years testing experience with a specialization in mobile apps and  she is leading a small team of testers in an outsourcing company. In her free time she contributes to Open Source projects while hacking a coffee, being a Mozilla Representative, Mentor and Peer. She has a mission to run the world while exploring it.

Ioana, a technology savvy with an almost one-decade long experience in the IT industry, translates the voice of the customers into valuable projects for developers and engineers, across systems and platforms.

While helping clients world-wide to develop their products or enhance their business, Ioana had a significant impact on the growth of RINF TECH in Romania and is currently driving the company’s development in new markets.

Her spectrum of expertise covers business strategy, HR practices, sales and strategic account management.

Ioana graduated an Executive MBA program at Tiffin University – Ohio, USA, holds a MA in Political Sciences and BA in Political Science and Philosophy at University of Bucharest.

I am an award-winning and highly-experienced educator, teacher trainer and Cambridge examiner who has gained extensive knowledge of all areas related to education from having taught or lectured internationally over the last 11 years.

As an e-learning specialist, I am a strong advocate for the development, implementation and promotion of educational technology in the classroom, specifically the use of augmented and mixed realities.

My mission in life is to create the safe environment where people are free to create the best self.

I have more then 7 years in Java Development, 5 with Spring Stack. I am a Clean Code and Clean Architecture Evangelist.
I  am a teaching assistant at the  Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Bucharest where I guide students in the practical side of learning java for 3 years now.
I am an ambassador for Softbinator,  one of the first meetups from Bucharest that hosts technical meetings in an informal, care-free  manner.

Radu is one of the most well-known young entrepreneurs in Romania. As an ambassador of his generation, Radu wants to make a valuable contribution to the construction of Romanian society and strongly believes in the potential of young Romanians.

“Creativity, perseverance and passion for innovation can put technology at the service of people“.

In 2007 Radu founded Trencadis, a company specializing in software solutions addressed to both governmental and private environments, and has been innovating the eGov solutions market ever since.

In recent years, he ensured the company’s growth through the diversification of team-focused skills with state-of-the-art technologies and by supporting the optimization and innovation of clients’ business processes in relation to their beneficiaries.

Last year Trencadis was named Romania’s fastest growing business by Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe, with a growth rate of 700% in the past years. Both FT and Inc. Magazine included the company in their 2018 lists of Europe’s fastest growing companies.

Co-founder of Mobile Kinetics since 2011, in charge with leading the Android Development Team but also architecting cloud solutions and microservices backends. I am also co-organizing Google Developer Groups in Bucharest. Previously I was a full stack Java Developer and did research in Vechicular Computing.

I am a proud husband and father with a really cool day job. I dedicate my time to adapt and implement IT solutions and running a portfolio of projects related to mobile broadband, telecom & internet of things technologies.

I like building stuff and making fun of serious things.

Dan Appelquist is a Web and Mobile industry veteran. He was dot-com CTO and later a dot-com refugee, working in the early days of the web. Later he came to work for European mobile operators, helping to develop the standards and technologies behind the mobile web. He is director of Web Advocacy & Open Source at Samsung Research UK <https://samsunginter.net> and also co-chairs the W3C Technical Architecture Group <https://w3.org/tag>. He tweets at @torgo and toots at @torgo@mastodon.social.

Radu Vunvulea is a technology enthusiast working as Group Head of Cloud for Endava. He has vast experience in different technologies and industries. Most of his time is spent working with the cloud, helping companies to innovate and finding solutions to their business problems. He enjoys building bridges between people and helping others to grow. He shares his knowledge on his personal blog and at different events where he is invited as a speaker. In his spare time, he drives an IT community and he is also a Microsoft Azure MVP.

Crafting code in most programming languages, since 2004. Currently Lead Architect of the largest client of IBM Romania.

Passionate trainer and coach, since 2013. Extensive experience (over 1500 hours) with major clients such as Deutche Bank, Emag, Axway, ING, Betfair, etc..

Clean Code evanghelist – regular international conference speaker. eXtreme Programming fan, TDD practitioner.

Matt Jarvis is Senior Director of Community and Evangelism at D2iQ. Matt has spent more than 15 years building products and services around open source software, on everything from embedded devices to large scale distributed systems. Most recently he has been focused on the open cloud infrastructure space, and in emerging patterns for cloud native applications. Matt is a regular speaker at conferences and meetups across the world, including MesosCon, Open Infrastructure Summit and All Things Open.

I’m a Product Management consultant, fascinated by the fact that making software products is all about working with (and for) other people.

On the one hand, getting to understand customers’ problems and needs, driving the process to create something that will let them succeed at what they’re trying to do. On the other hand, dealing with all the internal stakeholders, teams, constraints and decisions that need to happen in order to get the product out the door.

If you’re a small business with a growing team, I can help you around two main things:
1) Consultancy at any stage of the product lifecycle (customer and market research, strategy, vision, prioritization, agile delivery, launch and operation);
2) Training and support to kickstart your Product Management processes and function.

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 code retreat outside US in Bucharest in 2009. Since then, he’s facilitated tens of events such as coding dojos, architectural katas, code retreats and others in many countries from Europe.

He is also a contributor to publications and blogs such as: Today Software Magazine, Agile Record Magazine, mozaicworks.com/blog and his own blog, alexbolboaca.ro.

Mihai Constandis brings over 20 years of technology experience in the software world, holding various roles ranging from engineering, testing, project and portfolio delivery management, sales, customer management, new business development, and extensive engineering organization scaling and growth.

He joined Cognizant Softvision nine years ago, focusing on delivery while playing an important role in evolving successful engagements with various business partners. Dedicated to balancing between strong delivery and meaningful work experiences for people, he’s been passionately involved in many strategic milestones for the company, including implementing the community and pod model methodology to Cognizant Softvision Romania. In 2019, Mihai became Head of Communities, further developing and strengthening the Cognizant Softvision approach in Romania.. He consistently applies a mindset of evolution and engaging team spirit, helping to build strategic structures and contributions to excel Cognizant Softvision’s growth and success in Romania.

Mihai currently serves as Head of Eastern Europe Studios and Romania Country Manager, believing that Software Product Engineering is the language of modern business and that work should always be a learning, engaging and positive experience.

Amram is a Senior R&D Manager with high passion and management skills.

With more than 20 years in the IT field, Amram has expertise in large products and enterprise solutions on different technologies.

As VP R&D at Playtika, he manages up to 300 people and has proven experience in rapid building of local and offshore development groups  and deliver software in the most effective way to meet business requirements.

I am a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer at Luxoft since 2018 providing scalable and robust solutions to withstand over a huge number of concurrent connections using Python, Kubernetes and Terraform. 

Here I got tasked to design the architecture and develop containerized cloud components which automatically scale and ensure high availability.

Since the beginning of my career, which started initially as a full stack developer, I got used to research and develop complex software applications, always trying to keep up with latest tools and technologies. 

My passion for coding does not usually stop after working hours, sometimes spending nights learning new things. I enjoy every part of this learning curve and in time it made me a “go-to person” at workplace, accumulating knowledge by being strongly involved in both backend and frontend of applications. In parallel, I have a full-time job as a father of 2 cats.

Dmitry is a Microsoft veteran, working for more than 13 years. He started as a Technical Evangelist, and in this role presented on numerous conferences, including twice being on stage with Steve Ballmer. He then worked for 2 years as Senior Software Engineer, helping big European companies to start pilot digital transformation projects based on in AI and ML. As Cloud Developer Advocate, Dmitry focuses on creating educational content and working with academic and research institutions. He is also an Associate Professor at MIPT, HSE and MAI in Moscow, a big fan of functional programming and F#, and a maintainer/primary developer of mPyPl library. In his spare time, Dmitry explores Science Art and Technological Magic, as well as performs Chinese tea ceremonies. He can be reached at http://soshnikov.com.

His restless curiosity leads him to onboard challenges: while building rinf.tech as part of an amazing team, he has never stayed for more than three years in the same role. Victor believes that the best results come when people from different teams and departments, from inside and outside the organization, come together to strive towards a common goal. 

Favorite roles: chaos piloting, divergent thinking, asymmetric alternatives, enduring under uncertainty, and enjoying the surprises along the way.

Daniel is a web and mobile industry veteran currently working with Samsung on the Samsung Internet team heading up developer relations and standards. He was an early Internet and Web pioneer, and has been a dot-com CTO. While at Vodafone, he helped to build services for some of the first web-enabled phones. He plays a leadership role in web standards, serving as co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. He’s based in London.

ags likes distributed systems in all shapes and form. Coding young age, loves simplicity and continuous delivery. While he has written in many languages, he favours the JVM. Since „most software problems are people problems”, he stirs communities, organizes and speaks at conferences (proud to be a JavaONE Rockstar!). He is passionate about all things data, because science! In his spare time… cycling, photography and books. And he is a Java Champion!

Currently works with Revolut.

A full-time open source enthusiast, especially about WordPress and Flutter, and a part-time IoT hobbyist.
Probably having the same personality type as the inventor of hot pepper chocolate, he is crazy about connecting and integrating everything in order to always obtain a new system.

Powered by a rainbow mind and always playing, he found the theorem that proves that the sky is the limit and now he tries to figure out what to do with it.

Natan Silnitsky is a backend-infra engineer @Wix.com.

He is on the Data streaming team in charge of building event driven libraries and tools on top of Kafka and ZIO.
Before that he was part of a task force that was responsible for building the next generation CI system at Wix on top of Google’s Bazel build tool.

Has many years of experience as a developer of large scale web services – First in .Net, later in Scala.

Natan’s passions include clean and functional code, dev velocity and great software design.

Adrian Neatu, Developer – Has been working in the Web Development industry for 10 years, focusing on Front-End Development and Automation. Knows how to get his head around most Front-End frameworks and is passionate about everything related to code quality, unit testing, best practices and mentorship. Never too far away from things that involve CI/CD, systems infrastructure and basically anything that contains the word automation.

Our robotics grand wizard is a PhD Student and university assistant at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science. He has laid the foundation of this group with the aims of achieving performance in robotics, while growing a competent and ingenious team. His expertise and area of interest mainly focuses on image processing, electrical engineering, PCB design and machine learning, as well as management.

Dragos is the Technical Director of RINF TECH with focus on applications engineering and integration projects. During his 14 years in the field Dragos developed and led the development of industry-specific applications as well as of large-scale enterprise applications. Interested in Electronics and Physics he is focused on bringing software into the tangible world. Through specialized hardware, robotics and cloud platforms with applications wrapping everything up the enhanced reality becomes a handy possibility.

Developer/Evangelist interested in desktop, mobile and IoT projects based on all possible technologies. Loves Java(FX) on Desktop, Embedded and Mobile. Founder and leader of Java User Group Münster (Germany), JavaOne rockstar and Java Champion. Speaker at conferences and user groups internationally.

I’m a software engineer with 25 years of professional experience. My main focus is technologies for the games and gambling industries.

Born and raised in Barcelona (Spain) I moved to Stockholm (Sweden), where I currently live.

Daniel Radu is a Director of Engineering at CrowdStrike, leading the team in Romania and the local company branch. Before his current position, Daniel co-founded a security startup that delivered the world’s first large scale binary search engine, startup which he continued successfully at CrowdStrike as the MalQuery product. Daniel has a vast expertise in the security space having managed multiple teams at Microsoft and BitDefender.

I’m an infrastructure geek who likes working on the hardware, software and people sides to make endeavors successful. My experience lies within untangling underlying communication issues, both from the people and software side that would otherwise inhibit growth, and in applying learnings from large-scale enterprise to startup.

Throughout my 20 year career, I have spanned gaming, travel, healthcare, nonprofits, hospitality, productivity, government, retail, entertainment and security verticals.

In my current life, I’m a CTO and coach for technology leaders at early-stage startups as well as an angel investor and tech advisor. I’ve also served on various boards with the aim of fostering entrepreneurship, and I write, speak and produce workshops around the world to that end.

Specialties: Anticipatory Design, AWS, Node, Python/Django, REST APIs, Angular, React.

Andrei is a Delivery Director with more than 15 years of experience in all kinds of business environments: from freelancing to national design agencies, from tech startups to corporations, and backward.

He is focused on building consumer-facing digital products for banking and financial services companies as well as retail and social media. Their expertise lies in building cross-functional teams to deliver digital products for both small scale startups and large scale enterprises.

He is entrepreneurial in his skill set and loves challenges that help him solve real problems. Due to his technical background as a Front-end developer, he can  use all of the skills he has acquired and apply them to deliver successful projects.

Passionate about building software that offers a thrilling experience to players, big fan of Uncle Bob and of his ‘preachings on Clean Code and Clean Arhitecture.
Besides working alongside a cross functional team to build cool new features for our game, I love being an associate teaching assistant (for a java course) at the University of Bucharest.
I am a lean startup supporter, and occasionally run marathons and do private trainings on the Spring stack.

I’ve been 10 years in the industry now, designing and building teams and systems in different technology domains. Today I’m leading the SRE at PayU GPO, focusing mainly on availability and reliability at scale. I’m a software engineer at heart with a warm place for security and infra, a big fan of automating everything, enthusiastic about new technologies and love to build for developers.

As vice president, technology management and head of ADAS, Matthias is responsible for building Visteon’s advanced driver assistance system strategy and centralized platform approach. He is based in Karlsruhe, Germany.

I am a passionate software developer with 10+ years of experience in web technologies.

I am at Cognizant Softvision for about 4 years as a senior frontend engineer and coordinated more teams and multiple projects along the way.

I started my career as a PHP developer and for about 5 years I have switched my focus to JavaScript becoming a fan of Angular and lately feeling the taste of working with VueJS.

In the last 2 years I’ve participated to a lot of events in Softvision Web Community and have been involved in raising and mentoring young engineers that are just starting their career in web technologies.

Richard has been working in software development since 1998, first as a technical writer, then as a product designer, then as a product manager. More recently he has surprised himself by moving closer to software development practices and delivery by engaging with the Agile and Scrum communities and developing a reasonable amount of experience, insight, and expertise. He currently works for SS&C Intralinks as VP Agility and Growth, helping software development teams in the US, Romania, and India get better at what they do using the Scrum framework—fuelled by its values and principles—to develop a culture of continuous improvement. He is a Scrum.org certified Professional Scrum Trainer.

Automotive Electronics and Machinebuilding Industry.

More than 30 Years of global experience in industrial leadership functions.

Feels inspired being a native European and blessed by having had the opportunity to see the world working abroad in many foreign countries.

Passion for High Automation and Reliability of Complex Infrastructures.

Strongly requesting Failure Tolerance Capability for machine based systems and for human society processes.

German Physicist with PhD in Plasmaphysics.

Always struggling with the sound of his electric guitar tube amplifiers.

Alex Soto is a Director of Developer Experience at Red Hat. He is passionate about the Java world, software automation and he believes in the open-source software model.

Alex is the co-author of Testing Java Microservices and Quarkus cookbook books and contributor to several open-source projects. A Java Champion since 2017, he is also an international speaker and teacher at Salle URL University. You can follow him on Twitter (@alexsotob) to stay tuned to what’s going on in Kubernetes and Java world.

Nicola Corti has been an Android Software Engineer since 2.2, and a Free and Open Source lover for as long as he remembers. He’s currently working as an Android Infrastructure Engineer at Spotify, building the audio experience for millions of Android users worldwide.

Nicola usually calls himself a ‘community addict’. He can’t survive without learning every day, sharing knowledge, and having fun with other developers. He’s also currently managing the GDG chapter in Stockholm and the one in Pisa.

In his free time, he also loves open-source, photography and running.

Software engineer with research and development background in machine learning and applied computer vision. Developed AI-enabled solutions in areas such as: Well-being, Assistive tech, Fitness, Customer experience understanding, Automotive safety, Surveillance and Real-time body tracking using RGB-D cameras.

Leon Maister is Senior Application Security Expert at Checkmarx. Leon has about twenty years of experience in software development, IT security and source-code analysis. Prior to working at Checkmarx, Leon has worked in Comverse one of the biggest Israeli Hi-tech companies as a Software Engineer and Team Leader. Leon regularly speaks at IT security conferences. Leon holds a B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Israeli University in Beer-Sheva.

Having more than 12 years of experience in system design and telecommunication solution, Patrick is a recognized expert in the field.  He stood out by leading telematics development for state of the art car manufacturers for the last 5 years.

Ioana is a software engineer flavored in management and devrel, that has more than 10 years testing experience with a specialization in mobile apps. In her free time she contributes to Open Source and Education projects while enjoying a coffee or a good wine. She is the Module Owner for Mozilla Reps, one of the MozTechSpeakers and an ambassador for CodeWeek at the European Commission.

Long time IBM Java developer, leader and evangelist. DevOps practitioner (what ever that means) . I been working on IBM Java SDKs and JVMs since Java was less than 1. Also had time to work on other things including representing IBM on various JSRs, being a committer on various open source projects including ones at Apache, Eclipse and OpenJDK. Also member of the Adopt OpenJDK group championing community involement in OpenJDK. A seasoned speaker and regular presenter at JavaOne and other conferences on technical and software engineering topics.

Marcin is a Data Engineer at TantusData. He has a lot of hands-on experience with technical problems related to Big Data (Clusters with hundreds of nodes) as well as practical knowledge in business data analysis. Companies Marcin has worked for or consulted for include: Spotify, Apple, Telcos and small startups.

* More than 10 years of experience in front-end.

* Team leader at Yandex, one of the biggest IT company in Europe.

* Gave more than 50 front-end talks on different conferences.

* Permanent open source contributor with about 500 contributions on github in the last year.

* A member of BEM core team since 2011.

Romano is the Security Manager of the Commercial Vehicles and Services Business Unit in Continental Automotive Romania, Timișoara.

With more than 15 years in the Embedded Development, 12 of them in the Automotive field, he started from Software Development to Systems Engineering, Automated Driving and now his focus is on Automotive Cybersecurity.

Born and raised in Hunedoara, Romania he continued his studies in Computer Science at The Polytechnic University of Timisoara (Universitatea Politehnică Timisoara). He is one of those colleagues always enthusiastic to learn and to face new challenges!

Florin likes to engage with complex systems and took on leadership or technical design roles for nearly 15 years.

I’ve been with Endava for more than 3 years now, focusing on Microsoft based technologies, supporting organizations deploy their applications to the cloud. Fairly passionate about the Kubernetes ecosystem and related technologies.

Technical Lead, Mobile Architect and Developer with a proven track record in both startup and enterprise environments, having worked in a number of setups handling product development, stakeholder management and mentoring/coaching/growing people. I am confident in managing teams and running new development projects from briefing to sign off.

In 12 years of experience in mobile development I had the opportunity to design, develop and deliver applications in areas like gaming, services, fashion, education, security and banking. Each decision I took and each line of code I wrote in any of these apps it was like I planted a new flower in my own garden. Currently I’m expanding my knowledge in team management, organizational growth and performance improvement.

Ioannis Kolaxis is a Software Architect working for Atos, building Next Generation 911/112 software solutions that empower emergency services to save lives. He has been previously developing software for IBM and SIEMENS.

He enjoys sharing his experience with the software development community, speaking at international conferences, such as Oracle Code One 2019.

He was awarded by Atos the title of “Distinguished Expert” as a recognition of his technical expertise & professional accomplishments. He is an inventor, having filed several patents & having won the 1st prize award at Atos Innovation Week 2020 for coming up with the most innovative idea. He is passionate about new technologies and likes to share his thoughts on his blog & YouTube channel about how technology can transform our lives. Follow him on Twitter @IoannisKolaxis to be updated about his work.

Horia is the Director of Engineering for Platforms at Bolt, the leading mobility platform in Europe and Africa. He is leading Bolt’s platform group working on products like maps, customer support infra, campaigns systems, user identity, etc. He previously worked in AdTech at Google and Stack Overflow.

Nicolai (aka nipafx) is a Java enthusiast focused on language features and core APIs with a passion for learning and sharing. He does that in blog posts, articles, newsletters, and books; in tweets, repos, videos, and streams; at conferences and in-house trainings – more on all of that on <a href=”https://nipafx.dev“>nipafx.dev</a>. That aside, he’s best known for his haircut.

Giovanni Galloro works at Google since 2017 as an Application Modernization Customer Engineer, helping different kinds of organizations in deploying new applications or modernize existing ones using Containers, Kubernetes, GKE, Istio, Continuous Delivery and all the tools and practices related to DevOps and Cloud Native architectures. Before Google, he worked at Microsoft, Red Hat, VMware and HP, following the evolution of application platforms over the past 20 years.

Marianna’s career has been a journey of writing software, and analyzing data to understand the how’s and why’s of software’s impact on users. She is currently working as a Senior Android Software Engineer on the Mobile Labs team at Dropbox. Before Dropbox, she used data science and machine learning techniques to answer complex questions about augmented and virtual reality user engagement and sentiment for Microsoft HoloLens team. Marianna is a strong advocate of using analytics to enhance user and developer experience, and loves sharing her knowledge about the power of analytics with other engineers. Marianna has given multiple talks and written several Dropbox blog posts on the subject. When not coding, Marianna enjoys playing electric guitar and hanging out with her husband and her cat in beautiful sunny Seattle.

Ufuk is the Production Engineering Manager of the Ruby Types and Ruby Infrastructure teams
at Shopify and brings over 20 years of industry experience to the company for the adoption of better Ruby tooling and practices. He currently works remotely from Cyprus where he lives with his beloved wife and wonderful daughter.

Architect | Technical Coach | Enabler, focused on cloud-native application development, DevOps &Continuous Everything. 

Globally recognised technology and supply chain expert, futurologist, entrepreneur and startup enthusiast. Antonio is regularly sought out for his fresh perspective and brutally-honest style of accurate forecasting. Evangelising innovation with 20 years advisory experience in technology consulting, disruptive supply chains, and new business models. Continuously influencing the future, working together with most Fortune 500 global companies and mentoring hundreds of startups worldwide.

Andrei Mihaescu is a seasoned full-stack developer, with experience working in the agile environments. Focused around Java technologies he is also involved in infrastructure related issues. His more recent role leading cross-functional teams has brought him closer to the architecture and design side of software development.

Adam works in marketing at Satalia, one of Europe’s fastest growing AI companies that combine machine learning and optimisation to solve efficiency problems for some of the world’s best-known companies.  Adam regularly speaks about the future of AI – using real-life examples and relatable anecdotes to demystify the hype, and align audiences on what it is, what it is not, and what impact it will have in on individuals, organisations, and society. Adam also discusses innovation in the context of AI, and questions whether typical organisational structures and process are setup to attract, retain and empower AI talent.

Finally, Adam touches on AI applications both externally and within organisations, including how it’s being used to decentralise decision making, and even set salaries. Adam has recently keynoted for Google, Barclays, Society Générale, L&Q, GSK, Pearson, the House of Commons, The US Trademark Office, Pegasystems, CineEurope and ImpactAI – and recently won ‘best speaker’ when presenting his published paper on the impact of AI on branding in New York.

Along the years I have built myself to follow quality and consistency as my main pillars.

I have pushed and polished them through my experience as test lead and now as an API developer and I want to leave a mark in how we perceive APIs in software development.

Let’s have a little bit of fun through the intricacies of software development.

Working in the past on web application development using PHP, moving to Java and Angular, currently working on SD-WAN automation using Python as a primary programming language.

From Developer to Head of Digital Finance Hub at Groupe Renault Romania, Lucian has a 17-year experience in IS/IT high value projects, entrepreneurship and management. And since digital disruption & innovation is… intense for him, Lucian is the co-founder of the Digital Passion Club in Renault. Projects? Well, they are on the same tune – innovations or POCs concerning ERPs, datacenters, smart logistic automatization, e-commerce, datalake & business intelligence, paperless etc.

Enthusiasm is contagious, isn’t it? That’s how, with his team, Lucian successfully built from scratch last year the new Digital Finance Hub in Romania, an extension of IS Financial Corporate Team working 100% in Agile and with the latest technologies stack: Java, Angular, microservices, API.

Marcus Biel (@MarcusBiel) works as Director of Customer Experience for Red Hat. He is a well-known software craftsman, Java influencer and Clean Code Evangelist. He is also a regular speaker at Java conferences all over the world, such as JBCN Conf Barcelona, JPoint Moscow and JAX London. Besides this, he works as a technical reviewer for renowned Java books such as Effective Java, Core Java SE 9 for the Impatient or Java by Comparison.

In 2015, Marcus started a Java blog and YouTube channel that makes Java accessible to passionate developers. There are many advanced tutorials that you can find online, but tutorials with a solid background like this one are rare.

Marcus has become well-known in the Java community, with a total of 70 000 followers across various social media platforms. In 2017, the editorial team at jaxenter.com rated him #13 in their list of the world’s top Java influencers.

Tom Dunlap joined the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) in 2018 as Chief Data Officer (CDO) for its Information Services Division, including global index provider FTSE Russell. As CDO he develops and leads the division’s global data strategy, overseeing a global Data Operations team across multiple sites, engaging with key clients and working collaboratively across LSEG business, operations and technology areas to drive future growth within a firm-wide data governance framework.

Tom has nearly 30 years of financial services industry experience across a wide range of data management and operations leadership roles. Prior to LSEG, Tom was a senior consultant and advisor to Raymond James Financial and fintech company Lingotek and before that spent 18 years with Goldman Sachs in a variety of operations and data leadership assignments, most recently as Managing Director of operations and global head of the firm’s enterprise data strategy and reference data operations. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Tom was a Vice President in the Worldwide Securities Services Division at Citibank.

Tom is also a member of the Financial Research Advisory Committee of the US Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research, the Enterprise Data Management Council, and the Advisory Board of New Vantage Partners.

Experienced & tech-savvy Software Development Manager with a history of working in the internet industry in fields like e-commerce, finance and email marketing.

I strongly believe in empowering teams to achieve clear goals while playing with the latest technologies and having fun.

I cherish diversity; every colleague can contribute to the team`s success, while sharing their own ideas, views, experience and skills.

I am passionate about IT Technology at large, with special interest in development platforms & workflow, mobile and cloud computing. I speak fluent Python, NodeJS, Swift and occasionally dive into Kotlin, Java. Serverless is the way to go.

Before joining Amazon, I was Technical pre-sales for IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. I was mapping customers’ paint points to Middleware solutions (SOA, ESB, BPM, …)

I am a regular speaker at local and international events (AWS re:Invent, Chatbot Summit, API Days, AWSome Days, AWS Summits, Devoxx, Oracle Marketing Events, JavaOne 2008-2010, Tech Days @ Sun, several Java User Groups across Europe, Linux Tags etc …)

I define myself as a Geek 2.0, i.e. a geek with social and communication skills … usually an empty set.

Engineer by Education, Technologist by Profession, Optimist by Personality, Madalina is on a mission to make TypingDNA the #1 biometrics choice at a BringYourOwnDevTool party.  Balancing corporate and entrepreneurial experience, mostly in the areas of Data&Analytics, Marketing Technology, and InfoSecurity, she has the knowledge and passion to lead dev-centric & cross-functional initiatives. When not planning to make the world a better dev place, her time is invested in traveling, learning about different cultures, and dancing.

Big Data tech lead, with over 5 years’ experience in Big Data technologies focusing on highly performant pipelines that process tens of billions of events per day.

Experienced Cloud Engineer with expertise in designing, building, deploying, and maintaining the cloud infrastructure using the latest technology.
Key skills include automation, container orchestration, cloud computing, storage, logging and monitoring stacks.

Alexandru’s tech side perfectly knits with his passion for sports and travelling.

George is an entrepreneur with 14 years of experience in free-to-play/mobile games. During this time he created 2 successful startups, the latest one Green Horse Games being recently acquired by Miniclip.

Daniel Costea is a senior .NET developer with over 15 years of experience and he’s a fan of C # since its inception in 2001. Daniel is an active international speaker in the field of .NET technologies at over 40 conferences in Europe, the USA, and India in the last 4 years. Organizer and co-owner of the ApexVox conference. The organizer of community meetings and workshops. Trainer with over 1200 hours of training in .NET web technologies for more than 700 students. Recently Daniel is the author of a series of articles about .NET technologies and in 2019 he became Microsoft MVP on developer technologies.

Sue Liao is Head of Data Solutions, Capital Markets Technology, London Stock Exchange Group.

Sue has around 20 years’ experience working for global firms. Sue is passionate about data management and is highly experienced in developing sophisticated data architecture solutions.

She has extensive experience deploying cloud solutions, managing teams, and liaising with regulators.  Sue holds  a Master degree in Information Systems Engineering from University of South Bank, London.

She is married with 3 kids and lives in London.

Lucian is a software engineer at ING Tech. He is passionate about JVM and high throughput, low latency distributed systems. He is a polyglot and, besides Java, he worked with a lot of JVM-based languages like Scala, Kotlin, or Clojure.

As part of the SWAT team, Lucian helps ING Tech in the process of scaffolding new strategic projects and building new teams.

• Joined Molson Coors in 2018. Prior experience to working at MCBC includes a variety of industries, from machine tools & engineering, to banking, software, e-marketing and Information Technology.
• He has built a career spanning from intern to senior professional and management positions, being the first certified PMP in Romania (1999).
• He holds a MBA from the Open University Business School (UK) and is a self-declared rock fun!

• Joined Molson Coors in 2020. Prior to working at MCBC she worked for Johnson Controls and Schneider National and also owned a boutique consultancy.
• Maribeth has held IT roles in Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio Management, Data/Analytics, Master Data Management/Governance, Data Strategy and Business Process Management.
• She has led design functions for ERP and Data Warehousing, Data Quality, Knowledge Management, SFDC Open Globe (to name a few).
• She has a process improvement background as a Lean Practitioner and trained as a Six Sigma Black Belt.
• Maribeth is a certified SAFe Agilist

• Joined Molson Coors in 2020.
• Senior IT leader with wide experience developing enterprise technology strategy and architecture for leading financial, e-commerce, consumer products, and healthcare companies.
• Certified SAFe Agilist.

Stephan Hochdörfer currently holds the position of Head of Technology at bitExpert AG, a company specializing in software and mobile development. His primary focus is everything related to web development as well as automation techniques ranging from code generation to deployment automation.

Karina is a member of the global initiative “women in tech”, an experienced IoT & Blockchain developer and an international speaker, who has been awarded the Trust of The Audience Award in 2016. She has Master degrees in Applied Informatics in Economics and Geospatial technologies, besides of this she has worked as Developer Lead and Sales Engineer last 12 years in 5 countries.

Ivar Grimstad is a Java Champion, Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador and JUG Leader working as Principal Consultant for Cybercom Group in Sweden.

He is involved in the Java Community Process as a member of the Executive Committee, Spec Lead for JSR 371 (MVC 1.0) and has served as Expert Group Member for a number of JSRs, such as JSR 375 (Java EE Security API).

Ivar is in the Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J) PMC and involved in Eclipse MicroProfile as well as being an Apache NetBeans Committer.

Ivar is always focusing on quality and on using the right tools and technologies for the right task to optimize the software development process.

Ivar is a frequent speaker at international developer conferences.

Georgi “Joro” Kodinov started working on MySQL in 2006 as a part of the optimizer team. He has moved to lead the Server General team, working on security, monitoring and the client-server protocol. Joro has background in banking IT.

Alexandra Petrus is a Product Strategist helping build products with a purpose. She dedicates her time as a Google Developer Expert for Product Strategy or Bucharest AI Co-Founder, all to help businesses reinvent themselves through meaningful products and services that are intelligently fueled.

Chandra Khatri is one of the leading experts in the field of Conversational AI and Multi-modal AI. Currently, he is the Chief Scientist and Head of AI at Got It AI while also being the CTO of BITSAA Silicon Valley Chapter. He is best known for leveraging cutting edge research and technologies for transforming products thereby impacting hundreds of millions of users.

At Got It AI, he is leading the efforts of transforming the AI space by leveraging state-of-the-art technologies in order to deliver Self-Discovering, Self-Training, and Self-Optimizing products. Under his leadership, Got It AI is democratizing Conversational AI and related ecosystems through automation. Prior to Got-It, Chandra was leading various kinds of applied research projects at Uber AI such as Conversational AI, Multi-modal AI, and Recommendation Systems.

Prior to Uber AI, he was the founding member of the Alexa Prize Competition at Amazon, wherein he was leading the R&D and got the opportunity to significantly advance the field of Conversational AI, particularly Open-domain Dialog Systems, which is considered as the holy-grail of Conversational AI and is one of the open-ended problems in AI. Prior to Alexa AI, he was driving NLP, Deep Learning, and Recommendation Systems related Applied Research at eBay. He graduated from Georgia Tech with a specialization in Deep Learning in 2015 and holds an undergraduate degree from BITS Pilani, India (2012).

His current areas of research include Artificial and General Intelligence, Democratization of AI, Reinforcement Learning, Language Understanding, Conversational AI, Multi-modal and Human-agent Interactions, and Introducing Common Sense within Artificial Agents

Edson Yanaga, Red Hat’s Director of Developer Experience, is a Java Champion and a Microsoft MVP. He is also a published author and a frequent speaker at international conferences, discussing Java, Kubernetes, Quarkus, Microservices, Cloud Computing, and DevOps.

Yanaga believes that everything we do, big or small, matters – and that we can all create a better world for people with better software. His life’s purpose is to deliver good software and to help developers worldwide in delivering better software faster and reliably. Today his job, his hobby, and his life’s purpose are the same thing: and he’s happy that he found his Ikigai.

Joel Lord 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.

As a developer advocate with MongoDB, he meets with developers to help them make the web better by using best practices in JavaScript programming.

During his free time, he is usually found stargazing in a camping site somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.

Andrei is a PhD candidate in the Machine Learning Group at the University of Toronto, focusing on computer vision and deep learning for robotics and long-term autonomy. In addition to this, he also works as a research scientist at Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) Toronto, where he is applying his research to address the challenges associated with self-driving cars in the real world.

Previously, Andrei completed his MSc at ETH Zurich, and his BSc at Transilvania University, in Brașov.

At Red Hat, I lead automation projects, focusing on project management and building relationships with other departments. A decade in different areas of the IT industry has taught me that every single person is different and has a unique working style. As a manager, my role is to recognize this and find the right balance between giving people enough space to cope with problems on their own and being a useful mentor who helps them navigate.

The most rewarding moments for me are then those, when I look back and see that I’ve built a team that no longer needs me: effective and self-organized.
I reconnect with my inner introvert and compensate all the “people time” by escaping to the mountains; I love climbing, hiking and skiing. I’m also an avid travel blogger and photographer.

Razvan is a passionate Software architect and developer, with more than 12 years of experience. He’s been involved in the delivery of some of the largest IT systems in the public and private sectors, in several fields: Government, Defense, Stock Exchange, Taxes, Land Management & Cadastre, Traffic Management. His domains of expertise are: Cloud Engineering, Service Oriented Architectures, Continuous Integration/Delivery, Zero Downtime, Auto Scaling and Performance Engineering, IoT and Security.

I am an engineer with a strong passion for human sciences. I started with web programming, but my interest in words and people quickly led me towards sales and consultancy.
Traveler in soul and in life (author and administration at calatorinviata.ro and FB/calatorinviata.ro), in the last 10 years I’ve developed my experience and competencies in communication, strategy and management of complex projects.

Happy father to an 8 yo daughter (8 y.o.) and to a 2 yo son, passionate about psychology, philosophy and the fascinating universe of the mind and of the soul.

With an inclination towards healthy food, deep breathing and a steady pace. My most beautiful moments are those spent with my children and with free and courageous people.

Truth and freedom are my most treasured friends.

* More than 10 years of experience in front-end.

* Team leader at Yandex, one of the biggest IT company in Europe.

* Gave more than 50 front-end talks on different conferences.

* Permanent open source contributor with about 500 contributions on github in the last year.

* A member of BEM core team since 2011.

Catalina has an extensive experience in User Experience and Design Thinking, leading creation of digital experiences in companies as Electronic Arts (where from 2017 to 2019, she led the Romanian UX team for FIFA) Vodafone and ING Bank.

At ING she went from coordinating innovative digital campaigns, making ING one of the most loved Romanian brands in social media, to being the person behind the experience of ING Bank’s internet banking, Home’Bank.

She left the corporate world to become an entrepreneur, co-founding the Design Thinking Society with, what she proudly says, other 3 of the best makers in Romania, on their way to make some changes around design in Romania. They are an Innovation and Design consultancy boutique, offering companies and startups consultancy, while providing the best framework to improve their products and services.

Catalina is also a UX trainer, mentor and advocate of design thinking and doing approach. She is a certified Google Design Sprint Master, Google Developer UX expert and invest effort and time in developing and supporting the tech communities.

Ties is a Senior Software Engineer working for JDriven. He began his career mostly working on fixing bugs in a big monolithic application. This made him passionate about exploring concepts and ways to code to prevent bugs from ever occurring. He embraces this passion in his daily life by helping companies with architecture, programming, and training as a Sofware Consultant at JDriven.

Cătălin has more than 20 years in the IT field and more than 15 years in the Java area and is currently acting as a Java and Web technologies expert at Luxoft Romania. He has taught more than 2,000 hours of courses and applications as a teaching assistant and professor at the Faculty of Automation and Computers in Bucharest. He has also taught online courses at UMUC (University of Maryland University College): Computer Graphics with Java, Intermediate Programming in Java, and Advanced Programming in Java. Cătălin has developed 3 courses for Pluralsight on topics related to JUnit 5: “TDD with JUnit 5”, “Java BDD Fundamentals” and “Implementing a Test Pyramid Strategy in Java”. Besides the IT field and mathematics, Cătălin is interested in world culture and in soccer. He is a lifelong supporter of FC Argeş Piteşti.

James went from senior-level executive search in financial services to scaling and building tech-based startups globally over the last 15 years. With a people-centric career that has spanned through innovation in recruitment, personal funded startups and consultant for some of the fastest scaling platform businesses in London and beyond, James is now the Co-Founder/CEO of Squid40 and is focusing on a challenge culture based on uniting collaboration and empathetic minded professionals that have amazing startup ideas with inspiring founding teams.

Viral Parmar is a Serial entrepreneur who runs ComExpo Cyber security company as well as Infinite Defense Foundation a non-profit organization in India. He is a Developer Advocate, Productivity Hacker, Open Source Strategist, Technical Evangelist, Community Liaison, International TechSpeaker, he is a Cyber Security researcher by profession and open source enthusiast working in a field of information security from last three years with the expertise in Cyber Crime Investigation, Public Key Infrastructure, Social Engineering, Web App Penetration Testing, Digital Forensics and Mobile Security. He found sever vulnerability in 150+ well known websites like Intel, your story and solved more than 100 cases of cyber-crime & online frauds. He is famous for his research Cyber Disorder and Who is spying on you. Trained 150,000+ people till now and aware them about privacy and security. Given Seminars and workshops in 150+ Organizations. He is Working with Mozilla foundation from last 2 years as Reps, Mentor in Mozilla Open Leadership Project, Coach(Privacy and Security) in MozSprint 2018, also working with L10N project on Pontoon, Rust and WebVR projects.

I’m a Senior Software Engineer specialized in building modern, cloud native, robust, and secure enterprise applications. I’m the author of “Cloud Native Spring in Action”, published by Manning. I develop web and mobile enterprise software solutions at Systematic, Denmark, supporting home care, social services, and help to citizens. I have led the development of features to ensure a high degree of security and data privacy in our products and worked on modernizing our platforms and applications for the cloud-native world. I have an MSc in Computer Engineering specializing in software from the Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy). I’m a Red Hat Certified Enterprise Application Developer and Pivotal Certified Spring Professional. I’ve been building Java applications for more than five years, using Spring and Java EE/Jakarta EE. I like contributing to open source projects like Spring Security, Spring Cloud, and Keycloak, and I write articles about application security, cloud development, and JVM languages and frameworks on my blog: thomasvitale.com. When I don’t develop software, I love reading, traveling, playing the piano, and composing music.