Speakers

Neel is a tech enthusiast, blogger, writer, speaker, and solutions architect. He has 10 years of professional experience. Apart from being a developer, he is an award-winning tech blogger. He likes to stay up-to-date with the latest technology stack, and he likes to share his knowledge with the community. He often arranges RTL meetups to share knowledge. He is a DZone MVB and Top 4% overall on the StackOverflow site. You can find him at his site: https://neelbhatt.com

After working on many sides of tech (as a cloud architect at MSFT, a sales engineer and PMM at Dataiku) I’ve finally found my perfect match as a developer advocate at Elastic - focusing on creating content for, and learning from the tech community. I specialise in data science & AI solutions and love creating videos, blogs, demos and sessions to get people excited about the possibilities of tech. I love to talk about anything NLP, cloud, data science 101, MLOPs, generative AI, and more.

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”)

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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'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 [...]

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

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!

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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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.

Katy Ereira is an accomplished software engineer and international conference speaker based in the UK. Having graduated from King’s College London with a degree in Computer Science over a decade ago, Katy has since made her way down the IC track as a developer in a wide range of industries including fintech, edtech and artificial intelligence. Katy’s favourite things include writing tests for complex and legacy codebases, and holding her teammates to excruciatingly high standards. Besides writing code, she also likes to play video and board games, and spend time in nature.

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.

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.

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.

Andreas helps solving problems via his company stella-maris.solutions. He sometimes even uses code for that. His special interests are in weird topics like time and calendars, odd technologies like LDAP and organizational challenges related to remote work. Besides his family and contributions to different open-source-projects he still finds the time to co-run PHPUGFFM, the PHP-Usergroup in Frankfurt/Main and maintain PHP.ug.

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.

Maxwell, known around the world as the Blind BLogger, transformed himself from a blind failed carnival owner to a respected amusement equipment broker. In the beginning he had to learn so many things including teaching himself to hand code HTML. People were impressed, and asked him to share more about being a blind entrepreneur. He started a second site as The Blind Blogger a nickname people had been using on Linked In. Since then he has written four books, wo of which are award winners. He has traveled the country solo and sung & spoken in front of national conferences. [...]

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.