Name: NDC Porto 2024
Start: 2024-10-14
End: 2024-10-18
Location: NDC Porto

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Mark is the founder of RendleLabs, which provides consulting services and workshops to .NET development teams across all industries. His particular obsessions are API design and development, performance, Observability and code-base modernisation. He also uses skills acquired during a few years as a professional stand-up comic to deliver entertaining and informative talks at conferences around the world, and recently learned to play bass so he could join tech parody band The LineBreakers.

Richard Campbell wrote his first line of code in 1977. His career has spanned the computing industry both on the hardware and software sides, development, and operations. He was a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, acquired by Radware in 2013, and was on the board of directors of Telerik, which was acquired by Progress Software in 2014. Today, he is a consultant and advisor to a number of successful technology firms and is the founder and chairman of Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org), a public charity that builds open-source software for disaster relief. Richard also hosts three podcasts: .NET Rocks! (www.dotnetrocks.com) for .NET developers, RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com) for IT Professionals, and Windows Weekly (https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly).

Phil is a developer relations engineer for DataStax and Google Developer Expert living in Melbourne, Australia. He loves working with JavaScript, TypeScript or Ruby to build web applications and tools to help developers. He once helped build a website that captured the world's favourite sandwich fillings. He has too many GitHub repositories.

Away from the keyboard, Phil listens to ska punk, hangs out with his miniature dachshund (also called Ruby), and is on a mission to discover the world's best beers.

Phil tweets at @philnash and you can find him elsewhere online at https://philna.sh. 

Dylan Beattie is an independent consultant who has been building data-driven web applications since the 1990s. He’s managed teams, taught workshops, and worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s a Microsoft MVP, and he regularly speaks at conferences and user groups all over the world.

Dylan is the creator of the Rockstar programming language, and is known for his live music shows featuring software-themed parodies of classic rock songs. He’s online at dylanbeattie.net and on Twitter as @dylanbeattie.

Philippe De Ryck specializes in making web security accessible to developers and architects, leveraging his Ph.D. from KU Leuven to inform his comprehensive understanding of security challenges. As the founder of Pragmatic Web Security, he provides practical security training and consulting services to organizations worldwide. 

His online course platform offers a self-paced approach to learning about security. Philippe also actively helps shape OAuth 2.0 best practices as the co-author of the best practices for browser-based apps specification. 

Philippe is recognized as a Google Developer Expert, acknowledging his contributions to web application and API security. He also organizes SecAppDev, an annual week-long application security course in Belgium.

As Director of Enterprise Strategy at AWS, Gregor helps technology leaders transform both their organization and their technology platform. You’ll find him riding the Architect Elevator from the engine room to the penthouse, perhaps automating serverless solutions in the morning and preparing board presentations in the afternoon. His favorite pastime is dissecting buzzwords and replacing them with meaningful decisions and architectural trade-offs.

Gregor is known as co-author of the seminal book Enterprise Integration Patterns, which provided the reference vocabulary for all modern ESBs. His book The Software Architect Elevator tells stories from the trenches of IT transformation while his articles have been featured in Best Software Writing by Joel Spolsky and 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. He is an active member of the IEEE Software advisory board.

Adele is a software engineer at Trifork Amsterdam, where she is working on backend systems for the educational sector. Most of her work day is spent in the JVM/Spring ecosystems. Adele got the coding bug later in life but since then has been making up for lost time, going from command line noob to employed software engineer in just one year. Her experiences both in and out of tech have given her a unique perspective on the art of programming together with humans, which she hopes is useful to other humans who program with humans.

Andrew Murphy started his career as a Software Engineer but, after a decade in technology leadership, he decided to focus on teaching the skills that he learnt the hard way. When he moved into leadership there was no support, so he had to make all the mistakes (a lot of them!) and learn from them.

His goal is now to make sure that tech leaders don’t have to do things the hard way by providing them with the mindsets and skillsets that can make them happy, confident and effective leaders.

His company, Tech Leaders Launchpad, currently focuses specifically on the new and emerging leader space, as that's the place we can have the biggest impact on the students, and the industry.

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 bookshops some time in 2023.

When I'm not coding, or running after my two small children, I have been known to enjoy the classic series of Doctor Who, Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks, Cryptic Crosswords, and rather more coffee than is probably good for me.

Meet Anjuli Jhakry: A .NET developer at 4DotNet by day and a .NET MAUI explorer by night. I'm navigating the vast ecosystem of Microsoft, always eager to learn. Beyond this, I am passionate about giving presentations and advocating for the incredible potential of tech to everyone.

Bronwen is a developer based in Brisbane who likes to play with new technology. She is an organiser of DDD Brisbane, a Microsoft MVP and Regional Director,  WTM Ambassador, Coralus (formally SheEO) activator and wildlife carer who loves to travel the world and take photos.

Steve Gordon is a Pluralsight author, 6x Microsoft MVP, and a .NET engineer at Elastic. He is based in the UK. Steve is passionate about community and all things .NET related, having worked with .NET for over 20 years. Steve enjoys sharing his knowledge through his blog, in videos and by presenting talks at user groups and conferences. Steve is excited to participate in the active .NET community and founded .NET South East, a .NET Meetup group based in Brighton. He enjoys contributing to and maintaining OSS projects. You can find Steve online at his blog, www.stevejgordon.co.uk, and on most social media platforms as @stevejgordon.

Dustin Thostenson is an independent consultant, leading Delta3Consulting. He has been a developer, mentor, trainer and agile coach for decades. His passion lies in helping people grow and teams deliver. To keep it interesting he helps organize and present at conferences locally and globally. To keep it real he spends time with his wife and 4 kids. To keep it random he tweets @dustinson

Taylor tinkers with writing, learning, time, design, software, ideas, humor, and entrepreneurship.

Adrienne is a Filipina software engineer, international speaker, author of Coding for Kids: Python, and a LinkedIn Learning instructor...essentially, an overachiever. She's currently writing "Looks Good To Me: Constructive Code Reviews", a labor of love that she hopes will improve code reviews everywhere. Most importantly, she spends way too much money on coffee, desserts, and vintage clothing and ungodly amounts of time playing Age of Empires II.

I'm an experienced web developer and a passionate IT and electronics instructor, specializing in frontend development and enterprise applications built with Angular.

I spend most of my time exploring what's new in the tech world and helping other developers improve their skills.

As a conference speaker, I bring advanced Angular topics, tips for the integration of smart contracts and best solutions for web3 applications.

James Eastham is a Serverless Developer Advocate at Datadog. He has over 10 years experience in software, at all layers of the application stack.

He has worked in front-line support, database administration, backend development and now works with some of the biggest companies in the world architecting systems using AWS technologies.

James produces content on YouTube, focused around building applications with serverless technologies using .NET, Java & Rust.

Antonio is an Agile enthusiast with more than 20 years experience in the IT industry and Agile methodologies. He comes from a technical background, moving to different roles in 3 different countries. He usually speaks about Agile, DevOps and Mental Health across Europe and US. 

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 to usability and accessibility. Rowdy loves watching superhero movies and Formula One races and enjoys riding his mountain bike to unwind.

Mandi Walls is a DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty. For PagerDuty, she helps organizations along their IT Modernization journey. Prior to PagerDuty, she worked at Chef Software and AOL. She is an international speaker on DevOps topics and the author of the whitepaper “Building A DevOps Culture”, published by O’Reilly.

Principal Engineer, SRE at FanDuel/Blip.pt. MSc in Computer Science by the University of Porto. CK{AD, A, S} by Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) | Linux Foundation. {Terraform, Consul, Vault} Associate by HashiCorp. Working daily to build high-performance, reliable and scalable systems. DevOps Porto meetup co-organizer and DevOpsDays Portugal co-organizer. A strong believer in culture and teamwork. Open source passionate, martial arts amateur, and metal lover.

Originally educated in arts and design, Anders has spent the last twenty years writing code.

He has given numerous talks and keynotes at conferences such as JavaZone, NDC, J-Fall, Øredev and many more. Have given 100+ conference talks to a variety of audiences including media, design and hardcore computer science. Known for an energetic and highly engaging presentations.

Once described on Reddit as “technically challenged”, Sarah is a Senior Cloud Security Advocate working at Microsoft. She has lived all over the place but currently calls Melbourne home.

Sarah has been working in cyber security since before it was cool, has previously spoken at many security conferences including Black Hat and has co-authored a few Microsoft Press technical books. She is an active supporter of security communities across the globe and a co-host of the Microsoft Azure Security Podcast.

Sarah spends most of her spare time gaming, eating hipster brunches and high teas and spending a disproportionate amount of her income on her dogs.

Aldan studied CS in Spain, France and Switzerland, graduating as valedictorian. He completed 4 internships and was selected by Django as a Google Summer of Code contributor. He received a grant from the Spanish government to undertake research on Natural Language Processing. He garnered recognition for leadership and academic excellence through several awards. He's also the founder of 3 associations and contributes to open-source. Currently, he works as Technology Research Specialist in AI at The Dock, Accenture’s flagship R&D and global innovation center.

I am Adam Furmanek, and I am a professional software engineer with over a decade of experience. In my career, I worked with all layers of the software engineering and multiple types of applications, including logistics, e-commerce, machine learning, data analysis, and database management. I am always interested in digging deeper, exploring machine code, and going through implementation details to better understand the internals of the technologies I use every day. That's why I like debugging, decompiling and disassembling the code to understand memory models, concurrency problems and other details hidden deeply inside. In my free time, I play ping-pong, watch Woody Allen's movies and blog stuff at http://blog.adamfurmanek.pl

A seasoned Full Cycle Web Development Expert and R&D Manager, brings over two decades of experience, skillfully leading both local and international development teams from concept to delivery. As a recognized public speaker and blog writer, he also makes notable contributions to the open-source community.

In addition, Daniel leads the "NG-Heroes" meetup, creating networking and knowledge-sharing opportunities within the tech industry. Beyond his professional endeavors, he values family time above all else, proudly owning the title of "The Best Developer in the World," humorously awarded by his wife. Combining technical leadership, community involvement, and a strong family focus.

Espen is a developer and architect with over 25 years of experience. He has worked on everything from embedded systems, electronics and games to large scale cloud applications. He is as full-stack as they come. Espen started coding at age six on a C64, and has been cranking out software ever since. 

He served as the principal architect, tech lead and lead security 
engineer on the compensation scheme for Covid-19 suffering 
businesses released by the Norwegian government. 

Espen was the Senior VP of Technology Exploration for DNB in San Fransisco and is currently doing technology and security research in DNB NewTechLab.

Pete Gallagher is a Full-Stack Manager at Avanade UK, a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Azure MVP, Pluralsight Author, experienced public speaker and Meetup organiser. 

He has been creating software for decades and is happy programming in just about any language. 

Pete has been involved in a wide span of tech in his many years of industry experience, including IoT Projects for; Royal Mail Stamp Vending before there was such a thing as modern IoT, Building Monitoring Systems, Internet Connected Self Service Kiosks, Wildlife Protection and Ecology in Africa and much more.

He has presented internationally on a wide variety of IoT Topics, including the Azure IoT Stack, AI, Robotics, .NET, DevOps, Amazon Alexa, Particle Photon, Arduino etc etc.

Pete helped create the Microsoft AZ220 IoT Developer certification and also has created Pluralsight content to help learners pass the exam. 

Pete also organises​ Notts IoT, co-organises Dot Net Notts, Notts Dev Workshop, sits on the Board of LATi, a Loughborough based Advanced Technology networking group, co-organises the Azureish Twitch channel, co-hosts IoTeaLive and is a co-host of the Agile Engineering Podcast. 

He is also an active STEM Ambassador and is passionate about making STEM subjects accessible to all ages.

Pete particularly likes gadgets of all kinds!

Bartosz Konieczny is a freelance data engineer enthusiast who has been coding for 15+ years. He has held various senior hands-on positions that helped him work on many data engineering problems in batch and stream processing, such as sessionization, data ingestion, data cleansing, ordered data processing, or data migration. He enjoys solving data challenges with public cloud services and Open Source technologies, especially Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Airflow, and Delta Lake. Beyond that, readers can read his data engineering blog posts at waitingforcode.com each month. 

Poornima is a .Net developer with over 10 years of experience in .Net and Umbraco. She is passionate about learning new technologies and keeping herself up-to-date with the latest developments in technology. Outside her work, Poornima enjoys music and is undergoing training in Indian Classical music. Based in Langley, UK she mothers a little girl and spends her spare time reading, cooking and watching movies.

My name is Natalie. I'm a Staff Cloud Engineer, who also enjoys working on building and automating various tools that help the development teams be more productive and happy. What motivates me at work is the fast pace, team orientation, and creative environment, always new challenges. I'm passionate about helping make infrastructure more accessible. I love solving hard problems and "all things containers." 

Occasionally, I blog or speak at conferences. Currently, learning and blogging about Rust. I'm a technical mentor. In my spare time, I hike or camp with my aussiedoodle Chai, and stand-up paddle (SUP) across the Bay.

Filip is a Microsoft (Azure AI Services / Azure HPC & AI Infrastructure) MVP, author of the academic textbook "Introduction to Quantum Computing with Q# and QDK”, frequent conference speaker and a maintainer of several open source projects. He specializes in cloud technologies, quantum computing and AI infastructure. Filip is based in Zürich where he works in the medical industry as a Cloud Architect.

Currently working at AWS and core maintainer of open source project Powertools for AWS Lambda .NET. Previously worked at Microsoft and Just Eat as a senior developer. More than 12 years of experience in software delivery to production.

Michael Kaufmann is a Microsoft MVP and Regional Director and the CEO of Xpirit Germany. Mike has been working as a .net developer and architect for more than 20 years. In addition to implementing agile techniques (like scrum), ALM and DevOps practices, he is an Azure architect and a Clean Code addict. He shares his knowledge in books, trainings, his blog, articles and as a speaker and keynote speaker at international conferences.

Michael is a member of the GraphQL technical steering committee, a Microsoft MVP, and the author of the Hot Chocolate project (https://github.com/ChilliCream/hotchocolate), a platform for building GraphQL servers and clients in .NET. This open-source project has been his main focus for the last couple of years. 

Apart from his work in the open-source community, Michael works as a consultant to help companies move to GraphQL. You can tune into the Hot Chocolate project on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillicream

Follow me on GitHub: https://bit.ly/michaelGitHub
Follow me on Twitter: https://bit.ly/michaelTwitter
Connect on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/michaelLinkedIn
Subscribe on YouTube: https://youtube.chillicream.com
MVP: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5003672

Hey, my name is Tomas.

As a leadership consultant, I help tech companies navigate the biggest risk and the biggest opportunity for a business - the human factor. I hands-on run workshops, and internal L&D programs and advise teams and execs on leadership and performance.

During the last year alone, I've worked with kick-ass businesses like NFQ, TransUnion, SEB, Bitė, Festo, DPD, Rimi, Ignitis, Circle K, Exacaster and more. In the past four years, I've trained and consulted 1500+ managers and high-performers in tech companies. Before that, I spent more than a decade leading international tech teams, building award-winning enterprise AI products and building state-of-the-art technology. 

I mostly work with companies facing high levels of complexity, risk and ambiguity. My clients are powerful, passionate and successful. I help them grow their people and their business, adapt and thrive in challenging environments, create more strategic clarity and achieve what’s truly important to them.

You see, I’m in a unique position to help you identify and prioritise your own and your business growth backlog. Then advise on how to deliver with the right knowledge, technology, tools, talent and partners.

As a distinguished Microsoft MVP and software maestro at Particular Software, Daniel Marbach knows a thing or two about code. By day, he's a devoted .NET crusader, espousing the virtues of message-based systems. By night? He's racing against his own mischievous router hack, committing a bevy of performance improvements before the clock strikes midnight.

With over twenty years of experience in software development and information security, Laura Bell Main specializes in bringing security into organizations of every shape and size.

She is the co-founder and CEO of SafeStack, an online education platform offering flexible, high-quality, and people-focused secure development training for fast-moving companies, focusing on building security skills, practices, and culture across the entire engineering team.

Laura is an experienced conference speaker, trainer, and regular panel member and has spoken at various events such as BlackHat USA, Velocity, and OSCON on the subjects of privacy, covert communications, agile security, and security mindset.

She is also the co-author of Agile Application Security and Security for Everyone.

Edwin has been working in IT since 1999 and is currently working as Principal Solution Architect, managing consultant and Microsoft Community Lead at Info Support in The Netherlands. He is a Microsoft MVP in the Developer Technologies category  (since 2016). His primary areas of expertise are: building distributed systems, systems integration, (cloud-native) software architecture and patterns, software craftsmanship, .NET (Core) development, Azure and DevOps. Edwin likes to share his experience and knowledge about these subjects by training people, publishing videos (www.youtube.com/dotnetflix) and speaking at conferences. 

Sander Molenkamp is a principal cloud architect and Microsoft Azure MVP with over 25 years of professional experience. He works for Info Support (http://www.infosupport.com) designing and developing customer solutions using cloud native architectures.
Sander is also an accomplished speaker, having shared his insights and expertise at numerous international conferences. He is passionate about technology and freely shares his knowledge through the dotnetFlix YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/dotnetflix).
Furthermore, Sander actively contributes to the organization of multiple free community events, including the Dutch Azure Meetup, Azure Fest, and Bitbash.
In his free time, Sander enjoys traveling, is (still) learning to play the ukelele, and tinkers with technology and LEGO. He has also defeated the sword master of Mêlée Island™️.

Nico Vermeir is an application architect  at Inetum-Realdolmen in Belgium since 2010, where he has a strong focus on building and architecting modern applications.
Being a strong believer in the importance of communities he tries to share knowledge wherever he can, be it on Twitter, at a user group or conference. He has spoken on many international conferences such as NDC Oslo, NDC Sydney, NDC London, Swetugg, Build Stuff, DotNext.
Nico is a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, crew member of Techorama BE and NL and crew member of VISUG, Belgium's largest .NET user group.

In his spare time he enjoys brewing (and tasting) beer, playing the guitar, riding his Harley-Davidson and doing Karate.

Layla is a Microsoft MVP, Progress Champion, and 3 times GitHub Star.
She is passionate about enterprise software development and architecture. She has recently started bringing those architecture concepts into game development and live codes Unity game development on Twitch.
Layla lives in the UK with her husband Jim and dogs Lily and Cookie.

I am CTO at Xebia Microsoft Services NL, Cloud architect, and Microsoft Azure MVP, helping companies modernize their IT all the way; Cloud strategy, SecDevOps practices, and Continuous Delivery. I spend most of my days helping teams by providing advice, hands-on assistance, solving problems and delivering technical training. 
A couple of times per year, I like to speak at international conferences and to provide workshops. 
By being a consultant, international speaker, trainer, active contributor to open-source projects, and forum participant, I love to share knowledge with the community.

Some of my recent public speaking & workshop engagements:
- NDC & SDD London
- Techorama & Experts Live Netherlands
- KCDC USA
- Update Conf & ESPC Czech Republic
- DevSum Sweden 
- NDC Oslo
- VISUG XL Belgium
- MS Dev Summit & DevConf Poland
- Developer Week Germany
Want to know more? Send me a message https://mastodon.nl/@loekd

Filipe Oliveira is a Principal Performance Engineer @ Redis, working on both the enterprise and the source available products.
Before Redis, he worked both on a large scale retail company and as Grid and Distributed Computing Researcher recurring to advanced computing infrastructures listed in the TOP500 supercomputers list. 

Hasan is a Subject Matter Expert on Azure Cosmos DB; he is recognized by Microsoft as a Data Platform MVP. He owns SavranWeb Consulting and works at Progressive Insurance as a Sr. Business Intelligence Manager. Hasan spends his days architecting cutting-edge business solutions using the latest Web and Database technologies.
Hasan has over 20 years of experience in the software industry as a developer, architect, and manager. He has spoken at many conferences worldwide; Hasan likes to write about SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, C#, and Front-End development on his blog.


Jason Taylor is a solution architect, trainer, mentor, and full-stack developer with over 20 years of experience. He specializes in developing, testing, and deploying custom solutions to the cloud using .NET, Angular, Blazor, and Azure. Jason loves a challenge and is skilled at progressing from a simple proposal into a well-defined, coded, and tested solution.

Climbing the technology mountain and halfway up the side. Experience in .Net, mobile applications and more recently voice interface development. Dabbles in iOT & AR/VR. Focusing on coding for humans and choosing the right tool for the job.

Heather is a passionate coder and entrepreneur. She has experience working with Fortune 500 companies building enterprise level mobile and .Net applications. She spends her spare time at tech conferences supporting the growth of new developers of all genders, ages and backgrounds. When not coding, Heather spends her time as a competitive equestrian and learning the art of mounted archery.

Tobi is an experienced consultant, coach, and mentor for engineering leadership, developer experience and software craft. He was the driving force behind the developer experience team at BRYTER, leading the successful transition to continuous deployment. He is dedicated to helping software companies build high-performing engineering organizations and teams, leveraging his expertise in engineering leadership and developer experience. With an inherent passion for software craft, Tobi is committed to enabling companies and individuals to create software excellently and joyfully.

Adam is a distributed systems enthusiast and digital nomad. He works for Particular Software, the makers of NServiceBus. Adam has designed and maintained complex software systems at several companies in the finance industry. He's seen both the good and the bad that can come from applying techniques like SOA, DDD, and microservices. He also likes to speak, maintain open source projects, and fix white space rule violations.

Barry is a CITA-P certified Architect who has held Chief Architect positions at Microsoft and and iDesign. He has also been a startup CTO, the Worldwide Lead for the Solutions Architecture Community at Microsoft, and founder of the Swedish Azure User Group. He is also a PhD candidate in software design and complexity science. 

Roman spent the last decade working in the software engineering industry, implementing and designing systems that include web, mobile, cloud, and IoT components. Nowadays, he works on the game streaming solutions at Ubisoft.

Laila Bougria is a Solutions Architect and Engineer with over 15 years of experience in the Microsoft .NET space. She's a keynote speaker, a Microsoft Azure MVP, and frequently shares her knowledge and insights at conferences worldwide. Currently, Laila is busy building NServiceBus at Particular Software and solving distributed riddles. When she's not immersed in complex problems or code, Laila enjoys indulging in her favorite pastime - knitting! She finds that tangling the yarn into beautiful patterns helps untangle her thoughts.

Chloe McAree is a Senior Software Engineer at Hamilton Robson. She has experience working on small research prototypes using cutting edge technologies, right through to building large scale web applications using multiple technology stacks. Chloe is an active member of the global tech community, she has been an AWS Community Builder for the past four years and is also a former Belfast City Lead for Women Who Code. She uses these outlets to share her learnings and experiences through blogs and other events. Chloe was named Engineer of the Year at the UK IT Awards in November 2023.

Polyglot Coding Architect in London, founder of #ldnug, speaker, tabletop gamer, geek. Tattooed, pierced, and bearded. The 'guv' on @BrighterCommand

Stas Lebedenko is a cloud architect working at Solidify AB. Co-organizer of Odesa Microsoft. NET User Group, speaker and author, an active member of international and Ukraine .NET/Azure communities. He has seventeen years of experience as a developer, Microsoft Azure Most Valuable Professional since 2020, Microsoft Certified Trainer, and Certified Azure Solution Architect Expert.

Indiana Jones of the cloud technologies. Hanna takes her customer on an amazing journey across the world of Azure and they live their best life riding on the back of the best practices, deciphering networking, fighting wild acronyms and discovering the wonders of Azure administration!

Azure Infra& AI specialist, Microsoft Certified Trainer and Quantum computing - evangelist, member of Belgian Quantum Circle - a community built around realizing the quantum potential and igniting the market adoption.
Frequent podcast guest and conference speaker Hanna's main focus is providing actionable content and an engaging experience to her audience.

Currently Hanna works for Azelis as Azure Architect where she manages Cloud migrations and AI projects. She also freelances as Azure trainer. Before that, she worked for Microsoft as Technical Trainer providing live trainings for European and South American customers and created pre-recorded studio content.

There is no business without technology. The goal is to bridge the gaps between the two worlds and democratize the knowledge by presenting tech topics in approachable way.

Hanna is based in Brussels, Belgium. Personally, fan of Dungeons&Dragons, couchsurfing and foreign languages.

Chris Klug is a developer badass-as-a-service that either creates or solves problems depending on who you ask. He loves creating and building things. Whether it be a new application, a new kitchen or a new RC helicopter, you will see him building things all the time. Most of the time, that means writing code and solving problems for clients at a company called Active Solution in Stockholm though. Except for the many days he spends at conferences and usergroups, talking about doing things he is passionate about, and for the days he goes mountain biking, IPSC shooting, kiteboarding or RC helicopter flying.
For the last 15-something years, he has been solving problems for customers, and loving it. But if he gets to choose, he'll go to the beach and kitesurf every day!

Guilherme "Gui" Ferreira is a Minimalist Software Craftsman, passionate about simplicity and continuous learning. 
He is a Microsoft MVP, Tech Speaker, YouTuber, Dometrain Author, and .NET content creator.

Filip is the author of C# Smorgasbord and over 20 Pluralsight courses, speaker at events and user groups around the globe, Microsoft MVP for 11 years in a row. He loves teaching fellow developers how to master all things C# and .NET.

Ignat is a systems engineer at Cloudflare working mostly on Linux, platforms and hardware security. Ignat’s interests are cryptography, hacking, and low-level programming. Before Cloudflare, Ignat worked as a senior security engineer for Samsung Electronics’ Mobile Communications Division. His solutions may be found in many older Samsung smart phones and tablets. Ignat started his career as a security researcher in the Ukrainian government’s communications services.

Dan Mallott is the Head of Platform and Infrastructure at e-conomic in Copenhagen, Denmark. His passion is for distributed architecture, designing and building high performing service layers from the API down to the database.

As Head of Platform and Infrastructure, Dan is responsible for leading the Platform, SRE, and API teams in building a solid foundation for the e-conomic product. Previously, Dan was focused on leading the Platform Team in improving the cross-cutting concerns in the e-conomic application, including improving security, improving messaging performance, and managing the migration to .NET 6.0.

Before joining e-conomic, Dan was a Senior Principal for West Monroe, based in Chicago, IL, USA. While at West Monroe, Dan's projects included designing high performing architectures for a variety of clients, as well as developing APIs and UIs for healthcare, insurance, and financial services clients. Along the way, Dan worked with .NET Framework, .NET Core, Java/Spring Boot, React, and Angular. He also gained experience with a number of database technologies, including DataStax, Cassandra, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. Prior to joining West Monroe, Dan worked for a number of companies, focusing on .NET and Microsoft SQL Server development, including experience as a DBA.

Past speaking engagements have included PASS Summit, NDC London, NDC Melbourne, NDC Sydney, KCDC, Code PaLOUsa, and numerous SQL Saturdays throughout the US. Dan enjoys speaking at both large and small conferences, and values the interactions he gets with attendees and other speakers.

In his spare time, he can be found writing his own software instead of using package solutions or on the ice as an ice hockey player and referee. 

Thorsten Hans is a Sr. Cloud Advocate at Fermyon. He guides developers and teams through understanding, adopting, and mastering emerging technologies to build reliable software and embrace the next wave of cloud computing. As Microsoft MVP and Docker Captain, he keeps on sharing his experiments and knowledge with the developer community.

I'm Mithun A. Sridharan, an entrepreneur, cited author and keynote speaker on Strategy, Management Consulting and Digital Transformation topics. I serve as a Director at Publicis Sapient, where I advise enterprises on their strategic business transformation initiatives that leverage Data Analytics & Engineering as well as Artificial Intelligence (AI) . A serial entrepreneur and technology executive, I founded Think Insights, a leading website on Strategy, Management Consulting, Leadership, Digital Transformation, and Data Literacy - as well as INTRVU - an admissions and career services advisory for expats in Europe. 

I am a regular speaker at several industry conferences and have published at high-impact magazines, such as the World Economic Forum, the American Banker, Wired, Forbes, etc. I hold an MBA from ESMT Berlin, a Master of Science from Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, both in Germany and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Madras, India. I am based in Heidelberg, Germany.

Kennedy is a cybersecurity researcher, cloud security engineer and the CTO/Co-Founder at Mitigant. He has spent over 11 years in cybersecurity and is passionate about exploring the intersection of security chaos engineering, incident response, risk analysis and threat detection in cloud security. He has published more than 20 academic papers about several cloud security domains and was a contributing author in the first O'Reilly book on Security Chaos Engineering. He is also a third time member of the AWS Community Builder Program and has spoken at various international conferences including KubeCon (Cloud Native Security Day), Conf42 Chaos Engineering, ChaosCarnival, and BSides Berlin.


Andrei is the Open Source Dev Leader at Komodor, a startup building the next-gen troubleshooting platform for Kubernetes. With over 20 years of experience in the dev space, Andrei is known as the founder of JMeter-Plugins.org, an open source project which he led to its undisputed status as the premier source of JMeter plugins in the world. He’s also an avid speaker who loves talking about Open Source (could you have guessed?!), performance testing, all things automation, and his favorite programming languages Python, Golang and Java. Prior to Komodor, Andrei was the Co-founder of Up9 and before that the Open Source Evangelist at BlazeMeter.com.

Daniel is a software consultant at Lean TECHniques who helps teams deliver high quality software. He works with teams to adopt various agile and lean practices, such as effective CI/CD, automated testing, and product management. With experience in developing software and consulting teams across several industries including financial, retail, and agriculture, he has fulfilled roles including technical coach, agile coach, tech lead, with a primary background as a software developer. He finds fulfillment in his work by working with others to understand their individual problems and working together to improve their products and professional enjoyment. The .NET ecosystem is where he is most comfortable and finds the most enjoyment.

He also enjoys playing piano, swing dancing, and his own personal programming projects in his free time, including game development, for which he has a company called Nightcap Games that he has released one game under. 

Mey is a Senior Platform Engineer and a public speaker who brings Star Wars geekery to everything she does. As a Backend Developer, Mey has developed in multiple programming languages, including Nodejs, Java, Python, Groovy, and her favorite, Clojure. Today Mey is a senior platform engineer at Forter, leading the complex migration of 400+ services to Kubernetes. 
When she is not spending her weekends coding games or speaking at tech conferences, she experiments with algorithms or playing Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo Switch.
May the force be with you.


Callum Whyte is a x4 Microsoft MVP and x6 Umbraco MVP specialising in building robust scalable solutions on Azure and the .NET stack, as well as websites with the open-source Umbraco CMS.

Away from his desk you can find him organising community events; from local meetups and hackathons, to global conferences and roadshows. He’s an active contributor to open source projects, a regular speaker at events all over the world, as well as co-host of a weekly YouTube series “UmbraCoffee”!

Nick is a Content Creator focusing on C# & .NET and an Author and Founder of the educational platform Dometrain.

Hannes is a developer, a coach and a father of 3.

In .NET development, he has always had a passion for performance, databases, distributed systems and large scale applications. But most of all, he likes playing devil’s advocate in technical discussions by drawing the ‘it depends’ card.

As a coach, he is enthousiastic about knowledge sharing, personal growth and building careers. All this while keeping in mind that the pace needs to be sustainable.

In his free time, when he’s not building LEGO® castles with his kids, he likes to spend time building guitars, playing chess or poker, tasting whisky and doing all round geeky stuff.

You can occasionally find him on an afterparty stage at PubConf or with Dylan Beattie & the Linebreakers.

Newman

Sam Newman is interested in technology at the intersection of things, from development, to ops, to security, usability and organisations. After over a decade at ThoughtWorks he is now an independent consultant. Sam is the author of "Building Microservices" from O'Reilly. He has worked with a variety of companies in multiple domains around the world, often with one foot in the developer world, and another in the IT operations space. If you asked him what he does, he’d say ‘I work with people to build better software systems’. He has written articles, presented at conferences, and sporadically commits to open source projects. While Java used to be his bread and butter, he also spends time with Ruby, Python, Javascript, and Clojure, Infrastructure Automation and Cloud systems.

Martin is a Developer Advocate at Honeycomb, o11y enthusiast, and a delivery-focused Developer from the UK. With over 20 years experience in development in the .NET ecosystem, he’s worked with many companies on scaling up engineering teams and products. The past few years have been spent working on solving complex problems with some of the UK’s big names, including e-commerce retailers and credit lenders.

Chris Ayers is a seasoned professional navigating the dynamic landscape of technology as a Senior Customer Engineer on Microsoft's Fast Track for Azure team. With a focus on modern applications, DevOps, and cloud technologies, Chris brings a wealth of experience to the table. He co-leads the DevOps Category within the Fast Track Team, driving initiatives forward with expertise honed from past roles leading Azure and DevOps practices.

Chris's extensive background spans various technical domains, including software development, architecture, and cloud solutions. From his early days tinkering with code in 2nd grade to assuming roles as a Consultant, Cloud Architect, and beyond, he has always been driven by a passion for learning and sharing industry best practices.

Outside of his professional endeavors, Chris is a devoted father and an unabashed nerd. Whether he's speaking at international events, delving into the latest technology trends, or immersing himself in gaming adventures, his enthusiasm for exploration knows no bounds.

Connect with Chris through his website, blog, and social media channels to follow his journey and tap into his insights on technology, agile practices, and more.

Nisha is a Principal Engineer with experience in transforming organizations assuming different leadership positions in different industries throughout the years. She is passionate about people growth, delivering value and intimately connecting Business and Tech together.

Rob is responsible for all of the machine learning and AI that powers The StoryGraph's recommendations, similar books, and more! He's been in the tech industry for over 20 years, specializing in maintaining enterprise-level software deployments.

 is a Speaker + Author + Creativity Evangelist who speaks at conferences and consults with companies worldwide. As the Founder + CEO of 

, she promotes techniques to unlock creativity and help people become engaged contributors, synergistic collaborators, and authentic leaders. Denise is the author of 

, the premier handbook on silencing fears to unleash creativity. She is also the Head Instigator of 

Ben Dechrai is a technologist with a strong focus on security and privacy, recognised as an MVP for his exceptional contributions to the community. From writing code at 11 years old to prevent his parents from breaking the family PC, to leading developer relations at Arcjet, Ben empowers developers to build safer applications through better security and coding practices. With over two decades of experience in software engineering, security, and architecture, Ben is a published author, and has consulted for companies and investors across numerous industries. He is deeply involved in the tech community, running technology conferences and workshops to share his expertise. Offstage, Ben enjoys travelling the world with his wife and engages with fellow tech enthusiasts through his project, hallway.social.

Dr. Jodie Burchell is the Developer Advocate in Data Science at JetBrains, and was previously the Lead Data Scientist in audiences generation at Verve Group Europe. She completed a PhD in clinical psychology and a postdoc in biostatistics, before leaving academia for a data science career. She has worked for 7 years as a data scientist in both Australia and Germany, developing a range of products including recommendation systems, analysis platforms, search engine improvements and audience profiling. She has held a broad range of responsibilities in her career, doing everything from data analytics to maintaining machine learning solutions in production. She is a long time content creator in data science, across conference and user group presentations, books, webinars, and posts on both her own and JetBrain's blogs.

Kent Beck is an American software engineer and the creator of Extreme Programming, a software development methodology that eschews rigid formal specification for a safely social development process. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto.
Beck pioneered Test-Driven Development, it's successor TCR: Test && Commit || Revert, software design patterns, and 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract. He wrote the SUnit unit testing framework for Smalltalk, which spawned the xUnit series of frameworks, notably JUnit for Java, which Beck wrote with Erich Gamma. Beck popularized CRC cards with Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the wiki.

He lives in San Francisco, California and works as Chief Scientist for Mechanical Orchard. In his leisure time he is an artist, writer, baker, and avid poker player.

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