Gergely writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. He was formerly an engineering manager and software engineer at Uber, Skyscanner and Skype/Microsoft. He now researches and writes about software engineering at Big Tech and startups.Gergely is the author of multiple books, including The Software Engineer’s Guidebook and Building Mobile Apps at Scale. He lives in Amst...
Ian's background is in Computer Science with a detour into UX and design. He has worked in client services businesses and in-house across various software engineering, architecture and strategy roles. He currently works as a Software Engineer for Meta and previously as a technology leader for Genesis Global, a low-code platform that enables financial market organisations to innovate at speed. Befo...
Theo is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and technologist. He has founded six companies and served as the founding engineer for two product lines.Theo has authored or contributed to three books on large scale technical systems and operations and has spoken at over 150 events over the last two decades.As a dedicated volunteer in the computing industry, he has served for over a decade in various ca...
Nickolas Means loves nothing more than a story of engineering triumph (except maybe a story of engineering disaster). When he's not stuck in a Wikipedia loop reading about plane crashes, he leads the engineering team at Sym, helping create the building blocks engineering teams need to build delightful security and compliance workflows. He works remotely from Austin, TX, and spends his spare time h...
Neal is a Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks, a software company and a community of passionate, purpose-led individuals, delivering technology to address the toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change. He speaks at many conferences....
Randy has spent more than three decades building distributed systems and high performing teams, and has worked as a senior technology leader at eBay, Google, Stitch Fix, and WeWork. He coaches CTOs, advises companies, and generally makes a nuisance of himself wherever possible. He talks a lot -- sometimes at conferences about software -- and is interested in the nexus of culture, technology, and o...
Sander Hoogendoorn is an independent dad, traveler, and lifelong software craftsman. With over four decades of hands-on coding experience, he continues to write code daily, demonstrating that real developers never stop learning. Throughout his career, he has navigated the tech world in roles ranging from CTO at companies like iBOOD (currently), ANVA, and Klaverblad to serving as Capgemini's global...
Büşra is a product coach and advisor, and a solopreneur with > 15 years of hands-on product management experience. She helps product teams build products with business and customer impact through data informed, hypothesis-driven and outcome-focused ways of decision-making.Having worked in both product-led and non-product-led companies herself, from startups and scale-ups to corporations such as...
Michael Feathers is the Chief Architect of Globant and founder and Director of R7K Research & Conveyance, a company specializing in software and organization design. Over the years, Michael has spent a great deal of time helping teams after design over time in code bases. Michael is also the author of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Prentice Hall, 2004)....
Evelyn van Kelle is a change management consultant working in technical environments, where she helps organizations design and sustain sociotechnical systems. With her experience, she focuses on how human behavior and social dynamics shape the way technology is built and adopted. Evelyn is a strategic thinker who values curiosity and questions over quick answers. She supports organizations in navi...
Titus is a Senior Principal Scientist at Adobe, focusing on Developer Experience. He has served on the C++ standards committee, chairing the working group for the design and evolution of the C++ standard library. He has also served on the ACM/IEEE/AAAI CS2023 steering committee, helping set curriculum requirements for Computer Science undergraduate degrees, focusing on the requirements for softwar...
Coding Architect in London, speaker, tabletop gamer, geek. Talks a lot about TDD, OO and Messaging. Tattooed, pierced, and bearded. The 'guv' of the Brighter Command OSS project...
Marian helps teams, coaches, and organizations create change that sticks by designing for real behavior and measurable skill growth. Blending learning design, behavioral science, and change management, she makes transformation practical and lasting. Through her Green Path frameworks and Proficiency Taxonomy, she teaches leaders to design micro-behaviors that accelerate skill transfer and sustain i...
Kevlin is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His work with companies is focused on code, design, practices and people. Kevlin is a contributor to the Modern Software Engineering YouTube channel. He has also contributed to open- and closed-source codebases, been a columnist for a number of magazines and sites and has been on far too many committees. He is co-author of A Pattern...
Chelsea Troy leads the machine learning operations team at Mozilla, which makes the Firefox browser. She also teaches at the University of Chicago in the Master's Program in Computer Science. ...
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