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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alex’s experience roots into game development started around 8 years ago, where a good portion worked into small indie game projects, and after that being part of the Frostbite Engine AI team for the last 3 years. He also teaches classes in Video Game Development Technology for beginner programmers who want to choose Game Development as a career path.

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

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 full stack developer who enjoys creating complex web applications, while committed to empowering other girls to follow a technical career. A passionate problem-solver, I have more than 10 years experience in web development, working with technologies from PHP & MYSQL to ReactJS & NodeJS.

As a highly curious person, I believe in constant learning and sharing the knowledge with other people, in order to grow together.

Ciprian has more than 13 years in game development, being involved in the development of end to end titles or game engines. The last years were focused on AI related work.

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.

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.

12 years of experience in software/IT industry with accomplishments in developing CEE technology landscape. Combined ICT knowledge with business skills. My daily job is to work with developers and companies to let the newest technologies help their business.

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.

I’m passionate about tech and about building solutions that improve people’s lives. I love to help companies, big or small, leverage technology to drive innovation and explore exciting market opportunities.

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.

Andrei is a strong advocate of quality in any project and values more quality over quantity. He is an excellent test automation engineer and enjoys finding solution for any technical problem. His primary focus is on providing fast and reliable test automation frameworks, mainly written in Java and JavaScript. He is also a fan of CI, Agile and Devops way of working and developing.

He has experience in creating both UI testing framework with Selenium, Protractor and Appium; and also API testing frameworks with RestAssured. His current role as a Test Automation Lead in Endava recommends him as one of the most technical persons in our team.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ann Neidenbach is the Global Head of LSEG Technology and Chief Information Officer, Shared Services for the London Stock Exchange Group, responsible for the oversight of all Group technology services, business operations and corporate services, with teams in UK, Italy, France, US, Sri Lanka and Romania.

As LSEG Technology’s Group Head, Ann’s is responsible for the Technology Products & Services business which delivers robust, scalable, high-performance technology including broker, exchange, market data, risk management, surveillance, clearing and settlement products to for over 40 organisations and exchanges, including the Group’s own markets.

With over 25 years of industry expertise, Ann brings a wealth of experience to LSEG’s technology businesses. Previously, Ann was Managing Director and Chief Information Officer at Cowen Inc. where she was responsible for providing strategic direction and driving technological innovation across all its businesses. She also led the firm’s software development, information services, and technical infrastructure.  Prior to Cowen, Ann has held a variety of senior technology roles at BNY Convergex, Nasdaq, and Citi. She was part of the executive team and CIO at BNY Convergex. Earlier at NASDAQ, she served as Senior Vice President of Market Systems, where she led a team of expert architects and engineers developing electronic trading, clearing, market data, and index solutions. She also served as Senior Vice President of Market Technology, responsible for delivering trading and clearing solutions to over 90 exchanges globally, and as the COO/CIO of Nasdaq Europe.

Ann has also held senior positions at Citibank; as Managing Director of Electronic Trading Technology, where she was responsible for overseeing the technology for equity and options electronic execution, algorithmic trading and electronic market making, and as Chief Operating Officer for Lava Trading.

Mihai is a software engineer with a degree in Electronics. He spent the last five years of his career working abroad for a leading investment bank and has recently joined the London Stock Exchange Group to lead software development in Bucharest.

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.

Coaching and mentoring the new generation of talented and enthusiastic Romanian digital innovators.

Delivering comfort and development opportunities to colleagues and clients.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Having turned his hobby into his job, Cédric is a driven developer at JCore. While currently being focussed on Java and JavaScript, he is always keeping an eye out for any other interesting technologies that cross his path.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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.

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.

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.

I am a data science consultant, author, and public speaker. Over the past two decades, I’ve taught over 200,000 software developers and IT professionals how to make better decisions with data science. My clients include small software startups to Fortune 100 companies around the globe.

I’m an author for Pluralsight, a Microsoft MVP, an ASPInsider, and an open-source software contributor. My focus includes data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Matt Jarvis is a Director of Community at Evangelism at Mesosphere, engaging with the communities around DC/OS and Mesos. 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.

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.

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.

* 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.

Erwin Staal is a .NET Software Engineer and ALM Consultant at 4DotNet (Meppel, the Netherlands). He Iikes like to immerse himself in the latest technologies and is currently working a lot with ASP.NET Core, Docker and Kubernetes. As ALM Consultant he helps companies implementing DevOps, Continuous Delivery and coaches’ teams to become better in Scrum and Agile.

A civic hacker who grew up among Tiananmen exiles, Audrey is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin.

In the public sector, Audrey serves on Taiwan national development council’s open data committee and K-12 curriculum committee; and led the country’s first e-Rulemaking project.
In the private sector, Audrey works as a consultant with Apple on computational linguistics, with Oxford University Press on crowd lexicography, and with Socialtext on social interaction design.
In the third sector, Audrey actively contributes to Taiwan’s g0v (“gov-zero”), a vibrant community focusing on creating tools for the civil society, with the call to “fork the government”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.