December 9 - 10, 2021

Online
GraphQL Galaxy 2021
The biggest GraphQL conference in the cloud

Sasha Solomon
Twitter, USA
Talk: Panel Discussion: GraphQL Working Group
I'm a software engineer at Twitter working on the Core API Team helping build the next generation API with GraphQL and Scala.
I currently serve on the GraphQL Governing Board as a representative of Twitter.
Previously, I worked at Medium as the tech lead of the Platform Team, jumpstarting Medium's move to GraphQL.

Max Stoiber
GraphCDN, Austria
Talk: How to Edge Cache GraphQL APIs
JavaScript Engineer from Austria in love with React and Node. Previously he worked at GitHub, who acquired the startup he co-founded, Spectrum. He is well known for making styled-components, react-boilerplate, and a wide variety of other open source projects in the React ecosystem.

Matteo Collina
Platformatic, Italy
Talk: GraphQL Caching Demystified
Matteo is the Co-Founder and CTO of Platformatic.dev with the goal to remove all friction from backend development. He is also a prolific Open Source author in the JavaScript ecosystem and modules he maintain are downloaded more than 12 billion times a year.
Previously he was Chief Software Architect at NearForm, the best professional services company in the JavaScript ecosystem. In 2014, he defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Application Platforms for the Internet of Things".
Matteo is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee focusing on streams, diagnostics and http. He is also the author of the fast logger Pino and of the Fastify web framework.
Matteo is an renowed international speaker after more than 60 conferences, including OpenJS World, Node.js Interactive, NodeConf.eu, NodeSummit, JSConf.Asia, WebRebels, and JsDay just to name a few. He is also co-author of the book "Node.js Cookbook, Third Edition" edited by Packt.
In the summer he loves sailing the Sirocco.

Bob van Luijt
Weaviate, Netherlands
Talk: Semantic Search through the Complete Wikipedia with Weaviate’s GraphQL API
Bob is CEO and co-founder of SeMI Technologies, the business created around the open-source vector search engine Weaviate. Besides SeMI and Weaviate. Bob is a frequent speaker on the topics of open source, digital technology, software business, and creativity. He has spoken at around 100 events on the aforementioned topics in Europe, the US, and Russia.

Lenny Burdette
Apollo, USA
Talk: Directive-driven GraphQL Development
Lenny is a Solutions Architect at Apollo Graph in San Francisco, CA. He was previously a software engineer and graph champion at Square. When he’s not thinking and talking endlessly about GraphQL and frontend, he’s probably trying to recreate some dish from a YouTube cooking video or hanging out with his wife and son.

Josh Goldberg
Codecademy, USA
Talk: GraphQL + Apollo + Next.js: A Lovely Trio
Hi, I'm Josh! I'm a frontend developer from New York with a passion for open source, static analysis, and the web. I work at Codecademy as a frontend engineer on our core Web Platform team. I'm passionate about open source and bringing accessible education to the masses in a sustainable way.

Tanmai Gopal
Hasura, India
Talk: Evaluating GraphQL for Setting Up an Enterprise-Grade Data Mesh
Tanmai Gopal is the CEO, co-founder of Hasura. He is a StackOverflow powered fullstack developer whose areas of interest and work span React, GraphQL, Nodejs, Haskell, Docker, Postgres & Kubernetes. He is passionate about making it easy to build complex things and is the instructor of India's largest MOOC imad.tech with over 250,000 students.
Alexander Varwijk
Open Social, The Netherlands
Talk: Panel Discussion: GraphQL for non-JS Languages
Alexander is a full-stack developer that spends his day to day with PHP and Drupal. Front-end work is done using ReScript, React and GraphQL and as a hobby he's building things with Rust.
At Open Social he is a Lead Engineer and drives the development of the GraphQL API and a new decoupled front-end. As the first decoupled project at Open Social he has architected and implemented a Real-Time Chat.

Marcin Gebala
Saleor, Poland
Talk: Panel Discussion: GraphQL for non-JS Languages
I'm a software engineer who specializes in building web apps using Python, GraphQL and React. Currently, I work as a lead developer at Saleor. I speak at tech conferences about Python and GraphQL. I'm a runner, musician and traveler in my free time. I'm based in Wrocław, Poland.

Maxime Beugnet
MongoDB, France
Talk: Building a Serverless GraphQL API in 7 Minutes
Maxime has been working with MongoDB for the past 7 years and in the IT industry for 10 years.
He is a MongoDB and Java trainer, with DEV and DBA MongoDB certifications. Maxime joined MongoDB as a Developer Advocate 3.5 years ago to share his experience with the community. He loves clean code, scuba diving, code challenges and vikings!

Roy Derks
Vandebron, Netherlands
Talk: When (Not) To Create A GraphQL Server
Roy Derks is a developer, author and public speaker from the Netherlands. His mission is to make the world a better place through tech by training and inspiring developers worldwide. Currently he is working with StepZen on a mission to make GraphQL adoption easy and scalable.

Colby Fayock
Applitools, USA
Talk: Exploring the WordPress Graph with Next.js & WPGraphQL
Learning by doing is the best way to learn and it’s how Colby Fayock helps others learn about Javascript, React, and the static web. His work includes writing on freecodecamp.org, videos on YouTube, and courses on egghead.io as well as his first book 50 Projects for React & the Static Web.

William Lyon
Neo4j, USA
Talk: Putting the Graph In GraphQL With The Neo4j GraphQL Library
William Lyon is a Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j where he helps developers be successful with graphs. Prior to joining Neo4j William worked as a software developer for several startups, building mobile apps, quantitative finance tools, and predictive API services. William holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Montana and is the author of the book "Full Stack GraphQL" published by Manning. You can find him online at [lyonwj.com](http://lyonwj.com/).

Robert Hostlowsky
Instana, Germany
Talk: Performance Monitoring of a Heterogeneous GraphQL Mesh App
Currently, Robert Hostlowsky is working as a developer, coach and systems engineer.
He published an online video course about developing a full-stack GraphQL application online-course.
He loves DevOps culture on modern cloud infrastructure, uses the latest state-of-the-art web technologies, and loves how it plays nicely together at minimum effort and cost.
He loves web technologies. Feeling being a part of the developer community he is co-organizing the JSCraftcamp, Munich.

Stephan Schneider
Contentful, Germany
Talk: All You (n)ever Wanted to Know about Introspection
Stephan Schneider is a backend developer at Contentful. Since 2018 GraphQL is not just an interesting technology for him anymore when he started participating in the company's initial development of their first GraphQL API. He has not stepped back since and constantly plays with new ways to integrate pre-existing data into GraphQL.

Oliver Moradov
NeuraLegion, UK
Talk: GraphQL Security Testing Automation for Developers
Oli is VP of NeuraLegion's developer focussed security testing platform, helping developers understand how they can run seamless, fast and accurate security tests on every build.
Oli works closely with security and engineering teams globally to help them ship secure software more efficiently and is passionate about automation, CI/CD and DevOps / DevSecOps.
Oli has spoken at many conferences internationally and is a regular at developer and security related events and meetups.

Sedky Abou-Shamalah
Tyk, USA
Talk: All Things Graph...
I'm a computer scientist by education, a software developer by trade, and a serial technologist at heart. In short, my passion is solving technical problems. As a solutions architect at Tyk, I help companies design and architect API management platforms and digital transformation journeys.

Johan Eliasson
Nhost, Sweden
Talk: GraphQL for Web and Mobile Apps Made Simple
Johan Eliasson is CEO & Co-Founder of Nhost. Johan has been building apps his whole life and is passionate about making it easy to develop web and mobile apps. Prior to Nhost, Johan helped grow his family business, driving innovation in the Swedish water treatment market. Johan graduated from Blekinge Institute of Technology with a Master of Science in Computer Security, Computer & Information Systems.

Nikhil Chandrappa
Yugabyte, USA
Talk: Scalable GraphQL Applications Powered by Cloud-ready Distributed SQL Database
Nikhil is a Software Engineer at Yugabyte. He is leading the efforts on YugabyteDB integrations with open source developer tools like GraphQL, Spring Data, R2DBC, and Kubernetes. He also works with the developer community on the adoption of Distributed SQL databases in cloud native applications. He has presented at major developer conferences, including Spring One Platform, PostgreSQL Conference, and Distributed SQL Conference. He is originally from Mysore, India, and has a master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University.
Alexander Varwijk
Open Social, The Netherlands
Talk: Serving GraphQL Subscriptions Using PHP and Drupal
Alexander is a full-stack developer that spends his day to day with PHP and Drupal. Front-end work is done using ReScript, React and GraphQL and as a hobby he's building things with Rust.
At Open Social he is a Lead Engineer and drives the development of the GraphQL API and a new decoupled front-end. As the first decoupled project at Open Social he has architected and implemented a Real-Time Chat.

Tanmai Gopal
Hasura, India
Talk: Panel Discussion: Authorization
Tanmai Gopal is the CEO, co-founder of Hasura. He is a StackOverflow powered fullstack developer whose areas of interest and work span React, GraphQL, Nodejs, Haskell, Docker, Postgres & Kubernetes. He is passionate about making it easy to build complex things and is the instructor of India's largest MOOC imad.tech with over 250,000 students.

Taz Singh
Guild.host, UK, Canada
Talk: Panel Discussion: Authorization
Taz is a serial founder, startup advisor, technical management consultant, former organizer of TorontoJS, and GraphQL expert. He’s more recently known for his work on realtime GraphQL systems and cross-platform embeddable experiences which have allowed him to provide sophisticated offerings for wide reaching impact. When he’s not behind a computer, he can be found chasing his cat or being chased on a race track.

Alexandra Buckalew
GraphCMS, Germany
Talk: Panel Discussion: The Future of GraphQL in the Enterprise (by GraphCMS)
Alex is an experienced marketer and screenwriter with over 10 years of experience. A natural storyteller, Alex spends her free time writing novels and screenplays and is driven through a constant need to be constantly learning professionally and personally. Originally from Texas, she has lived in New York City, and now Berlin, Germany.

Scott Gerlach
StackHawk, USA
Talk: How to Make GraphQL Security Easier with StackHawk
Scott Gerlach is Co-founder and Chief Security Officer at StackHawk, a Denver-based startup focused on empowering engineers to easily identify and remediate security bugs. Scott brings over two decades of security and engineering experience to his current role, having served as CSO, CISO, and in other executive leadership functions at companies like SendGrid, Twilio, and GoDaddy. When he's not at work, you'll find Scott spending time with family, brewing beer, and playing guitar.

Scott Spence
GraphCMS, UK
Talk: Build with SvelteKit and GraphQL
I’m a developer advocate working with GraphCMS to create content that helps remove friction and educate around the GraphQL space. I create content written in the blog here and also in educational videos supporting the written content. I’m a second career dev, that reskilled from a VBA analyst developer role into web development. I’m a massive fan of the Jamstack I have a wealth of knowledge working with Gatsby and am spending a lot of time familiarising myself with Svelte and SvelteKit.

Rebecca Friedman
Shopify, Canada
Talk: Hard GraphQL Problems at Shopify
I am a strong full stack developer, and a Ruby on Rails enthusiast. I'm passionate about formalized SDL processes, and clean, well-tested code. Having worked on the monolith that is the Words With Friends backend service at Zynga, I've architected, developed and deployed features that have been used by millions of concurrent users. I'm a huge supporter of University of Toronto, and an Arbor Award recipient. I guest lecture when I can, mentor students through the Alumni Mentorship program, and volunteer at numerous interview prep workshops, panels, and networking events for students.

Greg MacWilliam
Shopify, USA
Talk: Hard GraphQL Problems at Shopify
Greg is presently focused on web applications built using Ruby on Rails, VueJS, Webpack, and JavaScript. He is also experienced with HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, responsive design practices, and visualizing large data sets using SVG, Canvas, and major web mapping frameworks. He is also fluent with RESTful and GraphQL API design, Django, Rails, Node, and some WordPress experience.
Additional programming experience with iOS/Objective-C for iPhone, Flash/ActionScript3, and object-oriented design practices. Familiar with agile software development and SCRUM workflow; experienced with providing estimates.
Current side projects include EpoxyJS (data binding extension for Backbone), ConstellationJS (a grid-based geometry toolkit), and the HTML5/Django-based Lassie Constellation admin system.

William Lyon
Neo4j, USA
Talk: Full Stack GraphQL In The Cloud With Neo4j Aura, Next.js, & Vercel
William Lyon is a Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j where he helps developers be successful with graphs. Prior to joining Neo4j William worked as a software developer for several startups, building mobile apps, quantitative finance tools, and predictive API services. William holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Montana and is the author of the book "Full Stack GraphQL" published by Manning. You can find him online at [lyonwj.com](http://lyonwj.com/).

Buddha Bhattacharya
Tyk, Singapore
Talk: Learning GraphQL: from curious to confident
Founder of WAYV Digital, providing business strategy and technology solutions for impact-driven companies to help them scale up, become sustainable and spread their impact around the world. Currently working with companies across 5 continents in the areas of education, disability care, healthcare and sustainable e-commerce.
A dynamic leader with experience across both technical and managerial roles. Extensive experience in client and stakeholder engagement, combined with an expertise in solution consultancy across multiple technology platforms ensures successful product delivery time after time.
Key competencies:
• Technical consultancy and delivery- Kentico, Sitefinity, Sitecore, Drupal, WordPress, AWS, Azure
• Solution Architecture (cloud, web, apps)
• Product management
• Agile delivery as Professional Scrum Master
• Team management and leadership
• Technical Project management and direction
• Full stack web development (JS - React, Angular; Python; PHP)
Dedicated to building communities to tackle the UN Sustainable Development Goals and passionate about helping those who wish to change the world!

Roy Derks
Vandebron, Netherlands
Talk: Building a Serverless GraphQL API For Any Datasource With StepZen
Roy Derks is a developer, author and public speaker from the Netherlands. His mission is to make the world a better place through tech by training and inspiring developers worldwide. Currently he is working with StepZen on a mission to make GraphQL adoption easy and scalable.

Rob Sutter
Fauna, USA
Talk: Building a GraphQL-native serverless backend with Fauna
I have woven application development into my entire career, from time in the U.S. Army and U.S. Government to stints with the Big Four, the world's largest cloud services provider, and smaller startups. I have started my own company – twice – once providing consulting services and most recently with WorkFone, a software as a service startup that provided virtual digital identities to government clients. I love to build in public with Go and all things serverless!

Johan Eliasson
Nhost, Sweden
Talk: Build a GraphQL App with React
Johan Eliasson is CEO & Co-Founder of Nhost. Johan has been building apps his whole life and is passionate about making it easy to develop web and mobile apps. Prior to Nhost, Johan helped grow his family business, driving innovation in the Swedish water treatment market. Johan graduated from Blekinge Institute of Technology with a Master of Science in Computer Security, Computer & Information Systems.

William Lyon
Neo4j, USA
Talk: Building GraphQL APIs With The Neo4j GraphQL Library
William Lyon is a Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j where he helps developers be successful with graphs. Prior to joining Neo4j William worked as a software developer for several startups, building mobile apps, quantitative finance tools, and predictive API services. William holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Montana and is the author of the book "Full Stack GraphQL" published by Manning. You can find him online at [lyonwj.com](http://lyonwj.com/).

Oliver Moradov
NeuraLegion, UK
Talk: Security Testing Automation for Developers on Every Build
Oli is VP of NeuraLegion's developer focussed security testing platform, helping developers understand how they can run seamless, fast and accurate security tests on every build.
Oli works closely with security and engineering teams globally to help them ship secure software more efficiently and is passionate about automation, CI/CD and DevOps / DevSecOps.
Oli has spoken at many conferences internationally and is a regular at developer and security related events and meetups.

Bar Hofesh
NeuraLegion, Israel
Talk: Security Testing Automation for Developers on Every Build
Co-Founder, CTO & Security Researcher at NeuraLegion. Developer and security researcher, I love playing with Neural networks and other ML tools.
I'm interested in new programming languages and the potential they bring.

Nikhil Chandrappa
Yugabyte, USA
Talk: GraphQL Workshop Medley to build cloud native apps with Open Source Distributed SQL database
Nikhil is a Software Engineer at Yugabyte. He is leading the efforts on YugabyteDB integrations with open source developer tools like GraphQL, Spring Data, R2DBC, and Kubernetes. He also works with the developer community on the adoption of Distributed SQL databases in cloud native applications. He has presented at major developer conferences, including Spring One Platform, PostgreSQL Conference, and Distributed SQL Conference. He is originally from Mysore, India, and has a master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University.

Taylor Mull
Yugabyte, USA
Talk: GraphQL Workshop Medley to build cloud native apps with Open Source Distributed SQL database
Taylor is a Solutions Engineer who leads the new Yugabyte Cloud sales engineering effort helping small and large companies alike modernize their legacy databases. He has a strong passion for distributed databases having worked with them for most of his career.

Zachary Conger
StackHawk, USA
Talk: GraphQL Security Testing Technical Workshop
Zachary is a Senior DevOps Engineer at StackHawk. As a startup junkie, he has played many roles including operations, engineering, product development, and leadership. In his current role, he is focused on the evolving CI/CD landscape and how this diverse set of technologies can be used to improve the productivity of software developers, and the quality of the code they produce. Outside of work he enjoys music, photography, cycling, and various pastimes.