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Erin Fox
Erin Fox
ConvertKit, USA
Talk: How to Get a Mentor Without Telling Them, How to Get a Mentor Without Telling Them
Iโ€™m Erin - raised in the Bay Area, schooled in Sonoma, Hawaii, and NYC. Iโ€™m a software engineer with a drive for JavaScript, React, explaining things simply and cats. I hold a MA in Communication from Hawaii Pacific University and previously worked at Major League Soccer on the mobile team. Iโ€™ve given talks internationally and across the US on the work Iโ€™ve been doing. I keep busy with new side projects, reading all of Reese Witherspoonโ€™s bookclub books, re-watching Frontend Master courses, and tweeting about it all on Twitter.
Iris Schaffer
Iris Schaffer
Spotify, UK
Talk: Impact: Growing as an Engineer
Iris is a front end developer with a passion for user experience and design, currently building products at Spotify. Sheโ€™s also engaged in the Swedish meetup scene where she co-organises a ReasonML meetup.
Shawn Swyx Wang
Shawn Swyx Wang
Temporal, Singapore
Talk: Lessons To Outlive React
Swyx is passionate about Developer Tooling and Developer Communities. He currently works as Head of Developer Experience at Temporal.io and recently published the Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior developer careers. In his free time he teaches React, TypeScript, Storybook and Node.js CLI's at Egghead.io, and helps run the Svelte Society community of meetups.
Naz Delam
Naz Delam
LinkedIn, USA
Talk: Effective Communication for Engineers, Engineers Learn to Negotiate
Naz is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. She is passionate about UI engineering, Psychology and cats! ๐Ÿˆ . At Netflix, she works on the product engineering team to enhance user experience across platforms. Prior to Netflix, she worked in the Finance industry as a Software Architect. ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป Naz is dedicated to advancing the role of women in engineering. ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿพ She volunteers with Hour of Code teaching high school girls how to code and serves as a member of MentorCruise and BuiltByGirls to coach engineers. When sheโ€™s not working, youโ€™re most likely to find her exploring the world ๐ŸŒฑ, playing games, or curled up with a good book and a cup of coffee. ๐Ÿ“šโ˜•
Nouha Chhih
Nouha Chhih
Prismic, France
Talk: Landing Your Next Developer Job
Nouha is the Developer Experience Manager at Prismic. She currently manages a team of developer experience engineers, and spending a lot of time on recruiting and growing her team. This year she'll recruit over 15 people to join her team. She'll share some advice for those of you preparing for technical interviews, and will be able to describe what is a Developer Experience Engineer, a Developer Relations Engineer, a Dev Blogger, a Dev Streamer.
Francois Bohyn
Francois Bohyn
Prismic, France
Talk: Landing Your Next Developer Job
Francois is the Revenue Ops person at Prismic. For his team he has experience with the recruitment process of two roles: Solutions Engineer and Growth Engineer. These are pretty new kinds of roles, but which are very popular recently and that you might want to hear about if you are an engineer who enjoys understanding the business side of things.
Sadek Drobi
Sadek Drobi
Prismic, France
Talk: Landing Your Next Developer Job
Prismic founder & CEO; Co-creator of Play web framework. He enjoys connecting business, marketing, software architecture and code.
Michel Weststrate
Michel Weststrate
Meta, UK
Talk: A Career As Software Engineer
Open source fanatic, speaker and trainer. Author of MobX, MobX-State-Tree, Immer and a plethora of smaller packages. On a continuous quest to make programming as natural as possible. React, JavaScript and TypeScript fan. Working at Facebook on dev tooling for mobile developers.
Eleftheria Batsou
Eleftheria Batsou
MKI Hellas, Greece
Talk: When You Think There Is No Time for Learning or Coding
App Developer | UX/UI Designer | Public Speaker | Content Creator. Eleftheria loves using technology-based solutions to help solve real world challenges. She likes learning and sharing her knowledge about web development/design and visual arts.
Shane Ketterman
Shane Ketterman
Toptal, USA
Talk: How To Design A Sustainable Freelance/Contracting Career + Speedcoding Challenge
Alexander Weekes
Alexander Weekes
Toptal, UK
Talk: Designing A Sustainable Freelance Career, Designing A Sustainable Freelance Career
Alex's skills as a project manager helped integrate athlete management tech into many UK universities such as Birmingham City University. He joined Toptal to add his expertise in agile methodologies and best practice leadership techniques to help complete innovative projects and add value to end users' products. As a PMI member, he is proficient at operating within a varied company structure from SMEs to enterprise organizations.
Rodrigo Donini
Rodrigo Donini
Toptal, Spain
Talk: Designing A Sustainable Freelance Career, Designing A Sustainable Freelance Career
Rodrigo is a focused developer who produces digital projects for agencies around the world. He has 20 years of experience using various methodologies and tech in most web and mobile projects. He has a strong knowledge base of the WordPress world and is very engaged with the community: building custom themes, plugins, and core customizations. He specializes in WordPress, developing for the front-end back-end and in managing digital projects.
Swizec Teller
Swizec Teller
Tia, USA
Talk: On Becoming a Tech Lead, You Do Have Time to Build it Twice
Swizec is a software engineer, author, educator, and conference speaker. He's published books on modern web technologies, data visualization, and productivity, and has trained engineering teams at Fortune500 companies. Now he's distilling 20 years of tacit experience into actionable steps.
Mo Khazali
Mo Khazali
Theodo UK, UK
Talk: Why Leetcode is Dead and Pair Programming for Interviews is the Way Forward
Mo is the Head of Mobile and a Tech Lead at Theodo UK, having worked on several projects with startups and established enterprises to create cross-platform mobile application in React Native. He's passionate about React Native, MobileDevOps, and pushing the boundaries of combining code across web and mobile.
Alex Ptakhin
Alex Ptakhin
Prestatech GmbH, Germany
Talk: Purpose: What I Learned from Stepping Down as Team Lead Twice
Marek Kalnik
Marek Kalnik
BAM, Paris
Talk: Do You Really Have to Become a Manager to Advance in Your Career?
Co-founder and CTO of BAM