Event about career growth, leadership

and seniority in tech

Author of the "Senior Engineer Mindset" book.

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.

I’m Erin - raised in the Bay Area, schooled in Sonoma, Hawaii, and NYC. I’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. I’ve given talks internationally and across the US on the work I’ve been doing. I keep busy with new side projects, reading all of Reese Witherspoon’s bookclub books, re-watching Frontend Master courses, and tweeting about it all on Twitter.

After over a decade on the IC track, Tara has switched to the Engineering Management track to take everything she’s learned to help empower as many devs as they let her. Beyond being an EM at Netlify, Tara is an international technical speaker, mother of 2 (soon to be 3, nature + bourbon lover and chronic craft project starter.

Alex is Frontend Engineer at CodeSandbox with a passion for both dev tools and user experience. He is also the organizer of JSHeroes, the biggest JS/Frontend conference in Romania.

Naz is a software engineering manager at LinkedIn, ex at Netflix and Technology Career Coach at Mentorcruise. She is passionate about UI Engineering, Career Development and growth skills. Prior to Netflix, she worked in the Finance industry as a Software Architect. Naz is dedicated to advancing and growing careers of many engineers across the world 🌎 . She is an active Career Coach on MentorCruise. She also 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 she’s not working, you’re most likely to find her exploring the world 🌱, playing games, or curled up with a good book and a cup of coffee. 📚☕

Zan Markan is a developer advocate at CircleCI, on a mission to educate and inspire developers on the topics of CI/CD, DevOps, and software quality.

Across his career he has worked in companies of various sizes, from enterprises to own startups, and everything in between, and across industries as diverse as retail, AI, and developer tools.

He’s passionate about serverless technologies, mobile development, and developer experience. Outside of work, he enthuses over airplanes, craft beer, and the Oxford comma.

CTO and Co-Founder of BAM.tech, I lead a team of 130 people. Inspired by Lean Management, I try to reconcile three different approaches: seeing the company as a system that needs to be designed carefully, keeping a hands-on approach to stay as close to code as possible and helping every individual person grow.

Daniel Afonso is a Developer Advocate at OLX. Daniel has a full-stack background, having worked with different languages and frameworks on various projects from IoT to Fraud Detection. He is passionate about learning and teaching and has spoken at multiple conferences related to React, JavaScript, and testing. In his free time, when he's not learning new technologies or writing about them, he's probably reading comics or watching superhero movies and shows.

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.

Philipp loves to code and teach people. His first project was a webpage to manage which of his friends had borrowed which VHS. It was this project that also convinced him that the internet is where the future is. Fast forward some 20 years and he is still coding.

Backend Software Engineer for +10 years in industries such as telco, online betting, and financing, embraced the passion for leading and caring for people 3 years ago, being now at OLX Group as Engineering Manager.

Ziv currently working at Wix.com as a software engineer in the very exciting Wix’s Data Science group. He is an open-source enthusiast, have a fetish for web performance, loves technology at its best when it's visual, and… mixing techno sounds at night!!

A gal who wants to create awesome stuff ✨A problem solver and allround web developer.

I‘m a senior programmer 👩🏽‍💻 with good knowledge of front-end techniques. I love algorithms, data structure and I also stand for quality.

I believe in nudging things forward — thoughtfully and intentionally. Asking 💭 ‘what if’ as often as possible, constantly challenging standards, and 👩🏽‍🔬experimenting endlessly.

Anton is a Director of Engineering at Westwing, Germany. As an engineering leader, he's built and scaled teams, shaped tech organisations in the SaaS and consumer-facing worlds. He has a passion for systemic approaches and helping people thrive and grow. He's mentoring other engineering leaders both at work and outside of work, making sure they onboard on their leadership journey quickly and smoothly. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking, mountain skiing, and spending time with his family.

Senior front-end engineer. I build the next generation of Application Security tools using your typical React & Typescript stack.

Software Engineer with 8 years of experience in the information technology, financial services industry, and public sector working on multi-million-dollar products. Shivangi is passionate about promoting women in tech and helping them get paid more.

Alex is a software engineer with technical and engineering management experience from startups to middle-sized and big-tech companies. Loves creating friendly and effective team processes.