Speakers - DEVWorld 2025
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    Steve Sewell

    CEO @Builder.io

    Steve is the Co-founder and CEO of Builder.io and the creator of the Mitosis open-source project.

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    Laura Bell Main

    CEO and AppSec Specialist @SafeStack

    Laura Bell Main is recognized as a global leader in developing secure software. As the CEO of SafeStack, a leading secure development education platform, she helps software development leaders worldwide engage their entire team in cyber security. She is the co-author of "Agile Application Security" (O’Reilly Media) and "Security for Everyone" (Holloway). Her work has been featured in many international publications, including WIRED and MIT Tech Review. She has presented at BlackHat USA, and RenderATL, as well as leading international software development and cyber security conferences.

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    Wei Hu

    Senior Vice President of Research and Development @Oracle USA

    Wei Hu is the Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Oracle. He leads the development of mission-critical database capabilities as well Blockchain, Kubernetes, Microservices, and Globally Distributed Databases. Mr. Hu has B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has been with Oracle since 1998, holds more than 40 patents, and is the author and co-author of several books and papers.

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    Sophia Frayle

    AI Engineer @Formula E

    AI Engineering at Formula E and how they go about it! Sophia is a AI Engineer | Data | GenAI | Women in AI

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    Rick van den Bosch

    Cloud Solution Architect @Microsoft

    Rick is a coder at heart, though his official title is Cloud Solution Architect. He has been working with Microsoft Azure since its introduction and now helps companies maximize their Azure investments at Microsoft. In addition to hands-on cloud development, Rick provides cloud migration advice and strategies, designs system architectures, coaches developers, and optimizes software development processes to help clients build and implement complex, mission-critical systems

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    Brittany Ryan

    Product Director @Backbase

    Passionate product strategist with an entrepreneurial mindset - specialized in bringing products from concept, to prototype, to delivery together with cross functional teams.

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    Simon Hall

    CTO @Payaut

    Simon Hall is the Chief Technology Officer at Payaut where he leads the engineering, product, and operations. With over a decade of experience in technology leadership, he strives to build simple, understandable and effective organizations, processes and platforms. Before Payaut Simon worked in technology advisory for BCG Platinion and Accenture where he helped organizations with their IT organizations and systems.

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    Ronald Allard

    Technology Lead @Postnl

    Ronald Allard has been working at PostNL for 3 years as Technology lead.

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    Daniel Paulus

    Managing Specialist @Delegate

    Daniel is a serial conference and meetup organiser. He's a Managing Specialist at Delegate, a Microsoft Azure focused consultancy company, and a Microsoft Azure MVP. He helps companies succeed with Cloud Native technologies and DevOps practices. When not working with tech you can find him out in the woods or fishing at a lake.

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    Hanno Embregts

    IT Consultant @Info Support

    Hanno Embregts is a Java Developer with a passion for learning, teaching and making music. In his day-to-day job as an IT Consultant at Info Support, Hanno prefers work that is fast-paced and versatile. This is why he juggles Java development, software architecture, public speaking, leading Info Support’s Java Community and teaching courses at Info Support’s Knowledge Centre.

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    Marit van Dijk

    Developer Advocate @JetBrains

    With 20 years of software development experience in different roles and companies, Marit loves building awesome software with amazing people and making developers lives better. She enjoys learning new things as well as sharing knowledge on programming, software development, testing & test automation, and more. She has contributed to open-source projects like Cucumber and several other projects. Marit speaks at international conferences, in webinars, and on podcasts, writes blog posts and tutorials, and contributed to the book “97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly Media).

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    Anneke Keller

    CTO @Postnl

    Anneke is currently the CTO of PostNL and has been working in the technology industry for 25 years. She has led IT teams through transformations, starting with KPN, where she helped the telecommunications company transition into a service organization and enter new markets like mobile and internet. At TomTom and Coolblue, Anneke's leadership saw huge growth in their IT departments. At Jumbo, she founded and led the Jumbo Tech Campus, significantly enhancing their online proposition. Her last employer, the e-commerce company Wehkamp, benefited from her expertise as she guided the IT organization through the challenging market conditions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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    Elias Nogueira

    Senior Principal Software Engineer @Backbase

    Elias is a Java Champion, Oracle ACE Pro, Java Magazine NL Editor, and Senior Principal Software Engineer at Backbase helping people to deliver high-quality software.

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    Nela Chereja

    Data Engineer @RTL

    Data devotee, with an unquenched thirst for knowledge and human development, who loves making cross-domain connections for innovative solutions.

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    Julia Flament-Wallin

    Engineering Manager @TomTom

    Julia Flament - Wallin is a Value driven Engineering leader with a strong technical background working at TomTom. She gravitates towards AI, Data Engineering, cloud, NLP and graph stuff.

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    Joan Chan

    Data Analytics Lead @RTL

    Joan's career began as a data analyst at Sizo Solutions, where she developed her analytical skills and learned the intricacies of data management. Her next step was to Pon Automotive in Leusden, where she expanded her knowledge in a new industry. The biggest leap in her career came at RTL, where she has now worked for over six years. At RTL, Joan has experienced impressive growth, advancing from data analyst to manager. Her passion for her work and dedication to the company have helped her achieve this position and excel in her role.

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    Oskar uit de Bos

    Engineering Manager @Albert Heijn Technology

    Oskar uit de Bos is an Engineering Manager at Albert Heijn with over fifteen years of experience in coding, architecture, building strong teams and delivering great products. Transitioned from the software consultancy world to the retail tech industry and loving it every day!

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    Lovely Gupta

    Engineering Manager @ IKEA

    Lovely Gupta, a software professional working as an Engineering Manager at IKEA. Graduated from BIT Sindri, India. With a passion for payments, leading one of the teams in IKEA Online Payments. Also, previously worked with Bol.com, a webshop in the Netherlands, and many other different domain companies

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    Constantine Gavrykov

    Sr Director of Product Design @Decathlon

    Design leader with more than 20 years of experience dedicated to Product and User Experiences that turn heads, drop jaws and deliver impactful business results, while helping grow highly-efficient, innovative, customer and culture oriented teams.

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    Milo Maneo

    VP of Engineering @Decathlon

    With 20+ years of experience as a web professional, I've developed a wealth of expertise in online projects with a particular focus on e-commerce. From the creative and technological aspects to the business side of things, I have a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities involved, and I excel at developing winning products and strategies that drive business success.

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    Rico Stuijt

    Principal Performance Measurement @JustEatTakeaway.com

    10+ years XP in online marketing, tracking and attribution. Rico makes sure that Marketing departments have maximum effect on total business.

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    Subhadhra Padmanabhan Dhandapani

    Senior Performance Data Analyst @JustEatTakeaway.com

    8+ years XP in data analytics. Su makes sure that Marketing departments are fueled with smart data to maximize efficiency.

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    Tom Cools

    Devrel@Timefold

    Developer Relations Engineer for Timefold, Java Champion and leader of the Belgian Java User Group. Tom has a decade worth of experience delivering systems and loves to share not only knowledge but also passion for our craft.

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    Medhat Dawoud

    Senior Software Engineer @ Miro

    Medhat is a Senior Software Engineer at Miro and a Google Developer Expert in Web Performance with extended experience in several web technologies, through his writings on his blog, online video courses, and talks he likes to share learnings, tips to write cleaner/reusable code, and useful DevTools, also he likes to speak about web performance and how to ship a fast and accessible web application to everyone.

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    Zachary Powell

    DevRel Manager @Vonage

    With 15 years of Android development experience, Zachary moved into DevRel at the start of 2021. While turning to the dark side and moving into management he's still very passionate about Android and all things mobile!

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    Daniel Laskewitz

    Senior Cloud Advocate @Microsoft

    Power Apps. Power Automate. Microsoft 365. Azure. Daniel works with a lot of different technologies. He loves low-code AND code. Daniel is a Power Platform Developer Advocate at Microsoft, where he continues to enthuse people about the possibilities of the Power Platform. Daniel loves to talk to you about what the Power Platform can do for you, whether you're a developer, an IT Pro, an architect, or an administrator.

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    JJ Asghar

    Developer Advocate @IBM

    JJ works as a Developer Advocate representing IBM all over the world. He mainly focuses on the IBM Kubernetes Service and OpenShift, trying to make companies and users have a successful onboarding to the Cloud Native ecosystem. He’s also been known in the DevOps tooling ecosystem and generalized Linux communities. If he isn’t building automation to make his work streamlined he’s building the groundwork to do just that. He lives and grew up in Austin, Texas. A father and husband, trying to learn to balance his natural nerdiness with family life. He enjoys a good strong dark ale, hoppy IPA, some team-building Artemis, and epic Gloomhaven campaigning. He has recently dove headfirst into Fedora since IBM bought Redhat, but still secretly wants FreeBSD everywhere. He’s always trying to become a better web technology developer, though he normally just uses bash to get the job done.

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    Alain van Hoof

    HPC Consultant @Eindhoven University of Technology

    Alain van Hoof is a Linux user since 1993, when XFree86 settings could blow up your VGA monitor. At the age of 42 (yes 42) he became a MSc in System and Network Engineering at the University of Amsterdam. Doing all the Hipster things like CI/CD and Cloud as a consultant he ended up where his heart belongs: in an academic HPC environment where he can do Linux professionally and at scale. At home his Kubernetes cluster in “de meterkast” has an uptime of many years, running a website with 1 visitor a day. Besides the IT, his hobbies in include (Islay) whisky, speed skating, running and cycling.

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    Ramona Schwering

    Devloper Advocate @ Auth0

    AUTHN IN VUE, THE IMPORTANT PARTS | Ramona, a Developer Advocate at Auth0, bridges roles as a tester and developer. She's a Google Dev Expert in Web Tech, Women Techmaker Ambassador, and Cypress Ambassador, building trust in test automation and identity topics.

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    Gilad Shoham

    VP of Engineering @Bit

    Currently leading the development team at Bit. A former architect and team lead of Sisense's full-stack web team, founder of Propcy and Stunity, and a graduate of IDF's elite programming unit.

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    Laly Bar-Ilan

    Chief Scientist @Bit

    Laly is Chief Scientist at Bit, a platform for composable software development. With 17 years of experience as a software engineer and data scientist specializing in NLP, Laly has helped multiple companies in different fields build and scale their products. Her unique blend of linguistics and software engineering expertise fuels her passion for advancing code semantics representation, retrieval, and generation.

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    Alisher Alimov

    Sr Sys Engineer @NVIDIA

    Dedicated software engineer with over 14 years of experience in the tech industry. Currently, working at Nvidia, where he focuses on cloud platform development, optimizing performance, and ensuring the scalability of complex systems.

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    Eduard Keilholz

    Cloud Solution Architect @4dotnet

    Eduard is a Cloud Solution Architect at 4DotNet (The Netherlands). He likes to help customers with implementing and experiencing cloud technologies. He likes to create highly performant software and help team members reach a higher skill level of software development. He focusses is on the Microsoft development stack, mainly C# and the Microsoft Azure Cloud, and has a strong affinity with Angular. He enjoys speaking at (inter)national conferences and contributing to community events. In 2020, Microsoft has recognized these community activities with the Microsoft MVP Award for Azure.

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    Nick Frolov

    Ai Enthusiast

    Nick writes software for 20+ years, in a variety of roles, growing from software engineer to the Head of Development and software services business in EPAM Netherlands. Now he is back to coding using AI Agents as his colleagues

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    Dhananjay Kumar

    Freelance, Organiser Angular India

    Dhananjay Kumar is a Consultant and Trainer from India and organizer of one of the world's largest Angular conferences, ng-India. He is a published Book Author, International Speaker, and Founder of geek97, which provides full enterprise-level training and consulting to various clients worldwide. Currently, he is focusing on Angular, .NET Core, Azure, and GraphQL. He lives in Gurgaon, India, and is writing his second Angular book and training for his first half marathon.

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    FullStack

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    Backend World

    Features: Microservices, Java/Kotlin, Python, Ruby, Scalability, Refactoring, APIs, DDD, Event Sourcing, CQRS, Relational, NoSQL, Graph and New age databases.

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    Future of AI

    AI Engineering, LLM's and Machine Learning Deep Dives bringing you a full overview on how to integrate AI and ML in your current products and how to elevate your teams productivity.

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    DevOps & Cloud

    How to enable the improvements in time-to-market and customer experience with digital transformation-related initiatives like cloud migration, microservices, observability and CI/CD.

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    Data Engineering

    Level Up Your Data Engineering Skills & Make Data Actionable

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    Engineering Management

    Join the Leadership Conference for Engineering Managers & Tech Leaders

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    ProductUp Management

    The Startup and Scaleup Conference of The Netherlands with Full Day of Product Management sessions.

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