DEVWorldEngineering Managers
The Conference where Leaders in Tech Meet
- 29 Feb & 1 March 2024
- RAI Amsterdam
Roy Wasse
Co Founder @OpenValue
Passionate about software developer. Former speaker at conferences like Codemotion, Devoxx, JavaOne & JavaZone about various topics like Cryptograhy, Development trends, Java programming and Blockchain.
Marcin Pakulnick
Head of IT mobile app @ ING
Marcin Pakulnicki is the Head of IT for ING’s mobile app and the native mobile technology platform which is used in apps of ING across the world. He is a self-taught programmer, originally started as Flash Developer in the days when Flash was the awesome thing. From coding front-ends he gradually picked up Java and with advent of Android OS transitioned to mobile development, and later to fullstack DevOps with Java and modern front-end frameworks. Currently he is leading 17 teams with over 100 developers.
Abdessamad Dari
Managing Director @TechGrounds
Abdessamad Dari, is the managing director at Techgrounds, an organization focused on making IT education accessible and promoting diversity in the IT industry. Techgrounds offers free IT courses, training participants for various IT roles. Dari is committed to uncovering hidden talent and fostering diversity within his own organization, believing it leads to innovation and success.
David Kohnstamm
Co-Founder & Chief Sustainability Officer @Leafcloud
David is a co-founder, resident thermodynamics expert, and chief sustainability officer at Leafcloud. With his experience building servers and all things thermal, he helps shape our vision and designs our Leaf sites, transforming server heat into a reusable resource. Outside of work, David is a keen cycle-smith, proud father of two, and an avid board gamer.
Wendy Broersen
CEO/founder @Superpeople
Wendy Broersen is the CEO/founder of the Superpeople Company, which helps companies to attract, retain and develop a diverse workforce, worldwide. She likes to do things differently if she sees that conventional ways do not work or go fast enough. She developed a revolutionary model to get to an inclusive organization faster and easier, called AIM, and published her book “NOT for HR’ on it.
Georgeana Trofim
VP of Engineering @Booking.com
Technology leader experienced in building and scaling high performing organizations, in fast paced innovative environments. As Booking.com’s Senior Director of Software Development, she is responsible for key elements of Booking.com's platform and one of the drivers of the technology strategy in the Accommodations business. She oversees software development and reliability teams, as well as leading the software architecture function in Accommodations.
Krista Den Uijl
Chief Information Officer @Knab
Krista is a highly skilled CTO at online bank Knab. With her passion for transformation and broad experience in the financial sector, she has delivered impressive achievements in digitalization in recent years. As an expert at the intersection of business and IT, Krista has utilized her skills and drive to help Knab evolve in a constantly changing digital landscape. Krista's talent for connecting and inspiring her team to collaborate has helped Knab achieve better results for their customers. With her team, she is developing the IT platform for the future, which is key for Knab to be the digital but human bank that makes our entrepreneurs feel at ease with their finances, every day.
Sharon Klaver
Founder & Managing Director @Builders
Builders Studio’s Founder and Managing Director Sharon Klaver dishes out the trade secrets behind venture building efficiently. Speaking from experiences of over a decade of building software companies, she underscores the blend of adaptive engineering and strategic validation in startup creation, focusing on people over products.
Emma Bostian
Engineering Manager @Spotify
Emma is a US-American who moved to Stockholm, Sweden 3.5 years ago. She's an Engineer turned Manager at Spotify. She's a LinkedIn Learning and Frontend Masters instructor and in her free time enjoys reading books and playing with her daughter, Freja.
Cato Bui
Global Chief of Staff @DEPT®
Cato Bui is a professional with extensive experience in strategy, innovation, and consulting. She is currently the Global Chief of Staff at DEPT®, a pioneering technology and marketing services company that creates end-to-end digital experiences for global brands such as Google, Audi, KFC, Patagonia, Twitch, eBay, and Philips. We help our clients to pioneer by investing in innovation, and by leveraging our proprietary tech, data, and knowledge platforms for all our clients worldwide. We are experts in Technology Strategy & Architecture, Mobile App & Web Development, CX/UX, Commerce Platform, Cloud Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence. In 2022, the company launched WEB3/DEPT® - a global team of over 300 specialists including solidity engineers, ethicists, economists and game designers to build Web3 and the Metaverse. Before joining DEPT®, Cato held various positions at Google, including Agency Strategist and Google for Startups Operations Lead. In these roles, she owned and grew a portfolio of full-funnel advertisers, combining her knowledge of sales and the digital economy with her entrepreneurial drive to enable brands to further expand their businesses. Cato also has experience in consulting at Deloitte and strategy and innovation at ABN AMRO Bank. In 2017, she co-founded a cleantech startup in the maritime industry.
Sandor Voordes
Head of Engineering @DEPT®
Sandor Voordes is the Head of Engineering at DEPT®, leading a technology and platform agnostic team of over 100 engineers. With a strong focus on delivering comprehensive solutions, Sandor's team integrates content, commerce, and experience seamlessly with the business systems of clients.
Arnaud Porterie
Founder @Echoes, Ex VP engineering @ Veepee, ex senior EM @Docker
Arnaud Porterie, based in Amsterdam, is currently a Founder at Echoes HQ, bringing experience from previous roles at Veepee and Docker. He joined Veepee as VP Engineering after leaving a Senior Engineering Manager role at Docker in mid 2017. What began as overseeing a Paris-based organization of 180 ultimately evolved into the role of Deputy CTO, responsible for a European-wide group of 900. It allowed him to grasp the intricacies of managing a large-scale engineering team.
Marek Kiszkis
Software Engineer @Netflix
Marek Kiszkis has been developing software for the last 10+ years, at companies like IBM, Google, and most recently, Netflix. He believes in simple solutions to complicated problems.
Rachel Nabors
Software Developer
Rachel Nabors has spear headed developer education at FAANG companies like Amazon and startups like Clerk and participated web standards and opensource with Mozilla, the W3C, Microsoft. They have built award winning dev portals for React and React Native with the core teams at Meta. They are currently roaming the world, working on opensource projects that teach the world to code from their homebase in London.
Igor Sydorenko
Senior Manager, AEM/WF/Commerce @Adobe
With over 15 years of development experience, 12 of which were dedicated to Magento development, and 8 years in consulting, I bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the table. Throughout my career, I have demonstrated a passion for delivering high-quality solutions and a commitment to continuous improvement.
Sven Peters
DevOps Advocate @Atlassian
DevOps advocate at Atlassian, has been studying trends in software development for the last 15 years uncovering the cultural and technical attributes to help development teams work effectively and drive innovation. He has 20 years experience in writing code, leading teams, and sharing his experience with thousands of developers at uncountable conferences in 25+ countries.
Daniel Thompson-Yvetot
Cofounder @Tauri Apps
Open Source Advocate and the co-founder of Tauri Apps. He currently occupies the seat of Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Tauri programme, which is the commons-focussed governance body for the greater Tauri community. His work over the past decades has been at the intersections of technology and culture, with a dash of philosophy and heaping portions of compassion. He is the CEO of CrabNebula, a company partnered with Tauri and offers tools to make devs' lives better and their apps more robust. He lives and works in Malta.
Lucy Mair
Senior Software Engineer @CodeSignal
Lucy Mair is a senior front-end software developer at Codat, where they work primarily in TypeScript and React, with a bit of F# thrown in to keep things interesting. Their main passions on the programming front are functional programming and testing.
Claude Warren
Senior Open Source Software Engineer @Aiven
Claude Warren is a Senior Software Engineer with over 30 years experience. He is currently employed by Aiven in Best, Netherlands where, as a member of the Open Source Program Office. He works on the Apache Cassandra project, and supports other projects. He is a Committer and Project Management Committee member on the Apache Jena project, has contributed to other Apache projects such as commons-collections, commons-codec, and RAT. He has contributed to the Raspberry PI pi-gen tool and has several small open source projects on Github. He has presented papers at several conferences and has several papers published both in the popular IT press and in refereed journals. He is a founding member of the Denver Mad Scientists Club and winner of the original Critter Crunch competition.
Harijs Deksnis
Director of Software Engineering @ Passionate People
Harijs Deksnis, Director of Engineering, blends passion for tech with pragmatic tech leadership.With 20 years in software development and team leadership focus, Harijs revels in turning complex tech challenges into opportunities. At this conference, he’ll share key insights on shaping your organisation and building stellar teams.
Ronen Agranat
Software engineering management @Booking
A seasoned engineering leader with proven track record in high-volume, customer-facing product delivery, I combine my experience in business with my strong engineering background and people-first focus to create a high-performing organisations that innovate, achieve the mission, and go the extra mile. My experience spans entrepreneurial apps and businesses through to start-ups, scale-ups and Fortune 500 companies. I am a passionate, committed, hardworking and goal-oriented team player, who believes in the long-term vision while delivering value every step of the way.
Liliana Bermudes
Chief Strategy Officer @ CodeYourFuture
Liliana Bermudes is the Chief Strategy Officer at CodeYourFuture (CYF), a UK-based community that trains low-income groups to become web developers. Previously, Liliana served as CYF's Programme Innovation and Community Leadership Director.
Shivany Powani
Senior Technical Program Manager @C&A
Shivany is a seasoned Senior Technical Program Manager at C&A, situated in the vibrant city of Berlin. With a decade-long career, she has spent the past 7 years immersing herself in the fast-paced world of fintech and payments technology, a domain that continues to both captivate and challenge her on a daily basis. A true advocate for leadership, Shivany derives great satisfaction from cultivating meaningful connections and fostering vibrant communities. Alongside her professional endeavors, she has embraced a new role as a first-time mother to a spirited toddler, firmly upholding the belief that one can harmoniously integrate ambitious professional pursuits with the joys of motherhood.
Daniel Gebler
Chief Technology Officer @Picnic
Daniel Gebler is CTO of Picnic, the world's fastest growing online supermarket that makes grocery shopping simple, fun, and affordable for everyone. Previously, he was Director R&D of Fredhopper, responsible for the product and technology roadmap, and led engineering teams located in Amsterdam and Sofia.
Deniz Yalcin
Manager IT Service Management Processes @ING
Fabian Blechschmidt
CEO @winkelwagen-de Developer @mage-one-com and safefive
Soner Sayakci
Principal Software Engineer @Shopware
Masterclasses
Your ticket includes a 2-hour Masterclass designed specifically for engineering managers and leadership roles. It's tailored to equip you with the knowledge and strategies needed to lead and make informed decisions for your team and as a company.
Team Bonding & Networking
Make Professional Connections for Life whilst bonding with your whole engineering Team at our Daily Networking Areas, Mixers and Meetups throughout Amsterdam.
Reach out to
1,000 Decision Makers
Devworld Conference brings you the unique opportunity to reach out directly to 1,000 Decision Makers with the ability to directly buy your product. Grab your chance to immediately promote your Product or Hiring Needs among Backend, Frontend and DevOps & Cloud Developers flying in from 42 countries representing 798 companies.
