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Alexander, a 35-year-old Software Engineer at JDriven, holds dual Dutch and Greek nationality. He earned his master’s degree in Game Studies from the University of Amsterdam, where he discovered his passion for gamification and software engineering. Alexander aims to bridge the gap between game development and software engineering, believing that both industries have much to learn from each other. He is dedicated to integrating technologies and methodologies from both fields. Additionally, he enjoys experimenting with new technologies and cutting-edge sdk's.

Alexey is a Staff Engineer at CloudLinux, building CLI tools and infrastructure that help teams ship across Java, Python, and .NET codebases. His background spans platform security at Apple, data engineering at Amazon, and ML infrastructure at Neu.ro — a thread that led naturally to his current work on LLM-powered developer tools. He's particularly interested in the messy engineering problems that emerge when you put AI agents into real production pipelines: liveness, failure containment, and treating prompts like code. Outside of work, Alexey runs an unreasonable number of self-hosted services and is always one Zigbee device away from home automation perfection.

I’m a software engineer with a background in consultancy, extreme programming, and R&D, as well as a podcaster and author. I focus on software architecture and design, building processes and teams that work, and shipping products that deliver value for users.

Ana is a Java Champion Alumni, Developer Advocate for the Java Platform Group at Oracle, guest author of the book "DevOps tools for Java Developers", and a constant adopter of challenging technical scenarios involving Java-based frameworks and multiple cloud providers. She actively supports technical communities' growth through knowledge sharing and enjoys curating content for conferences as a program committee member. To learn more about/from her, follow her on Twitter @ammbra1508.

Ananya is a Senior Engineer and Web Standards enthusiast who previously worked at Samsung R&D Institute UK (Samsung Electronics), where she collaborated closely with several W3C working groups – including Web Applications, Devices and Sensors, Accessible Platform Architecture, and Web DX – helping shape the capabilities of the modern web at the intersection of standards development and developer advocacy.Outside of the web standards world, she has built high-performant, user-centric web applications with React and Angular for major clients. Having lived on both sides of the table – as a developer who consumes the platform and as someone who has helped define it – she brings a unique perspective on how the web evolves and why certain decisions are made. She writes code, and a whole bunch of standards too. Outside of work, you will find her travelling or jamming to some cool music.

Anders Norås started out in arts and design, but for the last 25 years he has been creating magic with code instead of paint. Blending creativity with technical skill, he brings a perspective on technology that is as much about people as it is about software.He has given more than 100 talks at conferences around the world. His presentations are not just lectures, they are experiences. With a sharp delivery and high energy, Anders turns even dry technical material into something lively, memorable and often funny.Whether you are into computer science, design, media or anything else, Anders offers insights that will make you think and probably make you laugh. He does not just talk about technology. He brings it to life.

Anne Currie is a tech veteran of over 30 years working on everything from high performance C servers in the 90's to international online lingerie at one of the early ecommerce pioneers in the naughties, to modern ops, efficiency, flexibility and sustainability in the 10's and 20's.She is the author of O'Reilly's Building Green Software, The Cloud Native Attitude and the scifi Panopticon series. She is the host of a brand new software engineering podcast, Asynchronous & Unreliable where she chats to leading folk in their fields about the concepts that underlie the modern tech industry

Starting as an Avionics Engineering Technician Apprentice in the Royal Air Force, the following decade was full of life changing experiences and opportunities to learn and grow. Living all over the UK and travelling around the world provided insight into technology and people. When it was time to change, those experiences and education allowed the transition into technology design with a focus in avionics and military. The following 7 years brought opportunity to develop as a systems thinker working through different challenges to become a member of the highly regarded research organisation at GE Aviation. During Covid-19, another opportunity presented itself to join BAE Systems Applied Intelligence to move away from aviation and work on deployed technologies supporting the Royal Navy’s surface fleet. As that project wound down the next opportunity was presented to focus on enhancing deployed military capabilities with data and AI technologies. As an experienced engineer with a focus on systems design and military technologies, I lead a multidisciplinary engineering team, with accountability for design assurance, product design and technical leadership. Outside of work I am a keen musician and play in a number of bands in my free time

Hello world, I am Anupriya, a software engineer by profession and aknowledge hungry researcher by heart.I originally come from India. Over the years of living and experiencingmultiple countries and cultures, I have come to consider myself as a trulyglobal citizen who is really keen on learning and applying those learnings.Computer Science and Engineering is my field of both interest andexpertise. After completing my Bachelors and with about a decade of industry experience and the academic curiosity, I am ready to bring the best of both worlds together and pursue a career which is at a cutting edge of both.

I'm Artem, Lead Platform Engineer at Revolut, where I've spent the last five and a half years helping the company scale through some of its most intense growth phases. With 12 years in software engineering – eight of them in banking and fintech – I've developed a deep appreciation for the tension between moving fast and building things to last.My work sits at the intersection of developer experience, platform tooling, and engineering culture. I'm drawn to the hard problems that come with rapid scaling: how teams stay autonomous without siloing, how constraints can be a feature rather than a bug, and how we build systems – both technical and organisational – that get better under pressure.Outside of work, I channel that same obsession with tooling into my kitchen; there's always a new cooking gadget being trialled, optimised, or quietly retired.

Artem Makarov is a Principal Engineer at Code Nomads. He's been working on Java projects in various industries for the past 12 years. Having Masters in Electronics Engineering he is passionate for applying engineering practices in his projects, contributing to better software design and reliability. Besides his developer role, he frequently helps aspiring developers to master software developer craft by sharing knowledge and hosting trainings. In his free time he enjoys traveling, road cycling and learning electronic music production.

Members of the Aspiring Speakers initiative, taking their first steps onto the conference stage at this year's Devoxx UK

Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) did Java before it had generics, DevOps before there was Docker, and DevRel before it had a name. He started DevRel at JFrog when it was ten people and took it all the way to a successful $6B IPO by helping engineers solve problems. Now, Baruch keeps helping engineers solve problems, but also helps companies help engineers solve problems. He is a co-author of the "Liquid Software" and "DevOps Tools for Java Developers" books, Java Champion and CNCF Ambassador alumni, serves on multiple conference program committees, and regularly speaks at numerous most prestigious industry conferences, such as DevNexus, DevOpsDays, Voxxed Days, Devoxx, DevRelCon, Kubecon and QCon. Today, he enables AI agents for every developer out there at Tessl.

Curious and passionate. Java developer and Elasticsearch consultant. I try to pass on what I learned before it becomes obsolete.

Bilgin is driven by a long-standing passion for writing, and sharing his experience in building and operating enterprise software in the real world. Throughout his career, he has focused on observing recurring problems, synthesising best practices, and turning hard-earned lessons into reusable patterns that help engineers think, communicate, and build better systems. This mindset is reflected in his work as the author of Camel Design Patterns and co-author of Kubernetes Patterns.

Bouke Nijhuis is the CTO at CINQ ICT. He likes to learn new things and he loves to live code on the stage. Furthermore he is an international speaker and a committer of open source projects. You can reach him on Bluesky at @boukenijhuis.bsky.social.

Originally from Argentina, I've been living in the Barcelona area for +20 years. Started in the IT world in 2006, building my career within the Finance and Insurance business. My path started as a developer in different areas (business oriented and also more technical tasks). I have also been working on development support and a brief DevOps period, until my current position as a Security Architect.In my free time I enjoy music, reading, climbing, pilates, traveling, socializing and spending time with my dog.

Staff Developer Advocate for Snyk, Java Champion, Oracle Ace Pro, and Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience in creating and maintaining software. He is passionate about Java, (Pure) Functional Programming and Cybersecurity. Brian is a JUG leader for the Virtual JUG and the NLJUG. He also co-leads the DevSecCon community and is a community manager for Foojay. He is a regular international speaker on mostly Java-related conferences like JavaOne, Devnexus, Devoxx, Jfokus, JavaZone and many more. Besides all that, Brian is a military reserve for the Royal Netherlands Air Force and a Taekwondo Master / Teacher.

Carly is Developer Advocate Lead at Elastic, based in London, UK. Before joining Elastic in 2022, she spent over 10 years as a software engineer at a large investment bank, specialising in front-end web development and agility. She is a UI developer who dabbles in writing backend services, a speaker, and a regular blogger.She enjoys cooking, photography, drinking tea, and chasing after her young son in her spare time.

Cedric Clyburn (@cedricclyburn), Senior Developer Advocate at Red Hat, is an enthusiastic software developer with a background in Kubernetes, DevOps, and container tools. Focused on open-source software, he both contributes (e.g., Podman, vLLM) and enjoys speaking, with prior experience at Devoxx, WeAreDevelopers, The Linux Foundation, and more. Cedric also spends (too much) time creating video and written content helping developers learn new topics in emerging technologies, with over 2M+ views online. He’s based in New York City and is an organizer of the local Kubernetes Community Day.

After having a career as a Data Scientist and Developer Advocate, Cheuk dedicated her work to the open-source community. Currently, she is working as a developer advocate for JetBrains. She has co-founded Humble Data, a beginner Python workshop that has been happening around the world. Cheuk also started and hosted a Python podcast, PyPodCats, which highlights the achievements of underrepresented members in the community. She has served the EuroPython Society board for two years and is now a fellow and director of the Python Software Foundation.

Christian is a fullstack engineer with over 15 years of experience as an engineer. He started with Java and since 9 years works also in the frontend with Angular, TypeScript and JavaScript. Besides his daily work he enjoys giving talks, creating YouTube videos for his over 8000 subscribers or works on his open source projects. If there is time left he gives workshops and writes articles.

Over 20 years Christopher has spent time in most areas of software delivery, product development, JVM library development (concurrency/distributed systems), Infrastructure engineering, architecture & system design and most recently Platform Engineering. He has a passion for speed and stability. Focusing on what we need to do next to speed up the software delivery lifecycle.Over the years he’s contributed to many open source projects including Akka & Kubernetes.

Daniel Garnier is a software engineer on the Spring team, working on Spring Security and Spring AI.He's one of the maintainers of the Java MCP SDK.

Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author