Soft Skills & Career Development

Karl-Henrik "KH" Nilsson is a turbulently enthusiastic and unstoppably curious Swedish software developer with a soft spot for the software community. Having worked with everything from web applications to cellphone towers has given him a very particular set of skills and the habit of breaking out a soldering iron to solve the oddest of problems.

Today Karl-Henrik is a former MVP and Ex Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect that works in Dubai as a Senior Technical Architect at GAC! He focuses predominately on Azure and cloud technology and blogs at http://karl-henrik.se

Faris Aziz is a Staff Frontend Engineer specializing in React, Next.js, monetization systems, and resilient web architecture. He's led teams in early-stage startups and scaling companies, built career ladders from scratch, and shipped systems used by millions. His work spans greenfield builds and legacy refactors across Fintech, SaaS, Fitness, and Connected TV, with companies like Smallpdf, Fiit, Discovery, GCN, and Navro. He focuses on building performant, user-centric applications with solid observability and maintainability. Faris co-organizes ZurichJS, contributes to tools like Raycast, and spends time contemplating life's great questions, like why the build works on his machine but nowhere else.

Alex is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS. He is experienced in large scale and distributed architectures, Kubernetes, Open Source, DevOps, automation and emerging technologies. He has given talks and written blogs about software architecture, Kubernetes and AI. With a background as a systems engineer he still likes to write shell scripts.

Christos Psychogyios is a Principal Software Engineer and Lead Engineer of TalentLMS at Epignosis. He is an AWS Certified Engineer with over 13 years of experience in designing scalable, cloud-native systems and guiding engineering teams toward technical excellence.

His expertise lies in backend architecture, where he has led the evolution of large-scale platforms from monolithic applications to distributed microservices. He focus on Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) using technologies Amazon services, enabling resilient and loosely coupled systems that scale effectively. His knowledge is rooted in software engineering principles, extending through design patterns, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and Test-Driven Development (TDD) to deliver maintainable and business-aligned architectures.

He is passionate about Event-Driven Architecture, seeing it not just as a technical pattern but as a mindset for building adaptable and autonomous systems. He actively promote collaborative modeling practices like Event Storming to help teams uncover domain insights, align on shared understanding, and design solutions that truly reflect business behavior. As a mentor, he has helped engineers grow their careers, fostering a culture of trust, curiosity, and continuous improvement.