Start 2026 with the ClickHouse India community in Gurgaon!

Connect with fellow data practitioners and hear from industry experts through engaging talks focused on lessons learned, best practices, and modern data challenges.

Agenda:

• 10:30 AM: Registration, light snacks & networking
• 11:00 AM: Welcome & Introductions
• 11:10 AM: Inside ClickStack: Engineering Observability for Scale by Rakesh Puttaswamy, Lead Solutions Architect @ ClickHouse
• 11:35 AM: Supercharging Personalised Notifications At Jobhai With ClickHouse by Sumit Kumar and Arvind Saini, Tech Leads @ Info Edge
• 12:00 PM: Simplifying CDC: Migrating from Debezium to ClickPipes by Abhash Solanki, DevOps Engineer @ Spyne AI
• 12:25 PM: Solving Analytics at Scale: From CDC to Actionable Insights by Kunal Sharma, Software Developer @ Samarth eGov
• 12:50 PM: Q&A
• 1:30 PM: Lunch & Networking

👉🏼 RSVP to secure your spot!

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******** 🎤 Session Details: Inside ClickStack: Engineering Observability for Scale Dive deep into ClickStack, ClickHouse’s fresh approach to observability built for engineers who care about speed, scale, and simplicity. We’ll unpack the technical architecture behind how ClickStack handles metrics, logs, and traces using ClickHouse as the backbone for real-time, high-cardinality analytics. Expect a hands-on look at ingestion pipelines, schema design patterns, query optimization, and the integrations that make ClickStack tick.

Speaker: Rakesh Puttaswamy, Lead Solutions Architect @ ClickHouse

🎤 Session Details: Supercharging Personalised Notifications At Jobhai With ClickHouse Calculating personalized alerts for 2 million users is a data-heavy challenge that requires more than just standard indexing. This talk explores how Jobhai uses ClickHouse to power its morning notification pipeline, focusing on the architectural shifts and query optimizations that made our massive scale manageable and fast.

Speaker: Sumit Kumar and Arvind Saini, Tech Leads @ Info Edge Sumit is a seasoned software engineer with deep expertise in databases, backend systems, and machine learning. For over six years, he has led the Jobhai engineering team, driving continuous improvements across their database infrastructure and user-facing systems while streamlining workflows through ongoing innovation. Connect with Sumit Kumar on LinkedIn.

Arvind is a Tech Lead at Info Edge India Ltd with experience building and scaling backend systems for large consumer and enterprise platforms. Over the years, they have worked across system design, backend optimization, and data-driven services, contributing to initiatives such as notification platforms, workflow automation, and product revamps. Their work focuses on improving reliability, performance, and scalability of distributed systems, and they enjoy solving complex engineering problems while mentoring teams and driving technical excellence.

🎤 Session Details: Simplifying CDC: Migrating from Debezium to ClickPipes In this talk, Abhash will share their engineering team's journey migrating our core MySQL and MongoDB CDC flows to ClickPipes. We will contrast our previous architecture—where every schema change required manual intervention or complex Debezium configurations—with the new reality of ClickPipes' automated schema evolution, which seamlessly handles upstream schema changes and ingests flexible data without breaking pipelines.

Speaker: Abhash Solanki, DevOps Engineer @ Spyne AI Abhash serves as a DevOps Engineer at Spyne, orchestrating the AWS infrastructure behind the company's data warehouse and CDC pipelines. Having managed complex self-hosted Debezium and Kafka clusters, he understands the operational overhead of running stateful data stacks in the cloud. He recently led the architectural shift to ClickHouse Cloud, focusing on eliminating engineering toil and automating schema evolution handling.

🎤 Session Details: Solving Analytics at Scale: From CDC to Actionable Insights As SAMARTH’s data volumes grew rapidly, our analytics systems faced challenges with frequent data changes and near real-time reporting. These challenges were compounded by the platform’s inherently high cardinality in multidimensional data models - spanning institutions, programmes, states, categories, workflow stages, and time, resulting in highly complex and dynamic query patterns.

This talk describes how we evolved from basic CDC pipelines to a fast, reliable, and scalable near real-time analytics platform using ClickHouse. We share key design and operational learnings that enabled us to process continuous high-volume transactional data and deliver low-latency analytics for operational monitoring and policy-level decision-making.

Speaker: Kunal Sharma, Software Developer @ Samarth eGov Kunal Sharma is a data-focused professional with experience in building scalable data pipelines. His work includes designing and implementing robust ETL/ELT workflows, data-driven decision engines, and large-scale analytics platforms. At SAMARTH, he has contributed to building near real-time analytics systems, including the implementation of ClickHouse for large-scale, low-latency analytics.

Google SRE NYC proudly announces our last Google SRE NYC Tech Talk for 2025.

This event is co-sponsored by sentry.io. Thank you Sentry for your partnership!

Let's farewell 2025 with three amazing interactive short talks on Site Reliability and DevOps topics! As always the event will include an opportunity to mingle with the speakers and attendees over some light snacks and beverages after the talks.

The Meetup will take place on Tuesday, 16th of December 2025 at 6:00 PM at our Chelsea Markets office in NYC. The doors will open at 5:30 pm. Pls RSVP only if you're able to attend in-person, there will be no live streaming.

When RSVP'ing to this event, please enter your full name exactly as it appears on your government issued ID. You will be required to present your ID at check in.

Agenda: Paul Jaffre - Senior Developer Experience Engineer\, sentry.io One Trace to Rule Them All: Unifying Sentry Errors with OpenTelemetry tracing SREs face the challenge of operating reliable observability infrastructure while avoiding vendor lock-in from proprietary APM (Application Performance Monitoring) solutions. OpenTelemetry has become the standard for instrumenting applications, allowing teams to collect traces, metrics, and logs. But raw telemetry data isn't enough. SREs need tools to visualize, debug, and respond to production incidents quickly. Sentry now supports OTLP, enabling teams to send OpenTelemetry data directly to Sentry for analysis. This talk covers how Sentry's OTLP support works in practice: connecting frontend and backend traces across services, correlating logs with distributed traces, and using tools to identify slow queries and performance bottlenecks. We'll discuss the practical benefits for SREs, like faster incident resolution, better cross-team debugging, and the flexibility to change observability backends without re-instrumenting code. Paul’s background spans engineering, product management, UX design, and open source. He has a soft spot for dev tools and loses sleep over making things easy to understand and use. Paul has a dynamic professional background, from strategy to stability. His time at Krossover Intelligence established a strong foundation by blending Product Management with hands-on development, and he later focused on core reliability at MakerBot, where he implemented automated end-to-end testing and drove performance improvements. He then extended this expertise in stability and scale at Cypress.io, where he served as a Developer Experience Engineer, focusing on improving workflow, contribution, and usability for their widely adopted open-source community.

Thiara Ortiz - Cloud Gaming SRE Manager\, Netflix Managing Black Box Systems SREs often face ambiguity when managing black box systems (LLMs, Games, Poorly Understood Dependencies). We will discuss how Netflix monitors service health as black boxes using multiple measurement techniques to understand system behavior, aligning with the need for robust observability tools. These strategies are crucial for system reliability and user experience. By proactively identifying and resolving issues, we ensure smoother playback experience and maintain user trust, even as the platform continues to evolve and gain maturity. The principles shared within this talk can be expanded to other applications such as AI reliability in data quality and model deployments.

Thiara has worked at some of the largest internet companies in the world, Meta and Netflix. During her time at Meta, Thiara found a passion for distributed systems and bringing new hardware into production. Always curious to explore new solutions to complex problems, Thiara developed Fleet Scanner, internally known as Lemonaid, to perform memory, compute, and storage benchmarks on each Meta server in production. This service runs on over 5 million servers and continues to be utilized at Meta. Since Meta, Thiara has been working at Netflix as a Senior CDN Reliability engineer, and now, Cloud Gaming SRE Manager. When incidents occur and Netflix's systems do not behave as expected, Thiara can be found working and engaging the necessary teams to remediate these issues.

Andrew Espira - Platform and Site Reliability Engineer\, Founding Engineer kustode ML-Powered Predictive SRE: Using Behavioral Signals to Prevent Cluster Inefficiencies Before They Impact Production SREs managing ML clusters often discover resource inefficiencies and queue bottlenecks only after they've impacted production services. This talk presents a machine learning approach to predict these issues before they occur, transforming SRE from reactive firefighting to proactive system optimization. We demonstrate how to build predictive models using production cluster traces that identify two critical failure modes: (1) GPU under-utilization relative to requested resources, and (2) abnormal queue wait times that indicate impending service degradation. The SRE practitioners will learn how to extract early warning indicators from standard cluster logs, build ML models that provide actionable confidence scores for operational decisions, and take practical steps to integrate predictive analytics into existing SRE toolchains to achieve 50%+ reduction in resource waste and queue-related incidents This talk bridges the gap between traditional SRE observability and modern predictive analytics, showing how teams can evolve from reactive monitoring to intelligent, forward-looking reliability engineering" Andrew has over 8 years of experience architecting and maintaining large-scale distributed systems. He is the Founding Engineer of Kustode (kustode.com), where he develops cutting-edge reliability and observability solutions for modern infrastructure in the Insurance and health care solutions space. Currently pursuing graduate studies in Data Science at Saint Peter's University, he specializes in the intersection of reliability engineering and artificial intelligence. His research focuses on applying machine learning to operational challenges, with publications in peer-reviewed venues including ScienceDirect. He's passionate about making complex systems more predictable and maintainable through data-driven approaches. When not optimizing cluster performance or building the next generation of observability tools, Andrew enjoys contributing to open-source projects and mentoring early-career engineers in the SRE community.

Our Tech Talks series are for professional development and networking: no recruiters, sales or press please! Google is committed to providing a harassment-free and inclusive conference experience for everyone, and all participants must follow our Event Community Guidelines. The event will be photographed and video recorded.

Event space is limited! A reservation is required to attend. Reserve your spot today and share the event details with your SRE/DevOps friends 🙂

We’ll go beyond theory with a live demonstration of explainable AI-generated pull requests for Terraform. We’ll also have a candid discussion about what it really takes for engineers to trust AI in their infrastructure.

DevOps Society Meetup – Thursday 9th October @6PM

Location: Colony Fabrica, 269 Great Ancoats St, Manchester, M4 7DB

We’re excited to invite you to our next DevOps Society Meetup, hosted at Colony Fabrica in Manchester. This event brings together the DevOps, AI, and cloud-native community for an evening of conversation, learning, and networking.

A huge thank you to Colony for providing the venue, and support!

Format of the Meetup: 6:00pm – 6:30pm — Networking on arrival, with pizza and drinks provided by ReVybe IT. 6:30pm – 7:10pm — First speaker will take to the stage 7:10pm – 7:20pm — Break for refreshments and networking 7:20pm – 8:00pm — Second speaker will take to the stage 8:00pm onwards — More networking at the venue and then at a nearby pub

Timings can vary depending on the length of the Q&A after each talk!

We are delighted to welcome two fantastic speakers to our event at Colony Fabrica.

SPEAKER 1 - Matt Houghton - Data & AI Architect @ CDL

AWS Community Builder \| AWS Ambassador \| AWS Gold Jacket Certification All-Star Matt is an Architect at CDL Software, where he spends his time undertaking R&D and working with customers and internal teams on their most complex challenges. He is an AWS Community Builder, AWS Ambassador, and holds every AWS certification. In 2021, Qlik recognised Matt as one of their 50 Global Luminaries for his measurable impact with data and community contributions.

Talk Title: Ensure the Security and Reliability of Your GenAI Workloads with Amazon Bedrock In this session, Matt will explore emerging risks associated with GenAI-based workloads and share strategies for testing, securing, and monitoring them using Amazon Bedrock. He’ll highlight and demonstrate some of the latest features announced for Amazon Bedrock, showcasing how they can help you design more effective and reliable GenAI workloads.

SPEAKER 2 - Ben Clark - DevOps Consultant Ben Clark is a DevOps consultant with over a decade of experience leading platform engineering and automation across large enterprises. He specialises in distributed systems, ML-Ops, and data engineering. Ben also maintains open-source projects at sudoblark.com and is pursuing a BSc in Computing and IT, focusing on the mathematics of machine learning and its application to constrained and embedded systems.

Talk Title: A Hands-On Introduction to Quantisation: From Neural Weights to Edge Deployment This session builds a working understanding of neural network weights using simple perceptrons, then explains how quantisation reduces model size and computation. Ben will walk through the practical steps of deploying a quantised model to a Raspberry Pi, demonstrating how these techniques make neural networks viable on constrained hardware.

Please RSVP to book your spot. Space is limited, so it’s first come, first served! We look forward to seeing you all there.

Ben & Vytas – Co-organisers.

DevOps Society Meetup – Wednesday 1st October @6PM

Location: Zilch Offices, London - 111 Buckingham Palace Rd, London SW1W 0SR

We’re excited to invite you to our next DevOps Society Meetup, hosted by Zilch in London. This event brings together the DevOps and cloud-native community for an evening of conversation, learning, and networking.

A huge thank you to Zilch for sponsoring this event, and for providing the venue, refreshments, and support!

Format of the Meetup:

6:00pm – 6:30pm — Networking on arrival, with pizza and drinks provided by Zilch 6:30pm – 7:10pm — First speakers will take to the stage 7:10pm – 7:20pm — Break for refreshments and networking 7:20pm – 8:00pm — Second speaker will take to the stage 8:00pm onwards — More networking at the venue and then at a nearby pub

Timings can vary depending on the length of the Q&A after each talk!

We are delighted to welcome three fantastic speakers to our event at Zilch, across two talks.

SPEAKERS 1 & 2 – Nick Gilbert & Sean Hederman

Nick Gilbert – DevOps Engineer III at Zilch

Nick Gilbert is a Senior DevOps Engineer with a decade of experience working across public and private cloud systems. He has worked extensively with CI/CD and immutable infrastructure, focusing on modernising on-premise solutions into cloud-native architectures. Since joining Zilch, Nick has enhanced system capabilities to shorten feedback loops, improve the developer experience, and increase the reliability of CI/CD pipelines.

Sean Hederman – CTO at Zilch

With nearly three decades of experience in technology delivery and leadership, Sean Hederman has been instrumental in shaping Zilch’s technological evolution as Chief Technology Officer. He previously held senior roles in technology and DevOps at leading organisations, gaining deep expertise in building and scaling enterprise-grade systems. At Zilch, Sean designed and built the company’s foundational technology and platforms, scaling the team from just a few engineers to more than 120 specialists across multiple disciplines and regions. Originally from South Africa and now based in London, Sean is a recognised thought leader in AI and a leading voice in software engineering, architecture, and DevSecOps.

Talk Title: ZOE and Zephyrs: An Overview of Our Journey to Ephemeral Environments at Zilch

Nick and Sean will take us through the architecture, challenges, and triumphs of establishing ephemeral environments at Zilch.

They’ll share insights into:

• How Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and AWS power ephemeral environments at scale, at Zilch.
• The organisational and technical hurdles they had to overcome
• The wins (and lessons learned) from adopting ephemeral environments in a fast-paced fintech environment

Expect a candid walkthrough of what it really takes to make ephemeral environments reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly.

SPEAKER 3 – Dhruv Parekh

Senior DevOps Engineer at EDF

Dhruv Parekh is a Senior DevOps Engineer at EDF, specialising in cloud engineering and automation. With over 4 years of experience in building scalable DevOps solutions, Dhruv focuses on driving automation strategies that go beyond the basics of infrastructure as code, bringing a holistic approach to engineering efficiency and business value. Dhruv is also a valued member of our community, holding the "Ambassador for Terraform" title!

Talk Title: Automating Beyond Terraform

When people hear DevOps automation, many think of Terraform plans and YAML pipelines. While powerful, they’re only part of the picture. In this talk, Dhruv explores what it means to automate beyond Terraform:

• Using Python to stitch together cross-cloud tasks and business logic Terraform can’t reach
• Building dashboards with Power BI to bring automation full circle, telling the story of your platform
• Thinking like a solution architect to design scalable, observable automations that deliver lasting value, not just quick fixes

By the end of this talk, you’ll see automation not just as code, but as a way to design the entire lifecycle of change, from idea to insight.

Please RSVP to book your spot. Space is limited, so it’s first come, first served! We look forward to seeing you all there.

Ben & Vytas – Co-organisers.

Platform Engineering : de la jungle DevOps à l’autoroute des développeurs.

Depuis plus de dix ans, DevOps, CI/CD et Cloud promettent fluidité et autonomie. Pourtant, beaucoup d’équipes subissent encore la complexité des environnements avec sa jungle d’outils et un onboarding difficile. Le Platform Engineering propose une réponse : créer une Internal Developer Platform (IDP), pensée comme un produit, pour offrir aux développeurs une expérience cohérente et en self-service.

En 45 minutes, nous verrons : 🔎 Comment DevOps montre ses limites dans les organisations. 🛠️ Les principes et cas d’usage du Platform Engineering. 🚀 Dans quelles mesures une IDP peut impacter positivement le quotidien. 🧩 Les étapes clés pour bâtir une IDP 💎 Un ensemble de ressources pour alimenter vos projets d’IDP

Vous repartirez avec une vision claire du mouvement et des idées pratiques pour démarrer.

Par Aurélien Maury, CTO de WeScale

Notre partenaire et hébergeur des meetups du 2e semestre 2025 : WeScale

Bonjour à toutes et à tous,

Nous sommes ravis de vous annoncer le prochain Meetup AWS User Group Paris du mois de mai en présentiel ! 🚀

🗓️ Quand ? Mardi 13 mai, à partir de 18h30 📍 Où ? Dans les bureaux de Onepoint : Onepoint live, 29, rue des sablons, 75116 Paris

Au programme:

*** 🎤 Talk 1 - 18h45 : “Cloud Booster - Du cloud en self-service maîtrisé." par Edouard De Brye - Ingénieur Cloud & Devops , Onepoint

Cloud Booster est un modèle de plateforme d’engineering interne, basée sur Backstage et AWS, conçue pour accélérer et sécuriser la création de ressources cloud au sein des équipes de développement. En fournissant une collection de templates standardisés et maintenus par l’organisation, la plateforme permet de déployer des stacks réutilisables (infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, etc.), tout en appliquant les politiques de sécurité, de gouvernance et les meilleures pratiques DevOps. Cloud Booster agit comme un catalyseur pour l’autonomie des équipes, tout en assurant un cadre maîtrisé, évolutif et auditable. Au cours de son talk, Edouard vous présentera comment Backstage a été implémenté et déployé, ainsi que des exemples d’implémentation de “Produits”, à savoir les templates Backstage et leurs actions.

*** 🎤 Talk 2 - 19h30 : “De l’Orchestration au Démantèlement : Comment nous avons géré la liquidation d’une FinTech Cloud-Native serverless et les leçons de résilience tirées.” par Jonathan Bernales - CTO, Germen (ex-CTO structure liquidée) et Ugo Cottin - DevOps, Architect Germen (ex DevOps)

Que se passe-t-il lorsqu'une société régulée dans la finance doit soudainement cesser ses activités et migrer des données critiques en quelques jours seulement ? Ce retour d'expérience raconte comment nous avons affronté le défi de démanteler un écosystème multi-comptes AWS entièrement serverless, conçu en architecture micro-services.

Cette présentation soulignera l'importance de mettre en place des mécanismes de résilience, mais surtout le fait de devoir les tester régulièrement pour éviter les mauvaises surprises...

*** 20h15 : Networking et pizzas 🍕

Nous avons hate de vous retrouver pour ce meetup.

Platform Engineering promises to be the next evolutionary step beyond DevOps and SRE by reducing complexity and unlocking efficiency by shifting tasks down into the platform. Join us and connect with fellow experts in DevOps, SRE, and the Platform Engineering community to discuss essential new tools and principles needed for successful digital transformations in 2025. Gain valuable advice, guidance, and networking opportunities.

Details

Our first Birmingham DevOps Society meetup event of 2025 has arrived! We are delighted to be hosted by BJSS, in Birmingham city centre.

In this event, we will be hearing from two exciting speakers. Jason Content, will be going through building cloud infrastructure as code, while Mateusz will be diving into what Express Route Cross Connects are! Format of the meetup event will be as follows: 6pm – 6:30pm - Networking on arrival coupled with pizza and drinks provided by ReVybe IT. 6:30pm – 7pm – First speaker will take to the stage. 7pm – 7:10pm – Break for refreshments and networking 7:10pm – 7:40pm – Second speaker will take to the stage. 8pm onwards – Networking at event space and a local pub afterwards. We are delighted to welcome 2 speakers to our second Birmingham event. #1 – Jason Content – Senior / Lead DevOps Engineer @ Cority Jason has been a DevOps engineer since the early days of AWS, when YAML was still unfamiliar and Terraform didn’t exist. Over the years, he has led DevOps teams and designed solutions across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Hetzner Cloud, and on-premises platforms like Azure Arc.

Title - Empowering Developers: Building Cloud Infrastructure with Code Jason will be sharing his experience at Cority, where he redesigned and coded their AWS infrastructure using Python. The talk will explore how we can empower developers to build infrastructure themselves, removing the DevOps or platform engineering team as a bottleneck. Current tools like Terraform, OpenTofu, AWS CloudFormation, and Azure Bicep often put platform engineering teams at the centre, creating potential delays and resource challenges. Instead, he will discuss how teams can shift this responsibility to developers by equipping them with the right tools and frameworks to create infrastructure independently using any programming language. This approach reduces bottlenecks, speeds delivery, and fosters team collaboration.

Jason also runs a blog, theclouddude.co.uk, where he shares insights and lessons learned from his work in the DevOps space. Writing for the blog allows him to give back to the DevOps and developer communities by fostering discussions and sharing practical solutions.

#2 – Mateusz Golebiewski - Platform Engineer @ BJSS

Mateusz is a Platform Engineer at BJSS (now part of CGI), where he helps build and secure cloud platforms for clients across government, aviation, and financial industries. With a strong background in cloud technologies, he is passionate about designing scalable, resilient, and secure solutions.

Title - Beyond Peering: Unlocking the Power of ExpressRoute Cross Connects

As businesses move more of their mission critical applications to the cloud, performance, reliability and security become utmost priorities. In this session, we'll explore what are Express Route Cross Connects and how they go beyond traditional peering, providing direct, fast and secure connection between Azure and on-premise data centers.

P.S. Please provide full name and email address for access to the BJSS venue! Address - 37 Temple Street, Birmingham, B2 5DP

IMPORTANT: You can only register for this event on Eventbrite, here: https://April2025ETM.eventbrite.co.uk/?aff=EHSC

With 83% of developers using or planning to use AI to enhance their workflows (Venafi, Septeber 2024), DevOps teams are facing an unprecedented challenge—how do they manage more code, more data, and more complexity without spiraling costs (again)? We’re teaming up with the London Observability Engineering MeetUp during KubeCon London week for an evening of insights, real-world strategies, and discussions with industry experts as we tackle the next big shift in Observability and DevOps - speakers include:

• Christine Yen (CEO of Honeycomb)
• Fintan Ryan (Director of Market Insights at GitHub)
• Guy Fighel (Former SVP & GM of Data Platform Engineering & AI at New Relic)
• Further panel speakers to be announced

The discussion will be moderated by Sean Madigan (CEO of Kerno and Co-Founder of the London Observability Engineering Meetup), who will also provide a positioning talk to shape the panel discussion. There will be flash talk presentations from three innovative companies:

• Kerno is a simple way for developers and on-call teams to cut through production noise, quickly identify business-critical application issues and resolve them independently with minimal effort. Without any code changes, Kerno seamlessly integrates kernel telemetry, app logic, and business context into one lightweight yet powerful experience – Karim Traiaia (Co-Founder) and Sandra Tirado (Founding Head of UX).
• Velocity is an AI-First Runtime Observability Platform that provides faster incident resolution with actionable, accurate insights. Velocity enriches other core systems, such as PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Slack, etc., without adding another dashboard to manage. On-callers can confidently jump into incidents with clear paths for investigation and fully digested context at hand - Tal Kain (CEO & Founder).
• Smithy is a framework/SDK and an optional execution engine that allows practitioners to orchestrate any security tool and translate its information to the popular security results standard OCSF. Translating outputs to OCSF format is not an easy process as the standard can be loose in some parts - Diana Licheva (Founding Software Engineer)

Sincere thanks to London Stock Exchange Group for hosting the Enterprise Tech Monthly and to all our annual sponsors for 2025.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1. You must register through Eventbrite in order to attend - please make sure to complete all registration questions.
2. Registration will close 48 hours before the event (on the night of Sunday 30th March).
3. Please bring Government Issued photo ID, as it will be required for venue entry.

We are excited to finally have the first ClickHouse Meetup in the vibrant city of Delhi! Join the ClickHouse crew, from Singapore and from different cities in India, for an engaging day of talks, food, and discussion with your fellow database enthusiasts.

But here's the deal: to secure your spot, make sure you register ASAP!

🗓️ Agenda:

• 10:30 AM: Registration & Networking
• 11:05 AM: Welcome & Opening
• 11:10 AM: Introduction to ClickHouse by Rakesh Puttaswamy, Solution Architect @ ClickHouse
• 11:25 AM: ClickPipes Overview and demo by Kunal Gupta, Sr. Software Engineer @ ClickHouse
• 11:40 AM: Optimizing Log Management with Clickhouse: Cost-Effective & Scalable Solutions by Pushpender Kumar, DevOps Architect @ OLX India
• 12:10 PM: ClickHouse at Physics Wallah: Empowering Real-Time Analytics at Scale by Utkarsh G. Srivastava, Software Development Engineer III @ Physics Wallah
• 12:40 PM: FabFunnel & ClickHouse: Delivering Real-Time Marketing Analytics by Anmol Jain, SDE-2 (Full stack Developer) and Siddhant Gaba, SDE-2 (Python), @ Idea Clan
• 1:10 PM: From SQL to AI: Building Intelligent Applications with ClickHouse and LangDB by Matteo Pelati, Co-founder, LangDB.ai
• 1:40 PM: Lunch & Networking

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🎤 Session Details: Introduction to ClickHouse Discover the secrets behind ClickHouse's unparalleled efficiency and performance. Johnny will give an overview of different use cases for which global companies are adopting this groundbreaking database to transform data storage and analytics.

Speaker: Rakesh Puttaswamy, Solution Architect @ ClickHouse Rakesh Puttaswamy is a Solution Architect with ClickHouse, working with users across India, with over 12 years of experience in data architecture, big data, data science, and software engineering.Rakesh helps organizations design and implement cutting-edge data-driven solutions. With deep expertise in a broad range of databases and data warehousing technologies, he specializes in building scalable, innovative solutions to enable data transformation and drive business success.

🎤 Session Details: ClickPipes Overview and demo ClickPipes is a powerful integration engine that simplifies data ingestion at scale, making it as easy as a few clicks. With an intuitive onboarding process, setting up new ingestion pipelines takes just a few steps—select your data source, define the schema, and let ClickPipes handle the rest. Designed for continuous ingest, it automates pipeline management, ensuring seamless data flow without manual intervention. In this talk, Kunal will demo the Postgres CDC connector for ClickPipes, enabling seamless, native replication of Postgres data to ClickHouse Cloud in just a few clicks—no external tools needed for fast, cost-effective analytics.

Speaker: Kunal Gupta, Sr. Software Engineer @ ClickHouse Kunal Gupta is a Senior Software Engineer at ClickHouse, joining through the acquisition of PeerDB in 2024, where he played a pivotal role as a founding engineer. With several years of experience in architecting scalable systems and real-time applications, Kunal has consistently driven innovation and technical excellence. Previously, he was a founding engineer for new solutions at ICICIdirect and at AsknBid Tech, leading high-impact teams and advancing code analysis, storage solutions, and enterprise software development.

🎤 Session Details: Optimizing Log Management with Clickhouse: Cost-Effective & Scalable Solutions Efficient log management is essential in today's cloud-native environments, yet traditional solutions like ElasticSearch often face scalability issues, high costs, and performance limitations. This talk will begin with an overview of common logging tools and their challenges, followed by an in-depth look at ClickHouse's architecture. We will compare ClickHouse with ElasticSearch, focusing on improvements in query performance, storage efficiency, and overall cost-effectiveness.

A key highlight will be OLX India's migration to ClickHouse, detailing the motivations behind the shift, the migration strategy, key optimizations, and the resulting 50% reduction in log storage costs. By the end of this talk, attendees will gain a clear understanding of when and how to leverage ClickHouse for log management, along with best practices for optimizing performance and reducing operational costs.

Speaker: Pushpender Kumar, DevOps Architect @ OLX India Born and raised in Bijnor, moved to Delhi to stay ahead in the race of life. Currently working as a DevOps Architect at OLX India, specializing in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and automation with over 10 years of experience. Successfully optimized log storage costs by 50% using Clickhouse, bringing scalability and efficiency to large-scale logging systems. Passionate about cloud optimization, DevOps hiring, and performance engineering.

🎤 Session Details: ClickHouse at Physics Wallah: Empowering Real-Time Analytics at Scale This session explores how Physics Wallah revolutionized its real-time analytics capabilities by leveraging ClickHouse. We'll delve into the journey of implementing ClickHouse to efficiently handle large-scale data processing, optimize query performance, and power diverse use cases such as user activity tracking and engagement analysis. By enabling actionable insights and seamless decision-making, this transformation has significantly enhanced the learning experience for millions of users.

Today, more than five customer-facing products at Physics Wallah are powered by ClickHouse, serving over 10 million students and parents, including 1.5 million Daily Active Users. Our in-house ClickHouse cluster, hosted and managed within our EKS infrastructure on AWS Cloud, ingests more than 10 million rows of data daily from various sources. Join us to learn about the architecture, challenges, and key strategies behind this scalable, high-performance analytics solution.

Speaker: Utkarsh G. Srivastava, Software Development Engineer III @ Physics Wallah As a versatile Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience in the IT industry, I have had the privilege of taking on diverse roles, with a primary focus on backend development, data engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, and security. Throughout my career, I have played a pivotal role in transformative projects, consistently striving to craft innovative and effective solutions for customers in the SaaS space.

🎤 Session Details: FabFunnel & ClickHouse: Delivering Real-Time Marketing Analytics We are a performance marketing company that relies on real-time reporting to drive data-driven decisions and maximize campaign effectiveness. As our client base expanded, we encountered significant challenges with our reporting system—frequent data updates meant handling large datasets inefficiently, leading to slow query execution and delays in delivering insights. This bottleneck hindered our ability to provide timely optimizations for ad campaigns. To address these issues, we needed a solution that could handle rapid data ingestion and querying at scale without the overhead of traditional refresh processes. In this talk, we’ll share how we transformed our reporting infrastructure to achieve real-time insights, enhancing speed, scalability, and efficiency in managing large-scale ad performance data.

Speakers: Anmol Jain, SDE-2 (Full stack Developer), & Siddhant Gaba, SDE-2 (Python) @ Idea Clan From competing as a national table tennis player to building high-performance software, Anmol Jain brings a unique mix of strategy and problem-solving to tech. With 3+ years of experience at Idea Clan, they play a key role in scaling Lookfinity and FabFunnel, managing multi-million-dollar ad spends every month. Specializing in ClickHouse, React.js, and Node.js, Anmol focuses on real-time data processing and scalable backend solutions. At this meet-up, they’ll share insights on solving reporting challenges and driving real-time decision-making in performance marketing.

Siddhant Gaba is an SDE II at Idea Clan, with expertise in Python, Java, and C#, specializing in scalable backend systems. With four years of experience working with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and ClickHouse, he focuses on real-time analytics, database optimization, and distributed systems. Passionate about high-performance computing, asynchronous APIs, and system design, he aims to advance real-time data processing. Outside of work, he enjoys playing volleyball. At this meetup, he will share insights on how ClickHouse transformed real-time reporting and scalability.

🎤 Session Details: From SQL to AI: Building Intelligent Applications with ClickHouse and LangDB As AI becomes a driving force behind innovation, building applications that seamlessly integrate AI capabilities with existing data infrastructures is critical.

In this session, we explore the creation of agentic applications using ClickHouse and LangDB. We will introduce the concept of an AI gateway, explaining its role in connecting powerful AI models with the high-performance analytics engine of ClickHouse. By leveraging LangDB, we demonstrate how to directly interact with AI functions as User-Defined Functions (UDFs) in ClickHouse, enabling developers to design and execute complex AI workflows within SQL.

Additionally, we will showcase how LangDB facilitates deep visibility into AI function behaviors and agent interactions, providing tools to analyze and optimize the performance of AI-driven logic. Finally, we will highlight how ClickHouse, powered by LangDB APIs, can be used to evaluate and refine the quality of LLM responses, ensuring reliable and efficient AI integrations.

Speaker: Matteo Pelati, Co-founder, LangDB.ai Matteo Pelati is a seasoned software engineer with over two decades of experience, specializing in data engineering for the past ten years. He is the co-founder of LangDB, a company based in Singapore building the fastest Open Source AI Gateway. Before founding LangDB, he was part of the early team at DataRobot, where he contributed to scaling their product for enterprise clients. Subsequently, he joined DBS Bank where he built their data platform and team from the ground up. Prior to starting LangDB, Matteo led the data group for Asia Pacific and data engineering at Goldman Sachs.

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Our first Manchester DevOps Society meetup event of 2025 has arrived! We are delighted to be hosted by Colony again, but at their fantastic Fabrica venue this time.

In this event, we will be hearing from two exciting speakers.

Benjamin Clark, is returning to give our community a talk about scaling CI/CD, whilst Akash is a familiar face within our community, who will be speaking about deploying open-source LLM models, with a Kubernetes twist.

Format of the meetup event will be as follows: 6pm – 6:30pm - Networking on arrival coupled with pizza and drinks provided by ReVybe IT. 6:30pm – 7pm – First speaker will take to the stage. 7pm – 7:10pm – Break for refreshments and networking 7:10pm – 7:40pm – Second speaker will take to the stage. 8pm onwards – Networking at event space and a local pub afterwards. We are delighted to welcome 2 speakers to our second Manchester event.

#1 – Benjamin Clark – DevOps Consultant Ben begun work in the tech industry at 17, and over a decare later he has since founded and lead DevOps teams across multiple large organisations as both an employee and independent contractor. With a strong focus on elevating teams from just developing software to properly engineering software as a discipline, he believes strongly that the Software Development Lifecycle should apply across both Infrastructure and Application stacks.

Title – CI/CD at Scale, without the pain!

Ben will be speaking about how standardisation of CI/CD can accelerate team productivity, remove ambiguity around pipeline purposes and component deployment, and ultimately lead to powerful in-house observability solutions for the generation of analytical insights into the performance and operation of your chosen CI/CD platform

#2 – Akash Joshi - Senior Full-stack Engineer @Rocket Connect

A Senior Software Engineer at RConnect, Akash is a self-taught programmer who started his journey from playing video-games to developing them. Spending the last couple of years developing software solutions at trading firms as well as Meta. Akash spends a lot of time experimenting with AI tools, using them in his day-to-day.

Title - Deploying LLM-based inference pipelines to Kubernetes

AI models are ubiquitous. We've already been pestering ChatGPT for answers to questions for the last couple years. However, did you know that the same technology which powers ChatGPT can also run on your machine, completely free of cost? In this talk, we'll dive deep into running the Language Models on your machine. We'll also explore serving an HTTP API on top of these models, so you can build a software application on top of them. Finally, we'll learn how we can use the power of Kubernetes, to develop them on your machine, and automate deployments to various cloud platforms. This talk empowers you to deploy any open-source LLM model to cloud platforms in a distributed manner, enabling you to be the AI Champion of your organisation!

P.S. Please provide full name and email address for access to the Colony Fabrica event space. Address - 269 Great Ancoats St, Greater, Manchester M4 7DB

Join us in person for the 9th K8SUG+AI Meetup!

Please register here to attend => https://konfhub.com/k8sug-uk-20250213 (Registration is mandatory!)

Agenda and topics preview:

• Food, Drinks and Networking (30min, starts at 6.00PM)
• Going Platformless in the Era of Building Platforms (Amila Mahaarachchi, WSO2 LLC)
• Demystifying the Cloud Roles - SRE vs DevOps vs Platform Engineering (Hareendran Shreeharan)
• Quiz
• Group Photo & Closure

Food & Drinks will be provided at 6pm - first-come, first-served basis. Come join us, Let's share and learn as a community!

Thanks to our event sponsors @Microsoft and @WSO2!

Venue: Microsoft London, Located in: Paddington Central Address: 2 Kingdom St, London W2 6BD

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Speaker: Parcifal Van Gucht Start Date: Thu, Jan 30th 2024 · 7:00 PM EEST (5:00 PM UTC) Language: ENGLIGH Location: Online (link visible for attendees)

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Description:

Power BI CI/CD is here!

The combination of Power BI Projects (PBIP), Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL) and the Fabric Git Integration have enabled advanced collaboration and versioning for Power BI in all our developments. How do we now incorporate these separate features into our daily practice, how can you create a basic setup and which considerations do you need to make when implementing it for your organization?

The session focusses on the building and decision-taking that go hand in hand with defining and developing your collaboration strategy and how this compares to the building of a house. Each house starts at the foundations, for your Power BI CI/CD setup this is no different. Azure DevOps, your local Power BI Desktop and the Power BI workspace form the building blocks for your Power BI collaboration strategy. However, without a good plan the building blocks are nothing more than mere resources.

Therefore, we will be looking at how these tools come together to form the foundations of your Power BI CI/CD setup. An end-to-end demo will show you how you can go from your trusted local Power BI Desktop to the Power BI Workspace and on the way make use of Azure DevOps to improve your versioning, incorporate automated best practices checks and enable collaboration between your team members (without merge conflicts).

Lastly, I want to share different considerations you need to take into account when starting on the actual build of your collaboration strategy and setup. These practical considerations revolve around differential development lifecycles, restricted permissions, selective deployments and new possibilities for advanced Power BI automation.

At the end of the Meetup we'll have a Raffle with prizes offered by Enterprise DNA: 2 (two) 1 year FREE Membership Licenses on EDNA Platform for two lucky winners from the Live attendees !

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Speaker: Parcifal Van Gucht Power BI Enthusiast

Parcifal focusses on solving a variety of end-to-end data engineering use cases on a daily base. He has gathered experience in Azure, Databricks, TimeXtender & Power BI. Throughout these tools & topics, Parcifal likes to dive deeper and since end of 2023 he has been diving deeper into the topic of Power BI CI/CD and how it can accelerate collaboration and bring best practices to your Power BI reports and semantic models.

Connect with Parcifal here:

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Join our Microsoft Fabric - UK User Group for our latest webinar.

This session we are excited to announce our host Microsoft MVP Leon Gordon and co-host Microsoft MVP Pragati Jain will be introducing Hector Sven Manager, Data Engineering @ Avanade.

Join the Microsoft Fabric UK - User Group on -

Microsoft Community - https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-BI-UK-User-Group/gh-p/pbi_UK_usergroup LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8909321/ MeetUp - https://www.meetup.com/microsoft-power-bi-uk/

Session Abstract -

As Microsoft Fabric continues to grow as a unified data platform, the need for automation in managing and deploying Fabric environments has never been greater. In this session, I’ll introduce FabricCatalyst, a PowerShell-driven solution that automates and streamlines the creation and deployment of Fabric items by leveraging the Fabric REST API. I'll show you the three deployment approaches enabled by FabricCatalyst: Auto, Custom & Map; throughout the session, I’ll share my personal experience building FabricCatalyst, including Real-world use cases (When and why each deployment method is most useful) and insights into current gaps in the Fabric API and where workarounds were necessary.

By the end of this session, you’ll leave with a broader understanding of the automation possibilities in Microsoft Fabric, practical insights into real-world challenges, and ideas to inspire your own automation journey.

Biography

ential of Microsoft technologies; with more than 20 years' worth of experience in the IT industry, I've spent the last 8 immersing myself in the world of Microsoft Azure, specializing in the field of data management, analytics and business intelligence working with technologies such as SQL Databases, Synapse, Data Factory, Analysis Services and Power BI. I hold six Azure Associate-level certifications (Developer, Data Engineer, DB Admin, Power BI Data Analyst & Fabric Analytics Engineer), complemented by a DevOps Engineer Expert credential.

As a consultant for Accenture/Avanade, I've worked across various industries, including Food, Service, Financial , Energy and Manufacturing. I've taken on a multitude of projects and consistently demonstrated my ability to architect and manage them effectively delivering secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions.

Social Media / Website Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/svenchio/ https://www.techtacofriday.com/

Join our Microsoft Fabric - UK User Group for our latest webinar.

This session we are excited to announce our host Microsoft MVP Leon Gordon and co-host Microsoft MVP Pragati Jain will be introducing Microsoft MVP Kevin Chant.

Join the Microsoft Fabric UK - User Group on -

Microsoft Community - https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-BI-UK-User-Group/gh-p/pbi_UK_usergroup LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8909321/ MeetUp - https://www.meetup.com/microsoft-power-bi-uk/

Session Abstract -

Microsoft Fabric was first announced during Microsoft Build 2023. Which has caused a lot of excitement in the Microsoft Data Platform community. Over the last eighteen months there has been plenty of changes.

As we head towards the end of 2024 I give a brief overview of Microsoft Fabric is before going into details about how you can use Azure DevOps with it at this moment in time. Including Git integration and other ways that you can perform CI/CD for Data Warehouses and SQL database in Fabric.

During the session I will provide plenty of recommendations.

Biography

Data Engineering Manager in the Netherlands. Originally from the UK and now living in the Netherlands. Microsoft Certified Trainer and Microsoft Data Platform MVP specializing in Microsoft Fabric.

Many years experience in the IT sector, including supporting companies in the top 10 of the fortune 500 list.

In addition to a lot of experience with the Microsoft Data Platform.

Real life experience with various Microsoft Data Platform offerings and Azure Devops. Held various roles; including Team Leader, SQL Server Product Owner, certification coach, Solution Architect, Fabric SME, etc.

In addition, involved with Data Platform Community in various ways. Including blogs, MVP videos, event and user-group organizer and sharing various repositories in GitHub.

Social Media / Website Links Twitter/Blue Sky: @kevchant LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-chant/ Blog: https://www.KevinRChant.com GitHub: https://github.com/kevchant

!!! NEW LOCATION !!! Change of location, the event will take place in co.up in Adalbertstraße 8, 10999 Berlin.

Have you ever wondered what Cloud Native is? Are you tired of hearing about Kubernetes and not knowing what it does? Would you like to learn more about different areas of Cloud Native? If you have ever considered a career in the cloud, this event is a perfect place for you to start. This growing industry is offering a lot of jobs and you'll get a chance to find out how to participate even without previous experience.

✍️ Event description This meetup is hosted by Empowered in Tech together with the Kubernetes and Cloud Native meetup. Our mission for this event is to make Cloud Native more accessible and invite more people to consider it as a career possibility. We will introduce the basics of Cloud Native. Explaining and introducing basic terms and concepts. Then we'll move onto a panel discussion where we want to share and discuss stories of people who are currently employed in the area and related and motivate all of you to consider Cloud Native as a career choice.

1. Talk: Observability 101 The talk will explore the fundamentals of observability and its three essential pillars: logs, metrics, and traces. By the end of this session, attendees will have a solid understanding of how these pillars work together to provide insights into system behavior and performance.In addition, the talk will highlight exciting developments in the Cloud Native ecosystem, with a focus on open-source solutions like OpenTelemetry, which is redefining how we instrument and analyze applications.Designed to be beginner-friendly, this session requires no prior knowledge, making it accessible to anyone eager to learn the basics of observability. Interaction and discussions are encouraged throughout the session, providing an engaging and collaborative learning environment for all participants.

🏢 Location We are kindly hosted by coworking space co.up and pizzas will be provided by our sponsor Snowflake.

⏰ Agenda 18:00 Doors open, we'll mingle and have some snacks 18:30 Intro and welcome from your hosts 18:40 Talk by Nele: Observability 101 19:00 Break 19:30 Panel Discussion: Transition your career to cloud native 20:30 Time for Networking

🗣 Speaker Nele Uhlemann Nele Uhlemann is a Developer Advocate at Fiberplane. Her passion is enabling collaboration among multiple stakeholders in building and running Software. Switching sides from application development to infrastructure topics, she understands the challenges of enabling knowledge sharing to run systems more efficiently. She advocates for Open Source technologies as she believes those are catalysts for organizations to build flexible solutions.

🪑 Panelists

Sinny Kumari Sinny is an Engineering Manager at Red Hat for the dnf team. Prior to that she has been a Software Engineer for \~11.5 years at Red Hat, having worked on developing and maintaining one of the core operators of OpenShift. She is an Open Source enthusiast and has contributed to Fedora and KDE projects.

Jessica Greene Jessica Greene is a self/community taught developer, previously working in the film industry as well as a stint as a specialty coffee roaster. She joined Ecosia.org in 2018 to put her digital skills towards a better planet where she works as Senior ML engineer focused on seeing where ML and generative AI can improve our search experience. When not writing code to help users make online activities climate action, she co leads her local PyLadies chapter Berlin, as well as being a board member of the Python Software Verband (PySV) and member of the PSF conduct working group. She is the 2024 winner of the PyLadies award and was awarded the Python Software foundation community service award.

Gloria Doci Gloria is a software engineer at Snowflake, a cloud data platform. She works on building the core components that enable low-latency data streaming, with an emphasis on scalability and cloud-native design.

Sandra Ahlgrimm Sandra is a Cloud Developer Advocate focusing on Java in Microservice Architectures and Containers on the Azure platform. She helps in the Docker and Kubernetes community whenever she can. She is organizing the JUG Berlin/Brandenburg and the Berlin Docker Meetup. Sandra has a strong background in software development. She holds an M.Sc. in Media and Computer Science from Berlin University of Applied Sciences. During her studies she worked in several Start Ups and Companies of Axel Springers where she gained expertise in setting up hybrid infrastructures, devops culture and process automation. Sandra is a huge fan of event driven architectures with real time requirements.

👋 About Us Stay in touch with the community! Join our Slack: https://bit.ly/EmpoweredInTechSlack We are a local community in Berlin dedicated to empowering FLINTA (women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender) people to excel in their tech journey. Our events offer study groups, technical workshops, hackathons, networking events, panel discussions, lightning talks, and social events.

💗 Code of Conduct We are dedicated to providing a safe and welcoming experience for everyone who participates in our events. Our events aim to empower diverse women and we welcome everyone who identifies as a woman or another underrepresented group in tech or an ally. We follow the Berlin Code of Conduct for our events: https://berlincodeofconduct.org/

📸 Media Consent We may be taking photos of this event for social media posts. If you do not want to be photographed, please let the organizers at the event know. We will make sure to respect your privacy.

DevFest Berlin is back! This year back to Humboldt University of Berlin, with more than 25 talks & workshops, you can expect a whole day of learning, socialising, and engaging with a vibrant Berlin Tech community!

🎫 Get you ticket here: pretix.eu/devfestberlin/2024/ 🖍 Call for Papers still open: pretalx.com/devfest-berlin-2024/cfp

Agenda

Day 1

9:00 AM: Registration & Coffee 🥐 ☕️

9:45 AM: 🎤 Welcoming

10:00 AM: 🎤 Katya Vinnichenko - Introduction to Google Principles of Responsible AI

This year's DevFest explores how AI can improve lives globally, from business to healthcare to education. At Google we acknowledge AI's potential, while also recognising the challenges it presents. Thus, we are committed to helping you build and use AI responsibly, ensuring fairness and ethical practices.

In my talk you will learn: the main principles of responsible AI at Google; the ethical implications of AI; best practices for developing AI systems and integrating AI into Google products and services; last but not least – how AI will change the role of the developer as we know it.

10:50 AM: 🎤 Oleksii Antypov - DMARC Demystified

Discover the essential framework behind DMARC and how it secures email communication across the internet. This session covers the historical evolution of email security, dives into the common challenges of implementing DMARC, and provides actionable best practices for protecting your domain. Ideal for developers, security professionals, and anyone interested in safe email practices.

In a world where phishing and email spoofing are constant threats, DMARC stands as a vital defense mechanism. “DMARC Demystified” takes you through a journey from the origins of email security to the modern challenges and solutions that DMARC offers. We'll explore how DMARC works with SPF and DKIM, why it’s essential for organizations of all sizes, and the practical steps to ensure smooth implementation.

Expect an interactive timeline tracing the milestones of email security, detailed breakdowns of real-world cases, and insights into optimizing DMARC. Walk away with a deeper understanding of email protection, armed with knowledge to strengthen your email systems and protect against threats.

11:40 AM: 🎤 Marcin Chudy - Demystifying App Architecture: The LeanCode Guide

At LeanCode we developed over 40 Flutter apps, spanning from huge enterprise apps to nimble startup ventures. Some were developed by a single Flutter dev, some came into light through collaborative efforts across multiple teams. Each of them was different. Each of them presented unique challenges and taught us invaluable lessons.

In this talk, we invite you to explore different approaches to architecting Flutter apps. Central to our narrative will be the concept of architectural drivers - key factors or priorities that steer our decisions about how the app is structured and designed. We'll show how we leverage our experience when approaching new projects. Drawing from our successes and failures, we'll present our current Flutter stack which enables us to craft robust, scalable, and maintainable applications. While there is no silver bullet for Flutter architecture, we can still have some sensible defaults.

Why do we use BLoC for state management? Why not Riverpod? Why do we love hook

12:30 PM: 🎤 Danny Preussler - Ten things you heard about testing that might be wrong

Testing became an essential part of Android development. Many conference talks have been given and even more best practices have been written.

But what if, as time evolved, some of the things we thought were true, changed?

Let’s start questioning some of these in this talk: Are flaky tests fixable? Are mocks even harmful? Is DI about testing? Did we understand testing in isolation properly? Is the test pyramid still valid? And in times of AI, should we generate tests?

Come and join my session to learn more!

1:10 PM: Lunch 🍔🥤

2:40 PM: 🎤 Andrey Sitnik - Privacy-first architecture: alternatives to GDPR popup and local-first

Why and how modern developers could increase the privacy of modern Web.

The popularity of clouds, the rise of huge monopolies across the internet, and the growth of shady data brokers recently have made the world a much more dangerous place for ordinary people—here is how we fix it.

In this talk, Andrey Sitnik, the creator of PostCSS and the privacy-first open-source RSS reader, will explain how we can stop this dangerous trend and make the web a private place again. — Beginners will find simple steps, which can be applied to any website — Advanced developers will get practical insights into new local-first architecture — Privacy experts could find useful unique privacy tricks from a global world perspective and beyond just U.S. privacy risks

3:30 PM: 🎤 Raphaël VO - Largest Contentful Paint - The unheard story

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is more than a speed metric — it's the unseen factor shaping user experiences and impacting SEO. While often overlooked, LCP reveals when a page’s core content is truly ready, affecting how users perceive load time and usability. This talk uncovers LCP’s role, why it matters more than we think, and simple strategies to boost LCP for better engagement and rankings. Discover the hidden story behind one of web performance’s most crucial, yet understated metrics.

Did you know the speed of a single webpage element could decide if users stay or leave? Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is that hidden hero, quietly working to load the most important content quickly. This talk unveils LCP’s role in creating faster, more engaging web experiences and why it’s key to winning user loyalty. Dive into the “unheard story” of LCP and discover practical tips to make your site not only faster but unforgettable.

4:20 PM: 🎤 Ash Davies - Navigation in a Multiplatform World: Choosing the Right Framework for your App

Navigation in mobile, desktop, and web applications is such a fundamental part of how we structure our architecture. In order to both obtain functional clarity, and abstraction from platform level implementation.

For a long time, there have been options available specific to each platform, and even options part of the platform framework itself. Though it can be difficult to find the right option for platform-agnostic code, ensuring consistency. Some go one step further, providing an opinionated guide on how to architecture your application.

In this talk, I'll evaluate the options available, how they differ, and to what type of applications they are best suited. Including how to get started with them, and the best practice guidelines on how to get the most out of them, for your application.

5:10 PM: 🎤 Vadim Makeev - You don’t know MathML. Almost nobody does

Do you speak math? Me neither. Still, math formulas have always been around: from Wikipedia articles to JavaScript APIs and even CSS docs. It looks so alien that I never had a clue how to express it on the web. Apparently, there’s a markup language for that. HTML for content, SVG for vector graphics, and MathML for math! And it’s pretty cross-browser, too. Let’s dive into the basics and quirks of the language of the universe. Even if math is not your love language, you might learn something interesting about the web platform.

Day 2

9:00 AM: Registration & Coffee 🥐 ☕️

10:00 AM: 🎤 Alex Mir – Accessibility matters

The regulators are here and now businesses will care about the a11y. Let's make the a11y compliance not just a formal check. I believe that it is our job as industry experts to understand why it is important and get our products ready for all groups of people.

10:50 AM: 🎤 Marco Gomiero - From Android to Multiplatform and beyond

With Kotlin Multiplatform getting increasingly established, many Android libraries became multiplatform.

But how to make an existing Android library multiplatform?

In this talk, we will cover the common challenges faced while migrating Android libraries to Kotlin Multiplatform, like handling platform-specific dependencies, re-organizing the project structure without losing the contributor's history, testing on multiple platforms, and publishing the library.

11:20 AM: 🎤 Muhammad Salman Bediya - Crucial Performance Issue in Flutter Apps: Memory Leaks

Memory leaks can be hard to spot but have a big impact on the performance of Flutter apps, especially those running for long periods. In this talk, we’ll explore the most common reasons memory leaks happen in Flutter and Dart, focusing on how asynchronous programming and Streams can make them more challenging. You’ll learn practical tips to identify and fix these issues, helping your apps run smoother and more efficiently.

11:40 AM: 🎤 Andrii Raikov - Maximizing Scalability with Go and Redis: A Telemetry Processing Journey

At Delivery Hero, we process 10,000 requests per second using Go and Redis. Join us to learn how this powerful duo handles high-load telemetry data efficiently and cost-effectively, with scalability, resource optimization, and continuous innovation through customized data flows.

12:30 PM: 🎤 Tomek Porozynski - Can You Outsmart an AI? Adventures in Prompt Hacking

In this talk combined with hands-on elements, participants will engage in a series of live prompt hacking challenges, accessible directly through their mobile devices. The workshop begins with simple prompt injection techniques and progressively moves to more sophisticated manipulation strategies. After each successful hack, I'll analyze what made it work and transform these insights into practical defense mechanisms.

Attendees will learn: Common vulnerabilities in AI prompt design, Practical techniques for prompt injection attacks, Essential strategies for securing chatbot applications, Best practices for implementing defensive layers, Real-world examples of prompt security failures and successes

Perfect for developers working with AI models, security enthusiasts, or anyone interested in building safer AI applications. No specialized tools needed - just bring your phone and creativity! You'll leave with concrete techniques for both testing and securing your AI systems against prompt manipulation attacks.

1:10 PM: Lunch 🍔🥤

2:40 PM: 🎤 Cesar Martinez - Domain Driven Design Fundamentals for Frontend Developers

What can we learn from Domain Driven Design and how to start applying its teachings in your frontend codebase.

3:30 PM: 🎤 Vadym Pinchuk - Effortless optimization of Flutter apps: performance tips for developers

In this session, we’ll dive into effortless yet impactful ways to optimize your Flutter applications. Performance improvements don’t always require a full rewrite—sometimes, small adjustments can lead to big gains. We'll explore practical tips and tricks for enhancing app speed, responsiveness, and efficiency with minimal effort. From reducing widget rebuilds to handling large data efficiently and managing state effectively, this talk will provide developers with actionable insights to deliver a smoother user experience. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced Flutter dev, you’ll walk away with easy-to-apply techniques to optimize your apps without breaking a sweat.

4:20 PM: 🎤 Ian Ballantyne - Generative AI on Mobile and Web with Google AI Edge

Generative AI is no longer limited to execution in the cloud. Small language models, such as Gemma 2B, are quickly becoming small and powerful enough for on-device AI, offering benefits like low latency, offline functionality, privacy, and cost-effectiveness. Google AI Edge, with MediaPipe and LiteRT (formerly Tensorflow Lite), enables the development and deployment of efficient on-device AI models. These frameworks handle the complexities of model execution and hardware acceleration, allowing developers to focus on creating innovative AI experiences.

Think generative AI is just about chatbots? Think again. This talk will go beyond basic conversations with language models and explore how on-device generative AI can be integrated into everyday apps ready to help with tasks, answer questions, and provide creative inspiration, all powered by the information located on-device. Imagine truly useful apps that are quick to respond and still work without an internet connection.

5:10 PM: 🎤 Bogdan Plieshka - Automated Testing Layers in a multidimensional Monorepo: Fast-tracking Quality for hundreds apps

In this talk, I’ll dive into the testing layers that make up our quality pipeline at Zattoo, including static analysis, unit, system, and end-to-end testing.

We’ll discuss the concept of quality gates, shift-left approach, and affected domain recognition, which helps us maintain reliability across a large, dynamic codebase, bringing total quality feedback for contributors to 3 minutes.

I’ll share practices for achieving scalable, fast testing in a high-complexity environment, offering insights for anyone working with large-scale applications or monorepos and looking to streamline QA processes.

Day 3

9:00 AM: Registration & Coffee 🥐 ☕️

10:00 AM: 🎤 Inès Mir & Doruk Deniz Kutukculer - Fellowship of Product. How your team setup affects your experience

Did you know there are 2 types of team formation in tech? These formations can change your experience in the team drastically and you better recognise them early to adjust your expectations from the job. And even more importantly, you need to show different qualities on job interviews to get this job in a particular team formation!

Deniz Doruk Kuetuekcueler, a head of engineering, and Inès Mir, a principal product designer, are trying to figure out how design and engineering can effectively work together in these setups.

10:50 AM: 🎤 Alireza Rahmaty - How we automate the App Release Monitoring at GetYourGuide

App release monitoring (ARM) represents a suite of innovative tools designed to monitor the health and stability of iOS and Android app releases. These tools provide real-time updates by sending notifications to Slack channels and logging the app's status throughout the release process. At GetYourGuide, we have developed an ARM to monitor the rollout of our Android and iOS apps from the moment they are submitted to the App Store & Google Play until they are fully released. We ship releases faster and with more confidence using ARM!

11:40 AM: 🎤 Aleksandr Gorbunov - Flutter for frontenders or There and Back Again

Every developer, regardless of specialization, may encounter the need to create a UI for a client application. The choice of technology may depend on the developer, or it may be pre-determined by the client, as happened in my case.

The peculiarity is that, coming from frontend development in JavaScript, I started building user interfaces in Flutter.

Today, there is a vast number of technologies that enable the development of cross-platform applications. These technologies are evolving rapidly, attracting large communities, and more frequently, companies are adopting them. For example, Flutter is a powerful framework that allows developers to create cross-platform applications.

With a high probability, every developer may encounter the need to use such development tools, and it’s great that frameworks like Flutter come with detailed documentation and extensive community support, making it relatively easy to start developing with them. Although, at first glance, everything might not seem smooth, and the desire to revert to familiar methods may arise.

12:05 PM: 🎤 Muhammad Salman Bediya - Crucial Performance Issue in Flutter Apps: Memory Leaks

Memory leaks can be hard to spot but have a big impact on the performance of Flutter apps, especially those running for long periods. In this talk, we’ll explore the most common reasons memory leaks happen in Flutter and Dart, focusing on how asynchronous programming and Streams can make them more challenging. You’ll learn practical tips to identify and fix these issues, helping your apps run smoother and more efficiently.

12:30 PM: 🎤 Ole Bulbuk - Native GUIs For All

Traditionally native GUIs are highly platform dependent and often specific for one programming language. In this talk we will explore a way to create GUI applications that supports virtually all platforms and any programming language. It is very effective and easy to use, too.

1:10 PM: Lunch 🍔🥤

2:40 PM: 🎤 Nicole Terc - Tap it! Shake it! Fling it! Sheep it! - The Gesture Animations Dance!

Let's have fun with animations, gestures and sensors!

Using Compose Multiplatform, we'll go over how to create animations using gestures and sensor events for Android & iOS. We'll cover some basics like how to get the device motion and position information, how to track gestures in the screen, and how you can combine them with animations to have fun!

After this talk, you'll have a better understanding on how to use the sensor frameworks, how to make your own gesture effects, and how to create interesting animations in an easy way.

Keep it fun, keep it animated!

3:30 PM: 🎤 Andrii Khrystian - From waves to widgets: Sound processing in Flutter

In this talk, we'll explore how to work with sound in Flutter apps. We'll go over the basics of adding sound effects and processing audio to make your apps more interesting. You'll learn how to handle audio files and integrate them smoothly with your Flutter projects. This session is great for anyone looking to add audio features to their apps simply and effectively.

4:20 PM: 🎤 Randy Nel Gupta - From Practice: Migration of an Order Processing System to the Cloud

A case study on how an order processing system, processing 50,000 orders daily for an international retailer spread across multiple continents and jurisdictions, is migrated to the cloud. The legacy system is implemented in PL/SQL and must be migrated during ongoing operations.

The presentation will cover all aspects from testing, monitoring, to development and the application of Site Reliability Engineering.

Furthermore, less technical topics will be introduced, such as the systematic composition of teams to ensure the necessary technical as well as domain-specific expertise.

4:50 PM: 🎤 Wietse Venema - Running open large language models in production with serverless GPUs

Many developers are interested in running open large language models, such as Google's Gemma and Llama. Open models give you full control over the deployment options, the timing of model upgrades, the private data that goes into the model, and the ability to fine-tune on specific tasks such as data extraction. Hugging Face TGI is a popular open-source LLM inference server, and Hugging Face TRL is excellent for fine-tuning. You’ll learn how to build and deploy an application that uses an open model on Google Cloud Run with cost-effective GPUs that scale down to zero instances.

Day 4

9:00 AM: Registration & Coffee 🥐 ☕️

10:00 AM: 🎤 Daniel Stamer & Diana Nanova - Workshop: From Prototype to Production

In this hands-on technical workshop participants will work on a hilarious web service prototype and deploy it to the cloud, set up build and deployment pipelines, extend the code base to leverage GenAI functionality, use SRE practices to effectively operate the application and finally strengthen the security posture of the overall software delivery process to guard against supply chain attacks.

1:10 PM: Lunch 🍔🥤

2:40 PM: 🎤 John Nguyen - Building a Chrome Extension using Gemini and Langchain

In this workshop, you will learn the basics of creating a Google Chrome Extension (which will also work on any Chromium-based Browser). We will build a simple Page summarizer using Bun, Typescript, Gemini, and LangChain. We will learn the anatomy of the manifest.json for building a Chrome Extension, Bun's bundler, how to interact with Gemini, and why LangChain is a good idea here.

3:45 PM: 🎤 Guillaume Vernade - How to make the most of Gemini multimodal capabilities?

We all know that in Tech there are always dozens of way of doing anything. But what if we could only use LLM for a first investigation? Let me show you how I'm trying to solve the mystery of who killed my pond's fishes using the power of Gemini.

Day 5

9:00 AM: Registration & Coffee 🥐 ☕️

10:00 AM: 🎤 Mario Bodemann & Joost van Dijk - Workshop: Passkeys on Android: How to get rid of passwords

Passwords. Or two factors? What about multiple factors? Which email did you register with? Why is 'password123' not working on this side, that is password is shared everywhere else?

If you recognize some of those questions, I am happy to add another couple: What are passkeys? Or how about: How to use passkeys to replace passwords in an Android app?

In this workshop I will walk through the later two questions: How to build an Android App that registers and signs users in, using passkeys. Expect a quick explanation of this fancy new technology, why it will replace passwords and how you can store them either on your mobile devices or on dedicated hardware. Following that, a fictive application and service will be built to show you how to use those passkeys and which moving pieces you will need.

Expect to use you Android Studio with Kotlin and common best practices to build an Android app, talking to the public available backend.

11:05 AM: 🎤 Anton Borries - Workshop: Adding Homescreen Widgets to Flutter Apps

HomeScreen Widgets are a great way to provide more Information to your Users right on their HomeScreens providing more ways for your App to appear in User's lives and help them achieve their goals.

In this Workshop we'll look at the necessary steps needed in order to add HomeScreen Widgets to Flutter Apps using the home_widget package

12:10 PM: 🎤 Elena Grahovac - Workshop: Mastering Multiple Engineering Leadership Roles for Maximum Impact

As an engineering manager or technical leader, navigating multiple roles that demand a diverse set of skills is a common yet challenging part of the job.

In this workshop, we will explore how to effectively balance these multiple roles and responsibilities in a complex engineering environment. Participants will be guided through the creation of their own leadership framework, tailored to adapt to the unique situations and styles of each individual. Beginning with identifying core values and responsibilities, the framework is elaborated into an actionable plan to succeed.

This workshop not only offers an opportunity for reflection on personal and professional development but also provides tools and insights to enhance management capabilities and team dynamics. Join us to cultivate a comprehensive approach to leadership that aligns with your unique role, responsibilities, and personal style.

1:10 PM: Lunch 🍔🥤

2:40 PM: 🎤 Gus Martins - Workshop: Gemma for Everyone: Your First Steps with Open Models and AI

Dive into the world of open models and AI with Gemma! This workshop will guide you through the basics of using Gemma, Google's powerful family of language models. Learn how to harness Gemma's capabilities for tasks like text generation, question answering, and more. We'll also explore how to fine-tune Gemma on your own data, allowing you to create custom AI solutions tailored to your needs. No prior experience with large language models is required!

3:45 PM: 🎤 Shahriyar Rzayev - Learn Flask the hard way: Introduce Architecture Patterns

Flask is a popular and flexible web framework for Python, but building scalable and maintainable Flask applications can be challenging without a solid understanding of architecture patterns. This workshop aims to provide participants with a detailed explanation of applying architecture patterns to Flask projects. By exploring various design principles and best practices, attendees will learn how to structure their Flask applications for improved scalability, modularity, and maintainability.

Focusing on the Repository, Unit of Work, and Use Cases patterns, attendees will gain experience in applying these patterns to enhance code organization, maintainability, and testability. All these layers are wired together using Dependency Injection, which is yet another powerful tool to use in your applications.

The application we are going to build is stored in: https://github.com/ShahriyarR/hexagonal-flask-blog-tutorial

We are going to completely rewrite the official Blog application described in Flask documentation by applying architecture patterns.

All abstraction layers are covered by unit and integration tests, which will give the attendees a detailed view of why it is important to structure the application using architecture patterns.

Speakers

Aleksandr Gorbunov - Smart Steel Technologies (Full Stack Developer)

A skilled developer specializing in JavaScript (JS) and TypeScript (TS), with strong expertise in frontend development. Proficient in the Vue ecosystem (Vue2, Vue3, Composition API, Nuxt 3), using Webpack and Vite for project bundling. Experienced in testing with Vitest, Cypress, and Jest. Adept in CSS preprocessors like SASS and Stylus. Additionally, has solid knowledge of Flutter and experie…

Andrey Sitnik - Evil Martians (Lead Engineer)

With more than 20 years in open source, Andrey Sitnik created a few popular CSS tools (PostCSS, Autoprefixer), local-first framework (Logux), and many small libraries with millions of downloads (like Nano ID).

Andrii Khrystian - Dynatrace (Senior Flutter Developer)

GDG Linz organiser. Senior Flutter Developer at Dynatrace. Public speaker and tech writer

Andrii Raikov - Delivery Hero SE (Principal Software Engineer)

Andrii is a Principal Software Engineer at Delivery Hero. He has a total of 15 years of experience with Ruby and has been very passionate about Go for the last 5 years.

Anton Borries - 1KOMMA5° (Software Engineer)

Anton is a Software Engineer working at 1KOMMA5° He loves building great UI and UX using Flutter. Coming from an Android Background the gap between Flutter and native Features has always tickled his interest. This has lead him into improving the experience of developing HomeScreen Widgets for Flutter Apps

Ash Davies

Google Developer Expert for Android, enthusiastic speaker, lead engineer at ImmobilieenScout24, Kotlin aficionado, spends more time travelling than working.

Daniel Stamer - Google (Cloud Customer Engineer)

Daniel is passionate about building modern cloud-native applications on Google's serverless technologies. He works with digital natives out of Germany’s startup capital Berlin and helps to modernize applications or build brand new ones in the cloud.

Danny Preussler - SoundCloud (Android Platform Lead)

Danny is a developer by heart, living in Berlin and leading the Android team at SoundCloud. He worked for companies like Groupon, Viacom, eBay and Alcatel and started his mobile career long before any Android with Java ME and Blackberry applications. Danny writes and talks about mobile development and testing regularly and is a Google Developer Expert for Android and Kotlin.

Elena Grahovac - FerretDB (Director of Engineering)

Elena has been in software engineering since 2007, focusing on backend systems and infrastructure. Having played the roles of both individual contributor and engineering manager, Elena is passionate about combining technical expertise with strong team collaboration. A dedicated advocate of DevOps practices, she aims to enhance workflows and bring teams together. Elena believes in helping peopl…

Gus Martins - Google (Developer Advocate)

Katya Vinnichenko - Google (Program Manager)

Katya is a Program Manager at Google Developer Relations team. Currently she is leading the Google Developer Groups across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Marcin Chudy - LeanCode (Senior Flutter Developer)

Marcin is a Senior Flutter Developer at LeanCode, currently playing tech lead role in a big project for the banking sector. Previously worked with backend, web frontend with React, finally settling on mobile and falling in love with Flutter at first sight. After work, he enjoys dancing salsa and bachata and attends metal concerts. Marcin is a Senior Flutter Developer at LeanCode and has …

Marco Gomiero - Airalo (Senior Android Developer | Kotlin GDE)

Marco is an Android engineer, currently working at Airalo. He is a Google Developer Expert for Kotlin, he loves Kotlin and he has experience with native Android and native iOS development, as well as cross-platform development with Flutter and Kotlin Multiplatform. In his spare time, he writes and maintains open-source code, he shares his dev experience by writing on his blog, speaking a…

Mario Bodeman - Yubico (Android Developer Advocate)

Speaker of talks, coder of code, doer of dones.

Muhammad Bediya

Muhammad Salman is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in mobile app development with a focus on building scalable, high-quality applications using Flutter, React Native, Xamarin, and Swift. With experience leading frontend teams on enterprise-level projects that have reached over 1.5 million users, he brings a strong commitment to creating impactful, user-centered solutions. A dedic…

Nicole Terc

Android GDE, Boardgame lover, videogame addict and origami enthusiast, Nicole self taught herself to code and has been fooling around with the Android ecosystem for more than 10 years. She has participated in a diverse variety of projects for several clients around the world, including video streaming, news, social media and public transport applications. Regardless of what the current adventu…

Ole Bulbuk - Ardan Labs

Ole is a backend engineer since the nineties. He has been working for many companies big and small and seen many projects fail or succeed. He loves to be part of the global Go community and working on projects that make the world a better place. In his spare time he is co-organising the Berlin chapter of GDG Golang, develops open source software and enjoys time with his family.

Oleksii Antypov - DmarcDkim.com (Founder & CEO)

Experienced CTO specializing in early-stage startups. Formerly with Rocket Internet and PocketBook, now focused on accelerating global DMARC adoption. Originally from Ukraine, I relocated to Berlin in 2015 to deepen my expertise in building successful startups from the ground up.

Raphaël VO - Ekino (Senior Software Engineer)

I’m Raphael Vo, a passionate Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience, specializing in Angular and frontend development. I love turning complex ideas into delightful user experiences and tackling challenges creatively and enthusiastically. When I'm not coding, you’ll find me diving into the latest tech trends or enjoying epic board game nights with friends. As an aspiring spea…

Vadim Makeev

Frontend developer in love with the Web, browsers, bicycles, and podcasting. He/him, MDN technical writer, Google Developer Expert.

Alex Mir - mobile.de (Frontend Engineer)

Frontend Engineer at car retail platform mobile.de (part of Adevinta / ex-Ebay)

Alireza Rahmaty - GetYourGuide (Android Developer)

I am Alireza, an Android developer with 6+ years of experience building apps. I have experience building server-driven UI apps, complex UI, localisation and testing, and CI/CDI. I sometimes go hiking and play video games.

Cesar Martinez - Meyer Sound (Web Developer)

Web developer with around 10 years of experience and a passion for software architecture. Currently working at Meyer Sound.

Bogdan Plieshka - Zattoo (Principal Engineer)

Engineer with over a decade of Frontend development experience, passionate about automation, accessibility, and scaling complex systems. Working at Zattoo as a Principal Engineer, focusing on delivering frontend solutions across Web, React, and React Native for streaming media content.Organizer of the React Berlin Meetup, actively contributing to the development community.

Diana Nanova - Google (Customer Engineering Manager)

Diana is a Customer Engineering Manager at Google Cloud. Based in the German tech startup capital Berlin, Diana helps digital native customers and startups across various industries to leverage the capabilities of Google Cloud and loves championing for Google culture.

Doruk Deniz Kutukculer - Zalando (Head of Engineering)

IT professional and a leader with over 15 years of experience in the industry. Currently a Head of Engineering at Zalando.

Guillaume Vernade - Google (AI Dev Rel)

I've been a jack-of-all-trades in the Tech industry, starting as a prototyper building apps on Google Glasses and the first Android watches, then became a Product Owner and an Agile coach. I realized my childhood dream of becoming a video game producer then came back to my other passion: AI.

Ian Ballantyne - Google (AI DevRel)

Ian is a Developer Relations Engineer for AI at Google. Currently he works on generative AI, such as Gemini and Gemma. He is passionate about on-device AI, using technologies such as Google AI Edge to deploy artificial intelligence to web and mobile devices. He has been in Developer Relations at Google for 9 years specializing in helping partners and developers unlock the capability of Google …

Inès Mir - Zalando (Principal Product Designer)

A principal product designer at Zalando and a content creator.

John Nguyen - Eon (Backend Developer)

Fullstack developer with a knack for whipping up code recipes using my secret ingredients: a dash of JavaScript, a pinch of Python, and a whole lot of serverless magic John's journey in software development began as a PHP developer, but he later transitioned to front-end development and became passionate about all things related to Javascript. While working as a data DevOps engineer in a…

Joost van Dijk - Yubico (Developer Advocate)

Joost van Dijk is a developer advocate at Yubico. As the inventor of the YubiKey, Yubico makes secure login easy and available for everyone. Joost focuses on securing digital identities and accelerating the adoption of open authentication standards as part of Yubico’s developer program.

Randy Gupta

Randy is a Google Developer Expert for Cloud and also Organizer of the GDG Düsseldorf. With a professional experience of more 25 years in software development he is focused today on building microservices applications on top of Kubernetes.

Shahriyar Rzayev - Nord Security (Senior Software Engineer)

Senior Software Engineer @ Nord Security. Moving forward on Clean Code and Clean Architecture. Previous accomplishments include contributing to open source, providing technical direction, and sharing knowledge about Clean Code and Architectural patterns. An empathetic team player and mentor. Azerbaijan Python Group Leader. Former QA Engineer and Bug Hunter.

Tomek Porożyński - Atos

Vadym Pinchuk - Sky (Mobile Software Engineer)

Vadym, a seasoned software engineer, possesses a wealth of experience in Android application development. He has skillfully transitioned his expertise to cross-platform development, utilizing Flutter. Throughout his career, Vadym has collaborated with a diverse range of companies, from industry giants like Samsung, Volvo, Bosch, and Instagram to smaller start-ups. Leveraging his extensiv…

Wietse Venema - Google (Google Cloud Engineer)

Wietse Venema is an engineer at Google Cloud. He wrote the O’Reilly book on Cloud Run.

Hosts

Seemran Xec - Sawayo (Software Engineer)

A focused developer possessing professional experience of 6+ years in software development for product-based and service-based industries, with businesses acquiring valuable insight and implementing best practices. Collaborated with startups and other businesses as a freelancer/consultant to build, design, and manage the product. I'm passionate about what I do and a lifelong learner.

Louis Tsai - Zalando SE (GDG Organizer)

Alex Mir - mobile.de (Frontend Engineer)

Frontend Engineer at car retail platform mobile.de (part of Adevinta / ex-Ebay)

Jhoon Saravia - Greenmates (Mobile Engineer)

Software consultant and developer, experienced in Android, Flutter and Full-stack. Interested in working on DEI initiatives as a complement to my core work. Particularly interested in technology, gadgetry, the future, the combination of those three and the impact that driving Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has on all of them both in and out of the workplace.Amateur photographer a…

Matthias Geisler - Thermondo (Senior Software Engineer)

True believer in (Kotlin) Multiplatform and working with it for over 4 years now. Builds solutions for Android. Maintainer and developer of KMock. Co-Organizer of KUG Berlin, GDG Android Berlin, Rust Berlin and XTC Berlin.

Emy Jamalian - Atlas Metrics (Software QA Engineer)

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-berlin-presents-devfest-berlin-2024/.

Platform engineering is far more than a technical topic. More than you might think, the real challenges and questions of platform engineering are on the topic of business value, and managing IT.

This event will examine how to approach platform engineering through an ROI perspective, and how to approach platforms to ensure that they succeed, alongside discussing whether platforms topic primarily for managers, or for engineers.

In this webinar, Krzysztof will examine:

• Platform Engineering explained for managers: how is it different than DevOps, and what is the essence of the concept?
• Why platforms are a topic primarily for management - and how to approach it from an organizational perspective?
• How platform engineering done well can positively affect your KPIs as IT Manager / Director

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance. A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event. _____- Speaker: Krzysztof Hałasa, Management Advisor, Independent Consultant at khalasa.com Krzysztof Hałasa is a management advisor specializing in IT operating models and platform engineering. With over 10 years of experience in various roles including developer, architect, manager, and consultant, he has primarily worked in the banking sector. Experienced Internal Developer Platform manager, Team Topologies Advocate, polish platformengineering.org meetup organizer & academic lecturer in Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology.

Platform engineering is far more than a technical topic. More than you might think, the real challenges and questions of platform engineering are on the topic of business value, and managing IT.

This event will examine how to approach platform engineering through an ROI perspective, and how to approach platforms to ensure that they succeed, alongside discussing whether platforms topic primarily for managers, or for engineers.

In this webinar, Krzysztof will examine:

• Platform Engineering explained for managers: how is it different than DevOps, and what is the essence of the concept?
• Why platforms are a topic primarily for management - and how to approach it from an organizational perspective?
• How platform engineering done well can positively affect your KPIs as IT Manager / Director

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance. A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event. _____- Speaker: Krzysztof Hałasa, Management Advisor, Independent Consultant at khalasa.com Krzysztof Hałasa is a management advisor specializing in IT operating models and platform engineering. With over 10 years of experience in various roles including developer, architect, manager, and consultant, he has primarily worked in the banking sector. Experienced Internal Developer Platform manager, Team Topologies Advocate, polish platformengineering.org meetup organizer & academic lecturer in Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology.