join us! GLOBAL SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE SUMMIT 2024

Neal Ford

Neal is Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks. Before joining ThoughtWorks, Neal was the Chief Technology Officer at The DSW Group, Ltd. He is an internationally recognized expert on software development and delivery, especially in the intersection of agile engineering techniques and software architecture. Neal authored magazine articles and authored many books including "Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change", "Functional Thinking: Paradigm Over Syntax", "The Productive Programmer (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)", "Fundamentals of software architecture", "Software Architecture: the hard parts", "Software Architecture Metrics" and many others, dozens of video presentations, and spoken at hundreds of developers conferences worldwide. His topics include software architecture, continuous delivery, functional programming, cutting edge software innovations, and includes a business-focused book and video in improving technical presentations. His primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications.

Vlad Khononov

Vladik (Vlad) Khononov is a software engineer with over 15 years of industry experience, during which he has worked for companies large and small in roles ranging from webmaster to chief architect. Vlad is a long-time proponent of domain-driven design and evolutionary architecture and currently helps companies make sense of their business domains, untangle monoliths, and tackle complex architectural challenges. Vlad maintains an active media career as a public speaker and blogger. He has spoken at numerous industry conferences — including O’Reilly Software Architecture, DDD Europe, and NDC — about subjects such as domain-driven design, microservices, and software architecture in general. In addition to his media work, he co-organizes the Domain-Driven Design Israel and Tel Aviv Software Architecture meetup groups.

Luca Mezzalira

Luca Mezzalira is principal solutions architect at AWS, an international speaker, and an author. Over the past 20 years, he’s mastered software architectures from frontend to the cloud, providing the right solution for the context of the job at hand.

Andrew Harmel-Law

A Tech Principal at Thoughtworks as well as an author and online trainer for O’Reilly, Andrew specialises in Java / JVM technologies, agile delivery, build tools and automation, and domain driven design. Experienced across the software development lifecycle and in many sectors what motivates him is the efficient delivery of large-scale software solutions, fulfilling complex user needs. He understands that people, architecture, process and tooling all have key roles to play in achieving this. Andrew has a passion for open source software and its communities. He has been involved with OSS to a greater or lesser extent since his career began; as a user, contributor, expert group member, or paid advocate - most famously as one of the Jenkins JobDSL originators. Andrew enjoys sharing his experience as much as possible. This sharing is not only seen in his formal consulting engagements, but also informally through mentoring, blog posts, conferences (speaking and organising), and open-sourcing his code.

Eoin Woods

Eoin Woods is the CTO of Endava where he is responsible for capability development, innovation and emerging technologies. In previous professional lives he has developed databases, created security software and designed way too many systems to move money around. Outside his day job he is interested in software architecture, software security, DevOps and software energy efficiency. He is a regular conference speaker, has co-authored a three books on software architecture and was the recipient of the 2018 Linda Northrup Award for Software Architecture, from the Software Engineering Institute at CMU. His web site is www.eoinwoods.info.

Sonya Natanzon

Sonya Natanzon is an engineering leader and software architect with many years of experience. Software engineer by training, she’s worked in a number of different industries. Healthcare engagements were most rewarding in her career and frequently appear in her portfolio. She started focusing her career path on software engineering and architecture in healthcare. She now leads enterprise software development at Guardant Health.

Pablo del Vecchio

Tech professional with +20 years of experience in both corporate and startup worlds. Latest roles include CTO, Chief Architect, Head of Engineering & Data and Tech Advisor across EU and US. Currently assembling high performance teams building data driven and user centric products.

Fernando Guevara

My career has given me a lot of great experiences and treats. Nowadays, I feel very confident about my technical skills and my performance inside small and big teams. In the last 5 years I have tried to gain as much experience at cloud stacks as I could and opened up my technology set with different front and back end technologies to add to my general design and development expertise. Thinking about the near future, I’m looking to further extend my experience in distributed systems using state of the art tech.

Soham Dasgupta

Avraham Poupko

As a systems architect, Avraham has spent the last 25 years analysing, modeling and designing software as well as teaching systems thinking and system design. Avraham experience varies from working with small startups that have one product, to large enterprises that create very complex domains and systems. Avraham is currently working at Toga Networks as part of the multi disciplined team that is designing the next generation data center. Avraham is currently studying, writing and teaching about the varied and complex relationships between the organizations that create software and the software they create.

Eltjo Poort

Jacqui Read

Jacqui Read is a software architect and consultant, internationally recognised in the area of communication of software architecture. She is an experienced software architect, having worked in domains including FinTech and Big Data, with roles including technical architect, solution architect and software developer. Now authoring a book and creating online training courses for O'Reilly Media, she runs training courses and workshops for conferences, companies and individuals. Jacqui led a team to win the O'Reilly Architectural Kata in Autumn 2021 and has had the pleasure of judging the competition since then. Her other interests include architecture characteristics and decisions, NoSQL, and data as a product and first-class citizen.

Yevgen Nebesov

Yevgen Nebesov, originally from Ukraine, has been living in Germany since 2004. He has had the opportunity to offer consultancy services to various firms across industries such as Railway, Logistics, and Medical Devices. His experiences have allowed him to develop a range of skills, including software architecture, team leadership, business analysis, and programming. In his consultancy work, Yevgen focuses on navigating the complexities of software projects, considering factors like organizational structures, management, business analysis, systems design, development, and operations. He describes his approach as "socio-technical engineering," highlighting the importance of a holistic interdisciplinary view. Yevgen is genuinely interested in the advancement of software architecture and enjoys participating in discussions about its future, especially in light of the growing integration of Artificial Intelligence.

Juarez Barbosa Junior

Michael Keeling

Michael Keeling is a software engineer at Kiavi and the author of Design It!: From Programmer to Software Architect. Prior to Kiavi, he worked at IBM on the Watson Discovery Service and has experience with a variety of software systems including service-oriented architectures, enterprise search systems, and even combat systems. Michael is an award-winning speaker and regularly participates in the architecture and agile communities. He holds a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mell.

Vladimir Ivanov

Vladimir is a Senior Engineering Manager at Bolt. He creates content at vvsevolodovich.dev which includes a blog on solution architecture, a weekly newsletter and architect roadmap.

Hubert Etienne

Herbert is a researcher in Computational philosophy and AI ethics. His work is divided between the study of online social interactions (misinformation, hate speech and social influence) and Responsible AI initiatives (algorithms auditing, risk assessment frameworks and mitigations piloting for AI-powered products).

Blaize Stewart

Blaize, a distinguished 6x Microsoft Azure MVP, has a career spanning over 25 years in the field of software development, with a focus on architecture for the last fifteen years. His expertise and contributions to the tech community are evident through his numerous open source, published articles, speaking engagements at conferences, and authorship of several books. Beyond his professional pursuits, Blaize is passionate about reading, writing, and photography, cherishing the moments spent with his wife and daughters.