Speakers

Jordi Bruin is an indie developer for Apple projects who has shipped more than 20 apps over the last two years. His seven most recent apps have all been featured on the App Store. He likes to solve complicated problems in simple ways, for developers, deaf people or people with allergies to name a few.

Lotte Nijland is a Creative Strategist at Move4Mobile. As a Creative Strategist Lotte helps clients of Move4Mobile in defining what they really need to reach their goals instead of what clients want. She is responsible for constantly adding value to several digital solutions.

For 10 years, Alex Glod has been working with leaders, marketers and professionals from the corporate and NGO sector to help them tell their stories with impact, to connect with their audiences, and to provide them with a memorable experience. He has trained over 3800 people on Storytelling, Public Speaking and Leadership and has taught over 42.000 online students through Udemy. He has spoken 3 times on a TEDx stage and has coached several TEDx speakers on the structure and delivery of their talks. Alex has also mentored several startups in pitching their business idea and has moderated over 15 [...]

Michael is a Software Engineer at Google, currently working on the Android Wear Frameworks team where he's working on theming and system integration.

Sonia works at Google in Chromecast team as a Senior Technical Account Manager. Prior to this she has worked on mobile and web domains in Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and a few start-ups, in various capacities, both technical and business centric. She has worked on Android since 2009 and has a few Android applications in Google Play. In the past she has spoken at conferences such as Andevcon, Droidcon, WeConnect, mDevcon, GraceHopper on various Android topics.

Johannes Schickling is a Berlin-based entrepreneur and founder of Graphcool, a flexible backend platform combining GraphQL+ AWS Lambda. He previously founded and sold the VR company “Optonaut”. Johannes studied computer science at KIT and loves cutting-edge mobile/web technologies.

Sérgio Santos is a founder and developer at Bloco, a product studio specialized in Android. After a long time as a full-stack web developer, he decided to switch to mobile development and haven't returned since. Interested in software quality and building great products.

I have been developing on iOS for roughly 5 years. I worked for bigger companies like SAP as well as smaller startups, did freelance projects and worked on some personal apps as well. I attended WWDC 14 on a student scholarship and have been excited about Swift and its functional programming features since. In 2016, I spent half a year in San Francisco to work as an iOS instructor at a tech education startup called Make School. After returning to Germany I joined Graphcool, a Berlin based startup where we build a Backend-as-a-Service based on GraphQL.

Xavier F. Gouchet is an Android architect at Deezer (the music streaming service). There, he focuses on the core architecture of the apps, developer tools, unit tests and administrate the CI systems. He has been dabbling in Android since the Cupcake days and has been working as an Android engineer for 5 years.

Thijs is a software engineer with over 20 years of experience. At Hack The Planet he is using technology to make a positive change in the world. Taking on ecological and humanitarian challenges like wildlife poaching and the online sexual abuse.

Working as the lead mobile engineer at Pusher, I spend most of my days building libraries and SDKs. In my previous life I worked on apps in some way or another for 7 years, focusing on mobile since the early days. My current focus is on finding the best user-centric approach to library and API design, and when I'm not programming I enjoy speaking at conferences, talking public policy, and an occasional pint of IPA.

Mathijs Kadijk creates apps at Q42 and is involved in the development of indoor positioning for Tate Modern, a connected hearing aids project and building sensor support into the Philips Hue app. He also connected the Q42 office door so you can unlock it with your public transport card and is the creator of the open source tool R.swift.

Nir Dobovizki is a software architect and a consultant at CodeValue, Nir has been developing software professionally for over two decades and recently started building all sort of robots, both professionally and at home, we can't be sure but we suspect those robots are a part of his master plan for world domination.

Hi, my names Joe. I’m an Android Engineer based in Brighton, UK working on the Android team at Buffer. I’m passionate about coding and love creating robust, polished and exciting projects for mobile, the web, TV, wearables and I’ll probably be toying with whatever the new thing is at the time you’re reading this – I love to be constantly learning.I’m also a keen writer as I love to share my learnings and experiences with others.

Sebastian Witalec is a Technical Evangelist for Progress/Telerik with over 8 years of experience in software engineering and architecture. Sebastian has passion for all types of technologies. However in the last few years his focus shifted towards cross platform Mobile development where he gained experience with Apache Cordova and NativeScript. He is always happy to learn about the new stuff and to pass the knowledge as far as his voice (or the wire) can take him. Sebastian is based in London, UK actively working with various Dev communities in the area. When not acting techie he is a massive football [...]

A mobile developer experimenting with the world of wearables. I believe so much in this field that I organized HackMed Milan, the first Italian hackathon on quantified self, wearables, and human data. Er... I might also have helped launch a couple of life-saving wearable devices in the meantime :)

Mark Allison is a GDE for Android and software engineer with over 30 years' experience. He is passionate about providing the user with the best possible experience. He has developed both server and client side, most commonly Android on the client side, but with also for iOS, HTML5, Symbian, and J2ME. Mark writes a technical blog (http://blog.stylingandroid.com) which focuses on Android UI/UX topics, but often covers more general Android development techniques. When not being geeky, Mark likes to unwind by hurling abuse at football referees, specifically those who are unkind to his beloved Watford FC with whom he holds a [...]

Yoichi is an iOS developer working at Mercari Inc, which provides a marketplace app for anyone to buy and sell items from a mobile device. He is also an open source contributor, and the original author of Swinject, the first and the most popular dependency injection framework written in and for Swift.

Fernando Cejas is a Software Engineer focused on Mobile Platforms. He has worked for several companies in a wide variety of projects in J2ME, C-Sharp, Java, Php and Ruby in different contexts: Social networks, NFC/RFID Hardware Solutions and E-Commerce. He has been involved on Android since its appearance and currently he works at SoundCloud as part of Core Engineering providing tools to other developers in order to facilitate features development.

Wajdi is a computer engineer specialized in mobile technologies (native and hybrid) and parallel realities. He is currently working at SFEIR. He published articles around these subjects either on blogs or in paper magazines (Programmez! Num198). He was also speaker in some events (in France and elsewhere). His main goal is to try to participate in pushing the digital world forward via contributions on Github (Angular2 documentation for example) or via training sessions, workshops, conferences and meetups.

Marcos Placona is a developer evangelist at Twilio, a company founded to disrupt telecommunications. He spends most of his time working with Java and .Net open source projects while equipping and inspiring developers to build killer applications. He’s also a great API enthusiast and believes they bring peace to the Software Engineering world.

Phil is a Developer Advocate for Swift, Objective-C and C++ tools at JetBrains. Prior to that he worked in as diverse fields as: finance, agile coaching and iOS development. A long time C++ developer he also has his feet in C#, F#, Objective-C and Swift - as well as dabbling in other languages. He is the author of several open source projects - most notably Catch: a C++-native test framework, and had an iPhone game in the App Store from the early days.

Rizwan is a User Experience Designer at Launch. He creates persuasive and profitable experiences for global brands such as Netflix, Quicken, PayPal, Allstate, Holland America, and StubHub. He is also a speaker and loves sharing his passion for sketching at meetups and conferences. Rizwan is the creator of the UX Alphabet app, a handy reference app of UX concepts. When he isn’t designing, he is usually at home drawing dinosaurs and cars, dinosaurs in cars, and other combinations of dinosaurs and cars with his twin boys.

He is a software developer with 20 years of experience and has focussed on iOS development for over a decade. At Stream Jeroen and his team work on supporting iOS developers in creating the best possible chat end-user experience with the Stream platform. Next to that Jeroen runs the Dutch CocoaHeads for over 8 years and runs a podcast with a focus on iOS developers called AppForce1.

I have been developing on iOS for last 8 years. I worked for small startups and big companies, developing more apps that I can remember. Currently I work as Senior iOS Developer at Hypermedia. When not busy with mobile projects, I run marathons and collect modern art.

Cesare Rocchi crafts software. He runs Studio Magnolia. Now he is building podrover.com. He blogs at upbeat.it. You can find him on Twitter @_funkyboy.

iOS developer since 2008 and is working at the ING for the past six years. Focusing primarily on getting new innovations into the ​banking app as quickly as possible. Pim is a true mobile and technology enthusiast and is currently working in the ThinkForward team. This team created the ‘Inge’ the virtual assistant that incorporated vocal password in the mobile banking app. as well as the AppleWatch App and TouchID integration”

Marco Kuiper is a mobile lead developer at Info Support. He is incurably optimistic, loves great design and leads the Competence Center Mobile, guiding the company when it comes to mobile app development. He motivates people to share and expand their mobile app development knowledge. Giving presentations excites Marco. He has been talking about mobile on multiple occasions and loves sharing his vision and debating the pro's and con's. To get away from everything related to work, he loves to travel to explore the world.

Jan-Felix works on the Android Developer Relations team at Google. Based in Sydney, he is focussing on Android security and helps Android app developers incorporate the latest best practices in their apps. In the past he has worked on the Google Santa Tracker app, the Google I/O app and testing on Android. He has presented at Google I/O, the Android dev summit and other developer conferences over the years.

Jorge is a freelancer dedicated to mobile development, security, and systems architecture. As a developer he started to work for the M.I.T. in 1993 and since then he has collaborated in many software projects. Most of them were internally for HP where he worked for more than 15 years. Since 2008 he has been working in different aspects of mobile development. After playing with PalmOS, he learned Android programming for the first Android Developer Challenge and immediately started to play with the first iPhone SDK. He often participates as instructor in the best iOS and Android Bootcamps in U.S.A. and [...]

Originally from Brazil and always taking the developing countries market in mind, I have worked developing many big codebases, including the biggest classifieds company in Brazil, Autodesk’s BIM360 app and currently in Berlin’s SoundCloud, focused on improving the media playback experience on Android. With 6 years of experience developing mobile applications, I’m always keen to learn and apply the best software engineering practices, while also sharing the knowledge with the community – speaking is a great way of learning too!

Gergely is building the next generation payments experience at Uber. While working here, he's helped rebuild the Uber app from scratch and with open sourcing RIBs, the native, cross-platform mobile architecture behind it. Gergely has a passion for building products that people love and use every day. Prior to Uber he built a B2B booking tool at Skyscanner, Skype for XBox One and the web at Microsoft, and exotic trading tools at JP Morgan. He previously built a few mobile apps like Cocktail flow and blogs on The Pragmatic Engineer.

Sebas is an Android developer with passion for automated testing, architecture and RxJava. He also writes articles to share his love for Android: Medium, Medium article

Tamzin Taylor is a Partner Development Manager at Google Play. In this role, she helps apps & games businesses from UK and Northern Europe to find success on Android and Google Play. Prior to joining the Google Play team, Tamzin was the Head of Android Partnerships, Australia & New Zealand and a Solutions Architect at Google Australia. Pre-Google, Tamzin worked for TigerSpike, Vodafone Hutchison, Virgin Mobile and CapGemini Ernst & Young in Australia. Tamzin has a BoMM in Manufacturing and an Executive MBA in Business from the University of Technology in Sydney.

Marcin Moskała is an experienced Android developer who is always looking for ways to improve. He has been passionate about Kotlin since its early beta release. He is an author of the book Android Development with Kotlin. He writes articles and speaks at programming conferences. Marcin is active in the programming and open source community and is also passionate about cognitive and data science. You can visit his a (marcinmoskala.com), medium or follow him on GitHub (MarcinMoskala)

James Thomas is a “Developer Advocate” for IBM, helping developers build scalable applications on IBM's cloud platform. Having accepted a summer-long internship with IBM as “something to do” before starting his post-graduate degree, James is still here ten years later. Managing to find his way into the “Emerging Technologies” division, James has been able to work on everything from the largest retail banking site in Europe, been a leading open-source developer for a JavaScript toolkit before working on the first commercial system for IBM Watson as the UI Technical Lead.

Lead iOS Developer at XING SE, a career-oriented social network. Together with his team, he helps others to achieve more with less code.

We have a passion for technology & privacy. Blockchain is an amazing new technology that can help decentralize a lot of applications, and has the potential to really improve the privacy of many people. Within Philips we’re part of the Blockchain Lab, where we create and evaluate blockchain prototypes that could radically change the way we deal with health data. As you’ll (hopefully) notice during our session, we greatly value extreme programming and software craftsmanship.

We have a passion for technology & privacy. Blockchain is an amazing new technology that can help decentralize a lot of applications, and has the potential to really improve the privacy of many people. Within Philips we’re part of the Blockchain Lab, where we create and evaluate blockchain prototypes that could radically change the way we deal with health data. As you’ll (hopefully) notice during our session, we greatly value extreme programming and software craftsmanship.

Panayotis (AKA Darth), is the Intelligence Tech Lead of the X | Lab. The X Lab is a tech tank based on the planet of Mustafar, where crazy people, from scientists to artists, to developers to technologists, share their ideas in order to create moonshots! A moonshot is a radical solution, integrating breakthrough technology with native thinking. More than on projects we are exploring ambitions! Darth is also a Google Developer Expert on Product Design, focusing on AI and human behaviour.

Besides being a GDE (Google Developer Expert) for Android and GDE for Product Design, Wiebe Elsinga is Lead Developer at Egeniq in The Netherlands. He has a passion for UX and Design. He regularly speaks at Mobile Developer conferences, or is giving workshops and tutorials.

Arnaud is co-founder and head of engineering of Impraise by day, and he likes to discover new horizons, tastes and technologies by night.

Guilherme comes from Brazil, he is passionated about beer, movies, Heavy Metal music and software architectures.

Jan has been developing software for well over a decade. Currently he is working at 4DotNet as a Cloud Solution Architect/Developer. His main focus is developing highly performant and scalable solutions using the awesome services provided by the Microsoft Azure platform. Because of his expertise he has been able to help out multiple customers to bring their on-premise solution to the cloud and guide them towards a better software development ecosystem. Whenever Jan finds something interesting to write about, he shares his findings on either his personal blog (https://jan-v.nl) or the 4DotNet blog.

I am an iOS developer at funda, the largest real estate website in The Netherlands. I loves voicing my opinions on iOS architecture and best practises, all while furiously trying to avoid doing the wrong thing myself (sometimes in vain). In my spare time I play the drums and percussion. I live in Leiden with my wife and two cats.

Android enthusiast. Developer. Design fanboy. Blogger at http://www.androiduipatterns.com/ Android GDE. Android Lead and founder at SnappMobile

A Product Designer who likes to bring new products to life through a user-centred approach. Based in Berlin, he has been working for different product companies like Kuponjo and Onefootball. He's currently tackling new challenges @ Snapp Mobile Germany.

Engineer & Nerd. I took master degree in computer Engineering with thesis in Artificial Intelligence at Polytechnic University of Bari in 2007. I worked for several years in ICT companies in the south of Italy as developer. I attended the Mind The Bridge startup school in San Francisco in 2011. Back in Italy I started working on my own companies. I'm the founder and the current community lead of GDG Bari. Now, I'm the CTO of Wideverse, a spin-off of Polytechnic University of Bari that works on VR/AR/MR technologies. I'm an Android and backend developer.

Passionate geek for all areas of technology with a strong love for Android and embedded devices. Been working with technology for the last 14 years, where 3 have been with embedded devices and 8 have been with Android, due to that, is really favoring the Android things, that connect the cloud to these two technologies. GDE for IoT. Passionate geek for all areas of technology with a strong love for Android and embedded devices. Been working with technology for the last 14 years, where 3 have been with embedded devices and 8 have been with Android, due to that, is [...]

I'm a developer for the Vapor web framework and spend countless hours optimising APIs readability and performance. I'm maximising quality and readability of code and am particularly interested in developing Swift libraries using my standards and do so on a daily basis.

Laurent is a developer passionate about software, hardware, science, and everything shaping the future. In a past life, he worked on educational solutions, pioneered the ebook industry, and co-founded Bookeen. Launching 24/7 digital platforms made him appreciate how much cloud technologies are developer superpowers. Laurent works at Google Paris and enjoys exploring, learning, and sharing the world of possibilities.

Marcus is the Mobile Lead at Buffer and based in Munich, Germany. He is passionate about building effective teams and great products in the Mobile Area. Constantly learning and reading you can find him in different traveling around tasting all the different coffees there are in the world ?

Rowdy Rabouw is a webdeveloper with over 20 years’ experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. He's been working as a freelancer since 2004 and has been employed by the Dutch insurance company Nationale-Nederlanden since 1992. Currently he is working on various JavaScript and NativeScript projects as Senior Engineer. Rowdy started developing NativeScript apps with Angular in 2016 and running the NativeScript NL website; a curated list of courses, tools and tips to help people code awesome apps with NativeScript. Since 2017 he is a Telerik Developer Expert for NativeScript and spreading his love for {N}.

Ewa and Aleksander are both working at Allegro in the same team. Ewa is a senior iOS engineer in tests and Aleksander is an iOS engineer. We are passionate about our work and we strive for the highest quality product. We want to share our experience with testing an iOS app at scale and give you a little bit of insight of how we do it in a large team that’s distributed through couple of cities in Poland.

Ewa and Aleksander are both working at Allegro in the same team. Ewa is a senior iOS engineer in tests and Aleksander is an iOS engineer. We are passionate about our work and we strive for the highest quality product. We want to share our experience with testing an iOS app at scale and give you a little bit of insight of how we do it in a large team that’s distributed through couple of cities in Poland.

Ash Furrow is a Canadian iOS developer and author, currently working at Artsy. He has published a number of books, built many apps, and is a contributor to the open source community. On his blog, he writes about a range of topics, from interesting programming to explorations of music and analogue film photography.

Sebastiaan de With is an ex-Apple designer that has recently designed Halide, a new take on an iOS camera app. When he isn't designing Halide, he does contract work for Google, Mozilla, Sony and Apple.

Android Learner for >4.5+ years. Currently helping millions of people in a comfortable ride hailing experience with passenger-android app

A trainer for (individuals in) teams, providing tailor-made programs using principles of Deep Democracy, non-violent communication and Semcostyle self-management, amongst others. I believe a world of difference may be gained by developing your soft skills, such as presentation and other communication skills. And you don’t need to change whom you are or what you represent in order to get these benefits (for example: It’s unnecessary to make an introvert more extravert). It’s the caterpillar transforming itself into the butterfly: Changing something small in your behaviour has a huge impact.

Donatello Piras is een veelgevraagd dagvoorzitter, presentator, gespreks- en debatleider met jarenlange ervaring in binnen- en buitenland. Als televisiepresentator werkte hij voor RTL-Z waar hij de Talkshow Z in Zaken presenteerde en de tv-column in opinieprogramma Dunk verzorgt.

Kadir Dev, Advisor and trainer and interim manager at Evolving Matters Kadir Dev is the founder of Evolving Matters (EvMa). EvMa is a network organization that specializes in the international profit sector, with many IT companies in its portfolio. At EvMa Consultancy, management and HR are advised on organization design, sales processes and personnel development. With EvMa Management, specific organizational, change, culture or personnel development issues are taken care of by providing the project leadership or management. Finally, EvMa also has expertise on works councils and employee participation.

Moving people and teams and letting them flourish. I enjoy guiding people and teams to live and work with more fun, focus, creativity and tranquility. In my view, job satisfaction and vitality are essential for both the individual and the organization. The more employees feel good in their work, the better the (commercial) results are. Attention to the welfare of people leads a win-win for everyone.

Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. He has been a columnist for a number of magazines and sites and has been on far too many committees (it has been said that "a committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled"). He is co-author of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series and editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know. He lives in Bristol and online.

Kamyar leads the Messaging Platform & Algorithms team at Netflix, which builds and innovates on how Netflix communicates with its 130M+ subscribers across email, push notifications, in-app alerts, etc to provide them the most relevant, engaging, and personalized messages. Previously, Kamyar headed up the Developer Platform team at Lyft (the fastest growing ride-sharing company in the US since 2017) where his team was responsible for the APIs used by external partners (e.g. Google, healthcare mobility companies) to provide safe and reliable transportation solutions. Prior to that, he spent 4 years at LinkedIn managing the Partner Engineering team which supported external [...]

Kaan is a mobile software engineer and a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Firebase, based in London, UK. As an active community builder, he has co-organized a lot of developer events in the UK and Turkey such as DevFests, Android Developer Days’, Android Study Jams, and has been a distinguished speaker at many international industry events in the US, UK, Austria, Ireland, Italy, Czech Republic, Belarus, Romania, UAE, Latvia, Turkey and Georgia. Besides being a Google Developer Group (GDG) London lead, he is a Google Product Expert (PE) and a Google Local Guide. Kaan is passionate about exploring new technologies [...]

Dr. Aygul Zagidullina is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Assistant based in London, UK. Her work experience includes Google, Todoist, MotaWord. She holds a PhD in quantum chemistry and prior to Google dedicated 6 years to scientific research at the University of Stuttgart. Aygul is a very active member of the London digital ecosystem and has been involved in many innovative projects. She is a Google Developer Group (GDG)/ Women Techmakers (WTM) London lead, Google Launchpad mentor, Google Product Expert (PE)/ Trusted Tester (TT), and UK STEM Ambassador. Aygul has been a distinguished speaker at numerous international industry events [...]

Tjeerd in ’t Veen is an avid Swift fan and a freelance iOS developer, having experience working for agencies, co-founding a small startup, and helping ING scale up their mobile development. Starting out as a Flash developer in 2001, his career progressed to iOS development with Objective-C, web development with Ruby, and some tinkering in other programming languages. When he’s not developing in Swift, he’s busy spending time with his two daughters, making cringy dad jokes, and dabbling on an acoustic guitar.

I’m a Android/iOS developer, currently working for a Backbase as an Android & iOS Developer. I love public speaking and presenting talks. I regularly give talks at GDG events & Local meetups, and blog at Medium. Before joining Backbase I was working with awesome product teams @Microsoft.

Jeroen Willemsen is a Principal Security Architect at Xebia. With a love for mobile security, he recently became one of the projectleaders for the OMTG project (MASVS & MSTG). Jeroen is more or less a jack of all trades with interest in infrastructure security, risk management and application security.

Alexandria is an accessibility engineer at Apple, international speaker, content creator, and advocate for the transgender community. In her free time she enjoys reading, travel, and surfing the web too much.

I have been working with android development for 9 years, including major vendors like Motorola and Samsung. I worked on several applications that have millions of users and I'm very passionate about learning and teaching

Paul is the author of Hacking with Swift, Pro Swift, Swift Design Patterns, Server-Side Swift, Hacking with macOS, Hacking with watchOS, Hacking with tvOS, Swift Coding Challenges, and more. Suffice it to say, he quite likes Swift. And coffee. (But mostly Swift.) (And coffee.)

As a graduated psychologist and after a commercial business career Frouke Kramer is since 2009 following her heart: Presenting and how to improve the presentations skills of professionals. Frouke has a strong talent for giving constructive feedback and can naturally relate to others, always based on the strength of her students of participants. In her approach as a trainer and coach, Frouke is analytical, positively critical and always has practical tips at hand, based on her 10+ years of experience. She is also active as a voice-over and regularly acts as a moderator and presentor at lectures and conferences.

I'm a Staff Engineer at Wayfair on our iOS team. I've worked on iOS at various mobile agencies and product companies over the last 6 years. While not writing and reviewing code, I spend my time snowboarding, playing ultimate, and eating lots of yummy food.

I am Jayesh Kawli, currently living in Boston, Massachusetts. I have been writing iOS applications for more than 5 years. Right now I am working at Wayfair as an iOS developer and a tech lead for the checkout team. As a senior developer, I like to share my knowledge and experience with other people. I have presented a variety of topics at our internal Lunch and learn meetings, local meetups as well as on the international platforms. In my spare time I like to work on side-projects and open source libraries. I also write a blog which touches active topics [...]

Hugo is a seasoned software engineer with a strong focus on Android for over 13 years. He’s a Google Developer Expert for Android and international speaker at Android events around the world. With his company Little Robots, he creates his own apps, like Rainy Days and drumbox and is available for Android projects and consultancy.

I built Halide with Sebastiaan de With. I'm cofounder of a startup in stealth. In the past I've advised startups, tech consultanted for HBO's silicon valley, taught iPhone development, and I used to lead Twitter for iPhone.

Kaya is currently a full time iOS engineer at Slack on the Messaging team working on Notifications and Accessibility. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Computer Science. In the summer of 2014, she launched We Read Too, a book resource app that features titles written by authors of color. Recently, Kaya was featured in the App Store about We Read Too and what inspired her to create it. Aside from coding, she also enjoys writing and has bylines in Smashing Magazine, TechCrunch and Fusion.

Ellen Shapiro has been an iOS and Android developer for the last decade. Most recently she worked on the Apollo GraphQL iOS SDK, and has worked at several agencies in the US and EU. Ellen lived in Nijmegen voor twee jaaren tussen 2017-19, en heeft een beetje Nederlands gelerend. Ellen now lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she enjoys kayaking and hiking in the summer, and complaining about how cold it is during the winter. In her spare time Ellen enjoys making goofy nonsense with her laser cutter, playing sous-chef to her wife Lilia, and relentlessly instagramming their two cats.