SAVE THE DATE! CODECON #Žilina

I’m a .NET, C#, and Firebird expert with a focus on data and business layers, language features, parallelism, databases, and application performance. I’ve been involved in open source for nearly 20 years, including the FirebirdClient project. I’m a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, as well as a speaker and blogger at tabsoverspaces.com.

I sit at the intersection of customer data, feedback, adoption metrics and churn analyses. I see where the gap forms between what the team builds and what customers perceive as value. I’m passionate about customer success because I believe in a fair exchange of investment-to-value. At CODECON, I want to bring a perspective developers don’t often see: what customers truly need, what frustrates them, and why some leave even when the product works technically very well.

I’ve been working in software for over 13 years. Before that, I studied IT and philosophy.

I’ve been pretty lucky throughout my career. I joined a growing startup where I learned pretty much everything I know. Nine years later, I’m still here and still enjoying it, even though we’ve since become part of a large corporation.

For the past few years, I’ve been leading a team with a high degree of autonomy, which gives us plenty of room to experiment with how we build software. Over time, we’ve iterated on the way we work and arrived at what I believe is our best setup so far. That’s what I’d like to share with you.

I believe software development is a team sport, not an individual activity. We get the best results when everyone feels like they’re part of the team, has a sense of ownership, and can take responsibility for the things they work on. When people feel like they’re working on something that’s truly “theirs” and have a real say in the decisions, the whole team benefits.

Outside of work, I founded an IT community in Poprad and now run one in Trenčín (a.k.a. the Slovak digital nomad 😉). I also have four young kids and volunteer with people experiencing homelessness.

Across all these areas, I keep coming back to the same lesson: if we want to make things better, we need to build on trust, not control.

I've spent over ten years in infrastructure, from data centers and networking through virtualization to Kubernetes and GitOps. For the past three years at Grow2FIT, I've been building observability for environments where downtime is more than an inconvenience: a crypto payment platform running a network of ATMs, gateways, and POS terminals.

I want to talk about observability from an angle you don't often hear at conferences: when your monitoring is dictated not just by SRE practice, but by a regulator. DORA and MiCA don't ask for a dashboard. They ask for a provable ability to see what's happening in your system, and to back it up after the fact. That changes the architecture: telemetry and security logs run through a single pipeline, logs have to be immutable, and the whole stack has to be versioned and reproducible.

This isn't theory, and it isn't a product demo. It's a setup we've actually built and run in production, including the things we'd do differently today. You'll leave with a concrete list of decisions you can map onto your own environment.

My journey into IT hasn’t been straightforward. Programming didn’t come naturally to me for a long time, and throughout both high school and university, I often wondered whether I had chosen the right path. Then things started to change…

I’ve been working at GLOBESY for over two years, where I’m now building an AI Ops architecture that takes routine operational tasks off the development team’s plate. This is also the focus of my master’s thesis in Intelligent Information Systems at the University of Žilina.

I’ve built and deployed apps using Flutter and Spring Boot in production, but these days, my focus is more on DevOps.

Before getting into IT, I spent over five years leading people in youth organizations and organized more than 20 sports and gaming tournaments. Those experiences taught me how to communicate clearly and connect with people on a human level.

Alongside my work, I’m also studying theology in Vienna, with a focus on leadership.

And, of course, I’m always happy to enjoy a cup of good specialty coffee in great company. ;)

I have specialized in mobile development (iOS, Android, and cross-platform) for 14 years and in mobile security for 12 years. As a Principal Software Developer, I lead a team developing around 50 mobile SDKs for banks and startups worldwide. My goal is always to achieve the highest levels of security, usability, and stability.

I have 10 years of experience in software development, progressing from a junior developer through mid-level and senior roles to becoming a solution architect in the payments domain at Slovenská sporiteľňa.

For the past year and a half, I’ve also been leading a team of nine people: four developers, four business analysts, and one solution architect.

I spend around 60% of my time on leadership, while the rest is dedicated to my work as a solution architect. I design technical solutions, advise developers and analysts, take part in production on-call rotations, and keep an eye on industry trends and competitors in the payments space. This helps me identify opportunities and shape the team’s future direction.

I stumbled into software testing by chance and never looked back. Over the years, I’ve specialised in test automation architecture. These days, I’m increasingly focused on AI skills that can build and maintain test frameworks across different projects.

I’m naturally curious about new technologies, but what matters to me even more is whether they fit into a well-thought-out process that actually works.

I'm an introvert who moved to the Orava region. After a while, I started finding it a little lonely working as a programmer on my own, so for the past 15 years I've been finding different ways to support the Slovak developer community.

I started out writing for vyvojari.sk, later I learned about Daniel Harcek's WebUP, and eventually I launched the vyvojari.dev community project. To help it, I started writing a weekly newsletter at https://blog.vyvojari.dev/tag/tyzdennik/. Through WebUP, I also got involved with CODECON and ended up on the program committee. A year ago, I became a co-host of Dávid Tvrdoň's Link podcast.

None of this was planned. All it ever took was reaching out and taking the first step. And that's exactly what I want to talk about: at a time when AI is taking over an ever-growing part of our work, we're losing what used to make us happy — programming — and somehow we have to deal with that. Being visible in the community may be the cheapest insurance we can buy.

I don't have a theory or a methodology, but I have fifteen years of trial and error, and a few things that worked. I want to share those with you.

My name is Andrej Hlúbik, and I am one of the creators of the BuildITBreakIT workshop. The other creator is my wife 🙂.

I am an ethical hacker (penetration tester) at Siemens Healthineers, where I specialize in testing internal systems and medical devices. I also enjoy giving talks at various events for students and teachers, because the younger generation is our future.

In my free time, I enjoy experimenting with local AI models.

I've been building software for 30 years. A lot of people know me from the agile world, but for the past few years I've spent most of my time working with AI agents.

At ScrumDesk, I built an agentic pipeline that now powers how we ship our products: tools for project management, strategy planning, and business flow analysis and management. The pipeline covers the whole process, from preparing requirements through design and prioritization to code, tests, documentation, and production deployment. The agent itself gets a task done in anywhere from a few minutes to a few dozen. I keep developing this approach under the name ADLC (Agentic Development Life Cycle).

I'm also interested in what AI does to teams. When an agent writes code faster than anyone can spec it, who does what on the team changes, and so does the bottleneck. I also like to talk openly about which parts of the agentic hype don't work.

"I’m a .NET developer and architect with 20 years of experience. As Builder-in-Chief at Symetry, I’m helping build an AI-native accounting platform based on a bold, modern architecture.

We’re bringing AI into a domain where correctness, auditability, and trust are non-negotiable.

At CODECON, I’ll share the architectural and technical decisions we’ve made, the dead ends we’ve encountered, and the lessons we’ve learned along the way."

I've been working as a software developer for over 10 years. Every year, I enjoy it more, and every year, I realize how much I still have to learn. I mainly write about Angular on Medium, but lately, I've been getting interested in pretty much everything, including backend development.

I currently work as an AI & Automation Engineer at Multitude, with many years of experience in software engineering.

I’m also starting to give talks on various IT topics. I enjoy talking about subjects I find interesting, sharing my knowledge and insights with others, and learning along the way.

When I’m not behind a computer, I enjoy climbing, both indoors and outdoors, making music, and, above all, spending time with my family.

I’m a Developer Relations Engineer at Qodo, helping teams build high-quality software and navigate the AI era. My blog has been read over 2 million times, and thousands of developers and testers have taken my courses. I speak at conferences around the world and I am a Codex Ambassador and AAIF Ambassador. I live in Slovakia with my wife and our four children.

I'm a seasoned software developer and IT consultant with extensive experience designing and delivering information systems. More recently, I've been focusing on the practical use of AI and local language models: integrating them into development workflows and deploying them in client solutions.

I'm a software developer with a background in biomedical engineering and bioinformatics. I work on medical mobile apps and explore practical ways to use AI in software — from helping with the development process to integrating generative AI directly into applications.

I’m the CEO of the fashion brand Dajana Rodriguez and the founder of Promedea, where we teach people and businesses how to work with AI.

Over the past few months, I’ve gone all-in on AI and vibe coding in my own company—not as something to talk about in presentations, but as a tool that delivers real business results. I’ve built several internal applications, developed our own AI system that connects the entire company, and automated key business processes.

More than 800 people have attended Promedea workshops. I keep things direct and practical, with no unnecessary theory. I show real-world implementations that can have an immediate impact on the business.

My motto: “No fluff. No BS. Just practical, real-world application.”

I love the intersection of technology, business, and marketing. I have over 20 years of experience in IT and cloud computing, helping mid-sized and large enterprises design and operate solutions across infrastructure, containerisation, scalability, and security.

I’ve spent over 10 years in B2B, working in product management and marketing, as well as building and leading international technology and sales teams. I regularly speak at conferences, deliver training on cloud-native technologies and Kubernetes, and advise companies on productisation, leadership, and business strategy.

I lead Data and AI at Ringier Slovakia, where my team and I build production AI systems for newsrooms as well as internal tools. I also write code daily on my own projects. Repeated patterns in code reviews led me to explore how to turn insights from reviews into rules that work for both people and AI agents.

I've reported to inspiring seniors with an amazing work ethic and zero EQ, to micromanagers, to HR people with all the right degrees, and to truly mature managers. I've mentored people at a small startup, run around two hundred interviews, and worked as a salesperson, a UX designer, customer support, and a product owner. At one point in my "career," I led about 40 people through six leaders who were still learning the ropes.

Years of experience, lines of code written, or simply delivering quickly don’t automatically make someone a great developer. Experienced senior engineers and managers will openly discuss what really sets top developers apart in practice: asking the right questions, understanding the business, communicating effectively, knowing when to say “no,” and choosing simple solutions over unnecessary complexity.