SHARING THE KNOWLEDGE

Meet the Shift Speakers

Some of the most eminent and well-known experts in the tech community that will take the stage of Shift 2024.
Kristijan Kitze Ristovski
Kristijan Kitze Ristovski
Founder
Sizzy
Kitze loves to rant about webdev. He is the founder of Sizzy - the browser for developers. He created React Academy to teach React and GraphQL around the world. He's documenting his journey on YouTube, streams on Twitch, and has a blog that he maintains once in a blue moon.
Liran Tal
Liran Tal
Director of Developer Advocacy at
Snyk
Liran Tal is a software developer, and a GitHub Star, world-recognized for his activism in open source communities and advancing web and Node.js security. He engages in security research through his work in the OpenJS Foundation and the Node.js ecosystem security working group, and further promotes open source supply chain security as an OWASP project lead. Liran is also a published author of Essential Node.js Security and O'Reilly's Serverless Security. At Snyk, he is leading the developer advocacy team and on a mission to empower developers with better dev-first security.
Sara Vieira
Sara Vieira
Developer relations engineer
Orama
Developer relations engineer at @AskOrama. Speaker, retro games enthusiast, airport expert and all around nerd.
Anton Kazakov
Anton Kazakov
Engineering Director, App Stores
Canonical
Anton is an Engineering Director at Canonical (the publisher of Ubuntu). As an engineering leader, he's built and scaled teams, shaped tech organisations in the SaaS and consumer-facing worlds. He has a passion for systemic approaches and helping people thrive and grow. He's mentoring other engineering leaders both at work and outside of work, making sure they onboard on their leadership journey quickly and smoothly. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking, mountain skiing, and spending time with his family.
James Samuel
James Samuel
Engineering Manager
Reddit
James has spent the last 13 years building software across 2 continents. Early in his career, he focused on building backend systems across different industries, ranging from Fintech, Edtech, and Proptech. He then moved into management, leading engineering teams at TIER, where he was exposed to the challenges of building high-performing software teams in an organization in hyper-growth phase. Later, he moved on to Reddit to build the world's largest community platform. He is also a co-organizer of the @AWS UserGroup Berlin Meetup. James is passionate about empowering engineers and tech leaders through his blog, talks, and monthly newsletter. He has spoken at different conferences, including Leaddev, StretchConf, World Developer Conference, and more.
Mohammed Aboullaite
Mohammed Aboullaite
Sr Backend Engineer
Spotify
Mohammed is a community catalyst, a true open source believer and one of Google developer expert.
Donny Wals
Donny Wals
iOS Engineer
donnywals.com
I am a passionate, iOS developer that loves learning and sharing knowledge. I started doing iOS roughly when Swift was announced and immediately fell in love with it. I wrote three books on iOS development for a publisher, and self-published books on Combine and Core Data.
Hadi Hariri
Hadi Hariri
VP of Developer Advocacy
JetBrains
Hadi has been in the IT Industry for over three decades and has been involved in a variety of technologies and platforms. He has been speaking at industry events for over two decades and is a renowned international keynote speaker. Hadi is currently VP of Developer Advocacy and Head of Open Source Department at JetBrains, where he oversees some of the key projects and products for the company, including Kotlin.