Speakers

I work on Viaduct, Airbnb's GraphQL-based data-oriented service mesh.

Alec is an open source enthusiast currently focused on Houdini, a GraphQL client. He spends his time away from the keyboard tending to a collection of carnivorous plants. And when he's in the mood for a sunburn, he also enjoys cycling and sailing with his family.

Originally from Ottawa, Canada, and currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Amanda Marochko is a Staff Product Manager at Buffer, responsible for maintaining and expanding Buffer's core product offering through channels and integrations. Prior to Buffer, she was the International Growth Lead (EMEA) at Shopify. Outside of work, she runs a non-profit for women in tech.

GraphQL TSC Member and GraphQL Java founder. Working on all things GraphQL at Atlassian.

Andrei is a professional book hoarder who frequently complains about software.

Server Infrastructure at Instagram

A dedicated Senior Solutions Architect & Staff Engineer with a proven ability to lead projects and drive software development initiatives. I thrive in dynamic environments, leveraging my strong technical skills, deep product knowledge and collaborative approach to drive innovation and deliver composable and impactful solutions.

Living close to Paris, I've been at Grafbase for over two years building the GraphQL federation gateway among other things.

A self-described "community-funded open source maintainer," Benjie dedicates much of his time to open source, made possible by the support of appreciative and forward-thinking individuals and organizations. He can often be found helping contributors advance their proposals, and has been instrumental in many key GraphQL advancements and initiatives. As a member of the GraphQL Technical Steering Committee (TSC), Benjie is proud to help guide GraphQL into the future.

Currently working on Apollo-Kotlin, the Kotlin SDK for GraphQL, Benoit has been writing software for 20 years, with a focus on Android since its v1. When he’s not coding, you can find him enjoying movies or geocaching.

GraphQL server side framework at Meta.

Supporting GraphQL for mobile at Meta

Daniel Hai is the API Product Manager at monday.com, leading the strategy behind one of the largest public GraphQL implementations in the industry. With a decade of experience spanning software engineering and product management, he specializes in building APIs that developers love. Beyond his role at monday, Daniel actively shares insights on API product management and consults companies and startups on creating world-class developer experiences for the APIs.

Open Source developer from Paris GraphQL-ESLint, Nextra and GraphiQL maintener

I'm a maintainer of GraphQL Java and software engineer at Atlassian. I've published a book, GraphQL with Java and Spring, all about the official Spring for GraphQL integration and the GraphQL Java library.

CTO @ The Guild, creator and maintainer of many open-source libraries in the GraphQL ecosystem, including GraphQL-Codegen.

Duckki is an engineer at Apollo GraphQL, working on Apollo Federation. With a decade of experience building static analysis tools to detect bugs and security vulnerabilities, he’s passionate about making GraphQL more reliable and efficient. Duckki holds a PhD from the University of Iowa and is committed to advancing tools and techniques that help developers maximize the potential of GraphQL.

Emily has professionally worked with GraphQL for a bit over two years and has shifted to working with GraphQL as a hobby. She has experience with production schema stitching federate environments and customized GraphQL tools. When not coding she enjoys Magic the Gathering and volunteering.

I have over five years of experience working with GraphQL, applying the technology across both backend and frontend systems. I currently serve as a Staff Engineer and Tech Lead of the GraphQL Infrastructure team at LinkedIn.

Fiona Huang is a Senior Software Engineer at Pinterest 📌 working on GraphQL on the Core API Platform team. Previously, she worked on planet scale APIs at Google, GraphQL at Twitter, and APIs at Braintree. Fiona enjoys data modeling 👩🏻‍💻, coffee ☕, croissants 🥐, and superfluous emoji usage ✨.

Gabriel Cura-Castro is senior software engineer with a particular interest in UX and design systems. He has two decades of experience developing software in a diverse range of fields spanning from developer tools, internet infrastructure, and finance. He has spent the last decade building design systems and federated components for the likes of Apple, Netflix, and now StubHub. In his spare time you can find him hiking the mountains of California with his daughter and partner.

Software Engineer working on Infrastructure experiences at Meta

Ivan has been active in the GraphQL community since its early days and is currently a member of the GraphQL Technical Steering Committee.

Working on the GraphQL client and build infrastructure for mobile apps at Meta

I am a builder passionate about system design, developer experience, static typing, and functional programming. Educated in design theory, practice, and social responsibility, I fell into code via open source gateways like Wordpress, jQuery, Node.js, and GitHub. My love for open source continues today in TypeScript and GraphQL. In my personal life, close to my heart are the backpacking trips I take my two boys on yearly across the beautiful rugged Canadian wilderness.

Hi, I'm Jeff! I support the Apollo Client, Apollo iOS, Apollo Kotlin, and Apollo Server engineers at Apollo as a manager. Before going into software I was a trombonist and public school music teacher. In my free time I like to bake Chicago-style deep dish pizzas and French macarons.

Jeff Dolle is a Software Engineer at The Guild who has been using GraphQL full-stack since 2016 and is currently working on the GraphQL Hive platform. He has extensive experience designing and implementing schemas in production software, serving over a billion requests a month.

Jerel is a Colorado native with a brief stint in Portland Oregon. He loves to code and learn about all sorts of programming patterns. He is an avid Denver Broncos fan and loves to play the bass.

Jesper Rasmussen is a Principal Engineer at The LEGO Group with a passion for building great developer experiences. He’s been working with GraphQL since 2016 across several companies, leading transformation projects and helping teams get the most out of their APIs. Outside of work, Jesper enjoys hiking, mixing up cocktails, cooking, dialing in the perfect espresso—and always has some death metal playing in the background.

Hi, my names Joe. I’m an Android Engineer and Google Developer Expert for Android based in Brighton, UK working on GraphQL + Android 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.

Jordan has spent the last eight years working at Meta. He currently works on Relay, a sophisticated GraphQL client for JavaScript that powers most of Meta's JavaScript applications.

Juan Carlos Blanco Delgado is a software engineer from Venezuela, now residing in the UK and working for RS Group. He is passionate about the Open Source community and holds certifications in AWS and Terraform HashiCorp. Juan Carlos enjoys climbing, cycling, running, snowboarding, swimming, listening to mushy songs, and watching and reading about films. Above all, he loves coding and creating cool stuff!

Working on GraphQL tooling since before I had a mustache. I'm proud of it (the tooling).

Laurin Quast is a developer that started exploring GraphQL, by leading API development at a start-up. Realizing that there are still many unsolved problems and challenges within the space, he started contributing to famous JavaScript libraries, such as GraphQL Code Generator and Tools. Diving deeper, the transition into becoming a full-time open-source developer at The Guild was inevitable. Currently, he is working on Hive helping teams scale GraphQL across teams and organizations.

Lenz Weber-Tronic works as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Apollo GraphQL, where he is part of the team maintaining the Apollo TypeScript Client. He is a maintainer of Redux Toolkit and if he’s not currently trying to summon elder gods with weird TypeScript incantations he can usually be found answering questions on Apollo and Redux usage or opening random PRs all over GitHub.

Lisa works on the Mobile Sustainability team at Instagram. Her team's charter is to ensure the longterm health of the mobile developer experience at Instagram. Her main focus is transition Instagram from REST to GraphQL.

Mansi Mittal is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience, including 6 years at Booking.com. She has designed and architected critical, high-scale systems and led the migration from REST + Protobuf to federated GraphQL for high-volume, business-critical services. Passionate about scalable architecture, she bridges product needs with elegant engineering solutions.

Marco Reni is an Architect at Mediaset (MFE), the biggest broadcaster in Italy and one of the largest free broadcasters in Europe. He is in charge of all the frontend architectures and services. Over the years, he has taken responsibility of several high profile projects - including the new Voting Platform - leveraging his background as a Backend/DevOps Engineer. In his free time he likes to play the piano, play board games, eat ramen and take photos while traveling around the world.

Martijn Walraven lives in Amsterdam and has been with Apollo since the early days of our GraphQL journey. He is one of the co-creators of Apollo Federation. Outside of work, he enjoys volunteering at a primary school and is working towards a degree in education.

Martin is a maintainer of Apollo Kotlin. He has been writing Android applications since Cupcake and fell in love with Kotlin in 2017. Martin loves naming things and the sound of his laptop fan compiling all these type-safe programs. When not busy rewriting all his bash scripts in Kotlin, Martin loves to hike the Pyrénées or play a good game of Hearthstone.

Matteo co-founded Platformatic.dev and serves as its CTO, recognized as a leading Open Source author in JavaScript with 30B annual downloads. Previously, he was Chief Software Architect at NearForm and earned a Ph.D. in 2014. Matteo is on the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, focusing on streams and HTTP, and developed the fast logger Pino and the Fastify framework. He has spoken at over 60 conferences and co-authored "Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify" by Packt.

I work on Meta's Mobile GraphQL team.

Meenakshi is a Technical Enablement Architect at Postman, helping internal teams and customers build better API practices and unlock the platform's full potential, which serves over 30 million users worldwide. With a background in full-stack development and Developer Relations, she led Postman’s GraphQL initiatives and is a voting member of the GraphQL Foundation Board. Outside of work, she’s a fitness enthusiast training to become a yoga instructor, striving for balance both on and off the mat.

Michael is a member of the GraphQL technical steering committee, a Microsoft MVP, and the author of the Hot Chocolate project (https://github.com/ChilliCream/hotchocolate), a platform for building GraphQL servers and clients in .NET. This open-source project has been his main focus for the last couple of years.

Mike is a practical software leader with an interest in theory, but a stronger interest in getting things done. He's been slinging ones and zeroes for 30 years now and has experience going from five person startups to thousand person enterprises. Mike is currently the CTO of Xolvio where he leads delivery of client projects using GraphQL and event sourcing every day. He has previously spoken at SXSW and GraphQL Summit and mixes a fair bit of humor into his informal public speaking style.

Minghe is a passionate software engineer with over a decade of experience spanning various technologies. With a deep interest in coding and scalable architectures, Minghe is currently focused on GraphQL federation and maintains the GraphQL federation platform at Booking.com.

I'm co-founder of ChilliCream, where we're passionate about advancing the GraphQL ecosystem. We develop and maintain open-source software, actively help and participate in the community, and create tools that help developers to get the most out of their GraphQL APIs.

Early in his career Raymie worked on Web Search and Big Data. He sold his desktop search startup to Yahoo!, where he rose to become the CTO. At Yahoo! he was heavily involved in the Hadoop ecosystem. He left Yahoo! to start a big-data-as-a-service company, which he sold to SAP in 2016. In 2019 he joined Airbnb as its first Technical Fellow, where he lead a program to re-engineer their tech stack. In 2024 he stepped down as a Technical Fellow to devote himself full-time to Viaduct.

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Rob is a front-end engineer at 1stDibs, an online marketplace for extraordinary design. He is also a member of the GraphQL Technical Steering committee, where he has been championing the @defer & @stream spec proposal.

Robert Balicki works as a software engineer at Jetty. He used to have hair down to his shoulders and play in a rock band.

GraphQL client-side frameworks software engineer at Meta.

Born and raised in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, attended University of Guadalajara and working for Expedia Group since 2018.

Sanver is a Senior Software Engineer II at Booking.com with 15 years of industry experience. In recent years, he has been leading the Federated GraphQL transformation at Booking.com, focusing on scaling, enhancing the security of the GraphQL platform, and improving the developer experience for internal Graph users.

Engineer with decade of experience in software. Worked across platform and product teams at Atlassian. Currently working as an architect in Jira's Issue Domain at Atlassian.

Stephen Chambers is a Senior Software Engineer on the API team at Netflix. With a background in distributed systems, he spent six years at Liberty Mutual Insurance and two years at Apple before joining Netflix. Brand new to GraphQL, Stephen is navigating this technology with fresh eyes. Outside of work, he enjoys lifting weights, playing live music, and traveling with his wife, Tiffany.

Stephen is a member of the Edge API team at Netflix and a GraphQL TSC emeritus. His team develops and operates the Netflix API platform. This is the nexus point where hundreds of microservices are aggregated into a single API that delivers the Netflix experience for the hundreds of millions of Netflix devices worldwide.

Tom's professional life has gravitated towards GraphQL and Rust, schemas and databases. After authoring the first Rust GraphQL client library, recent years have taken him from the database schema management space at Prisma to GraphQL federation at Grafbase. In his free time, he enjoys long walks, pistachios and trying to teach his dog the international phonetic alphabet.

The Guild, the largest open source group in the GraphQL ecosystem

Vanessa Johnson is an Associate Android Engineer at The New York Times working on the Games Android app. She specializes in UI features and loves building mobile apps. She is passionate about accessibility and is also working on an iOS side project that will help people manage their digestive issues like Crohns and IBS. When she isn’t coding she is usually playing pickup basketball or watching a horror movie.

Masters from IIT Roorkee. Engineer with decade of experience in software previously Worked in Amazon & Uber. In Atlassian Using GraphQL to handle JIRA's scale and optimising for better observability, safe rollouts and making JIRA more responsive.

Software Engineer on Instagram Product Foundations

I'm an Application Security Researcher passionate about breaking assumptions in modern web technologies. From protocol quirks to real-world vulnerabilities, I explore how small oversights lead to big security issues. My work often blends offensive research with practical defense, aiming to make the internet a little safer and a lot more interesting.

Engineer at Apollo GraphQL, working on the Apollo iOS Library