Speakers at Developers Paradise 2016

Anton Kril (Lead architect — Magento)Anton has been in the development industry since 2003. He worked as an architect on multiple enterprise web-application development projects. Joined the Magento Team in 2011.

Presenting on: Magento 2 Enterprise Edition

Guido Jansen (Chief Psychology Officer — Euroflorist)After his study in psychology and usability, he started work in e-commerce. Since 2004 he helped multiple Dutch and international brands establish and optimize their online customer dialogue.

Presenting on: Cross cultural website optimization

Hrvoje Jurisic (Magento Frontend developer — Inchoo)Hrvoje works on Magento projects and has deep experience on a broad range of projects which has lead him to Magento Front-end developer certificate and a recognition in local web development community.

Presenting on: Magento 2 CSS preprocessing

Ivan Chepurnyi (Technical Consultant — EcomDev BV)Magento Guru, one of the TOP Magento experts, changing the way most of the companies work. Developer of widely used EcomDev PHP unit framework. Started as Magento Core developer in early 2007.

Presenting on: Magento 2.0 Indexation techniques for high performance Workshop - Magento Indexation Technique: Data Processing in Parallel

Marco Lopes (Software Engineer — Session Digital)Marco has over 16 years’ experience in the software development industry. Currently, he helps large eCommerce implementations run smoothly at Session Digital, one of Europe’s leading Magento agencies.

Presenting on: Driving your domain by examples

Since 2008 Talesh has been working with Magento. Now a Magento Architect, he works with companies directing (and all too often rescuing) their Magento projects.

Presenting on: Leveraging Magento 2 to combat the OWASP Top Ten

Talesh Seeparsan(Founder — Bit79)

Gabriel Somoza(Operations Director — Strategery, Inc.)Gabriel Somoza is a Belgium-based PHP Architect and entrepreneur. He currently spends most of his time consulting through his company Strategery development boutique that specializes in building highly-customized web applications.

Presenting on: Magento 2 best practices

Jisse Reitsma(Founder — Yireo)Jisse is founder of Yireo, a small Dutch internet company that releases extensions for both Joomla and Magento. Jisse wrote his first Magento extension in 2008.

Presenting on: Running Magento 2

Yaroslav Rogoza(Head of development — Atwix)Yaroslav is head of development at Atwix company and is responsible for keeping all development and deployment processes in order. He has over 7 years of web development experience in eCommerce and information technology industries.Presenting on: Magento 2 performance comparison in

different environments

Fabian Schmengler(Magento Backend Developer - integer_net)Fabian specializes in Magento development since 2011. Coming from a software engineering background and web development experience, he is now looking forward to the new era of Magento 2.

Presenting on: Porting a complex extension to Magento 2

Norbert Nagy(Technical Team Lead — Session Digital)Norbert is one of Session Digital‘s Technical Team Leads, recently leading the development of Byredo.com, the UK’s first ever site on Magento 2 EE.

Presenting on: Full Page Caching in Magento 2 for humans

Mauro Lorenzutti(CTO — Webformat)Mauro has been working with Magento since 2008 and with TYPO3 since 2003 gaining in recent years an important experience in integrating TYPO3 and Magento. He has been involved in a lot of eCommerce projects.

Presenting on: Which CMS for Magento 2?

Oleksii Bedzir(Head of Systems Architects — Vaimo)Diploma in economics and software developer since the beginning of working career. Found a perfect balance between finance and technology in e-commerce and has been committed to this occupation for years already.

Presenting on: Load testing a Magento store: from selling the idea to delivering a final report

Peter Jaap Blaakmeer(Founder - elgentos ecommerce solutions)Peter Jaap decided to pick up steam working with Magento in 2011 when he founded the Magento-only development agency elgentos. Purely specialising in Magento development.

Presenting on: Magento 2 + Composer

Andrew Smith(Magento Frontend developer — Freelancer)Having worked on the Magento platform exclusively for over 5 years in both agency and contract environments, Andrew is a UK based front-end developer with a strong passion for bringing order to chaos.

Presenting on: Magento and Front-End automation

Ignacio Riesco(CEO and Founder — interactiv4)Ignacio has been helping companies to develop their online business since 2001. For the last 6 years he has been the face of a fantastic team of talented people called Interactiv4, Magento Solution Partner based in the US and Spain.Presenting on: How Developers + Magento 2

interfere in the Magento Solution Partners business

Bill Curtis(CTO — Sweet Tooth)Bill’s work as CTO at Sweet Tooth has exposed him to all kinds of eCommerce systems – triggering deep philosophical contemplation about the nature of web APIs and the art of eCommerce integrations.

Presenting on: Dancing with the Magento 2 Web APIs

Peter Samoilov(CTO — aheadWorks)Peter is CTO at aheadWorks with more than 8 years of overall experience in eCommerce. He is responsible for all technical processes inside aheadWorks, specialized in Magento extensions development.

Presenting on: How to switch your team to Magento 2: Technical way

Max Yekaterynenko(Head of Magento 2 Development - Magento)Max has been working with Magento since the very beginning. He is an experienced PHP and Magento developer.

Presenting on: Developing Magento 2

Nils Preuß(Magento Backend Developer - Polo Motorrad)Nils starting with Magento in late 2009 and has been doing mostly backend and interface stuff from then on. He is “making it work” and appreciates if there is somebody else who is “making it look fancy”.

Presenting on: State of import in Magento 2

Benno Lippert(Founder — mashtwo)Benno works professionally in IT since 1998 and specializes in Magento since 2010. He is one of the founders of mash2, a company that is specialized in optimizing the Catalog Management process. In his former career he worked as a Business Analyst.Presenting on: PIM or no PIM that’s the question

Joni Kautto(eCommerce Partner — Arvo Partners Oy)Joni has been working on Online Marketing for 20 years, of which the past 10 years mainly focused on eCommerce. Joni and Arvo Partners work mainly with Scandinavian companies building and growing their eCommerce businesses from the bottom up.Presenting on: Magento 2 - SEO techniques and

strategies

Branko Toić(CIO — Plus Hosting)Branko is the head of the infrastructure team in Plus Hosting, a Croatian leading hosting provider. His specialty is designing redundant clusters of servers optimized for Magento.

Presenting on: Magento 2 on HTTP/2

Ben Marks(Magento Evangelist — Magento)Ben Marks is Magento’s Community and Developer Evangelist. He is also a long-time Magento developer, educator, as well as a drummer who occasionally visits home a couple of weeks per year.

Presenting on: Do you need a topic? It's Ben!