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Tell us who you are :)

Barney Dellar

You can find me online at Mastodon and LinkedIn.

  • Coding, coaching, mentoring and leading teams for 30 years
  • Big fan of XP (TDD, pairing/ensembling, continuous refactoring)
  • My third SoCraTesUk conference
  • Will probably be around playing guitar in the evening :)

Chris Jenkins (I try to avoid social media these days but can still occasionally be found on 🦣 @cdpjenkins@mastodon.cloud)

  • Backend Kotlin developer working at Masabi.
  • Way back in the distant past, I was an embedded developer and I still secretly miss that world.
  • I've been coming to SoCraTes UK since 2017. It remains my favourite UK conference.
  • I'm interested in promoting, strengthening and sustaining good values, principles and practices within development organisations. This turns out to be harder than it sounds.

Ashleigh Carr - I'm not really active on social media, but your best chance of finding me is probably on Bluesky

  • Senior Software Engineer at The Guardian, working mostly on reader identity management.
  • Think I'm a Scala developer, but I seem to end up doing DevOps wherever I go.
  • Love tooling and infrastructure, tell me about about your jumbled 20 step CI/CD workflows and monolithic internal tooling.
  • Avid fan of board games, I'll probably bring some up with me if I have the space. Engine builders are my favourite, Fluxx anybody?
  • First SoCraTes! Woop woop!

Amélie Cornélis

  • Tech person living in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
  • Going round the various crafters unconfs (regular at SocratesUK and CodeFreeze, and making my way around the others - next on my list: still Crete 🤞🏻)
  • Currently working adjacent to tech (in a care home)
  • Mostly interested in backend/integration (especially how things fail). Ops!
  • Keen to find those incremental steps to improve all the things all the time (code, test approaches, deployment, processes, collaboration, ...)

Tom Westmacott

  • Based in Cambridge
  • Working for Bosch on self-driving / ADAS
  • Mostly Python + Typescript/React
  • Interested in how to help people learn to craft good software
  • Socrates has been a highlight of my year since it began :)

Lev Konstantinovskiy

Here is my linkedin

  • Head of Engineering at a start up which is growing too fast to keep it tidy
  • Recent passion is Golang and telephony (Kamailio, Freeswitch).
  • Formerly python, ML, natural language processing.
  • Used to be a Londoner, though live in Berlin for the last couple of years.
  • love ensemble programming but too rarely get a chance to do it these days

Clare Sudbery (🦣 https://mastodon.social/@claresudbery)

  • I'm a freelance technical coach
  • SoCraTes UK is currently my favourite event and this is my third time here
  • I like to sing / play jazz and blues and rock and pop
    • I've brought a hefty stage piano with me! I'll hopefully be joining some kind of jam session at some point
    • I was briefly featured on ep 5 of season 2 of The Piano last year!
  • I was diagnosed both autistic and ADHD last year
    • ...which makes me what people are now calling "AuDHD"
  • I was once briefly a high school maths teacher, but I didn't last long
    • I've had millions (approx) of different jobs, but software engineering has cropped up more frequently than anything else
  • I'm a frequent international conference speaker / workshop facilitator
  • I'm a word geek
    • I'm a published novelist, but I also love Scrabble, Wordle, cryptic crosswords etc
    • I once spent weeks trying to design the perfect Scrabble game, and designed a game where the combined score of both players was 3674

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