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Barney Dellar

LinkedIn

Mastodon 🦣

  • Based in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
  • I work for Canon Medical
  • I write code and coach teams on how to do TDD, CI/CD, Ensemble Programming etc
  • I run Coderetreats
  • I play guitar and sing Scottish folk songs

Amélie C.

  • 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: 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, ...)
  • I bring a few games and hopefully a set of desk-bells

Henrik N. (🦣 @[email protected])

  • Developer and (more recently) team lead at Auctionet.com.
  • 🇸🇪 From Sweden but live in the UK – working remotely since 2016.
  • Been to a few SoCraTes UK before but not for years! Blogged about the 2015 one.
  • Our team's most controversial practice might be trunk-based development and reviewing commit-by-commit after the fact.

Chris Jenkins (I try to avoid social media these days but can still occasionally be found on 🦣 @[email protected])

  • 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 might bring some more Raspberry Pi Pico hardware to play with at SoCraTes if I can fit it in my suitcase.
  • I've been coming to SoCraTes UK since 2017. It remains my favourite UK conference.
  • I'm interested in promoting,m strengthening and sustaining good values, principles and practices within development organisations. This turns out to be harder than it sounds.

Oscar Duignan

  • Dev working on a platform team that helps people build frontend tax services with scala at HMRC
  • Three kids now, welcomed our newest Remy 10 months ago!
  • Working in an enabling team, I'm always looking for ways to analyse or visualise patterns across lots of repos
  • I'm also really interested how to scale up making good decisions, share problems with people, and compare across options
  • Often changing my hair colour
  • Been to quite a few Socrates UK now, and one Socrates DE
  • This year I am bringing some badges to share as a gift with everyone 🙏

Fox (🦣 @[email protected])

  • Tech greybeard, fascinated by LISP and Complex Social Systems
  • Socrates veteran
  • Aikido and Taijiquan instructor
  • Interested in too many things
  • AMA

Marko (🦣 @[email protected])

  • XP fundamentalist enthusiast, deep into TDD, BDD, pairing, mobbing, CD, etc.
  • I'm into the software-is-a-craft concept but heavy on the engineering side (hint: it can be both at the same time)
  • Accidentally found out I don't suck at BA, story slicing & planning in general
  • Vegetarian vegan-wannabe, fruit enthusiast with an unhealthy love of pastry
  • Wife + 4 kids (2 human, 2 canine)
  • Outside of programming I love board games, roleplaying, world building, SF&F&H, snorkelling, cycling, travel

Ivan Moore

Frances Buontempo (🦣 @[email protected])

  • I edit ACCU's Overload magazine
  • Married to Steve Love (hence my github name)
  • Used to teach maths, but worked as a programmer, mainly C++, Python and C# recently and time to time Fortran and more besides
  • Wrote a couple of books
  • Independent consultant
  • Still not sure if I'd get in a teleporter

Raimo Radczewski (@[email protected] slack etc)

  • Technical Agile Coach / Legacy Code Wrestler / Co-Founder crftd.tech from Germany running community hubs like coderetreat.org and softwarecraft.org
  • My 4th time to SoCraTes UK, looking forward to seeing y'all again!
  • Bringing ESP32s with Co2 sensors, a Personal Kanban Board, an AeroPress and 2 bags of Bristol-/Cheddar-roasted coffee
  • Latest tech interest: Go, Rust, C4 and Structurizr, bit of GenAI
  • From last years whoami:
    • I'm usually all about the culture aspects around XP/Software Craft, but have been doing a lot of hands-on again for the past few - Doing a lot of Kubernetes/DevOps/Continuous Delivery Training lately which I could bring
    • Always interested in the nitty-gritty of software architecture with a fare share of experience around DDD, EventSourcing, Hexagonal etc.
    • The coolest open source project I've ever seen is renovatebot and how it keeps repos (e.g. like my kata-bootstraps up-to-date automatically). Let me know if you want to know more. It's so much better than Dependabot.
    • Hobby-wise, I've been fiddling with ESP32's for a bit and got very involved with 3D printing and CAD design

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

  • I'm a freelance technical coach
  • SoCraTes UK was my favourite event last year. This is only my second time, but I hope I'll be back for many many more
  • I'll be running a workshop during the training day on mob/ensemble facilitation
  • I've brought JitterTed's TDD Game with me - will hopefully facilitate a game one evening
  • 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'm hoping to lead a little choir workshop while I'm here
    • I was briefly featured on ep 5 of season 2 of The Piano this year!
  • I have a new podcast where I interview street pianists
    • ep 3 was published this week
  • I was recently (last week!!) diagnosed #actuallyautistic
    • I also have an ADHD diagnosis pending - I'm probably 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

Niklas Lochschmidt 🦣 @[email protected])

  • Staff Software Engineer at enode.com
  • I work fully remote while living in Germany with wife and two kids
  • Very interested in finding better ways to work remotely
  • I seek out technology that „just works“
  • …like board games, for example

Corinna Lange

  • worked as a Software engineer for about 8 years
  • studied maths before then
  • I'm organizing a (usually) weekly online discussion group about all thing software craft (https://codersonly.org/events/software-craft-study-group/)
  • Enjoy playing board games, role playing games, video games and the piano.

Ellen Potter

LinkedIn

  • Freelance software developer. Working on "Securing Government Services" until March 2025.

  • 1st time Socrates attendee.

  • Former historian / recovering academic. I used to work in historical demography (population change over time). I mostly worked on the socioeconomic gradient in infant mortality, which means that babies from poorer families are more likely to die before their 1st birthday. For a long time it was unclear if that's always happened or if it's a purely modern problem. (If anyone's curious, it probably started happening in England around the 1870s.)

  • Currently re-learning SML. Please recommend your favourite SML talks and books! :)

  • Occasional contributor to Oil Shell. If you're interested in learning about interpreters / compilers, it's a project that's really open to new contributors.

  • Based in Cambridge. If you're in town and wants something to do on a Saturday, the Programmers' Study Group hosts Coding & Brunch most weeks. Everyone welcome.

Dan Haywood

LinkedIn

  • UK-based consultant, a grey beard (without the beard)

  • 1st time at Socrates, but a fan of open (un)conferences ... made me very nostalgic for XP/SPA unconferences past.

  • Split my time between two long term clients in rather different roles: in the public sector for the Irish Government, attempting to improve development practices & org structure for 100s of people, and in the private sector cutting code in a team of 4, building/maintaining the in-house "ERP" for a company that owns and operates shopping centres across Europe.

  • Committer and original chair of Apache Causeway, an implementation of the naked objects pattern (based on Spring-Boot) for building DDD apps with tiny teams. If you'd like a brown bag session at the place you work, do please hit me up.

  • Based in Malvern, Worcs.

Nick Humberstone

  • Transitioning from IT support to Software Development

  • London based, regular at the eXtreme Tuesday Club XP meetup Link to Meetup Group

  • 1st time at Socrates - and planning to come back every year

  • My two main personal projects are:

  1. Retrospect - A social journalling app for Android (email me for invite to closed testing - it helps me out!)
  2. XTC.vote - topic proposal and voting platform for Open Spaces events (still under construction)
  • Other hobbies include Toastmasters public speaking, board games, and enjoying all the delicious vegan food available in London

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