Speakers
So you've decided to do a technical migration...
It seems like there’s always a hot new library or framework promising great things. But people often forget about the pain and effort required to move from an old technology to a new one. How long will it take? If you finish, will it be worth it? And if you don’t, could it leave you in a worse place than where you started?
Drawing from my experience of the Typescript migration we completed at Monzo I’ll take you through some of the different outcomes of technical migrations and the things we learned along the way.
Sophie Koonin
Sophie is the web engineering lead and a staff engineer at Monzo Bank in the UK, responsible for the web platform across the organisation and working on internal tooling that powers Monzo’s award-winning customer service.
Building websites since the age of 10, she’s passionate about creating inclusive, accessible and fun websites that people love. Sophie writes about tech & mental health at localghost.dev, builds intentionally useless web apps, and makes music.
Taste Driven Development
This talk is about the soft side of software — the intuitive, often overlooked skills that help us build products people truly love. It’s about developing your taste, learning to recognize quality, and understanding why those things matter when writing code.
It’s also about un-learning certain habits we pick up as engineers — the urge to optimize, validate, and measure — to make space for empathy, vision, and a bit of magic.
I’ll share some of my experiences trying to build great products, and offer practical ways to train your eye for quality: how to spot the difference between good and great, and how to create things that don’t just work correctly, but feel right.
Andreas Eldh
Andreas is an engineer at Linear living in Sweden. He's spent his career trying to build nice software products at startups, government agencies and big corporations. When he leaves his office, he usually brings a camera, a badminton racket or a pair of skis.
