This year's GopherCon UK speakers
Speakers
GopherCon UK features global speakers who deliver cutting-edge content on Go programming and related technologies to keep attendees at the forefront of the field.
Ainsley Clark is a Senior Software Engineer at Just Eat Takeaway.com, specialising in Go and scalable backend systems. He chairs the Go Guild at Just Eat, leading discussions on Go-related topics, including best practices, tips, industry trends, and community insights.</p> With a background in full-stack development, Ainsley is passionate about using Go beyond traditional backends, including for frontends and web applications. He also runs ainsley.dev, a web development and design company where he builds bespoke websites and Go APIs.In his spare time, he develops SeekScuba.com, a dive centre search engine powered entirely by Go. When he's not on the keyboard, he enjoys scuba diving and tinkering with new tech.
Andrea Medda Campus
Gopher with 10 years of experience, Founding Engineer at Smithy and ex Senior Systems Engineer at Cloudflare. Passionate about Go, distributed systems and security - maintainer of https://github.com/smithy-security/smithy.
Antoine Eddi
NewTendermint
Senior Golang Engineer with years of experience in peer-to-peer networks and decentralization
William Kennedy is a managing partner at Ardan Labs in Miami, Florida. Ardan is a group of passionate engineers, artists and business professionals focused on building and delivering reliable, secure and scalable solutions. Bill is also the author of Go in Action and the Ultimate Go Notebook, plus the author of over 100 blog posts and articles about Go. Lastly, he is a founding member of GoBridge and the GDN, which are organizations working to increase Go adoption through diversity.
Bruno Scheufler
Inngest
Bruno is a senior distributed systems engineer at Inngest, where he guides architecture design and implementation of critical distributed queueing infrastructure.
Bryan Boreham is a Distinguished Engineer at Grafana Labs, working on highly scalable storage for metrics, logs and traces. After first getting into programming as a kid, creating a video game called "Splat", Bryan's career has ranged from charting pie sales at a bakery to real-time pricing of billion-dollar bond trades. A contributor to many Open Source projects since 1988, Bryan is a member of the Prometheus team and previous maintainer of CNCF Cortex and CNI projects. Outside of work he is a father, a helicopter pilot, and can cook a mean risotto primavera.
Daniel Martí
Using and contributing to Go for over a decade, and now working on CUE, which is built entirely on Go.
David Vella
loveholidays
David is a Senior Software Engineer at loveholidays, a leading online travel agency. As a member of the supply team, he develops systems that process hotel and flight information, generating 6 trillion package offers daily. David enjoys building large-scale data systems and creating efficient solutions for business challenges using Go.
Daniela Petruzalek is a developer relations engineer at Google focused on Google Cloud Platform. Her specialisation is backend development and data engineering. She has previously worked at companies like JPMorgan, Oracle and ThoughtWorks. On her spare time she contributes to open source, plays video games and pets random cats on the streets.
Emily Achieng
Emily is a Software and DevOps Engineer who is navigating balancing her technical precision with a passion for guiding others. When she's not crafting, Emily focuses on breaking down tech barriers and helping others (especially young ladies) discover the rewarding process of problem-solving.
Presenter of Go and Ruby oddities. Author of A Go Developer's Notebook. Digital identity researcher. Caster of polygonal dice. Builder of machines. Eternal procrastinator. Putting the Miss in Misapplied.
Florin Patan
Florin has been working with Go daily for over a decade. He was involved in shaping GoLand, the Go IDE from JetBrains, and has consulted several high-profile clients with Ardan Labs. Florin is actively engaged in AI development and builds resilient systems that help people worldwide.
Haseeb Majid
As a software engineer I have spent over 5 years developing backend web services using Python and Golang. However, over the past 2-3 years, I have developed a keen interest in platform engineering, particularly in areas like CI/CD, improving DORA metrics, and utilizing Docker for containerization. In my current role, I am part of the platform department, where I work on identifying ways to standardize tasks across our product teams, such as authentication. My focus is on finding efficient and scalable solutions that can streamline development processes and improve product quality. Beyond my work, I enjoy exploring new technologies, and most recently, I have been experimenting with SvelteKit and Pocketbase. I find this tech stack to be particularly engaging and enjoyable to work with. As a speaker, I am excited to share my knowledge and experiences with other software engineers, particularly those interested in platform engineering and improving their development workflows.
Jamie Tanna
Elastic
Jamie is a serial blogger and Open Sourcerer, who enjoys building things in the open to solve his needs, but with the added bonus that others often find it useful too! He's also known for being the co-maintainer for oapi-codegen and blogging a lot about Go.
Jesús Espino is an Open-Source and software development enthusiast. He loves writing code and contributing to Open-Source projects. Jesús also had the privilege of being one of the starters or contributors in some interesting Open-Source projects like Taiga, Penpot, Mattermost, Focalboard, or testcontainers-go. He is a big fan of learning new things, especially programming languages. He loves Rust, Go, Python, Clojure, Git, Postgres, and Vim, and he loves to dive deep into technical details. Currently, he is working mainly in Go and Typescript as a Principal Engineer at Gitpod, and he contributes to Open-Source projects whenever he can.
John Cinnamond
Crowdstrike
I've been programming for over 30 years for both fun and money, but I've never lost my fascination with it. I'm constantly trying to better understand what programming is, how we can do it better, and how we can do better things with it.
Software Infrastructure Engineer. Programmer. Open Source Enthusiast. I help to build large scale, distributed, real-time microservice systems and observability infrastructure.
Kevin Holditch
Form3
Engineering leader passionate about building high-performing teams and solving complex problems at scale. With a background in hands-on development, architecture, and exec leadership, I focus on creating resilient, cloud-native platforms and empowering teams to thrive. Deeply experienced in distributed systems, multi-cloud strategy, and scaling engineering orgs—from startup to scale-up. I enjoy translating technical vision into real-world impact.
Liam is a Senior Cloud Advocate and Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Developer Tools. He is passionate about Security, DevOps, automation and Go. He loves sharing his knowledge and creating simple and concise content for others to learn from. When he is not writing code in the office, he is writing it on a beach as he spends a lot of his time traveling around the world, building communities and meeting new people.
Naveen Ramanathan is a software engineer with interests in distributed systems, web assembly and containers who currently works at JPMorgan. He was an early adopter of Go and has been using Go professionally for the past 8 years. His blog, golangbot.com is one of the most popular blogs in the Go community. Hundreds and thousands of developers have learned Go from his blog.
Roland Shoemaker
Roland leads the Go Security team at Google, working on cryptography, transport security, vulnerability triage, and generally keeping Go secure. Before working on the Go team, he worked on the Let's Encrypt project building the certificate authority software which now issues millions of certificates each day.
Sam Burns
Sam Burns is a development consultant, software architect, and application security researcher.