It will be an open Q&A session, where all attendees can ask questions in real time and actively participate in a discussion.
Agenda
6:30pm – Opening of the meetup
7pm – Kick off by Apiumhub
7:05pm – Welcome words
7:10pm – #LIVECHAT with Philippe DONON, Head of Engineering @ ManoMano about opening a scale-up Tech Hub in Barcelona
7:40pm – #LIVECHAT with Severn Everett, backend expert @ Apiumhub about software development challenges, trends and insights
8:10pm – Drinks
9pm – Closing
Speakers
- Philippe Donon, Head of Engineering @ ManoMano
My name is Philippe, I’m 33 years old, I’m from Bordeaux, but I have lived in Barcelona for more than 7 years. I have been working in eCommerce for 10+ years. I’m passionate about architecture as I started my career as architect in a french marketplace, driving ambitious projects like introducing a new catalogue architecture using kafka, MongoDB, Cassandra when those technologies were still in beta in 2013 ! Then I discovered the world of performance and observability and it has been such a cool venture to lead the architecture and performance department in Privalia back in 2016. Then I joined ManoMano in 2018, where I saw the company grow from 80 people in the Tech team to more than 400. I had the chance to collaborate with the Bordeaux and Barcelona office opening.
- Severn Everett, Backend expert @ Apiumhub
Severn Everett, currently employed as a backend developer at Apiumhub, has spent more than a decade in the software engineering industry and has worked in software development companies in the United States, India, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. His tech stack repertoire has also varied considerably with the years, with experience in projects that used Java, Kotlin, C++, Python, Ruby, and Go. However, the JVM and Spring Boot ecosystems remain the domains in which he retains the most knowledge and interest.
