PROGRAM COMMITTEE
SERGII ZHUK
droidcon Berlin Program Lead & Android Software Engineer
Founder & Editor of www.ProAndroidDev.com publication for Android Professionals, Host of Kotlin Night Berlin, #AndroidDev blogger and speaker. Building Android apps since 2012.
DANNY PREUSSLER
Head of Mobile Engineering
Sporttotal
Danny is a mobile developer by heart. Danny signed the Software Craftmanship manifesto and could speak about unit testing all night. That's also his favorite topic when speaking or writing about Android. Danny was in charge for Android for eBay's classifieds, the Groupon merchant team and Viacom. Before Android came along he programmed for mobile phones and every device that could run some kind of Java.
LEONIE BREWIN
Product Design Lead
Novoda
As a Designer at Novoda, Leonie spends her days crafting user experiences for Android. With 8 years experience as a designer, she has spent the last 5 years specialising in mobile with a passion for user-centred design and usability testing.
KATERINA ANDREADOU
Freelance Android Developer
WOLFRAM RITTMEYER
Android Software Developer
Wolfram has been developing with Java for ages - mostly Java EE based web applications. He started Android development in his spare-time some years ago. He's the author of the blog Grokking Android. He's active in the GDG Düsseldorf and occassionally speaks at GDG meetings or conferences.
HASAN HOSGEL
Senior Android Engineer
Lab1886
Hasan Hoşgel is a dedicated Android developer with professional programming experience since 2003. Since 2010 doing all day long Android application development and also is a Google Developer Expert for Android. Continuous improvement of the architecture, performance and also quality are his dedication.
MIRIAM BUSCH
CTO
Karlmax Berlin
Miriam leads the development team at mobile agency Karlmax Berlin. She spends her remaining hands-on time as Android developer. Her past involves embedded Linux, freelancing and attending the very first Berlin droidcon.
STEFAN HOTH
Head of Operations
Novoda
Stefan runs the German Operations of Novoda, a Google Certified Agency, helping clients like SoundCloud, Channel 4 and ImmobilienScout achieve their ambitious goals with their mobile products. Just like Novoda, he's also deeply involved with building and growing communities, mainly for developers in Berlin. He's co-organizer of Berlin Hack & Tell and DevFest Berlin, helping out as much as being a father of two daughters permits.
KAROLINA KAFEL
Mobile Engineer
SoundCloud
Karolina is a Mobile Engineer at SoundCloud and Android Developer for over 5 years. During the day mobile lover, UX enthusiast and coffee addict. At night crazy geek, that needs to play with whatever technology she finds promising and interesting. Involved in Women Techmakers Berlin group, trying to make Android platform more accessible for everyone.
VOLKER LECK
Developer
Novoda
Volker is a Java veteran and an early adopter of the Android platform. He works at Novoda where he develops Android Apps of all sizes, flavours and colours.
MATTHIAS FRIEDRICH
Android Developer
Jimdo
As Android user from the beginning, Matthias started to develop for the platform with version 1.6 in 2009. Since then he is following its progress very enthusiastically and worked on several applications, big and small, featured in the Play Store and as specialized customer solutions. During these years, he also co-founded the GDG Bremen and GDG Hamburg Android, gave several Android related talks and organized developer events around Google technologies in general. Right now he is a Android developer at the Hamburg based startup Jimdo.
ANNYCE DAVIS
Android Development Manager
Off Grid Electric
Annyce is an Android Google Developer Expert. She has spent the past 7+ years developing applications for the Android ecosystem across multiple form factors. She is also an international conference speaker and author, sharing her knowledge of Android development with others.
SIMON PERCIC
Senior Android Engineer and Tech Lead
Zalando
Simon is a senior Android engineer turned team lead at Zalando, where he's working on the main fashion store app. He is especially interested in app architecture, RxJava and Kotlin. He is also a co-founder of ProAndroidDev.com, a Medium publication that features articles about Android development and helps spread the knowledge to the #AndroidDev community.
FRIEDGER MÜFFKE
Founder of OpenIntents and droidcon
OpenIntents
Android developer since the first days. Founder of OpenIntents and Droidcon as well as Android developer communities.
DIRK JÄCKEL
Android, Accessibility & Automation
Mautinoa Technologies
Dirk Jäckel is an enthusiastic Android application developer since 2009. He is a co-organizer of the GDG Berlin Android and a co-host of the Pandroid podcast. He works for Mautinoa Technologies as an Android and JavaCard developer.
FRIEDERIKE WILD
Android Software Engineer
Friederike is a passionate Android developer. She is currently based in London working self-employed on health and lifestyle apps. Likes to experiment with clean architecture and improving code quality and development processes. Also practising Plant Driven Development by crafting vegan recipes when not coding. Previously worked on a wide range of apps and games for Android including Badoo and bringing the board games Catan and Carcassonne to Android.