Moldova DevCon | largest developer event in Moldova

October 10-11

Arena Chișinău

Moldova
DevCon
2025

1000 Participants

20 Speakers

10 Countries

About

Moldova DevCon (#MDC) is an annual regional tech event for developers and other geeks. We'll spend 2 days with stunning presentations, practical sessions and afterparty madness.

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20 Speakers

Director of Engineering, Core Platforms @ MongoDB

George Peter Hantzaras (Germany)

Building Internal Developer Platforms with Cloud-native Tools

Director of Engineering, Core Platforms @ MongoDB

George Peter Hantzaras (Germany)

In this masterclass, we will dive deep into the world of Cloud-native tools and Kubernetes operators and how they can be leveraged to empower platform engineering teams and extend Kubernetes as the platform of platforms. On the theoretical side, we'll start by exploring what are platform capabilities and platform interfaces and popular platform architectures like CNOE. We will start the hands-on work by introducing Kubernetes operators, their architecture, as well as how their development becomes easier leveraging the Operator Framework and tools like kubebuilder. We will then explore the advantages of using Kubernetes operators to manage complex applications and how they can streamline the deployment, scaling, and management of these applications. We will finally put it all together by building platform capabilities and interfaces by using 3rd party operators as well as deploying our own

Software Engineer @ WIX & DJ

Ziv Levy (Israel)

Come on Barbie, Let’s Go Party: Using AI for Music Mixing

Software Engineer @ WIX & DJ

Ziv Levy (Israel)

As a DJ, I’m always looking for new ways to electrify the dance floor. Imagine AI not just as a tool, but as a creative partner that dissects and reconstructs music like our brains naturally do. In this talk, I’ll dive into cutting-edge AI algorithms, powered by Neural Networks, that can break music down into its core elements. We’ll explore the fascinating intersection of technology and auditory perception, asking the big question: can AI learn to hear and mix like we do? The best part - You won’t just hear about it—you’ll experience it live! Get ready to be part of the action! a live DJ set on stage, with AI as my co-pilot.

Founder & CEO @ ANATEQS

Ana Tralle (Latvia)

The Evolution of Data and AI Architecture: From Past to Future

Founder & CEO @ ANATEQS

Ana Tralle (Latvia)

This session will explore the transformation of data and AI architecture over the years, highlighting key milestones, current trends, and future directions. We’ll analyze the strategies of major industry players, discuss emerging innovations, and provide insights on how businesses and professionals can adapt to stay competitive in this rapidly evolving field.

Developer Relations @ AuthZed

Sohan Maheshwar (Netherlands)

Secure & Optimize Your RAG pipelines with Fine Grained Authorization

Developer Relations @ AuthZed

Sohan Maheshwar (Netherlands)

It’s time for Day 2 Ops in the world of AI. Building enterprise-ready AI poses challenges around data security, scalability, and integration, especially in compliance-regulated industries. The primary mitigation strategy is to build guardrails around Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to safeguard data while also optimizing query response efficiency. This session will cover how modern permissions systems can safeguard sensitive data in RAG pipelines. We'll start with why Authorization is critical for RAG pipelines to protect sensitive data from potential vulnerabilities and also the various techniques for permissions-aware data retrieval including prefiltering, and post-filtering vector databases. The talk will also include a practical demo implementing fine-grained authorization for RAG using Pinecone, Langchain, OpenAI, and SpiceDB.

Engineering manager @ Eneba

Tobias Nyholm (Sweden)

TBD

Solution Architect at IBM Research

Ilie Circiumaru (Switzerland)

CTRL+ALT+DEL: Resetting Your Career After IT Burnout

Solution Architect at IBM Research

Ilie Circiumaru (Switzerland)

Feeling burned out in the fast-paced world of IT? During the presentation I will explore the science behind burnout, historical lessons from world-class spies and tech pioneers. In the end I will share my personal strategies for recovery and reinventing IT career.

Embedded Systems Engineer @ Atym, PenEngineering

Artur Sîrbu (Moldova)

Running Containers on a 128KB Device: How Atym and WebAssembly Change the Game

Embedded Systems Engineer @ Atym, PenEngineering

Artur Sîrbu (Moldova)

This session explores how WebAssembly, Atym Runtime, and Zephyr RTOS are redefining embedded software architecture. By introducing lightweight containerization into constrained environments, we're decoupling software from specific hardware platforms — making embedded development more portable, modular, and cloud-integrated than ever before. We’ll discuss the architectural implications, performance characteristics, and how this shift enables scalable, hardware-agnostic embedded systems development.

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4 Workshops

Director of Engineering, Core Platforms @ MongoDB

George Peter Hantzaras (Germany)

Building Internal Developer Platforms with Cloud-native Tools

Director of Engineering, Core Platforms @ MongoDB

George Peter Hantzaras (Germany)

What our attendees say

Good deep talks by experts from all IT fields.

If you are a developer and considering a conference in Eastern Europe - this is it!

Manuel Koelman

PIRATE.global

Moldova DevCon 2024 was an exceptional tech event! It covered a wide range of topics, from AI and data to development trends and tech possibilities. This broad spectrum gave me valuable insights beyond my primary focus, offering a comprehensive view of the current tech landscape.

Ana Tralle

Data and AI Leader

Thrilled to have been part of Moldova DevCon, an incredible yearly IT conference filled with insightful discussions, inspiring keynotes, and hands-on workshops! It is a big pleasure to see how the community grows and MDC develops from year to year.

Ivan Ceban

Frontend developer

One thing I really appreciated was seeing people from the government showing support for the IT sector. It’s great to see this recognition of how much potential our industry has, right here in our country. This support can make a big difference for local development and innovation.

Inga Perepeliuc

Project manager

Speakers from previous years

Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova

Dorin Recean (Moldova)

Founder & CEO at PIRATE.global

Manuel Koelman (Germany)

Making Business More Human

Founder & CEO at PIRATE.global

Manuel Koelman (Germany)

Manuel is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and leadership whisperer who has build multiple companies since 2003 and has experienced the entrepreneurial roller coaster first-hand.

Site reliability engineer at Electrolux

Alina Astapovich (Sweden)

API Revolution in IoT: How Platform Engineering Streamlines API Development

Site reliability engineer at Electrolux

Alina Astapovich (Sweden)

As the IoT landscape grows, APIs are crucial for managing connected devices, particularly at Electrolux, which supports over 10 million appliances globally. This talk explores Electrolux's journey in transforming API development through Platform Engineering, addressing challenges like API management, security, and governance. It also highlights strategies for enhancing developer experience through self-service API provisioning to boost innovation.

Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services

Adrian Bere (Romania)

Platform engineering with Kubernetes

Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services

Adrian Bere (Romania)

A wide range of companies, from the most innovative startups to the world’s leading enterprises, are running their internal platforms on Kubernetes, helping them to accelerate developer velocity and increase the pace of innovation. We will discuss how different platform teams use AWS to build their platforms so their developers don't have to worry about infrastructure or running their software. Join this session to learn what are some of the best practices learned while helping customers build and scale their internal platforms.

Special Agent at Team Rockstars IT

David de Hoop (The Netherlands)

Make your own multicloud-ready microservice in minutes with DAPR

Special Agent at Team Rockstars IT

David de Hoop (The Netherlands)

David is Special Agent (thought leader) at Team Rockstars IT. With more than ten years of experience in Software Architecture and working DevOps, he is an evangelist when it comes to the latest developments and trends within the DevOps Community. He is also an open-source contributor to the GitLab project.

Software developer at Pentalog, a Globant division

Anastasia Șerșun (Moldova)

GraphQL beyond forum promises: what it really is and how it can fail you

Software developer at Pentalog, a Globant division

Anastasia Șerșun (Moldova)

The presentation will explore the real-world capabilities and limitations of the GraphQL. We will delve into the core concepts and benefits of it, followed by an honest look at its potential pitfalls from real-world examples. We will gain a balanced perspective over the technology, demistifying it and break the fear of approaching it.

Engineering Lead, AI Integration at Prewave AI

Mardu Swanepoel (South Africa)

Leveraging AI Agents for Superior Software Solutions

Engineering Lead, AI Integration at Prewave AI

Mardu Swanepoel (South Africa)

The field of autonomous AI agents has been significantly advanced by the recent developments in Large Language Models, providing developers with a new dimension to be integrated into software solutions. In this talk, we will examine what exactly AI language agents are, explore the strengths and capabilities they can bring to your software solutions, and discuss how to get started with them. To see these effects, I will present a use case from Prewave AI, demonstrating how we leveraged agents to improve our global supply chain risk detection pipeline.

Head of Product at xtream

Simone Colucci (Italy)

Actionable user feedbacks for LLM applications

Head of Product at xtream

Simone Colucci (Italy)

When designing LLM-based applications, it’s tempting to go with the best-in-class of any component in the content generation pipeline. Yet, especially in consumer use cases, we must evaluate trade-offs to balance content quality and performances, as they both severely impact UX and one cannot compensate the other. Picking from our own experience building a consumer app serving users real-time content generated on the fly with a complex LLM pipeline, we will explore lessons learnt, tips and tricks to find the sweet spot between these two contrasting forces.

Software Architect at ASML

Johan Janssen (The Netherlands)

How sand and Java are used to create the world’s most powerful chips

Software Architect at ASML

Johan Janssen (The Netherlands)

Java software is used everywhere, also in the process of chip manufacturing. In my project at ASML we’re working on a relatively new analytics platform which is used to process the data from the machines. The application then visualizes the results in order to find issues or improvement areas. This information is used to change the configuration parameters of the physical machine in order to create more and better chips. I will explain, on a high level, how our applications look like and which Java technologies we use.

Android Developer at Appsfactory GmbH

Özgür Taş (Germany)

Speeding Up Your App Development With Kotlin Multiplatform

Android Developer at Appsfactory GmbH

Özgür Taş (Germany)

We'll take a look into Kotlin Multiplatform aka KMP. Taking a deep dive into this new and exciting technology. Özgür is a developer with 7 years of experience, currently working out of Leipzig, Germany. Recently, he's been focusing on Android Automotive OS and its features.

Afterparty Special Guest

Schedule

Oct 09

Oct 10

Oct 11

Main Stage

Hidden Stage

19:00

Pre-party

Main Stage

Hidden Stage