Kat­ja Poten­sky is a Prin­ci­pal Soft­ware Engi­neer at adesso with more than a decade of expe­ri­ence of work­ing in most roles on the tech­ni­cal side of projects of every size. She thinks of her­self as focused on sim­plic­i­ty and open mind­ed, though she has told I some­times come across as untouch­able — if you have any ques­tions please just ask her, she does­n’t bite 😉 When she is not cod­ing she likes to ride ral­ly motor­cy­cles and has been known to tin­ker with them from time to time — occa­sion­al­ly even with mod­er­ate success. 

Mar­ti­na Kraus has been active in the world of web devel­op­ment since her ear­ly years and has grad­u­al­ly become an expert in web secu­ri­ty. As an Secu­ri­ty Engi­neer, she focus­es on inte­grat­ing secu­ri­ty best prac­tices into all phas­es of soft­ware devel­op­ment. In her role as a Google Devel­op­er Expert (GDE) in Angu­lar, she enjoys shar­ing her knowl­edge of Angu­lar secu­ri­ty at both nation­al and inter­na­tion­al con­fer­ences. She also reg­u­lar­ly orga­nizes ngGirls events (free Angu­lar work­shops for women) and is cur­rent­ly writ­ing a book in Ger­man about authen­ti­ca­tion and autho­riza­tion in web applications. 

After com­plet­ing her train­ing as an appli­ca­tion devel­op­er, Ramona Schw­er­ing has been work­ing in prod­uct devel­op­ment at shop­ware AG for over sev­en years: first in qual­i­ty assur­ance and now as a soft­ware devel­op­er. She pos­sess­es both per­spec­tives on the prod­uct – that of a tester and that of a devel­op­er. Ramona pri­mar­i­ly uses this to strength­en con­fi­dence in test automa­tion and to sup­port the testers. The end-to-end automa­tion in Shop­ware orig­i­nat­ed from her work, and she con­tin­ues to dri­ve it for­ward with vigor. 

Hilko Hol­weg is a fron­tend devel­op­er at Heise Medi­en, where he is par­tic­u­lar­ly pas­sion­ate about web per­for­mance. He also enjoys writ­ing about tech­nol­o­gy, be it in c’t, his pri­vate blogs, or occa­sion­al­ly on the heise Devel­op­er blog “Ich roll’ dann mal raus” (I’ll just roll out), where he reports on the dai­ly work of web devel­op­ment at heise online. 

Jo Bager has been work­ing as an edi­tor for c’t and heise online for more than 20 years. As deputy head of the Soft­ware & Inter­net depart­ment, he occa­sion­al­ly con­tributes arti­cles on the web and web devel­op­ment to the mag­a­zine. Recent­ly, how­ev­er, his main job has been to pre­pare the flood of AI news for the magazine. 

Her­bert Braun built his first web­site in the era of table lay­outs and blink tags. In the mean­time, he was an edi­tor at c’t, for which he still occa­sion­al­ly writes about news from the world of web devel­op­ment as a free­lancer. After a few years as a free­lancer, he cur­rent­ly works at IBM iX as a senior front-end developer.