Champion
Sander Hoogendoorn
iBOOD.com
Sander Hoogendoorn is an independent dad, traveler, and lifelong software craftsman. With over four decades of hands-on coding experience, he still writes code daily—proving that real developers never stop learning. Throughout his career, he has navigated the tech world in roles ranging from CTO at companies like iBOOD (currently), ANVA, and Klaverblad to serving as Capgemini's global agile thought leader.
Known for his post-agile mindset and fearless approach to challenging the status quo, Sander helps organizations and teams break free from outdated practices and embrace innovation. He’s not just about writing code—he’s about rewriting the rules.
As an author and dynamic international speaker, Sander shares his insights at conferences worldwide, covering topics such as disruption, culture, life beyond agile, continuous delivery, microteams, software architecture, monads, microservices, and the art of writing elegant code. He champions critical thinking, strategic design, and mindful development to help teams build better software, faster.
Discover Sander—the coding rebel who believes in small steps, big impact, and the mind as the ultimate tool for success.
Known for his post-agile mindset and fearless approach to challenging the status quo, Sander helps organizations and teams break free from outdated practices and embrace innovation. He’s not just about writing code—he’s about rewriting the rules.
As an author and dynamic international speaker, Sander shares his insights at conferences worldwide, covering topics such as disruption, culture, life beyond agile, continuous delivery, microteams, software architecture, monads, microservices, and the art of writing elegant code. He champions critical thinking, strategic design, and mindful development to help teams build better software, faster.
Discover Sander—the coding rebel who believes in small steps, big impact, and the mind as the ultimate tool for success.
Badges 13
Talks 20
- Devoxx Poland 2026
How to survive and thrive as a dev (team) in the exponential age of AI
- Devoxx UK 2026
The Last Pull Request. One team's story of surviving and thriving in the AI-native era
- Devoxx UK 2026
Seven Habits of (Mostly) Effective Teams
- Voxxed Days Bucharest 2026
Seven Habits of a (Mostly) Successful Team
- Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026
How to survive and thrive as a dev (team) in the exponential age of AI
- Devoxx Morocco 2025
The Way of the Monad. Writing Cleaner, Safer Code that is Easier to Test
- Devoxx Morocco 2025
Seven Habits of a (Mostly) Successful Team
- VoxxedDays Crete 2025
How to survive as a developer in the exponential age of AI
- VoxxedDays Luxembourg 2025
Getting Unstuck. Strategies for Surviving in a Rapidly Changing Post-Agile World
- VoxxedDays Luxembourg 2025
The Zen of Programming. A personal journey toward writing beautiful code
- Devoxx Poland 2025
Do or don’t. There’s no try. Or is there? The enormous power of monads practically explained
- Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2025
How to survive as a developer in the exponential age of AI
- Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2025
How to survive as a developer in the exponential age of AI
- Devoxx Poland 2024
Real-world microservices The long and winding road toward being successful with distributed architectures
- Voxxed Days Brussels 2024
Getting Unstuck. Strategies for Surviving in a Rapidly Changing Post-Agile World
- Devoxx Belgium 2023
Introducing Flow. The worst software development approach in history
- VoxxedDays Brussels
The Zen of Programming. A personal journey towards writing beautiful code
- Devoxx Greece 2023
Flow: the worst software development approach in history
- Voxxed Days Bucharest 2023
The Zen of Programming. A personal journey towards writing beautiful code
- Devoxx Poland 2022
Flow. The official worst software development methodology in history