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Sandra Ahlgrimm

Microsoft / GitHub

Sandra Ahlgrimm is a Senior Developer Advocate for GitHub at Microsoft, specializing in supporting Java Developers. With over a decade of experience as a Java developer, she brings a wealth of knowledge to her role. Sandra is passionate about containers and has recently learned to love AI.
As a leader in the tech community, Sandra actively contributes to the Berlin Java User Group (JUG) and the Berlin Docker MeetUp. Her expertise extends beyond coding; she focuses on LangChain4j integrations and serves as the primary point of contact for developer feedback related to Java in Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and GitHub Copilot in IntelliJ. Additionally, her interest in performance and event-driven architectures led to her involvement with native images. Therefore, Sandra represents Microsoft on the GraalVM Program Advisory Board.

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Talks 12

  1. Devoxx Belgium 2026

    Building Autonomous AI Agents with Spring

    October 2026Agentic Engineering & Tooling

  2. Voxxed Days Thessaloniki 2025

    MCP for Java developers

    November 2025Data & AI

  3. Devoxx Belgium 2025

    Building Private, Scalable AI Applications with Self-Hosted LLMs

    October 2025Architecture

  4. Devoxx France 2025

    Déployer une app de genAI sur Kubernetes sans perdre le contrôle de ses données

    April 2025Deployment

  5. Devoxx France 2025

    Comment organiser des événements (meetups, conférences…) plus inclusifs?

    April 2025People & Culture

  6. Devoxx France 2025

    Meet with an OSS project: LangChain4j

    April 2025Data & AI

  7. Devoxx Belgium 2024

    Oh No, Not Another Chatbot - Java and AI for Real Business Use Cases

    October 2024Data & (Gen)AI▶ Watch

  8. Devoxx Belgium 2024

    Build your own enterprise ChatGPT with Open Source

    October 2024Data & (Gen)AI

  9. Devoxx UK 2024

    Build your own enterprise ChatGPT with OpenSource

    May 2024Data & AI

  10. Devoxx France 2024

    Comprendre l'IA: construisez votre propre ChatGPT d'entreprise avec LangChain4J

    April 2024Data & AI

  11. Devoxx France 2024

    Instrumenter vos applications natives Spring Boot et Quarkus avec OpenTelemetry

    April 2024Build & Deploy

  12. Devoxx Belgium 2023

    From Inception to Production: Building Spring-based Services and Deploying them at Scale

    October 2023Server Side Java