Katy Ereira
Geeky software engineer & international conference speaker.
Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Actions
Katy Ereira is an accomplished software engineer and international conference speaker based in the UK.
Having graduated from King’s College London with a degree in Computer Science over a decade ago, Katy has since made her way down the IC track as a developer in a wide range of industries including fintech, edtech and HR.
Katy’s favourite things include writing tests for complex and legacy codebases, and holding her teammates to excruciatingly high standards. Besides writing code, she also likes to play video and board games, and spend time in nature.
Area of Expertise
Topics
PHPUK 2025
📹 Shrek, Onions and Architecture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntm2Uj2jUvQ
💭 Panel Discussion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dilJ3T4TXxA
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Just wonderful. I have learned so much from Katy."
PHPSrbija 2024
Shrek, Onions and Architecture
IPC Berlin 2024
Auth 101
Shrek, Onions and Architecture
phpday 2024 Sessionize Event
Dutch PHP Conference 2024 Sessionize Event
Longhorn PHP 2022
🖼️ Legacy Code; Testing & Safe Refactoring - https://joind.in/talk/e0655
🖼️ Auth 101 - https://joind.in/talk/eb34d
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'Good code examples that illustrated the problems, and good to see how to refactor code to make it testable. Loved the humor and movie references, good flow, easy to follow along with, and overall a great talk!'
PHPUK 2020
📹 Legacy Code; Testing & Safe Refactoring - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5BkMJpv_ZQ
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "For me, this was the best and most informative talk of the conference so far."
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Excellent talk with great, relatable and funny examples to show some common patterns encountered in legacy codebases."
Sunshine PHP 2020
🖼️ Legacy Code; Testing & Safe Refactoring - https://joind.in/talk/7243c
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Fun presentation on a serious, complex technical topic. Useful approaches for maintaining legacy codebase. Katy was focused, concise, organized, and fun!"
Scotland PHP 2019
🖼️ Legacy Code; Testing & Safe Refactoring - https://joind.in/talk/64622
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Great examples and way of leading the presentation. It was technical knowledge with artistic sprinkles for me which make it really enjoyable."
Laravel Live UK 2019
🖼️ Legacy Code; Testing & Safe Refactoring - https://joind.in/talk/718c8
PHP Yorkshire 2019
📹 Legacy Code; Testing & Safe Refactoring - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzxNpXaxfo0
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I really enjoyed this talk - the highlight of the conference for me. Katy was an engaging speaker and clearly knows her stuff."
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Fantastic talk, kept the momentum going and explained the solutions to some prickly testing scenarios really well. The talk was also funny and very entertaining the whole way through"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "For me this one talk was worth the ticket price on its own."
PHP North West 2017
🎊 10th Anniversary Edition
🖼️ Chatbots & PHP - https://joind.in/talk/7e3a2
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Great talk and one of the most enjoyable to listen to and watch. As a speaker, Katy is very good at it. As a subject, it was fun and something that excited me to play with."
PHP South Coast 2017
🏅 My first conference appearance!
🖼️ Knit 1, Perl 1 - https://joind.in/talk/692eb
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "A well presented & fun talk."
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I really enjoyed this talk. Katy was obviously very passionate about both knitting and programming!"
Please note that Sessionize is not responsible for the accuracy or validity of the data provided by speakers. If you suspect this profile to be fake or spam, please let us know.
Jump to top