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Katy Ereira

Katy Ereira

Geeky software engineer & international conference speaker.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

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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

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Software Development
  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • Legacy Code
  • Testing

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."

February 2025 London, United Kingdom

PHPSrbija 2024

Shrek, Onions and Architecture

September 2024 Belgrade, Serbia

IPC Berlin 2024

Auth 101
Shrek, Onions and Architecture

May 2024 Berlin, Germany

phpday 2024 Sessionize Event

May 2024 Verona, Italy

Dutch PHP Conference 2024 Sessionize Event

March 2024 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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!'

November 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

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."

February 2020 London, United Kingdom

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!"

February 2020 Miami, Florida, United States

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."

November 2019 Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Laravel Live UK 2019

🖼️ Legacy Code; Testing & Safe Refactoring - https://joind.in/talk/718c8

June 2019 London, United Kingdom

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."

April 2019 York, United Kingdom

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."

October 2017 Manchester, United Kingdom

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!"

June 2017 Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Katy Ereira

Geeky software engineer & international conference speaker.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

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