On stage & on air

Where to find me

Talks, community nights, and music. A few places our paths might cross, with notes and resources from past appearances.

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Western US

Los GatosApr 9 - 16, 2026Past visitUtahAug 7 - 10, 2026Past visit

New York CityNov 1 - 8, 2026Open to meeting

BerlinOct 22 - 25, 2026View event

Europe

ZurichSep 9 - 13, 2026Past visitWrocławJun 16, 2026View event WarsawSep 14 - 15, 2026View event

BarcelonaDec 9 - 11, 2026Open to meeting

Places along the way

I share my travels here to meet like-minded people.

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Coming up

BerlinOct 22 - 25, 2026Up nextView event
New York CityNov 1 - 8, 2026Coming upOpen to meeting
BarcelonaDec 9 - 11, 2026Coming upOpen to meeting

Previously

WarsawSep 14 - 15, 2026PreviouslyView event
ZurichSep 9 - 13, 2026PreviouslyPast visit
UtahAug 7 - 10, 2026PreviouslyPast visit
WrocławJun 16, 2026PreviouslyView event
Los GatosApr 9 - 16, 2026PreviouslyPast visit

PodcastNext up

Design Systems at Scale

Sitting down with Neciu Dan on Señors at Scale to talk through how I approach engineering, what it takes to run a design system, joining Netflix, and plenty in between.

Señors at ScaleOnlineSep 21, 2026

Podcast

Coming up

22Oct 2026Meetup talk

Inside the Netflix Design System

Zalando Office · Berlin

Talk

An Into Design Systems evening in Berlin: a look under the hood of the design system Netflix engineers and designers build on - what we got right, what we had to undo, and the trade-offs nobody puts in the case study. Co-presented with Ben Lister.

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Previously

2026

15Sep 2026Conference talk

Design Systems That Explain Themselves

Code Europe · Warsaw

Talk

You don't know a design system until you have to change it. Hawkins, the design system 2k+ Netflix engineers build on, is almost ten years old and ships a major new version this year. Changing it means digging up what nobody wrote down, then pushing that knowledge into the APIs, tokens, and docs.

Szymon Chudy addressing a full room from the stage, arm outstretched mid-explanation

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3Sep 2026Meetup

meet.js × Netflix - Summer 2026

meet.js × Netflix · Warsaw

Meetup Host

meet.js teams up with Netflix for an evening of sharp lightning talks from JS engineers - web tech news, real conversations, and time to connect with people who love this stuff. Hosted at the Netflix Warsaw office.

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16Jun 2026Meetup talk

Has AI Killed Platform Engineering?

Brave AI Community · Wrocław

Talk

As AI agents start writing code and making decisions, platform work gets more strategic, not less - shifting from tooling toward shared conventions and clear APIs that let people and agents move fast without making a mess.

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Mar–Jun 2026Meetup

Hosting Brave AI Community in Wrocław

Brave AI Community · Wrocław

Meetup Host

Four editions - practical AI nights co-hosted with meet.js, Vonage, Monterail, and Text, covering agents, production stories, and everything in between. I organized all of them.

A packed room at a Brave AI Community meetup in Wrocław

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2025

6May 2025Conference talk

Building for the World: A Developer's Guide to Internationalization and Localization

4developers Conference · Warsaw

Talk

A practical, developer-first take on i18n and l10n - how to gauge localization maturity, avoid the usual traps, and ship multilingual apps that scale. Co-presented with Igor Savin.

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2023

18Oct 2023Online talk

How to Effectively Approach AWS Certification

Uszanowanko Programowanko · Online · PL

Talk

My seven-month road from AWS Cloud Practitioner to Solutions Architect Professional - the motivation, the study strategy, and the resources that actually helped. Part of the final Uszanowanko Programowanko.

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2022

26Oct 2022Online talk

Automating Frontend Development with GraphQL

Uszanowanko Programowanko · Online · PL

Talk

Speeding up frontend work with GraphQL codegen - generating typed hooks for queries and mutations, plus IDE setup for cleaner, more maintainable code. Part of Uszanowanko Programowanko.

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