GDG IWD 2025 x SoftServe x Women Techmakers: #RedefinePossible

GDG IWD 2025 is set to redefine what's possible in technology and leadership! In collaboration with SoftServe and Women Techmakers, we’re bringing you an exclusive event for International Women's Day 2025, dedicated to empowering women in tech through honest stories, practical insights, and personal growth.

Featuring talks that tackle real-world challenges - from navigating the complexities of launching your own product, to ensuring robust cloud security, and overcoming self-doubt - this event will offer engaging sessions, genuine discussions, and invaluable networking opportunities.

Join us to celebrate, support each other, and truly #RedefinePossible! 👩‍💻🚀

Agenda: 

Title: Securing GKE Clusters: Practical CIS Compliance

Speaker: Jagoda Sateja – Durczewska

Keeping your GKE clusters secure isn’t just about ticking boxes — it’s about building a resilient, well-protected environment that stands up to real-world threats. This session dives into CIS Benchmark best practices for GKE, covering identity management, network security, audit logging, and workload protection. We’ll break down what compliance really means, why it matters, and how to automate security controls with Terraform, making security a seamless part of your workflow.

Title: Launching a Product as a Developer: Reality Check

Speaker: Nastassia Danilava

As developers, we often focus on building things — features, architecture, and clean code. But launching your own product is a completely different challenge. In this talk, I'll share my experience of starting and shutting down my own project, the real obstacles I faced beyond development, and the benefits I have in the end.

Title: Debugging Self-Doubt: A Framework for Building Confidence

Speaker: Natalia Nazaruk

Ever feel like you’re just one tough question away from being “exposed” at work? Like everyone else belongs here—except you?

In this talk, we’ll apply a debugging mindset to imposter syndrome and self-doubt, breaking it down with a simple framework that helps you identify confidence crashes, isolate the root cause, and deploy long-term fixes.

If you've ever second-guessed yourself before pushing code for review or hesitated to speak up, this talk is for you.

Because just like code, confidence isn’t perfect—but with the right mindset, you can always refactor and improve it.

Agenda

5:00 PM: Registration

Grab your badge, smile for no reason, and pretend you know where to go. We’ve got you covered 😄

5:30 PM: Welcome

The “hello everyone!” part where we wave awkwardly and explain why we’re here 👋

5:45 PM: Talk 1: "Securing GKE Clusters: Practical CIS Compliance: Jagoda Sateja-Durczewska

Keeping your GKE clusters secure isn’t just about ticking boxes—it’s about building a resilient, well-protected environment that stands up to real-world threats. This session dives into CIS Benchmark best practices for GKE, covering identity management, network security, audit logging, and workload protection. We’ll break down what compliance really means, why it matters, and how to automate security controls with Terraform, making security a seamless part of your workflow. 🔐

6:15 PM: Talk 2: Launching a Product as a Developer: Reality Check – Nastassia Danilava

As developers, we often focus on building things—features, architecture, clean code. But launching your own product is a completely different challenge. In this talk, I'll share my experience of starting and shutting down my own project, the real obstacles I faced beyond development, and the benefits I have in the end. 📱

6:45 PM: Short Break

Time to stretch your legs, check your notifications, or locate the restroom like a conference pro 🚶‍♀️📱🚪

7:15 PM: Talk 3: Debugging Self-Doubt: A Framework for Building Confidence – Natalia Nazaruk

Ever feel like you’re just one tough question away from being “exposed” at work? Like everyone else belongs here—except you?

In this talk, we’ll apply a debugging mindset to imposter syndrome and self-doubt, breaking it down with a simple framework that helps you identify confidence crashes, isolate the root cause, and deploy long-term fixes.

If you've ever second-guessed yourself before pushing code for review or hesitated to speak up, this talk is for you.

Because just like code, confidence isn’t perfect—but with the right mindset, you can always refactor and improve it.

7:45 PM: Quiz time

Want to win some fun prizes? 🎁 Make sure to stay until this part 🏆

8:00 PM: Networking

Now’s the time to say “I loved your talk” or “do you have LinkedIn?” without it being weird. 🤝💬

8:45 PM: Doors Close

Time to say goodbye before security starts giving us “the look.” Leave inspired, not escorted 🚪😉

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Speakers

Nastassia Danilava - DJOID (Lead Software Engineer)

Lead software engineer at DJOID and Woman Techmakers ambassador. Made my first web-page in 2015, and has been in love with coding since then. I use my passion and skills to create web applications with a focus on animated and interactive content. Paying attention on details and UX I believe that every digital product should care about its accessibility for everyone.

Jagoda Sateja – Durczewska - SoftServe (Senior DevOps Engineer)

Senior DevOps engineer with 5+ years of experience. Specialises in cloud solutions, mainly GCP and Azure. Worked for many clients from payment/financial sector.

Natalia Nazaruk - Kingfisher (Android Developer | Women Techmakers Ambassador)

🌟 Passionate Android Developer who puts people first! My approach revolves around understanding the needs of users, colleagues, and clients, fostering strong connections and promoting seamless collaboration. 💡
🌱 With 7 years of IT experience and 4+ years as an Android Developer, I've mastered the art of adapting to change and thriving in dynamic environments. Continual growth and lifelon…

Hosts

Natalia Nazaruk - Kingfisher (Android Developer | Women Techmakers Ambassador)

🌟 Passionate Android Developer who puts people first! My approach revolves around understanding the needs of users, colleagues, and clients, fostering strong connections and promoting seamless collaboration. 💡
🌱 With 7 years of IT experience and 4+ years as an Android Developer, I've mastered the art of adapting to change and thriving in dynamic environments. Continual growth and lifelon…

Olha Chumak - Aidmed (Software Developer)

Jakub Mosakowski - SpotOn (Senior Android Developer)

I’m a developer full of enthusiasm, that fell in love with Android a few years back. Kotlin fan. After-hours psychology student.

Piotr Prus - Tilt (Android Developer)

Piotr Prus is a mobile technology enthusiast and Android Developer. Self-taught programmer with a degree in Civil Engineering. Trying to share knowledge and experience with the community by writing articles and speaking at conferences. The organizer of Google Developer Group 3City.

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Partner

SoftServe (https://career.softserveinc.com/en-us/poland)
SoftServe is more than just technology and ideas - we are the place where talented and ambitious people can develop their passion! We operate at the cutting edge of technology, exploring, transforming, accelerating, and optimizing the way large enterprises and software companies do business. We specialize in software development and consultancy in the field of AI, Data Science, Big Data, IoT, Cloud, DevOps, IT security and experience design.

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