London Microservices Meetup - Q4 2025
Details
## Overview
18:00 Venue opens
Drinks, food, and networking
18:45 1st speaker Lee Turner - Senior Engineer - WireMock
19:15 ⚡Lightning Talk - Tom Diacono - Founding Engineer - Asteriod
19:30 2nd Speaker - Kendrick Curtis - VP of Technology - Codacy
Q&A and networking venue closes at 20:30
20:30 onwards, we head to the Angel for those that want to keep talking
Talk Details;
1st Speaker - Lee Turner - Senior Engineer - WireMock
Speaker: Lee is a Senior Software Engineer at Wiremock Inc focusing on all things API mocking including OpenAPI, GraphQL, gRPC and more. Lee has over 20 years experience working on the JVM building solutions for the NHS and the UK banking sector, He now enjoys spending most of his time using Kotlin but dips back into Java every so often. He is a contributor to various Open Source projects and is now a Wiremock core maintainer. Lee has a keen interest in software quality in all its forms including a specific interest in application and API security. Outside of work Lee runs both a Java and a Kotlin meetup down on the south coast in Brighton.
Title: Develop in parallel and ship earlier with OpenAPI and mocking
Engineering organisations that compose systems using Microservices/APIs have a common problem - consuming teams waiting on producing teams to ship an API feature before they can move forward.
Solving this issue and enabling parallel work can unlock huge productivity gains and accelerate product to market. API mocking breaks this dependency between producer and consumer, enabling both to move forward simultaneously.
In this talk you’ll learn exactly how mocking achieves this. You’ll also see a demonstration of what this looks like in practice as we take a well-known OpenAPI example and bring it to life, powering a web application.
19:15 ⚡Lightning Talk - Tom Diacono - Founding Engineer - Asteriod
Speaker: Tom Diacono is a Founding Engineer at Asteroid, where he leads backend architecture and builds AI agents to automate web tasks. With over six years’ experience across telecoms, IoT, and scalable systems, he previously helped modernize Wireless Logic’s tech stack, driving microservices adoption and SDLC best practices.
Title: Let The Agent Be The Agent
Leveraging patterns learnt from building microservices to make reliable, production-grade agents.
2nd Speaker - Kendrick Curtis - VP of Technology - Codacy
Speaker: Kendrick has 15 years of software engineering experience and 5+ engineers in engineering leadership. He is currently the VP of engineering for a company called Codacy. Codacy is a developer-first, API-driven platform that provides a curated collection of best-in-class code analysis, security, coverage, and engineering performance tools. More recently Codacy has been building developer tools to help protect developers from AI.
Title: The AI Generated House Of Cards
Kendrick's talk is about why AI is absolutely amazing until it isn't. He talks through why AI often fails at more complex engineering problems and some tips and strategies for keeping it building safely.