Amsterdam JUG Meetup at Picnic

Join in with the latest Amsterdam JUG Meetup at Picnic HQ, Van Marwijk Kooystraat 15, 1114 AG Amsterdam.

Agenda

• 17:30 – Doors Open (and food!)
• 18:00 – 18:45 – "Keynote: Engineering-led innovation: Building the future with technology" by Daniel Gebler, Picnic CTO
• 18:45 – 19:00 Small Break
• 19:00 – 19:45 - "Part 1: The Gray Factory" by Victor Rentea
• 19:45 – 20:00 Small Break
• 20:00 – 20:45 - "Part 2: Career Reconversion to Agentic Engineer" by Victor Rentea
• 21:00 The End

Abstracts

"Keynote: Engineering-led innovation: Building the future with technology" by Daniel Gebler, Picnic CTO

In this keynote, Daniel Gebler (CTO of Picnic) will share the story of Picnic moving from MvP to Scale Up to where it is today, while highlighting some typical technical leadership dilemmas.

"Part 1: The Gray Factory" by Victor Rentea

The most agentified engineering teams of my clients are all converging towards the same workflow, aiming to optimize the code review step while preventing human cognitive debt and skill erosion.

This talk summarizes their practices, teaching actionable steps and milestones to gradually improve the quality of AI-generated code up to a point in which you can safely start decreasing the code review ‘intensity’.

Dark Factories are not built ground up - instead, lights are responsibly dimmed, then turned off one by one, area by area, after observing impeccable code produced consistently.

"Part 2: Career Reconversion to Agentic Engineer" by Victor Rentea

• Identity crisis - who are we?
• Mandatory mindset changes
• What makes a good Agentic Engineer?
• Job Interviews - what matters?
• Skill Erosion
• Team structures
• Cognitive Debt (former Tech Debt)
• Agentic Worklife Calisthenics
• Fastest Reconversion Path
• Helping the Skeptics

Bios

• Daniel Gebler builds the systems that power modern retail and grocery logistics at Picnic. As CTO, he leads the engineering teams responsible for scaling the company’s infrastructure and shaping the technical strategy behind online shopping. His recent work focuses heavily on the practical applications of artificial intelligence in retail.

• Victor Rentea is a Java Champion with extensive experience in training mid-senior developer groups (5000+ developers of 100+ companies). During these intense workshops, Victor gets to debate with very bright engineers about the challenges faced by their projects. Discover how Victor can help you at[ https://victorrentea.ro](https://victorrentea.ro/): training catalog, consultancy, and YouTube channel.