Symfony Community Night

Hello Symfony friends,

the year is not even old yet and we are happy to invite you directly to a new Symfony User Group Special!

Welcome to the Symfony Community Night!

After the great success of the 1st edition of this format last year, we are very happy to go into a 2nd round with you!

In contrast to traditional Symfony User Groups, we want to break out a bit here.
There will be no lectures as you know them so far, but we are happy to present you 4 fantastic guests from the Open Source Shop Community, who we want to invite to a panel discussion with you.

We will introduce these 4 guests to you in detail over the next few weeks! However, they will be representatives of the 4 largest store systems in the Symfony & OpenSource Community !

Be curious !

This discussion is about Symfony, the Symfony ecosystem but the central question will be "Evolution & Future of PHP E-Commerce".

We would be delighted if you could take part in this discussion.
You can do this on site at the event or by sending us the question by e-mail ([usergroup@qossmic.com](mailto:usergroup@qossmic.com)) or via social media.

Our guests are:

• Mateusz Zalewski - Sylius
• Soner "Shyim" Sayakci - Shopware
• Andreas von Studnitz - Magento
• Denis Turkov - Spryker

Mateusz Zalewski

For the past decade, he has been an integral member of the Sylius Community, serving as a Core Team Member and a Sylius trainer. A fervent advocate of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD), he strives to disseminate his expertise and engage in constructive discussions to contribute to the improvement of the programming realm. Additionally, for more than a year, he has played a key role as a co-founder of Commerce Weavers, an agency with a focus on Sylius and Symfony development and consulting

Soner "Shyim" Sayakci

Soner Sayakci is working as a Principal Software Engineer at Shopware, being responsible for the core development. Apart from that, he‘s an avid Open Source Maintainer and Contributor to projects like FriendsOfShopware, OpenSearch and NixOS.

Andreas von Studnitz

Andreas von Studnitz is a Magento veteran since Version 1.0 (2008). Until today, he works as a Magento developer, trainer and consultant. Andreas is a co-founder of the Magento agency "integer_net" in Aachen / Germany. He was awarded two "Magento Master" titles by Adobe due to his OpenSource contributions and organizing the Magento Meetup Aachen. Andreas loves to travel around and visit all kinds of Magento events, as a speaker or as a participant.

Denis Turkov

Denis started at Spryker 7 years ago as a Core Developer and grew into an architect, and later into a technology leader. He started with C# and Java, but later switched to PHP, now having 13 years of experience with Symfony, and a bit less with CakePHP and Yii/2.
Even now remains an active contributor to Propel2 ORM and PHP Foundation. Currently is working on a Spryker Composition Platform to manage a fleet of microservice apps.

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Food and drinks will be provided.

We are looking forward to seeing you!
Your QOSSMIC Team

Please note that this UserGroup will exceptionally be held in English due to our international guests.

During the event photos & videos will be taken, a selection of which will be published on the internet. By coming to this event, you agree that your person will be photographed and published on the internet.