Software Engineer and Open-source Maintainer

Pauline Vos

At MongoDB, I help maintain the open-source tools that help PHP developers use our product. Without active, stable OSS, we shrimply wouldn't have any users.In this session, I'll share why open source is essential to your product's success, and how to get involved in the ecosystems that support it. Through real-world examples, you'll learn strategies for contributing effectively, the value of community trust, and getting leadership buy-in to invest engineering time in OSS.You'll leave with practical ways to strengthen your product by strengthening its open-source foundations.

No OSS, No Users: Why Investing in Open Source Matters

Software developers all know: continual learning is part of the job. And that's what so many of us love about it. Innovation is constant, and it's an exciting challenge to keep up with so many new technologies. But where do all these new concepts, frameworks, and patterns come from? Let’s take a journey through the history of innovation to explore how different worlds collided to inspire new, radical ideas. Let’s discover how cross-pollination has helped our community grow into what it is now, and can help us think of new ways to solve complex problems. Join us for a session of inspirational stories that illustrate how cross-pollination has helped form some of history’s most profound innovations, and will hopefully inspire you to conjure up your own radical new ideas.

Never stop learning, how curiosity and cross pollination drives innovation-Pauline Vos - PHP UK 2022

Many Git users tend to use Git as a save point, like in a video game; chronologically making checkpoint commits as they go. This spreads out changes to the same areas in the code over several commits, necessitates merging and resolving conflicts, and generally just making an incomprehensible jumble of your history. This talk makes a case for atomic commits and how to use them while only minimally affecting your workflow. Using pre-recorded demos, you’ll learn how to properly interactively rebase, fix up, reset, bisect, and more. By the end of the talk, you’ll have seen how this Git flow will make your life easier and how it will affect your ability to cherry pick, drop unwanted commits, and most importantly: not spend hours resolving conflicts in rebase hell. A little change in habits can go a very long way!

IS NOW Git Legit - Pauline Vos

Reader, be aware: this is not a blockchain talk! The web we knew and loved has become a massive machine led by a small number of tech giants, controlling your data, hogging money, and burning the planet. Tech thought leaders and pioneers recognize the state of the current web for what it is: unsustainable. Find out in this talk which inspiring technologies lie ahead for us, that will help us take back control of our beloved web.

The bright and exciting future of the decentralized web - Pauline Vos

I've been teaching Git for years, and everywhere I go `git bisect` seems to be a bit of a mythical beast. Some people have heard of it, very few know what it is, and almost nobody knows how powerful it can really be. In this talk, you'll find out not only what bisect is and how it works, but also all the ways in which it can work for you. From finding a specific point in your history lightning fast, to making it debug for you using a combination of bisect and regression testing.

Pauline Vos

Pauline Vos

MongoDB

Sessions in 2026

No OSS, No Users: Why Investing in Open Source Matters