Susanne is a developer, software architect and researcher at Fraunhofer IESE. She has more than 10 years of professional experience and worked as consultant at Capgemini sd&m and Accso before joining Fraunhofer. In her PhD she researches on distributed systems, eventual consistency and software architecture design. She is a regular speaker at conferences, active member of the java user group community, program committee member of the JavaLand conference, co-organiser of the Cyberland events, and heavily involved with getting more women into tech.