Andrew Lombardi

Andrew Lombardi has been coding since he could barely reach an Apple ][ keyboard. As founder/CEO of Mystic Coders for 25 years, he's led transformative projects from passenger AI systems for Airbus to Fortune 500 applications. Published author with O'Reilly and Apress, international speaker, and mentor to engineers. Despite all his technical achievements, being a great dad remains his greatest accomplishment.

Montreal 2026 sessions

Offline-First at 35k Feet: When your app can't call home

English session - Intermediate

Most offline-first apps assume you'll reconnect in minutes. What happens when your systems operate for hours without connectivity and no team to monitor them?

Real lessons from building systems that must work reliably in environments where network access is unreliable and remote debugging is impossible. We'll explore data sync strategies, conflict resolution patterns, and building bulletproof systems when remote support isn't an option

Spring Boot and GraalVM - Lessons from 30,000 feet

English session - Intermediate

What do you do when your Spring Boot app suddenly needs 75% less memory? Here's our real-world GraalVM retrofit story.

Actual production performance metrics, reflection gotchas that break compilation, brutal build times that killed productivity, and what we'd architect differently from day one to avoid the retrofit pain entirely.