Sander Hoogendoorn
Sander Hoogendoorn is an independent dad, traveler, and seasoned developer with 40+ years of experience who still writes code daily—why stop now? As CTO at iBOOD, he's known for his post-agile mindset and knack for shaking the status quo.
A prolific author and speaker, Sander keeps teams on their toes. He shares his ideas on disruption, microservices, software architecture, and the fine art of writing elegant code while championing small steps and big thinking.
Sessions Montréal 2026
Seven Habits of a (Mostly) Successful Team
Session en Anglais - Débutant
After five years of building our team, we’ve distilled seven practical habits—no Scrum, no dogma—that fuel delivery, motivation, and continuous improvement:
1. Learn how to prioritize pragmatically,
2. Kill complexity,
3. Own your work
4. Communicate relentlessly
5. Build microteams
6. Deliver continuously
7. Have fun.
Full of real-world stories and takeaways for thriving teams. We've had no churn in 5 years
The Way of the Monad. Cleaner, Safer Code is Easy to Test
Session en Anglais - Intermédiaire
Monads help eliminate messy error handling and nulls. Starting with `Try`, they enable chaining, pure functions, and testable code. This talk introduces core monads, such as `Try`, `Option`, `Maybe`, and `Choose`, with practical examples in Java, C#, and TypeScript. You will learn how to write cleaner, safer, more predictable software, and take away patterns you can immediately apply in your daily work.
