Hadi Hariri

Hadi Hariri has spent over 35 years in software, as a developer, consultant, and leader. He started out building custom software for businesses ranging from real estate firms to large print companies, automating how they worked and learning that most problems are business problems first. He later spent over a decade at tooling companies and software consultancies before joining JetBrains, where he stayed for nearly 17 years. At JetBrains he started as a Developer Advocate, working with the .NET, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin communities. He built and led the developer advocacy team, created KotlinConf, helped grow the Kotlin community, and served as President of the Kotlin Foundation. Over time his work moved behind the scenes, into communications, crisis response, privacy, governance, cross-department programmes and, finally, operations as SVP. He has been speaking for more than two decades, at events from Google I/O and Devoxx to Gartner and Microsoft conferences. He has created course