Bjorna Kalaja
Senior Software Engineer
Main focus: Sustainability in software
Websites/Blogs/Social Media Accounts:
https://foryouandyourcustomers.com/de/mitarbeitende/bjorna-kalaja
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjornakalaja
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Languages: German, English, Albanian
City: Vienna
State: Vienna
Country: Austria
Topics: environmental friendly software, green software architecture, sustainable software architecture, sustainable software engineering, requirements engineering for green software
Services: Talk, Workshop management
Willing to travel for an event.
Willing to talk for nonprofit.
My topics:
- Deep dive: how to measure carbon footprint of a microservice architecture
- Towards understanding and designing green software
- Requirements engineering as basis for designing a green software architecture
- Applying refactoring techniques to improve environmental impact of a software application
I have been a software engineer for more than 10 years. In the last 7 years I have been working together with foryouandyourcustomers Vienna in supporting companies in b2b and b2c on their digitalisation journey of internal processes and online presence.
After completing two certifications (from Climatebase and One point five academy) on climate studies and corporate sustainability, I have been active in the climate tech as well. My work in the climate tech space focuses on providing consultancy and expertise for startups on how software solutions can be planned and support their teams into building their first MVP.
My passion topic and area of expertise lies currently in the touching points between software engineering, architecture and the environmental impact of software products.
Examples of previous talks / appearances:
This session with the title Applying refactoring techniques to improve environmental impact of a software application was focused on increasing awareness across the software architecture and development community on how we can integrate existing tools and mechanisms (such as refactoring) into our software development lifecycle and improve therefore the energy efficiency of any software.
This talk is in: English
The talk with the title Towards understanding and designing green software focuses on providing a basic understanding of principles of sustainable software engineering by Green Software Foundation and by giving practical examples how we can design the architecture of our software to measure and improve the carbon footprint of software.
This talk is in: English