Nicole van der Hoeven (she/her/her)

Nicole is a performance engineer with over a decade of experience in breaking software and learning to build it back up again. She has lived in the Philippines, the US, Australia, the Netherlands, and Portugal, helping teams all over the world scale up their load tests on the cloud. She currently works at Grafana Labs (k6) as a Developer Advocate for performance testing, which means she learns new stuff for a living and then tells people about how she did it. She plays tabletop roleplaying games five times a week, makes videos on YouTube about taking notes, and studies more languages than she can remember.