Marc Gibbons
Marc is a full stack developer and consultant based in the Greater Toronto Area. He has been working with Django since version 1.4 was released over a decade ago. He specializes in API development and is passionate about developer quality of life.
Marc is a recovered musician who played the oboe professionally with symphony orchestras across Ontario and Québec. He authored Django REST Swagger, a once popular but now deprecated library used to generate documentation for APIs written with Django REST Framework.
In his spare time, Marc enjoys gravel biking, a hobby he picked up following his first successful battle with cancer in 2020. He founded Port Perry Pedals, an annual cycling event which has raised over CA$ 60,000 for charity since 2021.
Session
Have you ever encountered a codebase where modifying code seemed impossible due to the constraints of the test suite? Are the tests that you write today inadvertently restricting future improvements? In this talk, we will uncover how placing empathy at the forefront of test suite development can empower rather than hinder future developers, including your future self.