Ben Beattie-Hood is a principal engineer, trainer and professional mentor with over twenty years of industry experience who currently focuses on front end tech strategy and development and training in React, TypeScript and related technologies. He is passionate about evolvable systems, about creating learning organizations, and about how ideas are formed and communicated. Ben has given a wide range of talks on product development, event sourcing microservices and event storming practice, NoSql database operation, functional programming, front end design and build, as well as specifically in TypeScript. He lives with his beautiful wife and two kids in Melbourne, Victoria, where he loves to hike in the great Australian bush.