Code Freeze 2025 speaker: Kurt Christensen

Architecture at Scale

Abstract

How can a system architecture support growth from 55 to 110 million customers in three years? What kind of engineering organization is needed to create and evolve this architecture, and what tools are required? How can processes and incentives help? Join Kurt Christensen for a look at some of the ways in which Nubank has solved past challenges, what challenges lay ahead, and how some of these challenges and solutions may be relevant to you. 

Biography

Kurt Christensen has worked for 30 years as a developer, coach and manager across a variety of different industries, using a variety of different technologies. Kurt currently leads the Developer Experience group at Nubank. Nubank provides financial services to over 100 million customers in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. Managing massive, sustained growth for over a decade has required continual architectural adaptation, as well as the consideration of other factors such as governance and cloud costs. Join Kurt Christensen for a tour of how Nubank is architected today, how it got there, and how the lessons from these experiences might inform your own architectural journeys.