Speaker AXDN//27 Roland Golla
Expert in sustainable web development, accessibility and website testing
Roland Golla is the founder of Never Code Alone (NCA) in Duisburg, Germany, and has been building software for more than 20 years – first as a PHP developer, then as a trainer for testing and clean code, and today as an AI engineer. An expert in sustainable web development, accessibility and website testing, Roland Golla has been named a Cypress Ambassador by Cypress.io. The current focus is vibe coding and how AI-generated code becomes a real, quality-assured product. At AXDN//27, Roland Golla talks about "Tests first against AI coding slop" and runs a vibe coding workshop with Astro and local AI (OpenCode, Ollama).
01Expertise
- End-to-end testing with Cypress.io
- Quality assurance for AI-generated code
- Vibe coding with Astro and local LLMs
- Web accessibility
- PHP/Symfony, refactoring and clean code
- Workflow automation with n8n
02At AXDN//27
- 13:30Vibe Coding Workshop: eine Astro-Landingpage mit lokaler KI bauen
- 14:30Tests first gegen AI Coding Slop: Profi Vibe Coding, das in Production hält
April 22, 2027 · KORN’S Nuremberg · Times are provisional and may change.
03Career
- todayAI Engineer and Vibe Coding Consultant, Never Code Alone
- since 2015PHP training and consulting, Entwicklungshilfe NRW
- since 2013Focus on testing, tooling and clean code
- 2003–2013Senior and Lead Developer for large portals and e-commerce platforms
- 2000–2003Apprenticeship as IT specialist (Fachinformatiker)
04Highlights
- Official Cypress Ambassador (Cypress.io)
- Brought Codeception tests into the TYPO3 core
- Speaker at code.talks Hamburg (2018, 2022), International PHP Conference, Neos Con 2019 and FrOSCon 2019, among others
- Runs the "Never Code Alone" YouTube channel with regular live coding
- Organises NCA developer meetups in Duisburg