FLOWCON 2025

Who are you?
Nick Tune

What do you do for a living?
At the moment - a very hands-on staff engineer at PayFit. In the past - principal consultant, principal engineer, lead...

What are you going to talk about at FlowCon?
I will talk about modernizing legacy systems from a whole organization perspective (not just a technical one). The fact that is a long journey that requires a lot of stamina and discipline and requires everyone to work together. I'll share many of my experiences from PayFit over the last year which are fresh in my mind and highly interesting, and I'll compare those to past experiences and more general trends in the industry.

What are you the proudest of?
Checking into a hotel in Paris in French without the hotel staff switching to English

What speaker and/or topic would you like to see at FlowCon?
I am interested in hearing from new faces and new voices. I have some colleagues at PayFit who don't really talk at conferences but they have a lot of great ideas and experiences that others could benefit from. I'd like to hear more from these kinds of people rather than the same speakers all the time.

If you were an art piece, which one would it be?
I would be that banana was taped to the wall

What's your favorite band, artist or song?
No favourites.

Sum up your session or workshop in only 1 sentence
I will do my best to share the realities of what it really takes to do legacy modernization successfully from a whole organization perspective.

What are the 3 top takeaways from your session or workshop?
1. Legacy modernization is about forming good habits and sticking to them for multiple years
2. You have to expect things to go wrong, and be able to deal with them and learn from the failures
3. You need high alignment up and down and across the org chart for the entire journey