Speaker Details

Katerina Skroumpelou

Biography: Katerina is a Google Developer Expert for Angular and a software engineer focused on the web frontend. Her projects focus on interactivity, web maps and new technologies. She also likes to mix and match web APIs, experimenting with device sensors, and she open sources her code for the general good. Katerina speaks at international conferences and co-organizes the Angular Athens meetup. She is also involved with supporting diversity in the community, speaking about it and helping the ngGirls whenever she can. Katerina is obsessed with sharing knowledge and spreading the word about things she loves, which is all that has to do with web. Katerina is a digital native and she loves web development, so much that she does not understand the distinction between work and life sometimes. (Or so her friends say.) She lives with her Maine Coon cat in Athens, Greece.

Presentation: Stop Mocking Your Backend

Most teams still mock their backend when testing and end up debugging problems that only appear in production. What if you could run your real backend locally or in CI, complete with database, auth, and storage, in seconds? In this talk, we’ll explore how Supabase makes it practical to test against a real backend instead of mocks. You’ll see how its local stack and reproducible migrations let developers run integration and end-to-end tests that truly reflect production behavior, including authentication and row-level security.