Sy Brand
Expert in Debugger Technologies and Microsoft’s C++ Developer Advocate
With Sy, you’ll finally understand what’s really going on when you hit a breakpoint.
Ever used a debugger and thought “how does this even work?”. With Sy, you’ll learn how debuggers step through code, inspect memory and manipulate registers so you can debug with more confidence, solve bugs faster and level up your day to day dev workflow.
Talks at GOTO Copenhagen 2025
Sy Brand is an expert in debugger technologies and Microsoft’s C++ Developer Advocate. Sy has over a decade in developer tooling and has worked on profilers, compilers, language runtimes, standard libraries, and, of course, debuggers. They’ve also contributed to the standards for C++, DWARF, and HSA. Brand earned a degree in computer science from the University of St. Andrews, specializing in compiler implementation. They also are a poet, filmmaker, musician, activist, and parent to three cats and one entire human.