---
title: "Giselle van Dongen"
category: "people"
role: "Developer Advocate"
company: "Restate"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/giselle-van-dongen/"
twitter: "https://x.com/vdgiselle"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Giselle van Dongen

## Profile
Developer Advocate at [[restate|Restate]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/giselle-van-dongen/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/vdgiselle)

## Biography
Giselle is a Developer Advocate and Engineer at [[restate|Restate]]. She works on integrations between [[restate|Restate]] and the AI ecosystem and helps its users with understanding how [[restate|Restate]] simplifies the development of durable agents and backends. Before that, she worked in the field of data science, big data analytics, and stream processing, and obtained a PhD on this topic at Ghent University.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-giselle-van-dongen-every-step-you-take-every-call-you-make-the-reliable-agent-stack]] — 🎵 Every step you take, every call you make - the reliable agent stack (2026-07-01, 1:55pm-2:15pm)

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### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-giselle-van-dongen-every-step-you-take-every-call-you-make-the-reliable-agent-stack|🎵 Every step you take, every call you make - the reliable agent stack]]

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