Douglas Crockford is a product of our public education system. A registered voter, he owns his own car. He has developed office automation systems. He did research in games and music at Atari. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm. He was Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities/Communities.com. He was founder and CTO of State Software, where he discovered JSON. He is the author of JavaScript: The Good Parts.

Douglas Crockford is a product of our public education system. A registered voter, he owns his own car. He has developed office automation systems. He did research in games and music at Atari. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm. He was Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities/Communities.com. He was founder and CTO of State Software, where he discovered JSON. He is the author of JavaScript: The Good Parts.

Robin Shahan has over 20 years of experience developing complex, business-critical applications for Fortune 100 companies such as Chevron and AT&T. She is currently the VP of Technology for GoldMail, where she recently migrated their entire infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. She is a Microsoft MVP in Windows Azure, and can be found on twitter as @RobinDotNet.

Robin Shahan has over 20 years of experience developing complex, business-critical applications for Fortune 100 companies such as Chevron and AT&T. She is currently the VP of Technology for GoldMail, where she recently migrated their entire infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. She is a Microsoft MVP in Windows Azure, and can be found on twitter as @RobinDotNet.

I've led technical operations at various West Coast startups since well before the dawn of the 21st century. Now having a great time making build and deployment fast and pain-free for any engineer at Netflix. I'm especially interested in narrowing the gaps between development and operations, as well as using the cloud for added scaling and improved efficiency. I'm always looking for new ways to get the product built, tested and deployed faster while still getting a good night’s sleep.

I'm a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft. I'm interested in Windows 8, F#, C++, and JavaScript.

I'm a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft. I'm interested in Windows 8, F#, C++, and JavaScript.

Manoj Kumar is a Principal Software Engineer at Oracle, currently working in Oracle Social Network group. He has over 20 years of experience in the software industry working on application servers, application development frameworks and web services. He has M.Tech. in Computer Science and Data Processing from IIT Kharagpur and B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT BHU, India.

Jeremy is a Developer Advocate focused on helping partners build apps and businesses on YouTube's platform.

Paul has been a member of the greater programming community for many years and loves helping others better utilize programming tools & databases. Paul has had his hand in running conferences, charity programming events, and user groups. He currently programs mostly in ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript, and SQL for a research institute in Seattle. His most recent accomplishments include marrying his soulmate, Suzanna, in Tuscany in October, 2012 & qualifying for the Boston Marathon in April, 2013.

Craig is the Chief Software Gardener at Mojo Software Worx in Salt Lake City. He has a passion for community and helping other developers improve their skills and has spoken at developer events across the US, Canada, and Europe and is the co-author of "Continuous Integration in .NET" available from Manning. Craig has been named a Microsoft MVP every year since 1996. He is an INETA Community Speaker and a ComponentOne Community Influencer.

Host - Global Product Management Talk, weekly broadcast showcasing product experts, startups, innovation, management and excellence. Organizer - StartUp Product Talks community. Creator - ProdMgmtTalk mobile app. Producer - Startup Product Summit conference

Chris is a senior architect for RelayHealth in Emeryville, CA, the connectivity business of the nation's leading healthcare services company. There he is responsible for the architecture and development of applications and services that accelerate care delivery by connecting patients, providers, pharmacies, and financial institutions. Chris is also an active open-source developer and the primary contributor to multiple projects including MassTransit and Topshelf.

Chris Sims is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), agile coach, and recovering C++ developer who helps software development teams improve their productivity and happiness.Chris is the founder of Agile Learning Labsas well as the Bay Area Agile Managers Support Group. He is co-author of The Elements of Scrum and has published over 50 articles on agile topics at InfoQ. Even more of his writing can be found on the Agile Learning Labs blog.

Chris Sims is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), agile coach, and recovering C++ developer who helps software development teams improve their productivity and happiness.Chris is the founder of Agile Learning Labsas well as the Bay Area Agile Managers Support Group. He is co-author of The Elements of Scrum and has published over 50 articles on agile topics at InfoQ. Even more of his writing can be found on the Agile Learning Labs blog.

David McCarter is a Microsoft MVP and a principal software engineer/architect in San Diego. He is the editor-in-chief of dotNetTips.com... a web site dedicated to helping programmers in all aspects of programming. David has written for programming magazines and has published three books (the latest is "David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards" available at: http://codingstandards.notlong.com). He is one of the founders and directors of the 19 year old San Diego .NET Developers Group (www.sddotnetd

David McCarter is a Microsoft MVP and a principal software engineer/architect in San Diego. He is the editor-in-chief of dotNetTips.com... a web site dedicated to helping programmers in all aspects of programming. David has written for programming magazines and has published three books (the latest is "David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards" available at: http://codingstandards.notlong.com). He is one of the founders and directors of the 19 year old San Diego .NET Developers Group (www.sddotnetd

Nima has over 15 years experience in technology as a software engineer/architect/manager/technology marketeer and entrepreneur. He has worked at Silicon Valley startups as well as large multinational corporations. He is the founder and CEO of YumDom.com. He enormously enjoys coding, building, and creating as well as sharing and helping others. He can be found on twitter at @nimadi.

Engineer, inventor, DIY enthusiast, aviator, photographer, foodie, traveler, gardener, trap shooter. I work at Oracle, live in the San Francisco bay area and enjoy spending time exploring the different microclimates and topography of the region.

Hi, I'm the founder of CloudCamp & Principal Consultant at Platform D.

Principal Software Engineer at VCE Inc, specializing in Cloud Computing and application deployment on cloud. Currently working on developing solutions to automate the real SDLC that includes development, version control, build, provisioning of systems, software deployment, test and production release.

Ops at Crittercism: shining light on mobile app performance in the wild. Previous: tech cofounder at Wishery.

Devin Rader spends his day’s extolling the virtues of Twilio, the simple cloud telephony platform. Before that he worked at Infragistics where he focused on delivering great user experiences to developers using their controls. As a participant in several .NET user groups and former INETA board member, Devin is an active supporter of the .NET community. He's also the co-author of multiple books including Professional Silverlight 4 and Professional ASP.NET 4. Follow Devin on twitter @devinrader

I have been designing and implementing .NET based applications, components and frameworks for more than 9 years, and I am currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at AppDynamics, one of the leading application performance management solutions for distributed application for web and cloud. My special interests are software architecture, framework and platform design, and writing Clean Code applying craftsmanship principles.

I have been designing and implementing .NET based applications, components and frameworks for more than 9 years, and I am currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at AppDynamics, one of the leading application performance management solutions for distributed application for web and cloud. My special interests are software architecture, framework and platform design, and writing Clean Code applying craftsmanship principles.

Software developer with experience in Scala, Python, Java, Linux, networking, and user interfaces; and in many industries including videoconferencing, remote device control, finance, education, publishing, mechanical engineering, semiconductor manufacturing, defense, and telecommunications. Programming teacher with many years of experience teaching from third grade to adult professional.

Software developer with experience in Scala, Python, Java, Linux, networking, and user interfaces; and in many industries including videoconferencing, remote device control, finance, education, publishing, mechanical engineering, semiconductor manufacturing, defense, and telecommunications. Programming teacher with many years of experience teaching from third grade to adult professional.

Stephen Chin is a Java Ambassador at Oracle specializing in UI technology, co-author of the Pro JavaFX Platform 2 title, and the new JavaOne Content Chair. He can be followed on twitter @steveonjava, reached via his blog: http://steveonjava.com/, and his hacking adventures can be seen on: http://nighthacking.com/

As an Agile software consultant Llewellyn Falco routinely finds himself working with companies undergoing transformations who have hired him to improve their employees' ability to deal with messy, orphaned, and otherwise ugly code. He is the inventor of approval tests (<http://www.approvaltests.com>www.approvaltests.com) and you can get a pretty good idea of him form this blog post: http://tinyurl.com/6aklzv

Jonathan LeBlanc is an Emmy award winning software engineer, author of the O’Reilly book "Programming Social Applications", and Head of Developer Evangelism (North America) at PayPal. Specializing in user identity concepts and data mining techniques, as well as open source initiatives around social engagement, Jonathan works on the development of emerging initiatives towards building a more user-centric web.

Samantha Langit is a 9th grade student. She has been teaching Java w/TKP courseware for several years.

As an Agile software consultant Llewellyn Falco routinely finds himself working with companies undergoing transformations who have hired him to improve their employees' ability to deal with messy, orphaned, and otherwise ugly code. He is the inventor of approval tests (<http://www.approvaltests.com>www.approvaltests.com) and you can get a pretty good idea of him form this blog post: http://tinyurl.com/6aklzv

A designer turned engineer, I’ve been making applications for the web professionally for years and enjoy all aspects from conceptualization and design to the engineering bits which drive them. Simply put, I love building great products.

BigData Architect and co-founder of Teaching Kids Programming

Bob Zeidman is president of Zeidman Consulting, providing engineering consulting to law firms about intellectual property disputes. Bob has consulted in over 100 IP cases involving billions of dollars. Bob is also president of Software Analysis and Forensic Engineering Corporation, the leading provider of software IP analysis tools.

With a Bachelor in Psychology, a Master’s in IT, and graduate work in Technical Communications, Joe is able to offer a unique variety of services to EPS and our customers. When not working in the office, or at home, Joe can generally be found at St. Jonah Orthodox Church, or at one of the many User Groups in which he regularly participates. Recently, he earned his Microsoft C# MVP.

Beth Massi is a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft. Beth is a community champion for business application developers and has over 15 years of industry experience building business apps. She is a frequent speaker at various software development events and you can find her on a variety of developer sites including MSDN Developer Centers, Channel 9, and her blog http://www.bethmassi.com/. Follow her on twitter @BethMassi

Ghaida Zahran is a product Designer at ZURB and one of the designers working on the Foundation framework. Ghaida takes the unicorn designer moniker seriously, weaving together both interaction design and mad code skills backed by a solid understanding of design principles and years of experience working with a variety of clients on all types of web and mobile projects.

Jordan Humphreys is one of the developers behind Foundation, the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. He originally started out at ZURB as a marketing intern, but found that he enjoyed working with code more. He spends his days working on both ZURB's product suite and Foundation.

Software Engineer II @ eBay, Organizer of Google Developer Group Fresno

Craig is the Chief Software Gardener at Mojo Software Worx in Salt Lake City. He has a passion for community and helping other developers improve their skills and has spoken at developer events across the US, Canada, and Europe and is the co-author of "Continuous Integration in .NET" available from Manning. Craig has been named a Microsoft MVP every year since 1996. He is an INETA Community Speaker and a ComponentOne Community Influencer.

Massimo Paolini is the founder and CEO of The Spectrum Group Online, a web marketing business based in Silicon Valley. He speaks at various organizations on the power of SEO and works with several businesses around the country to increase their web presence, understand their site traffic, and improve profitability. When not working, he is lecturing his 10-year-old son on the value of tetherball twitter.

Darius is a mentor to startup teams and an advisor to startup incubators, universities, growing companies and large enterprises around the world. He leads workshops on Customer-Focused Product Definition and Development, Innovation Management, Business Model Analysis and Strategy. Specialties - Technology: Internet and Web Technologies from Networking Protocols to Web Development, Internet Identity & Privacy, Computer & Networking Systems, IOS and OSX Development.

Ben Gremillion is a Design Writer for ZURB. He's written several articles for various blogs on web design after having practiced in the field for 10 years. He once moonlighted as a Photoshop instructor in Texas before building websites for a New Zealand startup. Now he writes and teaches on product design for ZURB's educational training.

Bhakti Mehta is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle. She has a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering and a Masters degree in Computer Science from State University of New York. She is currently working in the Glassfish team.She has contributed to various open source projects and presented at numerous conferences. You can follow her on twiter at https://twitter.com/bhakti_mehta

Organizer for Codechix Bay Area chapter. Also, volunteered at 2010 & 2011 CodeCamp.

Steve Hoffman is a high tech serial entrepreneur, and cofounder of LavaMind and Founders Space. http://www.LavaMind.com http://www.FoundersSpace.com http://www.ReadSmartly.com Hoffman is a founding member of the Academy of Television’s Interactive Media Group, was Chairman for the Producers Guild SF, and served on the Board of Governors for the New Media Council.

Athol Foden is president of Brighter Naming, Silicon Valley's full service professional naming agency for company, product and service names. Startups and software a specialty.. from this former computer techy and international marketing executive. Author of Spreadsheet Marketing, Brighter Branding, Brighter Names and Brighter SEO.

Lee is president of SavvyData, a database consulting and training firm based in the SF Bay Area. Lee led the design team that created CRM portals for Microsoft, HP, and Verisign. He has presented at Macworld Expo, SVCC and other developer conferences. Lee's current focus is building data visualization solutions for legacy or newly-collected data, to help users discover meaningful trends, patterns and exceptions. It is said that on a good day he can make a trend line with only 1 data point. ;-)

Neil Mackenzie has been kicking the tires of Windows Azure since PDC 2008. He works for Satory Global, helping companies use the Windows Azure platform. Neil wrote the Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook for Packt Publishing. He is a Microsoft MVP for Windows Azure. Neil tweets occasionally on @mknz.

Uday Gajendar is a principal designer at Citrix in Silicon Valley. He creates attractive, useful products that enable “work and play from anywhere”.

Michael is a recovering Enterprise Java developer getting in touch with his functional side.

Work in the R&D dept of a worldwide Tech Company Front Porch. I specialize in Build and Test Automation. I have knowledge in Python, VBS, C++, SQL, VB, C#, Powershell and BOO. I know a lot about TCP/IP and a slew of other .net related techs.

Athol Foden is president of Brighter Naming, Silicon Valley's full service professional naming agency for company, product and service names. Startups and software a specialty.. from this former computer techy and international marketing executive. Author of Spreadsheet Marketing, Brighter Branding, Brighter Names and Brighter SEO.

Beth Massi is a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft. Beth is a community champion for business application developers and has over 15 years of industry experience building business apps. She is a frequent speaker at various software development events and you can find her on a variety of developer sites including MSDN Developer Centers, Channel 9, and her blog http://www.bethmassi.com/. Follow her on twitter @BethMassi

I am working in Oracle - Mysql team as sr sales consultant

Occasional Software Geek. But mostly busy helping tech startups get started, build business model, and raise funding. Member of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's most long-standing angel investor group. Founder of the Intel Alumni Network, a worldwide organization of former employees of Intel Corporation.

Jim Downey is a full-stack web developer for Dell's professional services team. He builds web-based business applications for enterprise clients and blogs about various technical topics at jimdowney.net.

I lead. For fun. As an intra*preneur, I've grown businesses from break even to beyond $100M. My teams have delivered award winning retail products; more times than many may believe. I thrive in ambiguous environments & love bringing order out of chaos, turning strategies into results.

Steve Evans is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Pluralsight Author, and technical Speaker at various industry events. He has worked as a Senior Systems Engineer for over 14 years. Steve focuses on improving technology by bridging the gap between IT and Development teams. You can follow his technical blog at http://LoudSteve.com or find him on twitter at @scevans.

Love Scala https://github.com/vpatryshev presheaf.com ivan_gandhi.livejournal.com

Love Scala https://github.com/vpatryshev presheaf.com ivan_gandhi.livejournal.com

CTO-to-go. Programmer. Manager. Author, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (Addison Wesley, 2012)

Steve Evans is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Pluralsight Author, and technical Speaker at various industry events. He has worked as a Senior Systems Engineer for over 14 years. Steve focuses on improving technology by bridging the gap between IT and Development teams. You can follow his technical blog at http://LoudSteve.com or find him on twitter at @scevans.

Alex is C++ Portable Components (POCO) Project Lead. He is professionally consulting on C++, POCO as well as developing steel manufacturing automation and process control software since 1998. He has master's degree in mechanical engineering from Faculty of Engineering (University of Rijeka, Croatia) and master's degree in software engineering from Citadel Graduate College in Charleston, South Carolina. Alex is also IEEE (Computer Society) Certified Software Development Professional.

Paras is a Nokia Developer Ambassador, INETA Community Champion, Organizer of the Silicon Valley Windows Phone User Group, experienced speaker, and a vocal developer advocate. Paras is also a seasoned developer with over 11 years of experience in the industry.

Ryan Riddle is the Lead Editor at ZURB. He's a former mild-mannered reporter who is now a champion of online product design. He spends most of his days working on the Expo, ZURB's educational and training hub for product designers. He is very involved in Forrst, a community of 50,000 designers and developers, helping others understand the importance of giving and receiving feedback.

Ryan Jarvinen is an Open Platform Evangelist working with RedHat's OpenShift team. He lives in Oakland, California and is passionate about open source, open standards, open government, and digital rights. You can reach him as 'ryanj' on twitter, github, and IRC.

Co-Founder and CMO of The Spectrum Group Online, Alyson leverages her extensive marketing and executive brand communication background. To ensure that companies maintain focused conversations, she creates strategies that engage faithful clients as well as attract new ones. Using Brand Intelligence, she uncovers what transforms satisfied clients into raving fans.

I am a Systems Performance Expert with specialization in Database and System Architecture. I have helped to deploy and maximize availability of large MES systems in several Semiconductor and Solar manufacturing fabs.

Roman has co-founded WebServiceCenter Group in early 2004 and has since been responsible for strategic management and IT. He received a Master's Degree in "Communications and Media Engineering" from Offenburg University (Germany) and has established and managed a number of technology initiatives there. One of them being "InternetServiceCenter" - an innovative company-like software development agency within the University.

Ash is a specialist at a biotech working on finding new cancer bio-markers, drug targets and contributing to publications in scientific journals.

Roman has co-founded WebServiceCenter Group in early 2004 and has since been responsible for strategic management and IT. He received a Master's Degree in "Communications and Media Engineering" from Offenburg University (Germany) and has established and managed a number of technology initiatives there. One of them being "InternetServiceCenter" - an innovative company-like software development agency within the University.

Senior Frontend UI developer ( javascript focus ), LAMP developer and love to explore different technologies. Free time - hiking, washing bottles and chased around by kid.

Chris Richardson is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He is a Java Champion and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris is the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com and now spends his time investigating better ways to develop applications and evangelizing Cloud Foundry. He has a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge and lives in Oakland.

Platform as a Service (PaaS) architect, OpenStack & OpenShift community lead @redhat

Devin Rader spends his day’s extolling the virtues of Twilio, the simple cloud telephony platform. Before that he worked at Infragistics where he focused on delivering great user experiences to developers using their controls. As a participant in several .NET user groups and former INETA board member, Devin is an active supporter of the .NET community. He's also the co-author of multiple books including Professional Silverlight 4 and Professional ASP.NET 4. Follow Devin on twitter @devinrader

Chris Richardson is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He is a Java Champion and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris is the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com and now spends his time investigating better ways to develop applications and evangelizing Cloud Foundry. He has a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge and lives in Oakland.

Stacey Broadwell is the President of IT Talent Search, a tech staffing and executive recruitment company. We organize quarterly roundtable events with leading technology professionals to discuss trends in technology and best practices. A critical learning event for any programmer, developer, engineer, architect or technology leader. More info: www.CTORoundTable.com or www.ITTalentSearch.com

Arun Gupta is a Java Evangelist working at Oracle. He works to create and foster the community around Java EE and GlassFish. He has been with the Java EE team since its inception and contributed to all Java EE releases. Arun has extensive world wide speaking experience on myriad of topics and loves to engage with the community, customers, partners, and Java User Groups. He is a prolific blogger at http://blogs.oracle.com/arungupta, a passionate runner and can be caught at @arungupta.

Jeremy Clark is an application developer, technical speaker, and Microsoft MVP with over 13 years of experience in all aspects of the development lifecycle. After hours, he puts together demos and technical articles for JeremyBytes.com, a website focusing on .NET technologies. Other times he can be found shredding on a plastic guitar (or playing a real guitar fairly badly). He lives in Anaheim, CA with a seedling redwood tree and his cats, Amanda and Toby.

Jeremy Clark is an application developer, technical speaker, and Microsoft MVP with over 13 years of experience in all aspects of the development lifecycle. After hours, he puts together demos and technical articles for JeremyBytes.com, a website focusing on .NET technologies. Other times he can be found shredding on a plastic guitar (or playing a real guitar fairly badly). He lives in Anaheim, CA with a seedling redwood tree and his cats, Amanda and Toby.

I hack on JavaScript on the server and the client. I talk on the radio about technology, take photographs, and love web development.

Mark Abramson is CEO of Forward Thought, Inc., a software company in Sausalito; co-founder of Medicine of Cycling and Vice Chairman of USA Cycling. A veteran of both early-stage startups and enterprise software projects, he has particular technical expertise in complex global supply chains for high-growth companies. He's also a dad, runs the Microsoft BizSparkSF group for Bay Area startups, collects antique woodworking machines and mentors on Lean Startup methods.

Steve is a PaaS Dust Spreader (aka developer evangelist) with OpenShift. He goes around and shows off all the great work the OpenShift engineers do. He can teach you about PaaS with Java, Python, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, & MongoDB, . He has 11 years programming & 19 years doing geospatial work. Before OpenShift, Steve was a developer evangelist for LinkedIn and deCarta. He likes building interesting applications and helping developers create great solutions.

Sidney is eating, sleeping and breathing all things mobile as StackMob's Platform Evangelist. He spent the last three years working with jQuery to build mobile apps and sharing his knowledge with others. These efforts included speaking at Adobe MAX, SenchaCon, HTML5DevConf, Silicon Valley Code Camp, creating a jQuery Mobile course at uDemy.com and organizing the Bay Area Mobile meetup.

I'm a software engineer who gets excited at what functional programming in general, and Haskell in particular, has to offer.

I've spent most of my time working on large scale architecture and data problems in industry, and since I discovered Scalaz about a year ago, I’m quickly seeing how well the functional style is suited for such large scale problems, far beyond map/reduce.

Mark Abramson is CEO of Forward Thought, Inc., a software company in Sausalito; co-founder of Medicine of Cycling and Vice Chairman of USA Cycling. A veteran of both early-stage startups and enterprise software projects, he has particular technical expertise in complex global supply chains for high-growth companies. He's also a dad, runs the Microsoft BizSparkSF group for Bay Area startups, collects antique woodworking machines and mentors on Lean Startup methods.

Mr. Geracie is also the author of the global best seller Take Charge Product Management© and the Editor-in-Chief of The Guide to the Product Management and Marketing Body of Knowledge©. This is an industry-wide effort to standardize the practice of product management sponsored by the Association of International Product Management and Market He is also an Adjunct Professor at DePaul University's College of Computing and Digital Media where he teaches a course on high-tech product management.

An international speaker, Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, Phil Japikse has been working with .Net since the first betas, developing software for over 20 years, and heavily involved in the agile community since 2005. Phil works as a Senior Developer Evangelist for Telerik, serves as the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User’s Group and the Cincinnati Software Architect Group, co-hosts the Hallway Conversations podcast (www.hallwayconversations.com), and founded Agile Conferences, Inc.

C++ programmer for Qualcomm; Boost & LLVM contributor, C++ standards committee member.

I'm a software engineer who gets excited at what functional programming in general, and Haskell in particular, has to offer.

Vince works and plays at Syntellia, the creators of Fleksy for mobile devices. Fleksy is the revolutionary keyboard that makes it fun to type, and dramatically improves your texting and productivity. It is available on the AppStore!

I have taken an entrepreneurial approach to life since I could drive. I help technology firms with customer development, in particular lead generation and negotiation to close of important deals. Some of our clients are in transition from delivering their technology primarily as consulting to a full product; we help them make this transformation successfully.

My 20 years in the industry have been largely spent in consulting, helping clients deliver large business solutions, mostly using .NET technologies, SQL Server, SSAS and SSRS. My specialty is in the SQL space, in particular data modeling and BI, although I've been very involved with application frameworks and architecture as well. My company's flagship product, SQL-Hero, codifies many of the daily consulting tasks I've dealt with including code generation, tracing, reporting, and more.

Deborah Kurata is an independent consultant focusing on Microsoft .NET technologies.

Co-founder and CTO of Runscope. Former API Team Lead at Twilio. Co-maintainer of Flask-Restful, Twilio's open-source rest framework. <3's service oriented architectures.

Roots in open source: I ran the Gentoo Linux project from 2001 to 2005. From there, I did software engineering for a healthcare startup, and went on to create the Customer Support team, after acquisition and product launch. My team earned numerous awards from 3M, owing to the customer loyalty we engendered. From there I was recruited to Engine Yard to realign the customer experience.

Victor is Cofounder/CEO of scrible, where he’s the chief evangelist, product manager and business lead. His diverse background includes product management and business development. He played a key role as an early team member at insuranceOrder (subsidiary of storied enterprise software firm Trilogy), which was acquired by Marsh & McLennan. Early in his career, he had a short stint at VC firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Victor holds a BA from Brown University and an MS from Stanford.

David Spark is a veteran tech journalist and founder of Spark Media Solutions, a brand journalism firm that helps its clients be seen as leading voices in their field through brand-quality media production. The company has worked with clients such as Dice, Microsoft, Yammer, IGT, Sprint, Alcatel-Lucent, Tripwire, Riverbed, Zoho, and Indycar Racing. Since 1996, Spark and his articles have appeared in more than 40 media outlets including eWEEK, Wired News, PCWorld, ABC Radio, John C. Dvorak’s “Cr

Steve Bockman is a software developer turned productivity consultant. He is the founder of Agile Unlimited, a company in Northern California that focuses on helping organizations enhance their effectiveness. Steve is the originator of Team Estimation, a technique for collaboratively estimating work effort. He is also the author of <i>Predictability</i>, a business novel about creating reliable project schedules.

Steve Bockman is a software developer turned productivity consultant. He is the founder of Agile Unlimited, a company in Northern California that focuses on helping organizations enhance their effectiveness. Steve is the originator of Team Estimation, a technique for collaboratively estimating work effort. He is also the author of <i>Predictability</i>, a business novel about creating reliable project schedules.

I'm a Product Manager who has recently gone back to coding to build a travel application. Originally from the UK but now a Bay Area resident.

I drive developer adoption of DocuSign API

Coding Architect and Agilist at Guidewire Software (Foster City, CA). Formerly a Java trainer (back in the late 90's) and now running Lean Startup Experiments in distributed architectures, covering RESTful APIs and scalable systems.

Oswald is passionate about education: a former PhD Candidate in Mathematics (ABD), with 4 Masters/Bachelors degrees. Previously he worked in South America, Italy, and the French Riviera, and he traveled to 70 countries throughout the world. He has worked from C/C++/Java developer to CTO, currently in a stealth start-up. He's comfortable in 4 languages and trying to learn Japanese. He enjoys technology, and he's working on his 13th book, which is his 4th HTML-related book.

I consider myself a pragmatic software architect – someone who finds that adaptive design appears in the friction between ideas and implementation, vision and application. I have found that - contrary to expectation - velocity comes from this process of emergent design. There are several types of systems, and each of them requires structural design, model design, and process-design. Consequently I use design patterns, TDD, the cloud and Agile methodologies as the means to design, develop and dep

I have been writing software in C# for 7+ years, and loving every minute of it, except maybe for a few release days. I enjoy arguing about code and how to make it better, and get very excited when discussing TDD or F#. My other professional interests are applied math and probability. If you want to know more about me, you can check out my blog my blog <a href="http://www.clear-lines.com/blog/">here</a> or my rants on Twitter as <a href="http://twitter.com/brandewinder">@brandewinder</a>.

Ramnivas Laddad is a well-known expert in enterprise Java, especially in the area of AOP and Spring. He is a Spring Framework and Cloud Foundry committer. Ramnivas is also the author of AspectJ in Action, the best-selling book on AOP and AspectJ that has been lauded by industry experts for its presentation of practical and innovative AOP applications to solve real-world problems. He has spoken at many leading industry events including JavaOne, JavaPolis, No Fluff Just Stuff, and SpringOne.

Arivoli Tirouvingadame is a Principal Engineer from Oracle America, Inc., working on Oracle Public Cloud Network. He has 13+ years of experience in building high-performance enterprise applications in Java and SOA technologies, Next Generation BPM and Human Workflow service frameworks, Cloud platforms, etc. He has spoken in International conferences. He has experienced the gradual shift of enterprise applications from a request-response paradigm to a streaming, event driven paradigm.

Sumant is working for Real-Time Innovations after a PhD in distributed systems and has been programming in C++ for nearly a decade. He enjoys working on standards-based data distribution middleware for real-time systems and using C++ to solve interesting problems ranging from systems to meta-programming. He believes that knowledge is gained by spreading it. So he blogs <a href="http://cpptruths.blogspot.com">C++ Truths</a> and writes <a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/More_C%2B%2B_Idioms">Mor

Sanjeev Mishra is a software aficionado. He has spent more than half of his life working on cutting edge technologies. He currently works as a Sr. architect/researcher at Motorola Mobility's Applied Research Center.

Oswald is passionate about education: a former PhD Candidate in Mathematics (ABD), with 4 Masters/Bachelors degrees. Previously he worked in South America, Italy, and the French Riviera, and he traveled to 70 countries throughout the world. He has worked from C/C++/Java developer to CTO, currently in a stealth start-up. He's comfortable in 4 languages and trying to learn Japanese. He enjoys technology, and he's working on his 13th book, which is his 4th HTML-related book.

Gayle Laakmann McDowell is the founder and CEO of CareerCup.com and the author of Cracking the Coding Interview (Amazon.com's #1 best-selling interview book), and The Google Resume (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470927623). Gayle has worked as a Software Engineer for Google, Microsoft and Apple. She holds a BSE and MSE from UPenn in Computer Science, and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Long time Open Source organizer. Founded organizations, organized conferences and worked for fortune 500 vendors. Now Co-founder of Tradehill, a Bitcoin Exchange.

Massimo Paolini is the founder and CEO of The Spectrum Group Online, a web marketing business based in Silicon Valley. He speaks at various organizations on the power of SEO and works with several businesses around the country to increase their web presence, understand their site traffic, and improve profitability. When not working, he is lecturing his 10-year-old son on the value of tetherball twitter.

I lead. For fun. As an intra*preneur, I've grown businesses from break even to beyond $100M. My teams have delivered award winning retail products; more times than many may believe. I thrive in ambiguous environments & love bringing order out of chaos, turning strategies into results.

Ariya is a passionate engineer interested in bleeding-edge technologies. He has been involved in various large projects, from KDE to WebKit. These days, his focus is mostly on software craftsmanship around web technologies.

C# geek in biotech by day. Javascript, HTML5, Nodejs hacker by night.

Peter Kellner, a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP since 2007, is founder and president of 73rd Street Associates and a seasoned software professional specializing in high quality, scalable and extensible .Net web applications. His experience includes building and leading engineering teams both on and off shore. When not working, Peter spends most his free time biking.

Michael Van Riper has a Bachelors in Computer Science from MIT. Van has more than 20 years of experience as a software developer in Silicon Valley. He was a core member of the engineering team at Adobe that built the award winning Adobe PageMill web authoring program. Since 1999, he has focused on developing web applications in Java. Van leads the Silicon Valley Web JUG and currently works in Google Developer Relations as the global Google Developer Groups (GDG) program manager.