Mark Abramson is CEO of Forward Thought, Inc., a Sausalito-based startup that solves global supply chain challenges for high-growth companies. He is a veteran of several startups and has worked with companies in the Global 50 and NASA. He is an engaging and interactive presenter who enjoys teaching, having delivered several keynote speeches, many presentations at Microsoft-themed meetups in the Bay Area and countless peer-to-peer seminars. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family, playing with power tools and riding his bicycle (he is a past President of USA Cycling).

Principal recruiter at Lumos Labs and founder of The SearchLink. I am a full-cycle recruitment professional, specializing in staffing technology start up companies in the Silicon Valley/SF bay area.

Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and Java Champion, with more than 11 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application developments since the early days of Java. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include Groovy and Swing. He is a true believer of open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member and current project lead of the Griffon framework. He blogs periodically at http://jroller.com/aalmiray. You can find him on twitter too as @aalmiray. He likes to spend time with his beloved wife, Ixchel, when not hacking around.

Got exposed to computer programming at the age of 18; got mesmerized by the story of Seymour Cray at the age of 20; got a PhD in Computer Science at the age of 25; got hands on real world experience developing what are still unique, one-of-their-kind two parallel software tools while at Synopsys ... ... only to start MBA Sciences in 2006 to develop general purpose commercial software solutions that enable software developers to exploit parallelism using up to 512 cores.

Ash is a specialist at a biotech working on finding new cancer bio-markers, drug targets and contributing to publications in scientific journals. He has produced elegant solutions to complex problems which resulted in several issued patents. He competes (and sometimes wins) in coding competitions using social, mobile, cloud and web technologies. He enjoys presenting this work at various events. In his spare time he attends UCSF medical and Stanford surgical seminars. He is very happy with all this, but what he would really like is to get a major surfing (H2O) sponsor.

Technical Director at IMVU, open source advocate, TDD practitioner, interested in high-performance computing, computer graphics, and dynamic languages

Mike is President of Coast R&D an independent Silicon valley consultancy specializing in fast turnaround high performance business applications. With a masters in Engineering and math, Mike has been developing solutions for companies and hedge funds since 1987.

Husband and father. Manager of wijmo and ComponentOne products. Craftsman of scripts. Author of technology. Speaker of passions. Player of hockey.

Ward is VP of Technology at IdeaBlade, makers of the DevForce .NET enterprise application development (www.ideablade.com). Ward is also a Microsoft MVP who obsesses on Silverlight, Smart Client, Persistence, development practices, and "Prism".

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. Craig has spoken at developer events across the US, Canada, and Europe and is the co-author of "Continuous Integration in .NET" available from Manning. Because of his community efforts, Craig has been named a Microsoft MVP every year since 1996. He is an INETA Community Speaker and a member of the ComponentOne Speaker Bureau. You can contact him at craig@craigberntson.com, through his blog at www.craigberntson.com/blog, or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/craigber.

After finishing a masters degree in Applied Mathematics at UC Davis in 2009 Karl joined the software development team at One Lambda Inc. Now, as part of the Bioinformatics group he designs and develops new, cutting-edge, algorithms and software for the analysis and maintenance of molecular HLA data. His passion and experience in molecular biology coupled with advanced skills in the computational, statistical and computer sciences leave Karl always on the look-out for new and exciting problems and opportunities in the bio-tech industries. Once, when asked, "So Karl, are you a biologist or a computational scientist?" he is said to have simply replied, "Yep".

Some traders make their own luck. We use a robot. http://bot4.us

Steve Bockman is an independent software developer and certified ScrumMaster who began his career in 1977 in a utility position, installing software packages for a manufacturer of business computers. Since then he has worked in the fields of speech recognition, terrain analysis, computer graphics, desktop publishing, industrial automation and web applications.

As the founder of North Bay Agile, a special interest group dedicated to the pursuit and study of Agile software development in the San Francisco North Bay, Steve continually strives to communicate the essence of Agile development to novices and advanced practitioners. He has given presentations on estimation, test-driven development, pair programming and refactoring at North Bay Agile, BayXP, BayAPLN , BAADD and Agile Open California 2008, as well as at the Agile2007 and Agile2008 conferences.

I am a backend engineer at Box.net

I have been writing software in C# for 6 years, and loving every minute of it, except maybe for a few release days. I enjoy looking at code, arguing about it, and learning how to make it better. My other professional specialty is applied math and probability. If you want to know more about me, you can check out my blog here or my rants on Twitter as @brandewinder.

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.

I have been in the software industry for 20+ years. In the past 4 1/2 years I have been working on a project which I would like to present at code camp. I am hoping to share some of my experiences in working with Javascript in building a product and wish to demonstrate what I believe to be a new way of building RIA applications using DSL based, frameworks and platforms.

Stacey Braodwell is the founder of CTO RoundTable and IT Talent Search. 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. www.CTORoundTable.com

Lance is the Director of Mobile Solutions at Falafel software, Inc. Lance has over 20 years’ experience leading teams, architecting, and developing enterprise-level solutions for some of the world’s largest corporations. Prior to joining the Falafel team, Lance served as a Group Manager at Check Point Software Technologies. As a leader and engineer, he was responsible for scalability, performance, feature development, federation/clustering, and protocol work on the Check Point Endpoint Security Secure Access Server; which managed tens of thousands of desktop security installations. Prior to Check Point, Lance was CTO/Vice President of Technology at Full Moon Interactive and .class Corporation, where he was a recognized industry expert in Delphi, JBuilder, and Windows development; as well as a speaker, author, and trainer. Lance holds a B.S. in Computer Science/Mathematics from California State University Sacramento. Twitter: lancecbullock

Gary has over 20 years of software industry experience working in a variety of fields including insurance, marketing, medical, telecom, real estate, financial and manufacturing. He has also worked as a team lead on major software projects for Hewlett Packard and Johnson & Johnson. Gary's specialties include C#.NET, ASP.NET, Sitefinity, Delphi, Localization and Internationalization and database development. He holds a BS in Computer Science/Mathematics from California State University, Sacramento

Sondra is a Principal at her own boutique Retained Search Firm. She has 25 years of technology recruiting experience for VC backed start-ups, and was the former Director of Recruiting at The Mayfield Fund, one of the early venture capital firms in the Valley, and has held numerous staffing leadership roles at high-growth start-ups. Sondra's client companies are Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software/SaaS, Systems & Consumer Electronic Device companies. Her search practice is focused on helping companies hire key Engineering and Product Management/Product Strategy leaders at the VP/Director levels.

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.

Gustavo is passionate about building quality software that looks awesome. His specialties are C#, WPF, Silverlight, Entity Framework and user experience in general. Gustavo is Software Architect and DBA for Trinity Health, one of the largest Healthcare organizations in the country. He also provides software development/coaching and database services through his company TinyFit (www.tinyfit.com). Gustavo is also the president of the Central California .Net User Group (www.centralcaldotnet.com) which he founded back in 2006. He currently lives in Fresno, CA with his wife and 3-year-old daughter.

Alison Chaiken is a Linux embedded developer and systems programmer with a particular interest in platforms beyond handsets and tablets. She has contributed to MeeGo IVI (automotive Linux) and ARM hardware adaptation both as an employee and as a community member. Alison is a member of Hacker Dojo and OSCON program committee. She plans to race her bike on the morning of 10/8, but will come by CodeCamp that afternoon and all day on 10/9 if she can still walk.

Doris is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft for the Western region of the United States. Doris has over 13 years of experience in the software industry working in several open source web tier technologies, HTML5, jQuery, Java platform, and distributed computing technologies. She has developed and delivered over 400 keynotes, technical sessions, code camps worldwide, published widely at numerous international conferences and user groups including JavaOne, O'Reilly, SD Forum and worldwide Java User Groups (JUG). Before joining Microsoft, Doris Chen was a Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems. Doris received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in computer engineering, specializing in medical informatics.

• CEO of 3DMashUp. • Over 30 years’ experience in Software Development, including 3D CAD, database and Web applications. • Formerly VP Engineering at Oracle, Bea Systems Inc. and Informix. • Lead teams that have developed many large 3D database projects and products including, AutoCAD Map, NASA’s EOSDIS and LINZ (Land Information System New Zealand).

Stephen Chin is a technical expert in RIA technologies, and Chief Agile Methodologist at GXS where he is leading a large-scale Lean/Agile rollout with hundred of developers spread out across the globe. He coauthored the Apress Pro JavaFX Platform title, which is the current leading technical reference for JavaFX, and is lead author of the upcoming Pro Android Flash title. In addition, Stephen runs the very successful Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group, which has hundreds of members and tens of thousands of online viewers. Finally, he is a Java Champion and an internationally recognized speaker featured at Devoxx, Jazoon, and JavaOne, where he received a Rock Star Award. Stephen can be followed on twitter @steveonjava and reached via his blog: http://steveonjava.com/

WESLEY J. CHUN, MSCS, is the author of Prentice Hall's bestseller, "Core Python Programming" (http://corepython.com), its video training course, "Python Fundamentals" (LiveLessons DVD), co-author of "Python Web Development with Django" (http://withdjango.com), and has also written various technical articles for Linux Journal & CNET. In addition to being a software architect & Developer Advocate at Google, he also runs CyberWeb (http://cyberwebconsulting.com), a consultancy specializing in Python training & engineering. Wesley has over 25 years of programming, teaching, and writing experience, including more than a decade of Python. While at Yahoo!, he helped create Yahoo! Mail & Yahoo! People Search using Python. Wesley has delivered courses/sessions at Google, Cisco, VMware, Avaya, Hitachi, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, & Foothill College, as well as at a variety of conferences around the globe. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Music from the University of California.

I am an Adobe Flex Senior Developer who has created am FlexCloudSDK open source project for cloud computing for ActionScript 3.0 developers using Google App Engine.

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 developing a secure programming language. He is now an architect at Yahoo!. He is the author of JavaScript: The Good Parts.

Program manager on the Microsoft robotics team.

Patrick Curran is Chair of the JCP. In this role he oversees the activities of the organization's Program Management Office including driving the process, managing its membership, guiding specification leads and experts through the process, leading Executive Committee meetings, and managing the JCP.org web site Patrick has worked in the software industry for more than 25 years, and at Sun (and now Oracle) for almost 20 years. He has a long-standing record in conformance testing, and most recently led the Java Conformance Engineering team in Sun's Client Software Group. He was also chair of Sun's Conformance Council, which was responsible for defining Sun's policies and strategies around Java conformance and compatibility. Patrick has participated actively in several consortia and communities including the W3C (as a member of the Quality Assurance Working Group and co-chair of the Quality Assurance Interest Group), and OASIS (as co-chair of the Test Assertions Guidelines Technical Committee). Patrick's blog is here.

Formerly a software engineer and manager at Apple, 3Com, and Motorola, I am now an adjunct faculty member at Foothill College developing curriculum for iPhone Mobile App development. I am also the Director of the Community College Open Textbooks Collaborative which promotes the adoption and production of high quality and accessible open textbooks for community college students.

Academic, designer, team leader for the Deme Django-based social Web CMS project

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 currently the founder and CEO of YumDom.com which he plans to turn into the top food site on the internet. He enormously enjoys coding, building, and creating as well as sharing and helping others. He occasionally blogs at http://nimad.wordpress.com and can be found on twitter at @nimadi.

I've been programming in Java since 1996, and have worked on such projects as the first version of servlets, and the first release of J2EE. Currently working at Oracle on ADF's Groovy integration

I'm in the Quality Engineering group at box.net, working to automate our QA testing processes.

Started building web applications with MySQL in 1999 and joined MySQL AB in 2004.

Vasu is the Director of Software Development at Ingenuity Systems, a Redwood City based startup that is a leading provider of information and analytics software for Life Sciences. True believer in agile development (building the right it), continuous integration and deployment and bottoms up innovation. At a personal level, i would like to meet other developers, exchange ideas and hope to start my own venture in the next 1 year

Damian Edwards is a Program Manager on the ASP.NET team, responsible for the Web Forms framework and the group’s JavaScript and Ajax technologies. An ‘open web’ advocate, he’s the creator of the Web Forms MVP and SignalR open source ASP.NET projects, as well as various jQuery plugins. A passionate speaker, he regularly presents at events such as MIX, Tech.Ed and DevConnections on all things ASP.NET, web and jQuery.

Originally from Chicago, Daniel moved to California in the early ‘90s – right when the Bulls were stampeding the NBA. He dabbled in several industries (from hospitality to law) and soon found his niche in engineering and information technology. Before joining Microsoft, Daniel served as the Chief Architect and CEO for Odyssey Consulting Group, which provided custom application development for mid-range companies. In the Microsoft fold, Daniel has been a Regional Director, an MVP (ASP / ASP.NET), a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, and a .NET insider for the Southern California region. He’s also the founder of the SoCalDotNet Developers Group, teaches a .NET certification course at California State University Fullerton, and previously served as president of INETA – the international .NET association. Away from the screen, you’ll find Daniel racing to bring down his marathon times (don’t ask for numbers) or putting his Canon camera through the paces in search of the perfect shot.

currently seeking collaborators to help produce an Experimental film that will contain computer programming subject matter.

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 (www.approvaltests.com) and you can get a pretty good idea of him form this blog post: http://tinyurl.com/6aklzv

I manage the MySQL Support organization at Oracle, and in my spare time, help develop and maintain MySQL's JDBC driver (Connector/J).

Jonathan Feuchtwang is currently senior patent counsel at Abbott Vascular with 15 years of patent experience. Jonathan's professional experience includes law firms (big and small), sole practitioner, start-ups, and large corporations. Jonathan started his career as a Process Control Engineer for LTV Steel and has significant experience coding software as well as drafting patent applications for software and business method inventions. Jonathan has a BS in Engineering from Penn State University, an MBA from Univ of Illinois (Chicago), and JD from Chicago-Kent COllege of Law.

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. Also founder of Foden Press.

Donovan Follette is a Sr. Technical Evangelist for Microsoft with over 25 years of experience developing enterprise business applications on a variety of platforms. He currently specializes in helping to enable developers in building integrated line-of-business (LOB) solutions with Microsoft Office and SharePoint 2010. Visit blogs.msdn.com/donovanf for information on LOB integration opportunities with SharePoint and Office.

Sara Ford is a Senior Product Manager at Black Duck Software for Ohloh.net, the largest public directory of open source software. Prior to Black Duck, she worked for nine years at Microsoft Corp., where she was responsible for CodePlex.com, the Microsoft open source project hosting site.

Steve Fox is the Director of Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE) for SharePoint and Windows Azure. He regularly speaks to developers about SharePoint, Office and Cloud development at both domestic and international conferences. Steve has authored many articles and books, including Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development (Wrox) and Developing Microsoft SharePoint Applications using Windows Azure (MSPress). He has worked at Microsoft for twelve years and currently lives in Seattle, Washington.

Russ Fustino is a highly experienced software developer with a passion for conveying relevant, current, and future software development technologies and tools through live seminars, teaching, and internet video productions. He enlightened, entertained and educated 100’s of Thousands of developers nationwide as a former Developer Evangelist for Microsoft. Russ now heads up Developer Evangelism at GrapeCity PowerTools Group as a Senior Developer Evangelist. Russ has a new interview video series with influentials about current technology called ‘Russ Cam’! See http://gvtv.cgpoertools.com

Uday Gajendar is a principal designer at Citrix Systems in Silicon Valley creating attractive, useful digital products. He brings a versatile mix of design experience from places like Adobe, Oracle, Cisco and his own consulting with clients like Netflix and Linked In. He has also published in ACM Interactions and spoken at conferences held by IDSA, IA Summit, and DMI on aesthetics, leadership, and design strategy. Having degrees in industrial design (Michigan, BFA) and interaction design (Carnegie Mellon, MDes) Uday constantly pushes the critical thinking behind well-crafted pixels.

I am an Android engineer at Bump Technologies. Prior to working at Bump, I worked on mobile apps at eBay. I'm also the co-author of Android in Practice.

Peter Garst is cofounder of Enventra, which provides tools for recognizing handwritten mathematics. He has years of experience in handwriting and other pattern recognition areas.

Ed Gibbs is a software development manager/tech lead working in Sacramento, California. He runs a popular blog on software development management issues at http://edgibbs.com, a mix of technical and management posts. He spends his time focusing on mentoring traditional corporate IT organizations on TDD, continuous integration, refactoring, static analysis, and the advantages higher productivity with dynamic/functional languages. He's a regular presenter at the Sacramento JUG and a founding member of the Sacramento Groovy Users Group.

Joshua Granick has a passion for great games, functional design and tools that make life easier. He has twelve years of industry experience; three as a small business owner. He has produced applications and games for brands like Adobe, Apple Jacks, Disney and Eldorado Stone. From his former selection of TI-series calculators to his current selection of phones and tablets, Joshua loves developing for mobile devices, especially as the skill set for mobile, desktop and web development continue to blur. He has three kids and a beautiful wife, and currently works in HP webOS Developer Relations.

Arun Gupta is a Java EE and GlassFish evangelist working at Oracle. Arun has over 15 years of experience in the software industry working in the Java(TM) platform and several web-related technologies. In his current role, 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 everywhere to spread the goodness of Java. He is a prolific blogger at http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta with over 1150 blog entries and frequent visitors from all around the world with a cumulative page visits > 1,000,000. He is a passionate runner and always up for running in any part of the world. You can catch him at @arungupta.

Responsible for Particle Code’s engineering teams worldwide, overseeing the development of cross platform software framework for mobile applications (Particle SDK).

PJ Gupta is Founder of Noca (an online payments company). Previously, he worked for VISA, where he held positions including Chief Network Architect and Director of Network Security and blogs his views on payments at http://www.nointerchange.com When not changing the world of payment systems PJ is finding ways to get more time for flying single planes

I'm an avid programmer and have been so since early 2001. I am currently working on real-time, low-latency systems using Ruby and EventMachine. I love ruby.

I'm a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft. I'm interested in F#, Xbox Kinect, and Windows 8.

Interested in mobile application development.

Pieter Humphrey is a principal product director at Oracle, covering core Fusion Middleware Java development tools like Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, Workshop for WebLogic, JDeveloper/ADF, EclipseLink. Pieter has been with BEA/Oracle since 2001 working with Enteprise Java.

Graduated with a Master's in Web Science from the University of San Francisco in May '10. Currently a Developers Programs Engineer at Google for Fusion Tables.

Slava Imeshev is a founder and a core developer at Cacheonix Systems. Slava's main expertise is reliable distributed high-performance systems. You can reach Slava at simeshev@cacheonix.com

I'm CEO of GridGain Systems - a maker of High Performance Cloud Computing software for Java and Scala.

Passionate about social media strategy, social commerce, metrics, product innovations, grassroot innovations; Work @ebay in social commerce, organize Facebook and Google+ meetups http://www.linkedin.com/in/sujamthe Reach me on Twitter: @sujamthe or blog coolastory.com I love CodeCamp and the variety of topics/people and opportunity to learn and contribute barcamps style.

Kirsten Jones has been working in software development for almost 20 years. After starting her geek life as a systems administrator and tool builder, she moved into software design at Cisco, where she stayed for several years before jumping into the Web 2.0 revolution. Her social and collaborative experience has ranged from Socialtext to the think tank AMI, to Netflix, and now LinkedIn.

Her passion is in using facets and semantic ideas to bring more powerful browsing experiences to users. Kirsten has long been a fan of Freebase, building several different applications to leverage the power of their language and database. Her iPhone application (the Intersect for Netflix) demonstrates this focus, allowing anyone to browse the Netflix catalog using facets.

The talk this weekend will demonstrate how to create that same kind of experience using the LinkedIn API - browsing your connections based on their work and school history. Come find out how to add context and meaning to your web application by leveraging the LinkedIn API!

Kirsten's personal blog is at http://www.princesspolymath.com/ - ranging in topics from HTML5 tips to code samples to general industry thoughts. Just like Kirsten the blog posts are never predictable, often amusing, usually snarky and sometimes sparkly.

Theo Jungeblut has been designing and implementing .NET based applications, components and frameworks for more than 8 years, and is currently working as a senior software engineer at Omnicell Inc., a health care company. He previously worked in factory automation with focus on component based software and framework development for 3 ½ years. Besides minor excursions in Java, VFP and embedded C++, Theo has worked almost exclusively with C# for more than 8 years, and his special interests are framework and platform design and writing clean code. He holds a degree in Software Engineering and Network Communications.

Jon has been programming in C++ for twenty years. He is currently doing this for Amazon’s A9.com. During the last two decades he has written C++ for Apple, Dow Chemical, Intuit, Lotus, Microsoft, Netscape, Sun, and Yahoo! He taught C++ at the graduate school at Golden Gate University for two years and is a founding moderator of the Boost-User mailing list.

Entrepreneur, founder HyperCrunch, co-founder DotNetNuke; Microsoft MVP; tech geek; creative thinker; husband; dad

Alex Keh is a principal product manager at Oracle. He focuses on Oracle data access and database integration with .NET and Windows. He's spoken previously at many Microsoft and Oracle events, including Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, VSLive!, and Oracle Develop and OpenWorld.

M&A, Finance and Business Operations expert in Web 2.0

Randy Knight (MCITP) has been working with Microsoft technology for over 20 years, focusing on SQL Server for the last 14. He is currently the owner and Principal Consultant for SQL Solutions Group, a Utah-based SQL Server consultancy. He is a nationally known speaker and trainer, having presented at SQL Saturday, Code Camp, User Groups and the inaugural PASS SQLRally.

Roland Krause is a Senior Software Engineer with over ten years' experience developing software for biotechnology and engineering industries. He has a passion for Open Source and lately his interests have focused on user interface development on mobile platforms and embedded systems. Roland works as West Coast Engineering Manager for Integrated Computer Solutions, the North-American Qt Experts.

Deborah Kurata is cofounder of InStep Technologies Inc., a professional consulting firm that focuses on turning your business vision into reality using Microsoft .NET technologies. She has over 15 years of experience in architecting, designing, and developing successful applications. Deborah has authored several books, including the "Doing Objects in Visual Basic" series (Addison-Wesley), "Best Kept Secrets in .NET" (Apress) and "Doing Web Development: Client-Side Techniques" (Apress). Deborah speaks at .NET user groups all over the country and at conferences, such as VSLive, DevDays, and TechEd. For her work in support of software development and software developers, she has been recognized with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. After a hard day of coding and taking care of her family, Deborah enjoys blowing stuff up (on the XBox of course).

Ramnivas Laddad is a well-known expert in enterprise Java, especially in the area of AOP and Spring. He is 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. Ramnivas, a Spring Framework committer, is also an active presenter at leading industry events such as JavaOne, JavaPolis, No Fluff Just Stuff, SpringOne, and Software Development. He has been an active member of both the AspectJ and Spring communities from their beginnings. He has worked with a wide range of systems, especially dealing with complex and mission-critical applications, in various roles. You can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ramnivas.

Currently a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft, previously Lynn moved from a degree in linguistics to become a business executive, and then launched her own software development, training and consulting company. She’s done production work with all versions of .NET, BizTalk, K2.Net, SharePoint, SQL Server, Analysis Services, InfoPath, MOM, and Active Directory, and holds an array of certifications, including MCT, MCSD, MCITP, MCSE, MCDBA and MSF. Lynn is also the author of 'Foundations of SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence' from Apress. She is currently at work writing 'Building Smart Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008' for MSPress. In her spare time, Lynn gives back to the community by supporting children’s education. Her current projects include work with the Mona Foundation (Redmond, Washington) and SmartCare (Lusaka, Zambia).

Simon Law is a Principal Product Manager responsible for the Oracle In-Memory Database Cache and TimesTen In-Memory Database products at Oracle. Simon has been with Oracle for over 10 years, working first in the Support services division and then as a product manager at the Server Globalization team. He joined the TimesTen division of Oracle in 2006. He is responsible for driving new requirements, promoting TimesTen features, and working as the communication channel between customers and development.

The trouble started when a mysterious baby was found by a military couple in a pineapple patch many years ago. This baby developed into a kid with computer obsessions when, at the age of nine, he was put in front of a vt100 terminal at an Air Force Command Post and told not to press the blue button. Anything but the blue button. After pressing the blue button he received a login prompt instead of the missile strike he supposed would happen. Many login prompts later, he grew into an adult with computer obsessions, and some skills.

Kimber Lockhart loves to imagine and build software that people love to use. She leads the application engineering team at Box.net. She came to Box with the acquisition of Increo Solutions, which she cofounded.

Michael has over a decade of experience managing large-scale, innovative technology projects for companies such as Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk and Salesforce.com. In his role at Archetype Michael is responsible for providing overall business leadership and vision, as well as keeping Archetype’s day-to-day operation focused on innovation, creativity, and quality. Before joining Archetype, Michael spent four years at Metaliq, an award-winning interactive agency, most recently as President. Prior to Metaliq, Michael spent four years at Autodesk, Discreet Division, where he was responsible for several successful releases of 3ds Max, Character Studio, Reactor, and Mental Ray. In addition to his experience in technology, Michael has an abiding interest and background in people and process, both from a career and educational standpoint. He has worked in fields as varied as healthcare, public policy, and psychology. Michael holds an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and a master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a recent recipient of Communication Arts Magazine's Interactive Annual Award of Excellence.

Neil Mackenzie has been kicking the tires of Windows Azure since PDC 2008. He wrote the Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook, just published by Packt Publishing. Neil is a Microsoft MVP for Windows Azure. He tweets occasionally on @mknz.

Sidney is a Developer Evangelist with PayPal and the organizer of BAM! - Bay Area Mobile meetup which is focused on  jQuery Mobile, jQTouch, Sencha Touch, Titanium, and other multi-platform mobile technologies.

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.

I'm the CTO of Pelotonics and Plixi (now Lockerz Photos).

Enterprise Collaboration consultant with Sovos Group : Collaboaration Blog on ZD Net

Beth Massi is a Senior Program Manager on the Microsoft Visual Studio BizApps team who build the Visual Studio tools for Azure, Office, SharePoint as well as Visual Studio LightSwitch. Beth is a community champion for business application developers and is responsible for producing and managing online content and community interaction for the BizApps team. She has over 15 years of industry experience building business applications and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. You can find her on a variety of developer sites including MSDN Developer Centers, Channel 9, and her blog www.BethMassi.com. Follow her on twitter @BethMassi

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 magazines like the VB Programmers Journal 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 16 year old San Diego .NET Developers Group (www.sddotnetdg.org). In 2008 David won the INETA Community Excellence Award for his involvement in the .NET community. David is also an inventor of a software printing system that was approved by the US Patient Office in May 2008. David will have a limited number of his latest book to sell ($12) and a DVD full of previous sessions on video, slides, code and more ($15) at the end of each session. Please try to bring exact change or a check. All session slides and videos will be available at: http://www.slideshare.net/dotnetdave

I am both a .NET developer (an eight-time MVP) and INETA speaker as well as an iOS Developer and Speaker (MobileConnections)

I have been developing semantic technologies for 5 years. I recently left HP (after 14 years!) to start my own company.

I'm an Executive Coach and a Silicon Valley HR veteran. I'm passionate about working with clients who are eager to achieve their goals in an effective and efficient manner. The coaching methodology I use is based in neuroscience research and produces great results.

Thomas Mueller has been working with databases for almost 15 years. He currently is the Database Administration Manager at HMS, a healthcare consulting company in Santa Ana. Thomas got his BS in Digital Media & Computer Science in 1999 and received his MS in Information Systems from Claremont Graduate University in 2004. In addition to databases, his interests include data warehousing, data mining, knowledge management and LEGO®.

Chief Architect @ShareThis.com Display Advertising, Behavioral Targeting Experience with large scale high performance JavaScript/PHP infrastructure on EC2

Steve is an independent software consultant in Silicon Valley specializing in the Microsoft product stack having retired after a 40+ year carrier doing semiconductor process development, and software development for semiconductor process modeling and semiconductor factory management, with side excursions in to medical image management. Over the years he has worked with a wide range of platforms from mainframes to PCs, many of which have gone to the great scrap yard in the sky. He was one of the drafters of the Semiconductor Communication Standard (SECS) He currently has strong interest in issues associated developing program with asynchronous and/or parallel execution paths. He is also involved in the development of application for mobile platforms and the web. He is current co-chair of the South Bay (Silicon Valley) Chapter of the Baynet (.Net) User Group and the Baynet Treasurer.

Mark Nelson is a Consulting Solution Architect in the Fusion Middleware Architects Team (known as ”The A-Team”) in Oracle Development. Their mission is to supply deep technical expertise to support customers deploying Oracle Fusion Middleware, and to collect real world feedback to continuously improve the product set. Mark works on Continuous Integration, BPM, SOA, performance tuning and writes a blog about Oracle technology and integration at redstack.wordpress.com

Sr. Technical Evangelist for Adobe Systems. Also chaired the OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee from 2005-2009 and co-author for O'Reilly's "Web 2.0 Architectures". In the past was the lead architect, Vice Chair for the United Nations CEFACT group (global SOA effort) and also worked on many W3C and OASIS Web Services specifications. Coder, athlete, musician, father & architect.

Hi, I'm the founder of CloudCamp and will be putting on the Cloud Track @ Silicon Valley Code Camp. If you would like to lead (or propose) a presentation about something related to Cloud Computing please contact me. Either way, I hope to see you there!

Bary has been working for Falafel Software for 5 years. Bary’s career has taken him from the oil field services industry, to LCD research, and to the DOE. He’s served as a lead researcher, designer, and programmer on numerous systems that encompassed a wide range of technologies such as ultrasonics, eddy current, and downhole viscosity measurements — all along the way using the latest software technologies to solve complex control and data imaging challenges. With numerous patents and engineering/scientific achievement awards he finds no challenge too hard to handle. During the spring he spends time chasing down severe storms, and in the summer spends time at the lake with his family. He also enjoys competing as an epee fencer along with his son and daughter. Bary has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University.

Bill has over two decades of experience as a systems architect and software developer, working on everything from wiki software for Internet startups to global identity management solutions for Fortune 500 companies. He’s an active member of the Open Source community, and even served as president of the Perl Foundation from 2005 through 2007 (but try not to hold that against him). He’s also a long-time user and advocate of Vim, and has given many well-received classes and presentations on Vim to several organizations in the US Midwest.

Pragati Ogal Rai been associated with the computer industry for over 10 years; out of which 8 years are in the Mobile space. She has deep understanding of mobile ecosystem and has seen mobile phones grow from a candy bar phone to the smart phones of today. As part of platform security team at Motorola, she worked extensively on designing and developing security focused features on different Mobile Operating Systems like Moto JUIX, Motorola Linux Java, and Android Platform . In her current role at PayPal, she is involved with PayPal's mobile products. Ms. Rai has taught and trained computer science students at various levels and is an active speaker and member of the developer community.

I work at Google supporting non-Google developers who integrate with the Apps APIs.

A programmer at heart, I work with an awesome team of engineers to build awesome products. I am Engineering Manager for the API Platform group at IGN Entertainment. Prior to IGN, I was Principal Architect at E*Trade Financial where I wrote the streaming quotes framework, and an OAuth Server among other things. I joined E*Trade after working at Accenture in the Financial Services and Communications/High Tech workforce. I live in the SF Bay Area with my wife, and a daughter. Follow me on Twitter @lobster1234

Alice grew up in Louisiana and came out to sunny California after high school to attend Stanford University, where she received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering/Software. She then moved across the bay to get her M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research/Management of Technology through the Haas School of Business and College of Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. While at Stanford and Berkeley, she was heavily involved in various dance groups and enjoyed organizing networking, mentoring, and community outreach events for the Society of Women Engineers. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, discovering new places to eat, rock climbing, riding motorcycles, flipping upside down in circus aerial arts classes, and sharing Louisiana and Chinese culture with people. As a Microsoft Developer Evangelist in southern California, she focuses on WebMatrix and enjoys learning to develop on phone, web, and cloud. http://twitter.com/alicerp http://blogs.msdn.com/alicerp

Massimo Paolini is the owner and principal analyst of The Spectrum Group, a web analytics business based in Silicon Valley. He speaks at various organizations on the power of social media 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 7-year-old son on the value of tetherball twitter.

James is a technologist, writer, developer & practitioner who has been working with the mobile web for over a decade. He is Senior Director of Developer Relations at Sencha. Previously he was the CTO at dotMobi and has a background in mobile startups, telecoms infrastructure and management consultancy. He speaks extensively on the topic of mobile web development, and has written books for both Wiley and Wrox. James led the development of mobiForge, DeviceAtlas and ready.mobi, and is the creator of tinySrc, the WordPress Mobile Pack, WhitherApps, modernizr-server and confess.js.

Woody Pewitt is a Technical Evangelist at DevExpress where he helps DevExpress make innovative products that enable developers to deliver solutions faster with superior quality enabling greater returns for their organizations.

Peter Pilgrim is a Java Champion and a professional software developer, designer and architect. He is independent contractor/consultant. Since 1998 he has worked in the financial services industry, investment banking mainly, developing IT for clients. He is a well known specialist in Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) technology, focused on the server-side and the implementation of electronic commerce. Peter has built professional Java EE apps for top-tier investment banks for Lloyds Banking Group, UBS, Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Scotland and Deutsche Bank. Peter is the 91st Oracle Java Champion. Peter is a Certified SCRUM Master.

Software Engineer at LinkedIn. I love programming. See my LinkedIn Profile for more info :) http://www.linkedin.com/in/dragade

Software professional with over 12 years of experience. Have worked in various web technologies developing applications in ecommerce, mobile, healthcare, and HCM verticals. Currently, working as a Lead Engineer at SuccessFactors.

Noel is the VP of Software Services at Falafel Software and has over 20 years of experience in the software industry including numerous successful projects in the industries of medical, telecom, financial and manufacturing. He has also worked as a lead developer on major projects for Hewlett Packard and Johnson & Johnson. Noel has authored over ten books on diverse subjects ranging over ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, Android development, CMS, Reporting, automated testing, Winforms and ORM. He has also written numerous articles on software development for top industry magazines.

For over a decade, Danny has applied his extensive knowledge of Design, Engineering, and Management to lead high profile technology projects for the interactive, animation, and print industries. He is a creative, dynamic leader who is passionate about teaching, innovating, and supporting high performing design and development teams. Danny's experience includes leading technology projects for Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, Adobe, AOL, Salesforce, Charles Schwab, Autodesk, Akamai, and Cisco, among others. Before Archetype, Danny was President of the San Francisco based interactive application development firm, Metaliq. With Danny’s technology insight and industry expertise, Metaliq grew year over year, expanded into new markets, and both strengthened and extended its application development portfolio. Danny is also a leader in the interactive community as well as a devoted educator. Danny continues to teach Web Design and 3D Animation in both corporate and college environments and is a bestselling author. He also stays involved with the design and development community through speaking at conferences around the world such as FITC, Streaming Media East/West, as well as various Microsoft events.

CCO of Archetype

Work on the Product Management team of JDeveloper and ADF. I'm primary focused on Rich Internet Application development and Java EE frameworks. I've spoken at various conferences around the globe most of the time presenting topics around Oracle technologies. This would be my first year at the camp

Java, database hacker/developer

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.

Software developer from the early days of Unix onward.

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 Director of Engineering for GoldMail, where she recently migrated their entire infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. She can be found on twitter as @RobinDotNet

Christian is a principal product manager at Oracle focusing on .NET development for Oracle database.

John Sheehan is an ASP Insider and Developer Evangelist for Twilio, a cloud communications provider that offers a simple RESTful API for sending and receiving phone calls and SMS text messages from your applications. John is also the author of RestSharp, an award-winning .NET REST and HTTP API client library. John has been developing for the web with Microsoft technologies since 1996 and currently resides in San Francisco, CA.

Randy Shen is currently patent counsel at Abbott Labs and was previously at three biotech start-ups in the areas of gene chips and protein engineering. Randy is a graduate of Santa Clara (JD), Indiana University (PhD Biochemistry) and University of Western Ontario (BSc Biology).

Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with several of their events each year and being an evangelist for them. Paul has authored literally hundreds of books, webcasts, videos and articles on .NET, WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone and SQL Server. Paul can be reached via email at PSheriff@pdsa.com. Check out Paul's new code generator 'Haystack' at www.CodeHaystack.com.

Roni has over 13 years of software development experience in electronic design automation and computer graphics industries. In 2008 she left EDA to found Kloobok LLC ( http://kloobok.com) and develop Maze, a tool for testing and debugging parallel applications. Roni has M.S. in Computer Science from SUNY at Stony Brook and a B.S. in Physics and Applied Math from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

A senior software developer with a track record of success in the delivery of server, desktop and embedded software solutions.

Joe Sondow is the lead engineer on an internal Grails and jQuery application that serves as Netflix's visual and REST interface to the Amazon cloud for deployments and operations. Previously Joe managed a team of end-to-end web engineers at QualityHealth, a successful healthcare internet company on the east coast where Joe led the adoption of automated web front end testing with Selenium and Hudson.

Steve works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. He previously served as Chief Performance Yahoo!. Steve is the author of High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites. He is the creator of YSlow, one of the top 25 Firefox add-ons. He's created many other performance tools and services including the HTTP Archive, Cuzillion, Jdrop, ControlJS, and Browserscope. He serves as co-chair of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference from O'Reilly, and is co-founder of the Firebug Working Group. He taught CS193H: High Performance Web Sites at Stanford University.

I am Microsoft's Academic Developer Evangelist for Northern California. I work with students to get them interested in technology and help them get access to the tools and training they need to become the next generation of software developers and technologists.

David Spark is a veteran tech journalist and founder of Spark Media Solutions, a media consulting and production company. Acting as the "media" of "social media," Spark Media Solutions helps its clients be seen as leading voices in their field through brand-quality media production and distribution through top tier media channels. For more than sixteen years Spark and his articles have appeared in more than 30 media outlets including eWEEK, Wired News, PCWorld, ABC Radio, John C. Dvorak's "Cranky Geeks," and TechTV. He blogs regularly on the Spark Minute and is a regular contributor for Mashable, Socialmedia.biz, Technologizer, and KQED's "This Week in Northern California."

Scott Stanfield is the CEO of Vertigo Software, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Partner specializing in designing and building unique software. Scott is a proud member of the Microsoft Regional Director community and participates in the Microsoft Partner Architect Council. He is a frequent public speaker, keynoting for Microsoft and other industry events. Before starting Vertigo in 1997, Scott worked at Pixar in Point Richmond, California, which happens to be the current home of Vertigo. Scott holds a BS in Computer Science for Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Follow me @seesharp.

I am Jordan Sterling, I like web application programming and general hacking. I work at Box developing tools for test automation. I like to bike, snowboard, and code.

Leslie Stevens-Huffman is an independent business and careers writer based in Southern California. She has more than 20 years’ experience in the staffing industry and has been writing articles, blog posts and moderating the Dice Discussion Board since 2006. In addition to her writing pursuits, Leslie is a part-time instructor for UC Irvine Extension and a member of the Human Capital Institute’s Contract Talent Advisory Board. Leslie has a bachelor’s degree in English and Journalism from the University of Southern California.

Paul Stubbs is a Microsoft Technical Evangelist for Azure, SharePoint and Office, where he focuses on information worker development community around SharePoint and Office, Silverlight, and Cloud Computing. Visit Paul’s blog at blogs.msdn.com/pstubbs for deep SharePoint and Windows Azure developer information.

Chris Sutton is a software developer and technical trainer in eastern Iowa. He's currently building several ASP.NET MVC projects for the Center for Public Health Statistics at the University of Iowa. He has helped run and organize SouthColorado.NET and CRineta.org and he co-founded the Iowa Code Camp in 2008. Chris is a Microsoft MVP, a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and holds the MCPD:Enterprise certification. He has 11 years of professional software development experience and loves developing for the web. Chris enjoys hiking and biking in the summer and snowshoeing in the winter.

I am a Senior Technologist with Adobe working to on Flex and Flash Builder ecosystem partners. Also have been Member and Manager of the Silicon Valley Flex User Group (SilVaFUG). My background includes many years of technology consulting into large and small enterprises.

Self employed software developer

After graduating from The University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Majd spent 2 years working for the MobileMe team at Apple before leaving to start the SproutCore UI project at Strobe Inc, where he works today.

Alain "Lino" Tadros is Chairman & CEO of Falafel Software, a Silicon Valley based company, with presence in Colorado, Michigan, N. Carolina, Florida and Texas, dedicated to providing world-class consulting, training, and software development for small, medium, and enterprise level businesses. Prior to founding Falafel, Lino was a member of the development team at Borland for Delphi and C++Builder. Mr. Tadros has been awarded Microsoft MVP status six years in a row (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) for his numerous contributions to the C# community and is an expert in .NET, LINQ, ASP.NET, COM, and Web Services. Tadros is an industry renowned speaker and has given numerous presentations on 5 different continents since 1994. He also currently sits on the Board of Directors of 4 Silicon Valley corporations.

James Tatum has been attached to computers for as long as anyone can remember. He has worked off and on in software Quality Assurance for over a decade. Currently, he is the Fusion automation lead at VMware where he has designed several framework and runner components. Previously he worked at Symantec for over ten years wearing many hats including QA, and has contributed to various open source projects such as the Mago desktop testing tool, the Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP), and Peer 2 Peer University. Recently, he created the open source Python extension ATOMac to help automate Macintosh GUI applications (pyatom.com). Connect with James via jtatum@gmail.com, gplus.to/jtatum, or jtatum on github.

Starting with Turbo C and 8086 Assembler in the late 80s, Bruno has kept busy teaching and writing code in a multitude of platforms, languages, frameworks, SDKs, libraries, and APIs. Bruno's depth of knowledge comes from years of experience in the field, where he can bring real-world knowledge and combine it with forward thinking that is required for his current role as a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft. Prior to evangelism, Bruno was a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer, helping customers in remote locations on a moment's notice to help with extreme troubleshooting scenarios, including problem isolation and correction, live and post-mortem debugging, on-the-fly application design and code reviews, performance tuning (IIS, SQL Server, .NET), application stability, porting / migration assistance, configuration management, pre-rollout testing and general development consulting. As an evangelist, Bruno spends time writing code and giving live presentations on building cloud based applications, specifically using the Windows Azure Platform. He also takes a strong interest in Mobile Computing and is convinced that both mobile and cloud platforms, separately and together, are poised for huge growth over the next 10 years. Bruno is very optimistic about the potential for new interactions with software using Kinect. The software industry has been languishing in aging approaches to human interactions and software. Kinect opens up an brave new world of possibilities to next generation software engineering.

Founder/CTO of TWiki.org & Twiki Inc. Trying to get more TWiki contributors hooked. Inventor of Structured Wikis. Co-author of Wikis for Dummies. Speaker. Open Source & Enterprise 2.0 advocate. Tweeting @twiki & @peterthoeny.

Developer, entrepreneur, interested in automated testing, frequent releases, agile contracts. JavaScript, C#, C++

Arivoli is a Principal Engineer, in Oracle, developing Next Generation BPM and Human Workflow service frameworks. He has 12+ years of experience in building high-performance enterprise applications in Java and SOA technologies, has patents pending and 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. Arivoli would be speaking in the SemTech UK 2011 conference in London, UK. The topic is "Semantic SOA Governance, BPM and Complex Event Processing". Earlier, he has spoken in "HP Software Universe 2008" in Las Vegas. The topic was "Semantic SOA Governance".

An experienced software developer, technology entrepreneur and enterprise architect with interests in the areas of high performance applications, analytics, web applications and mobile platforms. Enjoys data visualization, statistical & machine learning, coffee and desserts. Trainer, mentor, consultant and advisor. Author of many technical articles and books. Speaker at many conferences worldwide and at user groups and meetups. Loves playing with diverse range of new and old technologies and attempts research in the domain of computational intelligence and smart applications. Contributor to open source initiatives. Busy these days building an open source management, monitoring, and modeling platform for big data and NoSQL.

Stanford Junior interested in Artificial Intelligence and Web Design, specifically accessibility.

Jonathan "J." Tower is a consultant with Falafel Software, a Microsoft certified consulting and training company based in silicon valley with a presence in five U.S. states and Canada. J. loves the creative and problem-solving aspects of software development. He has twelve years of software development experience in industries including e-commerce, procurement, marketing, logistics, quality assurance, and manufacturing. Over the years, J. has helped companies like Microsoft, Abbott Laboratories, LTD Commodities, and Uline Shipping Supplies to develop their enterprise software applications using Microsoft development technologies such as ASP.NET, SQL Server, and Silverlight. J. lives in Michigan with his wife and children, where he enjoys watching films, photography, and outdoor activities like biking and backpacking. J. received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer and systems sciences from Taylor University.

Software engineer at Box.net

I am an avid software engineer who helps clients of all sizes realize their full potential.

John Waters, President and CTO, Falafel Software Inc John Waters was the lead architect and developer of a number of high profile financial software products and solutions, including Scandinavia’s leading Internet retail stock trading system, and a leading mortgage and credit risk assessment product now used by many of Sweden’s banks for housing loans. John has a strong background in C# and SQL, as well as many years of experience of successful project management. John has also spoken at conferences on the subject of Web Services and AJAX around the world. Recent projects include such diverse experiences as in-car navigation systems, GPS- and MapPoint-based solutions, capture and playback of video, a large .NET ERP system, and a Nortel telephone switch interface module. Currently, John is the full time project manager and chief architect for a large custom built WCF/Silverlight/SQL Enterprise Software Solution.

Certified PowerBuilder Developer and Trainer. Sybase MVP, Member TeamSybase. Member of IBM PC AT ROM BIOS team

Estelle Weyl started her professional life in architecture, then managed teen health programs. In 2000, she took the natural step of becoming a web standardista. She has consulted for Kodakgallery, Yahoo! and Apple, among others. Estelle provides tutorials and detailed grids of CSS3 and HTML5 browser support in her blog at http://www.standardista.com. She is the author of Mobile HTML5 (O'Reilly, January 2012) and HTML5 and CSS3 for the Real World (Sitepoint, May 2011). While not coding, she works in construction, de-hippifying her 1960's throwback abode.

I'm one of the co-founders of Meebo. We started in 2005 and today serve over 200 million unique users through Meebo Messenger, Meebo Mobile, and the Meebo Bar. I've worked in a variety of roles from initially authoring Meebo's initial JavaScript framework, leading Meebo's product initiatives, and today serving as Meebo's CXO.

I am a software developer, architect and mentor having 20 years of professional experience with an emphasis on building engineering teams, Java/J2EE/Flex web application frameworks, databases, automation, and development tools. I am currently leading the development of a cutting-edge test automation framework, written in Scala, as the "Director of Quality Engineering" at Box.net.

Jarek is a YouTube Developer Advocate and his focus is helping partners implement amazing applications using YouTube APIs. Prior to joining Google, Jarek was the Head of Engineering and Chief Product Architect at Hewlett-Packard’s Mobility Software and Solutions group. At Hewlett-Packard, he managed a distributed team of over 100 engineers spread across three countries (US, UK and China). Before HP, Jarek worked on the design and implementation of Java communications middleware platform (WebLogic SIP Server) at BEA Systems (acquired by Oracle). The product achieved VoIP application server market dominance within three years of its inception. At BEA, Jarek was also active in the Java standards space as the JCP JSR 289 (SIP Servlet API) spec co-lead. Prior to BEA, he held management and senior technical positions in the technology industry for ten years, building reliable telco systems and software at startup and incumbent network equipment providers including Celcore, Alcatel and Mahi Networks. Jarek has a BS in Computer Science from The University of Memphis, and Master's degree in Software Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

James Williams is a developer based in Silicon Valley and frequent conference speaker. He is a co-creator of the Griffon project, a rich desktop framework for Java applications. He and his team WalkIN, created a product on a coach bus while riding to SXSW, and were crowned winners of StartupBus 2011. He is the author of the upcoming book "Learning HTML5 Game Programming..." for Addison-Wesley(http://amzn.to/HTML5-Game-Book). He blogs at http://jameswilliams.be/blog and tweets as @ecspike.

Jennifer Wong has worked in the field of Quality Engineering since The Days of Yore (since we called it QA instead of QE). She currently works at Ingenuity Systems as Staff QE Engineer and Scrum Master for Build, Tools, and Internal Processes team. Her main professional interests are in test automation, agile development, dashboards, and continuous integration and deployment.

-Luke was Co-founder and Chief Product Officer (CPO) of Bagcheck which was acquired by Twitter Inc. just nine months after being launched publicly. Prior to this, Luke was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital and the Chief Design Architect (VP) at Yahoo! Inc. where he worked on product alignment and forward-thinking integrated customer experiences on the Web, mobile, TV, and beyond. Luke is the author of the upcoming book Mobile First, two already popular Web design books (Web Form Design & Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability) and many articles about digital product design and strategy. He is also a consistently top-rated speaker at conferences and companies around the world, and a Co-founder and former Board member of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). Previously, Luke was the Lead User Interface Designer of eBay Inc.'s platform team, where he led the strategic design of new consumer products (such as eBay Express and Kijiji) and internal tools and processes. He also founded LukeW Ideation & Design, a product strategy and design consultancy, taught graduate interface design courses at the University of Illinois and worked as a Senior Interface Designer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the birthplace of the first popular graphical Web browser, NCSA Mosaic.

Google Commerce Developer Relations

Agile Coach and Development Manager at Guidewire Software (San Mateo). Formerly a Java trainer (back in the late 90's) and now coaching the BillingCenter team in test-first development, pair programming, small stories and lots of Java refactoring. We're hiring coders and testers!

Steve Zehngut is the Founder and CTO of Zeek Interactive, a web and iOS development shop in Huntington Beach, CA. He is a frequent panelist and speaker at industry trade shows including SXSW, various WordCamps, E3 and NAR. Steve holds a degree in film and is a member of Producer’s Guild. Steve has taught development classes at UC Irvine, USC, AFI and Cal State Long Beach. He also leads the OC WordPress MeetUp twice a month at the Zeek office.

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. Roman's interests range from politics (successful internship at the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa, Canada) through economics and stock market (training at WoodGundy broker's office) to Artificial Intelligence (research on AI for stock market prediction at Delft University of Technology , Netherlands).

iPhone on Rails ninja & Game developer.
Co-Founder of Yiip. Yiip Social Voice Messaging provides new fun and expressive ways of social interaction enhanced by voice, sound effects and remixes.
Love coding, challenges and exploring new ways of social interaction.
Favorite languages: Ruby, Scala, Objective-C.

Started programming at age 7 with Scratch and Alice. I play clarinet and I enjoy playing soccer too. I am an avid Yiiper (http://yiipapp.com)