Saturday and Sunday, October 9th and 10th, 2010
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Speakers
Joseph Ackerman
Joseph Ackerman is a Senior Consultant with Dell Microsoft Consulting Services, GICS. Joseph has been developing software for more than 20 years at many companies and institutions including Dell, Wells Fargo, Hewlett-Packard, Visa, Aetna and Stanford University.
Rahul Agarwal
Scrum Master and Software developer with experience in Java, OSGi, Spring, Hibernate, highly scalable and highly transactional systems, RESTful APIs, E-Commerce and Micro-transactions
Praveen Alavilli
I work as a developer evangelist for PayPalX Payments Platform helping developers and technologists integrate and explore the PayPal Payments Platform, and also constantly play with new technologies and platforms trying to connect the dots in the areas of Identity and Payments.
Siamak Ashrafi
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.
Clive Boulton
product research / development guy at the intersection of business and technlogy
Mathias Brandewinder
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.
Dave Briccetti
Software developer with experience in Scala, Ruby, 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.
Mats Bryntse
Ext JS enthusiast, based in southern Sweden!
Lance Bullock
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.
paul cassidy
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.
Daniel Cer
I am a final year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado at Boulder and I work in the Stanford NLP lab with Dan Jurafsky and Chris Manning. I do research in natural language processing (NLP) with a focus on statistical machine translation (SMT/MT). I am one of the primary authors of the Stanford Phrasal machine translation system. I have also done some work in textual entailment, speech recognition, and parsing.
Ludovic Champenois
GlassFish Java EE 6 Architect Tools Architect (NetBeans and Eclipse)
Stephen Chin
Stephen Chin is Director of SW Engineering at Inovis by day and an open-source developer and author by night. He has been working with Java desktop and enterprise technologies for over a decade, and was voted in to the Java Champions group for his contributions to the community. Stephen’s interest in RIA technology lead him to coauthor the Pro JavaFX Platform book together with Jim Weaver, Weiqi Gao, and Dean Iverson. Stephen also founded the Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group, which streams monthly presentations live and receives tens of thousands of online views. He is also a recognized international speaker on JavaFX technology and was named a 2009 JavaOne Rock Star.
wesley chun
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 and cNet. In addition to being a software architect and Developer Advocate at Google, he also runs CyberWeb (http://cyberwebconsulting.com), a consulting business specializing in Python software engineering and technical training. He 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 and Yahoo! People Search using Python. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Music from the University of California.
Douglas Crockford
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.
James Downey
James Downey, Senior Consultant, Dell Services, provides clients with expertise in SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. See his personal blog at www.CloudOfInnovation.com.
Robert Eisenberg
I am a consultant at Neudesic. Author of Teach Yourself Windows Workflow Foundaiton in 24 hours. I am also a past BizTalk Server MVP.
Steve Evans
Steve Evans is an IT Pro with over 10 years of experience. He is a Microsoft MVP in Directory Services, a MCSE, and an accomplished speaker. He also has a background as a developer. He bridges the world between Developers and IT Pros and frequently speaks at Code Camps, User Groups and other technology events. Steve publishes a technical blog at http://serktools.com. You can follow him on the twitter username @scevans where you can interact with him and get updates on his upcoming screencasts, podcast appearances, and live webcasts.
Athol Foden
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.
sara ford
I'm a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft in the Silicon Valley area. Previously, I was the Program Manager for CodePlex. I also worked on the Visual Studio team for many years and know the IDE inside and out!
Uday Gajendar
Uday Gajendar is a UI designer based in Silicon Valley. His work has spanned enterprise software, creative tools, Web applications, and phone devices at a range of companies—Oracle, Adobe, Cisco, and Involution, a boutique design studio. Holding degrees in both interaction design (Carnegie Mellon) and industrial design (Michigan), Uday advances the field with frequent talks and papers about designing attractive, intuitive digital products. You can read his latest thoughts at www.ghostinthepixel.com.
Michael Galpin
I am a software architect at eBay working on mobile applications. I'm a frequent writer for IBM developerWorks, and I'm co-authoring "Android inPractice."
Arun Gupta
Arun Gupta is a Java EE and GlassFish evangelist working at Oracle. Arun has over 14 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 6 and GlassFish. He has participated in several standard bodies and worked amicably with members from other companies. He has been with the Java EE team since its inception and contributed to all Java EE releases in different capacity. Arun has extensive world wide speaking experience on myriad of topics and love to engage with the community every where. He is a prolific blogger at http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta. This blog has over 1000 blog entries with frequent visitors from all the world and reaching up to 25,000 hits/day. You can catch him at @arungupta.
Peter Harrington
Richard Haven
I am an old-school OOP developer in a Flex world.
Jeff Haynie
Jeff Haynie is Co-founder and CEO of Appcelerator. Jeff is a long-time serial entrepreneur, technologist and blogger. Previously, Jeff was Co-founder and CTO of Vocalocity, a software provider in the communications arena and before that, CTO of eHatchery, a digital incubator and off-shoot of Bill Gross’ idealab!. Jeff has worked on numerous standard committees such as IETF and W3C as well as core contributor to a number of important open source technologies such as JBoss and OpenVXI. Jeff served with distinction in the U.S. Navy. Jeff blogs at http://blog.jeffhaynie.us and can be found on twitter @jhaynie.
Mike Hewett
Mike has been CEO of Hewett Research in Palo Alto since 2004. Previously he was a Research Scientist in the Bioinformatics group at Stanford University. His goal is to improve software development practice through knowledge modeling and intelligent assistants. He has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and has implemented several rule engines and the Jatha LISP library for Java.
Bess Ho
Bess Ho is Mobile & UI Architect. She loves to hack and attend hackathon events. Her hacker team receive “Honorable Mention” at iPad Dev Camp 2010 and Winner prize in Health care category at iPhone Dev Camp 2009. She is also a winner of Nokia Open Screen Project Fund. Bess has spoken & demoed at various conferences and events in Silicon Valley, such as Web20 Expo SF, Where20 Conference, Plug and Play Mobile Play conference, Silicon Valley Code Camp, and local user groups. Bess shows her vision and passion in exploring web technology in founding and leading a community-based developer group Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB) since 2004. She is Technical Editor of the first Open Social developer book “Building OpenSocial Apps: A Field Guide to Working with MySpace Platform”, written by MySpace Chief Software Architect.
Doug Holland
I'm an architect evangelist at Microsoft in the Silicon Valley. I'm also a former Visual C# MVP.
Robert Hope
Robert has over 15 years of experience designing, documenting, and developing web- and windows-based applications from the UI level down to the database level. These applications have been high-volume and high-performance, including LoopNet.Com, a website that serves more than 2 million page hits per day to a user base of more than 1 million active users. His roles have included Technical Consultant, Senior Web Developer, Systems Architect, and Information Technology Executive. He has a demonstrated and proven ability to solve problems through motivated and determined effort and a knack for creative solutions. In addition, his ability to adapt quickly, an ability to learn and apply new knowledge immediately, and an ability to mentor and train other developers and team members make him a valuable resource and leader for any company or organization.
Nikita IVANOV
I'm CEO of GridGain Systems - a maker of Cloud Development Platform for Java that provides highly integrated computational grids, data grids and auto-scaling on any managed infrastructure.
Fletcher Johnson
Fletcher has helped with the production of the Silicon Valley Code Camp since it's inception and is a regular speaker.
Theo Jungeblut
I am senior software engineer in a health care company who previously worked on open system for industrial control and safety for several years. Besides minor excursions in VFP and embedded C+ + I work almost exclusively with C# since 2003. My special interests are framework and platform design and writing clean code.
Manoj Kumar
Manoj Kumar is a Principal Software Engineer at Oracle, currently working in the core web service development group, focusing mainly on the Asynchronous Web Services. He has over 20 years of experience in the software industry. In last 9 years he has been working on XML/Java/J2EE related projects like application server, IDE that generates Java/XML based services, workflow application building framework, tools to create artifacts for the JAX-RPC/JAX-WS based web services and design/runtime to expose the existing applications as web services. He has M.Tech. in Computer Science and Data Processing from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Institute of Technology, BHU, India.
Deborah Kurata
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).
Shamod Lacoul
Shamod Lacoul is a software entrepreneur, developer and consultant. He has been working as a software consultant for almost 7 years and has a deep experience and knowledge in back-end and data integration technologies. He is also keen about the upcoming Semantic Web technologies and has been working in this field since 2007. He likes coding in Java, .NET, Ruby, PHP and holds an MS in CS. You may follow him in twitter @shamod.
Ramnivas Laddad
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.
Paul Litwin
Paul Litwin is a developer specializing in ASP, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft Visual Basic, C#, Microsoft SQL Server, and related technologies. Paul is a programming manager with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He is also the owner of Deep Training, a developer-owned training company specializing in Microsoft .NET developer training (www.deeptraining.com). Paul has authored a number of books including "ASP.NET for Developers" (SAMS) and "Access 2002 Enterprise Developer’s Handbook" (SYBEX) and has written articles in a variety of magazines, including MSDN Magazine and PC World. Paul is the conference chair of Microsoft ASP.NET Connections and has spoken at a variety of events including TechEd 2010, Portland & Seattle CodeCamps Paul is a Microsoft MVP, and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau.
Ratnakar Malla
I am Director, R&D for a healthcare analytic company in the Silicon Valley. I have over 10 years experience working with Java, J2EE technologies. I am on constant lookout for new technologies which might be useful in the healthcare industry.
Bernie Maloney
Program Management | Product | Director | PMO | Matrix | Operations | Project | PLM | PLC | CSM | Agile | IPTV | PE

I'm one who leads. My teams have delivered award winning retail PCs, IP convergent HDTVs, set top boxes and services.

I inspire cross-functional teams to transform passionate ideas and promising technology into profitable products from lab through launch, going from concept to cash. I've grown businesses from break even to beyond $1B by influence rather than authority. And I love opportunities to bring order out of chaos, turning strategies into results.

Daniel Marashlian
I'm the CTO of Pelotonics and TweetPhoto.
Stuart Marks
Senior developer on the UI Controls team of the JavaFX project at Oracle.
Beth Massi
Beth Massi is a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio BizApps team at Microsoft and a community champion for business applications and Visual Basic developers. 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.
Suzanna Moran
Developer MVP Lead
Rajiv Mordani
Rajiv is the Servlet 3.0 specification lead and web architect for GlassFish.
Bary Nusz
Bary has been working for Falafel Software for 4 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.
Shaun O'Brien
Shaun O’Brien is a Principal Product Manager of Development Tools for Oracle Corporation possessing a background as an accomplished technical evangelist, identity management expert, and systems architect with extensive experience in the creation of highly available, enterprise systems. Shaun is a recognized author having been published in numerous online publications, and has been a contributing author on multiple books by Oracle Press.
Manish Pandit
I am working at IGN Enertainment/Fox Interactive Media as an Engineering Manager for the Social Platform. Throughout my career I've been involved with conceptualization, design and implementation of scalable, distributed services-based systems. Prior to IGN I worked at E*Trade Financial as a Principal Architect. Social-aware systems have always interested me and I enjoy working with great teams building great systems.
Massimo Paolini
Massimo Paolini is the owner and principal analyst of MPThree Consulting, 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.
Viral Parekh
Ever worried about: -How to test your Android/iPhone app automatically ? -How to build up a complete test automation framework ? -How to automatically generate test reports ? -How to do the above stuff with free or minimal cost tools/frameworks ? Then....welcome to the session for Android and iPhone automated app testing.
Shawn Parker
Shawn is a solution architect for DELL and has over thirty years of software engineering and architecture experience using various Microsoft technologies and development tools including SharePoint 2007/2010, Silverlight, VisualStudio .NET, LINQ, ASP.NET, VB.NET, .NET Framework, C/C++/C#, Visual Basic, WPF, XML, XSLT, OpenXML, CSS, COM, DCOM, COM+, ActiveX, .NET Remoting, Web-Services, WCF, AJAX, JQuery and JavaScript. Database experience includes SQL Server, MVDB, and Microsoft Access.
Vlad Patryshev
Russia->Borland->Google->Telenav->KaChing Love perfect code, whatever the language. myjavatools.com ivan_ghandhi.livejournal.com
Pascal-Louis Perez
Pascal-Louis Perez is kaChing's VP of Engineering & CTO. He came from Google, where he worked on the creation of a JavaScript-to-JavaScript compiler. At Google, Mr. Perez also was on the ECMA committee, working towards the standardization of ECMAScript 4. An entrepreneur since youth, Mr. Perez created his first company at the age of 16. He also co-authored "Vocation Createur" (Editions du Tricorne, 2004), a book portraying entrepreneurs. Mr. Perez holds a bachelor's degree in science from the Federal Institut of Technology Lausanne and a master's degree with distinction in research from Stanford University.
Kevin Peterson
I'm an engineer at kaChing, working to replace the mutual fund industry with a better model. My interests are in distributed systems, machine learning, and good software engineering practice.
David Pollak
I run the http://liftweb.net project and consult on lift and Scala related projects.
Shane Powser
QA Engineer for Front Porch Inc. Have been using Powershell since 2007 and have helped standardize our companies automated testing framework on Powershell V2.
Adam Rosien
distributed systems, reliability, working at kaChing on continuous deployment
Alex Ruiz
Alex is a programmer with special interest in Java, API design, testing and OOP. He is the creator of FEST, an open source project that aims at making testing of Swing and JavaFX user interfaces (and testing in general) easier. Alex works as a Software Engineer in the JavaFX Controls team at Oracle.
Amit Sarkar
I am a Silicon Valley based project management consultant. I have a bachelor degree in aeronautical engineering and an MBA. I am a certified Project Management professional (PMP) and Certified Scrum Master. I have over 18 years of experience in many areas such as Aerospace engineering, Software development, Project management, Products/Projects development, Offshore Development, Strategic management, International business development etc. I am at present the director of Silicon Valley based caompany Circar Consulting.
Rinat Shagisultanov
Principal Consultant for Neudesic (Microsoft Gold Partner)/Custom Application Development practice 15+ years of experience, M.S. in C.S., MCPD, MCSD, MCTS SQL Server & TFS Interests: C#, .NET internals, enterprise architectures, software factories; Other interests: family, travel, rock climbing, mountaineering, biking. The personal blog http://rinatshagisultanov.blogspot.com/
Robin Shahan
Robin Shahan has over 20 years of experience developing complex, business-critical applications. She is the Director of Engineering for GoldMail, a small company based in San Francisco whose product provides voice-over-visual messages. Robin is a Microsoft MVP in Client App Dev, and a moderator in the MSDN Forum for ClickOnce and Setup & Deployment projects.
Karl Shifflett
Karl Shifflett is a Program Manager at Microsoft working on the WPF and Silverlight Designer since August of 2008. Before Microsoft, Karl was a software architect, former Microsoft MVP and Code Project MVP. He has been designing & developing business applications since 1989 and transitioned to .NET in March of 2003. In April of 2007 he joined the list of WPF fanatics & evangelists. He is a member of Team Mole that delivered the Mole Visualizer for Visual Studio to the world. He is the author of the very popular XAML Power Toys; loves WPF and Silverlight LOB and is developing a passion for Windows Phone 7 and ASP.NET MCV.
Chris Sims
Chris Sims helps software development teams improve their productivity and happiness. His approach combines experiential training, coaching, and direct technical contribution.
Chris is the founder of Agile Learning Labs, as well as the Bay Area Agile Managers Support Group. He is on the board of BayAPLN, the Bay Area chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network, and is a past chair of the IEEE Technical Management Council of Silicon Valley. He has published over 50 articles on agile topics on InfoQ, and even more on the Agile Learning Labs blog. Chris is a certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Product Owner and Scrum Professional, who has been helping agile teams succeed since the turn of the century. He has made a living in roles such as: ScrumMaster, Product Owner, Engineering Manager, Project Manager, C++ Developer, Musician, and Auto Mechanic.
Eishay Smith
Director of Engineering at KaChing, Java and Scala enthusiastic
Kenny Spade
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.
Bret Stateham
I am a technical trainer and consultant based out of Ramona, CA. I provide contract training and consulting services primarily on Microsoft platforms. I have over 20 years of experience in the IT field, and over a decade of experience as a trainer. I am a published author having contributed to multiple Syngress publications. I am also frequent speaker at regional events such as Code Camps and user groups. I've been focusing on SQL Server Silverlight lately, and am now getting into Windows Phone 7 development along with everyone else!
Will Strohl
Will Strohl is an ASP.Net architect and developer based in the Orlando Area. Having been in the web development field for over 10 years, he began professionally in 2000. Currently, Will is the Technology Director for an exciting new online travel company called RezHub.com (www.RezHub.com). He is also an active member and President of the Orlando DotNetNuke® Users Group or ODUG (orlando.dotnetnukeug.net), and a member of the reformed DotNetNuke® Media Module Project Team. He was also just appointed the Vice President of the Orlando .Net User Group, or ONETUG (www.onetug.org). Will regularly speaks at user groups and other community events about DotNetNuke® and the various ways it can be used and managed, including organizing the Day of DotNetNuke®. He also won the INETA Community Champions award for 2008 Q3 and 2009 Q3. Will publishes DNN videos on JumptStartTV, and is a Technical Editor for Professional DotNetNuke 5 and DotNetNuke 5 User's Guide by Wrox, as well as Wrox Blox, including DotNetNuke and Web Standards, and Building a Custom DotNetNuke Membership Provider. Most recently, Will has become a guest blogger at Applied Innovations, a popular web host.
Lino Tadros
Alain "Lino" Tadros is Chairman & CEO of Falafel Software, a Silicon Valley based company, with presence in Colorado 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) 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.
Bruno Terkaly
Bruno Terkaly has been with Microsoft for over 5 years, starting as a Rapid Response Engineer, traveling the world on short notice to help customers debug nasty problems, improve performance, and review architecture and code. Currently, Bruno works as a Developer Evangelist and focuses on key Microsoft technologies, such as the Windows Azure Platform and Windows Phone 7. Bruno's experience spans a wide variety of languages, SDKs, frameworks, operating systems, and developer tooling.
Peter Tweed
Peter is the Practice Area Lead for Custom Development and Mobility for the Bay Area for Slalom Consulting - Microsoft's 2010 Country Partner Of The Year for the United States, Microsoft's 2010 Partner Of The Year for Information Worker Solutions Collaboration and Microsoft's 2010 Partner Of The Year for Business Intelligence. With a varied background in software development, systems architecture and program management Peter spends his time leading the delivery of software solutions to the world’s most successful companies enabling them to reach their goals through the use of innovative technology. Peter’s motivation and drive is simple – to solve problems with technology. For tutorials and blogs on Silverlight go to http://www.geekswithblogs.net/PeterTweed.
John Waters
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.
Julien Wetterwald
Julien Wetterwald is Director of Engineering at kaChing, where he is leading the Trading Team. He strongly believes that just like wine, you want your code to age well. His recipe to success includes, but isn't limited to, static typing, pure functions, control flow abstraction, French oak barrel, and high test coverage. Roses are red, violets are blue; and well-typed programs never go wrong.
James Williams
James Williams is a co-creator of the Griffon project, a rich desktop framework for Java applications. James works as a Senior Software Engineer for the Tools and Technology group at Ribbit, a subsidiary of British Telecom.
Ken Yagen
Ken is a contributor to the Mule ESB and iBeans open source projects and leads the MuleSoft development team. He is also responsible for the MuleSoft Tcat and Mule ESB enterprise products. MuleSoft is currently hiring (http://www.mulesoft.com/careers).
Ted Young
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.
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