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.

Developer with experience in Java, OSGi, Spring, Hibernate, highly scalable and highly transactional systems, RESTful APIs, E-Commerce and Micro-transaction systems. Part-time instructor at UCSC Silicon Valley and Foothill College. Expertise in backend systems but I have also played with Android and Glass.

I am a Software Engineer & Web Developer currently working at LEVEL Studios in San Luis Obispo, California. Interested in: PHP, JavaScript (Mootools, Prototype & jQuery) Multi server administration, load balancing, DB replication. C++ & Cocoa

Ward is president of IdeaBlade, a consulting and product company, makers of BreezeJS. Ward is currently Editor-in-Chief of Google's Angular 2 documentation. He's a Google GDE and Microsoft MVP

Have worked since 1995 creating Web-based interfaces. Created frameworks for front-end deployment at the Federal Reserve Bank, Apple, and Microsoft. Presently working at Vertigo (www.vertigo.com). I create semantic markup, object oriented JavaScript and cross-browser CSS for an optimal user experience.

Ronn has over 20 years of experience in the computer industry ranging from real-time factory floor applications to real-time stock trading applications and many areas in between.

He has worked for Silicon Valley startups, large financial firms in New York and San Francisco and a few companies that were well over the line of what could be called fringe.

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

Product Design Engineering | Developer Community Organizer.

software entrepreneur, drawn to metadata.

I have been writing software on .NET for 10 years, mostly C#, until I fell in love with F# and functional programming. I enjoy arguing about code and how to make it better, and get very excited when discussing testing or F#. My other professional interests are applied math and machine learning. If you want to know more about me, you can check out my blog here or find me on Twitter as @brandewinder.

Hacker, writer, dad. Inventor of case-hardened JavaScript; API evangelist; general trouble-maker for insecure Ajax endpoints.

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.

Sr. Software Engineer for Widgetbox (http://www.widgetbox.com) specializing in back-end Java developement.

I work in Research and Development for Front Porch Inc. I specialize in Build and Test Automation. I have knowledge in Python, VBS, C++, SQL, VB, C#, Powershell and BOO. I work heavily in network protocols, distributed computing and web related technologies

Newton Chan teaches CS courses at Foothill College, specializing in advanced web apps development and UI design. He is the technology evangelist for Silicon Valley Web Builders. Newton recently completed projects on kidsdata.org and openspace.org, and he is currently working on projects using HTML5 and CSS3.

Marc Chanliau has been in the software engineering industry for over thirty years in various capacities, from developer to development manager to product manager. Marc has been an Oracle employee for 5 years in Redwood Shores, California, first as the director of product management for Oracle Fusion Middleware platform security, and more recently as the lead technical "evangelist" for Oracle's identity management offering. Marc's fields of expertise include cryptography, the Java security model, and XML security standards (Marc is one of the early co-author of the Security Assertion Markup Language -- SAML, and participated in the definition of several other XML security protocols). Marc is a frequent speaker at worldwide high tech conferences including JavaOne, RSA Conference, Oracle Open World, Burton Catalyst, Gartner Security Summit. Marc received his Master's degree in computational linguistics from the University of Paris VI (now Pierre and Marie Curie University).

Dr. Doris Chen, a staff engineer and Java Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems with over 10 years industry experience, her expertise includes Web 2.0/Ajax, JavaServer Faces, JavaFX, Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) technologies, web services/SOA, Java ME platform wireless programming, Java technology performance tuning, grid computing, and web-based distributed computing. She speaks at major industry international conferences: JavaOne, Sun Network Conference, SD West Software Development, etc. Doris received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in computer engineering, specializing in medical informatics. Before coming to Sun, Doris developed medical image compression applications and web-based network management products.

Generalist BA Yale Math and Philosophy Peace Corps, South Korea Shasta Abbey Seminary High-tech market analyst Free software development manager Writer, editor, educator Volunteer, OLPC, Sugarlabs Founder, Earth Treasury End Poverty at a Profit

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

+WESLEY CHUN, MSCS, is the author of Prentice Hall's bestselling "Core Python" book series & companion videos (corepython.com), co-author of "Python Web Development with Django" (withdjango.com), and has written for Linux Journal, CNET, and InformIT. In addition to being an engineer & Developer Advocate at Google, he runs CyberWeb (cyberwebconsulting.com), a consultancy specializing in Python training. Wesley has over 25 years of programming, teaching, and writing experience, including helping create Yahoo!Mail using Python almost 2 decades ago. He has taught numerous Python courses at Cisco, Disney, VMware, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, & Foothill College. Wesley holds degrees in CS, Math, and Music from the University of California, and loves traveling worldwide to meet developers, whether at a technical conference, user group meeting, or on a university campus. He is a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation and can be reached on Google+ or Twitter (@wescpy).

Mike began developing in 1981 with punch cards while completing a masters in Aeronautical Engineering. He immediately began working with Grass Valley on-line edit systems for the television industry while learning technical analysis for derivitives traders.
Creative innovation and a talent for converting ideas into code fueled demand leading to a software consultancy and several financial services software products. As a consultant for decades, Mike has worked on projects ranging from cutting edge graphics interface for end users, financial tools for hedge funds and complex server side data management suites for web based business.

I'm currently a web developer working in San Francisco, formerly a support engineer for OpenSocial and Google App Engine. My current interests include HTML5 and related technologies, iOS and Android development, and augmented reality.

Douglas Crockford discovered the JSON Data Interchange Format. He is also the author of _JavaScript: The Good Parts_. He has been called a guru, but he is actually more of a mahatma.

I'm a consultant with Falafel Software, building apps using .Net and C#. I've architected and built a number of commercial web and Windows apps including CRM, commodity futures, garment supply chain, music sales, personal finance, etc. I've also taught courses in OOP, OOD, OODB, and DB design.

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

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

I'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 for MarkLogic, a NoSQL vendor.

I fell in love with networked communications at the age of 11, when I ran a BBS off of my 80Mhz PC and 28.8Kpbs modem. Now I work as a QA Engineer at Clicktime.com, a SaaS company that specializes in online timesheets. The focus of my work is automating the testing of the site (using Selenium, C#, NUnit, and Python).

Steve Evans has been doing DevOps since before the term DevOps was invented. He is a Pluralsight Author, six time Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), and technical Speaker at various industry events. In his spare time he manages a DevOps team at a Silicon Valley Biotech focused on improving the lives of cancer patients. For over 15 years Steve has focused on making technology better for businesses by bridging the gap between IT and Development teams. You can follow his technical blog at http://www.LoudSteve.com or find him on twitter at @TheLoudSteve.

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

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

I'm webby, cheesy, and caffeinated. Attention-getter, speaker, author, programmer, publicist, technical editor, trainer, agent provocateur and ninja-for-hire.

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.

Taylor Gautier is a Principal Client Architect for Grid Dynamics with over 15 years experience in the technology industry. He specializes in high performance, high scale computing environments. Before Grid Dynamics, Taylor worked as Product Manager for Terracotta and continues working with Terracotta as a technical advisor.

Kim has over 30 yrs of experience building and shipping commercial and enterprise level software solutions from initial release to multiple release cycles. She has worked both in the start up sector as well as large corporations. Risk reduction is key to successful product launch and the long term viability of your company.

Arun Gupta is a Principal Open Source Technologist at Amazon Web Services. He has built and led developer communities for 12+ years at Sun, Oracle, Red Hat and Couchbase. He has deep expertise in leading cross-functional teams to develop and execute strategy, planning and execution of content, marketing campaigns, and programs. Prior to that he led engineering teams at Sun and is a founding member of the Java EE team. He has extensive speaking experience in more than 40 countries on myriad topics and is a JavaOne Rock Star for four years in a row. Gupta also founded the Devoxx4Kids chapter in the US and continues to promote technology education among children. A prolific blogger, author of several books, an avid runner, a globe trotter, a Docker Captain, a Java Champion, a JUG leader, NetBeans Dream Team member, he is easily accessible at @arungupta.

Jack Ha is a Senior Mobile Software Engineer at T-Mobile USA, currently working on the Android platform in the Mobile Software Development group. He has 20 years of experience in the software industry.

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.

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.

Matt is an Engineering Director and one of the leaders Couchbase development with a deep software development background. He had previously helped scale Java, Ruby on Rails and AMP web applications for large scale web deployments. He has been a contributor to the memcached project, one of the maintainers of the Java spymemcached client and a core developer on Couchbase. He is currently heading up Couchbase's efforts in helping developers be most effective with Couchbase and continues to lead the team in getting the right bits needed for Node.js, Java, .NET and PHP developers (among others).

Charles Jolley is the creator of SproutCore, the JavaScript application framework for building desktop-class software on the web. SproutCore has been used by thousands of engineers to create some of the richest web applications on the web today. The project also recently released its 1.0 beta, which improves performance over 10x. If you're considering building full-blow rich application on the web, you need to consider SproutCore.

Nilesh is a Senior Manager at Oracle, managing Web services and SOA platform development team as part of Web Logic Server. He also manages Web Services Interoperability program at Oracle. He has 16+ years of extensive experience and has been involved with application server design and development efforts involving Java EE technology ,XML and Web services technologies. His interests include XML, Web services interoperability and Caching related areas.

Entrepreneur, co-founder/cto WhenHub, co-founder DotNetNuke; blockchain tinkerer; STEAM educator; Microsoft MVP; maker; geek; creative thinker; husband; dad

Shiraz Kanga is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff with Oracle Corp. Shiraz has been in the software development arena for more than 17 years at many companies including Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and numerous startups too.

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

Brian Kennish was the first support engineer at Google when the AdWords API was launched and is now a developer advocate working on Google Wave and Chrome. Before Google, he wrote ad servers for DoubleClick.

Khurram Khan works as a Sr. Product Owner in Platform team at PayPal. Prior to PayPal he worked at Intel Corporation under various capacities such as internet software engineer, project manager, Release program manager and in PDLC process improvement. Prior to PayPal he worked as a sales executive at Focus Softnet providing ERP solutions to wide range of industries such as health, education, banking and IT. Khurram completed his Masters in Computer Since from Detroit, MI and M.B.A in management from Portland, OR. Outside work Khurram enjoys playing soccer and spending time with his Family.

Manoj Kumar is a Principal Software Engineer at Oracle, currently working in Oracle Social Network group. He has over 20 years of experience in the software industry working on application servers, application development frameworks and web services. He has M.Tech. in Computer Science and Data Processing from IIT Kharagpur and B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT BHU, India. github: https://github.com/krmanoj/CodeCamp/tree/master/2014

Deborah Kurata is a software developer, consultant, conference speaker, and Pluralsight author. For her work in support of software developers, she has been recognized with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award and is a Google Developer Expert (GDE). She has authored several technical books and speaks at user groups and conferences. She has published several Pluralsight courses including "Angular: Getting Started" and "Angular NgRx: Getting Started".

Shamod Lacoul is a software entrepreneur, developer and consultant. He has been working as a software consultant for 7 years, focusing on back-end and data integration technologies. He is an assistant organizer of the Silicon Valley Semantic Technologies (SVST) Meetup. He has a Master’s in Software Engineering and Bachelor’s in Computer Science from San Jose State University. You may follow him in twitter @shamod.

Ramnivas is a technologist, author, and presenter who is passionate about doing software right. He has been leading innovation in Spring Framework and Cloud Foundry since their beginning. Ramnivas has led a group in Cloud Foundry and started the Spring Cloud project. Ramnivas is the author of AspectJ in Action (1st ed, 2nd ed), the best-selling book on aspect-oriented programming that has been lauded by industry experts for its presentation of practical and innovative approach to solve real-world problems. He has at many leading industry events including JavaOne, ScalaDays, JavaPolis, No Fluff Just Stuff, SpringOne, and O'Reilly OSCON.

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).

Juval Löwy is the founder of IDesign and a master software architect specializing in system and project design. Juval has mentored hundreds of architects across the globe, sharing his insights, techniques, and breakthroughs, in architecture, project design, development process, and technology. Juval had participated in the Microsoft internal strategic design reviews for C#, WCF and related technologies. Juval is a frequent speaker at the major international software development conferences. Juval published several bestsellers, and his latest book is the forthcoming 4^th edition of Programming WCF Services (O'Reilly 2015). Juval published numerous articles, regarding almost every aspect of modern software development and architecture. Microsoft recognized Juval as a Software Legend as one of the world's top experts and industry leaders

Hien Luu is an engineering manager at LinkedIn and an instructor at UCSC Extension school. He is a machine learning & big data enthusiast and has extensive experience in building big data infrastructure and applications. One of his passions is teaching. He has been teaching at UCSC Extension school more than 10 years and his most recent course is Apache Spark.

Zach Maier is the Product Manager for the Google Data APIs and the Google Data Protocol at Google.

I'm a Senior Program Manager on the .NET team at Microsoft. I'm a community champion for .NET and open source developers and a Technical Evangelist for the .NET Foundation. Follow me on twitter @BethMassi

Joe Mayo is an author and independent software consultant, specializing in Microsoft technologies. Joe has written 7 books, many magazine articles, and taught numerous on-line and in-person courses. His experience spans multiple technologies for desktop, cloud, and device. He is also author of the LINQ to Twitter open source project. Joe is a long-time MVP with several years of awards.

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

Sam Nasr has been a software developer since 1995, focusing mostly on Microsoft technologies. Having achieved multiple certifications from Microsoft (MCAD, MCTS(MOSS), and MCT), Sam develops, teaches, and tours the country to present various topics in .Net. He is also actively involved with the Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group, where he has been the group leader since 2003. When not coding, Sam can be found driving his prized Mustang GT all over Cleveland or volunteering at his local church.

As Head of Ecosystem Programs, Dave uses emerging technologies and open source projects like Microservices, Serverless & Kubernetes to bring the magic of Redis to the broader community. Dave has extensive ecosystem experience from his years of engagement in the web, cloud and big data trenches. Prior to Redis Labs, Dave led the relationship between Intel’s Deep Learning in Apache Spark project and public cloud providers; and at PayPal where he helped pioneer web api developer evangelism.

Team Lead of the Chromecast Technical Solutions Engineer team, a Java Champion and three time JavaOne Rock Star Presenter. Kevin has spoken at conferences such as JavaOne, Devoxx, JAX, O'Reilly Fluent, Silicon Valley Code Camp, JAX, HTML5DevConf, On Android, NFJS SpringOne and AjaxWorld. Kevin is the co-author of Web 2.0 Fundamentals. In the past Kevin was an adjunct professor at the College of San Mateo. Kevin holds a MS and BS in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University. Kevin is the leader of the Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup, Silicon Valley Java User Group, Silicon Valley Google Developer Group, and Devoxx4Kids Bay Area.

Manish is Director of Engineering at Marqeta, a FinTech startup, where he is responsible for the Hybrid Cloud Architecture and delivery for the Payments Platform. Prior to Marqeta, he has worked at Capital One, Netflix, IGN, E*Trade, and Accenture in various engineering leadership roles. He has spoken at various conferences and meetups in an around SF Bay Area, including JavaOne, OSCON, Silicon Valley Code Camp, and APICon SF. He blogs at https://lobster1234.github.io

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

Zepho Inc was incorporated in Feb, 2006 after operating as Zepho Systems Group since May 2001. Before starting full-time consulting operations, founder and Zepho President Bala Paranj worked in the computer industry for six years as employee of such companies as Edify and Mentor Graphics. With a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from The Wichita State University, Paranj's academic background includes mathematics and electronics. Some of the clients of Zepho include telecommunication companies, banks, financial software services firms, electronic design automation startups that wanted Swing interface to their product and Web Application Development using Struts and Hibernate. Founded in Atlanta, Georgia, Zepho consults for clients within USA on Ruby and Rails.

I run the http://liftweb.net project and consult on lift and Scala related projects.

Abdel is the President and Founder of a number of organizations namely The Chico Java User Group, The Chico Flex User Group, and The Chico Google Technology User Group. He is an Adobe Flex Champion and a technology enthusiast. He has been working on RIAs for a while and has considerable experience in developing Java Enterprise Applications. Abdel's interests range from enterprise software development and architecture to technology evangelism. He currently goes to school full-time and works as a developer part-time. View his LinkedIn Profile or Follow him in Twitter

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

I have over twenty-five years of experience in custom business application design, development and delivery for clients of all sizes in a wide range of industries. I grew up in New York City and graduated from Cornell University where I was first introduced to computers in 1975. My skills include expertise in requirements gathering, Agile practices, team mentoring and reusable application development frameworks and their implementation. My company Outformations designs and builds custom software, helps our clients adopt Agile practices and provides architectural JumpStarts for teams building high value enterprise class systems utilizing reusable application frameworks and patterns, and is moving into cloud with Force.com, Salesforce and Azure. We have gained a wide variety of experience over the years with other database and application development technologies including Lotus Notes/Domino, DB2, ASP (classic), ColdFusion, Php, Java, Access, Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro. I am former Director, VP and President of the Bay Area Association of Database Developers (BAADD), and I am founder and leader of the .NET Developers User Group since August 2002.

Fred Sauer is a Developer Advocate at Google where most of his time is devoted to Google App Engine and Google-Web-Toolkit. He is the author of various GWT related open source projects including gwt-dnd (providing in browser Drag and Drop capabilities), gwt-log (an advanced logging framework) and gwt-voices (for cross browser sound support). Fred has dedicated much of his career to Java related development, with an increasing focus on Web 2.0 technologies. As a consultant he has worked on a wide variety of projects in North America, Asia and Europe, primarily in the financial and billing industry.

Chris Schalk is a Developer Advocate at Google working on Cloud Technologies, including Google App Engine as well as the new cloud technologies: Google Storage, Prediction API and BigQuery.

Bill Scott has always enjoyed technology (25 years). And he has always enjoyed interacting with people (even longer). It was a natural to blend the two loves together. For a long time he couldn't decide if he was a designer or an engineer. He finally gave up trying to classify himself and just decided to live in both worlds as much as possible. This passion drove him to create one of the first successful Macintosh games (GATO, 1985), build wargaming interfaces for NATO, found and lead UX Design teams (Sabre), write Ajax frameworks (OpenRico) manage user interface engineering organizations (Netflix, PayPal), publish design pattern libraries (Yahoo!), talk a lot about it (Ajax Evangelist) and even write a book about Designing Web Interfaces (O'Reilly). Bill is the Sr. Director of User Interface Engineering at PayPal.

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 has over 25 years of experience developing complex, business-critical applications for Fortune 100 companies. As President of Nightbird Consulting, she provided training and helped companies architect and develop scalable, efficient solutions utilizing the Azure platform. She is a 6-time Microsoft MVP, and now works for Microsoft as a Sr. Content Developer for Azure. Robin regularly speaks about Azure at various .NET User Groups and Code Camps and runs the San Francisco/Silicon Valley Azure meetup. She can be found on Twitter as @RobinDotNet, and you can read her articles about Azure (and other subjects) at http://robindotnet.wordpress.com.

A group manager in the Oracle JDeveloper and ADF product management team, Shay has been involved with the Oracle development tools for the past 18 years in various roles. He is a frequent speaker in industry events such as Oracle Open World and JavaOne. For more info check out http://blogs.oracle.com/shay

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

Bob Smith is an engineer with several years of hardware and software design experience. His interests are in Robotics and Linux. He has written a book on Linux and is currently designing FPGA-based peripherals for use in robotics and other industrial control systems.

CTO @ FortyTwo

Greg Stachnick is a senior director of product management at Oracle. He currently covers Oracle's Eclipse development tools strategy as well as Oracle's Eclipse-based IDEs: Workshop for Weblogic and the new Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse. Greg has been involved in Eclipse tools development since 2000.

Enterprise Solutions Architect with over 20 years experience in leveraging technology to solve business problems. Extensive experience in program/project management, system development and sustainment, architecture and business process management. Experienced with knowledge management and collaborative environments in a number of government, commercial and business domains. Experienced in the construction of rich internet applications using Adobe Flex and PureMVC and backend database systems using ZEND PHP and MYSQL. Currently User Group Manager for Silicon Valley Flex User Group (http://www.silvafug.org) which has a membership of over 400 in the greater San Francisco area.

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 9 years in a row for his numerous contributions to the C# community and is an expert in .NET, XAML, WP7, Azure, 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.

My primary focus is working closely with important Enterprises and ISVs who can have a significant impact on Azure consumption. This means as I act primarily as a cloud architect, driving the technical agenda to understand a partner's current technology footprint and strategizing the technical path. White gloving strategically significant partners spans the technology spectrum: - Docker containers: Includes orchestration (Swarm, Mesos, DC/OS, Kubernetes) - Data and Analytics: Azure/Elastic Search, Big Data, Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Map Reduce, Spark, Storm, R Internet of Things: Injestion, Raspberry PI, On-Premise Connectivity, Pub/Sub, Queues/Messaging - Identity and Security: Active Directory, OAUTH, SSO, (Cloud & On-Premises) - Web and Mobile: Apps published in Windows Store, experience with iOS/Android. Web Services (Java/Jersey, .NET/MVC Web API) and client tooling (jQuery, Bootstrap) - Database: PostGres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, DocumentDB, Redis - Networking: Point to Site, Site to Site, Gateways, VNETS, ExpressRoute, Layer 4/7 LBs - DevOps: Scripting provisioning and management of IaaS, PaaS (Node, Python, REST), CI/CD Visual Studio, Eclipse in languages including JavaScript, C#, Java/Scala, C/C++, Node, PHP, Python, etc. http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/allthingscontainer http://github.com/brunoterkaly http://msdn.microsoft.com/brunoterkaly MSDN Magazine, and have a published course on O'Reilly Media

Steve Trefethen is Director of Software Training and Software Architect for Falafel Software and formerly an R&D Staff Engineer at CodeGear, Borland's Developer Tools Group, with over 15 years of experience working along side some of the world's leading software developers. Steve has extensive experience in component framework design and implementation as well as being an expert in test automation. He is well known and respected within the Delphi community around the world not only for his product contributions but also his highly visible online presence as Borland's top blogger. Steve implemented a significant portion of Delphi's ASP.NET designer as well as numerous Delphi IDE/VCL/RTL features over the years.

Bill Venners is president of Artima, Inc., publisher of Artima Developer (www.artima.com). He is author of the book, Inside the Java Virtual Machine, a programmer-oriented survey of the Java platform's architecture and internals. His popular columns in JavaWorld magazine covered Java internals, object-oriented design, and Jini. Active in the Jini Community since its inception, Bill led the Jini Community's ServiceUI project, whose ServiceUI API became the de facto standard way to associate user interfaces to Jini services. Bill is also the lead developer and designer of ScalaTest, an open source testing tool for Scala and Java developers, and coauthor with Martin Odersky and Lex Spoon of the book, Programming in Scala.

Software engineer at Mint.com since its inception. Has played a pivotal role in developing Mint's code base. Loves coding, and writing, thinking, and presenting engineering problems that involve new technologies and ways to make systems more performant and scalable.

John Waters is the lead architect and developer of a number of high profile software products and solutions, including the Velocity ERP system, the HC Standard Critical Asset Tracking system, and numerous financial software systems. John has spoken at conferences all over the world on topics ranging from Parallel Computing to Windows Phone and Windows 8 development. Currently, John is working on Windows Azure Cloud Computing and Mobile Development. John previously founded and run several consulting companies in Sweden, and has worked at Falafel Software in California since 2003. John is a MVP.

James Williams is a developer based in Silicon Valley and frequent conference speaker and is the author of book "Learning HTML5 Game Programming" for Addison-Wesley. He blogs at http://jameswilliams.be/blog and tweets as @ecspike.

Nolan leads engineering and product management at Appcelerator. Before co-founding Appcelerator, Nolan led engineering and product management for Vocalocity, a VoiceXML platform company. Nolan started his career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), and then went to work for Netscape. Nolan graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Electrical Engineering.

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).

Java Trainer and Coding Coach, specializing in Java, Spring, Object-Oriented Programming, and TDD. Create and deliver customized learning experiences for developers.

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.

Woody Zuill has been programming computers for over 25 years, and currently works as a software engineer, agile trainer and coach, and Scrum Master. He believes that code must be simple, clean, and maintainable so that we can realize the Agile promise of Responding to Change.