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 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.

Steve Andrews is a Developer Evangelist for DevExpress, INETA speaker, and Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM. He has been working in technology for over ten years focusing on custom application development and Application Lifecycle Management. Steve is also Microsoft and IBM certified and a community fanatic having led sessions at over 100 community events across North America. When he's not developing software solutions or engaging with the community about software technology, Steve is a closet singer and songwriter and plays the guitar and keys. Occasionally, Steve even gets to sleep. Occasionally.

Joe Arnold has spent the past ten years building software systems for cloud computing, network management and high-volume consumer web sites. Joe is currently deploying infrastructure clouds with Cloudscaling. Prior to Cloudscaling, Joe served as the Director of Engineering at Engine Yard, and was responsible for building their Ruby on Rails cloud computing deployment platform and open-source efforts including Rails 3. Before EngineYard, he served as a Director for Yahoo Emerging Markets (India, South East Asia and Latin America), and built network management software at AirWave Wireless (acquired by Aruba Networks).

Ash - CTO @ ZoeWave building physiologically intelligent clothing called ZoeWear. Combining biotech, mobile and fashion to build clothing that keeps people healthy while looking great*. Zoe(“life”)Wear “wearable for life” is built on his experience in all three fields

I'm a Lispnik, a web developer, and a web standards hacker. And I work at Google.

I live in Berkeley, CA with my wife, two cats, and a whole lot of computers. I was weaned as a software developer on various implementations of Microsoft's BASIC in the 80's, starting with my first microcomputer, the Texas Instruments TI-99/4a. I continued on the PC with Visual Basic 3.0 and Windows 3.1 in the early 90's, although I also spent significant time writing Pascal code in the first versions of Delphi. I am now quite comfortable in VB.NET or C#, despite the evils of case sensitivity. I consider myself a reasonably experienced Windows software developer with a particular interest in the human side of software development, as represented in my recommended developer reading list. Computers are fascinating machines, but they're mostly a reflection of the people using them. In the art of software development, studying code isn't enough: you have to study the people behind the software, too.

Chris is a Databricks Certified Spark Developer with over 25 years of experience in project areas ranging from big data pipelines using Kafka, Elasticsearch, Spark and Scala, to Spring/Hibernate/JMS-based enterprise applications, remote device management and personalized content & ad delivery. He has co-authored patents in the areas of stream-based data processing and personalization techniques for mobile devices, and writes frequently about Spark and software development in general (with articles available on Dzone, Java World, as well as his own blog site http://datalackey.com.) Chris earned his BS in Computer Science from Yale University, and a Certificate with Distinction in Business Administration from UC Berkeley extension.

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

hacker; geek; tech enthusiast

Eric is an engineer and developer advocate on Google's Developer Relations team. Over the last two years he's worked on various developers focused products, including Google Docs, Sites, Health, and OAuth. Recently, Eric joined the Chrome team to help spread HTML5 goodness around the globe. Prior to Google, Eric worked as a software engineer at the University of Michigan where he designed rich web applications and APIs for the university's 19 libraries. Eric holds a B.S.E in Computer Engineering and a B.S.E in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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.

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.

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.

Brandon Brown is a Principal Technology Specialist at K2, and has a diverse background that ranges from co-directing technology related content for nationally syndicated television and radio shows, to leading development teams in the manufacturing and supply chain management space. As a Software Architect for the last 10 years, Brandon has helped companies leverage technology to solve unique industry related business process and automation challenges. He has been with K2 for the past four years.

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

As an Application Developer supporting the Office “14” Technology Adoption Program (O14 TAP) at Microsoft, Matt Burnett is responsible for key ISV Partners participating in the program and assisting with the SharePoint 2010 Workshops and Hands-On-Labs. He is passionate about Visual Studio/SharePoint and enjoys programming software.

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

I'm a node.js core community member. I've worked with JavaScript both professionally and as a hobby for years. I live in Palo Alto, CA with my wife and two small children.

I am passionate about technology and building quality and good looking software.      My specialties are C#, WPF, Silverlight, Entity Framework and user experience in general. I love presenting and talking about these things.        TinyFit (www.tinyfit.com) is my consulting firm that allows me to offer excellent programming and database services on my own. I am also the founder/president of the Central California .Net User Group (centralcaldotnet.com)       I am originally from Brazil but have been in the US since 2001. My journey in programming started in the late 80s playing with dBase and Clipper. Then came Turbo Pascal and after that I started building real software in the early 90s with Delphi and Visual Basic. I currently live in Fresno, California, with my wife and 3-year-old daughter.

I have taught object oriented program and interface design at Foothill college since 1993. One of the first to teach fully online in the country (1993). I am also a counselor and can present a few sessions for the career track. I already created one preso on Career Development for the Video Gaming Industry. Will create another for backup preso on Job hunting for code warriors which will cover job hunting, cover letters, resumes and interviewing tips.

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.

My 25 years in the industry have been largely spent in consulting, helping clients deliver large business solutions, mostly using .NET technologies, SQL Server, SSAS and SSRS. My specialty is in the SQL space, in particular data modeling and BI, although I've been very involved with application frameworks and architecture as well.

GlassFish Java EE 6 Architect Tools Architect (NetBeans and Eclipse)

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.

Chi Chang is currently patent counsel at Apple Inc. and was previously an associate at Fish and Neave/Ropes & Gray. Chi is a graduate of Santa Clara (JD), Stanford (MS Mechanical Engineering), and U.C. Berkeley (BS Mechanical Engineering).

Symon Chang, CISSP, CSSLP, is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle Corporation, developing Web Services solutions for WebLogic Server. He is a voting member of OASIS WS-SX TC, and has participated with various Web Services security standards committees at OASIS, W3C, and WS-I. He has ten years experience in developing Web Services security solution. Prior to Oracle, he was Sr. Security Architect, implementing WS-Security solutions at BEA, BlueTitan, TIBCO and CommerceOne. He received his MBA Degree from Golden Gate University, and M.S. Degree from San Jose State University.

Albert has over 12 years of processional video game development experience. He has worked for LucasArts, Factor 5, The 3DO Company and EA. He is currently Assistant Professor at Cogswell Polytechnical College in Sunnyvale, teaching game design and development.

Dr. Doris Chen is a Senior Technology Evangelist at Microsoft specialized in web technologies (HTML5, jQuery, JavaScript, Windows 8,and Java) with over 15 years of experience in the software industry. She speaks to numerous international conferences and user groups including HTML5 Dev Conference, O’Reilly Fluent, OSCON, WebVisions, and JavaOne. Doris received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in computer engineering, specializing in medical informatics.

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).

I'm a Silverlight/WPF consultant. I have presented at SV Code Camp in the past on Silverlight-debugging and on Prism-MVVM.

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.

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.

Ernest is an engineer at Google working with the communities around Google Chrome, Google Chrome Extensions and Google Chrome OS. He loves playing with HTML5 features and solving web performance related issues. Prior to Google, he was working as a Front End Engineer at Yahoo! trying to become a JavaScript guru. Ernest is originally from Barcelona and currently resides in San Francisco.

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.

James Downey, Senior Consultant, Dell Services, provides clients with expertise in SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. See his personal blog at www.CloudOfInnovation.com.

Originally from Chicago Daniel moved to California in the early 90's right when the Bulls were scorching the NBA. He worked in a few different industries before finding his niche in the technology sector. Before joining Microsoft, Daniel held a variety of positions in the information technology and engineering fields. At his company, Odyssey Consulting Group, he served as Chief Architect and CEO. OCG did custom application development for Mid-Range companies in Southern California. He was fortunate enough to be a Microsoft Regional Director, a Microsoft MVP – ASP/ASP.Net , a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and an Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, as well as a .Net Insider for the Southern California Region. He has always been active in the developer community and was the Co-Founder of the SoCalDotNet Developers Group. In addition, he also had the unique opportunity to serve as President of INETA, the international .Net association and enjoyed my time there immensely. When not working on technical stuff, you can find Daniel running around SoCal trying to bring down my marathon times (don’t ask) or shooting away with my Cannon trying to get that “perfect” shot.

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.

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.

As the first employee of Nota I have grown along the company as we reached 10 million monthly users for our instant screenshot sharing service http://gyazo.com and I am now spreading the word about the ultra helpful note-taking app https://scrapbox.io

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.

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

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.

I do real-time communications cloud APIs.

Brings a 30 year love-hate relationship with software. Early career was working in Defense, while the last 15 years involved web development. For the last 8 years, work has focused on startups(and one Enterprise) as freelance developer, architect, consultant helping build first or second releases, usually in Rails /JS. Worked two years at Visa helping build their first consumer web application. Last year did first startup as a technical cofounder using Elixir and AngularJS. Current focus is on Elixir and Elm and Lean Startup.

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.

Kevin Hague is a Developer Relations Engineer at Palm where he helps developers navigate the world of webOS. Kevin has developed software for more than 20 years within the Web, Semiconductor, Pharmaceutical and mobile spaces. He is passionate about helping 3rd party developers create applications on mobile platforms like Palm webOS.

Peter Harrington...is the person writing this. Peter has two degrees in Electrical Engineering, five US patents and has contributed to a number of research publications. He is actively involved in programming competitions and the open-source community. He is the author of "Machine Learning in Action". Currently he (I) am chief scientist at Zillabyte.

I am an old-school OOP developer in a Flex world.

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 the Algernon rule engine and the Jatha LISP library for Java.

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.

I'm an architect evangelist at Microsoft in the Silicon Valley. I'm also a former Visual C# MVP and Intel Black Belt Software Developer.

Tom Hughes-Croucher is a Technical Evangelist for the Yahoo! Developer Network. He specialises in Frontend Engineering, Web Accessibility and RESTful Web Services. Although, he has worked in a range of other functions related to web site development such as systems administration, design and user interaction.

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.

Matt is an experienced web architect with a software development background. He ha expertise in building, scaling and operating global-scale Java, Ruby on Rails and AMP web applications by leveraging a variety of Open Source projects, including membase and memcached. Matt is currently the chief liaison to the membase Open Source project for NorthScale, and leading Developer Advocacy at NorthScale for membase and memcached.

Brad is an accomplished .NET software architect specializing in Domain Driven Design and Event Driven Architectures. Over his 30 year professional career, Brad has built web applications for Adidas, Kashi, Gap, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Aptos, and many others. Brads specialty is migrating existing .NET applications to a DDD architecture and EDA without system downtime. Brad has been the organizer of the San Francisco and Silicon Valley .NET user groups, and is frequent speaker on technical software topics throughout the US, South America, and Europe. Brad has written a book on Reengineering .NET published by Adison Wesley.

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

Founder of Ubuntu SV meetup. Founder of revived Wifix Project http://launchpad.net/wifix, aspiring to make wifi driver installation easy for Linux and other FLOSS OSs. Beginning Ubuntu developer

Fletcher has helped with the production of the Silicon Valley Code Camp since it's inception. He is an avid OOP & database coder as well as a serial entrepreneur.

James Johnson, a Microsoft MVP, is the Founder and President of the Inland Empire .NET User’s Group, and has fondly watched it grow from a twice a month, early Saturday morning group of five in 2003, to a robust and rambunctious gathering of all types and sizes of .NET developers. In his off-time from running the user group, James is a husband and dad, works with ComponentOne as their Western Region Technical Evangelist, digs deep into cutting edge technologies (often with some spectacular disasters) and spreads the word about the latest and greatest bits, getting people excited about .NET. He tries to blog as often as he can, but usually gets distracted by EF, LINQ, MVC, ASP, SQL, XML, and most other types of acronyms. James loves to present, using a rather unique presentation style combining a slight irreverence with a lot of back and forth interaction of a “hands-on, this is how I skinned my knuckles, you don’t do the same” style and approach. You can keep up with him at www.duringlunch.com, or on Twitter at @latringo.

Theo has been designing and implementing .NET based applications, components, and frameworks since .NET 1.0 with a focus on scalable and maintainable solutions. Accidentally, becoming a manager in 2012, Theo has embraced the engineering manager path currently working as a Senior Director of Engineering at AppDynamics. He contributed to the success of AppDynamics, scaling from 70 employees to over 2000 and being acquired three days before the IPO for $3.7B by Cisco. Theo's expertise is understanding systems, identifying patterns and defining and implementing best practices in software, architecture, or organization.

Adam Kalsey has been an internet entrepreneur since 1995. He's the Product Manager for Tropo and manages Voxeo's Developer Network, evangelizing Voxeo to developers and startups. He was a co-founder of IMified, where he created the leading platform for Instant Messaging applications, and joined Voxeo through the acquisition of IMified in June 2009. Previously, he was founder and CTO of Pheedo, a pioneer in RSS advertising and had served as VP of Product for cloud computing and advertising companies. Adam's passion for startups led to his co-founding SacStarts, a Sacramento entrepreneur community. Adam blogs about technology, user experience, and baseball at Kalsey.com and can be found on most social services as akalsey.

David is a designer, developer and blogger interested in mobile applications, web technology, and graphic design. Before coming to Sencha, David created jQTouch, a jQuery plugin for iPhone development now part of Sencha Labs. He also maintains WebKitBits, a blog dedicated to WebKit. As creative director for Sencha, David is responsible for the look and feel of the Sencha websites and software.

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.

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.

I am the Chief Technology Officer at Alumwire, Inc — a company that I co-founded while I was pursuing my Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. (Go Bears!) My interests include entrepreneurship, software development, snowboarding, and beer tasting.

Orion Letizi is a co-founder and software engineer at Terracotta. He has worked in enterprise Java for over ten years. Before Terracotta, he was a software architect at Walmart.com.

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

Sr. Community Program Manager

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.

Founder and principal consultant on lean-agile and kanban

I am a Principal Architect at Scanadu, responsible for Data Engineering and Cloud Services. Previously, I worked on security and performance issues for Covered California. Before that, I was Director,platform engineering for a healthcare analytics 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.

I run the Linux-only hardware company ZaReason.

I lead. For fun. I'm an international speaker, coach, and trainer who's helped grow businesses from break even to beyond $100M. Over the past 15 years I've led businesses & programs using Agile & Waterfall in both software and hardware, B2B and B2C. Currently, I'm working with teams running Kanban and Scrum while advancing Lean practices. I love helping organizations bring order out of chaos, turning strategies into results.

Mano Marks has been on Google’s Developer Relations team for the last four years, and is the lead Developer Advocate for Google’s Geo APIs. He has travelled the world helping individuals, corporations, governments and aid organizations use Google’s mapping technologies to communicate their message to the world. Before Google, Mano had an eclectic career that involved getting a Masters in History, a Masters in Information Management and Systems, and working as a data manager in NGOs for over a decade.

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

48 years in software, CSC, CST. Currently fellow at Serena Software. Have worked in mainframes, minis and micros. Not coding much these days but spent over 15 years in Smalltalk and over 20 in assembler. Later using Java and Ruby. Owned a testing company for some time.

Before joining Sencha, Darrell was the creator of the popular open source MyGWT Widget Library for Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Darrell has expert-level Java and GWT knowledge, and leads the Ext GWT product team at Sencha. With 10+ year's experience building enterprise web applications, Darrell is equally well versed in software architecture and user interface development/design.

Mark Miller is a five year C# MVP Alumni with strong expertise in decoupled design, plug-in architectures, and great user interfaces. Mark is Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express, and is the visionary force behind productivity tools like CodeRush and Refactor!, as well as the DXCore extensibility layer for Visual Studio. Mark is a member of INETA; he's a top-ranked speaker at conferences around the world and has been writing software for over three decades.

Rajiv is the Servlet 3.0 specification lead and web architect for GlassFish.

1st employee at Twilio, cloud communications startup based in San Francisco building APIs for making/receiving calls and SMS messages.

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

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.

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.

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.

Bary has been working for Falafel Software for over 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.

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.

Martin Omander works for Google in Mountain View, California. His job in the Developer Relations team is to help developers build better software, and improve Google's Cloud Platform to make it even better for that purpose. In his spare time he manages to sneak in some game programming. Before Google, Martin worked at string of startups in Silicon Valley as a software engineer.

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.

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.

Born in Arkhangelsk, Russia; studied in St.Petersburg. Married. 2 grown-up children. Living in San Jose. Riding a road bike on weekends. https://github.com/vpatryshev presheaf.com ivan_gandhi.livejournal.com

Pascal-Louis Perez is Wealthfront'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.

I'm an engineer at Wealthfront, working to replace the mutual fund industry with a better model. My interests are in distributed systems, machine learning, and good software engineering practice.

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.

Curtiss Pope, is an author, blogger, twitterer, software investor and developer of software that motions our greatest ideas

Software Developer for Front Porch Inc. Have been using Powershell since 2007 and have helped standardize our companies automated testing framework on Powershell V2.

Pragati is the Chief Technology Evangelist for PayPal and the author of the book "Android Application Security Essentials". She has more than 15 years of experience in technology domains like mobile operating systems, mobile security, payments, and commerce. From starting as a platform security engineer with Motorola, to leading mobile developer relations in North America, she has extensive technology, product and business development experience. Pragati has dual masters in Computer Science and has taught and trained computer science students at universities around the world. She is a recognized speaker at international technology events.

distributed systems, reliability, working at kaChing on continuous deployment

Issac Amarillas Roth is CEO and co-Founder of Makara. Before founding Makara to solve application management problems for customers moving to cloud and virtualization infrastructures, Issac spent 5 years at Wily Technology, helping to grow the APM leader from a few handfuls of customers through the $375M acquisition by CA, Inc.

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.

Since Alumwire's inception, Aaron has driven the company's strategic direction, business development and marketing activities. Aaron has been named by BusinessWeek as one of "The Top 25 Young Entrepreneurs." Aaron earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from The Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Since Alumwire's inception, Allan has driven the company's product development and implementation. Allan has been named by BusinessWeek as one of "The Top 25 Young Entrepreneurs" and featured in The Boston Globe as one of the "Best of the New People and Ideas." Allan attended Harvard University where he studied Visual and Environmental Studies and Economics.

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.

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.

Before co-founding Apprenda, Sinclair consulted on and led mission-critical architectures for multiple technology companies. Sinclair has contributed to the engineering architectures at Morgan Stanley, Eden Communications, and the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Sinclair excels in understanding the economics of SaaS platforms and ecosystems, and is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events. Sinclair holds a dual Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Mathematics with a Minor in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.

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.

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).

Karl Shifflett is a Program Manager at Microsoft working on the Patterns and Practices Team. 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 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.

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

CTO @ FortyTwo

A senior software developer with a track record of success in the delivery of server, desktop and embedded software solutions. I have an extremely strong background in the design, development and deployment of large scale, distributed OLTP systems.

I am the Technical Lead for the Global Briefing Center at Microsoft Silicon Valley. I work with startups and students to get them access to the tools and training they need to succeed.

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.

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 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 is an ASP.Net architect, developer, and SQL Server DBA in the San Francisco area. He is formerly the Technology Director at an exciting Orlando, FL startup, RezHub (www.RezHub.com). Now, he is the Sales Engineer for the DotNetNuke® Corporation (www.dotnetnuke.com). Will was also the President of the Orlando DotNetNuke® Users Group or ODUG (orlando.dotnetnukeug.net) for 2 years, and the Vice President of the Orlando .Net User Group or ONETUG (www.onetug.org), but now is an active member of the Bay Area DNN User Group or BayDUG (www.baydug.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.

Paul Stubbs is a Microsoft Technical Evangelist for SharePoint and Office, where he focuses on information worker development community around SharePoint and Office, Silverlight, and Web 2.0 social networking. He has authored three books on solution development using Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Silverlight, several articles for MSDN Magazine, and has also spoken at Microsoft Tech-Ed and the Microsoft Professional Developers conferences. Paul has also worked as a Senior Program Manager with the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) team in Redmond, Washington. Read Paul’s blog at msdn.com/pstubbs.

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

Linux hardware vendor Me: Creative Commons & FOSS advocate Gidget Kitchen - we donate computers to people/groups in need Picnic + geeks = Geeknic

Peter is the Practice Lead for Custom Development and Mobility for Slalom Consulting in San Francisco. Slalom Consulting is 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 ensuring the successful definition and implementation of technology strategy to the world's most innovative companies enabling them to reach their goals through the use of cutting edge technology. Peter's motivation and drive is simple - to deliver innovative solutions to help people do more through the use of technology.

Bill Venners is president of Artima, Inc., publisher of the Artima Developer website (http://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. Bill has been active in the Jini Community since its inception. He led the Jini Community's ServiceUI project, whose ServiceUI API became the de facto standard way to associate user interfaces to Jini services. Bill also serves as an elected member of the Jini Community's initial Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), and in this role helped to define the governance process for the community.

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.

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.

Ryan Wick has over 10-years experience designing, developing, testing and deploying applications for smart phones, handsets and mobile operating systems. He currently specializes in the Android operating system, but also has extensive experience with JavaME and Blackberry platforms. In his current role supporting the Sprint Application Developer program, he interfaces with the developer community, works with Handset manufacturers, and tracks trends and developments in the Mobile OS space. Most recently Ryan is the author of Sprint’s Android developer guides covering unique features of 4G devices such as the HTC EVO and the Samsung Epic.

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.

Nolan Wright is the CTO and Co-Founder of Appcelerator. 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.