Mark Abramson is Founder & CEO of Printform Corporation. He has particular technical expertise in digital workflow, industrial printing and complex global supply chains for high-growth companies. He's also a dad, collects antique woodworking machines and mentors on Lean Startup methods.

Working as Sr.MTS in VMware Inc., doing mobile UI automation and maintaining Cross Platform GUI automation (LDTP)

Founder and CDO of The SearchLink. Full-cycle recruitment professional, specializing in staffing technology start up companies in Silicon Valley.

Andres Almiray Senior Software Engineer at Canoo Engineering AG and Java Champion Basel Area, Switzerland Computer Software Current Senior Software Engineer at Canoo Engineering AG Zone Leader at Javalobby Groovy Committer at Groovy @ Codehaus see all Past Principal Software Engineer at Oracle Corporation R&D Engineer at JackBe Sr. Software Architect & Consultant at IDS see all Education Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Recommendations 5 people have recommended Andres Connections 406 connections Websites Blog Java.net profile Ohloh profile Public Profile http://ch.linkedin.com/in/aalmiray Share PDF Print Summary Andres is a Java/Groovy developer with more than 12 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include Groovy and Swing. He is a true believer of open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member and current project lead of the Griffon framework. He likes to spend time with his beloved wife, Ixchel, when not hacking around.

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

Ash - 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

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

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

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

Ward is 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

Craig has a passion for community and helping other developers improve their skills. He writes the column "Software Gardening" in DotNet Curry Magazine and is the co-author of "Continuous Integration in .NET" available from Manning. He works as a Senior Software Engineer at HealthEquity.

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

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

Steve Bockman is 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.

I am a backend engineer at Box.net

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.

I have been in the software industry for 20+ years. In the past 4 years I have worked on cloud based distributed systems for Netflix and Stubhub. Most of these systems have been associated with data delivery and management. Some of the systems I have with with are: Solr, Cassandra, Zookeeper, Hadoop and StubHubs Big Data Platform. All these systems require a different approach in design,development and access patterns. However, there are underlying patterns in each of these systems. And these patterns radically change the approach of developers and users of these systems. Without them, building and deploying distributed systems, especially at scale, becomes exceedingly problematic. I wish to share some of these design and deployment patterns as well as their programming models with the folks at SVCC.

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

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

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

Oswald is passionate about education: a former PhD Candidate in Mathematics (ABD), with 4 Masters and 2 Bachelors degrees. Previously he worked in South America, Italy, and the French Riviera, and he traveled to 70 countries around the world. He has worked from C/C++/Java developer to CTO, and currently working at SwiftBot. He's comfortable in 4 languages and trying to learn Japanese. He's a Series Editor for Mercury Learning and working on his 17th book.

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

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

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

Alison Chaiken is a Linux embedded developer and systems programmer with a particular interest in automotive applications. She is the founder of the free and non-commercial Silicon Valley Automotive Open Source meetup.com group.

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.

• Former CTO EARN.org • Over 20 years’ experience in Software Development, including 3D CAD, database and Web applications. • Formerly VP Engineering at Oracle, BEASystems Inc. and Informix. • Lead teams that have developed many large 3D database projects and products including, AutoCAD Map, NASA’s EOSDIS and LINZ (Land Information System New Zealand).

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

Douglas Crockford 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.

Program manager on the Microsoft robotics team.

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

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

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

Nima has over 15 years experience in technology as a software engineer/architect/manager/technology marketeer and entrepreneur. He has worked at Silicon Valley startups as well as large multinational corporations. He is 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.

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

J.D. Duncan is a software engineer on the MySQL Cluster team at Oracle Corp. He began his career as a Unix systems administrator, began building data-driven web applications in the late 90s, and joined MySQL AB in 2004.

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

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

Daniel is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, he has been in the technology field for 20 years doing everything from Enterprise Development, to a Start Up, to running his own consulting firm. He is currently focusing on OpenSource, and the cloud sprinkled with IOT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Russ is a Technical Evangelist for Algorand and an Apress published book author, "Azure and Xamarin Forms". He’s a recipient of the INETA Lifetime Achievement and Microsoft MVP 2013-2018 awards and is a Xamarin Certified developer for building cross-platform apps (e.g., the Endorsed Jethro Tull App). Russ is a former Developer Evangelist for Microsoft, Russ’ ToolShed, Xamarin and Component One. Follow @RussFustino and @Algorand

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.

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

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

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

Arun Gupta is a 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.

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

PJ Gupta is Founder of Checkbook Inc (a startup doing Digital Checks). Previously, he worked for VISA, where he held positions including Chief Network Architect and Director of Network Security. Believes in changing the world of payments, ecommerce infrastructure. When not changing the world of payment systems PJ is finding ways to get back into flying single planes

Scott Haines is a full stack engineer with a current focus on real-time -highly available – trust-worthy analytics systems. He is currently working at Twilio (as Tech Lead of the Voice Insights team) where he helped drive spark adoption and streaming pipeline architectures. Prior to Twilio, he worked writing the backend java api’s for Yahoo Games, as well as the real-time game ranking / ratings engine (built on Storm) to provide personalized recommendations and page views for 10 million customers. He finished his tenure at Yahoo working for Flurry Analytics where he wrote the (alerts/notifications) system for mobile.

Independent developer with an interest in mobile app development, scientific computing, and highly scalable systems. Fan of C#, F#, C++, and the Phillies.

Keithen started working with C++ when he worked at Apple on the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop C compiler that used C Front to provide C++ features. At PalmSource, he worked on the C Development Team for Eclipse. Now he is working at Marmalade which produces cross platform development tools to allow developers to use C++ to create apps and games for iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, BlackBerry 10, Tizen, OSX, Windows, LG smart TV's and Roku devices.

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.

Unapologetic hacker and passionate advocate for the development community. My technical interests range from graph databases to cloud services, and my experience supporting and evangelizing REST APIs has given my a unique perspective on developer success. In my copious free time I’m a gamer, fantasy reader, and all around rabble-rouser

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

Slava Imeshev is a main committer to the open source Java cache Cacheonix. Slava's main expertise is reliable distributed and high-performance systems. You can reach Slava at simeshev@cacheonix.org

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

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

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.

Jon has been programming in C++ for two and a half decades. During the last twenty-five years he has written C++ for Amazon, Apple, Dow Chemical, Intuit, Lotus, Microsoft, Netscape, Sun, Yahoo! and a number of companies that you've not heard of. Jon's current interest is developing his onsite training business. He has extensive experience with formal training and presentations on C++. Jon is an Approved Outside Training Vendor for Scott Meyers' training materials. For information on course content, dates, and rates, please contact "jon" at cpp.training. Jon has done formal training or presentations on C++ at ACCU-Silicon Valley, Altara, Apple, Amazon, Bloomberg, BMW, C++Now, CppCon, HTRI, Microsoft, New York C++ Developers' Group, Portland C++ Users Group, San Francisco C++ User Group, Silicon Valley Code Camp, and Societe Generale. He taught C++ at the Golden Gate University graduate school for five semesters. Jon's talk on Exception-Safe Coding won Best Tutorial at C++Now. Jon has been given the Microsoft MVP award for Visual C++ for 2014 and 2015. Jon is chair of CppCon, C++Now and the C++ Track for Silicon Valley Code Camp. He serves on the Advisory Board for Undo Software and chairs the Boost Steering Committee.

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

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

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

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

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

Deborah Kurata is 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".

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).

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

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

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

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

Neil Mackenzie is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. He has been using Microsoft Azure since PDC 2008. Neil wrote the Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook (1st ed.) for Packt Publishing. He was a Microsoft MVP for Windows Azure.

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

I 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.

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

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

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

David McCarter is a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), C# Corner MVP, solutions architect, speaker, consultant, professional code reviewer and interviewer in San Diego, California. He is the editor-in-chief of dotNetTips.com... a web site dedicated to helping software engineers in all aspects of programming since 1994. David has written for programming magazines and has published many books including "David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards" available at: http://bit.ly/dotnetdavestore. He is one of the founders and directors of the San Diego .NET Developers Group (www.sddotnetdg.org) for 20 years. In 2008 David won the INETA Community Excellence Award for his involvement in the .NET community. Daivd is a featured writer and MVP on C# Corner. David is also an inventor of a software printing system that was approved by the US Patient Office in May 2008. His Microsoft MVP profile is located at: http://bit.ly/davidmvp

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

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

I'm an Executive Coach and Silicon Valley HR veteran. I'm passionate about working with clients who are eager to achieve their potential. The coaching methodology I use is based in neuroscience research and produces great results with executives as well as those early in their careers.

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

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

Steve is an independent software consultant in Silicon Valley specializing in the Microsoft product stack having retired after a 40+ year career doing semiconductor industry, with side excursions in to medical image management. Over the years he has worked with a wide range of platforms from mainframes to PCs, many of which have gone to the great scrap yard in the sky. Co-chair Baynet User Group's South Bay Chapter and Baynet Treasurer

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Alice received her BS in Electrical Engineering/Software at Stanford and her MS in Industrial Engineering/Management of Technology at UC Berkeley. After 3.5 years of getting developers excited about building apps as a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, she’s now getting developers excited about monetizing their apps with MoPub as a Developer Advocate at Twitter. When she's not speaking or building resources to ensure a great developer experience, you can find her training in circus arts.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Software technology leader. Have worked in various web technologies developing applications in ecommerce, mobile, healthcare, and HCM verticals. Currently, working as a Lead Engineer at SuccessFactors, An SAP Company.

Noel is the VP of Software Services at Falafel Software and has over 20 years of experience in the software industry including numerous successful projects in the industries of medical, telecom, financial and manufacturing. He has also worked as a lead developer on major projects for Hewlett Packard and Johnson & Johnson. Noel has authored over ten books on diverse subjects ranging over ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, Android development, Windows Phone 7 Development CMS, Reporting, automated testing, Winforms and ORM. He has also written numerous articles on software development for top industry magazines.

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

CCO of Archetype

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

Java, database hacker/developer

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

Software developer from the early days of Unix onward.

Robin 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Steve works at SpeedCurve on the interplay between performance and design. He previously served as Google's Head Performance Engineer, Chief Performance Yahoo!, and Chief Performance Officer at Fastly. Steve has pioneered much of the work in the world of web performance. He is the author of High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites. He is the creator of many performance tools and services including YSlow, the HTTP Archive, Episodes, ControlJS, and Browserscope. Steve taught CS193H: High Performance Web Sites at Stanford and serves as co-chair of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference from O'Reilly.

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.

David Spark is a veteran tech journalist, owner of the B2B tech content marketing firm Spark Media Solutions, and author of “Three Feet from Seven Figures: One-on-One Engagement Techniques to Get More Leads at Trade Shows.” Spark blogs at SparkMinute.com and on Forbes. For weekly tech and media news, subscribe to his weekly podcast, Tear Down Show, and for content marketing tips, subscribe to the Spark Media Solutions YouTube channel.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self employed software developer

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

Alain "Lino" Tadros is Chairman & CEO of Falafel Software, a Silicon Valley based company, with presence in Colorado, Michigan, N. Carolina, Florida and Texas, dedicated to providing world-class consulting, training, and software development for small, medium, and enterprise level businesses. Prior to founding Falafel, Lino was a member of the development team at Borland for Delphi and C++Builder. Mr. Tadros has been awarded Microsoft MVP status 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.

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

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

Founder & CTO of TWiki.org, a leading enterprise collaboration platform. Trying to get more open source contributors hooked on TWiki. Inventor of Structured Wikis. Co-author of Wikis for Dummies. Speaker. Open source & enterprise collaboration advocate.

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

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

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

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

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

Software engineer at Box.net

Shawn is a web and mobile software entrepreneur, consultant, and instructor with over twenty years of UI design and development experience, including over 15 years of full-stack web application development.

Paras is a Microsoft MVP and Ambassador, an INETA Community Champion, an Experienced Speaker and a Vocal Developer Advocate. Paras is also a seasoned developer/architect with over 12 years of experience in the industry.

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.

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

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

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

I'm a software developer, architect and mentor having 20 years of professional experience with an emphasis on building engineering teams, application frameworks, databases, automation, and development tools.

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

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

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

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

Google Commerce Developer Relations

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

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

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

Gabi Zuniga has been developing mobile applications since 2008. He is a co-founder and CTO of VoiceLayer where he architects frameworks for enhancing apps with realtime voice messaging. Gabi enjoys exploring new technologies and competing at hackathons.

Shani (11) started programming at age 7 with Scratch and Alice. She plays clarinet at the school band and enjoys playing soccer too.