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.

Naga working at Intuit as an Engineering Manager. He works with an awesome team of engineers to build web services in finance domain. He has been working in Java, J2EE and several web-related technologies.

I am the tech lead of Google Drive Developer Relations. I love open source software, and programming in Python.

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

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.

I'm a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer with over 16 years of experience, specializing in data access and transformation. Likes: writing fast and expressive queries in SQL and LINQ, refactoring, functional programming, regular expressions, and automating repetitive tasks with shell scripts. Dislikes: Smelly code and badly designed databases.

Dan co-founded JobScore, a freemium online hiring solution now used by over 1000+ employers. Dan is a 15 year veteran of the tech startup talent wars that helps companies get better at recruiting, helping them tune their internal “hiring machines” – In the past few years he’s helped Twilio, Tagged, RedBeacon, IMVU and more double the size of their teams in > 9 months.

Kevin Ashley is a Microsoft Architect Evangelist, an author of Professional Windows 8 Programming book and a developer of top apps and games for Windows 8 with millions of users. Kevin often presents about technology at various events, industry shows and webcasts. In his role he works with startups and partners, advising on software design, business and technology strategy, architecture and development. Prior to Microsoft, he was a founder of an early-stage cloud and business intelligence software startup. In his role as a senior software developer and architect, Kevin developed grid, data warehousing and real-time trading solutions for Fortune 500 companies and hedge funds worldwide: US, Europe and Asia. Kevin has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science and MBA from the University of Connecticut. Kevin’s blog: http://kevinashley.com and Twitter: @kashleytwit

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.

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.

My influences include many speakers here at Code Camps and other community events. Avail yourself of their time. “There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights...”… Smedley Darlington Butler, Major General, USMC, two-time Medal of Honor Recipient. Happy Code Campers!

Tom Becker is the Software Architect at BD Biosciences, which develops lab instruments, reagents and software for scientific research and clinical diagnosis. His background is in scientific programming for biotech and aerospace projects, and also multimedia, developer tools and application frameworks.

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

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".

I work at Box on software that increases developer happiness. My side interests vary from Ruby gems to machine learning projects.

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'm a researcher at HP Labs.

I drive developer adoption of DocuSign API

I worked for Microsoft for the last 12 years in MCS and Sales teams, most recently as a SharePoint Specialist. I am currently the CTO of a consulting company (Kiefer Consulting). My roots are in application development and try to keep up to date with the latest (at least the latest in Microsoft-world).

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 am a Technical Lead within the Esri Technical Marketing group. I came to Esri over 12 years ago and have a passion for all things spatial, particularly beautifully designed mapping applications.

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.

I lead the LLVM and Clang team at Google, building better diagnostics, tools, and more. Previously, I worked on several pieces of Google's distributed build system. I make guest appearances helping to maintain a few core C++ libraries across Google's codebase, and am active in the LLVM and Clang open source communities. I received my M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from Wake Forest University, but I disavow all knowledge of the contents of my Master's thesis. I am regularly found drinking Cherry Coke Zero in the daytime and pontificating over a single malt scotch in the evening.

My name is John Ceccarelli and I am Engineering Director for the NetBeans project. My passion is providing tools that make developers more productive and make complex technologies more accessible to everyone.

Principal Consultant with Magenic Technologies, I focus primarily in SharePoint technologies and have been a part of various enterprise level implementations of Intranets, Extranets and Public Facing portals on SharePoint platform.

wonder wonder! independent developer and entrepreneur working on a startup defined by wonder, innovation, and elegance.

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.

I graduated from UC Davis with a Bachelor degree in Computer Science and Engineering. I devoted my time to launching a half a dozen web and mobile projects before I was recruited by Egnyte. I've been closely involved in the architecture, development and release for all of Egnyte's native apps since version 1.

• 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).

Jeremy Clark makes developers better. By drawing on over 15 years of experience in application development, he helps developers take a step up in their skillset with a focus on making complex topics approachable regardless of skill level. He is a Microsoft MVP for Visual C#, and he has authored seven courses for Pluralsight, including "C# Interfaces", a course aimed at giving developers a clear understanding of abstraction. Jeremy lives in Southern California with 2 cats and a banjo. For more information, visit www.jeremybytes.com.

C++ programmer for Qualcomm; Boost & LLVM contributor, C++ standards committee member. Marshall has presented at the LLVM developer's conference, C++Now, BoostCon, ACCU, MacHack, and previous editions of the SVCC.

Used to be with the Yahoo! Developer Network. Now a Senior Software Engineer at coupons.com helping rebuild the website using modern best practices.

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.

President of the Connecticut Java User Group, author of NetBeans Certification Guide, JavaOne 2011 Rockstar presenter, like coding in Java, Objective-C, Spin, Scala, etc.

.NET architect building products for the last 20 years. Currently, run my startup Mobi Weave, Inc. building mobile and cloud apps. www.MobiWeave.com

Mr. de Jong has been programming since 1970. He started with punch cards on an IBM 1620, a lightning fast 100 instructions per second machine, and then progressed to Mainframes, Minicomputers, Workstations, Personal Computers, and Mobile Devices. What next? microscopic biocomputers? He spent two years developing about 80 mobile apps, mostly for the iOS system, but then switched to cross-platform technologies so that he could deliver Android and iOS simulataneously. He is platform neutral, in that he is more interested in the revenue the platforms generate than any blind loyalty to a single company. Mr. de Jong has programmed in Fortran, PL/1, Basic, Cobol, C, Pascal, Modula-2, Python, APL, ICON, Objective-C, Actionscript. Javascript, and others. Mr. de Jong was the original author of Wordstar 2000, a popular word processor, and also the author of Discus, a million-selling graphic design product.

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.

Matt is a software toolsmith with a focus on JIRA, and the author of two O'Reilly JIRA books. He is also Chief Toolsmith at CustomWare, based in Palo Alto.

Ted Drake is an experienced front-end engineer, developer evangelist, and accessibility expert. Ted leads the accessibility efforts for Intuit's desktop, web, and mobile products. Previously, Ted worked on some of the most viewed web sites on the Yahoo! network and participated in the development of many products, platforms, and applications. He managed mobile accessibility, both HTML5 and iOS, within Yahoo.

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

Software engineer with 10 years experience, mostly with .NET technologies (.NET, SQL Server). Aspiring entrepreneur - my first product, DubDubDeploy, is available for download at http://www.DubDubDeploy.com/

Developer of lifta, a functional library for asynchronous work at the application level. 35+ years of experience in software development. Software engineering manager in the life sciences field. JavaScript and Node enthusiast in the wee hours. Strong interest in using functional approaches to building games and apps.

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.

Alex is C++ Portable Components (POCO) Project Lead. He is professionally consulting on C++, POCO as well as developing steel manufacturing automation and process control software since 1998. He has master's degree in mechanical engineering from Faculty of Engineering (University of Rijeka, Croatia) and master's degree in software engineering from Citadel Graduate College in Charleston, South Carolina. Alex is also IEEE (Computer Society) Certified Software Development Professional.

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

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

Educated in computer engineering and mathematics. Industry experience in education, aerospace manufacturing, and insurance. Joined Microsoft February 2012 and consider it my role to inform and inspire developers. When I'm not working, I'm hanging out with my wife and son, hiking and camping, sailing, scuba diving, or working on my house and yard. Find me at @codefoster and codefoster.com.

Jack Fox is an F# MVP who works as a software engineer at Tachyus, the first Silicon Valley tech company to implement full stack F# across all its production software platforms. He has a passion for software correctness, and sees strongly-typed functional-first languages, and F# in particular, as the key to consistently correct production software. He has presented functional and type-theory topics at SVCC, Chicago Lambda Jam, the N.Y. City F# User Group, the S.F. Bay Area F# User Group, and S.F. Types, Theorems, and Programming languages.

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”.

Jorge Garifuna is a Professional Software Developer and Consultant with over 15 years of industry experience. His portfolio of technologies include but are not limited to various programming languages, Web 2.0, a diverse number of Frameworks, countless of databases and the latest and greatest in Mobile for popular platforms such as IOS, Android and BlackBerry, among many. Over the years, Jorge has successfully Designed, Developed and Deployed (DDD) software in the areas of E-Commerce, Project Management, Content Management Systems (CMS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) to name a few. His technologies have been used by many consumers, employees and businesses. Jorge prides himself as a happy contributor to various Open Source Projects, including the ATK Framework and vTiger CRM to name a few. He has also given various presentations in the topics of: Joomla CMS; ATK Framework; Wordpress; ELGG Social Network Framework; Integration of Linux, Apache, MySQL, SQLite with Mkahawa Cyber Manager and PHP; and Mobile Development for Web, IOS Native and Android Native. Jorge joined LAMPsig over six years ago and is currently serving as the president of this dynamic LAMP community group. More details of Jorge’s professional qualifications can be found at: http://jgari.com/resume

I am a staff software engineer at Intuit. I work in our Shared Mobile Services group where we create software that enables our mobile app developers to be more productive and innovative. My current focus is on Speech Recognition technologies for mobile devices. My background is primarily in enterprise Java and J2EE. But I have a new found passion for Android and iOS programming.

Mr. Geracie is the author of the global best seller Take Charge Product Management© and the Editor-in-Chief of The Guide to the Product Management and Marketing Body of Knowledge. This is an industry-wide effort to standardize the practice of product management. Greg is the President of Actuation Consulting, the world"s leading product management consulting and training organization. He is also an Adjunct Professor at DePaul University's College of Computing and Digital Media where he teaches a course on high-tech product management.

Senior Software Engineer , expert in GeneXus, .Net technologies, & Java. SmartPhones and Tablets development is his world.

I'm a developer evangelist for Red Hat's OpenShift.

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.

Scott Guthrie is a corporate vice president in Microsoft's Server and Tools Business division, where he is responsible for delivering the development platform for Windows Azure, as well as the .NET Framework and Visual Studio technologies used in building Web and server applications. A founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the Microsoft developer space since 1998. Today, Guthrie manages the development teams that build the developer platform for Windows Azure, Windows AppFabric Server, BizTalk Server, IIS, ASP.NET, WCF, WF and the Web, and Web Service and Workflow features of Visual Studio. Guthrie graduated with a degree in computer science from Duke University.

Rachel Hagerman 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. Rachel finds joy in meeting challenges in her career and her life. After deciding to pursue a career in electronics, and as one of only a handful of female students in her department, Rachel graduated at the top of her class with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Oklahoma State University. Two years after graduation, she was leading the software design team on a multi-million dollar testing system for the Department of Energy. Rachel has experience in circuitry design and automated test systems, but her true passion has always been for software. Lately she has developed everything from iOS enterprise apps to advanced mapping software for delivery systems.

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

Co-Founder and CMO of The Spectrum Group Online, Alyson leverages her extensive marketing and executive brand communication background. To ensure that companies maintain focused conversations, she creates strategies that engage faithful clients as well as attract new ones. Using Brand Intelligence, she uncovers what transforms satisfied clients into raving fans.

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

Mario Hewardt is the author of Advanced Windows Debugging and Advanced .NET Debugging. With over 13 years at Microsoft, he has worked with the development of Windows starting from Windows 98 up to Windows Vista. With the advent of cloud computing, Mario has worked in the SaaS arena and delivered the Asset Inventory Service as well as leading a team of developers building the core platform for the next generation Microsoft online management service – Windows Intune. Most recently, Mario works as a Microsoft Dedicated Developer Premier Field Engineer helping ensure that our customers build their solutions on the Microsoft stack in the most efficient and reliable way possible. Mario lives in Washington state with his wife, daughter and two dogs.

I'm a Sr. Software Engineer with SpringSource/VMware, with over a decade of experience in software engineering. I'm a member of the Cloud Foundry team, specializing in developer experience and support of frameworks such as Spring, Grails, Rails, and Sinatra. I'm passionate about open source software and increasing developer productivity in the cloud.

Ariya is a passionate engineer interested in bleeding-edge technologies. He has been involved in various large projects, from KDE to WebKit. These days, his focus is mostly on software craftsmanship around web technologies.

Ben is a Software Architect for Aspenware, C# MVP and Telerik Insider. He joined the IT industry in 1996 as an intern and has worked with .NET since its inception back in 2002. Ben is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) for Web and Windows .NET 4.0. His blog is at http://www.benhblog.com and his twitter stream is at http://twitter.com/benhnet. Finally, Ben is very involved in the local .NET community and is the leader of the South Colorado .NET User Group.

Dan is an engineer on Google's Developer Relations team. His current focus is on Google App Engine and Google Cloud Endpoints. He's previously worked on iGoogle, OpenSocial, Google Apps APIs, Gmail contextual gadgets, and the Google Apps Marketplace.

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

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.

Microsoft consulting developer, focused on building scalable and high performance applications and websites.

An international speaker, Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, Phil Japikse has been working with .Net since the first betas, developing software for over 20 years, and heavily involved in the agile community since 2005. Phil works as a Senior Developer Evangelist for Telerik, serves as the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User’s Group and the Cincinnati Software Architect Group, co-hosts the Hallway Conversations podcast (www.hallwayconversations.com), and founded Agile Conferences, Inc.

Amrit is responsible for the overall technical architecture of Egnyte. He has extensive experience in building large scale, highly available systems. In the past he has deployed such systems at Cisco, Fujistu and Sun Microsystems. Prior to Egnyte, he served as the CTO of Valdero.

Microsoft Technology Architect Working areas include MS development and application platform such as .NET, Windows Azure, SOA, distributed apps across on-premise and the cloud, Win8 store apps...etc.

Suyash Joshi is a Developer Advocate at Oracle for Cloud, Mobile, AI and ChatBots and. Prior to his current job, he was a software engineer for 6 years developing and designing modern enterprise grade mobile applications. He is also a performing magician and passionate about STEAM education. He also enjoys organizing events and speaking on various at meetups/conferences and participating at hackthons on the weekends.

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.

Software developer at Oracle.

Google Developer Expert for Google Maps API, not only for Google Maps JavaScript API v3, but also Google Maps Android API v2 and Google Maps SDK for iOS.

Matt Kelly is a Partner and Product Lead at ZURB, a product design company based in Campbell, CA.

From NASA, to international do-gooder, to sharing a love of graphs with the world, I've always pursued technology that would make the world a better place.

Dr. Venk Krishnamoorthy brings years of engineering and business acumen in high-tech to his own patent practice in the Bay Area, which is focused on patent prosecution and non-litigious patent work in the Electrical and Computer arts. He has extensive experience working with companies, including start-ups in Silicon Valley. Formerly with the Finnegan law firm, where he practiced for several years, Dr. Krishnamoorthy has also represented large multinational companies in complex multi-patent litigation in Federal Courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission. Dr. Krishnamoorthy is a graduate of Santa Clara Law, holds a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana, and worked for several years developing software, processors, and ASICs at Silicon Graphics (SGI) prior to becoming a patent attorney.

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".

Seth is a web engineer and is currently a Chrome Developer Advocate, helping developers of all sizes launch awesome modern web apps. He produced Aloha on Rails, the Hawaii Ruby on Rails and Web Development Conference, and New Game, the conference for HTML5 game developers. Way back, Seth co-authored the Expert Spring MVC book. More recently, he helped release Angry Birds for the web.

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.

VP Operations and Chief Security Officer Kris is a co-founder of Egnyte. He is responsible for Egnyte's security and compliance, as well as core infrastructure, including storage and data center operations. Prior to Egnyte, Kris has spent many years in the design and deployment of large scale infrastructure for Fortune 100 customers of Valdero and KPMG Consulting. Kris has a B.Tech in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology - Banaras, and an MS from the University of Cincinnati.

BigData Architect and co-founder of Teaching Kids Programming

Samantha Langit is a 9th grade student. She has been teaching Java w/TKP courseware for several years.

sr developer evangelist at HTC, VR influencer, instructor, consultant, author and developer community organizer. has spoken previously at sv code camp

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.

Jonathan LeBlanc is an Emmy award winning software engineer, author of the O’Reilly book "Programming Social Applications", and the Head of Global Developer Evangelism at PayPal. Specializing in identity and security, hardware to web interconnectivity, data mining techniques, as well as open source initiatives around social engagement, Jonathan works on the development of emerging initiatives towards building a more user-centric web.

Taylor is an engineer at StackMob and enjoys all things Scala. In his past life, he worked on physical security systems for the DOE and launched Gogo inflight internet.

I work at Microsoft as an ISV Evangelist based in Silicon Valley. I love learning about new technologies and engaging with the community. My current interest is Windows 8 development using HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript.

Edmund Leung is our senior product manager and is responsible for Sencha frameworks product planning and strategy. Prior to Sencha, Edmund worked at Microsoft with focuses on advertising, developer platforms and media products. He holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management.

Ron Lichty has been managing and, more recently, consulting in managing software development and product organizations for over 25 years. Before that, as a programmer, he coded compiler code generators, was awarded patents for compression and security algorithms for embedded microcontroller devices, wrote 2 widely used programming texts, and developed the computer animation demo that Apple used to launch and sell a next-generation line of PCs. The primary focus of his consulting practice has mirrored what he did as a manager: untangling the knots in software development. As Ron Lichty Consulting, he takes on fractional Interim VP Engineering roles, trains teams and executives in scrum, transitions teams to agile, trains and coaches managers in managing software people and teams, and advises organizations and coaches teams to make their software development “hum.” His 450-page book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, was recently released as video training - LiveLessons: Managing Software People and Teams - both from Pearson and on O’Reilly’s Safari Network. He also co-authors the periodic Study of Product Team Performance.

Norbert Lindenberg is an internationalization consultant and the editor of the ECMAScript Internationalization API Specification, an Ecma International standard that defines a core set of internationalization capabilities for JavaScript. He studied computer science at Universität Karlsruhe and internationalization at Apple Computer, led internationalization projects at General Magic, Sun Microsystems, and Yahoo!, and has implemented the ECMAScript Internationalization API in Firefox for Mozilla.

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

Lee is president of SavvyData, a database consulting and training firm based in the SF Bay Area. Lee led the design team that created CRM portals for Microsoft, HP, and Verisign. He has presented at Macworld Expo, SVCC and other developer conferences. Lee's current focus is building data visualization solutions for legacy or newly-collected data, to help users discover meaningful trends, patterns and exceptions. It is said that on a good day he can make a trend line with only 1 data point. ;-)

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.

Vince works and plays at Syntellia, the creators of Fleksy for mobile devices. Fleksy is the revolutionary keyboard that makes it fun to type, and dramatically improves your texting and productivity. It is available on the AppStore!

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

Gayle Laakmann McDowell is the founder and CEO of CareerCup.com and the author of three books:

• Cracking the Coding Interview (Amazon.com's #1 best-selling interview book)
• Cracking the PM Interview (product manager)
• Cracking the Tech Career

She is an interview consultant, helping companies improve their interview process and coaching startups through acquisitions/acqui-hires. She is also an interview prep instructor, hired by Facebook to teach an interview prep class for external software developer candidates.

Gayle has worked as a Software Engineer for Google, Microsoft and Apple. She holds a BSE and MSE from UPenn in Computer Science, and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Bhakti Mehta is the author of "Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets and JSON" and "RESTful Java Patterns and Best Practices". She has a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering and a Masters degree in Computer Science from State University of New York. She is currently working at BlueJeans Network. She has contributed to various open source projects and presented at numerous conferences. You can follow her on twitter at https://twitter.com/bhakti_mehta

Elizabeth spends her time writing Android apps and has a long history on the Java platform. She is able to communicate complex technical ideas to lay-people as well as other engineers having been both an Individual Contributor as well as a Director of Technical Support. She has been making connections in Silicon Valley since the 1990s, working with diverse groups of people from small, private start-ups to large multi-national corporations like Sun Microsystems and Adobe Systems. Miss Mezias is originally from Bridgeport, CT. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from San Francisco State University. She enjoys softball in the summer and downhill skiing in the high Sierras through the colder months.

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.

Brian Miner runs his own consulting company and is currently the lead developer on a Grails project with the California Department of Housing and Community Development. He has been coding in Java since the 1990s and in Groovy and Grails since 2009.

Sanjeev Mishra is a software aficionado. He has spent more than half of his life working on cutting edge technologies. He currently works as a Sr. architect/researcher at Arris's (www.arris.com) Applied Research Center.

David works as an engineer for Neo Technology, which is the commercial backer of the open source graph database Neo4j. He's passionate about software development, and currently spends a lot of time with Neo Technology customers to ensure their success.

Rick Morelan is the author of the “Joes 2 Pros” book SQL series designed to prepare the reader to pass the Microsoft exam 70-433 for SQL Developers. He also co-wrote a book T-SQL 2008 Joes 2 Pros which was one of the featured books at SQL PASS 2009. Rick has previously worked at Microsoft for more than 10 years and has obtained SQL Certifications in versions 7.0, 2000, 2005 and 2008. Rick has presented at SQL Saturdays in the USA, Canada, and India. Currently Ricks Joes2Pros YouTube channel has 1,800 subscribers, gets about 1000 views per day, with over 600,000 total video views since 2010. http://www.youtube.com/joes2pros. In 1994, you could find Rick Morelan braving the frigid waters of the Bering Sea as an Alaskan commercial fisherman. His computer skills were non-existent at the time, so you might figure such beginnings seemed unlikely to lead him down the path to SQL expertise at Microsoft. However, every computer expert in the world today woke up at some point in their life knowing nothing about computers. It was a long and difficulty Journey for Rick as he transitioned from a life on the sea to an IT Professional and he is committed to helping others make similar transitions.

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.

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

Roshan is a leading expert in multi-paradigm programming techniques and the author of Castor, an open source library which brings the Logic Paradigm to C++. He has worked on a wide range of systems including HP-UX virtual memory, search engines and ad serving engines. Roshan received a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Oregon State University, specializing in programming languages.

I am a graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, having done my MS in Computer Science and my BS in Electrical Engineering. I am currently working for a software company in Washington. Previously, I have given talks in systems programming at the Python Software Foundation, in Dubai. I look forward to meeting you all and learning a lot during this camp!

Matthew is a physicist who realized his favorite part about running experiments was writing code. So, after working on superconducting qubits at UCSB, where he obtained his PhD, and at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, he made the move to Silicon Valley and joined NetWallet to sling code full time.

I'm a staff software engineer in quality at Intuit. I've background quality experiences in embedded systems, web applications, and most recently on mobile apps. I find it so fascinating whenever I'm embarking on new technology and industry space because there are plenty innovations on how to write and test software that one can learn. I love to learn new technology skills and be able to share with my professional peers.

Computer language enthusiast from Linz, Austria. Having used Java since 1997, I nowadays prefer more flexible languages. In particular, I'm interested in Groovy, Scala, and Clojure. I'm the creator of the Spock testing framework and an occasional Groovy committer. In my day job, I'm a Principal Software Engineer with Gradleware, working on the Gradle build automation tool.

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.

Andrey has earned the Microsoft Certified Application Developer for .NET (MCAD.NET), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET (MCSD.NET), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA), and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) certifications. He had taught Microsoft courses on SQL Server and Windows Administration. He has been doing a lot of thinking and work around cloud computing.

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.

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.

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

I am a Data Architect at Intuit. I have been extracting value from data for twenty years. I have worked at startups (some my own) and at large companies like PayPal and now Intuit. I worked on the PayPal payment transactional front end as well as large data warehouses on both traditional relational databases as well as newer technologies like Hadoop and NoSQL and NewSQL stores. I have a love for analytics and machine learning.

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.

High-tech product manager/evangelist at CloudBees in Menlo Park, CA. Over twenty years in enterprise software, including 13 years working at BEA/Oracle on Java, Java EE and Web technology. Former Diplomat, Diving Instructor and Chef. Triathlete, cyclist, hiker and wreck diver, plus Math/Science enthusiast Educated at the Perse School and St John's College, Cambridge (BA, MA, DipCompSci) with a BSc in Mathematical Sciences (OU). Follow me on twitter @mqprichard

Devin Rader spends his day’s extoling the virtues of Twilio, the simple cloud telephony platform. Before that he worked at Infragistics where he focused on delivering great user experiences to developers using their controls. As a participant in several .NET user groups and former INETA board member, Devin is an active supporter of the .NET community. He's also the co-author of multiple books including Professional Silverlight 4 and Professional ASP.NET 4. Follow Devin on twitter @devinrader

Anand has over 15 years of software design and development experience - with an emphasis on Microsoft Technologies. Prior to taking on his current role of Solutions Engineer with Infragistics, he’s consulted as an Enterprise Architect for companies such as Warner Brothers, Costco and Scantron. Anand currently holds the following technical certifications: Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MSCD) [.Net & legacy] Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP)

aja Rao DV has spent most of his decade long career as a senior engineer and developer advocate for VMware Zimbra. As part of Zimbra, his main role was to promote, engineer and maintain Zimbra's extension framework called Zimlets. Along the way he developed 100+ plugins and trained several large Zimbra customers like Comcast, Telus(Canada), BigLobe(Japan) etc on how to extend Zimbra. He currently works as Node.js developer advocate for Cloud Foundry and is responsible for working with developers and partners to enhance the platform.

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.

Chris Richardson is a developer and architect. He is a Java Champion, a JavaOne rock star and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris was also the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com, an early Java PaaS for Amazon EC2. Today, he is a recognized thought leader in microservices and speaks regularly at international conferences. Chris is the creator of Microservices.io, a pattern language for microservices, and is writing the book Microservice Patterns, which is available as a Manning MEAP. He provides microservices consulting and training to organizations that are adopting the microservice architecture and is working on his third startup Eventuate, an application platform for developing transactional microservices.

Ken Rutsky is a B2B marketing consultant focused on helping his clients breakthrough and become market leaders. Ken is the author of the soon-to-be-published book, Launching to Leading: How B2B Market Leaders Breakthrough, Lead, and Transform their Markets. Ken has spent more than 20 years in B2B marketing roles, including launching the Intel Inside broadcast co-op program and the Internet’s first affiliate marketing program, Netscape Now. Today, as KJR Associates, Inc. Founder and President, Ken leverages his knowledge and experience and his Breakthrough Marketing framework to help his clients, who have included FireEye, Nimsoft, Cisco, Sophos and others, to lead and transform their their markets.

I am a Systems Performance Expert with specialization in Database and System Architecture. I have helped to deploy and maximize availability of large MES systems in several Semiconductor and Solar manufacturing fabs.

Senior Software Engineer at Box, developing large scale deployment software. Prior to this role, I was at Microsoft developing Cloud Platform and Windows Server.

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.

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

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).

Author of “Composable Futures with Akka 2.0”, lead instructor at https://www.scalacourses.com, and software expert witness. Opines on trade secrets, source code analysis and comparison, inter partes patent reviews and covered business methods.

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.

Biz hacker, g33k and developer advocate with a bicoastal habit (NYC & SF)

Cindy F. Solomon is a product marketing leader and product management lifecycle expert. Startup Product Academy facilitates a holistic view of product and forwards both product leaders and professional product management organizations with innovative approaches across disciplines.

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.

I am a MySQL Community Manager for Oracle

I am working as Principal Engineer for Financial Data Services at Intuit.

I love building enterprise software that wow businesses and the end-user alike. For me, enterprise software should be a perfect blend of art and science and always have the best user experience in mind. My current interests are in distributed storage and database systems. I particularly enjoy working in high energy, results oriented environments with high stakes!

Self employed software developer

Aki has been recruiting for web and software companies for over a decade. He held different recruiting and HR roles in the US and overseas at Google, then joined Greylock Partners as its director of talent, providing recruiting support to the venture firm's startups. He was the director of recruiting and HR at Dropbox, and now runs a consulting firm, Persona, which works with startups to put in place the hiring fundamentals they need to recruit. Aki went to Brown, and lives in San Francisco.

Erick's a developer who's managed engineering teams and built sites from the ground up. From a multi million visits a year comparison shopping site Nextag.com to the mobile platform StackMob, he's been working with Java/Scala/JS/HTML5 and CSS3 to get the job done. Most recently he's been building out the JS SDK for StackMob to help other developers get their ideas to market! Knowing that he's helping people fulfill their imagination is incredibly satisfying. He hopes to continue to help more in the community.

Sumant is a Sr. Software Engineer at LinkedIn and a Microsoft MVP. He helps run Kafka and the related streaming infrastructure at LinkedIn. He contributes in open-source Apache Kafka and writes Kafka Truths and C++ Truths blogs. Previously he worked on reactive stream processing for Industrial IoT system in RTI.

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.

Solutions Engineer at Sencha, member of the Professional Services Team. Responsible for taking advantage of the full capabilities of HTML5 with Sencha Tools and develop awesome apps or provide expertise on client's site.

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

John “JT” Thomas is the Director of Product Management for Developer Tools at Embarcadero Technologies. JT had been a product manager for early versions of Delphi and C++Builder at Borland Software and has recently held product management positions at mobile Linux vendor MontaVista Software and at Research in Motion. JT has a Bachelor in Computer Science from University of California, Santa Cruz and an MBA and MSE from San Jose State University.

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.

Developer Programs Engineer for Google TV, avid paintball-er, snowboarder, occasional privateer, passionate technologist and all around excited geek. Kristan 'Krispy' Uccello has worked in the industry for over fourteen years for big and small companies (even started a few). Right now he is helping other trailblazing developers to realize their goals on Google TV from the Google offices in Mountain View.

Adwait Ullal is an Azure Architect who has helped migrate applications, data centers to the cloud. His current focus is cloud computing, especially Azure. His past experience includes enterprise and solutions architecture.

Eric is a seasoned software developer professional with broad and deep experience working on operating systems, embedded devices, server management software and mobile services (previously at Microsoft.) He is now leading the architecture of the client synchronization platform at a fast growing exciting start up, Box.com.

Marina Vatkina is a member of the Java EE Architecture team at Oracle, leading the current (3.2) version of the EJB specification under the Java Community Process (JCP). During the last 10 years she has been responsible for the design and implementation of several modules in the GlassFish Java EE application server, including persistence, transaction manager, and EJB container.

Currently working in Sencha Professional Services department as Senior Solutions Engineer. Surfing on the waves of IT for past 17 years.

Sastry has 16+ years of rich, robust and diversified IT and Functional experience in multiple technologies spread across various domains, businesses and verticals. His strengths are in pre-sales/program/delivery/account management and on time and on budget delivery of large projects adhering to the quality norms and to the utmost customer satisfaction. He also has strong and proven expertise in providing Architectural Consultancy to global projects. Joined Sun Microsystems in 2008 as Enterprise Solution Architect handling Deployment Architecture using JavaCAPS ( Middleware) applications. After MySQL Merger in to Sun and then later into Oracle worked different technologies including MySQL , Fusion Middleware Solutions. Currently working as sr. technical Consultant in the MySQL team.

I can type in Colemak just as fast as I can in QWERTY.

Jeremy is a Developer Advocate focused on helping partners build apps and businesses on YouTube's platform.

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.

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.

Elaine Wherry was Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer (CXO) for Meebo, a consumer Internet company that enabled millions of users to chat, share, and connect with their online friends before being acquired by Google in 2012. Wherry authored Meebo's initial JavaScript framework in 2005 and went on to lead the Web, Product Management, and User Experience teams.

Jeff Winner, Co-founder & CTO at cardspring.com As a software engineer and serial entrepreneur, Jeff has been building top-performing software engineering teams since 1993. He’s hired 100s of engineers for multiple growth organizations. He graded with an MSCS form MIT in 1986. At cardspring he’s helping bring real time payment integration to web and mobile developers.

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.

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.