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.

Regional Practice Director for Business Intelligence/SQL at Neudesic. Angel's delivered business solutions for the past 10 years with Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint and Tableau across PacWest. Experienced developer and architect with track record in system integrations, data warehousing, dashboard/report design, project management, and building BI strategies/road maps. Co-Lead of the Bay Area Microsoft BI User Group; active speaker at PASS Summit, BA Conference, and SQL Saturdays across the US

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.

Ops at Crittercism: shining light on mobile app performance in the wild. Previous: tech cofounder at Wishery.

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

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

James is a Developer Evangelist for Telerik and has been involved in software development and architecture for 18 years. He has worked as a developer and architect on everything from small, single-user applications to Enterprise-scale, multi-user systems. His specialties are .NET development and architecture, TDD, SOA, WCF, Web Development, cloud computing, and agile development methodologies. He is an experienced mentor and author. James is a Microsoft MVP, President of the Central Ohio Day of

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.

Paul Bertucci is the founder of Data by Design, LLC (www.dataxdesign.com – formerly Database Architechs), a global database consulting firm with offices in the United States and Paris, France. Former Chief Architect/Shared Services Director for Autodesk (BI/DW/ODS, Big Data, Identity Management, SOA, Integration (EAI & ETL), MDM, Collaboration/Social, SaaS platforms, and Enterprise Architecture). Former Chief Data Architect at Symantec. Author SQL Server Unleashed book series.

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 drive developer adoption of DocuSign API

I've led technical operations at various West Coast startups since well before the dawn of the 21st century. Now having a great time making build and deployment fast and pain-free for any engineer at Netflix. I'm especially interested in narrowing the gaps between development and operations, as well as using the cloud for added scaling and improved efficiency. I'm always looking for new ways to get the product built, tested and deployed faster while still getting a good night’s sleep.

Sam Bowne has been teaching computer networking and security classes at CCSF since 2000. He has given talks at CodeCamp, DEFCON, BayThreat, LayerOne, and Toorcon, and taught classes and seminars at many other schools and teaching conferences. He has a Ph.D. and a CISSP and a lot of other certifications, and a lot of computer and cables and firewalls and stuff.

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 consider myself a pragmatic software architect – someone who finds that adaptive design appears in the friction between ideas and implementation, vision and application, abstraction and ground reality. I have found that - contrary to expectation - velocity comes from this process of emergent design. Consequently I use design patterns, TDD, the cloud and Agile methodologies as the means to develop and deploy systems.

Neil Brown works as a computing education researcher at the University of Kent in the UK. He is part of the team that design, develop and support the beginners’ Java programming environments, BlueJ and Greenfoot. He has a role in development, research and also outreach for the projects.

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.

Michael Caisse has been crafting code in C++ for nearly 25-years. He is a regular speaker at C++Now! where his talks have been awarded Best Workshop and Most Useful Session. Michael is the owner of Ciere Consulting which provides software consulting and contracting services, C++ training, and Project Recovery for failing multidisciplinary engineering projects : ciere.com

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.

Head of Product Management at Treasure Data. Specialized in interaction design, user research and testing. I run the best design meetup in the Bay Area, the "UX Eye for the developer guy"

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

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

Joe would prefer to help you architect a database correctly from the ground up, but can also fix serious problems quickly. Unlike many performance experts, I will re-write your SQL, even if the original coder is long gone and everyone else is afraid to touch it. Another specialty is storage performance. Your SAN vendor is generally clueless on database and most likely suggested a configuration with absolutely horrible performance. Is all of this expensive? Not if you have the right tools.

insane dev 24/7 - I have a knack for making cool hacks involving 3D, AR computer vision and Sensor Fusion, HMDs, VR, new media interfaces such as motion gesture devices from Leap Motion and Intel Perceptual Computing... in 48 hours!

Ahmed Charles works for A9 on Amazon's product search infrastructure.

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

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

Eugene Chuvyrov is a Senior Cloud Architect at Microsoft. He works directly with both startups and enterprises to enable their solutions in Microsoft cloud, and to make Azure better as a result of this work with partners. Over his tenure at Microsoft, his focus varied from modern DevOps, to enabling AI solutions in the cloud, to advising customers on creating Blockchain solutions in Azure. He is looking forward to sharing his knowledge from those engagements with the community.

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.

Michael is a recovering Enterprise Java developer getting in touch with his functional side.

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.

Rupa Dachere is the Founder and President of CodeChix.org, a non-profit organization dedicated to the education, promotion and mentorship of female engineers. She is also a Member of Technical Staff at VMware and an Advisor for the Stanford GAP-For-Good program. Her dream is to one day have parity in the number of female and male engineers in academia and industry. Rupa did her Computer Science studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Learn more about her at rupadachere.com.

Scott Deeg has been bouncing around the Java world since the mid 90's, getting his start as a member of the team that produced Symantec's Visual Cafe, one of the early Java IDEs. He is currently a senior field engineer for Pivotal where he helps companies as they transition to modern application architectures, simpler middleware infrastructures, and "aaS" operating environments. A hacker by nature, he still get's a little thrill on the rare occasions when he gets to write code.

Chander Dhall is a Microsoft MVP, professional software architect/lead developer, trainer, INETA speaker, open source contributor, community leader and organizer with years of experience in enterprise as well as start-up Software Development. He works in a goal-oriented, technologically-driven, fast-paced AGILE (SCRUM) environment. He is the founder of Dallas day of dot net. He has a Master's Degree in computer science with specialization in algorithms, principles and patterns and is focused on

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.

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.

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.

Darius is a mentor to startup teams and an advisor to startup incubators, universities, growing companies and large enterprises around the world. He leads workshops on Customer-Focused Product Definition and Development, Innovation Management, Business Model Analysis and Strategy. Specialties - Technology: Internet and Web Technologies from Networking Protocols to Web Development, Internet Identity & Privacy, Computer & Networking Systems, IOS and OSX Development.

Founder of River of Talent. Love Python. Expert at data analysis software and business applications. I presented at SVCC a few years ago and look forward to presenting again. Thanks!

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

With over 17 years of experience in data and software development, Ike Ellis is recognized as one of the best and brightest business intelligence and data experts. Ike has been a SQL Server MVP since 2011. Ike has been Microsoft certified since the beginning, currently holding an MCDBA, MCSE, MCSD, and MCT. He is a popular consultant, lecturer, and community leader.

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.

Johan joined Google in 2011 as a Developer Programs Engineer. He is currently focusing on App Engine. Before Google, Johan was providing development services as a Freelancer around Free and Open Source Software.

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

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

Robert Felten has an MS degree in Computer Science from UCLA. He is president of Robert Felten Software LLC, and just finished a contract developing an NVMe compliant SSD manager written in Qt/C++ for IDT in San Jose. Robert specializes in C++ for embedded linux and Qt/C++ desktop GUI applications. He has taught classes in C++, testing, GUI development, Object Oriented programming, and now is teaching Qt.

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.

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

Work on Windows Azure focused on Mobile backends, namely Mobile Services and Notification Hubs.

Yavor is a Program Manager on the Windows Azure team at Microsoft, focusing on building connected mobile apps. He has spent the last couple of years developing frameworks to enable a variety of clients to connect to cloud and on-premise web services. You can find him at http://hashtagfail.com and @theYavor on Twitter.

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.

Bill has been building apps since, well, for too long to admit. Anyone remember the IBM 1401 or 7094; Computers the size of an SUV, no disk drives, punch cards? Still at it, recent projects include Ferry Reservations Express, a ticketing and booking system complex, AeroTunes, a Windows Phone 8.1 app for streaming music from YouTube, and StartGator, more than just a start button replacement.. Bill is head of permanent start-up Windigo Systems.

Ben Gremillion is a Design Writer for ZURB. He's written several articles for various blogs on web design after having practiced in the field for 10 years. He once moonlighted as a Photoshop instructor in Texas before building websites for a New Zealand startup. Now he writes and teaches on product design for ZURB's educational training.

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.

Jeff Handley is a Development Lead at Microsoft working on NuGet. He has also worked on ASP.NET Web Pages, Razor, Azure, and WCF RIA Services. Before joining Microsoft in 2008, Jeff spent over 10 years in the field developing and architecting web applications.

Matt Hargett is a Lean-Agile implementer who specializes in large C/C++/C#-focused teams and organizations. He has rolled out Agile engineering and Lean business practices at some of the largest companies in Silicon Valley. Matt co-wrote Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# 2nd edition with the Pragmatic Programmers and contributes heavily to open source projects. In his spare time, he write songs under the name "the making of the making of", which can be found on most digital music outlets.

A designer turned engineer, I’ve been making applications for the web professionally for years and enjoy all aspects from conceptualization and design to the engineering bits which drive them. Simply put, I love building great products.

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.

Mehul Harry is the web product manager at Developer Express where he works with and blogs about ASP.NET, HTML5, and JavaScript. He has produced more than 200 technical videos and interviews on Windows development and developer culture.

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.

Les Hazlewood is co-founder and CTO of Stormpath, Apache Shiro PMC Chair and a JavaOne Rockstar. Prior to forming Stormpath, he held senior architectural positions at Bloomberg and Delta Airlines and was CTO of a software engineering firm. Les has been actively involved in Open Source for more than 10 years, committing or contributing to projects like the Spring Framework, JBoss, and Apache Shiro. Les has a B.S. in Computer Science and practices Kendo and studies Japanese when not coding.

Elisabeth wrote her first line of code in 1980; moments later, she found her first bug. Since then her career has run the gamut of software development: programming, test automation, technical writing, quality engineering, management, and coaching. She ran a small consultancy from 1997 through 2012. In 2003, she learned how to do Agile for real from Pivotal Labs. She joined Pivotal full time in 2012 and now works on Cloud Foundry full time.

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.

Tim is a developer at Intuit, building software to help simplify the lives of the self-employed. He has a sordid history of being both a power-user and developer of frameworks over the course of his career, and most recently has taken a liking to Spring Boot.

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.

Steve Hoffman (a.k.a. Captain Hoff) is an angel investor, serial entrepreneur, and Captain of Founders Space. http://www.FoundersSpace.com Hoffman is a founding member of the Academy of Television’s Interactive Media Group, was Chairman for the Producers Guild SF, and served on the Board of Governors for the New Media Council.

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.

Jordan Humphreys is one of the developers behind Foundation, the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. He originally started out at ZURB as a marketing intern, but found that he enjoyed working with code more. He spends his days working on both ZURB's product suite and Foundation.

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.

Ryan Jarvinen is an open source evangelist working with RedHat's OpenShift team. He lives in Oakland, California and is passionate about open source, open standards, open government, and digital rights. You can reach him as 'ryanj' on twitter, github, and IRC.

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

Victor is Cofounder/CEO of scrible, where he’s the chief evangelist, product manager and business lead. His diverse background includes product management and business development. He played a key role as an early team member at insuranceOrder (subsidiary of storied enterprise software firm Trilogy), which was acquired by Marsh & McLennan. Early in his career, he had a short stint at VC firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Victor holds a BA from Brown University and an MS from Stanford.

PAAS technologist at Pivotal Inc

I've been a professional software developer since 1994, and ran my own consulting company from 2003 to 2013. At Practice Fusion, I help build a cutting edge Electronic Health Record that connects doctors, patients, and data to drive better health and save lives.

Experienced with every aspect of tech startups: From ideation to raising money to exit strategies. From team building to leadership and fostering a sustainable culture of commitment. From product concepts, through hands-on development and user experience to patents and commercialization. From sales and marketing to strategic partnerships. From business models to strategies and tactics and being ever responsive to change.

Ramki is working working in Intuit as performance Engineering Lead.

SQL Server MVP Hugo Kornelis is co-founder and R&D lead of perFact BV, a Dutch company that strives to improve analysis methods and to develop computer-aided tools that will generate completely functional applications from the analysis deliverable. The platform used for this development is SQL Server. In his spare time, Hugo likes to share and enhance his knowledge of SQL Server by frequenting newsgroups and forums, reading and writing books and blogs, and attending and speaking at conferences.

Web developer for last 12+ years

Eugene is Principal Mobile Engineer working for Intuit CTO development organization. Before Intuit ( 3+ years), Eugene worked for Aspect Development, NetLabs, Sun Microsystems, InnoPath Software in Network/System/Mobile management space. Last three years Eugene has been specialized in developing Mobile Native applications on IOS & Android, lead Android Mint development for phones & tablets. The most recent projects are native Charting ( IOS & Android) and Native Custom View Framework.

Roots in open source: I ran the Gentoo Linux project from 2001 to 2005. From there, I did software engineering for a healthcare startup, and went on to create the Customer Support team, after acquisition and product launch. My team earned numerous awards from 3M, owing to the customer loyalty we engendered. From there I was recruited to Engine Yard to realign the customer experience.

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

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

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.

Shadaj loves to program. He has programmed in Ruby, Python, C, Java, Javascript, and Scala—his favorite. Shadaj hosts his projects on GitHub, and has a channel on Youtube. He has presented at OSCON 2014, Scala Days (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015), and the Bay Area Scala Enthusiast group showing his Scala projects. Besides programming, he likes Math and Science. He has interned at Coursera working with technologies such as Play! Framework and Scala.js. In addition, he is also an active member of his school community and has been Student Body President. Shadaj loves spreading his love of technology and started TechTalks—a program that brings guest speakers to share their knowledge and enthusiasm with students at his school. When not doing his school work or programming, he plays the sitar, and games, some of which he created.

Raj Lal works as a UX Lead at MobileIron bridging the gap between design and technology. He hosts Igniters and Silicon Valley Designers Meetup in the Silicon Valley. Check out his latest book Digital Design Essentials: 100 ways to design better desktop, web, and mobile interfaces at Amazon. More Info at http://www.rajlal.com He tweets at @iRajLal

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

Fabien is a full-stack engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Passionate about Machine Learning and Deep Learning, he is specialized in C# development but also program in Python, JavaScript...

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.

Founder/CEO of @GoodAudience ( @Techstars London 2014.) First company at 16. Scaled content platform at @Yahoo from 0 to 600M users. Led product management in search with a team of 25 research scientists. CS @Berkeley.

Senior data tier architect, data modeler, database designer and SQL developer. Inventor of intelligent, autonomous performance optimization products. Designed, reviewed and optimized some of the world’s largest, most challenging, mission critical data environments. A seasoned speaker, instructor and mentor. Author of white papers and technical articles.

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.

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

Josh Long is the Spring Developer Advocate. Josh is the lead author on Apress’ Spring Recipes, 2nd Edition, the O'Reilly "Pro Spring Roo" book, the Pearson "Livelessons for Spring" and a committer on several Spring projects and the Activiti BPMN framework. When he’s not hacking on code, he can be found at the local Java User Group or at the local coffee shop. Josh likes solutions that push the boundaries of the technologies that enable them. Josh's interests include big-data, mobile, REST, NoSQL and integration. He blogs on the Spring blog and [on his personal blog](http://joshlong.com).

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

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.

Principal Software Engineer at VCE Inc, specializing in Cloud Computing and application deployment on cloud. Currently working on developing solutions to automate the real SDLC that includes development, version control, build, provisioning of systems, software deployment, test and production release.

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 problem solver at heart. I've spent the last four years at PayPal working on a variety of interesting challenges, trying to find elegant solutions that make life easier for others, and teaching developers how to better use the tools available to them. Favorite Quote: "Perfect is the enemy of Done"

Steve Marx is a Developer Advocate at Dropbox. Before joining Dropbox, he built his own startup (Site44) on top of the Dropbox platform, and before that he worked on cloud computing at Microsoft.

Beth Massi is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for .NET at Microsoft and a long-time community champion for .NET developers. She helps developers build amazing things. Follow her 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'm a Product Manager who has recently gone back to coding to build a B2B application for sales incentives. Originally from the UK but now a Bay Area resident.

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

Rushabh Mehta is the Principal Architect & Business Intelligence Mentor with SolidQ. He served as PASS President for the 2010/11 term. Rushabh has worked with SQL Server since 1998 and has designed and developed BI systems on the Microsoft platform since 2001, including a predictive analysis system, a health-care analysis solution, and a multi-terabyte financial decision support system.

Troy Miles, aka the Rockncoder, is an award winning software developer, speaker, and author with over 37 years of professional experience. He is the author of the book, jQuery Essentials, numerous magazine articles and blog posts. He began his career writing games in 6502 and x86 assembly for early computers like the Commodore 64, Apple II, and IBM PC. Along the way, he has twice won the game of the year award, fantastic reviews, and numerous accolades. Nowadays he writes web & mobile apps for a Southern California-based automotive valuation and information company. He has hung up is assembly language hat, but is fluent in JavaScript, C#, C++, Java, Kotlin, and Clojure. Nights and weekends he can usually be found writing cool apps for mobile and the web or teaching other developers how to do so. Troy has spoken at Velocity, MobileWeb Dev Con, Mobile Dev+Test, and NG-Vegas. He is also a regular speaker at the SoCal and Silicon Valley Code Camps plus in front of local developer groups all over Southern California. Many of his talks are on his YouTube channel.

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

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.

Stacia Misner is a SQL Server MVP, SSAS Maestro, MCIT-BI, and MCTS-BI. A consultant, educator, author, and principal of Data Inspirations, her career spans more than 25 years, with a focus on improving business practices through technology. Since 2000, Stacia has been providing consulting and education services for Microsoft's business intelligence technologies. During that time, she has also authored several books covering the Microsoft BI stack.

Patrick is a co-Founder of RocketWeave LLC, a consulting partnership focused on leveraging contemporary technology to assist growing companies with scaling and compliance issues. He is a seasoned information technology executive with 20+ years of industry experience in data processing, data warehousing and data analysis initiatives. He has extensive experience with BI program and project management, especially in banking, investment and other financial arenas.

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

A Designer and architect passionate about new technologies.

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

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

Jerry is a Microsoft Developer and Evangelist in Colorado. He teaches and trains developers on best practices and techniques, making the most of the Universal Windows Platform.

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

Chris is a senior architect for RelayHealth in Emeryville, CA, the connectivity business of the nation's leading healthcare services company. There he is responsible for the architecture and development of applications and services that accelerate care delivery by connecting patients, providers, pharmacies, and financial institutions. Chris is also an active open-source developer and the primary contributor to multiple projects including MassTransit and Topshelf.

Steve is a PaaS Dust Spreader (aka developer evangelist) with OpenShift. He goes around and shows off all the great work the OpenShift engineers do. He can teach you about PaaS with Java, Python, JavaScript, PostgrSteve is a Dad, Son, Partner, and PaaS Dust Spreader (aka developer evangelist) with OpenShift. He goes around and shows off all the great work the OpenShift engineers do. He can teach you about PaaS with Java, Python, PostgreSQL MongoDB, and some JavaScript. He has deep subject area expertise in GIS/Spatial, Statistics, and Ecology. He has spoken at over 50 conferences and done over 30 workshops including Monktoberfest, MongoNY, JavaOne, FOSS4G, CTIA, AjaxWorld, GeoWeb, Where2.0, and OSCON. Before OpenShift, Steve was a developer evangelist for LinkedIn, deCarta, and ESRI. Steve has a Ph.D. in Ecology from University of Connecticut. He likes building interesting applications and helping developers create great solutions.eSQL, & MongoDB, . He has 11 years programming & 19 years doing geospatial work. Before OpenShift, Steve was a developer evangelist for LinkedIn and deCarta. He likes building interesting applications and helping developers create great solutions.

Pradeep Pujari is the Senior Architect at AngiesList. In this role, he is responsible for design and implementation of Text Analytics, Search and Recommend. Prior to AngiesList, he was with Walmart looking after mid-tier apps, web search and data mining. His core domain expertise is in information retrieval, machine learning and natural language processing. In off hours, he loves exploring new technologies, enjoys reading and mentoring.

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

Paul Rashidi is a Developer Advocate with Google focusing on the cloud technologies, including Google Compute Engine. He is passionate about simplifying mobile application development using cloud technologies and is interested in speaking to like-minded mobile developers regarding their use cases.

Samantha Ready is a Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com. She is passionate about technology and dedicated to empowering users of all technical backgrounds to build cloud apps. You can find her tinkering away at mobile applications, blogging, and wandering the globe trying to meet as many developers in the community as possible.

With a Bachelor in Psychology, a Master’s in IT, several years as a C# MVP, and graduate work in Technical Communications, Joe is able to offer a unique variety of services to his customers. When not working in the office, or at home, Joe can generally be found at St. Jonah Orthodox Church, or at one of the many User Groups in which he regularly participates.

Christopher is a Sr. Techincal Trainer at Sencha with a background in M.I.S. Prior to working at Sencha, he consulted and lead teams on projects for Southern Company, BBVA Compass, Kraft Foods International, and Lorillard. He has also provided training on HTML, CSS, and Content Management Systems for K-12 teacher workshops. Today Christopher provides training for Sencha Touch 2, ExtJS 4.x and Sencha Architect. In the classroom his motto is, "Laughter is the best lubricant for knowledge."

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.

Ryan Riddle is the Lead Editor at ZURB. He's a former mild-mannered reporter who is now a champion of online product design. He spends most of his days working on the Expo, ZURB's educational and training hub for product designers. He is very involved in Forrst, a community of 50,000 designers and developers, helping others understand the importance of giving and receiving feedback.

Felix is a Startup Developer Evangelist in San Francisco, working with young companies on impressive apps on Windows, Windows Phone and Azure.

Java, database hacker/developer

Aidan Ryan got his start programming text adventures in GW-BASIC and hasn’t looked back since. He is a .NET developer specializing in client-side technologies and web services, and employs these skills as a Lead Consultant at Magenic. Aidan enjoys recording and performing music, comics, LEGO, and comedy.

I like code camp where I can experience many technologies in demo, speeches etc. I am Microsoft Certified Professional, CompTIA and IBM certified. I have MBA from Santa Clara. I have worked at Intel, IBM and other start-ups that went IPO or got acquired. I am always eager about NEXT FRONTIER in products/solutions that would change the world. Now, I work at Informatica Corp. My role is to work with my partners and help develop our products with combined technologies for best user experience.

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.

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.

Aaron Schlesinger is a Sr. Software Engineer at EngineYard where he’s a core contributor to the Deis project. He leads or contributes to development on much of the Go codebase in the Deis PaaS platform and also mentors beginner Go developers at EngineYard. He’s been a software developer for 10+ years, and most of that time has focused on distributed systems from large scale data warehousing to real time servers. Being a Go developer for the past 2+ years, he has distilled his knowledge of the language into the Go In 5 Minutes screencast (http://www.goin5minutes.com) as well as speaking at various conferences and events about Go. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science in Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Brent is a software developer who has been working with Microsoft technologies since 2004. His interests include client and mobile application development and user experience design with a recent emphasis on Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Other platforms he has worked with include WPF, Silverlight, Windows Forms, and iOS. He is an Evangelist working for Infragistics with a focus on mobile platforms. He has a passion for making people’s experiences with software the best that they can possibly be.

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.

Muhammad has been serving the Microsoft Enterprise Development world for more that 12 years. During this time he has worked in public sector, marketing and advertising & banking and finance industries. He is a recipient of Microsoft Community Contributor Award in 2011. He is an author and a passionate blogger. He is a co-author of "MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight & WPF". [http://shujaat.net]

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Co-founder and CTO of Runscope. Former API Team Lead at Twilio. Co-maintainer of Flask-Restful, Twilio's open-source REST framework. <3's service oriented architectures.

Mark Tabladillo (SAS expert, Microsoft MVP, PhD) first worked as a software developer in southern California in the 1980s. Today, Mark is a data mining scientist, providing training and consulting for companies in United States and around the world. He has spoken at top conferences including SQL Saturday Mountain View, Microsoft TechEd, PASS Summit, Predictive Analytics World, SAS Global Forum, and PASS Business Analytics Conference. He has taught statistics at the university level.

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.

Engineer, inventor, DIY enthusiast, aviator, photographer, foodie, traveler, gardener, trap shooter. I work at Oracle, live in the San Francisco bay area and enjoy spending time exploring the different microclimates and topography of the region.

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

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.

Software architect Telecommunication expert Developer assist

I hack on JavaScript on the server and the client. I talk on the radio about technology, take photographs, and love web development.

Adam works as a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft. Prior to that he worked as a software architect in defense, finance, pharma, manufacturing, technology, and public sector fields over a span of 18+ years. He has a security background, and is deeply involved with web technologies.

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.

Ioannis Verdelis is Cofounder and COO is Syntellia. Syntellia's first product, Fleksy, is set to disrupt the touch screen text input space in a multitude of industries. Syntellia has received multiple awards, including the prestigious SXSW Interactive Accelerator Award, and acclamation from the press. One of Wall Street Journal's Startups of the Year. Throughout his career, Ioannis has been at the forefront of the development and fast growth of businesses which have become industry leaders.

Ron is passionate about teaching kids how to program. He thinks programming is as essential a skill in the 21st century, as reading, writing and math. Ron conducts programming classes through his company Tinker Academy. Tinker Academy offers classes in software programming to students in elementary and middle schools in and around Cupertino.

Guy has over 20 years of experience developing web apps, and managing development and deployment projects for web, mobile and cloud applications. Guy is currently the CTO of ExPOS Restaurant Analytics - a unique restaurant BI SaaS, and a consultant at Traveling Tech Guy consulting.

Christian Wade, creator of the BISM Normalizer, has been doing BI and solution architecture since SQL Server 7.0. He speaks at the PASS Community Summit, SQLBits, SQL Saturday and other events.

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.

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

James L. (Jim) Weaver is a Java and JavaFX developer, author, and speaker with a passion for helping rich-client Java and JavaFX become preferred technologies for new application development. Books that Jim has authored include Inside Java, Beginning J2EE, and Pro JavaFX 2. As an Oracle Java Evangelist, Jim speaks internationally at software technology conferencs. Jim blogs at http://javafxpert.com, tweets @javafxpert, and may be reached at james.weaver AT oracle.com

Fascinated by the grand challenge of writing Small Business software that solves the necessary complexity of business management, while at the same time being simple and easy to use.

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.

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.

Hinkmond Wong is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff with the Java Embedded group and has been working at former Sun Microsystems, Inc., now Oracle for over 19 years. He was the specification lead for the Java Community Process (JCP) Java Specification Requests (JSRs) 36, 46, 218, and 219, Java ME Connected Device Configuration (CDC) and Foundation Profile. He holds a B.S.E in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and an M.S.E in computer engineering from SCU

Joshua has 5+ years as a professional Software Engineer. Currently he is a Front End Developer at eBay. He was the founder of GDG Fresno where he taught Google Technologies to new and experienced developers. Recognized as a Google Developer Expert for Chrome.

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

Senior Software Engineer ( Frontend focus ), LAMP developer and love to explore different technologies. Currently focus on web performance, web security and frontend stack complexity analysis. I have a passion for web development and architecture: from application design, frontend prototype to database design, I have experience and enjoyed every piece of it. I'm especially picky about user experience, performance and security in web development. Specialties: Web development. LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, PHP, Mysql), JAVA, HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery, Backbone, React, Reflux, Redux, CoffeeScript, Stylus, SCSS, Gulp, Webpack.

Ghaida Zahran is a product Designer at ZURB and one of the designers working on the Foundation framework. Ghaida takes the unicorn designer moniker seriously, weaving together both interaction design and mad code skills backed by a solid understanding of design principles and years of experience working with a variety of clients on all types of web and mobile projects.

Bob Zeidman is the president and founder of Zeidman Technologies where he invented the patented SynthOS™ program for automatically generating real-time software. He is considered a pioneer in the fields of analyzing and synthesizing software source code. Bob is a prolific writer and instructor, giving seminars at conferences around the world. Among his publications are numerous articles on engineering and business as well as five textbooks, Designing with FPGAs and CPLDs, Verilog Designer's Library, Introduction to Verilog, The Software IP Detective’s Handbook, and Just Enough Electronics to Impress Your Friends and Colleagues. He is also author of the award-winning novels The Amazing Adventure of Edward and Dr. Sprechtmachen, Horror Flick, and Good Intentions as well as the award-winning but as-yet unproduced screenplays Sex and Violence, The Amazing Adventure of Edward and Dr. Sprechtmachen, and Horror Flick. Bob is the recipient of the 2010 Outstanding Engineer in a Specialized Field from the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section for Innovative Contributions in the Area of Forensic Software Analysis. He holds numerous patents and earned two bachelor's degrees, in physics and electrical engineering, from Cornell University and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Developer Evangelist specializing in HTML/JS at Microsoft!

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.