I'm a developer, technical lead and development manager, interested in software design, architecture and continuous deployment. I'm passionate about building quality software and like to write and speak about technology when I can. Northern Ireland native now happily based in San Francisco.

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.

Manoj has 20 years of experience in the industry. He likes solving high-availability and scalability problems in distributed systems. He is an AWS certified architect & developer. In his spare time, he likes cycling, hiking or playing board games.

Nir is a professional software engineer with expertise in Java, Node and Python and with over 14 years of experience in developing server-side applications. He likes challenges and has passion for building things, playing with new technologies and learning new things. After graduating B.Sc. in computer science he stayed another few years in university to complete M.Sc. in Mathematics specializing in Graph theory and algorithms. Then felt that the academy-life might not be for him after all, so he joined the high-tech industry. It took a bit over a year to understand that large corporations are not his cup of tea before he joined a small startup as the third developer, two years later that startup was bought and he moved to the Silicon Valley to help it continue to grow. Two years ago he joined Netflix and now is a member of Cloud Platform Automation team, helping his fellow engineers to deliver great "moments of truth" to over 60 million subscribers.

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

The Office of Academic Affairs oversees all instructional aspects of the College. Under the direction of the Vice President of Academic Affairs, the office works directly with the academic divisions: Business and Workforce Development, Nursing and Allied Health, Math, Science, and Engineering, Language Arts, Library and Learning Resources, and Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts, and Physical Education (SSHAPE). In addition, Evergreen Valley College models a holistic and integrated approach to providing maximum learning experiences for its students. In striving for this goal, Academic Divisions and Student Services Divisions work closely as one team.

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.

Andrew Bellay is a strategic, process-oriented, technical, entrepreneurial, and client-facing jack-of-all-trades. He’s founded 3 companies and worked with hundreds more as a technology strategist, designer, developer, advisor, and investor. Currently, Andrew runs MetaNeer Labs – a software development firm located in the San Francisco Bay Area – and writes for Straty.com. His formal education includes a Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering, a Bachelors of Arts in Liberal Arts from UT Austin, and a Masters of Science in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

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.

Pradeep is Senior Business Analyst at SugarCRM. By education he is an engineer in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, India. As a child Pradeep played with electric and electronics circuits and eventually micro-processors. He is passionate contributor to enrichment programs for kids in K1-12 age group for topics including technology and personal finances.

JeanCarl Bisson is an IBM Developer Advocate based in the San Francisco Bay Area. With over two decades of development experience on the web, he enjoys coding in the cloud and building rapid prototypes powered by IBM Watson. He has participated in more than a hundred hackathons and can often be found tinkering with APIs and IoT, making connections that inspire others to use in their own projects. JeanCarl is also very active in meetups, workshops, and local developer communities.

I am a developer focusing on scalable apps for data pipelines and machine learning on Hadoop and Spark infrastructures. My background is in Java/Oracle/ETL from 1996 until 2011, at which point I started to focus on Hadoop, Spark and Scala. My work has been at a mix of the familiar large Internet/Systems company names and startups.

Kevin is a SQL Server expert, working exclusively with the product since v6.5. With over 20 years of database experience and almost 45,000 man hours of SQL Server engine experience, he holds many related certifications, is an MCT and was a SQL Server MVP from 2007 to 2012. He has been a very successful independent consultant for over 15 years. Kevin is also a very frequent speaker, having presented at countless User Groups and almost 100 SQL Saturday conferences! His passion is the relational engine, especially designing, building, analyzing and tuning high-performance database applications.

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.

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

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"

Steven Chamberlin is a service reliability engineer for the cloud data services team at IBM, which provides resources for developers to get, build, and analyze data using BlueMix, IBM's Platform as a Service. Prior to that he was a developer for an internal tooling/infrastructure team. He has been with IBM for 13 years and has also held a variety of roles in quality, including system test, integration test and automation.

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.

Diwakar is a software engineer, designer and manager with more than 20 years of industry experience. His current interests are in the healthcare field and he is currently focussing on developing software products to revolutionize the way diabetes is managed by providing a HIPAA compliant cloud based solution that works for the diabetic, physicians, care givers and other interested parties.

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/

Rahul runs the US branch of Q42, a tech agency based in the Netherlands. Q42 builds software for large and small businesses in web, mobile and IoT, including a "jumpstart" program designed to help startups and enterprises accelerate.

+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).

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.

Steve Corona is the Principal Architect at Bigcommerce and previously was the CTO of Twitpic. He's currently writing the O'Reilly Media book on nginx and wrote the go-to book on Scaling PHP. He currently lives in San Francisco and blogs about life experimentation. Steve has an unhealthy obsession for tacos and is a mediocre dancer.

Daniel Coupal has over 20 years of experience in the software industry, with positions ranging from developer, consultant, support engineer and manager of different teams like product development, QA and tools. Daniel currently work at MongoDB, helping thousands of customers being successful in using MongoDB.

Eric Courville has been with Verizon for 15 years supporting and implementing Large Enterprise Resource Planning Applications from vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft and SAP. Specializing in application monitoring, and integrating SSO with third party applications. Eric is Also the founder of the Northern California PowerShell User Group with locations in San Francisco and the Sacramento area.

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.

Jennelle Crothers is a Microsoft Technical Evangelist who likes computer networking, server administration, dogs, quilting, popcorn and on most days, public transportation. Before joining Microsoft, Jennelle Crothers spent 15 years as a Systems Administrator "jack of all trades" overseeing Windows domains, Exchange Server, desktops and other IT systems where she struck fear into the hearts of end-users with complex password policies and email retention tags. Now she supports platform awareness for Azure, Windows Server and related technologies, containers and DevOps. Jennelle is a Microsoft Azure Specialist and prior to joining Microsoft, she was a four-time Microsoft MVP.

Jessica is a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft focusing on Azure, Infrastructure, cloud and OSS. Prior to joining Microsoft, she spent over a decade as an IT Consultant / Systems Administrator for various corporate and enterprise environments, catering to end users and IT professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jessica holds three Microsoft Certifications (MCP, MSTS, Azure Infrastructure), 3 CompTIA certifications (A+, Network+, and Security+), 4 Apple Certifications, and is a former 4-year Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Windows and Devices for IT. In 2013, she also achieved her FEMA certification from the U.S Department of Homeland Security, which recognizes her leadership and influence abilities during times of crisis and emergency.

Randall Degges leads Developer Advocacy at Okta and is a prominent Pythonista. Prior to joining Okta, he founded and built OpenCNAM, the largest Caller ID API service in North America. He has been actively involved in Open Source for more than 10 years, and has built a variety of projects used by thousands of developers. He has also authored a book on Heroku, and frequently writes on his personal site.

I am Graduate Student at San Jose State University. My Specialization is Networking. I am also working as Research Assistant with my professor here at SJSU on topics like Mobile Cloud Infrastructure. I gave one presentation on “MIT App inventor” tool at ISTE Approved Short Term training Program on ”Mobile Application Development ” July 2013 at Nirma University in India.

He is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) on Office 365, MCP in SharePoint 2007/2010. He is also a certified Data Scientist from The Johns Hopkins University (2015). He is currently working as a SharePoint Evangelist and Transformation Architect at Altera Corporation.

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.

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.

is a Public Relations Manager in Academy of Art University School of Fashion, with more than 15 years of experience in connecting fashion professionals and promoting creative designers. She started her career as Public Relations Director for Parfionova, a leading fashion house in Russia, producing runway shows and developing industry partnerships. After graduate studies in Management of Cultural Projects at Sorbonne University, Paris, Elena joined the international B2B fashion guide Modem and Modemonline.com. As an Editor of Modem Europe, she developed relationships with organizers of fashion weeks and industry trade shows in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Turkey, Georgia, Scandinavia, Russia and the USA. After relocating to the Bay Area from Paris in 2013, Elena managed the international relations and expansion into US market for Premium Berlin. She consulted with fashion startups on international business development, and was a featured speaker on Fashion Wearable Tech at Silicon Valley conferences.

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.

Livi Erickson is a virtual and augmented reality evangelist at Microsoft, focusing on development for VR and AR platforms. She has built and released apps for the Oculus Rift, presented JavaScript for VR at JS Conf Budapest 2015, taught Intro to Virtual Reality Development at the University of Bremen in Bremen, Germany, and will be speaking on virtual reality inclusion at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing this October.

DevRel for DAQRI. Hardcore Javascript Developer. Author of Learning Three.js blog and CTO. Currently Three.js Team Lead. Loves Javascript, 3D AR, VR, WebGL and cool HTML5 stuff. 8th most active user on Github and frequent speaker at tech confs. Loves teaching motivated people who are willing to learn awesome things.

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.

Anthony works for the AT&T Developer Program. As a Senior Product Marketing Manager, his role is to define the roadmap and launch plans for 3rd party APIs as well as drive the adoption by developers. Anthony is based in Palo Alto California.

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.

Claudia Galvan is a technical advisor to startups looking to expand internationally. Claudia is considered a world-wide expert in software internationalization. She has been responsible for building international teams from the ground-up and the technology used in platforms in Fortune 500 companies reaching billions of users around the world.

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.

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

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

Aaron Griffith has been testing and developing software for 20 years, and has worked as a Tester, Developer, and Mob Programmer. Loves Mob Programming, Teaching Kids Programming, and Star Wars.

Mohammed Guller is the author of "Big Data Analytics with Spark." He is the principal architect at Glassbeam, where he leads the development of advanced and predictive analytics products. He is a big data and Spark expert. He is frequently invited to speak at big data–related conferences. He is passionate about building new products, big data analytics, and machine learning. Over the last 20 years, Mohammed has successfully led the development of several innovative technology products from concept to release. Prior to joining Glassbeam, he was the founder of TrustRecs.com, which he started after working at IBM for five years. Before IBM, he worked in a number of hi-tech start-ups, leading new product development. Mohammed has a master’s of business administration from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s of computer applications from RCC, Gujarat University, India.

Aditya Gupta is an twelve-year old boy who loves to play and modify Minecraft. He also has experience in many other types of programming like Scratch, Java, Greenfoot, and Android. He is the youngest speaker ever at the Community Keynote of JavaOne 2013 showing how pigs fly in using Eclipse in front of 1500+ Java developers. He builds and delivers workshops for Devoxx4Kids and excited to teach programming skills to young kids like him. He is also a Boy Scout and like to tinker with LEGOs.

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.

Menka Gupta is Technical Lead at Intel. She enjoys designing jewelry. She loves playing with her two boys who are growing up fast. As one of the founding members of Devoxx4Kids, she enjoys helping with teaching kids.

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

Ansel Halliburton is a startup and technology lawyer. Ansel has experience starting companies, advising startups on tricky legal issues, and litigating intellectual property and business disputes. He's also a programmer (since age 10), and helped build a database of all US patent litigation.

Nuri Halperin consults, develops software, and teaches with passion. He designs and builds systems, websites and business applications. He's been getting things done for a variety clients small and large. He authors courses for pluralsight.com. A frequent speaker at tech events, he enjoys interacting and helping people reach that "Aha!" moment. Nuri is the inaugural recipient of MongoDB's William Zola Outstanding Contributor Award, and is a MongoDB Master. Owner of Plus N Consulting, Inc. Author at Pluralsight http://www.pluralsight.com/author/nuri-halperin

Robert Harker is a gray beard Linux/UNIX systems administrator and web farm wrangler. At Yahoo Sports he was involved in their move to agile development. In Yahoo Sports move to a DevOps team he was from the Ops side of the house championing automation for the deployment process of new code to production. Yahoo Sports used the Jenkins build automation framework to build, package, deploy and automatically test code in all three of their environments, development, test/staging and production. His current interest is the Open Data movement of publishing public government data in a cloud repository which can be analyzed by the public with either web based portal tools or via a RESTful API passing data as json text. He is currently working with the County of San Mateo Open Data portal, data,smcgov.org, to publish public data locked into legacy platforms on the Open Data web site.

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

Katherine works as a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, helping other implement their Windows/Mobile/Cloud solutions. Katherine has background in Azure mobile services and widows 8/8.1 and 10 development though specializes in game development. She does talks, videos and tutorials, about the Unity development as well as the integration of multiple hardwares in gaming. You can follow her blog at kaharri.com and follow her on twitter @katvharris

Forbes Hedges, co-founder of Cloudata Inc (http://www.hwswworld.com), a corp-to-corp consulting firm, which specialize in Highly Resilient Hyper-Scale Hyper-convergence Big Data Cloud (both Edge/IoT & Core/Data Center) Automation and Product/Application/Data/Change Total Life Cycle Management Automation, such as Java EE Legacy Monolithic Architecture to Container-based Immutable Microservices/Cloud Native Event-Driven Architecture Transformation/Modernization, On/Off-Cloud Bi-directional Migration, SaaS Transformation, CI/CD Pipeline Automation, DevOps Evolution with Container, Online Marketing & Digital Sales Automation

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.

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

Nazmul Idris a veteran technologist, former Googler, and most recently founder and CEO of TRNQL. As a multifaceted engineer, designer, and communicator, Nazmul has focused on creating amazing user experiences across platforms. These include; cloud-connected, mobile, tablet, web, and wearable devices; experiences that rely on telemetry data from personal sensors (biometric, location, environmental, input, etc) & that can leverage a wide array of interaction devices (phones, wearable computers, projectors, etc). Nazmul has also been a frequent speaker/presenter at Google I/O, led many Google workshops at IO, as well as founding and moderating the UX Design for Developer communities on G+, and Meetup.com, and creating the UX Design class on Udacity.

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

I am a senior at Monta Vista High School, taking full time classes at De Anza through the Customized Learning Program. I was drawn to the idea of computer science from a young age, so last year I applied to the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program. Upon acceptance, I learned several concepts including robotics, graphics and animation, and data structures and algorithms through Python, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and jQuery.

Justin has been a Software Developer in the Phoenix area for 10+ years. He has presented at several conferences, code camps and user groups throughout the United States and Europe. Justin is passionate about sharing his knowledge to get you your end goal faster. H

Jorg combines business background (accounting degree, MBA) with technology experience (Java, Dart, Force.com, Oracle/DB2) for customer success. Model Driven Applications is my passion since I experienced Smalltalk - I created the first active dictionary driven business application - Compiere, the premier Open Source ERP system. Using Dart with Salesforce Lightning Experience - http://lightningdart.com

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.

Noah Kantrowitz is a web developer turned infrastructure automation enthusiast, and all around engineering rabble-rouser. By day he builds tools and teaches, and by night he leads the Python Software Foundation infrastructure team. He is an active member of the Chef community, and enjoys merge commits, cat pictures, and beards.

Crypto and security enthusiast Agnew Kernalinux has been using GNU/Linux for over 10 years and has been helping businesses and individuals install GNU/Linux systems on workstations and servers for the past 5 years. He also enthusiastically uses crypto tools such as OTR, Tor, and GnuPG, and enjoys showing others how to use said tools. His customers, who dot the bay area, include piano teachers, parents of school children, a construction worker, IT professionals, graphic artists, animators, a bus dispatcher, a poetry professor, church event organizers, a carpenter, a lawyer, and a retired bodyguard.

Rex Kerr is an independent software consultant with over 20 years of professional experience focused on medical device development in C++. He has worked for multiple medical device manufacturers and has extensive experience in medial imaging, DICOM, and FDA regulated software development.

Rex Kerr is the owner of rk-logix, inc, providing contract work, consulting, and high quality custom solutions.

Ahmad Khan is a security engineer at IBM where he works on securing cloud services. He graduated from UT Austin in 2013 where he received a B.S. in computer science and the Information Security Professional certificate. Before transitioning to security, he spent a year working on automation and DevOps at IBM.

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".

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.

Last minute speaker change: Jennifer Davis @sigje will speak on my behalf! A DevOps professional with pioneering work on the world’s biggest Internet real-time event and web sites from an engineering, operations, content, and marketing perspective. My focus is on people and software development along with system design thinking for the whole life cycle: I can build, grow, and manage teams, applications, networks, and servers to work together while planning and nurturing their continuous improvement. Mark first touched the Internet in 1991 when he was sponsored to do undergraduate research. After graduation and Internet withdrawal, he joined the first national commercial Internet Service Provider (before the world wide web). One of the web masters of Netscape, cnnfn.com, and sgi.com, Mark was part of the world’s largest and earliest media and web sites. Mark progressed to Developer Relations, where he became the JavaScript and LDAP Technology Evangelist. One compliment: “Mark is an engineer who can speak” captures his ability to relate technical subjects to anyone. Mark’s approach mixes software engineering disciplines with art and operations, embracing Internet architecture, real-time media, and the ability to nurture people, developers, networks, and systems to work together. His multidisciplinary practice is complimented by the term DevOps. You can review Mark’s career and endorsements at https://www.linkedin.com/in/marklavi

Donn advises startups and VCs in Internet technologies. Joining Facebook in 2007, he was a senior engineer on the Infrastructure team during hyper-growth of Facebook's systems and networks. Previous to FB, Donn was a senior engineer at Google during similar architecture, deployment, scaling, and troubleshooting challenges when Google grew from a sole search engine to a portfolio of products. Donn wrote his book "Enhanced IP Services for Cisco Networks" while working full-time at Cisco Systems where he was a senior systems engineer. He was awarded Internet Society's Itojun Service Award and Google's EMG Award. Donn has performed over 50 talks at technical conferences across Europe, Asia, US, Canada, and Mexico.

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.

MK is a Product Manager at Treasure Data, a Big Data Pipeline/Infrastructure company that supports more than 60B records of data from customers per day and that's still growing fast. Treasure Data is also the lead author of open source project Fluentd, a streaming data collection tool that's used by many companies including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Snapchat and Apple.

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.

Erik Lindeman is a Senior Program Manager in Microsoft's Bing Maps Engineering Group. With nearly 15 years of experience in the software industry, Erik's primary role on the Bing Maps Customer Advisory Team is to evangelize how developers can use the Microsoft Bing Maps Platform to create compelling web applications and solutions.

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

Rob has 15 years of experience in software engineering, from automated trading platforms to conference management to e-commerce. For the last several years Rob has been fascinated with messaging and distributed systems and is a big believer in DDD as the driver of decomposing complexity. Rob's back ground has been primarily in C# and .NET but more recently Mono on Linux.

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.

Prior to joining Hazelcast, Fuad worked on J2EE projects as a technology consultant in financial and telecom industries. He was an IT architect at IBM, developing J2EE based core-banking system for one of the biggest banking transformation projects in Europe. Prior to IBM, Fuad worked on various telecom companies developing J2EE and Oracle PL/SQL applications. He has attended several Mathematics Olympiad Competitions. He won three gold medals at national Maths Olympiads and a bronze medal at 42nd International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), USA. Fuad holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul.

I am a Principal Architect at Scanadu, responsible for Data Engineering and Cloud Services. Previously, I worked on security and performance issues for Covered California. Before that, I was Director,platform engineering for a healthcare analytics company in the Silicon Valley. I have over 10 years experience working with Java, J2EE technologies. I am on constant lookout for new technologies which might be useful in the healthcare industry.

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

I'm 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"

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

Christine is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft based in Mountain View, CA. She is the US evangelism lead for FIRST Robotics and is a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect. Christine started at Microsoft in 2013 and won Microsoft's Circle of Excellence award this year. Christine is known for her work running Microsoft’s International Women’s Hackathon as well as being the US Evangelism lead for Office 365 development. Prior to this role, she worked as a developer on Windows Sever as well as at Tesla Motors in quality assurance and Lawrence Berkeley Labs as a network engineer. You can find Christine representing Microsoft and the color yellow at meetup groups, conferences, and STEM diversity events in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Ramona Maxwell | Enterprise Platform Architect | 650-800-3995 Pivotal Cloud Foundry Regional Lead at Magenic Technologies, Inc. creating platform solutions for enterprise and government clients. Recent blog posts: https://magenic.com/thinking/enterprise-content-migration-success-factors |---| https://magenic.com/thinking/harvesting-brain-power-the-gift-of-neurodiversity-in-tech |---| https://magenic.com/thinking/enterprise-collaboration-should-you-buy-an-intranet-in-a-box

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.

Champion of world class online instruction; teaching online since 1997; honored as one of California’s top community college instructors; studied online education at UC San Diego; started the Online Teacher Training Program and taught college faculty in central California how to teach online; one of the world’s leading trainers in the Go programming language which is currently the highest paying programming language in America; teacher to 528,918 students last year online; founder of Greater Commons; motivating, inspiring, and teaching teachers how to teach online at their greatest potential - this is Todd McLeod, working every day for the greater common good.

Todd McLeod is tenured faculty at Fresno City College. He began teaching web programming in 2001. He is also adjunct faculty in Computer Science at California State University, Fresno.

Samaira Mehta, an 8 year old girl created a board game that teaches programming concepts to young coders. Being a board game enthusiasts herself, she mixed the idea of board game with her coding work to create her game - "CoderBunnyz". She is a 2nd grader at California Distinguished Millikin Elementary. She started a “Green Club” at Millikin with a motto to promote “keep earth clean” habits in her school mates. Besides being a founder at coderbunnyz.com, she is a songwriter, a singer, a swimmer, an ice skater and an origami enthusiast. In addition to song covers, she is composing and singing her own songs. Her debut self written motivational song “Don’t Give up!” and game song “We are the Coderbunnyz” are now available. Her mission is to get the young kids excited about coding in a fun way. She is accessible @coderbunnyz or at www.coderbunnyz.com

Sebastian Meine, Ph.D. is a Business Wealth Strategist at Be A Wealthy Expert. After receiving his Ph.D. in Mathematics, he started as a Database Developer at a global Fortune 50 company near Philadelphia. While this opportunity looked like the dream job at first, after a few years he realized that “big corporate” really wasn’t for him. So one day he quit to start his own company sqlity.net with the goal of helping clients to improve their database performance, tighten their database security and become better database developers. At first, Sebastian struggled with getting enough clients, but through determination, a lot of reading and investing into online courses on marketing and business growth, he was able to turn things around and grow his business comfortably past the six-figure barrier. While going through this learning experience, Sebastian discovered a real passion for helping other entrepreneurs to grow their business. Following that passion and building on his experience of having successfully “done it”, he founded Be A Wealthy Expert to help entrepreneurs and consultants in the IT field grow their businesses. He is helping them - to attract more clients, the right type of clients, the ones they really enjoy working with - to charge more money while increasing customer happiness - to actually live the dream that they had when they first started their business.

Ryan Michela is Principal Engineer at Salesforce, where he’s working to integrate the Salesforce ecosystem with microservices. His passions are distributed systems, helping other developers become better. When he’s not digging into the heart of software, Ryan enjoys hiking, exploring the world, and enjoying good beer.

Andrew is a technical evangelist for Microsoft working on development and data storage within Azure. In a past life, he was a consultant helping customers figure out how to visualize and discover meaningful conclusions from their disparate data sets. Outside of technology, his favorite discussion topics include: picking the next million dollar stock, the current snow conditions in Tahoe (yes, even in the summer), and finding the best coffee/food in the bay!

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

Gianpiero Napoli is a Senior Software Engineer at RTI (Real-Time Innovations). He has 7+ years of experience in software design, development, implementation and testing of distributed real-time systems. His focus in the last few years has been on standard-based Data Distribution middleware (DDS) and bringing Publish/Subscribe capabilities in scripting technologies such as node.js, python and lua. He is responsible for DDSConnector and for Prototyper with Lua .

I have been working in silicon valley since the early 90's with software experience designing, developing, and deploying numerous large scale enterprise applications for global corporations and start-ups. My breadth of knowledge and agility with software technology is exemplified in my diverse experience, which spans many levels of the software technology stack and includes accomplishments in Enterprise Portal Architecture, Large-Scale Databases, and Enterprise Systems Integration. Currently, I am the Chief Architect at Appthority, a startup in Mobile Security, and also serve as an Adjunct Faculty member teaching Software Engineering, Cloud Computing and Cybersecurity at San Jose State University.

Tâm is a software architect and an e-learning connoisseur. He has over 20 years of experience in software development, specializing in web development and tools integration. He has a passion for education, continuously learning and sharing his knowledge and experience with others. He loves to teach kids programming.

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.

Mike trains web development teams all over the world, at companies ranging from tiny stealth-mode startups to Silicon Valley tech giants. He’s currently a Frontend Masters instructor, a Staff Engineer on LinkedIn’s web frameworks team, and the owner of Mike Works, a training-focused consultancy.

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

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

Matt has been involved in building kickass software product for over 20 years. He has plenty of experience with rapid growth environments, in startups as well as in large, public companies. Matt has helped raise close to $50M in VC in investments as a co-founder of three start ups. Matt now leads Nearsoft, Inc, a successful software development company that helps its clients grow their software development teams with engineers in Mexico.

Chief Technical Officer, Architect and Developer at ISSIO Solutions leading the change in Heath Care Management that benefits the consumer through the use of innovate Web Applications. He is currently architecting a new combined PHP / JS Framework that provides object persistance across both platforms with universal cross-platform methods and event handlers. Thus all objects co-exist on both platforms. Provides deep and clear thinking both in engineering architecture and customer experience that comes from being the technical lead of multiple successful startup companies that have driven their success by quick adoption of a solution that solves pain points in customers daily lives. Previously CTO of 4-Sight, international award winner for their on demand global pre-press image transfer products that became the defacto standard in the media industry. he was responsible for the design and implementation of the Rapido File Transfer protocol to merge multiple on-demand digital circuits globally under programatic control to maximize bandwidth in an ad-hoc manner. As used by Disney, the Olympic Games, World Cup, etc to get media content quickly from one location to another. He has a long background in software development starting with solving mathematical puzzles to writing software to solve them for him while at school.

As a Developer Advocate in North America, Jefferson enjoys representing PayPal/Braintree to developers across the globe. Jeff is a Polymath Developer, and he has worked with various technologies during his 20 year career. IoT is his newest passion, and as a specialist and researcher, he creates new IoT technology uses for the future of money.

Nic is a Senior Developer Evangelist for HERE Technologies. He has released several native and hybrid mobile applications to iTunes and Google Play and writes about his development experiences related to making web and mobile app development easier to understand. He has experience in Unity3D, Apache Cordova, Java, NoSQL, SQL, and Node.js.

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

Sridhar Ramakrishnan currently leads Mobile Developer Experience at Slack. His background include Mobile infrastructure, developer productivity & feature development. Master degree in Systems/Software engineering

Rakesh Ranjan is a Program Director and Architect of Cloud Data Services at IBM Silicon Valley Lab in California. He has designed and developed several data and analytics services in Bluemix that powers next gen cognitive applications. He also teaches a graduate level software engineering program at local San Jose State University.

I am an 8th grade student programming Arduino to create solution for kids safety. I am a 1st place winner of Synopsis Santa Clara and California state science fair for my mathematics and software category project called iCAS. This is to save kids from vehicular heatstroke when left alone in a car.

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.

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 Riley is a Visual F# MVP and Engineer for Tachyus, a start-up using F# to profoundly revolutionize the oil & gas industry. He runs the Community for F# virtual user group and serves on the management committee for the Open Web Interface for .NET (OWIN) specification.

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.

JavaOne Rockstar Baruch Sadogursky (a.k.a JBaruch) is the Developer Advocate of JFrog, the home of Artifactory - the Universal Artifact Repository, and Bintray - the Universal Distribution Hub. For a living he hangs out with the JFrog tech leaders, writes some code around Artifactory and Bintray, and then speaks and blogs about all that. He does it repeatedly for the last dozen of years and enjoys every moment of it. Baruch is @jbaruch on twitter and mostly blogs on http://www.jfrog.com/blog/ and http://blog.bintray.com. His speaker history on Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/profile/jbaruch/sessions/

Vishal is a Microsoft Azure MVP with over 18 years experience developing amazing products using Microsoft technology stack. Have substantial experience in product deliveries using Agile and Scrum methodologies, Vishal is also a Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Professional Vishal is a public speaker at many conferences including famous SoCal code camp

My path to engineer has been a strange one. I have a CS minor, but my degree was in Asian Studies, and I spent quite a lot of time abroad. I eventually moved out to California and enrolled in grad school, with the complete expectation of doing public policy work. My passion since childhood, however, has always been video-games. At the last moment, I withdrew from enrollment in grad school and decided to see if I could make a go of it.

I started out as an entry-level play-tester at the free to play games company, Kabam, before moving on to a technical QA Analyst role. After that, I moved on and moved up, taking QA Engineer, then Gameplay Engineer roles at KIXEYE, before moving on to a Senior Software Engineer role at FunPlus - both game companies. Now I'm at Matterport, building out some seriously futuristic tech with a team of incredibly proficient engineers.

As somebody that entered the tech industry through a non-standard channel, I am an advocate for continued, disciplined self instruction. Having benefited from so many resources online and shared across the community, it is only fair that I try to give back.

Craig has been working in the tech industry for over 20 years. He has been at both large companies (NetApp and LinkedIn) and startups. He has programmed in many languages; FORTRAN, C, Perl and, most recently, Python. He is the author of "Salt Essentials". More recently, Craig has been working as an SRE. His position at LinkedIn gave him valuable insight into the challenges with working at scale. He is applying those lessons at a startup; Matterport.

Konstantin (Kostya) Serebryany is a Software Engineer at Google. His team develops and deploys dynamic testing tools, such as AddressSanitizer and ThreadSanitizer. Prior to joining Google in 2007, Konstantin spent 4 years at Elbrus/MCST working for Sun compiler lab and then 3 years at Intel Compiler Lab. Konstantin holds a PhD from mesi.ru and a Master from msu.ru.

Sanjana has a passion for computer programming and loves to spark STEM interest in kids. She has taught HTML/CSS, Scratch, Javascript, and Tynker at various non-profit organizations in the past and held many ‘Hour of Code’ sessions to introduce younger kids to coding. Besides programming, she likes Math and Science and is part of her school’s Science Olympiad team. In her free time, Sanjana enjoys swimming and Bollywood dancing.

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.

Basil Shikin is the VP of Engineering at AppLovin. Before AppLovin, he was the senior software engineer at DeviceAnywhere, a software engineer at gBox and Lanit-Tercom and a developer at SPb Forestry Research Instiute.

Raju Shreewastava is the founder of Big data Trunk(www.BigDataTrunk.com , a Big Data Training and consulting firm with offices in the United States.Former Big data and Business Intelligence for Autodesk (BI/DW/ODS, Big Data, and Enterprise Architecture).

VP of Engineering at Degreed, writer, speaker, created Coderbits and Favatron, lifelong learner, and tropical island junky. Currently learning about leadership, engineering, and astro physics.

Paran Sonthalia is a sixteen year old programmer who has five iOS apps on the iOS App Store and is working on multiple more apps which will be out soon. He likes to program in many languages including Java, HTML, CSS, Python, Javascript, and Objective-C, Swift, and C#. He started programming when he was eight years old and has continued doing so. He has been learning multiple new languages and tools such as Unity and Android Studio. He has been teaching other kids how to start programming for over 4 years now and they have continued programming.

Alan is a core contributor for the Grommet project and a proud Hewlett-Packard Enterprise employee. He is an amateur accordionist and sporadically plays Forró, a music genre that originated in Northeastern Brazil, around the bay area. He considers himself as a full-stack Engineer with 8 years experience in the software industry. Recently, he enjoys the challenges around creating great user experiences for the Web.

I am the founder of CodeUCan and hope to inspire kids to explore the world of coding and computers through CodeUCan programs. I am also the founder and president of the Technology Club at my high school and am part of my school's robotics team. I know how to program in HTML, CSS, Java, Python, Swift, and JavaScript.

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.

Bala Thinagarajan earned Bachelors of Engineering with a concentration in Electronics and communication from the Anna University , India. Bala has rich experience working on various telecom technologies including Telephony user interface, VOIP, OMA-DM, OMA-DS, FOTA, FEMTO , MDM and Enterprise Mobile Security. He is a Subject Matter Expert in the field of Enterprise Mobility. In addition, he is a Knox and Customization evangelist at Samsung.

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

Lena Tran is a published author, noted speaker and expert on leadership. She has lectured on various topics involving leadership and empowerment, entrepreneurship, marketing, career development, and Vietnamese- and Asian-American experiences.

In January, she became the first Vietnamese-American senior administrator at Evergreen Valley College. Before joining Evergreen, she was the driving force behind the development of the business and administration programs at the U.C. Santa Cruz Extension in Silicon Valley.

I am a software developer and currently in sophomore year of high school. Since the age of 8, I have been working on games and other applications in languages including Python, Java, and HTML. I have also worked on hardware, using platforms such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi.

John-Daniel Trask is the co-founder & CEO of Raygun, a software tools company based in Wellington. John-Daniel is also the winner of the New Zealand Hi-Tech Young Achiever award in 2009, and is a Microsoft MVP (most valuable professional) for the past 5 years. Passionate about business and technology, John-Daniel focuses on the growth of Raygun as it sells software globally to more than 100 countries. When not writing biographies in the third person, he can be found reading, gaming or drinking a fine whiskey.

As a seasoned entrepreneur with over 24+ years of IT experience in the field of Computer Science and Engineering, I love to teach kids computer science fundamentals and mathematics. I regularly teach courses in the field of Python programming, HTML, JavaScript, and Mobile development. Since 1994, I have been living in Silicon Valley, and have worked with startups as well as large enterprises. I run my own retail software company for past 15 years, and feel its time to give back to the society. I also hold double major in the field of Computer Science from Sydney, Australia.

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.

With 25 years of experience in the computer industry as a hardware/software/systems engineer and migrating to business development, at McDonnell Douglas, Sun Microsystems and veteran of Microsoft, William’s passion and serial entrepreneurial drive have tuned his evangelist and business development abilities to start and manage new companies. He loves taking complex problems and concepts and distilling them into a simple understandable message without the drama. With several patents and industry technology standards that he developed in multimedia his interests have driven him to disruptive technology opportunities: mp3, p2p, mobile etc… Within the last decade his efforts brought him closer to the telecoms industry, building out businesses in virtual pbx systems, voice command and recommendation engines. He is a passionate inventor with a focus on the realities of building and scaling businesses around new technologies and markets. Before moving to Samsung, he managed BlackBerry’s EMEA Developer Relations Group. Now at Samsung Research America, based out of Mt. View, he is focused on business development and building relationships with B2B developers worldwide.

Slides Located Here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/313565755/SVCC-TablesCant.pdf Kevin is a a graph enthusiast who thrives at distilling complex technical domains into clear and actionable information for executives, entrepreneurs, and developers alike. This will be Kevin's second time teaching at SVCC. When he's not building cool and interesting graph projects, he's mountain biking somewhere in the hills of the Peninsula.

Nick is a Software Engineer Intern for Cloud Data Services at IBM in San Jose, and a student of Computer Science at University of California, Santa Cruz. Nick has been interested in computers and programming from an early age. His experience includes full stack web development and Internet of Things related application development. In addition, Nick has comprehensive experience managing and creating docker container environments, and docker based build systems. He has presented at various gatherings and demos in addition to last year’s code camp. Outside of work, Nick regularly experiments with hardware in his free time, such as setting up coordinated light structures and repurposing older hardware to operate in new creative ways.

Keven Wang is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at RelateIQ, where he leads the Chrome extension project, building it from zero into the fastest-growing client at RelateIQ. On this journey, Keven architected Chrome extension to enable rapid deployment and code-sharing with RelateIQ's web-app client using AngularJS. Keven has delivered 10+ features in Chrome extension in 12 months, leveraging backend infrastructure on email / calendar sync (IMAP, Google Calendar API) and push notifications (Google Cloud Messaging). Keven joined RelateIQ in 2013, prior to its acquisition by Salesforce in 2014.

Justin Woo is a Developer Evangelist at PayPal and has been programming ever since he got his first IBM XT running DOS. He loves writing mobile applications (especially hybrid-HTML5 applications) and wishes everything could be done in LISP. In his spare time he enjoys tinkering around with cool hardware. He’s built a game for Autistic Children, a Robot that can be controlled remotely and even a Kinect game involving tapeworms. He graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Computer Engineering and was previously a Program Manager at Microsoft. He lives with his wife and two dogs - one of which refuses to admit that he is blind and the other that likes to pretend she's a rabbit. In his spare time he loves playing squash and board games (his favorite being Settlers of Catan). He also grew up in Singapore and so please don't mind his Singlish.

Jae Yang is an ex-aerospace engineer who worked on FAA certified simulators for training and forensics analysis. He currently works as a software engineer. On his off time, he develops open source project to help him trade stocks. His interests include developing addons for Node.js, writing various middlewares, and developing fully distributed automated trading system. My git repos: https://gitlord.com

Software developer for over 15 years. Worked at Citrix, Google, Vmware. Currently at Box.com. Creator of the open source project TestScribe, A tool that makes it more efficient, accessible and even fun to test your code as you go. https://github.com/box/TestScribe

Aysegul is a Senior Angular Engineer at Narwhal Technologies (Nrwl.io), focuses on Angular, Data Visualization and WebXR. She is a Developer Expert at Google for Web Technologies/Angular and an active conference speaker. She previously worked as Senior Software Engineer at Autodesk Play, a 3D and VR authoring tool and A360 Viewer and A360 Drive. She enjoys teaching at a variety of non-profit organizations aiming to increase diversity in the software industry.

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.

Hi, I’m Tobiah. I’m an independent game developer from the SF Bay Area. Right after college, I started a company called “Yobonja” with a couple of friends. We made dozens of games, and eventually had a hit with “Blast Monkeys”. We were the number one app on Android for 6+ months. I stopped tracking downloads in 2012 after we passed 12 million, and people still play it and its sequel today. In 2013 I started working for Microsoft as a Game Evangelist. My job is to talk to developers, teach them what I know, and help them make better games and successful companies succeed.

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.