Presenters

Zachary Abraham
https://github.com/zacharythomasabraham/workshops-python-level1
I'm a 10th grade student and technology enthusiast who has delved with apps and gadgets. I not only love playing with it but love to use it to make cool gadgets like the quadcopter or program applications. I’m familiar with Java, python, C, Html, css and web design. I’m one of the main programmers on the Robotics team. I’m also a technology presenter who volunteers at Dev0xx4Kids an organization that teaches kids to program. I recently presented at google and taught kids how to write python games for the Warriors.
I'm a 10th grade student and technology enthusiast who has delved with apps and gadgets. I not only love playing with it but love to use it to make cool gadgets like the quadcopter or program applications. I’m familiar with Java, python, C, Html, css and web design. I’m one of the main programmers on the Robotics team. I’m also a technology presenter who volunteers at Dev0xx4Kids an organization that teaches kids to program. I recently presented at google and taught kids how to write python games for the Warriors.
Sessions conducted by Zachary Abraham
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Programming in Python - level 1
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Manoj Agarwal
http://www.linkedin.com/in/agarwalmk
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Manoj Agarwal
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Building Serverless Microservices
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Shilpi Agarwal
http://www.socialstrategi.com/
Shilpi is a Social Data Evangelist, Growth Hacker and Startup Advisor. She leads Social Strategi, a Social Data Agency with a mission: Leverage Social Data for Market Research and Growth. She's a passionate Business Leader who inspires the next generation of Entrepreneurs and Innovators. She started The Social Business School to evangelize the use of Social Data for Business Growth. She hosts a weekly podcast called ‘The Social CMO Show’ where chief marketing officers and passionate business leaders talk about the marketing challenges they face today and how they leverage Social Data to solve them. She writes as the Growth Marketing Expert for Startup Grind that inspires 400,000 Entrepreneurs worldwide. In 2015, Social Media Today called her ‘Social Business Professional on the move’ for her contributions to Social Business and Growth.
Shilpi is a Social Data Evangelist, Growth Hacker and Startup Advisor. She leads Social Strategi, a Social Data Agency with a mission: Leverage Social Data for Market Research and Growth. She's a passionate Business Leader who inspires the next generation of Entrepreneurs and Innovators. She started The Social Business School to evangelize the use of Social Data for Business Growth. She hosts a weekly podcast called ‘The Social CMO Show’ where chief marketing officers and passionate business leaders talk about the marketing challenges they face today and how they leverage Social Data to solve them. She writes as the Growth Marketing Expert for Startup Grind that inspires 400,000 Entrepreneurs worldwide. In 2015, Social Media Today called her ‘Social Business Professional on the move’ for her contributions to Social Business and Growth.
Sessions conducted by Shilpi Agarwal
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Leverage Social Data for Market Research and...
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Siamak Ashrafi
https://sessionize.com/Ash
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
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
Sessions conducted by Siamak Ashrafi

Keith Aytch
http://www.evc.edu/academics/academic-affairs
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Keith Aytch
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The Perfect Micro-Manager
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Nate Barbettini
http://recaffeinate.co
Nate is the .NET Developer Evangelist at Stormpath in San Francisco. Prior to Stormpath, he was a fullstack developer working in C# and Angular, and ran a video production company producing short films and music videos. On the weekend you'll find him contributing to a number of open-source projects, editing short films, and training for a marathon.
Nate is the .NET Developer Evangelist at Stormpath in San Francisco. Prior to Stormpath, he was a fullstack developer working in C# and Angular, and ran a video production company producing short films and music videos. On the weekend you'll find him contributing to a number of open-source projects, editing short films, and training for a marathon.
Sessions conducted by Nate Barbettini
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Token Authentication in ASP.NET
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Ward Bell
http://www.neverindoubtnet.blogspot.com/
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
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
Sessions conducted by Ward Bell
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Angular 2 First Look
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Craig Berntson
http://www.craigberntson.com
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Craig Berntson
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Code Reviews: The #1 Way to Improve Code...
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Pradeep Bhatter
http://www.devoxx4kids.org/usa
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Pradeep Bhatter

Jeancarl Bisson
http://jeancarlbisson.com
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Jeancarl Bisson
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Connecting Your Things to the Cloud with...
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Sharada Bose
http://www.way.com
Sharada Bose is the COO at Way.com, an online marketplace for services. After a successful career at HP as a technology leader, she has embraced the fast paced, versatile world of start-ups. She is now building a company that is connecting the Connected Driver to simple services with IoT technology .
Sharada Bose is the COO at Way.com, an online marketplace for services. After a successful career at HP as a technology leader, she has embraced the fast paced, versatile world of start-ups. She is now building a company that is connecting the Connected Driver to simple services with IoT technology .
Sessions conducted by Sharada Bose
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The Service Industry enters the Connected Car
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Sam Bowne
http://samsclass.info
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Sam Bowne
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Honeypots, Cybercompetitions, and Bug...
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Mathias Brandewinder
http://www.brandewinder.com
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 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.
Sessions conducted by Mathias Brandewinder

Annie Bubinski
https://twitter.com/abubinski
A Community Evangelist for Microsoft in Silicon Valley, Annie brings Microsoft tools and resources to the developer community. Annie started her career at Microsoft straight out of university as a collegiate hire. Since the beginning, she has developed a community of technical influencers from universities and organizers in the Bay Area. In her college years, Annie studied Industrial and Systems Engineering at USC and is an avid Trojan fan. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and exploring local cuisines in San Francisco.
A Community Evangelist for Microsoft in Silicon Valley, Annie brings Microsoft tools and resources to the developer community. Annie started her career at Microsoft straight out of university as a collegiate hire. Since the beginning, she has developed a community of technical influencers from universities and organizers in the Bay Area. In her college years, Annie studied Industrial and Systems Engineering at USC and is an avid Trojan fan. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and exploring local cuisines in San Francisco.
Sessions conducted by Annie Bubinski

Oswald Campesato
http://www.iquarkt.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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Oswald Campesato

James Cha
http://www.thejamescha.com
James Cha is a developer advocate at Clover and a developer community ninja. He enjoys introducing technology to anyone who will give him a moment to do so. He takes his experience as a developer and an adjunct teacher to teach coding and clever ways to use the technology we have available to make life easier and more accessible for people.
James Cha is a developer advocate at Clover and a developer community ninja. He enjoys introducing technology to anyone who will give him a moment to do so. He takes his experience as a developer and an adjunct teacher to teach coding and clever ways to use the technology we have available to make life easier and more accessible for people.
Sessions conducted by James Cha
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Making your websites a little more accessible...
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Steven Chamberlin
http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/us/en/
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Steven Chamberlin
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Simplify Your Life with Your Own IBM Watson...
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Doris Chen
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dorischen/
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.
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
http://steveonjava.com/
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/
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/
Sessions conducted by Stephen Chin

Wesley Chun
http://corepython.com
+WESLEY CHUN, MSCS, is the author of Prentice Hall's bestselling "Core Python" book series & companion videos (corepython.com), co-author of "Python Web Development with Django" (withdjango.com), and has written for Linux Journal, CNET, and InformIT. In addition to being an engineer & Developer Advocate at Google, he runs CyberWeb (cyberwebconsulting.com), a consultancy specializing in Python training. Wesley has over 25 years of programming, teaching, and writing experience, including helping create Yahoo!Mail using Python almost 2 decades ago. He has taught numerous Python courses at Cisco, Disney, VMware, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, & Foothill College. Wesley holds degrees in CS, Math, and Music from the University of California, and loves traveling worldwide to meet developers, whether at a technical conference, user group meeting, or on a university campus. He is a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation and can be reached on Google+ or Twitter (@wescpy).
+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).
Sessions conducted by Wesley Chun
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What is Python?
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Eugene Chuvyrov
http://linkedin.com/in/eugenechuvyrov/
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Eugene Chuvyrov
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Getting started with Deep Learning on Azure
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Jeremy Clark
http://www.jeremybytes.com
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Jeremy Clark

Breandan Considine
http://breandan.net
As a Java developer and technical evangelist, I am interested in human computer interaction, speech recognition and natural language processing, particularly in low-power applications such as mobile phones and wearable devices.
As a Java developer and technical evangelist, I am interested in human computer interaction, speech recognition and natural language processing, particularly in low-power applications such as mobile phones and wearable devices.
Sessions conducted by Breandan Considine
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How to send a secret message
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Daniel Coupal
http://www.mongodb.com
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Daniel Coupal
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MongoDB in Production
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Douglas Crockford
http://crockford.com
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Douglas Crockford

Jennelle Crothers
http://www.techbunny.com
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Jennelle Crothers
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Deconstructing JSON for ARM Templates
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Jennifer Davis
http://www.jendavis.org/
Jennifer is the co-author of Effective DevOps. She is a co-organizer of devopsdays Silicon Valley, and the founder of Coffeeops. She supports a number of community meetups in the San Francisco area. In her role at Chef, Jennifer develops Chef cookbooks to simplify building and managing infrastructure. She has spoken at a number of industry conferences about devops, tech culture, monitoring, and automation. When she’s not working, she enjoys hiking Bay Area trails, learning to make things and quality time with her partner Brian and dog George.
Jennifer is the co-author of Effective DevOps. She is a co-organizer of devopsdays Silicon Valley, and the founder of Coffeeops. She supports a number of community meetups in the San Francisco area. In her role at Chef, Jennifer develops Chef cookbooks to simplify building and managing infrastructure. She has spoken at a number of industry conferences about devops, tech culture, monitoring, and automation. When she’s not working, she enjoys hiking Bay Area trails, learning to make things and quality time with her partner Brian and dog George.
Sessions conducted by Jennifer Davis
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Demystifying DevOps
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Gilles de Bordeaux
https://gdebordeaux.wordpress.com/
Gilles has over thirty years of hands-on experience in high-tech, ranging from programming embedded systems, to starting and managing his own software company, and managing international teams. He also develops mobile applications for clients.
Gilles has over thirty years of hands-on experience in high-tech, ranging from programming embedded systems, to starting and managing his own software company, and managing international teams. He also develops mobile applications for clients.
Sessions conducted by Gilles de Bordeaux
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Build Cross Platform Mobile Apps for iOS &...
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Jessica Deen
http://www.jessicadeen.com
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Jessica Deen

Frisco Del Rosario
http://friscodelrosario.net/how-to-play-like-magnus-carlsen/
Chess and Scratch teacher, Selenium and Appium scripter, MacRuby enthusiast, author of two chess books and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles.
Chess and Scratch teacher, Selenium and Appium scripter, MacRuby enthusiast, author of two chess books and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles.
Sessions conducted by Frisco Del Rosario
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FizzBuzz with Scratch Programming
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Rani Desai
http://N/A
I am very excited to teach Minecraft modding using Java. After completing Masters in Computer Science from Connecticut, I have been working as a Software Engineer for past 12+ years. My favorite subjects are Math and Coding. My boy loves playing Minecraft. After doing research, I found that Minecraft has lot of potential as a teaching tool. It encourages not only creativity and critical thinking but also helps kids learn coding. My goal is that kids learn Java basics while playing Minecraft and develop interest in STEM in fun way.
I am very excited to teach Minecraft modding using Java. After completing Masters in Computer Science from Connecticut, I have been working as a Software Engineer for past 12+ years. My favorite subjects are Math and Coding. My boy loves playing Minecraft. After doing research, I found that Minecraft has lot of potential as a teaching tool. It encourages not only creativity and critical thinking but also helps kids learn coding. My goal is that kids learn Java basics while playing Minecraft and develop interest in STEM in fun way.
Sessions conducted by Rani Desai

Chander Dhall
http://www.ChanderDhall.com
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
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
Sessions conducted by Chander Dhall

Elena Eberhard
http://www.academyart.edu/
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Elena Eberhard
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Technology and Fashion awaken the Soul of the...
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Daniel Egan
http://TheSociableGeek.com
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
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
Sessions conducted by Daniel Egan

Ryan Ehrenreich
http://www.1schema.com
Ryan Ehrenreich is a software architect with over a decade of experience building mission critical windows and web applications on the Microsoft .NET Platform. His passion is to combine highly complex back-end systems with front-ends user interfaces that are simple and intuitive, yielding the optimal user experience. His latest project, 1Schema.com, unifies Spreadsheets, SQL Databases, and NoSQL Databases under a common platform-independent schema and automates the production of platform-specific database code. To accomplish this, he builds flexible, decoupled business logic in a C# middle-tier that is persisted to SQL Server using ADO .NET Entity Framework. He also builds highly functional front-ends using ASP .NET MVC 5, leveraging jQuery, jQuery UI, and Raphael.js (Scalable Vector Graphics library) to create rich client experiences. He also builds high performance T-SQL queries to accomplish tasks localized in the data tier. His experience spans all stages of software development, including requirements gathering, solutions architecting, implementation, testing, and user-training. He uses Agile Software Development, Domain-Driven Design, and Test-Driven Development to ensure clients’ needs are fully met. Mr. Ehrenreich currently is CEO of Decia LLC and is in the process of launching its flagship product (www.1Schema.com). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from UCLA Anderson.
Ryan Ehrenreich is a software architect with over a decade of experience building mission critical windows and web applications on the Microsoft .NET Platform. His passion is to combine highly complex back-end systems with front-ends user interfaces that are simple and intuitive, yielding the optimal user experience. His latest project, 1Schema.com, unifies Spreadsheets, SQL Databases, and NoSQL Databases under a common platform-independent schema and automates the production of platform-specific database code. To accomplish this, he builds flexible, decoupled business logic in a C# middle-tier that is persisted to SQL Server using ADO .NET Entity Framework. He also builds highly functional front-ends using ASP .NET MVC 5, leveraging jQuery, jQuery UI, and Raphael.js (Scalable Vector Graphics library) to create rich client experiences. He also builds high performance T-SQL queries to accomplish tasks localized in the data tier. His experience spans all stages of software development, including requirements gathering, solutions architecting, implementation, testing, and user-training. He uses Agile Software Development, Domain-Driven Design, and Test-Driven Development to ensure clients’ needs are fully met. Mr. Ehrenreich currently is CEO of Decia LLC and is in the process of launching its flagship product (www.1Schema.com). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from UCLA Anderson.
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Demystifying Databases with...
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J David Eisenberg
http://langintro.com/
Computer and Information Technology instructor at EVC. I am a co-author of several books, including "SVG Essentials" and "Introducing Elixir." Currently into functional programming.
Computer and Information Technology instructor at EVC. I am a co-author of several books, including "SVG Essentials" and "Introducing Elixir." Currently into functional programming.
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Introducing ClojureScript
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Livi Erickson
http://livierickson.com
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Livi Erickson

Steve Evans
http://www.LoudSteve.com
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Steve Evans

Paul Everitt
http://www.pauleveritt.org/
Paul is the PyCharm and WebStorm Developer Advocate at JetBrains. Before that, Paul was a partner at Agendaless Consulting and co-founder of Zope Corporation, taking the first open source application server through $14M of funding. Paul has bootstrapped both the Plone Foundation and the Python Software Foundation. Before that, Paul was an officer in the US Navy, starting www.navy.mil in 1993.
Paul is the PyCharm and WebStorm Developer Advocate at JetBrains. Before that, Paul was a partner at Agendaless Consulting and co-founder of Zope Corporation, taking the first open source application server through $14M of funding. Paul has bootstrapped both the Plone Foundation and the Python Software Foundation. Before that, Paul was an officer in the US Navy, starting www.navy.mil in 1993.
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Productive TypeScript and React with...
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Llewellyn Falco
http://blog.approvaltests.com
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
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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
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Extreme ‘Fake It Till You Make It’
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Sara Ford
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sarasford
Sara Ford is a Sr. Product Manager at GitHub. Previously, she worked at Microsoft on Visual Studio and CodePlex. In 2015 Sara received her Masters degree in Human Factors (UX/HCI) at San Jose State by writing a Kinect application to study motor learning (aka how "muscle memory" is formed).
Sara Ford is a Sr. Product Manager at GitHub. Previously, she worked at Microsoft on Visual Studio and CodePlex. In 2015 Sara received her Masters degree in Human Factors (UX/HCI) at San Jose State by writing a Kinect application to study motor learning (aka how "muscle memory" is formed).
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The Psychology of Developer Tools Usability...
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Jeremy Foster
http://codefoster.com
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.
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
http://www.linkedin.com/in/cgalvan/
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.
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.
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Internationalization at Startups
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Neeraja Ganesan
http://nganesa@us.ibm.com
As a developer advocate at IBM’s Digital Business Group, Neeraja evangelizes IBM’s cloud based Platform as a Service - Bluemix and is interested in Internet of Things and Cognitive Analytics. She has participated in hackathons
As a developer advocate at IBM’s Digital Business Group, Neeraja evangelizes IBM’s cloud based Platform as a Service - Bluemix and is interested in Internet of Things and Cognitive Analytics. She has participated in hackathons
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Build Your First Loopback API with NodeJS
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Barbara Geller
http://www.copperspice.com
An independent consultant with over twenty-six years of experience as a programmer and software developer. I have worked with numerous companies developing custom in-house applications. I have also designed and developed Windows applications for several vertical markets including medical billing, transportation, and construction. My degree is in Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly Pomona with additional studies towards a master in Computer Science. Co-founder of CopperSpice, a C++ library derived from an existing framework. Co-founder of DoxyPress, a C++ application derived from an existing open source documentation program. I designed the Diamond Editor, a cross-platform editor for programmers, using the CopperSpice libraries. I have programmed in C++, Qt, Visual Objects, Clipper, PHP, and Java. Speaker at CppCon 2015. email: barbara@copperspice.com
An independent consultant with over twenty-six years of experience as a programmer and software developer. I have worked with numerous companies developing custom in-house applications. I have also designed and developed Windows applications for several vertical markets including medical billing, transportation, and construction. My degree is in Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly Pomona with additional studies towards a master in Computer Science. Co-founder of CopperSpice, a C++ library derived from an existing framework. Co-founder of DoxyPress, a C++ application derived from an existing open source documentation program. I designed the Diamond Editor, a cross-platform editor for programmers, using the CopperSpice libraries. I have programmed in C++, Qt, Visual Objects, Clipper, PHP, and Java. Speaker at CppCon 2015. email: barbara@copperspice.com
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C++ GUI library & Documenting Source Code:...
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Mohit Goenka
http://www.mohitgoenka.com
Mohit is currently the engineering lead for Yahoo Mail's Android client, one of the largest consumer applications in the Verizon Media ecosystem. During his eight years’ tenure at the company, he assumed different roles as a web developer, product manager and engineering manager, and received numerous recognitions by winning multiple hackathons and CEO Challenges. He was also the recipient of prestigious Yahoo Super Star award in 2015 for his individual contributions and Master Inventor award in 2018 for extensive number of patent filings. Earlier, he graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) with a Master's of Science degree in Computer Science. His thesis emphasized on Game Theory and Human Behavior concepts as applied in real-world security games. What adds feather to his cap are Mohit’s poetic skills. Some of his works are part of the University of Southern California Libraries archive under the cover of The Lewis Carroll Collection. When not coding, Mohit spends his time exploring new cities, playing Cricket or developing strategies on winning his latest board game adventure.
Mohit is currently the engineering lead for Yahoo Mail's Android client, one of the largest consumer applications in the Verizon Media ecosystem. During his eight years’ tenure at the company, he assumed different roles as a web developer, product manager and engineering manager, and received numerous recognitions by winning multiple hackathons and CEO Challenges. He was also the recipient of prestigious Yahoo Super Star award in 2015 for his individual contributions and Master Inventor award in 2018 for extensive number of patent filings. Earlier, he graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) with a Master's of Science degree in Computer Science. His thesis emphasized on Game Theory and Human Behavior concepts as applied in real-world security games. What adds feather to his cap are Mohit’s poetic skills. Some of his works are part of the University of Southern California Libraries archive under the cover of The Lewis Carroll Collection. When not coding, Mohit spends his time exploring new cities, playing Cricket or developing strategies on winning his latest board game adventure.
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Modularizing Features for Rapid Independent...
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Omkar Govil-Nair
http://theowatch.com
Omkar is 9 years old maker who got interested in electronics and programming when he was 6 and attended first MakerFaire. He created a programmable smartwatch kit for kids to teach them programming, 3D design and printing when he was 8 and got it funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign.
Omkar is 9 years old maker who got interested in electronics and programming when he was 6 and attended first MakerFaire. He created a programmable smartwatch kit for kids to teach them programming, 3D design and printing when he was 8 and got it funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign.
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Programming and 3D printing using a O Watch...
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Mohammed Guller
http://www.glassbeam.com
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.
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.
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Introduction to Big Data
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Sarah Guller
http://sarah.guller@icloud.com
Sarah Guller is a high-schooler with a passion for learning and creating! When she's not busy being the president of the Girls Who Code Club, she's volunteering with a nonprofit, making art, or playing in the town's band. Sarah has an app called Outfit Planner on the ios App Store and is a big fan of both Swift as well as the MIT AppInventor. After attending Kids Sunday with her dad for so long, she is very excited to be teaching this year!!
Sarah Guller is a high-schooler with a passion for learning and creating! When she's not busy being the president of the Girls Who Code Club, she's volunteering with a nonprofit, making art, or playing in the town's band. Sarah has an app called Outfit Planner on the ios App Store and is a big fan of both Swift as well as the MIT AppInventor. After attending Kids Sunday with her dad for so long, she is very excited to be teaching this year!!
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Create an App using MIT's App Inventor!
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Aditya Gupta
http://twitter.com/aditya_g
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.
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.
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Star Wars: The Programmer Awakens
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Ishai Hachlili
http://www.smarttrivia.co
Ishai is the founder of Smart Trivia, Inc. where he builds trivia games for smartphones using MvvmCross and Xamarin. He's also running the Silicon Valley Mobile/Cross Platform .Net Meetup and helps other companies build mobile apps using Xamarin as a consultant.
Ishai is the founder of Smart Trivia, Inc. where he builds trivia games for smartphones using MvvmCross and Xamarin. He's also running the Silicon Valley Mobile/Cross Platform .Net Meetup and helps other companies build mobile apps using Xamarin as a consultant.
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Build Cross Platform Mobile Apps for iOS &...
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Paul Hacker
http://paulhacker.net
Paul Hacker, a DevOps Architect with Microsoft, has over 15 years of application architecture, design, development, and management expertise in Microsoft technologies. Paul has a depth of experience in DevOps, ALM, Process Improvement, and Team Foundation Server and VSTS. Having distinguished himself as a leader in the IT industry he has been awarded the distinction of Microsoft MVP in the ALM category every year between 2006 - 2017. Paul is based in Zionsville Indiana, near Indianapolis.
Paul Hacker, a DevOps Architect with Microsoft, has over 15 years of application architecture, design, development, and management expertise in Microsoft technologies. Paul has a depth of experience in DevOps, ALM, Process Improvement, and Team Foundation Server and VSTS. Having distinguished himself as a leader in the IT industry he has been awarded the distinction of Microsoft MVP in the ALM category every year between 2006 - 2017. Paul is based in Zionsville Indiana, near Indianapolis.
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Release Management with Team Services
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Nuri Halperin
http://plusnconsulting.com/page/nuri-s-public-talks/
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
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
Sessions conducted by Nuri Halperin

Les Hazlewood
http://stormpath.com
Les Hazlewood is Stormpath co-founder and CTO and the Apache Shiro PMC Chair. Prior to forming Stormpath, Les held senior architectural positions at Bloomberg and Delta Airlines and he was former CTO of a software engineering firm supporting educational and government agencies. 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 BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, and practices Kendo and studies Japanese when he's not coding.
Les Hazlewood is Stormpath co-founder and CTO and the Apache Shiro PMC Chair. Prior to forming Stormpath, Les held senior architectural positions at Bloomberg and Delta Airlines and he was former CTO of a software engineering firm supporting educational and government agencies. 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 BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, and practices Kendo and studies Japanese when he's not coding.
Sessions conducted by Les Hazlewood
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Beautiful REST+JSON APIs with Ion
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Forbes Hedges
http://www.hwswworld.com
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
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
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OpenStack Docker Mesos Kubernetes: Who Can...
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Reggie Hutcherson
https://www.crunchbase.com/person/reggie-hutcherson#/entity
Reggie Hutcherson is an experienced technology and marketing strategist with a track record of leading extremely successful global initiatives. He recently joined IBM as Director, Cloud & Mobile Ecosystem Development, where his responsibilities include driving global strategy and tactics for building developer communities who innovate on IBM's Cloud & Mobile technology platforms. Previously, he was Sr. Director at Microsoft where he drove their developer outreach for Mobile, Cloud, IoT and STEM education technologies to startups, academic institutions, and individual developers. Additionally, he previously worked at Nokia and Sun Microsystems as Sr. Directory of their global developer organizations. He has an MBA from UC Berkeley, an MS from Stanford and BS from UC Berkeley in Computer Science.
Reggie Hutcherson is an experienced technology and marketing strategist with a track record of leading extremely successful global initiatives. He recently joined IBM as Director, Cloud & Mobile Ecosystem Development, where his responsibilities include driving global strategy and tactics for building developer communities who innovate on IBM's Cloud & Mobile technology platforms. Previously, he was Sr. Director at Microsoft where he drove their developer outreach for Mobile, Cloud, IoT and STEM education technologies to startups, academic institutions, and individual developers. Additionally, he previously worked at Nokia and Sun Microsystems as Sr. Directory of their global developer organizations. He has an MBA from UC Berkeley, an MS from Stanford and BS from UC Berkeley in Computer Science.
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The 5 things you need to know about the...
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Slava Imeshev
http://www.cacheonix.org
Slava Imeshev is a main committer to the open source Java cache Cacheonix. Slava's main expertise is reliable distributed and high-performance systems. You can reach Slava at simeshev@cacheonix.org
Slava Imeshev is a main committer to the open source Java cache Cacheonix. Slava's main expertise is reliable distributed and high-performance systems. You can reach Slava at simeshev@cacheonix.org
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Caching web requests with Cacheonix Java Web...
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Suyash Joshi
http://www.linkedin.com/in/suyashj
Suyash Joshi is a Developer Advocate at Oracle for Cloud, Mobile, AI and ChatBots and. Prior to his current job, he was a software engineer for 6 years developing and designing modern enterprise grade mobile applications. He is also a performing magician and passionate about STEAM education. He also enjoys organizing events and speaking on various at meetups/conferences and participating at hackthons on the weekends.
Suyash Joshi is a Developer Advocate at Oracle for Cloud, Mobile, AI and ChatBots and. Prior to his current job, he was a software engineer for 6 years developing and designing modern enterprise grade mobile applications. He is also a performing magician and passionate about STEAM education. He also enjoys organizing events and speaking on various at meetups/conferences and participating at hackthons on the weekends.
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Voice User Interface - Design & Development...
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Theo Jungeblut
http://www.designitright.net
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.
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.

Stefania Kaczmarczyk
https://twitter.com/stefania_kaz
Stefania Kaczmarczyk is a Developer Advocate for Cloud at IBM. Stefania has touched technologies from big iron to little servos and traversed an array of languages, databases, and platforms in her six years with the company. She likes to learn the right technology for the right task and spends most of her time trying to stuff more information into her brain than it can probably handle. Her passion is data and her love is code and video games. Feel free to expound on nerdy declarations of virtual reality and the latest AAA title or grill her brain on human interaction and the bot revolution.
Stefania Kaczmarczyk is a Developer Advocate for Cloud at IBM. Stefania has touched technologies from big iron to little servos and traversed an array of languages, databases, and platforms in her six years with the company. She likes to learn the right technology for the right task and spends most of her time trying to stuff more information into her brain than it can probably handle. Her passion is data and her love is code and video games. Feel free to expound on nerdy declarations of virtual reality and the latest AAA title or grill her brain on human interaction and the bot revolution.
Sessions conducted by Stefania Kaczmarczyk

Masashi Katsumata
http://googlemaps.googlermania.com/
Google Developer Expert for Google Maps API, not only for Google Maps JavaScript API v3, but also Google Maps Android API v2 and Google Maps SDK for iOS.
Google Developer Expert for Google Maps API, not only for Google Maps JavaScript API v3, but also Google Maps Android API v2 and Google Maps SDK for iOS.
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Cordova GoogleMaps plugin for iOS and Android
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Ron Kleinman
http://.
Ron most recently served as CTO of the SIF Association, an XML standard organization in the K-12 area. A 20 year veteran of Sun Microsystems, he co-founded the JavaPOS initiative, and has taught an evening section of Object Oriented Analysis and Design at De Anza College for the last 10 years, is the somewhat sheepish holder of several software patents and has been keynote speaker at multiple partner conferences and selected industry events. His current technology focus is on design patterns and application (rather than module) integration.
Ron most recently served as CTO of the SIF Association, an XML standard organization in the K-12 area. A 20 year veteran of Sun Microsystems, he co-founded the JavaPOS initiative, and has taught an evening section of Object Oriented Analysis and Design at De Anza College for the last 10 years, is the somewhat sheepish holder of several software patents and has been keynote speaker at multiple partner conferences and selected industry events. His current technology focus is on design patterns and application (rather than module) integration.
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So your mom always wanted you to be an...
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Wojciech Koszek
http://www.koszek.com
Wojciech Koszek is an engineer with a passion for building usable products. He is a software engineer at Twin Prime, where he's responsible for creating an infrastructure for mobile data transfer acceleration for iOS/Android. Previously at Xilinx he worked on an OS for stressing prototypes of ARM/ARM64 chips.Before that he interned at Computer Laboratory of Cambridge University, UK, Ericsson, HIIT, CCT@LSU and Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. He graduated with an MSc in Computer Science and Engineering from Technical University of Czestochowa, Poland. Long-time Open Source contributor, with The FreeBSD project being his alma mater, he publishes most of his software on GitHub.
Wojciech Koszek is an engineer with a passion for building usable products. He is a software engineer at Twin Prime, where he's responsible for creating an infrastructure for mobile data transfer acceleration for iOS/Android. Previously at Xilinx he worked on an OS for stressing prototypes of ARM/ARM64 chips.Before that he interned at Computer Laboratory of Cambridge University, UK, Ericsson, HIIT, CCT@LSU and Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. He graduated with an MSc in Computer Science and Engineering from Technical University of Czestochowa, Poland. Long-time Open Source contributor, with The FreeBSD project being his alma mater, he publishes most of his software on GitHub.
Sessions conducted by Wojciech Koszek
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How to Contribute Back to Open Source
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Randall Koutnik
https://rkoutnik.com
Randall is a senior engineer at Netflix, building tools that wake up other Netflixers when things break. To offset that karma, he’s adopted a cat that wakes him up at night whenever a new JS framework is released. You can find his words in written form at rkoutnik.com
Randall is a senior engineer at Netflix, building tools that wake up other Netflixers when things break. To offset that karma, he’s adopted a cat that wakes him up at night whenever a new JS framework is released. You can find his words in written form at rkoutnik.com
Sessions conducted by Randall Koutnik
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A math-free introduction to Neural Networks
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Manoj Kumar
http://manoj-kumar-on.blogspot.com/
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
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
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Amazing new features in JavaScript
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Deborah Kurata
http://blogs.msmvps.com/deborahk/
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".
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".
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Angular 2 101: The Adventure Continues
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Jerry Kurata
http://www.insteptech.com
Jerry Kurata is a consultant specializing in full stack web and mobile solutions. He has worked with a wide range of clients including Microsoft, Novartis, and numerous medium to small businesses. He is currently deeply involved in developing machine learning and robotic application.
Jerry Kurata is a consultant specializing in full stack web and mobile solutions. He has worked with a wide range of clients including Microsoft, Novartis, and numerous medium to small businesses. He is currently deeply involved in developing machine learning and robotic application.
Sessions conducted by Jerry Kurata
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Predicting the Future with Machine Learning
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Brandon Leach
https://twitter.com/SqlServerNerd
Brandon Leach is a senior DBA with SurveyMonkey in Palo Alto, CA. He is a frequent speaker at events such as SQLSaturdays, user groups, and more recently the PASS Summit. When not working or at events he can be found spending time with his family and tinkering in his home lab.
Brandon Leach is a senior DBA with SurveyMonkey in Palo Alto, CA. He is a frequent speaker at events such as SQLSaturdays, user groups, and more recently the PASS Summit. When not working or at events he can be found spending time with his family and tinkering in his home lab.
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SQL Server Partitioning Basics: Treating Your...
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Tracy Lee
http://www.modern-web.org
Tracy’s passion for JavaScript began with the love of a Tomster and is a beginner emburrito. She loves ember, convention over configuration, and ember-cli. Tracy helps organize Global Ember Meetup and runs the Modern Web podcast & conferences. You can find more at http://modern-web.org.
Tracy’s passion for JavaScript began with the love of a Tomster and is a beginner emburrito. She loves ember, convention over configuration, and ember-cli. Tracy helps organize Global Ember Meetup and runs the Modern Web podcast & conferences. You can find more at http://modern-web.org.
Sessions conducted by Tracy Lee

Ron Lichty
http://www.ronlichty.com
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.
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.
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Keys to Exceptional Product Team Performance
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Chris Love
http://Love2Dev.com
Chris Love is a front-end developer for people and companies who are lost in the sea of modern web and user experience standards. He has a quarter century of web development experience, and has built a wide variety of web sites and applications in those years. In recent years, he immersed himself in responsive web design, single-page web applications and web performance optimization.
Chris Love is a front-end developer for people and companies who are lost in the sea of modern web and user experience standards. He has a quarter century of web development experience, and has built a wide variety of web sites and applications in those years. In recent years, he immersed himself in responsive web design, single-page web applications and web performance optimization.
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Get Rid of Your Web Site's Love Handles For...
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Juval Lowy
http://www.idesign.net/
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 4th 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
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 4th 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

Bernie Maloney
http://about.me/berniemaloney
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 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.
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Create Influence, On Demand
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Beth Massi
http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi
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
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
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Overview and Roadmap of the .NET Platform
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Joe Mayo
http://www.mayosoftware.com/
Joe Mayo is an author and independent software consultant, specializing in Microsoft technologies. Joe has written 7 books, many magazine articles, and taught numerous on-line and in-person courses. His experience spans multiple technologies for desktop, cloud, and device. He is also author of the LINQ to Twitter open source project. Joe is a long-time MVP with several years of awards.
Joe Mayo is an author and independent software consultant, specializing in Microsoft technologies. Joe has written 7 books, many magazine articles, and taught numerous on-line and in-person courses. His experience spans multiple technologies for desktop, cloud, and device. He is also author of the LINQ to Twitter open source project. Joe is a long-time MVP with several years of awards.
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Introduction to the Microsoft Bot Framework
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David McCarter
http://dotnettips.com
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
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 McDowell
http://www.gayle.com
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Gayle McDowell

Todd McLeod
https://greatercommons.com/
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Todd McLeod

Soham Mehta
https://InterviewKickstart.com
Soham is the founder of Interview Kickstart, which is a bootcamp for technical interview preparation. The bootcamp is laser-focused on re-teaching Data Structures, Algorithms and System Design, to working engineers, who desire to work at high-growth, career-launching tech companies in Silicon Valley. Prior to InterviewKickstart, Soham was a Director of Engineering at Box and an early engineer there. He helped Box's technical teams grow from 5 to 250 engineers over a span of 5 years. This meant living and breathing the interviewing machine exploring all its nooks and corners, and ups and downs. Prior to Box, Soham has also worked at eBay and Microsoft.
Soham is the founder of Interview Kickstart, which is a bootcamp for technical interview preparation. The bootcamp is laser-focused on re-teaching Data Structures, Algorithms and System Design, to working engineers, who desire to work at high-growth, career-launching tech companies in Silicon Valley. Prior to InterviewKickstart, Soham was a Director of Engineering at Box and an early engineer there. He helped Box's technical teams grow from 5 to 250 engineers over a span of 5 years. This meant living and breathing the interviewing machine exploring all its nooks and corners, and ups and downs. Prior to Box, Soham has also worked at eBay and Microsoft.
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Recursion and Dynamic Programming for...
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Ryan Michela
https://github.com/rmichela/
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.
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.
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The nits and grits of Git - How Git really...
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Troy Miles
http://therockncoder.blogspot.com/
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Troy Miles
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Functional Programming in JavaScript
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Andrew Moll
http://www.AndrewSMoll.com
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!
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!
Sessions conducted by Andrew Moll
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So you want to be a data scientist?
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Pritam Mungse
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pritammungse
Security Professional with experience in web application security and data protection from policy, implementation and execution perspectives. Interested in All Things Security !!!
Security Professional with experience in web application security and data protection from policy, implementation and execution perspectives. Interested in All Things Security !!!
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Web Application Security for All
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Dinesh Murthy
http://www.microsoft.com
Dinesh is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft working in the Azure Storage team championing high scale storage and the developer/ tools and UI experiences for the service. Prior to this Dinesh was a Principal Engineering Manager in the Dynamics CRM team.
Dinesh is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft working in the Azure Storage team championing high scale storage and the developer/ tools and UI experiences for the service. Prior to this Dinesh was a Principal Engineering Manager in the Dynamics CRM team.
Sessions conducted by Dinesh Murthy
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Developing performant desktop and mobile...
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Steve Mylroie
http://www.smylroie.com
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
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
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Concurring the Last IOT mile
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Sangeeta Narang
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sangeetanarang
I have been in industry for about 20 years. Worked as software architect and engineer in various capacities in enterprise software development companies and startups. I have also taught computer science masters students at university level.
I have been in industry for about 20 years. Worked as software architect and engineer in various capacities in enterprise software development companies and startups. I have also taught computer science masters students at university level.
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Personal Finance 101 and Coding
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Tam Nguyen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomwyn
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.
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.
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Fun and Games with JavaScript+Processing
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Dave Nielsen
http://www.davenielsen.net
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.
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.

Florian Nierhaus
https://www.linkedin.com/in/florianpatricknierhaus
Florian is a full stack developer building out the Bebo platform. He has an extensive career as a software architect, development product owner and manager with a proven track record in delivering next-gen products and product-lines, creating highly scalable and available distributed real-time solutions, building and empowering teams, balancing priorities, initiating and fostering innovation, improving processes and engineering practices, mentoring engineers to propel skills and career, presenting to customers, advising executives and deep diving with engineers.
Florian is a full stack developer building out the Bebo platform. He has an extensive career as a software architect, development product owner and manager with a proven track record in delivering next-gen products and product-lines, creating highly scalable and available distributed real-time solutions, building and empowering teams, balancing priorities, initiating and fostering innovation, improving processes and engineering practices, mentoring engineers to propel skills and career, presenting to customers, advising executives and deep diving with engineers.
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How to Make a powerful App in 5 minutes for...
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Twinklekumar Patel
https://www.linkedin.com/in/twinklekumar
A Researcher/developer by Profession but an Entrepreneur by heart. Likes to solve problems using technology. Having 14+ years experience in software development. Recently moved to R&D group for IoT projects.
A Researcher/developer by Profession but an Entrepreneur by heart. Likes to solve problems using technology. Having 14+ years experience in software development. Recently moved to R&D group for IoT projects.
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Early Idea Evaluation Tools
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Clayton Peddy
http://www.terrace.com
For over 20 years, Clayton has been successfully architecting and integrating a full-range of technology consulting solutions. At Terrace Consulting, Clayton leads the design, architecture, integration and development of a variety of business software projects within the accounting, insurance, retail, and publishing industries. Not afraid to push the bounds of possibility, Clayton routinely takes on difficult engineering challenges, driving both the solution and team to excellence. With his relatable style and back to basics approach, he works closely with clients and team members as both a coach and mentor to ensure that the entire process is carefully planned and executed. Active in the community, Clayton serves on the boards of several non-profit user groups and higher education advisory committees, including Bay.Net and California State University, Chico. Clayton is also a published author, active speaker and a local leader in the San Francisco Bay Area. A musician who loves audio engineering, he is often participating in his three kids activities, discovering the next craft beer, or relaxing at his ranch in California's historic gold country.
For over 20 years, Clayton has been successfully architecting and integrating a full-range of technology consulting solutions. At Terrace Consulting, Clayton leads the design, architecture, integration and development of a variety of business software projects within the accounting, insurance, retail, and publishing industries. Not afraid to push the bounds of possibility, Clayton routinely takes on difficult engineering challenges, driving both the solution and team to excellence. With his relatable style and back to basics approach, he works closely with clients and team members as both a coach and mentor to ensure that the entire process is carefully planned and executed. Active in the community, Clayton serves on the boards of several non-profit user groups and higher education advisory committees, including Bay.Net and California State University, Chico. Clayton is also a published author, active speaker and a local leader in the San Francisco Bay Area. A musician who loves audio engineering, he is often participating in his three kids activities, discovering the next craft beer, or relaxing at his ranch in California's historic gold country.
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Identity as a Service - Modern Authentication...
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Jason Poon
http://jasonpoon.ca
Raised in the snowbanks of Canada, Jason feeds on code, where he satisfies that daily appetite as a software developer at Microsoft. Jason is also part of the development team behind VSCodeVim, one of the most popular VSCode extensions.
Raised in the snowbanks of Canada, Jason feeds on code, where he satisfies that daily appetite as a software developer at Microsoft. Jason is also part of the development team behind VSCodeVim, one of the most popular VSCode extensions.
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Mastering VSCode: Building your first...
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Imran Qureshi
http://www.healthcatalyst.com
Imran is currently the Chief Software Development Officer at Health Catalyst, the leading Health Analytics company providing analytics for 65M+ patients. Before that Imran was CTO of Acupera, where he led the team that built the care management platform that is now implemented in Ascension, Montefiore, Kaiser and other health systems. Prior to that, he was VP of Engineering at CareAnyware where he led development of the largest cloud based EHR for Home Health and Hospice. He also spent 12 years at Microsoft including building slideshow for PowerPoint and building the email experience for Hotmail. He holds several patents and has a Computer Science degree from Stanford University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Elsie, and ten-year-old twins, Zane and Malaya.
Imran is currently the Chief Software Development Officer at Health Catalyst, the leading Health Analytics company providing analytics for 65M+ patients. Before that Imran was CTO of Acupera, where he led the team that built the care management platform that is now implemented in Ascension, Montefiore, Kaiser and other health systems. Prior to that, he was VP of Engineering at CareAnyware where he led development of the largest cloud based EHR for Home Health and Hospice. He also spent 12 years at Microsoft including building slideshow for PowerPoint and building the email experience for Hotmail. He holds several patents and has a Computer Science degree from Stanford University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Elsie, and ten-year-old twins, Zane and Malaya.
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Elastic Search: Speeding up your applications
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Neelakandan Rajesh
http://www.yahoo.com
Software Engineer with experience in a wide array of technologies, working and solving a variety of interesting web services, distributed computing and big data problems. I am passionate about solving performance and scalability related problems. I am interested in all things technology and in sharing my technology know how and expertise. I have experience and expertise in search, ads and finance domains.
Software Engineer with experience in a wide array of technologies, working and solving a variety of interesting web services, distributed computing and big data problems. I am passionate about solving performance and scalability related problems. I am interested in all things technology and in sharing my technology know how and expertise. I have experience and expertise in search, ads and finance domains.
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Streaming with Apache Storm
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Rakesh Ranjan
http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/us/en/
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.
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.
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Simplify Your Life with Your Own IBM Watson...
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Tim Reilly
http://timmyreilly.com
Tim Reilly is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft based in the Bay Area. He loves working with Python, JavaScript, and the cloud to turn ideas into solutions. Tim has attended a dozen hackathons in the last 12 months and has experience turning ideas into hacks quickly. When he's not coding he's playing Ultimate Frisbee or hanging at the Microsoft Reactor.
Tim Reilly is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft based in the Bay Area. He loves working with Python, JavaScript, and the cloud to turn ideas into solutions. Tim has attended a dozen hackathons in the last 12 months and has experience turning ideas into hacks quickly. When he's not coding he's playing Ultimate Frisbee or hanging at the Microsoft Reactor.
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Jeffrey Rennie
http://surferjeffatgoogle.blogspot.com/
After graduating UC Berkeley, I worked at Wind River Systems and a doomed start-up, before settling at Google in 2003. For my first 6 years at Google, I worked on client applications like Google Web Accelerator and GDrive. Then, I worked for 6 years in the search stack, where I how learned to build reliable systems that scale to many machines, many threads, and many programmers working on the same code base. I mastered gdb and the art of debugging. Now, I find a good core dump to be more interesting than a mystery novel. In 2015, I returned to my first love, Windows programming, to teach the world how to run Windows applications on Google Cloud Platform.
After graduating UC Berkeley, I worked at Wind River Systems and a doomed start-up, before settling at Google in 2003. For my first 6 years at Google, I worked on client applications like Google Web Accelerator and GDrive. Then, I worked for 6 years in the search stack, where I how learned to build reliable systems that scale to many machines, many threads, and many programmers working on the same code base. I mastered gdb and the art of debugging. Now, I find a good core dump to be more interesting than a mystery novel. In 2015, I returned to my first love, Windows programming, to teach the world how to run Windows applications on Google Cloud Platform.
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Running ASP.NET applications on the Google...
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Chris Richardson
http://learnmicroservices.io
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.
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.
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Developing Microservices with Aggregates
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Walt Ritscher
http://visualstudioadventures.com
Walt's enthusiasm for crafting software interfaces blossomed early. Just a few days after discovering how to move pixels around a computer screen he was devouring books on the topic of computer graphics and UI design. Before long he was sharing his discoveries with other technology buffs, a lifelong pursuit that has led to teaching engagements at universities, private training companies and the international conference circuit. As a consultant he has worked with a wide spectrum of clients, including Microsoft, HP, and Intel. He is now a staff author at Lynda.com, part of the LinkedIn family, where his content team produces hundreds of technical training courses for software developers each year. In an earlier phase of life he was a professional musician, first working jobs as a trombonist, later exploring music with keyboards and synthesizers.
Walt's enthusiasm for crafting software interfaces blossomed early. Just a few days after discovering how to move pixels around a computer screen he was devouring books on the topic of computer graphics and UI design. Before long he was sharing his discoveries with other technology buffs, a lifelong pursuit that has led to teaching engagements at universities, private training companies and the international conference circuit. As a consultant he has worked with a wide spectrum of clients, including Microsoft, HP, and Intel. He is now a staff author at Lynda.com, part of the LinkedIn family, where his content team produces hundreds of technical training courses for software developers each year. In an earlier phase of life he was a professional musician, first working jobs as a trombonist, later exploring music with keyboards and synthesizers.
Sessions conducted by Walt Ritscher
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From Dull to Dazzling: How Visualization...
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Robert Roeder
http://www.impappdevelopment.com
I love to develop software applications. My newest love is app development for IoT (Arduino, Raspberry PI, DragonBoard, Cypress PSoC 5LP) and the new Windows Universal Applications. My skills include C#, C, VB, TSQL, XMAL, XML, JSON, MVC, MVVM, Classic ASP, JavaScript, but these are just a few of the current languages I write in.
I love to develop software applications. My newest love is app development for IoT (Arduino, Raspberry PI, DragonBoard, Cypress PSoC 5LP) and the new Windows Universal Applications. My skills include C#, C, VB, TSQL, XMAL, XML, JSON, MVC, MVVM, Classic ASP, JavaScript, but these are just a few of the current languages I write in.
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IoT Black Box
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Antony Ross
http://sportinsight.com
Antony Ross is a consultant specializing in data science and machine learning applied to sports performance. He has worked closely with USC and UCLA and is presently involved with the Recurse Center in New York researching deep learning and voice recognition.
Antony Ross is a consultant specializing in data science and machine learning applied to sports performance. He has worked closely with USC and UCLA and is presently involved with the Recurse Center in New York researching deep learning and voice recognition.
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A Machine Learning Primer
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Joe Rowley
https://github.com/alphonzo79
Joe currently works as a Senior Android Developer for Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the tech and media arm of MLB (http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2014/07/07/the-biggest-media-company-youve-never-heard-of/#4664bcd1dd4e). While there, he recently helped rebuild the official app of the NHL. He previously has worked for Vertigo Software, Bodybuilding.com, and HP in Boise.
Joe currently works as a Senior Android Developer for Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the tech and media arm of MLB (http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2014/07/07/the-biggest-media-company-youve-never-heard-of/#4664bcd1dd4e). While there, he recently helped rebuild the official app of the NHL. He previously has worked for Vertigo Software, Bodybuilding.com, and HP in Boise.
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Ken Rutsky
http://www.kjrassociates.com
Ken Rutsky is a B2B marketing consultant focused on helping his clients breakthrough and become market leaders. Ken is the author of the soon-to-be-published book, Launching to Leading: How B2B Market Leaders Breakthrough, Lead, and Transform their Markets. Ken has spent more than 20 years in B2B marketing roles, including launching the Intel Inside broadcast co-op program and the Internet’s first affiliate marketing program, Netscape Now. Today, as KJR Associates, Inc. Founder and President, Ken leverages his knowledge and experience and his Breakthrough Marketing framework to help his clients, who have included FireEye, Nimsoft, Cisco, Sophos and others, to lead and transform their their markets.
Ken Rutsky is a B2B marketing consultant focused on helping his clients breakthrough and become market leaders. Ken is the author of the soon-to-be-published book, Launching to Leading: How B2B Market Leaders Breakthrough, Lead, and Transform their Markets. Ken has spent more than 20 years in B2B marketing roles, including launching the Intel Inside broadcast co-op program and the Internet’s first affiliate marketing program, Netscape Now. Today, as KJR Associates, Inc. Founder and President, Ken leverages his knowledge and experience and his Breakthrough Marketing framework to help his clients, who have included FireEye, Nimsoft, Cisco, Sophos and others, to lead and transform their their markets.
Sessions conducted by Ken Rutsky
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Does Message-Market Fit Trump Product-Market...
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Sunil Sabat
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sunilsabat
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 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.
Sessions conducted by Sunil Sabat
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Practice of Compliance Driven Protection for...
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Baruch Sadogursky
http://www.jfrog.com
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/
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/
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Docker Container Lifecycles – Problem or...
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Vishal Saxena
http://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalnarayan/
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
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
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Aaron Schlesinger
http://arschles.com
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.
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.
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Programming Pearls of Go - How to write fast,...
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Ansel Sermersheim
http://www.copperspice.com
I have been working as a programmer for over sixteen years. My degree is in Computer Science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Currently I work as a software engineer designing scalable, high performance, multi-threaded network daemons in C++. The daemons I have developed are used at a Tier 1 carrier serving static and live content to customers around the world. Co-founder of CopperSpice, a C++ library derived from an existing framework. Co-founder of DoxyPress, a C++ application derived from an existing open source documentation program. I have programmed in C++, C, Lisp, Java, and Perl, with extensive knowledge in TCP/IP. I am an avid follower of the C++ standard. Speaker at CppCon 2015.
I have been working as a programmer for over sixteen years. My degree is in Computer Science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Currently I work as a software engineer designing scalable, high performance, multi-threaded network daemons in C++. The daemons I have developed are used at a Tier 1 carrier serving static and live content to customers around the world. Co-founder of CopperSpice, a C++ library derived from an existing framework. Co-founder of DoxyPress, a C++ application derived from an existing open source documentation program. I have programmed in C++, C, Lisp, Java, and Perl, with extensive knowledge in TCP/IP. I am an avid follower of the C++ standard. Speaker at CppCon 2015.
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C++ GUI library & Documenting Source Code:...
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Sanjana Shah
http://
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.
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.
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Draw your Favorite Animal with JavaScript
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Robin Shahan
http://robindotnet.wordpress.com
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.
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
http://www.applovin.com
Basil Shikin is the VP of Engineering at AppLovin, a leading mobile marketing platform that helps the world’s largest brands reach over two billion consumers globally with relevant content. He leads teams responsible for building AppLovin’s secure, highly scalable distributed systems, and he has played a leadership role in building AppLovin’s globally distributed ad serving network, which processes 50 billion ad requests a day. During Basil’s time at the company, it has been named #8 on Forbes’ list of America’s Most Promising Companies and #68 on the 2016 Inc 5000 list. Before joining AppLovin, Basil was senior software engineer at DeviceAnywhere and a software engineer at other Silicon Valley startups.
Basil Shikin is the VP of Engineering at AppLovin, a leading mobile marketing platform that helps the world’s largest brands reach over two billion consumers globally with relevant content. He leads teams responsible for building AppLovin’s secure, highly scalable distributed systems, and he has played a leadership role in building AppLovin’s globally distributed ad serving network, which processes 50 billion ad requests a day. During Basil’s time at the company, it has been named #8 on Forbes’ list of America’s Most Promising Companies and #68 on the 2016 Inc 5000 list. Before joining AppLovin, Basil was senior software engineer at DeviceAnywhere and a software engineer at other Silicon Valley startups.
Sessions conducted by Basil Shikin
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The Future of Data Storage (Hint: It is Fast)
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Sessions conducted by Asim Siddiqui
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Build Your First Loopback API with NodeJS
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Paran Sonthalia
http://mangoap.com/
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.
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.
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Building an iOS app using Swift
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Tanay Sonthalia
http://None
I am a high schooler at Mountain View High School, and I have been coding since I was 8 years old. I am 13 years old and I love designing websites. HTML is definitely my favorite language to code in. I have created 3 websites that are online currently. I have helped my brother with the classes he taught many times, so I have enough experience to teach how to build a website. In fact, my brother taught at Code Camp, so I taught here with him. I have created a few iOS apps too, but none of them are on the app store. My favorite two sports are basketball and soccer and I play competitively in both. I am also a Boy Scout and I love the outdoors. I love hiking and camping and being with nature.
I am a high schooler at Mountain View High School, and I have been coding since I was 8 years old. I am 13 years old and I love designing websites. HTML is definitely my favorite language to code in. I have created 3 websites that are online currently. I have helped my brother with the classes he taught many times, so I have enough experience to teach how to build a website. In fact, my brother taught at Code Camp, so I taught here with him. I have created a few iOS apps too, but none of them are on the app store. My favorite two sports are basketball and soccer and I play competitively in both. I am also a Boy Scout and I love the outdoors. I love hiking and camping and being with nature.
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Build Your Own Website Using HTML and CSS
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Kevin Steineman
http://www.mobileminute.info
Kevin Steineman is the Digital Marketing Director at Sikka Software and has held previous CMO positions with different web SAAS companies. For the last 6 years Kevin has consulted with startups, corporations, and SMBs to: bolster brand awareness, create lead-gen systems, and increase revenue at every monetizable stage of the product or service. Kevin is also the acclaimed author of the "App Launch Blueprint" which was released in 2013 with the goal of helping developers who had GREAT ideas, but not a GREAT plan to go-to-market with their idea. Kevin is also the founder of www.mobileminute.info; an online publication whose content revolves around: Tech, Mobile, Marketing, and Startups. Kevin is also a former speaker at MCSF an un-conference devoted to sharing the latest insights with other marketers and the best tactics to leverage them for their respective companies. Kevin is also an avid foodie, and wine fan.
Kevin Steineman is the Digital Marketing Director at Sikka Software and has held previous CMO positions with different web SAAS companies. For the last 6 years Kevin has consulted with startups, corporations, and SMBs to: bolster brand awareness, create lead-gen systems, and increase revenue at every monetizable stage of the product or service. Kevin is also the acclaimed author of the "App Launch Blueprint" which was released in 2013 with the goal of helping developers who had GREAT ideas, but not a GREAT plan to go-to-market with their idea. Kevin is also the founder of www.mobileminute.info; an online publication whose content revolves around: Tech, Mobile, Marketing, and Startups. Kevin is also a former speaker at MCSF an un-conference devoted to sharing the latest insights with other marketers and the best tactics to leverage them for their respective companies. Kevin is also an avid foodie, and wine fan.
Sessions conducted by Kevin Steineman
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Break the: "IF You Build it They Will Come" -...
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jordan sterling
http://bitbucket.org/fool
Software Engineer at Twilio working on payments, order to cash, sales tax, and anti-fraud. Trying to work in scala as much as possible and spend most of my coding time in scala. Also heavily using AWS including SQS, DynamoDB, Spark, Redshift, and more.
Software Engineer at Twilio working on payments, order to cash, sales tax, and anti-fraud. Trying to work in scala as much as possible and spend most of my coding time in scala. Also heavily using AWS including SQS, DynamoDB, Spark, Redshift, and more.
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Functional Sales Tax At Twilio
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Bruno Terkaly
http://blogs.msdn.com/brunoterkaly
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
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
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Building a Java-based RESTful Service and...
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Riccardo Terrell
http://meetup.com/dcfsharp
Riccardo Terrell, is a Software Architect at Microsoft who is passionate about functional programming. He is active in the F# community and started the DC F# user’s group. Riccardo is a believer in polyglot programming as a mechanism in finding the right tool for the job. He likes to describe himself as a functional guy living in an imperative world.
Riccardo Terrell, is a Software Architect at Microsoft who is passionate about functional programming. He is active in the F# community and started the DC F# user’s group. Riccardo is a believer in polyglot programming as a mechanism in finding the right tool for the job. He likes to describe himself as a functional guy living in an imperative world.
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Choose the Right Concurrency Model in .NET
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Lena Tran
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/print-edition/2014/04/04/evergreen-valley-colleges-lena-tran-women-of.html
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.
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.
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The Perfect Micro-Manager
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Rowan-James Tran
http://N/A
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.
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.
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Intro to Game Development with Python
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Anoop Trivedi
https://github.com/anooptrivedi/
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.
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.
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Introduction to Python – Beginners – Level 2
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Kevin Van Gundy
http://kvangundy.com
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.
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.
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Building a Real Time Recommendation Engine...
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Nicholas Vargas
http://nickvargas.net
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Nicholas Vargas
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Simplify Your Life with Your Own IBM Watson...
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James Weaver
http://JavaFXpert.com
James Weaver is a Java developer, author, and speaker with a passion for helping Java to be increasingly leveraged in cloud-native and machine learning applications. He is a Java Champion, and a JavaOne Rockstar. James has written books including Inside Java, Beginning J2EE, the Pro JavaFX series, and Java with Raspberry Pi. As an Pivotal Developer Advocate, James speaks internationally at software technology conferences about Java and Cloud Native development. James tweets as @JavaFXpert, blogs at http://JavaFXpert.com and http://CulturedEar.com and may be reached at jweaver [at] pivotal.io
James Weaver is a Java developer, author, and speaker with a passion for helping Java to be increasingly leveraged in cloud-native and machine learning applications. He is a Java Champion, and a JavaOne Rockstar. James has written books including Inside Java, Beginning J2EE, the Pro JavaFX series, and Java with Raspberry Pi. As an Pivotal Developer Advocate, James speaks internationally at software technology conferences about Java and Cloud Native development. James tweets as @JavaFXpert, blogs at http://JavaFXpert.com and http://CulturedEar.com and may be reached at jweaver [at] pivotal.io
Sessions conducted by James Weaver
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Machine Learning Exposed!
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Ted Young
http://www.tedmyoung.com
Java Trainer and Coding Coach, specializing in Java, Spring, Object-Oriented Programming, and TDD. Create and deliver customized learning experiences for developers.
Java Trainer and Coding Coach, specializing in Java, Spring, Object-Oriented Programming, and TDD. Create and deliver customized learning experiences for developers.
Sessions conducted by Ted Young
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Go for Java Developers
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Tobiah Zarlez
http://www.tobiahz.com/
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Tobiah Zarlez
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Ctrl+Z for Git: How to undo (almost) anything
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Roman Zhovtulya
http://www.WebServiceCenter.net
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.
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.
Sessions conducted by Roman Zhovtulya
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Manage your life: Web-based goal, time,...
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Gabi Zuniga
http://about.me/gabiz
Gabi Zuniga has been developing mobile applications since 2008. He is a co-founder and CTO of VoiceLayer where he architects frameworks for enhancing apps with realtime voice messaging. Gabi enjoys exploring new technologies and competing at hackathons.
Gabi Zuniga has been developing mobile applications since 2008. He is a co-founder and CTO of VoiceLayer where he architects frameworks for enhancing apps with realtime voice messaging. Gabi enjoys exploring new technologies and competing at hackathons.
Sessions conducted by Gabi Zuniga
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From JavaScript to Android Developer - 0 to...
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