Gabe Abinante is an artist and devops engineer. After 4 years of IT in corporate environments and working for himself as a consultant and web designer, he decided to leverage his technical skills in the start-up space. Aside from designing infrastructure in the cloud, he does leatherworking, metalwork, and is in the process of writing a novel.

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

Software architect and developer with 15 years of industry experience. passionate about people, process and technology. Microsoft MVP , C# Corner MVP, TOGAF Certified Architect, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), author, and speaker. Passionate about .NET technology. I blog at www.MyPassionFor.net and can be followed at twitter @DotNetAuthor

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

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.

Amir Barylko started his career in 1994 working for IBM as a senior developer while he was finishing his Masters degree in computer science. Since then he worked as team leader and architect for the past 15 years. Having started with languages like C++ and Java he spent many years coding in C# and training other developers in topics such domain modelling, abstractions, patterns, automation, dependency injection, testing, etc. Being an incurable geek, always thirsty for knowledge, his passion for technology moved him towards Ruby on Rails (RoR) a few years ago, becoming an advocate of RoR web development. Looking for new ways of sharing his knowledge and helping others to achieve their goals motivated Amir to become an owner and build a lean management tool called SmartView (http://smartview.io) that was released in 2014. Amir is a rare combination of high technical skills, experience in a wide range of platforms, exceptional presentation skills and a great sense of humor. His presentations are always rich in content and fun to attend.

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

Bhavana Bhasker is a Data Scientist at Comcast SiliconValley Innovation Center. She has research experience in Deep neural networks and Applied Machine Learning. She is also a part time lecturer at San Jose State University. Her area of interests are Computer Vision and Natural Language processing.

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.

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.

Joe Brinkman started programming almost 40 years ago and has never looked back. Prior to co-founding DNN Corp, he served as CTO for DataSource Inc. where he led the effort for building an automation framework for working with Java J2EE. As one of the original DotNetNuke core team members, and as the VP of Technology & Community Relations for DNN Corp, Joe has spent the last decade helping to build and promote the #1 CMS for the Windows platform. Joe has co-authored multiple best-selling books for DotNetNuke and jQuery and is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups. When not working at the computer you can often find Joe in his woodshop working on his latest woodturning project.

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.

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

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

Sung is a Software Engineer at Smashwords. He has over ten years of experience in the software development. His experience spans from embedded system to the Web application development. His current interest is web technologies including JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, React, Angular.

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.

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Communication, Node.js, Mac, .NET Framework, and HTML. Strong engineering professional with a B.S. in Computer Science from University of Houston-Downtown.

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

Douglas Crockford discovered the JSON Data Interchange Format. He is also the author of _JavaScript: The Good Parts_. He has been called a guru, but he is actually more of a mahatma.

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

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

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

14+ years of extensive experience in all facets of software development life-cycle, starting with technical support of pre-sales, working out Architecture, development and Project Management. Here is brief summary of my profile in Oracle: Current Role Individual Contributor role as Principal Product Manager in “Oracle Cloud Application Development PM group” at Oracle Corporation having a focus on Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET), Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS) and integration with PaaS services. Responsibilities: Responsible for development and execution of programs specific to adoption of Oracle Public Cloud PaaS strategies and technologies throughout the global developer community by: • Writing code samples and scripts • Product demonstration • Hands on Labs and virtual trainings • Technical articles focusing on capabilities of PaaS technologies Domains & Technologies Involved: • Domain: Exposure to IAM, Cloud –PaaS, SaaS • Working on following frameworks: o Smartphone application programming - Web, Hybrid and Native. Android SDK/NDK, Apple iOS SDK, Cordova/PhoneGap & Server side: Node.js o Web Technologies: HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Oracle JET, Bootstrap and Angular.JS Frameworks, ionic, REST/ JSON. o Google Cloud Platform, Oracle PaaS – MCS, Oracle IOT CS, AWS Services

Ilya is a Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks, focused on making the adoption of microservices easier. Prior to Weaveworks, Ilya worked at Xively, where he personally experienced the shift to a true DevOps culture. He began to shift focus down the stack, becoming one of the early evangelists of and contributors to open source projects in the emerging Docker/container ecosystem.

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

John does many things. John is a Google Developer Expert-turned-Googler, working on Google Home. He's a father, engineer, coffee roaster, and sometimes public speaker. Most weekends, he can be found breaking things that probably used to work at home. And, he's really into coffee.

As the first employee of Nota I have grown along the company as we reached 10 million monthly users for our instant screenshot sharing service http://gyazo.com and I am now spreading the word about the ultra helpful note-taking app https://scrapbox.io

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).

Claudia Galván has led global product development at Oracle, Adobe and Microsoft reaching billions of people around the world. In the last few years she has focused on helping startups in Silicon Valley launch products internationally.

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.

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

Arun Gupta is a Principal Open Source Technologist at Amazon Web Services. He has built and led developer communities for 12+ years at Sun, Oracle, Red Hat and Couchbase. He has deep expertise in leading cross-functional teams to develop and execute strategy, planning and execution of content, marketing campaigns, and programs. Prior to that he led engineering teams at Sun and is a founding member of the Java EE team. He has extensive speaking experience in more than 40 countries on myriad topics and is a JavaOne Rock Star for four years in a row. Gupta also founded the Devoxx4Kids chapter in the US and continues to promote technology education among children. A prolific blogger, author of several books, an avid runner, a globe trotter, a Docker Captain, a Java Champion, a JUG leader, NetBeans Dream Team member, he is easily accessible at @arungupta.

Technology Leader, FinTech Expert Great in numbers! Passionate about use of technology in Finance, Banking and Payments. AWS, Data Science, Cloud Computing, Java, Open Source Enthusiast

Aiming to build a career in computer science and research and succeed in an environment of growth and excellence by applying my skills and knowledge. I have designed and created "Download and Go" version of an IBM software which helped customers running IBM Information Governance Catalog with a delightful experience doing it. I have created self served apps for Mac and Windows (Linux coming soon) that orchestrated deployment of the IGC software using docker container on customer's laptop.

Lisa Huang is a co-founder of FlightGold, a fullstack engineer based in San Francisco bay area. Lisa has a background in digital marketing, building mobile-optimized web apps and a keen Rubyist. She is a self-taught developer and started her coding journey with FreeCodeCamp projects. In her off time, you can find Lisa exploring the West coast and hacking on Arduino.

Bryan Hughes is a technical evangelist at Microsoft, long-time member of the Node.js and NodeBots communities, and tech activist. Bryan is the creator of Raspi IO which provides Raspberry Pi support for the Johnny-Five JavaScript robotics library. Bryan also created Raver Lights, a distributed wireless lighting system designed for festivals, and Request Inspector, a Node.js performance diagnostics tool. Outside of tech, Bryan is an amateur photographer, occasional writer, a once upon a time pianist, and a wine aficionado.

My role at Pivotal is focused on app and infra developers that use Java, Spring and Cloud Foundry. Java middleware has been my focus for nearly two decades, working in development, marketing, sales, and developer relations at BEA, Oracle, VMWare and Pivotal. Talk to me about Cloud Native applications!

Recruitment and service work attracting Human Resources, Legal, Finance, Software, Information Technology, administration, and executive hires. Experience includes and is not limited to recruitment, hiring manager partnership, program and people management, occasional employee relations work. Additional HR experience includes reporting, employee communication, staffing, training, team building, benefits, and diversity projects. Currently evaluating early career talent for a customer service oriented, 32B global company. Teaches interviewing, sourcing, profile improvement, ATS and compliance management skills.

Mandar Jog is a senior software engineer at Google working on Istio. He has been working on the project since its inception. Mandar has been in the micro services world for years, both consuming and creating service mesh related technologies. Prior to Google, Mandar has led engineering teams at startups and worked for Pivotal and IBM.

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.

Dedicated and self-motivated software engineer with 3 years of experience in varied technologies. I have worked as a web developer, Desktop application developer. I have always been open to exploring work in new technologies and challenging situations.

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

Asif Khan is a technical Architect with Amazon Web Services. He provides technical guidance, design advice and thought leadership to some of the largest and successful AWS customers and partners on the planet. His deepest expertise spans application architecture, containers, devops, security, machine learning and SaaS business applications. Over the last 12 years, he’s brought an intense customer focus to challenging and deeply technical roles in multiple industries. He has a number of patents and has successfully led product development, architecture and customer engagements.

Michael Klose started programming at 8 years old, in BASIC on a ZX Spectrum. He started using C++ using Turbo C++ 1.0 as a teenager, which came out in 1991. These days, despite being busy leading Commvault's Silicon Valley engineering team, he still programs C++ code himself whenever he gets the time — mostly after everyone has gone home — and frequently gives internal presentations on C++11(+) and other programming-related topics.

Malcolm Knapp is the founder of the Engineer Accelerator hardware focused bootcamp. He has 10 years of experience in the hardware industry and more than 15 years of experience teaching. In addition to running the Engineer Accelerator, he has created classes for Workshop Weekend, UCB Berkeley, and for corporate clients. He also works as an independent consultant focusing on early stage product development and as an organizer of MakeSF and Beyond Hello World Electronics.

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

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".

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.

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

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

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.

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

Hien Luu is an engineering manager at LinkedIn and an instructor at UCSC Extension school. He is a machine learning & big data enthusiast and has extensive experience in building big data infrastructure and applications. One of his passions is teaching. He has been teaching at UCSC Extension school more than 10 years and his most recent course is Apache Spark.

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

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

Daren May is the President and founder of CustomMayd— a company that specializes in designing and building developer training and next-level digital experiences. Daren is a Windows Development MVP and has written and presented many training courses including Microsoft Virtual Academy videos.

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), and developer, architect, 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. David is also an inventor of a software printing system that was approved by the US Patient Office in May 2008. His Microsoft MVP profile is located at: http://bit.ly/davidmvp

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

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

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

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

John McFarlane has used C++ for twenty years, specializing in simulation, AI and interactivity. He is a contributor to Study Groups 6 and 14 and is involved in standardizing fixed-point arithmetic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Healthcare software engineer who loves to educate. Former healthtech and edtech entrepreneur. MIT, TechStars, and App Academy alum. Obsessed with checklists, best practices, and quality.

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

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

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

Arthur O'Dwyer worked for many years at Green Hills Software, making the world's most optimizing C and C++ compilers. These days he makes DNS servers at Nominum, speaks at C++ conferences, and is writing a book about the C++ Standard Library.

Megan O'Neill is a Senior Product Designer on PayPal's Next Gen Commerce (NGC) team. NGC is a multidisciplinary team focused on strategic partnerships and emerging opportunities.

Rob Oliver is an Agile Coach endeavoring to make the world of software development a better place for teams and leaders alike. Rob has had a long-time interest in leadership and team effectiveness, starting with graduate research and then work in management development. Since becoming a CSM in 2009 he has been an ardent agile evangelist. He has been continuously improving software delivery at companies ranging from small startups to large organizations including AT&T and Google. Rob has also spent many years volunteer managing a Community Services department at Burning Man.

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

As the global Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of TIBCO Software Inc., Nelson Petracek is helping to shape the development of TIBCO's emerging technology platforms and products. With over 20 years of experience, Nelson works to deliver solutions for the next stage of digital business, drawing upon his deep knowledge of cloud, blockchain, low-code applications, microservices, and event processing. A strong technology evangelist, he works with customers to identify and define the appropriate use of various technologies and architectures, and advises on best practices and information delivery patterns.

Leslie Pound is the founder and CEO of TaDa Labs, a voice technology startup that's transforming the way companies interact with their data. As a 20+ year veteran of search and voice tech, Leslie worked at the AI Center at SRI and acts as the link between business goals and technology. She is best known for being the first design lead at SRI AI for the framework that launched SIRI. Today, in addition to running TaDa Labs she helps startup founders and businesses design SAAS products and teaches voice tech to the developer world.

Monu Pradhan is currently responsible for Blockchain Technical Advocacy at IBM. She has worked for several companies like startups, Veritas, NetApp, HP and Oracle serving different challenging roles and disciplines and enjoys learning and contributing to emerging technology.

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

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

I am a student at the University of Arizona, majoring in MIS. I will be starting school at the University of Southern California in Spring 2018, as a Business major with an emphasis in Information Systems. I am experienced in the Internet of Things.

Training iOS developers in Technical Agile practices …because you can only be as agile as your code lets you be. Teaching workshops in Test-Driven Development. Also offering personal and group coaching. Author of "iOS Unit Testing by Example: XCTest Tips and Techniques Using Swift" now available in beta from Pragmatic Bookshelf.

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.

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.

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.

Marek Sadowski is a full stack developer advocate, a robotics startup founder and an entrepreneur. He has about 20 year experience in consulting largest enterprises in USA, Europe, Middle East and Africa as a senior engineer and an IT architect in mobile, web, Java and integration technologies. As a graduate from the International Space University Marek pioneered in a research on VR goggles for the virtual reality system to control robots on Mars in NASA Ames. He founded a startup to deliver robotics solutions and services for space, military, and industrial sectors. Marek moved to Silicon Valley to promote IoT and robotics solutions driven in Swift, Node.js, Node.RED by mobile, AI and Cloud.

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.

Dr. Zafar Shahid is an accomplished Multimedia Engineer with over 15 years of experience in real-time systems, multimedia stacks, applications and team- management. with ever increasing responsibilities in embedded, and desktop systems on Windows and Linux platforms. His experience spans big companies as Technicolor & Nvidia, and several start-ups. He has shipped several products successfully over the last decade. On the other hand, he has authored devised several algorithms which solved the problems on real-time protection for content storage and distribution. He has 3 books and over 40 internal publications and patents. He has extensively talked at international schools, conferences and technical workshops in morethan 10 countries.

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.

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

Abhinav Shroff works as a Principal Product Manager at Oracle. He is a seasoned professional with wide experience in Middleware and Cloud technologies. He is responsible for evangelizing Oracle Developer Cloud Services with the developer community. His areas of expertise are DevOps, Java, and Mobility. He is an active speaker at technical conferences including Silicon Valley Code Camp, DevOpsDays, Java One, Oracle Open World, AIOUG, OTNYathra, Sangam, Oracle Code, GIDS to name a few and has delivered many technology workshops and sessions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkP1eeaQbU0&t=2320s

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

Qirfiraz Siddiqui is an Electronics Engineer with over 37 years of professional experience, in Asia, Africa, Middle East & North America. He is CEO of California based CellSoul, Inc., which focuses on educational usage of NFC technology, an area which he pioneered and holds a patent. His current interest is NFC usage to create more reliable & authenticated social networks which can serve as neural networks of a global mind.

Cathy Simpson is a scrum trainer, agile coach, and Certified Scrum Professional with a passion for transforming the world of work to be more productive, creative and fun. She combines a warm energetic style with engaging training material and insights learned in the trenches at companies ranging from large financial institutions to small start-ups to create light bulb moments for her clients and course participants, with a good dose of humor thrown in. Besides training people in scrum, Cathy is passionate about mentoring women and girls in STEM, the intersection of art and technology, whimsy, and a good glass of red wine.

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

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

Arun Sriraman is a Software Engineer at Platform9 Systems and involves himself in architecture, design and coding. He also leads the networking efforts there. His focus has revolved around everything networking with deeper focus on container networking, Kubernetes and Openstack. Before Platform9, he has worked in different capacities with various companies including Cisco Systems, Aruba Networks and Siemens. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Networking from North Carolina State University and is an avid open-source contributor and supporter. He also likes to write both technical and adventure stuff. Check out his networking & technology related blog - http://blog.arunsriraman.com

Highly experienced Software Developer and project manager with a successful track record in established small and large companies. Certified as ZCE (ZEND Certified Engineer). Specialized in web and mobile business, distributed systems and agile methods, with more than 20 years experience and proven expertise

Mickey Stuewe has been working with SQL Server since 6.5. That gives her over 20 years of experience. She has not only been a database developer, but also an application developer, even before Visual Studio existed. She is now thankful to be focusing on database design, t-SQL development, and query optimization. She also has a habit of enjoying SSIS. She has bloged on her website mickeystuewe.com and has contributed to sites such as SQL Server Central and SQL Server Pro. She enjoys presenting at PASS Summit, SQL Saturdays, User Groups and other events. When she is not immersed in SQL related activities, she enjoys action movies, art, reading, and laughing. She laughs loudly and often...just ask her children.

At some point in the '90s, a very young Richard rather enjoyed Indiana Jones and therefore decided to become an archaeologist. To prepare for this bright future, he got himself a summer job on an archaeological dig. It turned out to be a very rainy summer. There were no rolling boulders. One evening the man in charge took him aside, looked at him with haunted eyes, and said: "Don't become an archaeologist." So, Richard got himself a PhD in distributed systems instead and embarked on a career in tech. At some point, he took a wrong turn and got lost in the middle of Mongolia. That day he realized the importance of location data. This led him to become a Senior Developer Evangelist at HERE Technologies where he helps developers find their way using map and location APIs.

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

Troy Taylor likes stepping outside of his job role as one of GrapeCity's technical engagement engineers to have an impact in other aspects of the company's business. Troy graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science before joining the GrapeCity team a year and a half ago.

My primary focus is working closely with important Enterprises and ISVs who can have a significant impact on Azure consumption. This means as I act primarily as a cloud architect, driving the technical agenda to understand a partner's current technology footprint and strategizing the technical path. White gloving strategically significant partners spans the technology spectrum: - Docker containers: Includes orchestration (Swarm, Mesos, DC/OS, Kubernetes) - Data and Analytics: Azure/Elastic Search, Big Data, Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Map Reduce, Spark, Storm, R Internet of Things: Injestion, Raspberry PI, On-Premise Connectivity, Pub/Sub, Queues/Messaging - Identity and Security: Active Directory, OAUTH, SSO, (Cloud & On-Premises) - Web and Mobile: Apps published in Windows Store, experience with iOS/Android. Web Services (Java/Jersey, .NET/MVC Web API) and client tooling (jQuery, Bootstrap) - Database: PostGres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, DocumentDB, Redis - Networking: Point to Site, Site to Site, Gateways, VNETS, ExpressRoute, Layer 4/7 LBs - DevOps: Scripting provisioning and management of IaaS, PaaS (Node, Python, REST), CI/CD Visual Studio, Eclipse in languages including JavaScript, C#, Java/Scala, C/C++, Node, PHP, Python, etc. http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/allthingscontainer http://github.com/brunoterkaly http://msdn.microsoft.com/brunoterkaly MSDN Magazine, and have a published course on O'Reilly Media

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

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

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

Ivan Wallis, is a Senior Systems Engineer with Venafi. He brings over 15 years of systems engineering, key management, and security training experience towards enabling customers and partners to effectively architect and deliver data security solutions for enterprise customers. Past experience includes lead solutions architect role at Thales e-Security and SSH Communication Security, as well as solutions architect at Entrust. Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Ivan is an active member of the local ISSA and ISC2 security community. Ivan holds a Bachelor of Computer Science and Information Systems from Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada.

Corey Weathers is passionate about solving human problems with technology. Before joining Twilio, he worked as a software developer, tester, performance engineer, and consultant with Microsoft and Intapp. With his deep knowledge of .NET, he is always looking for new ways to demonstrate the magic of software by building cross platform applications that satisfy developers and users alike.

Andrew Webster is an agile mage. More properly, he’s an enterprise, team, and personal transformation coach and trainer, but who needs a job title that long? Andrew has worked in software development for 20 years; an agilist since 2004, certified as CSM, CSPO, and CSP, a certified NLP Master Practitioner, certified Training From The Back Of The Room trainer’s trainer, certified (but lousy) graphic facilitator, and certified Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Indicator facilitator. So, he’s thoroughly proven to be certifiable. Previously working for giant clients like BBVA Compass, Visa, PayPal and Google subsidiary Nest, with over eighty projects under his belt.

Chris Woodruff (or Woody as he is commonly known as) has a degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University’s College of Engineering. Woody has been developing and architecting software solutions for over 20 years and has worked in many different platforms and tools. He is a community leader, helping such events as GRDevNight, GRDevDay, West Michigan Day of .NET and CodeMash. He was also instrumental in bringing the popular Give Camp event to Western Michigan where technology professionals lend their time and development expertise to assist local non-profits. As a speaker and podcaster, Woody has spoken and discussed a variety of topics, including database design and open source. He has been a Microsoft MVP in Visual C#, Data Platform and SQL and was recognized in 2010 as one of the top 20 MVPs world-wide. Woody works for JetBrains as a Developer Advocate.

My name is Chang Jie Yang. I am an Android SDK developer working with IBM Watson Customer Engagement division. I enjoy working with mobile technologies and blockchain related solutions.

Murat Yener is a code geek, open source committer, Java Champion and ex-Google Developer Expert on Android, who is working at Google on Google Home. He is the author of Expert Android Studio and Professional Java EE Design Patterns books from Wiley. He has extensive experience with developing Android, Java, web, JavaEE, and OSGi applications, in addition to teaching courses and mentoring. Murat was an Eclipse committer and one of the initial committers of the Eclipse Libra project. Murat had been a user group leader at GDG Istanbul and in GDG San Francisco, organizing, participating, and speaking at events. He is also a regular speaker at major conferences such as DroidCon, JavaOne and Devoxx.

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

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

Raheel Zubairy is a Software Engineer focused on developing journeys for Emerging Technologies team, part of IBM’s Digital Business Group. He has worked on journeys showcasing Blockchain technologies and Fintech services. In addition, his interests include IoT and Data Science. Raheel’s previous experience includes over five years in the energy industry. He completed his bachelors and masters degrees from Texas A&M University. Raheel is an avid sports fan.