Speakers

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis is a staff engineer at MongoDB in New York City. He is the author of Motor, the async MongoDB Python driver. He leads development of the MongoDB C Driver and is a member of the PyMongo…
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Adam Leventhal was most recently CTO of Delphix where he led the product and development team building out their Data as a Service offerings. He started his career in the Solaris Kernel Group where he co-authored DTrace. In 2006 Adam…
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Adriaan has been hacking the Scala compiler since 2007 (type constructor polymorphism, dependent method types and implicits, 2.10’s rewritten pattern matcher). In 2012 he joined Typesafe to lead the Scala team, with a mission to make Scala easier to use…
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Alex Miller works on maintaining Clojure and supporting the Clojure community at Cognitect. Last year he published Clojure Applied on Pragmatic Press. Alex is also the founder of the Strange Loop, Clojure/West, and Lambda Jam conferences. A screencast of Alex’s…
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Andrea Falcone is a Senior Software Engineer at Twitter. She has worked on many parts of Fabric, building the Android tooling, including Android Studio Plugin, Crashlytics Android SDK, Gradle plugin and Beta by Crashlytics. She is currently working on fastlane,…
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Andy believes that coding is like having a magical power that can be used to solve the world’s problems. Along with learning everything from the CPU to the application during his computer engineering studies at UMD, he’s been a C++…
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Ari Lerner hails from San Francisco and professionally plays around with tech stuff. As an author and teacher, he cofounded fullstack.io where he has written several books, including ng-book 1 & 2, ng-newsletter. On a technical side he spends his…
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Brandon Philips is helping to build modern Linux server infrastructure at CoreOS as CTO. Prior to CoreOS, he worked at Rackspace hacking on cloud monitoring and was a Linux kernel developer at SUSE. As a graduate of Oregon State’s Open…
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I work at Exponent (exponentjs.com) where we’re building a platform to deliver mobile experiences that combine the best of web and native. I’m a core contributor to React Native, compiler of the React Native Newsletter (reactnative.cc) and an organizer of…
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Brian Goetz is the Java Language Architect at Oracle, and was the specification lead for JSR-335 (Lambda Expressions for the Java Language.) He is the author of the best-selling book “Java Concurrency in Practice” and is a frequent presenter at…
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Bryan Helmkamp is the founder and CEO of Code Climate, where he helps software development teams improve their code quality with static analysis. In New York, he was CTO at Efficiency 2.0, a company focused on using science to help…
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Daniel is the author of the best selling books A Swift Kickstart and Developing iOS 7 Apps for iPad and iPhone (the official companion book to the popular iTunes U series from Stanford University). He has written apps for the…
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David Ferrucci is an award-winning AI researcher. He worked at IBM Research from 1995-2012 where he built and led a team of over 40 researchers and software engineers specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI). In 2007, Dr. Ferrucci personally took on…
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Diptanu is a Senior Engineer at HashiCorp, and works on large-scale distributed systems, cluster schedulers, service discovery and highly available and high throughput systems on the public cloud. He is a core committer to the Nomad cluster scheduler which has…
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Dmitri is the creator of the Luminus framework and the author of Web Development with Clojure. He works at the University Health Network where he develops applications to help improve patient care. Dmitri is an active member of the Clojure…
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CEO of CTO2, Doc is passionate about working with teams to improve software delivery and building great organizations. Once a dedicated code slinger, Doc has turned his energy toward helping teams, departments, and companies work better together in the pursuit…
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Don is a software developer who enjoys hacking with phones, Arduino and other hardware. As the Director of Consulting for Chariot Solutions he works with teams and clients to reinvent their existing technology and lay the groundwork for the future.…
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Donn is an independent consultant with a focus on mobile and back-end server side technologies. He’s the co-host of the Fragmented Podcast – an Android Developer podcast. He’s a best-selling mobile development book author, international speaker and the lead instructor…
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Evan loves to design, build, and improve bleeding edge distributed data and backend systems using the latest in open source technologies. He is the creator of the FiloDB open-source distributed analytical database, as well as the Spark Job Server. He…
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Ewen Cheslack-Postava is a Kafka committer and engineer at Confluent building a stream data platform based on Apache Kafka to help organizations reliably and robustly capture and leverage all their real-time data. He received his PhD from Stanford University where…
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Heather is a research scientist and the executive director of the Scala Center at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. She recently completed her PhD in EPFL’s School of Computer and Communication Science under Professor Martin Odersky, where she contributed to the…
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James is an Australian open source developer working as the tech lead of Lagom and Play Framework at Lightbend. His passion is to see reactive software development adopted in the enterprise. In the past he was worked on web scale…
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Jason Grout works at Bloomberg building software useful in scientific research. He works on the IPython and Jupyter open-source projects and serves on their steering council, and has also worked on the open-source Sage mathematical software system. Before joining Bloomberg,…
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Jean Yang is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Computer Science Department. She completed her PhD at MIT in 2015 and is spending the 2015-2016 academic year at Harvard Medical School. For her PhD thesis she created…
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Jeanine Gubler Heck serves as Executive Director in the Technology and Product organization of Comcast Cable. In this role, Jeanine is the product manager for voice recognition engine behind the X1 voice remote, which launched to customers in May 2015.…
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Jeff Labonski is a seasoned technology leader, with 17 years of development experience and 7 in executive roles. He has worked in numerous startups from pre-angel to acquisition, as well as in larger companies up to the Fortune 50. He…
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Jeff Posnick has spent eight years as a member of Google’s Developer Relations team, based in New York. He currently helps developers take advantage of the Open Web Platform’s building blocks, like web components and service workers, by wrapping them…
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Jessica Kerr writes Scala at Stripe, raises two daughters and one guinea pig, and in her spare time explores programming languages. She speaks at conferences in the US and Europe. Slides from Jessica’s talk are now available on the Chariot…
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Jim Sproch is a software engineer working on the React team at Facebook. His team supports React both internally at Facebook and externally on Github, including the design and development of the core framework. Prior to joining Facebook, Jim worked…
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Joe is a computologist who specializes in low level systems, performance analysis, and debugging really weird things. He built packagecloud.io to help individuals and organizations easily create and manage package repositories for their internal infrastructure and users. Slides from Joe’s…
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Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” provides frank advice for your tough problems. She has written these books: Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization Project Portfolio Tips: Twelve Ideas for Focusing on the Work You…
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Jonathan Lipps has been making things out of code as long as he can remember. He currently works as Director of Engineering at Sauce Labs, leading a team of open source and front end developers to improve the web and…
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Kelsey has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When…
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With over 12 years experience in product security, Kymberlee Price pioneered the first security researcher outreach program in the software industry, was a principal investigator in the Zotob criminal investigation, and analyzed APT’s at Microsoft. She then spent 4 years…
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Leigh Ann Shaffner is the Executive Director, Talent Management for the Technology + Product team at Comcast. She is currently leading an effort to reimagine and transform the Performance Management process to a continuous feedback based model – incorporating agile…
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Liv Erickson is a Virtual and Augmented Reality Developer Evangelist at Microsoft based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the creator and host of Just A/VR Show, a web show for aspiring VR and AR developers, developer…
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Luke Wagner has worked at Mozilla for 6 years on JavaScript engine performance optimizations, asm.js, WebAssembly, and the Mozilla games program. Luke was one of the inventors of asm.js and implemented the initial asm.js optimizations in Firefox’s JavaScript engine. Luke…
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As Chief Technology Officer for Wingspan Technology, Inc., Martin is responsible for technology and software engineering leadership. He brings over 20 years of experience as an executive and architect for enterprise applications, integration, and document management for global enterprise applications.…
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As Ionic’s Developer Advocate, Mike helps developers while they’re building their apps and also frequently speak and write about Ionic. In his spare time, he’s a hybrid app maker, occasional musician, and craft beer lover. Based in the San Francisco…
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I work at Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center thinking about and building massive scale data and software platforms to change computing, transportation, and the world. Until August 2014, I was Twitter’s VP of Engineering in charge of the Platform, the core…
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Ryan Brush is a software engineer at Cerner, where he works on Hadoop-based systems to bring together and make sense of the world’s health data. He dabbles in writing, having contributed chapters to Hadoop: The Definitive Guide and 97 Things…
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Sameer is a Client Services Engineer at Databricks where he focuses on enabling Spark deployments via tech support, consulting and training. Prior to joining Databricks, Sameer was a freelance big data trainer and consutant. He has taught over 120 classes…
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Sarah Mei is the Chief Consultant at DevMynd in San Francisco, and has been writing software since before the internet had cats. She teaches object-oriented design with Sandi Metz, is an expert pair programmer, and speaks and writes about code,…
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Scott is a Senior Consulting Partner of Scott Ambler + Associates, working with organizations around the world to help them to improve their software processes. He provides training, coaching, and mentoring in disciplined agile and lean strategies at both the…
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Sean Cribbs is a distributed systems and web architecture enthusiast, currently building innovative cloud and infrastructure software at Comcast. Previously, Sean spent five years with Basho Technologies contributing to nearly every part of Riak including client libraries, CRDTs and tools.…
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Srinivas (Srini) Palthepu (@SriniPalthepu) has over 20 years of combined IT & Software Engineering experience in various roles including Research & Development, Production Delivery & Execution, Architecture and Strategy. He started Big Data journey before even the term Big Data…
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Steve Barsh is Chief Innovation Officer and Managing Director – Health for Dreamit. Steve has over 30 years of experience launching, leading and building multi-national companies as well as early stage venture work. He has helped launch dozens of companies…
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Steve is a prolific open source contributor, member of the Rust core team, and has authored Rails 4 in Action, The Rust Programming Language, and Designing Hypermedia APIs. Slides from Steve’s talk are now available on the Chariot Solutions site.

Susan is a distributed systems engineer straddling technical operations and engineering helping make data and service infrastructure operationally manageable at scale. Over the last seventeen years she has worked on algorithmic trading systems, market data software, multi-tenant service oriented architecture,…
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Dr. Wagner is the General Manager of AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services’s newest compute service that makes it easy to run code in the cloud. Prior to joining AWS, Dr. Wagner was a Director of Development for Visual Studio overseeing…
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Yehuda Katz is one of the creators of Ember.js, a member of the Rust Core Team, and a retired Ruby on Rails and jQuery Core Team member. His 9-to-5 home is at the startup he founded, Tilde Inc. There he…
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