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Aaron Bedra-Senior Engineer at DRW

Aaron Bedra is a Senior Engineer at DRW, where he works at the intersection trading and technology. He has served as a Chief Security Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Principal Engineer/Architect. He has worked professionally on programming languages, most notably Clojure and ClojureScript. Aaron is the creator of Repsheet, an open source threat intelligence toolkit. He is the co-author of Programming Clojure, 2nd and 3rd Edition and a contributor to Functional Programming: A PragPub Anthology.

Adrian Cole-Cloud Engineer at Twitter

Adrian is an active member of cloud interoperability, REST, and DevOps circles. He is the founder of a few popular open source projects, notably Apache jclouds and Netflix denominator, both of which java libraries that help create portable cloud deployments. Adrian maintains the http/2 implementation of Square okhttp. Adrian's currently focused on cloud computing at Twitter.

Andres Almiray-Developer Advocate for Gradle & Java Champion

Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and a Java Champion with more than 20 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. Andres is a true believer in open source and has participated on popular projects like Groovy at Griffon, and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member of the Griffon framework and Hackergarten community event.https://ch.linkedin.com/in/aalmiray

Andrew Lombardi-Owner, Mystic Coders - Entrepreneur

Andrew Lombardi is one of a new breed of businessmen: the enlightened entrepreneur. He has been writing code since he was a 5-year old, sitting at his dad’s knee at their Apple II computer. Having such a deep affinity for the computer model, it is no surprise that at the age of 17 he began to delve deeply into the inner workings of the human mind. He became a student of Neuro Linguistic Programming and other mind technologies, and then went on to study metaphysics. He is certified as an NLP Trainer, Master Hypnotherapist and Time Line Therapy practitioner.

Andy Painter-Agile Technologist

Andy Painter is the Co-Founder of Institute Success and Institute Agility. Institute Success focuses on helping leaders become an Engaged Company™ by developing their leaders and teams. Institute Agility focuses on helping organizations ignite the spirit of agility in one heart, one team, one organization at a time.

Ann Mwangi-Architect/Developer with Thoughtworks

Ann Mwangi is a software developer and consultant at ThoughtWorks for projects across different domains mainly in Uganda and Australia. She had a stint as a quality analyst to understand the challenges of maintaining quality in a system.

Arty Starr-Author of Idea Flow, Founder, FlowInsight

Arty Starr is a recognized Flow Experience expert at researcher, speaker and thought leader, and author ofIdea Flow, how to measure the friction in software development. Arty's PhD research is developing a theory of momentum in software development, and she is creator of theFLOWS platformdesigned to help developers thrive and find joy through more time in the flow state. The company she founded, FlowInsight, is on a mission to bring back joy to our everyday work.

Arun Gupta-Director of Developer Advocacy at Red Hat

Arun Gupta is Director of Developer Advocacy at Red Hat and focuses on JBoss Middleware. As a founding member of the Java EE team at Sun Microsystems, he spread the love for technology all around the world. At Oracle, he led a cross-functional team to drive the global launch of the Java EE 7 platform through strategy, planning, and execution of content, marketing campaigns, and program. He is a prolific blogger since 2005 and have authored 1500+ blogs on technology. Arun has extensive speaking experience in ~40 countries on myriad topics and is a JavaOne Rockstar. He also founded the Devoxx4Kids chapter in the USA and continues to promoting technology education amongst kids. An author of a best-selling book, an avid runner, a globe trotter, a Java Champion, JUG leader, he is easily accessible at @arungupta.

Ben Ellingson-Lead Developer NoFluffJustStuff.com

Ben is a full-stack web developer and mobile app developer. He is the developer behindnofluffjuststuff.com,uberconf.com,archconf.com at several other NFJS websites, and NFJS mobile apps (iOS and Android). He is fluent in JavaScript, Angular, Groovy, Java, Objective-C, Swift, Kubernetes, and Front-end engineering. He has over 20 years of development experience and is constantly learning new technologies. He is also a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).

Benjamin Muschko-AUTOMATEDASCENT - Software Engineer

Benjamin Muschko is a software engineer at consultant, and trainer with more than 20 years of experience in the industry. With deep experience working with major enterprise transformations, he's seen firsthand what separates successful modernization efforts from costly failures.

Brian Goetz-Author of Java Concurrency in Practice

Brian Goetz has been a professional software developer for 20 years. He is the author ofover 75 articleson software development, and his book,Java Concurrency In Practice, was published in May 2006 by Addison-Wesley. He serves on the JCP Expert Groups for JSRs 166 (concurrency utilities), 107 (caching), and 305 (annotations for safety analysis). He is a frequent presenter at JavaOne, OOPSLA, JavaPolis, SDWest, and the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium Tour. Brian is a Sr. Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems.

Brian Pontarelli-CEO of FusionAuth.io

I am a Technology Entrepreneur with a software development background. Currently at I am focused on solving the technology issues that many companies face for login, registration, and user management. My team and I built FusionAuth: A modern customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform that comes with features not seen in the marketplace today. It allows companies to focus on their core product not the plumbing of identity and user management.