Speakers

A.Mahdy Abdelaziz is a technical speaker, trainer, and developer advocate at Vaadin. He is passionate about web and mobile app development, including PWAs, offline-first design, in-browser databases, and cross-platform tools, and Android internals, such as building custom ROMs and customizing AOSP for embedded devices.

Faisal Abid is a Google Developer Expert, entrepreneur, and engineer. A programming language enthusiast, Faisal loves solving software engineering challenges across the stack. Currently, you can find him working on mobile applications in Flutter, building decentralized apps on Ethereum, tinkering with TensorFlow, and writing backends in Dart or Node.js.

Robert Aboukhalil is a bioinformatics software engineer at Invitae, which means he spends his time engineering software for bioinformatics purposes. Specifically, he develops cloud applications to enable the interactive analysis and exploration of genomics data. Robert has a PhD in bioinformatics from CSHL and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from McGill.

Mak Ahmad is a technical program manager at Google currently focusing on Istio. He has worn all the hats in his 14 years of experience, including five spent at Google. He’s also passionate about EdTech and the future of AI. In his free time, Mak plays soccer and does tae kwon do.

Subbu Allamaraju is the vice president of technology at Expedia Group, where he leads a large-scale migration of Expedia’s travel platforms from enterprise data centers to a highly available architecture in the cloud. Subbu is a well-rounded engineer and influencer with hands-on experience in software development, architecture, distributed systems, services, internet protocols, operations, and the cloud. Previously, he helped build and empower several engineering and operations teams in these areas.

Sean T. Allen is vice president of engineering at Wallaroo Labs and a member of the Pony core team. His turn-ons include programming languages, distributed computing, Hiwatt amplifiers, and Fender Telecasters. His turn-offs include mayonnaise, stirring yogurt, and sloppy code. He’s one of the authors of Storm Applied.

Shubha Anjur Tupil is a product manager at Pivotal. Shubha has worked in technology for 12 years, across networking, consumer tech, SaaS, and platform products at SAP, Huawei, McAfee, and a number of startups. In her free time, she loves solving puzzles, hiking, and cooking.

Raquel Araujo is a product scientist on the applicant quality team at Indeed, where she works in the intersection of product managers and data scientists to provide data-backed solutions and improvements on Indeed’s products. With doctoral-level training in economics, Raquel has a strong analytical mind and a passion for learning.

David Asabina is an electronics and software developer with a background in embedded systems engineering focusing on home automation and chatbots. A wannabe amateur musician, David spends his best moments hanging out with the incredible @lenipaperboats, often talking about politics, technology, society, and their next trip, traveling, and hacking hardware and software. David was born in the Netherlands and raised in Suriname, South America, and is based in Germany at the moment. He speaks English, Dutch, and Surinamese fluently, but his German is still a work in progress.

Paige Bailey is a senior cloud developer advocate at Microsoft specializing in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Previously, Paige was a data scientist and machine learning engineer in the energy industry (drilling and completions optimization, subsurface characterization). Paige has over a decade of experience doing data analysis with Python and five years of building predictive models with R. She serves on the core committee for JupyterCon and SciPy, is a Python instructor for EdX, founded PyLadies-HTX in Houston, and is currently writing both an introductory children’s book on machine learning and a technical cookbook for machine learning at scale with tools like Apache Spark.

Erin Bank is an advisor on engineering program management for the CA Technologies office of the CTO, where she drives both the open source and Inner Source programs for CA product development. Erin is also a driver of the Accelerator, CA’s hybrid-angel VC incubator program, where internal innovators receive support and funding to get new products into market. Erin has more than 20 years of experience building and executing transformative programs and solutions, with roles in engineering program management, product management, and technical communications in North America and abroad. Erin is a contributing member of InnerSource Commons and is committed to establishing InnerSource best practices with the community. Erin is also an elected member of the CA Council for Technical Excellence and has Lean Six Sigma and Pragmatic certifications.

Adam Baratz is a director of engineering at Wayfair, where he leads the Boston-based teams that build the upper-funnel customer experience and the storefront teams in Wayfair’s Berlin office. He also participates in architecture reviews for department-wide projects. Adam incorporated InnerSource concepts into these processes to create more effective working groups that are capable of influencing engineering practices across a 1,300-person department.

Taylor Barnett is the lead community engineer at Stoplight. Taylor is passionate about building great developer experiences within APIs with an emphasis on empathy and inclusion within documentation, SDKs, support, and other community-focused projects. Previously, she was the lead community engineer at data analytics API company Keen IO. Taylor has spoken about developer experience, SDKs, inclusion, and building developer communities, including open source communities, at conferences such as O’Reilly OSCON, API Strategy & Practice, AlterConf, Hackcon, and local meetups. In her free time, she helps organize Women Who Code Austin, advises developer communities, drinks sour beers, and climbs in Austin, Texas.

Darren Bathgate is a technical architect at Kenzan, where he designs data models for several relational SQL databases, including MySQL and Oracle, and optimizes query performance on legacy databases. He has built reactive data pipelines using Hadoop, Kafka, Akka, Spark, and Cassandra and continues to explore distributed data systems with Greenplum as well. Previously, he was an intern at the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, where he assisted with the development of financial reporting using Oracle and PL/SQL and desktop apps backed by SQL Server. Darren holds a master’s degree in information technology from New England Institute of Technology, where he focused on data warehousing, project management, and leadership. He is also an enthusiast of computer hardware and builds computers and stays up to date on the latest technologies, including NVMe storage and next-gen CPUs and GPUs. Outside of work, rock climbing and gaming keep him occupied.

Micheal Benedict leads product management for Pinterest’s cloud and data processing infrastructure, where he and his team are building a multitenant compute infrastructure to support Pinterest’s growing set of diverse workloads. He also manages the cloud capacity planning and the infrastructure governance teams. Previously, Micheal led products for Twitter Cloud Platform, building next-generation compute services that span internal and public clouds, and built the systems that powered Twitter’s observability and monitoring stack. Micheal holds a master’s degree in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Hallie Benjamin is a senior strategist on the ethical ML team at Google, where she helps teams design and build products that work for everyone. She is also the cofounder of f[AI]r startups, a nonprofit launched out of the 2018 Assembly program at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center and MIT Media Lab, which empowers the startup ecosystem to responsibly and ethically build advanced technologies. Previously, Hallie was a principal with Accenture’s Technology Labs. Originally from Toronto, she holds an MA in economics and international relations from the University of Toronto and a BA in economics and political science from McGill University.

Valentin “Val” Bercovici is founder and CEO at PencilDATA, democratizing trust throughout digital transformation. Val is also cofounder and a senior advisor at Peritus.ai, a company focused on completing the autonomous data center vision by addressing the gap in automated tech support via machine learning. He was a founding member of the governing board at the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF), the Linux Foundation’s home for Google’s Kubernetes, the Open Container Initiative (OCI), and many other related cloud-native projects. Val has enjoyed a long leadership career. Previously, at NetApp/SolidFire, he launched multibillion-dollar storage and compliance products, created the competitive team and strategy, directed new research investments for the NetApp Data Fabric roadmap, and served as SolidFire’s CTO. A pioneer in the cloud industry, Val led the creation of NetApp’s cloud strategy and introduced the first international cloud standard to the marketplace as CDMI (ISO INCITS 17826) in 2012. Val advises numerous data-driven startups and is passionate about improving diversity within the tech industry. He has several patents issued and pending around data center applications of augmented reality and data authenticity.

Daniel Berg is a distinguished engineer within the IBM Cloud unit at IBM, where he is responsible for the technical strategy and implementation of the containers and microservices platform available in IBM Cloud. Daniel has deep knowledge of container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes and has extensive experience building and operating highly available cloud-native services. Daniel is also a core contributor to the Istio service mesh project.

Josh Berkus is a Kubernetes community manager at Red Hat, where he works with the Kubernetes community to automate all the things, including databases. He has contributed to PostgreSQL, Docker, OpenOffice, and many other projects. In his free time, he makes pottery and metalwork. Josh first spoke at OSCON in 2004.

Nimesh Bhatia is program director in IBM’s Open Technology Group, where he leads a team that contributes to strategic open source projects such as Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud Foundry, blockchain, and many more. He also provides technical vision and guidance to build solid next-gen open software to drive innovation in the cloud and containers areas. Nimesh has authored 10 patents and many IBM internal and external publications.

Zaheda Bhorat is the head of open source strategy at AWS. A computer scientist, Zaheda is a longtime active contributor to open source and open standards communities. Previously, she shaped the first-ever open source program office at Google; launched successful programs, including Google Summer of Code; and represented Google on many industry standards executive boards across multiple technologies. She also served as a senior technology advisor for the Office of the CTO at the UK Government Digital Service, where she co-led the open standards policy, which is in use by the UK government on open document formats. Zaheda was responsible for OpenOffice.org, and later NetBeans.org, at Sun Microsystems, where she built a thriving global volunteer community and delivered the first user version, OpenOffice 1.0. Zaheda is passionate about technology, education, open source, and the positive impact of collaboration for social good. She serves on the UK government’s Open Standards Board, which determines the standards government should adopt. She also serves on the board of directors of the Mifos Initiative, an open source effort that is positioning financial institutions to become digitally connected providers of financial services to the poor. Zaheda speaks internationally on topics related to open source and social good.

Sarah Bird is a technical program manager at Facebook AI Research and its Applied Machine Learning Lab, where she leads strategic projects at the intersection of research and product.

Sabree Blackmon is a technologist and developer advocate at Scytale, where he helps organize the SPIFFE and SPIRE open source communities while also mentoring engineers on application identity and security.

Silona Bonewald is vice president of community architecture at Hyperledger, where she’s responsible for facilitating the creation of the community metapatterns and processes that a global organization like Hyperledger requires. Silona has been involved in open source communities for over 14 years and has helped four companies transition from proprietary to open source. Most recently, she led the InnerSource efforts at PayPal, helping bottleneck teams remove years of backlog and promote collaboration across BUs. She continues to work on the creation of the InnerSource community with a strong focus on business integrations. She hopes to bring that knowledge into her work at Hyperledger.

Alex Borysov is a senior software engineer at Netflix. He is a clean coder and a test-driven developer with solid experience in building and running world-scale software systems. During his career Alex developed and ran machine learning infrastructure for payments fraud detection at Google, large-scale backends at Nest, microservice architecture for world-leading social casino games, and core infrastructure services for a unicorn startup in Silicon Valley with more than 300 million users.

Shayne Boyer is a senior cloud developer advocate at Microsoft, where he creates content on ASP.NET Core, Docker, and cross-platform development tools for the Azure platform. Previously, he was an ASP.NET MVP, INETA community speaker, and Telerik developer expert. Shayne often publishes content on ASP.NET, TypeScript, Node.js, JavaScript, and web API development.

Gary Bradski is an entrepreneur, engineer, and researcher in computer vision and artificial intelligence. Gary is the founder and CEO of OpenCV, the most popular computer vision library in the world, and CTO and cofounder of Arriay, a company whose tech helped film Street Living by will.i.am and The Human Race, which won Siggraph’s Best Real-Time Graphics and Interactivity award. Previously, he organized the computer vision team for Stanley, the autonomous car that won the $2M DARPA Grand Challenge, which in turn kicked off the autonomous driving industry. Stanley now resides in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Gary served as a visiting professor in Stanford University’s Computer Science Department for seven years, where he cofounded the Stanford AI Robot (STAIR) Project—the forerunner of the robot operating system (ROS) and PR2 robot developed at Willow Garage, where he also served as senior scientist and manager. Gary helped develop one of the first video search startups, VideoSurf, (acquired by Microsoft), founded Industrial Perception Inc. (acquired by Google), and created the Silicon Valley office of Magic Leap. He also served as an EIR at IDC Capital Group. Gary has a long list of patents, has written numerous publications and two textbooks, and sits on the boards and advisory boards of several Silicon Valley Companies.

VM (Vicky) Brasseur is the director of open source strategy at Juniper, where she leverages her nearly 30 years of free and open source software experience and strong business background to help Juniper be successful through free and open source software. She spent most of her 20-plus years in the tech industry leading software development departments and teams, providing technical management and leadership consulting for small and medium businesses, and helping companies understand, use, release, and contribute to free and open source software in a way that’s good for both their bottom line and for the community. She’s the author of Forge Your Future with Open Source, the first and only book to detail how to contribute to free and open source software projects (published by the Pragmatic Programmers). Vicky’s a moderator and author for Opensource.com, an author for Linux Journal, the former vice president of the Open Source Initiative, and a frequent and popular speaker at free and open source conferences and events. She’s the proud winner of the Perl White Camel Award (2014) and the O’Reilly Open Source Award (2016). She blogs about free and open source, business, and technical management.

Jonathan Bregler is a software engineer at SAP, where he works on the SAP HANA database. Jonathan’s interests range from database security to performance optimizations and architecture topics, and he is a contributor to the Hibernate ORM framework, focusing mainly on SAP HANA support. When he’s not busy hacking, he plays the French horn in the SAP symphony orchestra.

Josh Bressers is the head of product security at Elastic. Josh has been involved in the security of products and projects, especially open source, for a very long time and has helped build and manage security groups for many open source projects as well as a number of organizations—everything from managing vulnerabilities and the security development lifecycle to DevSecOps, security product management, security strategy, and nearly any other task that falls under the security umbrella. Josh cohosts the Open Source Security Podcast. He is an active member of the Distributed Weaknesses and Filing project, which is in the process of leveraging the power of open source for CVEs.

Michael Brewer is a software engineer at IBM, where he works on the IBM Code developer advocacy initiative, focusing on projects related to DevOps architecture and big data analytics. Michael has worked with open source communities such as OpenStack, Swift Language, Docker, and more.

Angie Brown is vice president of technology for store systems at The Home Depot, where she supports all store software and order management systems for the company. Angie and her team have played a significant role in The Home Depot’s interconnected retail journey, building the order management technology that enables Homedepot.com and the associated interconnected experiences such as Home Depot’s Buy-Online-Pickup-in-Store (BOPIS), Buy-Online-Ship-to-Store (BOSS), and Buy-Online-Deliver-from-Store (BODFS). Angie and her team are currently focused on creating easy-to-use selling tools for associates, continuing to improve the inventory, bay management, and signing processes, and continuing to invest in technology that ensures Home Depot’s customers are delighted when shopping in the company’s stores. Angie joined The Home Depot as an entry-level software developer and has held a number of roles across the company. Angie completed Harvard University’s Authentic Leadership Development program and helps mentor aspiring female leaders in the greater Atlanta area. She is a member of the Network for Executive Women and Women in Technology associations. Inside The Home Depot, she is an active participant with the Velvet Hammers and Women’s Link internal resource groups, which are dedicated to supporting female associates grow their careers. Angie holds a degree in management information systems from the University of Georgia. Outside of work, Angie enjoys spending time with her husband and two daughters.

Ethan Brown is a Technology Director at Value Management Strategies, where he is responsible for the company’s technical roadmap, understanding technology horizons, and leading his team of excellent engineers. He is the author of two O’Reilly Press titles, Learning JavaScript, 3rd Edition, and Web Development With Node and Express. His undergraduate work was in mathematics and computer science, and he has a broad and diverse background in software technologies. He also holds an MBA from Portland State University.

Deborah Bryant is senior director for open source and standards in the office of the CTO at Red Hat. An acknowledged international expert in the adoption and use of open source software and open development models as well as open source community health, Deborah is interested in the ethical use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as industry accountability for use of personal information. Prior to her deep involvement in open source, Deborah helped build Oregon-based emerging technology startups, parallel and high-speed computing and commercialized internet and web applications in the ‘80s, and commercial wide-area networks, advanced telecommunications, and data/voice convergence in the ’90s. Her public sector background includes 10 years in state government, as deputy state CIO, an elected official in coastal Oregon, and public sector communities manager at Oregon State University, where she built the school’s Open Source Lab. Deborah serves on numerous boards with public trust agendas and an emphasis on open source software as enabling technology; her current roles include board adviser for the Open Source Elections Technology (OSET) Foundation and board director emeritus for the Open Source Initiative (OSI), the international standards organization for open source software. She also recently joined the freshly launched Mission AI project as an adviser to promote public education and discourse on the use of artificial intelligence. Deborah has authored or contributed to numerous published studies related to open source in the public sector, adaptation of new collaborative models for economic development, and the use of open source software in the US energy sector for cybersecurity. She received the prestigious industry Open Source Award in 2010 in recognition of her contribution to open source communities and for her pioneering advocacy of the use of open source software in the public sector.

Topher Bullock is a staff software engineer at Pivotal, where he is the anchor of the team focused on improving the efficiency and scalability of the core runtime of Concourse. In 2017, Topher was named one of Canada’s top “30 under 30” developers.

Brendan Burns is a distinguished engineer at Microsoft Azure, where he runs the container service and resource manager teams, and a cofounder of the Kubernetes open source project. Previously, he worked at Google on cloud APIs and web search infrastructure and was a professor of computer science at Union College. Brendan holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a BA in computer science and studio art from Williams College.

Emily Burns is a senior software engineer on the delivery engineering team at Netflix. She is passionate about building software that makes it easier for people to do their job.

Paul Burt is a community manager at CoreOS. He’s also the one upvoting your /r/kubernetes threads and answering your #coreos questions on freenode. Paul has a knack for demystifying infrastructure and making gnarly, complex topics approachable. He enjoys home-brewing beer, reading independent comics, and yelling at his computer when it doesn’t do what he wants.

Fabio Buso is the head of engineering at Logical Clocks AB, where he focuses on the machine learning service of the Hops Hadoop platform and leads the development of a scalable model serving infrastructure over Hops and Kubernetes. He is also involved in the development of a feature store for machine learning on Hops, which is integrated with the TensorFlow framework. Fabio has an international background. He holds a master’s degree in cloud computing and services with a focus on data intensive applications, awarded by a joint program between KTH Stockholm and TU Berlin. His master’s thesis at RISE SICS AB described his implementation of a strongly consistent metastore for Apache Hive on Hops.

Josh Butikofer is a senior architect at Adobe, where he helps wrangle trillions of transactions for Adobe’s analytics and marketing customers. With two decades of engineering experience in both startups and enterprises (and three kids at home), he is hopefully starting to figure things out. Josh has been an open source enthusiast and avid user since discovering Linux in 1998. He holds a BS in computer science from Brigham Young University. Josh has many interests: software, of course, but also creativity through technology, genre fiction, writing, cycling, and achieving success in the family.

Paris Buttfield-Addison is a cofounder of Secret Lab, a game development studio based in beautiful Hobart, Australia. Secret Lab builds games and game development tools, including the multi-award-winning ABC Play School iPad games, the BAFTA- and IGF-winning Night in the Woods, the Qantas airlines Joey Playbox games, and the Yarn Spinner narrative game framework. Previously, Paris was a mobile product manager for Meebo (acquired by Google). Paris particularly enjoys game design, statistics, blockchain, machine learning, and human-centered technology. He researches and writes technical books on mobile and game development (more than 20 so far) for O’Reilly; he recently finished writing Practical AI with Swift and is currently working on Head First Swift. He holds a degree in medieval history and a PhD in computing. Paris loves to bring machine learning into the world of practical and useful. You can find him on Twitter as @parisba.

Ed Cable is the president and CEO of the Mifos Initiative, a nonprofit initiative and global open source community building fintech solutions for the unbanked. A passionate change maker helping fuel poverty alleviation through financial inclusion, open source technology, and the power of community, Ed is a pioneer in catalyzing community growth and financial inclusion innovation.

Abigail Cabunoc Mayes is the Working Open practice lead at the Mozilla Foundation, where she runs Mozilla Open Leaders, an online mentorship program offering training and one-to-one support to open project leads. With a background in bioinformatics and computer science, she is fueling a culture of openness in research and innovation. Previously, she was lead developer of the Mozilla Science Lab and worked as a bioinformatics software developer at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and at Michigan State University. Abigail is editor for the Journal of Open Source Software. She has been recognized as one of the 100 awesome women in open source.

Francesc Campoy is the VP of Product at Dgraph: the most advanced distributed graph database.

Before that, he was VP of Product and Developer Relations at source{d}, the company enabling Machine Learning for large scale code analysis and building the platform for the future of developer tooling. Previously, he worked at Google as Senior Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform and the Go team.

He’s passionate about programming and programmers, especially Go and gophers. As part of his effort to help those learning, he’s given many talks and workshops at conferences like Google I/O, Gophercon(s), GOTO, or OSCON.

When he’s not on stage he’s probably coding, writing blog posts, or working on his justforfunc YouTube series where he hacks while cracking bad jokes.

Brian Capouch is a longtime open source user, programmer, and hacker. In 2016, Brian retired from Saint Joseph’s, a small Indiana college, where he taught CS using 100% open source tools. He is heavily involved in a number of historical restoration projects. The modern web, full stack universal JavaScript, SPAs, and PWAs are his current passions.

Kait Carter is a foundational courseware developer at Mesosphere. Kait has six years’ experience in the technology industry, with special interests in infrastructure, automation, and teaching. All of her technology roles have revolved around helping system administrators.

Jeyrs Chabu is a senior software engineer on the delivery engineering team at Netflix. He has worked on Spinnaker—Netflix’s open source multicloud continuous delivery platform—since 2016.

John Chapin is a cofounder of Symphonia, an expert consultancy based in New York City that helps companies of all sizes use serverless and cloud technology to deliver value quickly and effectively. Along with Symphonia cofounder Mike Roberts, John authored the O’Reilly report What Is Serverless? His and Mike’s highly regarded talks and workshops are regularly featured at conferences such as the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference, the O’Reilly Velocity Conference, OSCON, QCon, ServerlessConf, and AWS re:Invent. John can be reached at john@symphonia.io.

Colin Charles is the chief evangelist at Percona. Previously, Colin was on the founding team of MariaDB Server, worked at MySQL, and worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. Colin has been a MySQL user since 2000. He’s well known within open source communities in APAC and has spoken at many conferences.

Sherol Chen is a developer advocate for machine learning for Google Cloud and works in research at Google Brain for machine learning in music and creativity for the Magenta team. Sherol has been working in AI and creativity for the past 14 years. She’s taught artificial intelligence at Stanford and around the world in six different countries. She holds a PhD in computer science, where her research at the Expressive Intelligence Studio focused on storytelling and artificial intelligence. While in graduate school, she founded and managed the Terminal Degree Jazz Band, playing tenor saxophone.

Dan Ciruli is a product manager at Google who works on many things related to APIs and services. He used to code when he had time and used to play ultimate when he had knees. Give him a chance and he’ll try to speak Spanish to you.

Stephen Cleary is a senior software engineer at Faithlife. Steve is a Christian, husband, and father who programs software in his spare time. His work usually deals with asynchronous and multithreaded programming, but he finds any challenging subject interesting. These days he uses C# and JavaScript but remains interested in many different languages. Steve is a Microsoft MVP and the author of Concurrency in C# Cookbook as well as several MSDN articles. He’s also the top answerer for async/await questions on Stack Overflow.

Adrian Cockcroft is vice president of cloud architecture strategy at Amazon Web Services, where he focuses on the needs of cloud native and all-in customers and leads the AWS open source community development program. Adrian has had a long career working at the leading edge of technology and is fascinated by what happens next. Previously he was a developer in the UK; worked at Sun Microsystems; was a founding member of eBay Research Labs; directed a team working on personalizing algorithms, served as a cloud architect, helped teams scale and migrate to AWS, and led the open source program at Netflix; and promoted new ideas around DevOps, microservices, the cloud, and containers at Battery Ventures. He’s also written four books, including Sun Performance and Tuning from Prentice Hall. Adrian holds a degree in applied physics from City, University of London.

Alyssa Columbus is a data scientist at Pacific Life and member of the spring 2018 class of NASA Datanauts. Previously, she was a computational statistics and machine learning researcher at the Athena Breast Health Network and has built robust predictive models and applications for a diverse set of industries spanning retail and biologics. Alyssa is a strong proponent of reproducible methods, open source technologies, and diversity in tech. In her free time, she leads R-Ladies Irvine and Girl Scout STEM workshops.

Danese Cooper is vice president of special initiatives at NearForm, an Irish tech firm. Previously, she was head of open source software at PayPal, CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation, chief open source evangelist for Sun, and senior director of open source strategies for Intel. Danese was also the inaugural chairperson of the Node.js Foundation. She concentrates on creating healthy open source communities and has served on the boards of Drupal Association, the Open Source Initiative, the Open Source Hardware Association, and she’s advised Mozilla and the Apache Software Foundation. Danese also runs a successful open source consultancy that counts the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the SETI Institute, Harris, and Numenta as clients. She’s been known to knit through meetings.

Justin Cormack is an engineer at Docker with an interest in making systems software more accessible and secure.

Simon Corston-Oliver is a senior machine learning scientist at AWS, where he manages a team of deep learning specialists who assist users of MXNet to develop solutions across a wide range of research fields. Simon has a research background in linguistics and computational linguistics. He has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed conference presentations and more than 15 patents in areas such as machine translation, syntactic parsing, discourse, and language modeling.

Sean Dague is a developer advocate at IBM. Sean has been an avid contributor to open source for the last 20 years, working on projects such as OpenStack, Xen, and Home Assistant. His interests include the cloud, containers, the IoT, and machine learning. Sean is president and founder of the Mid-Hudson Valley Linux users group, which has been running a monthly lecture series on open source topics for the last 15 years.

James Dailey is a social entrepreneur with expertise in startups, payment systems, climate change advocacy, open source models, logistics, and energy innovations. He consults on payment systems with the Gates Foundation as a member of the Modulor LLC team. James envisions a world where poverty solutions and climate solutions intertwine. He cofounded and built to scale MicroEnergyCredits.com, a social enterprise platform for carbon credits from microfinance clients in emerging markets, and is a founder and board member of open source banking platform the Mifos Initiative.

Jermaine Davis is a software engineer principal at The Home Depot, where he is responsible for store software that enables operational process for back office, in-aisle, and frontend systems. Jermaine is currently focused on the modernization of the store point-of-sale (POS) system to support extreme programming principles and reduce the overall total cost of ownership.

Molly de Blanc is campaigns manager at the Free Software Foundation. A free software activist from Somerville, MA, Molly serves on the board of directors at the Open Source Initiative. She enjoys biking, coffee, and playing bassoon.

Gabriela de Queiroz is a data and AI developer advocate at IBM CODAIT. She is the founder of R-Ladies (Global), a worldwide organization for promoting diversity in the R community with more than 100 chapters in 35+ countries, and runs the R-Ladies San Francisco chapter; she also serves on the ISC committee with the R Consortium. Gabriela has worked at several startups, where she built teams, developed statistical models, and employed a variety of techniques to derive insights and drive data-centric decisions.

Pierre DeBois is the founder of Zimana, an analytics consultancy that helps organizations achieve profitability improvements in marketing and web development and within their business operations. Zimana’s blog is an AllTop analytics blog, while its @zimanaanalytics was named among the top 100 Twitter accounts for big data discussion according to the Big Data Republic and PeerIndex #BigData100. Pierre also leads digital marketing and analytic workshops for clients like the City of Chicago Treasurer’s Office, General Assembly, and the Yceeya Network and at events such as Blue1647, the DX Summit, and Interop ITX and Content Marketing World. Pierre has contributed articles to CMS Wire, All Analytics, and DMNews and is an associate editor of business book reviews for Small Business Trends and a technical editor for two Pearson Que publications. He has been featured in the Chicago Sun Times and is a presenter in the Google Get Your Business Online program. A native of Gary, Indiana, Pierre holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Prairie View A&M University and an MBA from Georgia Tech.

Jessica Deen is a cloud DevOps advocate and member of the League of Extraordinary Cloud DevOps Advocates for Microsoft, where she focuses on Azure, infrastructure, container orchestration, and OSS. Previously, she spent over a decade as an IT consultant and system administrator for a variety of corporate and enterprise environments, catering to end users and IT professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Zhamak Dehghani is a principal technology consultant at ThoughtWorks, focusing on distributed systems architecture and digital platform strategy in the enterprise. She’s a member of the company’s Technology Advisory Board and contributes to the creation of ThoughtWorks’s Technology Radar.

Josh Deprez is a senior site reliability engineer at Google in Australia. He holds a PhD in algebra. His hobbies include gardening and vintage Macintosh restoration.

Jacob DePriest is a technical leader and open source evangelist at the National Security Agency, where he is currently focused on improving the policies, processes, and tools at NSA to enable developers to more easily contribute to and participate in the open source software community.

Hui Ding is a director of engineering at Facebook, where he heads infrastructure at Instagram. During his time at Instagram, Hui has led many engineering and product development efforts, scaled Instagram infrastructure from supporting 40M+ users to 800M+ users, and built out and grew the organization from three engineers to a 70+-person cross-functional team.

Jaana B. Dogan is a software engineer at Google, where she works on observability of Go production services. She has a decade of experience building developer platforms and tools.

John Dohoney is a certified solution architect at Mesosphere.

Chase Douglas is the cofounder and CTO of Stackery.io, an operations console for organizations building serverless applications and services. His experience runs the gamut from technical to managerial concerns. He’s specifically focused on how teams of developers build products collaboratively. Previously, Chase was vice president of engineering at a web application security company, technical architect for the New Relic Browser, and an architect for multitouch implementation for the Linux desktop.

Michael Downey is the Director of Community for Open Source for the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) at the United Nations Foundation. Michael’s career in IT and open source spans nearly two decades both in the healthcare and financial services industries, as well as the nonprofit world. In his new role, he will help to build a vibrant and active open source software community for high-impact technology for development (T4D) projects that advance the mission of DIAL. As a long-time participant in the T4D community, he is excited about DIAL’s unique opportunity to help build a digital society that serves everyone.

Michael served as a US Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon, and later was the Director of Community for OpenMRS, an open source health IT software project. During his tenure at OpenMRS, it grew from “stealth mode” to a large open source community, receiving the prestigious Free Software Foundation’s Award for Projects of Social Benefit.

He received two undergraduate degrees in engineering from Purdue University, and did his PhD studies at Indiana University, researching cross-cultural computer supported cooperative work. Michael is also on the steering committee for LibreHealth, a new open source community to foster health IT collaboration. A long-time supporter and advocate for free and open source software, he is a member of organizations like the Free Software Foundation, Open Source Initiative, Internet Society, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Shreyans Dugar is data center services lead within the Enterprise Technology Group at Fidelity Investments, India, and the program lead for the gig marketplace that allows managers to post short-term assignments and individuals to sign up and deliver these assignments. In this capacity, Shreyans collaborates with teams across business units to scale this program across the enterprise. Moreover, maturing the marketplace is about changing behaviors within the organization, and Shreyans is leading this effort to leverage the internal gig economy.

Nipun Dureja is the vice president of engineering for the Digital Group at Providence, where he leverages his experience building and leading global engineering teams to deliver market-defining products using machine learning and the power of the cloud.

Camille Eddy is currently studying for a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. She began working on advanced robotics as a machine learning Intern at HP and has also interned for the robotics initiative at X (formerly Google X). Camille speaks nationally on inclusion in the tech community and regularly writes on the topic. She enjoys volunteering for STEM advocacy organizations for young girls and students.

Matt Ellis is a senior product manager and head of open source software at TIBCO Software, where he focuses on product and strategy around open source and Project Flogo, an open source edge microservices framework built entirely in Go. As of late, Matt has spent his time focusing on two key technical shifts: machine learning and serverless compute. Matt has brought many technical achievements to the Golang open source community in areas related to edge machine learning with TensorFlow and serverless compute constructs in Golang with AWS Lambda. Matt has been involved in the tech industry for over two decades and has held a number of roles. Early in his career, he developed 3D rendering engines in both OpenGL and Direct3D and authored a number of technical manuals and books on the topic. During an independent consulting opportunity in Brazil, Matt authored two additional books focusing on RESTful services and APIs.

Lachlan Evenson is a principal program manager on the Azure Containers team at Microsoft. He has spent the last two and a half years working with Kubernetes and enabling cloud native journeys. Lachie serves as a cloud native ambassador and TOC contributor and has deep operational knowledge of many cloud native projects.

Steffen Evers is head of open source services at Bosch Software Innovations, where he leads the team that provides development services for open source software essential to the company and consults on strategy, community work, software management, and compliance processes in the area of OSS. For nearly 20 years, Steffen has researched, taught, and promoted open source development and supported various companies in the use of OSS to achieve their business objectives.

Asher Feldman is a senior software engineer on the delivery engineering team at Netflix. He has worked on Spinnaker—Netflix’s open source multicloud continuous delivery platform—since 2017.

John Feminella is the advisory platform architect at Pivotal, where his daily goal is to transform how the world builds software. An advocate for curiosity in all people and about all things, John is the author of several published research papers on software architecture and the cofounder of analytics startup UpHex. He lives in Charlottesville, VA, with his partner. John likes milkshakes, metajokes, and referring to himself in the third person in speaker bios.

Paul Fenwick is an internationally acclaimed public speaker, developer, and science educator. He is well known for presenting on a diverse range of topics including privacy, neuroscience, and neuroethics, Klingon programming, open source, depression and mental health, advancements in science, diversity, autonomous agents, and minesweeper automation. His dynamic presentation style and quirky humor has delighted audiences worldwide. Paul was awarded the 2013 O’Reilly Open Source award and the 2010 White Camel award, both for outstanding contributions to the open source community. As a freedom-loving scientist, Paul’s goal is to learn everything he can, do amazing things with that knowledge, and give them away for free. (Photograph by Joshua Button)

Christopher Ferris is an IBM distinguished engineer and the CTO for open technology, where he has technical responsibility for all of IBM’s strategic open source and standards initiatives, including Hyperledger, the Open Container Initiative, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Cloud Foundry, Node.js, Docker, and more. Christopher has been involved in the architecture, design, and engineering of distributed systems for most of his 38+-year career in IT and has been actively engaged in open standards and open source development since 1999. He represents IBM on the Hyperledger governing board, is a maintainer and release manager for the Hyperledger Fabric project, and is the elected chair of the Hyperledger technical steering committee.

Rustem Feyzkhanov is a machine learning engineer at Instrumental, where he creates analytical models for the manufacturing industry. Rustem is passionate about serverless infrastructure (and AI deployments on it) and is the author of the course and book Serverless Deep Learning with TensorFlow and AWS Lambda.

Emily Fortuna is a developer advocate on the Flutter team at Google. When not hacking on compilers and evangelizing the awesomeness of Flutter, she can be found working on improving fairness in machine learning or acting on the stage and screen. She’s an avid member of the nerdy joke appreciation society.

Lee Fox is a cloud architect at Infor. A technologist with a strong background in software development and a strong eye on maintaining quality, Lee has served in the architecture roles for companies like AT&T Wi-Fi Services, Borland, and Pervasive. He is an Agile pragmatist and strives to help organizations become more effective in their technical and software development implementations while maintaining a high degree of quality. Lee holds a BS in computer science from Southwest Texas State University. He is a certified Scrum Master and trained Innovation Games facilitator. When he’s not doing something technical, you may find him in the kitchen pursuing dreams of being an amateur chef or spending time with his family trolling about Austin.

Jason Furmanek works at IBM.

Jay Gambetta is a fellow at IBM, where he has contributed to the work on quantum validation techniques, quantum codes, improved gates and coherence, near-term applications of quantum computing, the IBM Quantum Experience, and the Qiskit open source framework and leads IBM’s quantum theory, software, and applications group. Previously, he worked at the Institute for Quantum Computing in Canada and was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. A quantum information scientist researching in the field of quantum information and computation, Jay has over 100 publications with more than 12,000 citations in field of quantum information science. In 2014, he was named a fellow of the American Physical Society, nominated by the topical Group of Quantum Information. He holds a PhD in physics from Griffith University Australia.

Marina Rose Geldard (Mars) is a technologist from Down Under in Tasmania. Entering the world of technology relatively late as a mature-age student, she has found her place in the world: an industry where she can apply her lifelong love of mathematics and optimization. She compulsively volunteers at industry events, dabbles in research, and serves on the executive committee for her state’s branch of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) as well as the AUC. She’s writing Practical Artificial Intelligence with Swift for O’Reilly and working on machine learning projects to improve public safety through public CCTV cameras in her hometown of Hobart.

Lokesh Kumar Goel leads the webOS platform team at LG Electronics’s Silicon Valley Lab, where he and his team are responsible for delivering webOS platform and application frameworks for LG products as well as open source versions including the browser stack and web application runtime that are the heart of webOS and make HTML5 apps look, feel, and perform like native applications.

Ram Gopinathan is a principal architect at T-Mobile. Ram has 22+ years of experience in the industry with a focus on containers, microservices, API-first design, and internet of things solutions.

Josh Gordon is a developer advocate at Google AI and teaches applied deep learning at Columbia University and machine learning at Pace University. He has over a decade of machine learning experience to share. You can find him on Twitter as @random_forests.

Joseph Gregorio is a software engineer working on the Skia graphics library at Google. Joe is the editor of the Atom Publishing Protocol and the coauthor of the URI Templates spec. He has a deep interest in web technologies. He wrote The RESTFul Web column for the online O’Reilly publication XML.com, wrote the first desktop aggregator written in C#, and has published various Python modules to help in putting together RESTful web services such as mimeparse, httplib2, and the google-api-python-client. Joe is interested in Go, Polymer, Web Components, REST, web services, APIs, URI templates, the Atom Publishing Protocol, big data, and any linear combination of such.

Joel Grus is a research engineer at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the author of the beloved O’Reilly book Data Science from Scratch and the blog post “Fizz Buzz in TensorFlow.” Previously, he was a software engineer at Google and a data scientist at a variety of startups. He lives in Seattle.

Georg Grütter is a social coding evangelist and developer advocate at Bosch Software Innovations. He cofounded and led the first InnerSource community at Bosch. Georg is a passionate software developer with over 30 years of experience. Previously, he held various positions and roles at Bosch, Line Information, the Zurich System House, and DaimlerChrysler. Georg has created two open source projects, XHSI and stashNotifier. He’s an avid recumbent cyclist and mountain biker who also loves photography and chocolate.

Dikang Gu is a software engineer on Instagram’s Cassandra team, where he works on providing Apache Cassandra as a general distributed key-value storage in Instagram. He’s also an Apache Cassandra committer. Previously, Dikang helped build a cache invalidation pipeline on top of Postgres and worked on the development of Apache HDFS as part of Facebook’s data infrastructure team.

Gunhan Gulsoy is a software engineer at Google Brain, where he works on TensorFlow. He holds a PhD from the University of Florida.

Sandeep Gupta is a product manager at Google, where he helps develop and drive the road map for TensorFlow—Google’s open source library and framework for machine learning—for supporting machine learning applications and research. His focus is on improving TensorFlow’s usability and driving adoption in the community and enterprise. Sandeep is excited about how machine learning and AI are transforming lives in a variety of ways, and he works with the Google team and external partners to help create powerful, scalable solutions for all. Previously, Sandeep was the technology leader for advanced imaging and analytics research and development at GE Global Research with specific emphasis on medical imaging and healthcare analytics.

Lena Hall is a senior software engineer and developer advocate at Microsoft working on Azure, where she focuses on large-scale distributed systems and modern architectures. Lena has more than 10 years of experience in software engineering with a focus on distributed cloud programming, real-time system design, highly scalable and performant systems, big data analysis, data science, functional programming, and machine learning. Previously, she was a senior software engineer at Microsoft Research. She’s an elected member of the F# Software Foundation’s board of trustees, co-organizes a conference called ML4ALL, and is often an invited member of program committees for conferences like Kafka Summit, Lambda World, and others. Lena holds a master’s degree in computer science.

Laura Hampton is a New York-based Python developer. She is working on Warehouse, the next-generation Python package repository.

Nathan Handler is a site reliability engineer on the operations team at Yelp. Nathan has been contributing to the open source community for nearly 10 years, primarily through his roles as an Ubuntu and Debian developer.

Laurie Hannon is a Portland-based senior software engineer at SoftSource Consulting. For over 20 years, she has spent her days coding, mostly on the Microsoft stack. Laurie was the first female computer science major to graduate from Carleton College and the first student to earn honors in the major. Since then she has shipped more products than she can remember.

Scott Hanselman is a web developer who has been blogging at Hanselman.com for over a decade. Scott works on Azure and ASP.NET for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland. He has three podcasts: Hanselminutes for tech talk, This Developer’s Life on developers’ lives and loves, and Ratchet & the Geek for pop culture and tech media. Scott has also written a number of books and spoken in person to almost a half million developers worldwide.

Hannes Hapke is a senior data scientist at SAP ConcurLabs. He’s been a machine learning enthusiast for many years and is a Google Developer Expert for machine learning. Hannes has applied deep learning to a variety of computer vision and natural language problems, but his main interest is in machine learning engineering and automating model workflows. Hannes is a coauthor of the deep learning publication Natural Language Processing in Action and he’s working on a book about Building Machine Learning Pipelines with TensorFlow Extended (O’Reilly). When he isn’t working on a deep learning project, you’ll find him outdoors running, hiking, or enjoying a good cup of coffee with a great book.

By day, Jerome Hardaway is a JavaScript engineer at CBS Interactive, where he mostly uses the client-side frameworks Angular 2x, Ember, and React. In order to become a more well-rounded technologist, he also focuses on Node.js and current trends in computer science. By night, Jerome teaches squads of veterans how to code. He has received numerous honors for this work, including meeting President Barack Obama. His work has been featured in media such as HuffPost, USA Today, and Inc. magazine, and he has given talks at DreamForce, SRECon, and Facebook.

Jay Hayes is a lead engineer at Stitch Fix. Jay has been programming professionally for over 10 years. Previously, he was a consultant and instructor at Big Nerd Ranch. A few years ago, he fell in love with Ruby and began developing a deep interest in good software design, appropriate levels of testing, and other programming paradigms. Recently, he has discovered another language with such charm: Elixir. Jay works fully remote from his (sweet) home in Alabama—a perfect situation that allows him to do what he loves while being close to the people he loves: his beautiful wife and baby boys.

Jaron Heard is data visualization lead at the CIVIC Software Foundation, where he is reimagining how to make information actionable through visual models and interdisciplinary collaboration.

He is both a practitioner and a thinker in the field of interactive data visualization. He has followed his curiosity from studies in statistics and work as an actuarial analyst, to art museums and libraries across the world, to leading the design and creation of a library of scalable data visualization components in React for CIVIC.

Heidi Helfand is director of engineering excellence at Procore Technologies, creators of cloud-based construction software. She is author of Dynamic Reteaming: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams, which challenges the notion that you need to keep your teams the same in order to be successful and is based in part on Heidi’s experiences at two highly successful startups: ExpertCity, Inc. (acquired by Citrix), where she was on the original development team that invented GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting, and GoToWebinar, and AppFolio, Inc., a SaaS property management software company that went public in 2015. 

Mack Hendricks is CEO of Flyball. An entrepreneur who has built companies in the restaurant and technology sector, Mack has worked for large Silicon Valley-based companies for most of his 20-year career in technology, including Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Mack holds both a BS and an MS in computer science from Oakland University, located in Rochester Hills, MI.

Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech but most 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 he is not slinging Go code, you can catch him giving technical workshops covering everything from programming and system administration to his favorite Linux distro of the month.

Melvin Hillsman is a Senior SRE at Red Hat working on the Operator Enablement team. Prior to joining Red Hat he worked closely with members of the Kubernetes, OpenStack, CNCF, CloudFoundry, and OPNFV communities for integration and validation of cloud ecosystem tooling and support of hybrid and multi-cloud validation. As a member of the Operator Enablement team Melvin assists ISVs, Red Hat internal teams, and open source communities with developing, certifying, and maintaining operators.

Suz Hinton is a cloud developer advocate at Microsoft focusing on everything Azure IoT. Suz hails from a frontend development background but has deep knowledge in a number of other areas, such as accessibility, robotics, open source software, and cloud computing. She’s a cohost of the weekly podcast series JS Party, produced by the Changelog podcast family. Suz likes dreaming up fun electronic projects in her spare time, but when she’s not doing that, she’s live-coding on her Twitch channel, an open source-themed stream that draws over a 100 viewers every Sunday morning.

Allen Holub is one of the country’s foremost software architects and Agile-transformation consultants. Allen speaks internationally about all things Agile and software architecture and provides in-house training and consulting in those areas. He’s also an expert-level programmer, specializing in Swift, Java, and Web 2.0 applications and microservices. Allen can build highly dynamic websites (along the lines of Gmail) from front to back: both the frontend code—JavaScript, JQuery, Angular, HTML5, and CSS3—that runs in the browser and the backend code—Java, PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Mongo, C++, ZeroMQ, and EC2—that runs either on your server or in the cloud. Allen is widely published. His works include 10 books, hundreds of articles in publications ranging from Dr. Dobb’s Journal to IBM DeveloperWorks, and video classes for Agilitry.com (Agility with Allen), Pluralsight (Swift in Depth, Picturing Architecture, Object-Oriented Design), O’Reilly (Design Patterns in the Real World), and Lynda/LinkedIn.

Victor Hu is a research manager at Huawei. He has spent many years in open source communities and standardization bodies. In 2016, Victor started to focus on blockchain technology, specifically working toward solving problems encountered during selecting blockchain platforms. He started the Caliper project in early 2017, made it open source by August of that year, and contributed it to Hyperledger. Victor is now working closely with the performance and scalability working group of Hyperledger and serves as the chair of the working group for ITU’s Focus Group for DLT Architecture and Assessment.

Aaron Hurley is a software engineer at Pivotal, where he is the anchor for the Cloud Foundry routing team. The team is currently focusing on integrating Istio and Envoy into Cloud Foundry to leverage the exciting new technologies built by the community. Previously, Aaron served on the MySQL, BOSH CPI, and BOSH teams within Cloud Foundry. He holds a degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Daniel Izquierdo Cortazar is a cofounder and chief data officer at Bitergia, a company that provides software analytics for open source ecosystems, where he’s focused on the quality of the data, research of new metrics, analysis, and studies of interest for Bitergia customers via data mining and processing. Daniel holds a PhD in free software engineering from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, where his research focused on the analysis of buggy developer activity patterns in the Mozilla community.

Jim Jagielski is a well-known and acknowledged expert and visionary in open source, an accomplished coder, and frequent engaging presenter on all things open, web, and cloud related. As a developer, he’s made substantial code contributions to just about every core technology behind the internet and web and in 2012 was awarded the O’Reilly Open Source Award. In 2015, he received the Innovation Luminary Award from the EU. He’s likely best known as one of the developers and cofounders of the Apache Software Foundation, where he has previously served as both chairman and president and where he’s been on the board of directors since day one. He’s served as president of the Outercurve Foundation and was also a director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). He’s ConsenSys’s open source chief, and he credits his wife Eileen with keeping him sensible.

Ian James is a rapid prototype developer at FamilySearch, where he can usually be found comping screens, running user tests, or deep in complex JavaScript with one of his teammates. Previously, Ian worked for industry-leading game developers in a variety of startups. He’s passionate about the process of bringing thoughts to life. Time and time again, he finds his way to the middle of the action because that’s where he loves to be. After studying the visual fine arts for more than a decade as a youth, Ian received a degree in physics and illustration.

Timirah is a Technology Evangelist and an influencer in the evangelism space creating awareness around STEM and diversity in tech, as well as helping others build great technical skills and become great developers. She is best known for being a leader in the Los Angeles and Silicon Beach tech community, her active roles in the hackathon realm, the serverless and mobile community, and mentoring through TechniGal LA –– her meetup for women exploring the world of STEM. Timirah was recently highlighted in the Faces of Open Source Project.

Fun fact: She is also a noted singer-songwriter and recently released “Coderitis,” a song about her love for technology and innovation, which can be found on SoundCloud and Spotify.

Rabimba Karanjai is a full-time graduate researcher at Rice University, a part-time hacker, and a FOSS enthusiast. He works with Mozilla Research’s mixed reality team on WebVR. Rabimba is a Mozilla Tech Speaker and would love to chat with you about VR, AR, security, and the Open Web over a cup of coffee or a bottle of beer.

Holden Karau is a transgender Canadian software engineer working in the bay area. Previously, she worked at IBM, Alpine, Databricks, Google (twice), Foursquare, and Amazon. Holden is the coauthor of Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, and another Spark book that’s a bit more out of date. She’s a committer on the Apache Spark, SystemML, and Mahout projects. When not in San Francisco, Holden speaks internationally about different big data technologies (mostly Spark). She was tricked into the world of big data while trying to improve search and recommendation systems and has long since forgotten her original goal. Outside of work, she enjoys playing with fire, riding scooters, and dancing.

Al Kari is CEO and principal consultant at Manceps, where he leads the company’s mission to augment human capabilities with machine intelligence, with a focus on blending machine learning and artificial intelligence with cloud computing and big data technologies. Al is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in machine learning, organizer of the TensorFlow-Northwest and OpenStack Northwest user groups, and a strong advocate for open source AI and cloud technologies. Previously, Al was a global cloud evangelist at Microsoft, where he helped top-tier ISV partners onboard on the Microsoft Azure Platform. Al started his career in the mid-’90s as a software architect by founding Softwarehouse overseas before moving to the United States. He later held product and services leadership roles at Dell, where he helped build the company’s virtualization and cloud computing services portfolio; cofounded DetaCloud, a boutique OpenStack engineering powerhouse; and was a principal cloud architect at Red Hat, where he was responsible for helping customers build enterprise-ready cloud infrastructure. A frequent speaker at major industry conventions, Al has been an outspoken advocate for building the future of open artificial intelligence and cloud technologies in support of academic, industrial, and scientific development. He is a standing member of the Cloud Advisory Council, the Linux Professional Institute, and the OpenStack Foundation.

Alex Kari is wrapping up seventh grade at Camas Liberty Middle School. He is a programmer and a machine learning enthusiast. Alex was certified in computer science and programming in Python from MITx in 2016.

Richa Khandelwal is a software engineering manager at Nike. An engineer with over eight years of experience in the software industry, Richa has worked in the automotive, financial, and retail spaces. Her expertise lies in backend systems, big data, and machine learning. In her free time, she loves traveling and has a personal goal of seeing at least one new country every year.

Andrew Kim is a software engineer at DigitalOcean, where he and his team provide a robust and comprehensive set of tools for delivering services to production. Andrew is an active member of the open source community and is a maintainer of projects such as Kubernetes.

Robert Kluin is managing partner at Real Kinetic, where he specializes in helping companies leverage the cloud and scale their business. Robert is an experienced technology executive and entrepreneur who is passionate about helping companies develop engineering organizations that reliably deliver business value. Previously, Robert led the operations engineering, infrastructure engineering, reliability engineering, and support engineering groups at Workiva to ensure 24×7 operations and deliver systems to meet product engineering needs. He is a Google Cloud Platform Developers Expert.

Megan Kostick is a software developer for the IBM Code developer advocacy team, where she focuses on cross-team metrics and big data analytics. Her previous roles include work in virtualization software products, IBM cloud solutions leveraging the OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Apple Swift, and Docker open source projects, and IBM’s Linux Technology Center. Megan is also the organizer of the Seattle Swift meetup.

Ken Kousen is the president of Kousen IT, where he’s taught software development training courses to thousands of students, is a Java Champion, and is the author of Modern Java Recipes, Gradle Recipes for Android, and Making Java Groovy; he’s also created over a dozen video courses for O’Reilly online learning on topics such as Android, Groovy, Gradle, advanced Java, and Spring. Ken’s a regular speaker on the No Fluff Just Stuff conference tour and has given talks at conferences all over the world. He was a 2013 and 2016 JavaOne Rock Star.

Myrle Krantz is vice president of Apache Fineract, an open source cloud-native platform for banking the unbanked. A software architect with 20 years of experience developing APIs and scalable systems, Myrle has been exuberant about financial inclusion since she was introduced to microfinance by the Mifos Initiative.

Bridget Kromhout is a principal cloud advocate at Microsoft. Her CS degree emphasis was in theory, but she now deals with the concrete (if the cloud can be considered tangible). After 15 years as an operations engineer, Bridget traded being on call for being on a plane. A frequent speaker and program committee member for tech conferences, she leads the Devopsdays organization globally and the DevOps community at home in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She podcasts with Arrested DevOps, blogs at Bridgetkromhout.com, and is active in a Twitterverse near you.

Daniel Krook is a software engineer and developer advocate at IBM, where he works with customers and the community to create first-of-a-kind solutions based on open source cloud technology. Most recently, he has built serverless applications with IBM Cloud Functions (powered by Apache OpenWhisk). Over his career, Daniel has engineered software end-to-end for a wide array of industries and earned various certifications in cloud architecture, application development, and system operations along the way. He is active in the CNCF serverless working group and is a primary author of a whitepaper that seeks to clearly explain the potential of this new compute model and drive its adoption in new cloud-native applications. He has been recognized as an IBM and Open Group distinguished IT specialist, senior technical staff member, master inventor, and member of the IBM Academy of Technology. Daniel holds a degree in political science and international studies from Trinity College in Hartford, CT, during which he studied abroad in Cuba and South Africa. He holds dual citizenship in the US and Finland and has collaborated with professional colleagues throughout the world.

Tracy Kuhrt is community architect of Hyperledger at the Linux Foundation. Tracy has had a varied career working in the automotive manufacturing, pharmaceutical, microelectronics, and ecommerce industries. Previously, Tracy was a principal member of the technical staff on the strategic architecture team at PayPal and developed compilers, assemblers, and linkers for 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers at Microchip Technologies, using open source software.

Nozomi Kurihara works on Apache Pulsar at Yahoo! Japan.

Rei Kurokawa is an IoT and cloud solutions manager at the Tokyo office of Hitachi High-Tech Solutions. Rei’s expertise includes ERP systems, cybersecurity systems, cloud-based solutions, data center operation management, and industrial IoT solutions. She has worked in a variety of industries in both the private and public sectors, including infrastructure, consumer services, finance, and the chemical, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing industries. She frequently advises company executives and their counsel on matters related to cybersecurity and BCP management as well as generating benefits by implementing IoT solutions such as edge computing.

John Landy is a leader in systems and technology at Ericsson, where he supports collaboration and software reuse in multiple Ericsson products. In his 20-year career at Ericsson, John has held a number of technical leadership roles, including head product owner for the Community-Developed Software project, which introduced InnerSource software development to the Ericsson Network Manager product. John has participated in numerous industry and academic events in Ireland and gave a keynote address at the 2017 InnerSource Commons Summit. He holds a degree from the University of Limerick.

Michael Lange is CTO of the CIVIC Software Foundation. A career software engineer, Michael has worked on tools ranging from TV analytics to cloud-based cluster orchestration.

Matthew Larson is a software developer and UX designer at FamilySearch, where he works on a team tasked with exploring new and interesting ways to help people discover their family history. Previously, he worked in freelance web development and graphic design and founded and ran a small studio. Matthew started his college career in computer science. Well into his program, he felt something was missing. Four years later, he graduated with a BFA in industrial design. Ironically, most of his time since then has been spent developing software.

Brent Laster is a senior manager of software development in the Research and Development Division at SAS, based in Cary, North Carolina, where he manages several groups involved with release engineering processes and internal tooling. He’s a global trainer, presenter, and author. He also serves as a resource for the use of open source technologies and conducts internal training classes in technologies such as Git, Gerrit, Gradle, and Jenkins, both in the US and abroad. In addition to corporate training, Brent creates and presents workshops for a wide variety of technical conferences. His workshops and informational sessions on open source technologies (and how to apply them) have been presented at such conferences as the Rich Web Experience/Continuous Delivery Experience, UberConf, OSCON, and others. Brent is the author of Professional Git from WROX and Jenkins 2: Up and Running and is a contributor to publications such as the No Fluff Just Stuff magazine and Opensource.com. Brent also conducts live web training courses from time to time. Brent’s passion is teaching in a way that makes difficult concepts relatable to all. He’s been involved in technical training for over 25 years and continues to seek out ways to show others how technology can be used to simplify and automate workflows.

Steve Lemke is a principal engineer on the advanced and automotive platform team at the Silicon Valley Lab of LG Electronics. Steve spent a decade building Palm OS into a leading handheld device platform, where he helped create webOS. Subsequently, he open-sourced webOS at HP and then brought webOS to LG, where it has shipped on millions of LG smart TVs all over the world and was most recently open-sourced. He now works with the webOS OSE team to help identify opportunities for webOS OSE and its many proven technologies and components.

Romain Lenglet is a chief architect at Covalent and a core developer of the Cilium open source project, where he focuses on integration with the Istio service mesh via Envoy proxy. His past work focused on the intersection of distributed systems and networking, architecting large-systems for YouTube at Google, Oracle Cloud at Oracle, and Nicira (acquired by VMware, now VMware NSX). Romain holds a PhD in computer science from the Institut polytechnique de Grenoble and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Idit Levine is the founder and CEO of solo.io, a Boston-based startup whose mission is to streamline the cloud stack. Solo recently released Squash, an open source platform for debugging microservices applications. Idit has been in the cloud management space for 12 years, working at both enterprise and startup companies. Previously, she was the CTO of the Cloud Management Division at EMC and a member of its global CTO Office, where she and her team introduced successful open source projects for automating unikernels (UniK) and for cross-cluster scheduling (layer-x).

Tao Li is a senior software engineer at Google, where he serves as a tech lead of Istio Security, focusing on authentication, which includes CA, identity provisioning, and service-to-service communication. He has been with Google for more than six years.

Tommy Li is a software developer at IBM focusing on cloud, container, and infrastructure technology. He’s worked on various developer journeys that provide use cases on cloud-computing solutions, such as Kubernetes, microservices, and hybrid cloud deployments. He’s passionate about machine learning and big data.

Tong Li is a senior engineer at IBM. He has been a software architect, developer, deployer, operator, advocator, and a consultant through his professional career. Recently, he’s been focusing on cloud computing, social software, and blockchain technologies. He is very passionate about large software system integration and automation. He spends his spare time on home improvement projects

Bryan Liles is an engineer at Heptio. When he is not writing software to help move teams to Kubernetes, he gets to speak at conferences on topics ranging from machine learning to building the next generation of developers. In his free time, Bryan races cars in straight lines and around turns and builds robots and devices.

Van Lindberg is an open source and intellectual property lawyer based out of San Antonio. Van’s professional work focuses on the intersection of technology and law, with particular expertise in the area of open source. Over his career, he has helped businesses with everything from open source compliance to business strategy and represents companies in high-stakes IP litigation and inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Van has represented companies on Capitol Hill, before Congress, and in industry associations; has led teams through successful mergers and acquisitions and restructurings; and has organized employee agreements to create greater employee satisfaction and promote higher compliance with internal policies.

Van is a regular speaker on everything from community dynamics to graph theory and has testified in Congressional proceedings as an expert on both copyright and encryption policy. In 2012, he was named one of “America’s top 12 techiest attorneys” by the American Bar Association Journal. He is the author of Intellectual Property and Open Source.

Christopher Litsinger is director of cloud application platforms at Comcast, where he focuses on building scalable, performant, robust software components for the company’s varied software product development groups. Previously, Christopher lead the team building cloud solutions for Sungard Availability Services. Christopher graduated college and immediately asked the question, “What am I going to do with this degree in English?” He started in an entry-level customer support role, moved into various development and engineering roles, and finally settled into roles focusing on the intersection of infrastructure and code.

Josh Long is the Spring developer advocate at Pivotal. Josh is a Java Champion, author of five books, including O’Reilly’s upcoming Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry, creator of three best-selling video trainings, including Building Microservices with Spring Boot Livelessons (with Spring Boot cofounder Phil Webb), and an open source contributor to the Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Activiti, and Vaadin projects.

Boris Lublinsky is a principal architect at Lightbend, where he specializes in big data, stream processing, and services. Boris has over 30 years’ experience in enterprise architecture. Previously, he was responsible for setting architectural direction, conducting architecture assessments, and creating and executing architectural road maps in fields such as big data (Hadoop-based) solutions, service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process management (BPM), and enterprise application integration (EAI). Boris is the coauthor of Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies, Professional Hadoop Solutions, and Serving Machine Learning Models. He’s also cofounder of and frequent speaker at several Chicago user groups.

Christopher Luciano is an advisory software developer for IBM’s Digital Business Group, where he works on Kubernetes, Istio, and other Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects. Previously, Christopher was the lead on the Watson container runtime squad. He is a frequent speaker about Istio and Kubernetes and has recently given talks at Pittsburgh-based meetup Code and Supply, Cloud Foundry Summits, and OpenStack Summits.

William Lyon is a software engineer on the developer relations team at Neo4j, where he works primarily on integrating the Neo4j graph database with other technologies. Previously, William was a software developer for several startups in the real estate, quantitative finance, and predictive API spaces. William holds a master’s degree from the University of Montana.

Roger Magoulas is the vice president of O’Reilly Radar. Previously, Roger was the research director at O’Reilly, where he and his team built the company’s analysis infrastructure and provided analytic services and insights on technology-adoption trends to business decision makers at O’Reilly and beyond. He and his team found what excites key innovators and use those insights to gather and analyze faint signals from various sources to make sense of what others may adopt and why.​

Elena Makarenko is a frontend developer at SAP. Elena is keen on user-centered design and focused on creating a great user experience.

Satya Mallick is an entrepreneur working in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning. Satya consults with his company, Big Vision LLC, and is the principal author of LearnOpenCV.com, a popular blog for OpenCV and AI enthusiasts. Previously, he cofounded Sight Commerce Inc., where he built AI products that reached over 100M users. His work has been covered in online publications including Time, the BBC, TechCrunch, HuffPost, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, to name a few. In 2017, he was named among the top 30 AI experts to follow on Twitter by IBM’s AI blog.

Tara Manicsic is a developer advocate at Progress. A lifelong student, teacher, and maker, she has spent the majority of her career using JavaScript to create applications on both the backend and frontend. In her free time, she works in her community to educate and learn from other developers. Tara launched the Cincinnati chapter of Women Who Code and cochairs the Cincinnati branch of NodeSchool. Beyond code, she likes to make things with other materials (wool, solder, clay, etc.) and hike any mountain she can get to with her trusty sidekick, #toshmagosh.

Jon Manning is the cofounder of independent game development studio Secret Lab. He’s working on the critically acclaimed award-winning adventure game Night in the Woods, which includes his interactive dialogue system Yarn Spinner, and Button Squid, a top-down puzzler. He’s written a whole bunch of books for O’Reilly about iOS development and game development. Jon holds a PhD about jerks on the internet. He’s currently writing Practical AI with Swift for O’Reilly.

Guy Martin is director of Open@Autodesk, where he represents Autodesk to the broader open source community and works with internal teams to help accelerate their use of and collaboration with open source software. He also helps build InnerSource communities to enable better code sharing within the company. Previously, he worked to increase community uptake and collaboration across a wide variety of teams and projects at both Samsung and Red Hat. Guy speaks regularly on open source and community at conferences such as Open Source Summit, OSCON, SCALE, and All Things Open.

Alex Masluk is a senior technical account manager at LightStep, where he spends his time helping major software organizations integrate distributed tracing into their production systems. His work covers strategic rollout and sequencing efforts, service provisioning best practices, integrations with complementary technologies, and of course, hands-on instrumentation efforts with OpenTracing. Alex has worked closely with the engineering organizations at UnderArmour, DigitalOcean, InVision, and Sift Science (among others).

Mike Mason is global head of technology at ThoughtWorks, where he’s responsible for the company’s strategic technology direction, building its tech organization and capability, and ensuring the success of its client deliveries. Mike is passionate about bringing cutting-edge technology to bear on business problems and helping ThoughtWorks customers understand how tech can be a critical part of their business. He also advises ThoughWorks’s CTO and the global leadership team and defines and drives global technology initiatives. Mike contributes to ThoughtWorks’s Technology Radar, a twice-yearly publication that analyzes software industry tools and techniques.

Stephen McCall is an InnerSource governance architect within the Enterprise Cloud Computing Group at Fidelity Investments, where he collaborates with individuals and teams across all Fidelity business units to enable and speed the adoption of open source and InnerSource best practices. A curious and persistent technologist, a design ops innovator, an InnerSource evangelist, and a design thinking advocate, Stephen has over 20 years of experience driving cultural change within organizations both large and small. He is focused on removing as many of the layers of translation between product ideation and implementation as possible by creating streamlined systems of interaction across disciplines.

Lauren McCarthy is a technical program manager at DigitalOcean, where she helps teams with program delivery and project management practices for the organization. Lauren is a lover of snow, wine, and potato chips.

Scott McCarty is a solutions architect and subject-matter expert at Red Hat, where he helps educate IT professionals, customers, and partners on all aspects of Linux containers, from organizational transformation to technical implementation, and advance Red Hat’s go-to-market strategy around containers and related technologies. He also liaises with engineering teams, both at the product and upstream project level, to help drive innovation by using feedback from Red Hat customers and partners as drivers to enhance and tailor container features and capabilities for the real world of enterprise IT. Scott is a social media startup veteran, an ecommerce old timer, and a weathered government research technologist, and he has served everywhere from seven-person startups to 8,000 employee technology companies—giving him a unique perspective on open source software development, delivery, and maintenance.

Sandi Metz writes, consults, and teaches about object-oriented design and is the author of Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby and 99 Bottles of OOP. Sandy believes in simple code and straightforward explanations. She prefers working software, practical solutions, and lengthy bicycle trips (not necessarily in that order).

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

Anubhav Mishra is a developer advocate at HashiCorp. He created Atlantis—an open source project that helps teams collaborate on infrastructure using Terraform. Previously, he worked at Hootsuite, where he built distributed systems and a microservice delivery platform. Anubhav loves open source software and is continuously finding ways to contribute to projects that excite him and helping developers and operators do better. That has led him to contribute to Virtual Kubelet and Helm (Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects). In his free time, he DJs, makes music, and plays football. He’s a huge Manchester United supporter.

Erin Morrissey is a developer, designer, observer, and oyster lover currently helping build software at Capital One in Seattle, Washington. Erin is diligent, passionate, driven, and entrepreneurial and is always learning. Her work is richly informed by her wide range of ecommerce experience, strong design background, and Midwest upbringing.

Drew Moseley is a technical solutions architect at Northern.Tech, where he works on the Mender.io open source project to deploy OTA software updates to embedded Linux devices. Throughout his career, Drew has focused on embedded software and developer tools, including embedded Linux and Yocto. He has worked at Mentor Graphics, Red Hat, Intel, and Monta Vista Software on embedded projects such as RAID storage controllers, direct and network-attached storage devices, and graphical pagers. He spent the last seven years working in operating system professional services, where he helped customers develop production embedded Linux systems. Drew is a frequent speaker at conferences such as Embedded Systems Conference and All Systems Go. He was raised in Tampa, Florida, and attended the University of Florida.

Fred is a SLOgician at Zendesk. He spends his days thinking about service-level objectives, service-level indicators, error budgets, and how to apply them across Zendesk’s Kubernetes-based infrastructure of services. Fred has almost 20 years of developing production systems for companies such as Turnitin; he honed his observability skills recently as a developer evangelist at Circonus. He likes to write C, Go, Perl, Ruby, etc. Fred has two young kids and can always use more coffee.

Nitya Narasimhan is a PhD with 20+ years of experience designing and developing software systems & services in industry, academia, startup and consulting roles. As a consultant she translates tech awareness into actionable impact through training and application development. She is a Google Developer Expert in Flutter and also organizes the Google Developer Group NYC and its flagship conference, DevFest NYC

David Narayan is a distinguished engineer on the infrastructure team at The Home Depot, where he spends most of his time working on monitoring, performance engineering, and distributed systems.

April Kyle Nassi is an Istio and gRPC community manager at Google focused on open source strategy. Previously, she created the Salesforce Developer community program and put on many a Dreamforce DevZone. She’s a CNCF Ambassador, crazy dog lady, and native Texan. You can find her on the internet just about everywhere as @thisisnotapril.

Rolf is a member of the technical staff at Docker. He is one of the maintainers of LinuxKit.

Ton Ngo is a senior software developer in the IBM Cognitive OpenTech Group at the IBM Silicon Valley Lab. Previously, he was with the IBM Research Lab at Yorktown and Almaden. He’s been active in the open source community for four years and is working on TensorFlow and deep learning. He was a core contributor in OpenStack for Magnum and Heat-Translator, focusing on the networking and storage support for container orchestrator such as Kubernetes. Ton frequently gives talks and programming tutorials on TensorFlow in San Francisco, Seattle, and New York and at OpenStack Summits worldwide. He has published papers on a wide range of subjects.

Deb Nicholson is the director of community operations at Software Freedom Conservancy, where she supports the work of its member organizations and facilitates collaboration with the wider free software community. A free software policy expert and a passionate community advocate, Deb previously served as the community outreach director for the Open Invention Network, a shared defensive patent pool on a mission to protect free and open source software, and the membership coordinator for the Free Software Foundation. She won the O’Reilly Open Source Award for her work with GNU MediaGoblin, a federated media-hosting service, and OpenHatch, Free Software’s welcoming committee. She’s also a founding organizer of the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference, an annual event dedicated to surfacing new voices and welcoming new people to the free software community. She lives with her husband and her lucky black cat in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Catherine Nikolovski is the founder and executive director of Hack Oregon.

Shelly Nezri is a software engineer at Elbit Systems and the company’s InnerSource community leader, where she promotes fun and gamification. Previously, Shelly was a software developer, architect, and manager. She holds a BSc in computer engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. In her free time, she likes hanging out with friends, jogging, and raising three little tearaways.

Eric Normand is a longtime functional programmer. He speaks, teaches, and consults about functional programming, with the mission of making functional programming more accessible to everyone. You can learn functional programming from him at PurelyFunctional.tv and read his thoughts in The PurelyFunctional.tv Newsletter. If you visit him in New Orleans, you can meet his wife and daughter. He’ll even make you some gumbo if you tell him you’re coming.

Sarah Novotny is an open source community manager at Google. Sarah’s recent technological focuses include open source, cloud and utility computing, infrastructure automation, and data (big and small; relational and nonrelational). Her calling lies in sharing her excitement about technology and coalescing a group around a consistent vision. She loves meeting people and rapidly assessing what information she needs to impart in order to draw them into the vision or story that she has to share. Sarah enjoys bridging the gap between the business world and the tech world. Her background includes leading operational IT and development teams and external-facing work in biz dev, sales engineering, customer support, and, of course, public speaking.

Tim Nugent pretends to be a mobile app developer, game designer, tools builder, researcher, and tech author. When he isn’t busy avoiding being found out as a fraud, Tim spends most of his time designing and creating little apps and games he won’t let anyone see. He also spent a disproportionately long time writing his tiny little bio, most of which was taken up trying to stick a witty sci-fi reference in…before he simply gave up. He’s writing Practical Artificial Intelligence with Swift for O’Reilly and building a game for a power transmission company about a naughty quoll. (A quoll is an Australian animal.)

Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc. His original business plan was simply “interesting work for interesting people,” and that’s worked out pretty well. O’Reilly Media delivers online learning, publishes books, runs conferences, urges companies to create more value than they capture, and tries to change the world by spreading and amplifying the knowledge of innovators. Tim has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry. In 1998, he organized the meeting where the term “open source software” was agreed on and helped the business world understand its importance. In 2004, with the Web 2.0 Summit, he defined how “Web 2.0” represented not only the resurgence of the web after the dot-com bust but a new model for the computer industry based on big data, collective intelligence, and the internet as a platform. In 2009, with his Gov 2.0 Summit, he framed a conversation about the modernization of government technology that has shaped policy and spawned initiatives at the federal, state, and local level and around the world. He has now turned his attention to implications of AI, the on-demand economy, and other technologies that are transforming the nature of work and the future shape of the business world. This is the subject of his book from Harper Business, WTF: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us. In addition to his role at O’Reilly Media, Tim is a partner at early-stage venture firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) and serves on the boards of Maker Media (which was spun out from O’Reilly Media in 2012), Code for America, PeerJ, Civis Analytics, and PopVox.

Fabio Oliveira is a research scientist and manager at IBM Research, where he has been working on several projects related to cloud computing and microservices. More recently, he has been interested in deriving meaningful insights from large volumes of metrics and monitoring data generated by the cloud infrastructure and the service mesh. When not working, chances are that he is running.

Kelly Olson is the director of the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Group at Intel, where he supports the company’s mission to improve the security, scalability, and privacy of DLT deployments through the use of Intel hardware features such as Software Guard Extensions (SGX). Intel was the initial contributor of the Hyperledger Sawtooth blockchain software.

Richard Ott obtained his PhD in particle physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, followed by postdoctoral research at the University of California, Davis. He then decided to work in industry, taking a role as a data scientist and software engineer at Verizon for two years. When the opportunity to combine his interest in data with his love of teaching arose at The Data Incubator, he joined and has been teaching there ever since.

Tapabrata Pal is a senior director and senior engineering fellow at Capital One, where he focuses on DevOps and continuous delivery at large scale in regulated environments and evangelizes and leads the company’s DevOps initiatives. Tapabrata has more than 20 years of IT experience in roles including developer, operations engineer, and architect in the retail, healthcare, and finance industries. Previously, he spent some time in academia doing doctoral and postdoctoral research in the field of solid state physics. Tapabrata is the community manager of and a core contributor to the Hygieia open source project.

Suresh Pandey is a master engineer with a strong software development background. He is responsible for creating new APIs and other products for the auto finance line of business at Capital One. Over the years, Suresh has worked at several companies and has designed various large scale, high performance distributed applications. He spends his free time reading, watching debate/documentaries/ movies and spending quality time with family.

Manish Pandit is director of platform engineering at fintech startup Marqeta, where he is responsible for cloud architecture and delivery of the company’s payments platform. Previously, Manish held engineering leadership roles at Capital One, Netflix, IGN, E*TRADE, and Accenture. He is a frequent speaker at various technology conferences in and around the SF Bay Area. Find out more on his blog.

Jose Miguel Parrella is a principal program manager on the Azure team at Microsoft, sitting right where Linux and the cloud meet. An open source enthusiast with over 15 years of experience with Linux as a sysadmin, solutions architect, and Debian developer, previously, Jose Miguel led the design and architecture of the national Linux operating system of Venezuela (where he’s originally from), which has over 2 million end users today.

Joseph Park is a senior director at LG Electronics, where he manages the webOS reference platform engineering team for various products. Joseph has had a varied career working in VoIP, cloud services, and embedded devices at companies including Yahoo and Microsoft. A few years ago, he moved back to South Korea with his wife and three children. In his spare time, he loves to explore new technologies and spend time with his family. He holds a master’s degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).

Nilesh Patel is a staff technical product manager for IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, where he works on Istio and IBM container services and is helping to drive Istio adoption in the open source community by organizing various meetups and events at conferences. Since joining IBM, he has managed several DevOps products in the area of deployment and releases automation. Previously, he managed security products at Symantec. Nilesh holds an MBA in information technology from Golden Gate University. He lives in Austin, Texas. When not at work, he likes to play cricket and volleyball.

Stormy Peters is a senior manager for community leads at Red Hat. Passionate about open source software, Stormy educates companies and communities on how open source software is changing the software industry. Previously, Stormy was vice president of developer relations at the Cloud Foundry Foundation, led developer relations at Mozilla, was executive director of the GNOME Foundation, and worked at OpenLogic, where she set up the OpenLogic Expert Community. She is a compelling speaker who engages her audiences during and after her presentations. Stormy holds a BA in computer science from Rice University.

Anna Petrovicheva is founder and CEO of Xperience.ai, a company delivering deep learning and computer vision solutions. Previously, she developed data analytics software at Intel and worked at international computer vision software company Itseez (acquired by Intel). Anna holds a master’s degree in computer science from the State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia.

Elsie Phillips is a product marketing manager at CoreOS, where she herds the CoreOS community and coleads the Kubernetes Contributor Experience SIG. She’s a Northwest native who got her start in open source working at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab. In her free time, she throws wild one-woman dance parties and makes a mean vegan chocolate chip cookie.

Eve Porcello is the cofounder of Moon Highway, a curriculum-development and training company based in Northern California, where she focuses on JavaScript, Node.js, React, and GraphQL. Eve has taught classes online for LinkedIn Learning and in person at companies all over the world. She’s the author of O’Reilly’s Learning React and Learning GraphQL.

Jess Portnoy is senior director of packaging and open source at Kaltura. Jess has been an open source developer and believer for 18 years. Jess also grows pets at GitHub, SourceForge, and Nagios Exchange.

Patricia Posey is the COO of Tech Superwomen and is recognized for her leadership in community engagement. She is also a product manager and a data analyst with insatiable curiosity, a knack for data automation, and a drive to build inspired communities.

Posey has a passion for connecting people to opportunity, inspiring them to reach their goals, and lifting them up in an ever-evolving industry. She asserts that an engaged community informs better and more innovative products.

Christian Posta is field CTO at solo.io, where he helps companies create and deploy large-scale, resilient, distributed architectures—many of what we now call serverless and microservices. Previously, Christian spent time at web-scale companies. He’s well known in the community as an author—of Istio in Action (Manning) and Microservices for Java Developers (O’Reilly)—a frequent blogger, a speaker, an open source enthusiast, and a committer on various open source projects, including Istio and Kubernetes. He enjoys mentoring, training, and leading teams to be successful with distributed systems concepts, microservices, DevOps, and cloud native application design. You can find Christian on Twitter as @christianposta.

Mykyta Protsenko is a senior software engineer at Netflix. Mykyta is passionate about all things scalable, from coding to deploying to monitoring. He has solid experience building high-performance backends for a variety of applications at leading Silicon Valley companies, including top-rated social mobile games and billing platforms. Mykyta is the author of Henka, a Gradle plug-in for Terraform. You can find him speaking at conferences such as Devoxx Belgium/Ukraine/UK, JavaDay Kyiv, and others.

Ilan Rabinovitch is vice president of product and community at Datadog, where he spends his days diving into container monitoring metrics, collaborating with Datadog’s open source community, and evangelizing observability best practices. Previously, Ilan spent a number of years leading infrastructure and reliability engineering teams at organizations such as Ooyala and Edmunds.com. He’s active in the open source and DevOps communities, where he is a co-organizer of events such as SCALE and Texas Linux Fest as well as a number of devopsdays events.

I’ve spent over 20 years working in the software industry and contributing to open source projects. I started exploring vision accessibility to manage my own ADHD struggles with vision over-stimulation thanks to advances in computer screens and increasingly complex user interfaces. Through my role at IBM, I am working with the Oregon Commission for the Blind’s vocational rehabilitation team to advocate for people with blindness in the tech industry.

Luciano Ramalho is a principal consultant at ThoughtWorks and the author of Fluent Python. Luciano wrote the Introduction to Go with TDD tutorial (in Portuguese) and has presented it multiple times. He is a cofounder of Garoa Hacker Clube, the first hackerspace in Brazil.

Hari Ramamurthy is a distinguished engineer at The Home Depot. He loves designing and developing distributed systems and performance-tuning applications. You’ll usually find him tinkering with problems related to order and inventory management.

Samrat Ray is a product manager at Google with over 18 years of experience working on distributed systems. Samrat is a founding product manager of Istio and has guided the vision and roadmap for Istio’s security capabilities.

Rob “Dr. Torq” Reilly is an independent consultant, writer, and speaker specializing in Linux, physical computing, hardware hacking, the tech media, and the DIY/Maker movement. He provides a variety of engineering and business services to individual clients and companies. As a veteran “how-to” guy, Dr. Torq has authored hundreds of feature-length articles for top-tier tech media and print outlets and presented tech talks at conferences and industry venues such as OSCON, FETC, Fossettcon and the Embedded Systems Conference. His Off-the-Shelf Hacker column runs weekly on thenewstack.io. Rob holds a BS in mechanical technology from Purdue University. He first used the Unix command line in 1981. Contact him at doc@drtorq.com or 407-718-3274.

Alex Mejias is a senior full stack developer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where he is a core maintainer of the company’s UI library Grommet and a lead member of the HPE Dev program. Alex’s unique approach to software is a result of his background in art and design.

Jennifer Rondeau maintains and contributes docs for Kubernetes and other open source projects. She is passionate about developer experience, community outreach, and the Oxford comma.

Daniel Rosenwasser is a program manager for the TypeScript language at Microsoft. Daniel has a passion for programming languages, compilers, and type systems.

Ryan Roser is the director of data science and text analytics within the San Francisco Innovation Lab at Refinitiv, where he develops quantitative models and predictive analytics for investors and works with unstructured text to identify new trends and insights. Previously, Ryan was a principal quantitative research analyst at StarMine, where he developed a first-of-its-kind text-based corporate credit risk model. Ryan lives in Portland, Oregon. He enjoys gardening and raising chickens.

Jonas Rosland is an open source community manager at VMware, where he is responsible for the growth and prosperity of the communities surrounding the open source projects within the Cloud Native Apps BU. He is a community builder, open source advocate, blogger, author, and speaker at many open source-focused events, as well as an Open Organization Ambassador.

Robert Ross aka Bobby Tables is a software engineer at Namely. Robert has been tinkering with code since he was 12 years old and has been working with startups since 2009. Previously, he worked at Beats By Dre and DigitalOcean. Robert likes working on infrastructure that supports engineering teams to grow and scale.

Rachel Roumeliotis is a strategic content director at O’Reilly, where she leads an editorial team that covers a wide variety of programming topics ranging from full stack to open source in the enterprise to emerging programming languages. She is a Programming Chair of OSCON, TensorFlow World, and O’Reilly Strata Data & AI Conference.She has been working in technical publishing for 10 years, acquiring content in many areas including mobile programming, UX, computer security, and AI.

Daniel Ruggeri is an open source evangelist and a principal cloud architect at Mastercard, where he is responsible for setting the direction of Mastercard regarding the web and cloud spaces. He spends his days and nights playing with infrastructure and the code that powers it both inside the firewall and outside. Daniel is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and has contributed code to open source projects ranging from simple pet projects to widely utilized servers. He even taught a course on open source software development (and will share the curriculum with you if you ask).

Russ Rutledge is the director of InnerSource and community at Nike. This startup within the company guides the process and tools to encourage and foster cross-team and community interaction and development. Russ’s drive and passion is to enable all software engineers to achieve incredible technical and business throughput via quality tooling and streamlined work process. Previously, he ran another successful startup delivering JavaScript continuous delivery solutions to hundreds of projects throughout Nike. Russ began his career with feature and infrastructure development on the Outlook and OneDrive consumer websites at Microsoft.

Adib Saikali is an advisory platform architect at Pivotal. Adib is passionate about technology and entrepreneurship. His interests and experience range from assembly to JavaScript and from cold-calling to pitching venture capitalists.

Soumya Sanyal is director of engineering efficiency at Providence, where he leads the teams that tackle reliability engineering, developer experience, and quality engineering for the company’s Digital & Innovation Group.

Petra Sargent is a technical writer for the Developers Tools Group at Red Hat. Petra is passionate about creating quality technical documentation. She has over 17 years’ experience in proprietary software development. Petra became involved in the OpenStack community through Outreachy, has attended two OpenStack summits, and cochaired the Getting Started track for the summit in Barcelona. She has also spoken at All Things Open.

Eddie Satterly is cofounder and CEO of DataNexus, where he is building a new data application to serve as a context-based data router. Over his 28-year career, Eddie has served in a variety of roles, including developer, engineer, architect, founder, and CTO, for a range of companies from startups to the Fortune 500. Most recently, he was the CTO of the Emerging Technologies Group, where he oversaw the product technology portfolio and the R&D teams in cyber, analytics, the cloud, social/mobile, and the IoT; worked in the office of the CTO at Splunk, where he presented at 46 events globally and worked with clients to set data strategy; and revolutionized the way Expedia delivers its core web applications using highly scalable data environments, resulting in improved user experience. Eddie holds a BS in computer science and informatics from Indiana University.

John Sawers is a senior software developer at Privia Health. Over the last two decades, John has worked as an architect and developer in finance, healthcare, and government organizations. John formerly supervised Purpose, Passion, Peace workshops based on the work of Alfred Adler. These emotional release workshops were designed to create a safe space for people to finally face feelings they’ve been avoiding for most of their lives.

Amye Scavarda is the Gluster community lead at Red Hat, where she helps feed and water a large open source storage project and connect communities and developers.

Ryan Schneider is a lead education engineer at VMware in the cloud native business. He has a passion for architecture and building great systems and is excited about the cloud native movement that the Kubernetes community is driving. Previously, he worked at Heptio, as a backend and distributed system engineer in companies both large and small, and as an adjunct professor in the Software Engineering Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). After years of software development and architecture in the industry, he decided to blend his love for teaching and open source software and took a position as education engineer at Elastic, where he taught and consulted with engineers worldwide about Elasticsearch. Ryan holds a BS in CS and an MS in software development and management.

Jim Schreckengast (Schreck) works in HPE’s Open Source Program Office, where he focuses on strategic planning, compliance, consulting, and strategic program management, helping businesses derive competitive advantage and value from open source use and investments. Previously, Schreck spent 15 years in executive R&D positions at GemPlus (now GemAlto), Peace Software, Eastman Kodak, and Pink Zulu Labs. He holds a BS in computer science from Purdue University and an MS in management of technology from NTU. Schreck is a private pilot, drummer, ham radio guy, photographer, and a huge Star Trek and Star Wars fan. He volunteers in the community maintaining an off-the-grid emergency digital radio network that spans New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. He also participates in charity events to raise money for Children’s Hospital of Colorado. Schreck is located in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Roger Servey leads Development Operations (DevOps) and Solution Engineering who’s focus is on increasing profitability and cash flow by accelerating the delivery of new capabilities utilizing Agile, Lean Development, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Pricing Theory & Analytics, and Product Lifecycle Management methodologies.

Roger has driven the first order turn up of such key accounts as Motorola ($40M), Disney ($5M), RFP initiatives for UTC ($25M), General Motors ($8M), Enterprise Rental ($60M) and Trugreen ($26M) supporting sales and operations, earning recognition from the account teams and IT leadership.

Roger holds a BA from SMU and began his career in 1992 in Product Management Analytics and Strategic Customer Development. Roger joined GTE in 1998 as a PM in Advanced Intelligent Networking delivering tools and strategic partner implementations. In 2002 Roger joined CLEC Caprock as a Director responsible for driving corporate efficiencies, leading a team responsible for strategic IT, Operational and Marketing initiatives.

Nick Shadrin is a Product Manager at NGINX. He creates and brings new technologies to the wide audience of engineers and operations professionals. He is a web application delivery professional with many years of international experience. Previously, Nick implemented website-optimization systems for many major well-known websites.

Joshua Shanks is a senior software engineer at Indeed. Previously, he worked at Amazon and Redfin.

Alolita Sharma is a principal technologist enabling open source at Amazon Web Services. Previously, she led engineering teams at PayPal, Twitter, Wikipedia, and IBM. Alolita serves on the board of the Unicode Consortium and has served on the board of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). She is an invited subject-matter expert on W3C and ECMA workgroups. She holds multiple degrees in computer science and speaks internationally on open source, InnerSource, the cloud, web and language technologies, deep learning, and open standards.

Priyanka Sharma is the director of technical evangelism at GitLab and serves on the board of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). She has deep expertise in DevOps and observability. A former entrepreneur with a passion for growing developer products through open source communities, Priyanka advises startups at HeavyBit industries, an accelerator for developer products. She holds a BA in political science from Stanford University and loves reading and playing with her dog, Ollie, in her spare time.

Ben Sigelman is the cofounder and CEO of LightStep, where he’s building reliability management for modern systems. An expert in distributed tracing, Ben is the coauthor of the OpenTracing standard, a project within the Linux Foundation’s Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Previously, he built Dapper, Google’s production distributed systems tracing infrastructure, and Monarch, Google’s fleet-wide time series collection, storage, analysis, and alerting system. Ben holds a BSc in mathematics and computer science from Brown University.

Manuel Silveyra is a senior cloud solutions architect at IBM, where he focuses on OpenStack, Docker, Cloud Foundry, and the Swift programming language. Previously, Manuel was a lead architect at the Linux Integration Center at IBM. He holds a BS in electrical engineering and an MS in computer engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso (go Miners!).

Animesh Singh is a senior technical staff member (STSM) and program director for the IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, where he leads machine learning and deep learning initiatives on IBM Cloud and works with communities and customers to design and implement deep learning, machine learning, and cloud computing frameworks. He has a proven track record of driving design and implementation of private and public cloud solutions from concept to production. Animesh has worked on cutting-edge projects for IBM enterprise customers in the telco, banking, and healthcare industries, particularly focusing on cloud and virtualization technologies, and led the design and development first IBM public cloud offering.

Atin Sood is a technical lead at IBM’s Watson Studio. For the last 10+ years, Atin has been leading technical teams across IBM focusing on scalable distributed systems and scalable machine learning problems.

Scott Soutter is a global offering manager with the IBM Cognitive Systems business, with responsibility for solutions in deep learning and artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. Within this role, Scott has helped governmental agencies, scientific and research communities, and commercial customers incorporate novel approaches to applied artificial intelligence to the most complex compute problems globally. Previously, Scott was a global technical sales manager with IBM’s Software Defined Infrastructure business, where he led a team of global solution architects with expertise in cluster computing, high-performance filesystems, and complex industry architectures. During his 20-year career with IBM, Scott has been a global cluster sales executive for high-performance and technical computing, a technical architect for IBM Unix systems sales, and a business development executive who helped build IBM’s largest x86 OEM customer. Scott holds a BA in anthropology and an MBA with a focus on organizational change. Scott resides in Portland, Oregon, with his family. In his spare time he enjoys fly fishing, amateur photography, and recreational swimming.

Tom Spiegelman is an infrastructure engineering manager at DigitalOcean. He has an awesome dog and a great team and is married to the amazing Chantal Spiegelman. He is passionate about all things tech, specifically infrastructure.

Erica Stanley is an engineering manager for SalesLoft’s integrations and analytics product teams, where she works with amazing teams of software engineers, product managers, and designers to expose actionable data and insights that optimize customers’ sales processes. She is an entrepreneur, technologist, and community organizer with over 17 years of experience working with startups and Fortune 500 companies, including Boeing, FOX Interactive Media, Turner Broadcasting, and Oracle. Erica works passionately toward gender and multicultural inclusion in tech, via education and increased exposure to opportunities. As founder of the Atlanta network of Women Who Code, she leads new developer workshops and organizes monthly tech talks, hack nights, and networking events for women technologists and frequently collaborates with companies within the Atlanta tech community to help improve strategies around diversity and inclusion. Erica also sits on the advisory board of 100 Girls of Code, helping develop new strategies and curriculums to expose girls to technology. She holds a BS and MS in computer science from Clark Atlanta University, where she conducted research in virtual reality and 3D data modeling, and conducted postgraduate research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she specialized in graphics, data visualization, and telepresence.

Nathan Stocks is an engineering manager of Git Infrastructure at GitHub by day and a hopelessly naive indie game developer by night. He likes growing maple trees from seed, playing Frisbee, spending time with his wife and kids, eating food, and pretending to be an expert on things he knows little about. He would love to manage to actually make a game in Rust that’s worth playing.

Eric Stoekl is a Seattle-based DevOps engineer at Motorola Solutions. In his free time, he is a contributor to the OpenFaaS project and author of several blog posts providing guidance on how to deploy and use OpenFaaS in different scenarios.

Klaas-Jan Stol is a lecturer within the School of Computer Science and Technology at University College Cork. Previously, he was a research fellow with Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre. He conducts research on contemporary software development methods and strategies, including InnerSource, open source, crowdsourcing, and Agile and Lean methods. His work on InnerSource has been published in several top journals and magazines including ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He holds a PhD in software engineering from the University of Limerick on open and InnerSource. In a previous life, he was a contributor to the Perl 6 open source project.

Syue-Siang Su (Boik) has four-year experience in Web development, and actively using Open Source Software to create and manage applications or tools for his research in Web Security. He has received some awards from CTFs, been the speaker at AVTokyo 2017 and 2018, Taiwan Modern Web 2017, OSCON 2018, and the lecturer at Taiwan HITCON Training and National Center for Cyber Security Technology.

Matt Sullivan is a developer advocate at Google, where he leads developer relations for Flutter. Previously, he worked on Android and Wear. He’s a bit of a language geek and is thoroughly enjoying adding Dart to his portfolio of languages to write cool things in. When he’s not hacking on Flutter, you’ll probably find him in the gym wearing far too many fitness sensors.

Smruthi Venkatesh is a software engineer at at Platform9 Systems, where she works on Fission, an open source serverless framework for Kubernetes. Previously, she worked on a PaaS for microservices at American Express. Smruthi loves to code and is currently addicted to Go.

Cullen Taylor is a developer advocate at IBM. Previously, he was a DevOps engineer at IBM.

Greg Taylor leads Reddit’s Release Engineering Group within the company’s Infrastructure Division. He and his team primarily help Reddit engineers get their systems from concept to production. This involves developing tooling, building CI/CD pipelines, and a healthy serving of Kubernetes.

Cade L. Thacker is a software engineer principal (aka digital plumber) at The Home Depot. Cade is a passionate advocate for using technology to improve things in real life and works to empower teams in the transformation from waterfall to Agile and DevOps. He has worked at Google, Lockheed Martin, and a nonprofit helping families in financial crisis. He first installed Red Hat 5 back in 1997. His jobs have been a mile wide and in an inch deep: years of coding, followed by system administration and infrastructure build-outs, before returning to coding.

Cynthia Thomas is a Networking Specialist at Google Cloud. She has spent 10+ years in the networking industry, most recently with open source cloud and networking solutions. Cynthia has been an advocate of open source technologies while working on cloud-related technologies for the last 5 years. She is a frequent speaker at conferences, including DevOpsDays, DockerCon, Kubernetes meetups, and OpenStack events.

Elmer Thomas is the senior developer experience engineer at Twilio SendGrid, where he leads, develops, and manages Twilio SendGrid’s email open source community, which includes over 24 active projects across seven programming languages. These open source projects process billions of emails per month for Twilio SendGrid’s customers. Elmer holds a BS in computer engineering and an MS in electrical engineering from the University of California, Riverside, where he focused on control systems—specifically GPS navigation systems.

James Thompson is a principal software engineer at Mavenlink, where he is committed to helping engineering teams become more deliberate in how they build software through developing strong learning cultures, principled engineering practices, and holistic architectural thinking. He has worked with web technologies since 2003.

Anjana Vakil is Engineering Learning & Development Lead at Mapbox. Anjana suffers from a debilitating case of curiosity, which led her from philosophy to English teaching to computational linguistics to software development. Talk to her about functional programming, language design and implementation, and speech technology and ask her about Mozilla, Outreachy, and the Recurse Center. She can usually be found in San Francisco—that is, when she’s not traveling the world trying to share the joy of programming and make the tech community more diverse and accessible.

Michael Van Kleeck is the enterprise solutions architect at Mozilla, where he brings all Mozillians together through enterprise architecture practices to play around with what the future might look like for the internet as a global public resource, open and accessible to all.

Ryan Vanderwerf is a developer on the Grails team at Object Computing, Inc. Previously, he was chief systems and software architect and director of products at ReachForce, where he helped design and build a Grails, Groovy, and AWS Cloud SaaS solution for marketing data management, and lead architect at Developerprogram.com, where he built a SaaS solution that allows rapid deployment of developer program portals for all kinds of companies. He has helped maintain various Grails plugins, built Java- and Linux-based webcasting for events such as SXSW, and built telecom software and SaaS systems for the financial sector. Ryan is cochair of the Austin Groovy and Grails User Group in Austin, TX, and coauthor of Effective Gradle Implementation.

Kevin Vangundy is an avid cyclist, podcast fiend, and sci-fi junkie who is taking you from ideation to execution with Neo4j.

Soam Vasani is a software engineer at Platform9 Systems, where he created and works on the Fission framework and has also worked on Platform9’s Kubernetes cluster deployment and management product. His past work includes distributed filesystems and contributions to the GNU debugger and toolchain. He’s interested in distributed systems, DevOps tools and frameworks, and programming languages.

Steven Wagner has been a full-time member of the Decred Project for the last three years and is a senior contributor. Working closely with the community, he designed Decred’s “stake diff” ticket price algorithm. He has contributed code to several other blockchain open source projects and has given talks on Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Since the late ’90s, he has worked cross-functionally in IT and development and helped accelerate the culture of collaboration through Agile methods.

Grant Wade is a technical product owner at Walmart focused on CI/CD pipeline health, code security, and measuring team working patterns. His responsibilities include feature identification and prioritization, application architecture oversight, and promoting these tools across Walmart Labs. Previously, Grant was a full stack .Net technical lead working on Walmart’s merchandise planning and store systems, which provide instructions to store associates and drive replenishment based on product space allocations. Before coming to Walmart, he was the IT manager for a grocery company in Arkansas and Missouri. Grant holds a BS in computer information technology from Arkansas State University.

Stephen Walli is a principal program manager on the Azure engineering team at Microsoft. A technical executive, founder, consultant, writer, systems developer, software construction geek, and a standards diplomat, Stephen loves to build teams and products that excite customers. He has worked in the IT industry for almost 40 years, 25 of them working with open source. Previously, he was a distinguished technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and consulted at Docker. Stephen blogs about the software business, standards, and open source at Once More unto the Breach, on Medium, and at Opensource.com.

Yi-Hong Wang is a software developer with the Cognitive OpenTech Group at the IBM Silicon Valley Lab, where he focuses on Node.js and JanusGraph open technologies. Recently, he’s been working on TensorFlow, focusing on the build package and TensorFlow JavaScript.

James Ward is the engineering and open source ambassador at Salesforce. James frequently presents at conferences around the world, such as JavaOne, Devoxx, and many other Java get-togethers. Along with Bruce Eckel, James coauthored First Steps in Flex. He has also published numerous screencasts, blogs, and technical articles. Starting with Pascal and Assembly in the ’80s, James found his passion for writing code and began doing web development with HTML, Perl/CGI, and Java in the ’90s. Over his career, James built a Flex- and Java-based customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems; was a technical evangelist for Flex at Adobe; was a principal developer evangelist at Salesforce, where he taught developers how to deploy apps on the cloud with Heroku; and was a developer advocate at Typesafe, where he created Typesafe Activator and led the Reactive Software vision. James posts code at GitHub.com/jamesward.

Bex Warner is a developer advocate at GitHub focused on GitHub Apps. They are also a maintainer of the open source project Probot. Bex enjoys reading, open source coding, biking, and making art. Bex spends their free time with their cat Cassie (and viewing other people’s cats on the internet).

Liam White is a software engineer on the container registry team for IBM Cloud, where he is currently leading the migration of the registry service onto Kubernetes and Istio. He is an advocate of open source technology, both utilizing and contributing to multiple projects, including as a core contributor to Istio.

Edd Wilder-James is a strategist at Google, where he is helping build a strong and vital open source community around TensorFlow. A technology analyst, writer, and entrepreneur based in California, Edd previously helped transform businesses with data as vice president of strategy for Silicon Valley Data Science. Formerly Edd Dumbill, Edd was the founding program chair for the O’Reilly Strata Data Conference and chaired the Open Source Software Conference for six years. He was also the founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Big Data. A startup veteran, Edd was the founder and creator of the Expectnation conference management system and a cofounder of the Pharmalicensing online intellectual property exchange. An advocate and contributor to open source software, Edd has contributed to various projects such as Debian and GNOME and created the DOAP vocabulary for describing software projects. Edd has written four books, including Learning Rails (O’Reilly).

Cedric Williams is an InnerSource advocate for PayPal helping to grow the InnerSource Commons community. A technologist, pilot, coach, and advocate for individual freedoms, Cedric aspires to use narrative and technology to make communities powerful.

Kesha Williams is a senior software engineer at Chick-fil-A Corporate. Kesha is a software engineer with over 20 years’ experience specializing in full stack web application development using Java, Spring, Angular, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). She’s trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Europe, and Asia while teaching Java at the university level. She held a summer internship with the National Security Agency (NSA)—how cool is that? She recently won the Ada Lovelace Award in Computer Engineering from Look Far and the Think Different Innovation Award from Chick-fil-A for her work on investigating how emerging technologies and artificial intelligence can enhance restaurant operations and customer experiences. In her spare time, she leads the Georgia chapter of Technovation, speaks at technical conferences across the country, serves as a mentor with the New York Academy of Sciences, and conducts free “Hour of Code” workshops for children at her local library.

Ashley Wolf is a principal technical program manager for the open source program office at Verizon Media. Ashley has experience in developer relations, customer engagement, and engineering community management.

Lucy Wyman is a software engineer at Puppet, where she works on the company’s open source remote task runner Bolt. Previously, she was a frontend engineer for Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab. Lucy holds a BS in computer science from Oregon State University. In her free time, she likes hanging out with friends, hiking, experiencing new things, and enjoying a wide variety of podcasts, TV shows, blogs, books, and other media. You can find out more on her blog.

Michael Xie is a principal architect at Huawei Cloud, where he works on cloud monitoring, large-scale cluster performance and scalability enhancement, container networking, and cluster multitenancy, among other things. He also leads open source efforts for Huawei Cloud. Previously, he was a principal software engineer for ads at AOL and senior software engineer at Microsoft working on Windows storage server, Windows Azure monitoring, and Bing ads.

Ying Xiong is chief architect of the cloud platform at Huawei Technologies, where his current responsibilities include the architecture vision, strategy, and design of the cloud platform as a service (PaaS). Ying brings 20+ years of experience in architecture and design of cloud, ecommerce, and enterprise IT systems. Previously, Ying was a principal architect and development manager for Microsoft’s Azure and SQL Azure cloud platforms and a principal enterprise technical architect and development manager at AT&T. He holds a PhD and a BS in computer science.

Xing Yang is a principal architect at Huawei, working on OpenSDS, an open source project under Linux Foundation. Previously, she worked at Dell EMC. Xing is a Kubernetes contributor and a core member of OpenStack Cinder and Manila. She has expertise in storage, data protection, disaster recovery, and cloud and virtualization technologies.

Gil Yehuda runs the open source program at Verizon Media. Gil has been a strong and vocal advocate for open source for many years and is a member of the TODO group. Previously, he was an analyst at Forrester Research focused on workplace collaboration.

Ted Young is a software engineer at LightStep. He has spent the last 15 years building distributed systems in a variety of environments, including computer animation pipelines for VFX, national elections, and elastic compute platforms. Previously, he helped design the Diego Container Runtime for Cloud Foundry. Currently, he is focused on OpenTracing and tools for root cause analysis.

Mahdi Yusuf is the CTO at Gyroscope Innovations, a company building the operating system for the human body with a focus on making that OS approachable and beautiful for everyone and gleaning insights that otherwise would have been left unseen. Mahdi is a passionate engineer who enjoys solving challenging problems. Previously, he worked for a security software firm dealing with mergers and acquisitions, so he has seen it all. In his spare time, he works on open source software and runs a weekly Python newsletter Pycoders’ Weekly, which highlights the latest and greatest from the community.