Coffee and Open Source

Maddy Montaquila (formerly Leger) is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft and the product lead for Aspire. She’s been building dev tools at Microsoft since 2018, working across the .NET mobile stack and helping bring .NET MAUI to life. Maddy has been obsessed with making developers’ lives easier ever since her first dev tools internship, where she realized it perfectly combined her tech background with her passion for product development.

These days, she’s focused on making modern distributed app development suck a whole lot less. Maddy’s an experienced speaker who’s presented everywhere from local user groups to major keynotes, known for bringing great energy and a genuine love for dev tools to every talk.You can find Maddy on the following sites:

Aravind is Director of Developer GTM at CodeRabbit, a lifelong learner and passionate technologist who transforms complex challenges into clear, engaging narratives.

As a mentor, speaker, and open-source advocate, he champions community-driven innovation and hands-on experimentation.You can find Aravind on the following sites:

Paul Stack is an infrastructure coder and has spoken at various events throughout the world about his passion for continuous integration, continuous delivery and good operational procedures and why they should be part of what developers and system administrators do on a day to day basis. He believes that reliably delivering software is more important as its development. Paul’s passions are the DevOps and Continuous Delivery movements and how they help the entire business and its customers.You can find Paul on the following sites:

Ralph is Microsoft's representative on the board of the Bytecode Alliance Foundation and is responsible for WebAssembly outside of the browser at the company. Ralph has worked with Linux for several decades and had worked on many Azure services through the years. His team is also responsible for the ContainerD project Runwasi, part of the SpinKube project.

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David is the Director of Architecture for NewDay, and the founder of Electric Head Software. Focusing on iterative software delivery, developer mentoring and cultural change - mostly working with London-based organisations.

He speaks about software design, culture, and ethics in technology - rounded out by an assortment of talks about software that probably doesn't need to exist but makes the world a little more fun. David has previously served as the chief coding technical architect for JustGiving and helped market-leading organisations including JUST-EAT, Trainline and Vodafone improve their technical capabilities.

David is a Microsoft MVP, has been part of the OpenUK Honours list for open-source advocacy, and is a twice bestselling author of children's books about programming.

There's a chance you've seen him talk at a spread of conferences, user groups and code-dojos around the UK over the last decade or indulged in bar-room programming debates after one.

You can find his open-source projects on NuGet, npm and GitHub, follow him on BlueSky @davidwhitney.co.uk, or check out his technical blog at www.davidwhitney.co.uk/Blog.You can find David on the following sites:

Based in Los Angeles, Dave has dedicated his career to solving complex technical challenges across various domains. His professional journey includes roles as Principal Software Architect at PKWARE, Senior Backend Engineer at Fetch Rewards, and Staff Software Engineer at Bold Penguin, where he consistently designed high-performance, scalable systems.

Dave's current passion project, Contextium, represents the culmination of his technical expertise and intellectual interests. This system transforms natural language into deep semantic graphs -- and vice versa -- through innovative knowledge representation techniques. Contextium employs a symbolic, rules-based approach to NLP rather than relying solely on statistical methods, allowing for precise semantic understanding and addressing critical limitations in current AI systems, for example hallucinations in large language models.

A published author with O'Reilly Media, Dave wrote 'Programming Visual Basic .NET' (2001) and 'CDO & MAPI Programming with Visual Basic' (2000), demonstrating his ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly.

Over his long career, Dave has worked in many languages and tech stacks. His interests extend beyond pure engineering to theoretical aspects of AI, consciousness, and the intersection of symbolic and neural approaches to machine intelligence.You can find Dave on the following sites:

Dennis is a Microsoft MVP and Principal Consultant at Dutch Microsoft consultancy firm Aviva Solutions. With 27 years of experience under his belt as a software architect and/or lead developer, he specializes in designing full-stack enterprise solutions based on .NET as well as providing coaching on all aspects of designing, building, documenting, deploying and maintaining software systems in an agile world. He is the author of Fluent Assertions, an assertion library to make your unit tests look great, Liquid Projections, a set of libraries for building Event Sourcing projections and he has been maintaining coding guidelines for C# since 2001. You can find him on Twitter, Mastodon and BlueSky.You can find Dennis on the following sites:

Maxim has spent the last 25 years building massive distributed systems for Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Uber. Among other things, he led the design and development of the AWS SQS backend, and AWS Simple Workflow Service. At Uber, Maxim led the effort on open source projects Cherami and Cadence Workflow.

Since October of 2019, Maxim has been the CEO/Cofounder of Temporal Technologies. Its flagship open source project temporal.io is redefining the way large-scale reliable applications are developed and operated.You can find Maxim on the following sites:

Kee Jefferys is the co-founder of Session, an encrypted messaging application that minimizes the collection of user metadata. Kee has been involved in numerous technological projects, specializing in decentralized networking and blockchain.

As an active and engaged member of the privacy-preserving technology community, Kee regularly attends conferences and meetups centered around privacy protection, the fight for encryption, and ethical dataYou can find Kee on the following sites:

Giorgi is a software developer with almost two decades of experience. He works mainly with C#, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core and .NET MAUI.

Giorgi is an open-source author and contributor on GitHub, a Microsoft MVP, and a member of the .NET Foundation.You can find Giorgi on the following sites:

Tanmai is the CEO of Hasura.io, a company he co-founded to develop software to simplify and accelerate application development. Before Hasura, he co-founded 34 Cross, a software development and consulting company focused on web and mobile development and helping Fortune 500 companies transition from monolithic to microservices architectures. While at 34 Cross, he also incubated two companies developing browser extensions, food delivery and food-finding apps for cities in India. Tanmai holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. You can find Tanmai on the following sites:

This is Michelle in her own words.

I am the Developer Engagement Lead for Microsoft in Asia as well as a Tedx Speaker, developer community mentor, Microsoftie and international conference Speaker. I live at the heart of the coding community and help drive awareness and engagement as a developer advocate and technology evangelist. I advocate for STEM, the Games Industry and Developers You can find Michelle on the following sites:

Jeramiah Dooley (he/him) leads the advocacy team focused on Enterprise customers, making sure that the product and content are aligned for organizations who are using GitHub every day. For more than 19 years he has spent his career at the intersection of 'enterprise' and 'what's next' and is excited to focus on bringing the best experience possible to developers and platform teams.

Prior to GitHub, Jeramiah led the advocacy efforts around serverless container services at AWS, and was a Principal Cloud Advocate in Azure Engineering, leading the team that supported Enterprise Platforms and Tools. Jeramiah was also the Manager of NetApp’s Global Technical Pursuit team, focusing on helping customers and partners architect next generation solutions using their entire portfolio, focusing on VMware, OpenStack, and container integrations.

Jeramiah also has worked in the healthcare, legal and service provider industries. You can find Jeramiah on the following sites:

Magnus Mårtensson is an entrepreneur, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Azure since the start of the cloud, and a Microsoft Regional Director (RD). He is a consultant, architect, product development lead, and he runs his own company Loftysoft. As an international speaker Magnus travels the world to teach, network, learn, and experience. His passions include connecting with audiences and organizing conferences such as CloudBurst and GlobalAzure. He is of course also very into good food, wine, and great company. Topping it all is mind-sharing, so when you see him at a conference, come over and say hi! You can find Magnus on the following sites:

As CEO of Holepunch, Mathias brings his passion and extensive expertise in open-source development to the fore, having published more than 1000 modules to npm, the Node.js package manager, totalling billions of downloads every month.

Mathias Buus is a self taught JavaScript hacker from Copenhagen. He works full time on open source projects and has been working with Node.js since the 0.2 days. Mathias likes to work with P2P and distributed systems and is the author of more than 550 modules on npm, including some of the most popular ones for working with streams. In addition he has spoken about “mad science” projects at various conferences around the world. You can find Mathias on the following sites:

Tessa Kriesel is the CEO of Built for Devs, where she fast-tracks developer tools from idea to essential. With over a decade in DevRel leadership at companies like Snap Inc. and Twitter, Tessa coaches early-stage startups and enterprises to build developer programs that drive adoption, innovation, and revenue. Her unique approach combines deep technical knowledge with strategic marketing, helping dev tools become indispensable parts of developers' workflows. A former engineering manager and self-taught open-source developer, Tessa bridges the gap between technical innovation and business success in the dev tools ecosystem. You can find Tessa on the following sites:

Jamie is a software developer with 14 years' experience, a Microsoft MVP, 'Most Visionary Software Development & Consultancy Managing Director' awardee for 2023, and a skilled podcaster with 5 years in engaging content creation.

With a versatile tech toolkit, Jamie crafts tailored solutions, while his MVP status showcases his community commitment. His visionary leadership drives excellence, and his podcasting journey reflects his prowess in relatable communication. An inspiring multi-faceted professional, Jamie embodies dedication, innovation, and impactful change. You can find Jamie on the following sites:

April Speight began her career as a menswear stylist and visual merchandiser for brands such as Club Monaco, Saks, and Neiman Marcus. She graduated with a BS in Global Business & Public Policy from the University of Maryland and subsequently embarked on a career transition into tech. To close out her former career in fashion, she completed her Masters in Luxury & Fashion Management at the Savannah College of Art and Design - with a focus on the luxury automobile and luxury marijuana sectors.

In her spare time, she began to learn Python in hopes of becoming a data scientist. With a change of heart, she chose to focus on AI assistants, chat bots, and conversational design.

Always curious and always learning, she witnessed a life changing demo at a Microsoft event that set her on a new path in Extended Reality (XR). In 2020, she joined the Cloud Advocacy organization at Microsoft as a Sr. Cloud Advocate for Spatial Computing.

From 2020 - 2022, April became a thought leader in the XR space promoting safety, diversity, and inclusivity in the design of XR experiences. She served as the former Director of Community & Education for the XR Safety Initiative (XRSI), advising partners on XR curriculum.

Internally at Microsoft, she worked alongside the former Mixed Reality and MRTK teams. She created various XR samples, technical learning content, and was part of the team that won Silver in the 2021 Telly Awards for Remote Production – Non-Broadcast for Microsoft One Dev Question with April Speight. Before her transition to the Cloud Advocacy leadership team, April hosted the 2022 Mixed Reality Dev Days and collaborated with the current Microsoft Mesh team.

Today, she resides in Los Angeles as a Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft focused on Generative AI. You can find April on the following sites:

Lukas Gentele is the co-founder and CEO of Loft Labs. Loft delivers Kubernetes-native tools, functionality and frameworks purpose-built for platform engineers to manage, activate and optimize their platform stack. Gentele is an experienced platform engineering innovator, committed to delivering solutions that empower platform teams to build seamlessly on Kubernetes. Prior to Loft, Gentele served as the co-founder and CEO at covexo GmbH and Webmans. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Information Systems, and a Master of Science, Computer Science & Management of Enterprise Information Systems, both from the University of Mannheim. You can find Lukas on the following sites:

Chris DeMars is a Senior Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean. He has over 20 years of technical experience and speaks globally on various frontend topics and has received accolades for his community contributions, including the prestigious Microsoft MVP and Progress Champion awards. Chris is passionate about enhancing web development and helping developers achieve their goals. In his free time, he enjoys writing blog posts, rating Detroit-style pizza, and investigating UFO's. You can find Chris on the following sites:

April is a senior developer advocate and DevOps practice lead at GitHub, specializing in application transformation and DevOps ways of working. Her focus is to take customers of a journey from legacy technology, to serverless and containers, where code comes first, while enabling them to take full advantage of DevOps practices.

In April’s spare time she spends time outdoors hiking, skiing or scuba diving. She is also a triathlete competing in Ironman and Half Ironman triathlons.

April is often asked to present at events to showcase the latest GitHub and Microsoft technologies and also to present live demos that are industry specific and applicable to real life use cases.

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David is a software engineer who spent most of his career in the Seattle area, working at Microsoft and Google. He has contributed to a range of products over the years, including ASP.NET, NuGet, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Microsoft Office and Google Cloud infrastructure.

He now lives in Paris, near where he grew up, and is currently taking a break from corporate life. In addition to family life, he spends his time trail running, playing pickleball, and contributing to various OSS projects to keep his coding skills sharp! You can find David on the following sites:

Emily Freeman believes the greatest challenges we face aren’t technical, but human. She is a bestselling author of two books, DevOps for Dummies and 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know, and a prolific speaker, traveling across the globe to educate executives and engineers on the best approaches to AI, DevOps, and cloud engineering.

Emily has been studying, leading, and shaping the developer journey for the last 15 years. She has led developer relations and product marketing at AWS, Microsoft, and cutting-edge startups. Her mission is to transform technology organizations by creating company cultures in which diverse, collaborative teams can thrive.

Emily’s work has been featured in outlets such as Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, and the New Stack. She is widely recognized as a thoughtful, entertaining, and professional keynote speaker. Emily is best known for her creative approach to identifying and solving the human challenges of software engineering. It is rare in the technology industry to find individuals equally adept with code and words, but her career has been defined by precisely that combination.

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David Giard is a former accountant and a former biochemist, who has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies for over three decades. Currently, David helps people design and build solutions in his role as a Partner Solution Architect at Microsoft. David has been very active in the developer community, speaking at numerous major conferences, code camps, and user groups around the world; helping to lead user groups; and helping to organize conferences and other geek events. He is the host and producer of the mildly popular online TV shows Technology and Friends and GCast. He is the co-author of the Wrox book Real World .NET, C#, and Silverlight. You can read his latest thoughts at DavidGiard.com. His hobbies include video, photography, sports, and embarrassing his sons.

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Zach is a serial entrepreneur, engineer, and cofounder of Fleet, where he works to unlock the full potential of osquery for enterprise and open-source customers. He brings the vision and experience of co-creating and working with osquery since the earliest design documents at Facebook in 2014. He has served as a member of the Linux Foundation osquery Technical Steering Committee since its inception in 2019. Prior to Fleet, Zach founded open-source security consultancy Dactiv, and co-founded endpoint security company Kolide. Zach graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BSE in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania where he conducted wireless security research and lectured on the Python programming language.

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Marc is a Sr Developer Advocate at Diagrid with a strong focus on event-driven architectures. He loves helping developers to achieve more every day.

You might have seen Marc at a developer meetup or conference, since he's a regular speaker and event-organizer in the area of Dapr, Azure cloud, and serverless technologies. From 2019 to 2024 Marc received the Microsoft Azure MVP award for his community contributions.

In his spare time, Marc likes to give attention to the creative part of his brain. He likes to create pixel art (check out VSCode Pets), code visuals & music, and create an occasional retro game. You can find Marc on the following sites:

Joe Guadagno is a currently Vice President of IT for RT². He has been writing software for over 20 years, has been an active member of the .NET community, serving on the .NET Foundation Board of Directors, as President, and has been a Microsoft MVP in .NET for more than 15 years. He has spoken through the United States and international events on topics ranging from Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Azure, Ionic, Bootstrap, and many others. You can see the complete list at https://www.josephguadagno.net/presentations. When not sitting at a computer, Joe loves to hang out with his family and play games. When not playing games with the family, Joe is checking out the latest in Home Automation. You can find Joe on the following sites:

Eric Lippert is a designer of fine programming languages; at Microsoft he worked on Visual Basic, VBScript, JScript and C#. At Facebook he worked on Hack (a gradually-typed PHP) and Bean Machine (a probabilistic extension of Python for data scientists). He is at present enjoying taking a break from corporate life.

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Jeremy is a Windows Developer MVP, Avalonia MVP, and Arm Ambassador who mostly focuses on all things Windows on Arm. He is a member of the .NET Foundation Project Committee and is also a member of the selection committee for .NET on AWS FOSS Fund.

He enjoys making contributions to OSS to help move projects forward and to ensure that Arm support is a first-class citizen.

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Anjuan Simmons has led software development teams for over two decades, and he excels at shipping features that customers love while also managing healthy teams. He’s delivered software for large global management consulting companies like Accenture and Deloitte as well as a number of startups. Anjuan’s approach to leading teams combines the rigor of large corporations with the scrappy style of new ventures. He is currently a Staff Engineering Manager at GitHub.

Anjuan is an energetic and informative speaker who presents at conferences, universities, and corporations around the world on topics including leadership, effective software development practices, careers in technology, and inclusion.

Anjuan has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Texas A&M University. He lives in Houston, Texas.

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Rizel Scarlett is a Staff Developer Advocate at TBD, Block's newest business unit. With a diverse background spanning GitHub, startups, and non-profit organizations, Rizel has cultivated a passion for utilizing emerging technologies to champion equity within the tech industry. She moonlights as an Advisor at G{Code} House, an organization aimed at teaching women of color and non-binary people of color to code. Rizel believes in leveraging vulnerability, honesty, and kindness as means to educate early-career developers.

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Martin is an open-source software developer and Microsoft Developer Technologies MVP. He specializes in cross-platform application development and loves the Microsoft technology stack. He enjoys sharing his knowledge with other developers at conferences and on-line. In spare time he enjoys sport climbing/bouldering, gaming on Xbox, reading, geocaching and building LEGO as an avid AFOL.

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Justin is a developer who’s helped create Oscar winning movies at Disney Animation, built infrastructure for Disney+, and worked on EKS at AWS. He is now the Director of Developer Relations at Sidero Labs and host of the Ship it! podcast

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My name is Jeremy Miller and I am a Developer and Software Architect in Austin, TX.

I started my career as a “real” engineer and got into software development writing automation tooling for my engineering group. This being the late 90’s, it was easy to transition into the early project automation groups where I got to be part of several initiatives to automate large construction project workflows. I was able to turn that experience into a real programming job at a Fortune 500 company. After a couple years of slogging through old style waterfall development, I discovered Agile Software Development and have mostly stayed in that world ever since.

I was at the forefront of early Agile usage in .Net and for better or worse was one of the main folks behind the short-lived ALT.Net movement. I’ve also been very active in .Net OSS development starting with the old StructureMap library and on to many other projects since. I’m currently the lead developer on the Marten project.

Since then I’ve swung between product shops and consulting companies before starting with MedeAnalytics this year heading up their new software architecture team. You can find Jeremy on the following sites:

Stephanie Stimac is a designer and product manager with over 14 years of experience, specializing in developer experiences and tooling. She has worked with startups to design and build websites with a focus on clean and simple user experience. Stephanie worked on the Microsoft Edge team for six years designing DevTools, shipping browser features, and leading DevRel, and as a Senior PM at RapidAPI, leading API Client tooling, giving her a deep understanding of developers, their pain points and developer user experience. You can find Stephanie on the following sites:

Here is Brian in their own words

👋 Howdy! Thanks for stopping by. I’m Brian and I’ve been doing technology things since acoustic modem couplers were a thing. I love Open Source and exploring different programming languages. Some highlights about me and my activities:

Army Veteran: Bradley Fighting Vehicle Gunner, Infantry, 1st Armored Division.

Father of five with 21 years difference between oldest and youngest child.

Co-founded GopherCon the largest conference for Go developers.

Co-authored Go In Action for Manning Publishing.

Co-wrote Skynet and SkyDNS with Erik St. Martin, which was eventually morphed into the DNS service discovery that powers Kubernetes.

Contributed to the largest projects that power the Internet. Go, Kubernetes, Etcd, and so many more.

I love Open Source, learning in public, and sharing what I learn with others. You can find Brian on the following sites:

Brit is a technology leader with over a decade of experience scaling high-performing engineering teams. Prior to System Initiative, she was a member of the executive team at Hyland Software where she led global engineering teams responsible for building multiple cloud product lines. Brit was most recently Head of Cloud Engineering at Firebolt Analytics, where she was responsible for designing and executing the strategic direction of DevOps at Firebolt. Brit recently completed her Executive MBA from the University of Michigan. You can find Brit Meyers on the following sites:

Angie Jones is the Global Vice President of Developer Relations for TBD, Block’s new business unit focused on decentralized technologies. She is an award-winning teacher and international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software companies and conferences all over the world. As a Master Inventor, Angie is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than 25 patented inventions in the areas of metaverses, collaboration software, social networking, smarter planet, and software development processes. You can find Angie Jones on the following sites:

Jim is a Principal Developer Advocate at liblab focusing on skilling and inspiring developers, especially helping API developers deliver high-quality SDKs. He’s British, so sounds way smarter than he actually is, and lives in the Pacific North West of the USA. In the past he’s lived in 4 continents working as a developer in the mobile, desktop, and scientific space. He's spoken at conferences and events all around the globe, organised meetup groups and communities, and written books on mobile development and IoT.
He also hates and is allergic to cats, but has a 10-year-old who loves cats, so he has 2 cats.

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My name is Rob Conery and I help developers of all sorts learn what’s new with technology. I work at Microsoft as a Developer Advocate and I am fortunate to get invited to speak at global conferences from time to time. I have been working in the technology field full time since 1998 as a DBA and then a web developer. My original focus was the Microsoft ASP.NET stack, building tools like Subsonic and the first Micro-ORM: Massive. In addition I co-founded Tekpub.com (acquired by Pluralsight) with James Avery and co-host This Developer’s Life with my friend, Scott Hanselman. I currently create videos for Pluralsight and build open source things as I can. You can find Rob Conery on the following sites:

James Jackson-South is the brains? behind ImageSharp, the cutting-edge image processing library that has become indispensable in the modern .NET developer's toolkit.
His contribution to the open-source community through ImageSharp has revolutionized the way developers handle image processing, offering a powerful and flexible API that caters to a myriad of image-related tasks.
With a passion for clean code and innovative problem-solving, James continues to lead and inspire, pushing the boundaries of digital image manipulation. You can find James Jackson-South on the following sites:

Carl Franklin is Executive Vice President of App vNext, a software development firm focused on modern methodologies and technologies. Carl is a 20+ year veteran of the software industry, co-host and founder of .NET Rocks!, the first and most widely listened to podcast for .NET developers, a Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, and Senior Executive of Pwop Studios, a full-service audio and video production/post-production studio located in Southeastern Connecticut.

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Sarah Guthals is the Director of Developer Relations at Sentry. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC San Diego, her passion is to design content, software, and companies that focus on engaging developers in learning new skills, technologies, and tools to improve their developer workflow.

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Corey Weathers is a software developer who loves using technology to make the impossible possible! In his current role as a Developer Evangelist, Corey serves the interests and needs of the Microsoft developer community as well as underrepresented groups in technology. His passion lies in solving human problems through technology.
Prior to Auth0, Corey has worked in a variety of software development and program management roles at Howard University, the Internal Revenue Service, and Microsoft before transitioning to application development consulting. His focus on building the customer focused solutions led him to lead performance engineering for Intapp, a Silicon Valley based software firm building software -based application for the legal and financial service industries. After spending time supporting customers, Corey pivoted his focus to empowering developers to build software applications, supporting them in building
Corey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems & Computer Science from Howard University, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He currently lives with his wife and two children in State College, Pennsylvania

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Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer. He works on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem, most notably typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh is also the author of the O’Reilly Learning TypeScript book, a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, and an active conference speaker. His personal projects range from static analysis to meta-languages to recreating retro games in the browser. Also cats.

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Tim's tech career spans over 25 years through various sectors. Tim's initial journey into tech started in avionics in the US Marine Corps and then into various government contracting roles. After moving to the private sector, Tim worked both in large corporate environments and in small startups, honing his skills in systems administration, automation, architecture, and operations for large cloud-based datastores.
Today, Tim leverages his years in operations, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering to advise and consult with the open source and cloud computing communities in his current role. Tim is also a competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. He is the 2-time American National and is the 5-time Pan American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champion in his division.

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Kris Moore is the Vice President of Engineering for iXsystems. Kris is an experienced executive with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry and is closely involved in the TrueNAS Open Storage community. He holds strong information technology skills and expertise in Shell scripting, C++, operating systems, FreeBSD, and system administration. He started learning about open source in the 90’s where he was involved in developing web services using a very early version of FreeBSD. From that experience, he learned the basics of shell interface and how to check his e-mail without a GUI by using the “pine” command, which according to him, “was very uber-l33t” at the time. During his college years, Kris played around with other Unix and Linux platforms (caldera Linux, SuSE), however when he needed to do serious work, such as setting up a web or file server, he always fell back to his FreeBSD roots. To this day, he still prefers FreeBSD because it offers a greater degree of stability than other operating systems.

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Ramiro Berrelleza is the CEO and Co-founder of Okteto, the leading platform for Development Experience Automation. With over 20 years of experience in engineering, Ramiro is a seasoned professional with a passion for building developer tooling.A visionary, Ramiro is always looking for ways to improve the software development process. He firmly believes that building modern applications is a team sport and understands the importance of removing friction from the development process. He is also a passionate advocate for building a more inclusive tech industry. With Ramiro at the helm, Okteto is well-positioned to continue to grow and shape the way companies architect development experience for their teams.

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Phil Haack is a co-founder and CTO of A Serious Business, Inc. building serious products for serious people. Very serious. We are the creators of Abbot, a Copilot for Customer Success automation.
Phil has over twenty years of experience in the software industry. Prior to A Serious Business, Inc., he was a director of engineering at GitHub and helped make GitHub friendly to developers on the Microsoft platform.
Prior to GitHub, he was a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft responsible for shipping ASP.NET MVC, NuGet, among other projects. These products had permissive open source licenses and ushered in Microsoft's Open Source era.
Phil is a co-author of GitHub for Dummies as well as the popular Professional ASP.NET MVC series and regularly speaks at conferences around the world. He's also made several appearances on technology podcasts such as .NET Rocks, Hanselminutes, Herding Code, and The Official jQuery Podcast.

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Alyssa Miller is a hacker who, in her pre-teens, bought her first computer and hacked her way into a paid dial-up community platform. She grew up in hacker culture, finding her hacker family in IRC channels during her adolescent years. While IT was not her original career plan, she ended up working as a developer and later a penetration tester in the financial services industry. As she moved into consulting, her focus on defending technology systems and personal privacy grew to the point where she was advising fortune 100 companies on how to build comprehensive security programs.
Alyssa is now the CISO at New York based Epiq Global. Still very much a hacker to this day, she’s built on that identity to grow her career. She is an internationally recognized public speaker and author of “Cybersecurity Career Guide”. She’s an advocate for helping others make a career out of their passion for hacking and security in general. She’s also a proponent for the open sharing of ideas and perspectives on improving our technologically connected world. You can find Alyssa Miller on the following sites: