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Hi, my name is Charity, and I am professionally caremad about computers. I am an operations and database engineer and sometimes engineering manager. Right now I am the CEO and cofounder of Honeycomb, where we build observability for distributed systems. (“Monitoring” doesn't have to be a dirty word; give us a try.) Until recently I was a production engineering manager at Facebook. I spent 3.5 years working on Parse (both pre and post-acquisition by FB). I also spent several years at Linden Lab, working on the infrastructure and databases that power Second Life. I am the co-author of “Database Reliability Engineering” by O'Reilly. I was a classical piano performance major in college, but dropped out because it turns out I prefer not being dirt poor. I have been building systems and engineering teams ever since. I love startups, chaos and hard scaling problems, and somehow I always end up in charge of the databases.

My name is Ben. I'm best known for my involvement writing RxJS. I'm also a father of 3 amazing kids. I've lived all over the United States. My home state is Michigan, but I've spent a lot of time in Ohio and Pennsylvania. I lived in Silicon Valley for 6 years working for Netflix and then Google before finally escaping to live in Austin, Texas. My real passion is art. Maybe at somepoint I'll get the courage to post a bit of it here. First I need to make a little time to do more. But I also love art history, museums, and that sort of thing.

Hi I'm Una (like unicorn). I'm a Brooklyn-based developer who's making the web more styleable as a Developer Advocate at Google Chrome. Previously, I was the Director of Product Design at Bustle Digital Group and worked on building maintainable design systems as a UI Engineer at both DigitalOcean and IBM Design. I also co-host two web development podcasts: Toolsday, and the CSS Podcast, as well as the web video series Designing in the Browser. I create technical illustrations called Dev Doodles, do brush lettering and calligraphy, and started technical meetup groups in Washington, DC and Austin, TX.

Håkon came to Opera from W3C, where he was responsible for style sheets. In 1994 he invented a small language called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS describes how web pages are presented — on screens, in print, or read out loud. You can read about it in a book ‘Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web' he co-authored with Bert Bos. The book is written in HTML and CSS. Håkon is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab where he was part of Walter Bender's Electronic Publishing Group.

Vitaly loves beautiful content and does not give up easily. Born in Minsk, Belarus, he studied computer science and mathematics in Germany. While writing algebra proofs and preparing for software engineering at nights in the kitchen, at the same time he discovered passion for typography, interface design and writing. After working as a freelance designer and developer for 6 years, he co-founded Smashing Magazine back in 2006, a leading online magazine for designers and developers. His curiosity drove him from interface design to front-end to performance optimization to accessibility and back to user experience over all the years.Vitaly is the author, co-author and editor of all Smashing books, and a curator of all Smashing Conferences. He currently works as creative lead of Smashing Magazine and front-end/UX consultant in Europe and abroad.

Kitze loves to rant about webdev. He is the founder of Sizzy - the browser for developers. He created React Academy to teach React and GraphQL around the world. He's documenting his journey on YouTube, streams on Twitch, and has a blog that he maintains once in a blue moon.

Kent C. Dodds is a JavaScript software engineer and teacher. He's Co-Founder and Director of Developer Experience at Remix! Kent's taught hundreds of thousands of people how to make the world a better place with quality software development tools and practices. He lives with his wife and four kids in Utah.

My name is Lea Verou and I wear many hats. My day job is researching how to make web programming easier at MIT CSAIL, working with David Karger in the Haystack group. I have a long-standing passion for open web standards. I'm an elected W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) member as of Jan 2021. The TAG is a special W3C working group that ensures all new Web technologies are well-designed and consistent with the rest of the Web Platform, and do not expose Web users to harm. I've been one of the few Invited Experts of the W3C CSS Working Group since 2012 and co-edit several CSS specifications, so if you're a Web developer, you probably use bits of my work daily. In the past, I have also worked at W3C/MIT as a Developer Advocate. I love sharing knowledge and have given over 100 invited talks at web design/web development conferences around the world. My talks are known for their interactive style and are often cited as one of the few examples of live coding that doesn't suck. I have also written a bestselling book on advanced CSS and several articles.

Nader Dabit is a web and mobile developer, author, open source enthusiast, and Senior Developer Advocate at Edge i Node.

Debbie O'Brien is a Developer Advocate with over 10 years experience in Frontend development. She has worked as a Tech Lead and consultant for many important clients with varios technologies and often with a strong focus on performance. She has lead teams both in house and remotely as well as giving workshops and training. She has many years of experience as a mentor for online learning platforms, Treehouse and OpenClassrooms as well as the Google Developer Expert program. Debbie is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in developer technologies, Google Developer Expert in web technologies, GitHub Star and Cloudinary Media Developer Expert, an Auth0 Ambassador and Nuxt Ambassador.

Nic is a developer advocate and polyglot programmer working for HashiCorp, and the author of “Building Microservices in Go” and "Service Mesh Patterns." In his spare time, Nic coaches and mentors at Coder Dojo teaches at Women Who Go and GoBridge, speaks and evangelizes good coding practice, process, and technique, and works to raise money for a charity he runs with his wife.

Adrienne Tacke is a Filipina software engineer, keynote speaker, published author of the book Coding for Kids: Python, and a LinkedIn Learning instructor who specializes in Cloud Development courses. Perhaps most important, however, is that she spends way too much money on desserts and ungodly amounts of time playing Age of Empires II.

Lucas Bernalte is a Senior Frontend Engineer at Docker. He loves making software with JavaScript full stack. He enjoys helping junior developers progress in their career path. When not coding and listening to lo-fi music, you can also find him singing or playing guitar.

Gift Egwuenu is a Developer Advocate at Cloudflare. She has over 5 years of experience in web development and building tools to help businesses grow. In her previous role, she worked as a front-end developer. She is now working in developer relations.

Mike Butcher MBE is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch. Mike has been named one of the most influential people in tech, in surveys by GfK NOP, The Independent, and Wired UK. He is a regular broadcaster, appearing on the BBC, Al Jazeera, Sky News, CNN, and Channel 4, among others. He co-founded The Europas European Tech Startup Awards, refugee non-profit Techfugees, and military charity TechVets. He has advised both the EU and the UK government on tech startups, and was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list 2016 for services to the UK technology industry and journalism.

Sabina is a Managing Director in the Sovereign Institution Group at Goldman Sachs, responsible for developing and enhancing the firm's relationships with global sovereign wealth and institutional clients. She also helps to lead the firm's efforts in sustainability and inclusive growth, including the firm's $750 billion commitment to support and accelerate the climate transition and balanced growth across its investing, financing, and advisory businesses. Sabina serves on the boards of several community and economic development organizations, including as co-chair of Network 20/20's BOLD Fellowship Program on Entrepreneurship, Youth Employment, and Economic Development as well as the board of the Afghan Future Fund. Sabina earned a BA in Government and Philosophy from Harvard College in 2012.

Pavel is a firm advocate for the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies, and in 2014, co-founded Wirex, a crypto payments platform, as a solution to the then complex process of buying crypto. He brings 15 years experience in software development and IT management from Barclays Capital, Morgan Stanley and BNP Paribas. He's published articles in international publications from City A.M. to Asia Times, and is a sought-after speaker at blockchain and payments conferences globally, having spoken at Money 20/20 Europe, Paris Fintech Forum and Finsum Japan. At Wirex, Pavel leads a team of 300+ dedicated and engaged employees, including 100 highly skilled engineers and developers based in Eastern Europe. He's responsible for the high-level functioning and growth of the company, focusing on new product development and platform evolution.

Tiffany Tse is a UX Manager on the API Libraries and Developer Documentation team at Shopify. where's she's also previously worked as a front-end developer and developer advocacy lead. She has taught as a professor in the joint York University/Sheridan College Design Program as well as Algonquin College. Tiffany specializes in developer education, user experience, design systems, and accessibility. Tiffany lived in Ottawa for a decade, and therefore has a huge appreciation for speaking, teaching and travelling to cities with warm temperatures.

I'm a Developer, Designer, Founder, Mentor, Speaker & UX Advocate creating award-winning digital experiences with a holistic approach to problem solving for over a decade

Oded Shopen works for VMware Tanzu as a Senior Lead Solution Engineer and Spring Advocate, spreading the message of cloud native development, cloud native platforms on Kubernetes and app transformation. His background includes designing large-scale, cloud-native solutions running on Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes, using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.

Hila Fish is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Wix. She believes the DevOps culture is what drives a company to perform in its best, and carries the vision to enhance and stabilize the business by taking care of its infrastructure. In her spare time, Hila is a lead singer of a cover band, giving back to the community by co-organizing DevOps-related events (Inc. ""DevOpsDays TLV"" & ""StatsCraft""), mentoring in “Baot” (Women in tech Israeli community) and other tech communities, and sharing her passion and knowledge whenever possible.

Raza is the Head of Dev Rel at thirdweb. An accountant by profession, but technology enthusiast by heart. Wildly passionate about emerging technologies and educating about them. Raza considers himself a below average developer and the walking proof that anyone can learn how to develop. Currently Raza is focused on teaching developers on how to get started in Web3 through his Twitter, Tiktok and YouTube channel. By no means does Raza think that Python is the best programming language out there. In his spare time he loves to binge watch anime.

Arik is the CEO and co-founder of Rapyd, a global Fintech as a Service platform that helps businesses collect and disburse money via locally preferred payment methods. Arik is a cloud services expert and was surprised by the challenges faced by how the legacy payments infrastructure is hindering growth in the payment space. Arik started Rapyd in order to help build a global financial technology infrastructure that allows online commerce companies, gig economy platforms, financial institutions or any digital business to embed financial services into their consumer offerings in a very simple way. A serial entrepreneur, Arik is experienced in building high-growth technology companies that leverage using cloud computing that scales to meet rapid global customer demand. Prior to Rapyd, Arik founded ITNAVIGATOR a cloud-based contact center and unified communications platform which was acquired by Avaya in 2013.

Jemima Abu is a self-taught Front End Developer and school-taught Systems Engineer from Lagos, Nigeria. She is an avid advocate for diversity and intersectionality in technology and accessibility in web development.

Wojtek is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS dedicated for Central and Eastern European region. Working with Cloud Computing and Data Engineering since 2015 - in different roles: starting from IT Operations Engineer, Software Engineer and Cloud Architect. Functional programming and Serverless architecture aficionado. 9x Certified AWS Specialist. Speaker, lecturer, and content creator.