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I love to build, design, teach, and learn. Making things at @Mojang. Formerly @spotify & @github.

Kaj is a co-founder of MariaDB Corporation Ab, and served on its Executive Team in several positions, most recently Chief Evangelist. Hi is a software industry generalist, having served as VP Professional Services, VP Engineering, CIO and VP Community Relations of MySQL AB prior to the acquisition by Sun Microsystems. At Sun, Kaj served as MySQL Ambassador to Sun and Sun VP of Database Community. Board member at Footbalance Systems Oy (Helsinki, Finland). Past founder, CEO and 14 year main entrepreneur of Polycon Ab (Finland).

Consultant Front-end Architect: @google, @UN, @Etsy, @kickstarter, @BBC, @Unilever, @Deloitte, and more • Speaker • Author: @cssguidelines

Tiffany is a Developer Advocacy Lead at Shopify on the Partnerships Education Team, based in Toronto, Canada. She also works as a professor teaching interaction design and development in the joint York University/Sheridan College Design Program. Tiffany specializes in front end development, theming, user experience design, and accessibility.

Graphics editor, @nytimes investigations team. Open sourceror

Felix is a Staff Engineer and tech lead at Slack. He’s a co-maintainer of Electron, many JavaScript libraries, and the infamous windows95 app. He’s written extensively about web technologies and is the organizer of CovalenceConf.

I've been earning money doing FrontEnd since 2007 although I work on IT since 2004. I like to call myself as JS formatter and CSS tweaker since I don't really care about job titles. I'm very concerned about company culture, therefore, I love to be and shape the company I want to work by leading by example and giving nice and constructive feedback. Tech-wise, I'm a framework agnostic more than that, I prefer Web standards over frameworks.

Experienced software professional with a penchant for designing simple, secure and scalable systems. I have a good grasp of operating system and networking fundamentals and am good at designing algorithms. I have also had exposure to web design, embedded systems development and mobile app development in the past, and have dabbled with computer graphics.

DeVaris Brown is a currently PM @ Heroku responsible for Developer Experience. Prior to Heroku, he worked at Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Visual Supply Company, and Zendesk in various PM and engineering roles. When he’s not sitting in front of a computer, you can find DeVaris behind a camera capturing moments in time or behind a set of turntables, moving a sea of people through music.

CTO of indico Data Solutions, turning raw data and image into human insight via machine learning.

Mete is a Developer Advocate at Google, focused on helping developers with Google Cloud. As a long-time Java and C# developer, he likes to compare the two ecosystems. Prior to Google, he worked at Microsoft, Skype, Adobe, EMC, and Nokia building apps and services on various web, mobile and cloud platforms. Originally from the island of Cyprus, he currently lives in Greenwich of London, not too far away from the prime meridian.

My experience runs the full stack, from the top to the bottom. I’ve managed teams that have built low-level real-time operating systems from the vectors into chips, to consumer UI; high-end 3d games/engines; and fundamental research (Kinect). I’ve personally coded web sites, web servers, datacenter tools, desktop publishing tools, and video games. I've filed roughly 50 patents with at least 26 final approved.

U.M.K. Dikshit is a Mozilla Tech Speaker, Representative, and part of its Hyderabad Community, India. He currently also devotes his time with ICRISAT where he works with drones to develop and trial techniques to connect farmers. Overall he is your next door friendly software guy.

Seb is inspiring builders to unlock the value of the AWS cloud, using his secret blend of passion, enthusiasm, customer advocacy, curiosity and creativity. Before joining the AWS Evangelist team, Seb built & lead the AWS technical training team in EMEA, and the Alexa solution architecture team in UK, France, Italy and Spain.

Cedrick is a Developer Advocate at DataStax, where he is able to share his passions about development and distributed architectures. With several positions as Developer, Technical Architect or Presales_ and strong background on integration middleware he had multiple opportunities to empower his customers to build cutting-edge distributed applications.

Bruno got his 1st open source related certificate in 1999, as Suse Linux System Administrator. He worked as sysadmin, developer, DBA and consulter, always connected to various open source technologies, mostly, but not only databases. He is part of Couchbase DACH & Central Europe team and is located in Munich, Germany.

Having more than 15 years of experience in the industry, Yolanda has been contributing to several projects in the OpenStack and Linux Foundation communities. As Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, she investigates new technologies and creates proofs of concept for partners to embrace new technologies.

In love with distributed systems and databases. Preacher of the agile practices. Over 8 years of experience, where last 6 working as the tech team lead. Currently leading division of 5 teams handling the data in Infobip. Initiator and organizer of 2 active meetup groups in Zagreb - "Java" and "Leading in Tech". Aside from IT, he is an outdoors & photo (and Instagram) enthusiast.

Dominik started his career as a developer working on operating support systems in Croatian Telekom in early 2000's. Later on he has led several strategic IT projects and was one of the pioneers in introduction of agile/Scrum methodology in HT. Currently he is acting as a head of IT System Integration and OSS department. He has started international DT initiative for unification of framework and design for APIs within DT group called HAL (Harmonized API Layer). Main challenges that his team is facing are related to cohesion between current telco monolithic systems and new microservices based approach

Vjeko has been working as a developer, solution designer and development lead for inhouse CRM solution. Although having long history with Oracle and Microsoft, left that behind and initiate development of new application solutions based on microservices and open source components. He learned a lot on this journey, not only about technology but also about people passion to change

Ivan is a software architect with strong technical and social skills working for Oracle. His mission is to enable every client's success by shaping the vision and providing creative transformation based on cloud technologies. Ivan is passionate about user experience design, inspired by technology, playful in coding. Architecture is a masterpiece of art for him.

16 years of experience in technology, banking and driving the organization in its digital and cultural transformation. Part of many projects/transformations in areas architecture simplification and getting organizations ready for future challenges. Enkelejd is a technology lover and passionate, who considers a good architecture, good teams and a good organization to have a lot in common. Agile advocate who believes that the secret ingredient of functioning teams is trust and respect. As well father of 2 daughters, amateur photographer, and par time olive oil producer.

Michal works in Kiwi.com as a Full-stack Javascript Tech Lead so his passion is to solve every issue with Javascript. He dreams about web apps written in ReactJS, mobile apps in React Native, backend implemented as serverless and API implemented as a GraphQL.

Born and raised in NW London of mixed-ethnic background, following an MA in Theology from the University of Cambridge Bilal moved into a career in Youth Engagement, public speaking and facilitation and has delivered hundreds of speeches and workshops around social justice, enterprise and diversity and inclusion as a result. Currently working as a freelance facilitator, infrequent radio Breakfast Show Host and host of Over The Bridge Podcast, Bilal spends much of his time engaging audiences in critical thinking to understand the root causes of oppression and has subsequently written articles for the BBC . As a host, Bilal has had the privilege to work in multiple countries around the world with clients in both charitable and corporate sector industries and has spoken in venues such as the SSE Arena Wembley.

Ivan is the founder of the Shift Conference. Alongside this he co-founded Codeanywhere, the first cross platform Cloud IDE, which now has over a million users worldwide.