Meet Our Shift Miami Speakers

John Romero is an award-winning programmer, game designer and level designer whose work spans over 130 games, 108 of which have been published commercially. Romero is considered to be the "father of first person shooters" having led the design and contributed to the programming and audio design of the iconic and genre-defining games Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Quake, Heretic and Hexen. Romero is also was also one of the earliest supporters of eSports and a professional-level DOOM and Quake player. To date, Romero has co-founded eight successful game companies including the likes of id Software, Gazillion Entertainment and most recently Romero Games in Galway, Ireland. He is considered to be among the world's top game designers, and his products have won well over 100 awards. One of the earliest indie developers, Romero began working in the game space in 1979 on mainframes before moving to the Apple II in 1981. He is a completely self-taught programmer, designer and artist. His memoir DOOM Guy will be released in July 2022.

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.

Brandon is the Founder and CEO of Flightcontrol and the Creator of Blitz.js. He's deeply passionate about helping people reach their dreams and about making development and entrepreneurship more accessible. Outside of work he loves flying airplanes and helicopters, rock climbing, and traveling.

Joyce is the head of developer relations at Postman, an API platform used by 20M+ people to access bazillions of APIs every month. She is a culinary magician who specializes in tacos and boba.

Erik Rasmussen is an expat American JavaScript hacker living in Spain. He's best known as the author of two of the most popular form libraries in React, Redux Form and Final Form. He's currently trying to promote mindful Flow at Centered.

Paige Cruz is a Senior Developer Advocate at Chronosphere passionate about cultivating sustainable on-call practices and bringing folks their aha moment with observability. She started as a software engineer at New Relic before switching to Site Reliability Engineering holding the pager for InVision, Lightstep, and Weedmaps. Off-the-clock you can find her spinning yarn, swooning over alpacas, or watching trash TV on Bravo.

Alexandra Spalato is a Developer Relations engineer at Storyblok and a specialist in JAMstack and headless architecture. With a background in freelance development and entrepreneurship, Alexandra has a unique perspective on what it takes to build successful web projects. As a member of the team at Storyblok, a company that champions the power of headless architecture, she helps developers around the world bring their visions to life. Whether she's speaking at a conference or collaborating with a team, Alexandra is always seeking out new ways to innovate and drive progress in the tech industry.

A web developer with over 10 years of experience. Working with and for names such as Nike, OMM, NearForm, Uber, Eurostar, Barclaycard, ATG, O2, and M&C Saatchi. Comfortable with a variety of tools. Typically digging in with React, architecting CSS in and out of JavaScript, or orchestrating slick animations with Greensock. Whatever the tools used, thrives on bringing ideas to life. Takes pride in crafting innovative solutions with polished user experiences. This whilst possessing a keen eye for design, accessibility, and well-structured code. A CodePen advocate and shares attention-catching demos over on Twitter. Many of which feature in various newsletters/publications. He'll often stream the creation process over on Twitch. He enjoys writing and has written for various publications. He's an author for CSS Tricks. Jhey is also an Egghead instructor.

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.

Toma is 22 years old and works as a Full Stack Software Developer at Codeanywhere and is also a computer science student. Even though he's young, he has been active as a developer for 6 years and loves to share his knowledge with the community.

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.

Sean Falconer is Head of Developer Relations at Skyflow. Sean spends his time building, writing, speaking, and connecting with communities about engineering and data privacy. He has a wide range of interests and expertise, including full stack development, developer experience, and API design. Prior to Skyflow, Sean led developer relations for Google's Business Communications product suite and was CTO and founder of a startup focused on mobile hiring tools. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer

Ekene is a Developer Experience Engineer and Technical Writer. He is currently working with the Developer Experience team at Netlify where they build tools, create content, open-source repos, and demos to teach and also help developers build a better web with Netlify's products and services.

He's a great teacher and instructor. At his spare time, he likes to write blog posts and create courses for different platforms to educate more learners.

My experience and studies in Information Technology started as a child with my first certificate in the field. Since then I have never stopped learning! During my career, I worked in a variety of roles, including project management, solutions architecture and developer relations. Leading and managing from projects to communities. Today I am the voice of Elastic for the Americas, interacting with our users, understanding their needs and planning and managing content and programs that generate a better experience and increase user engagement.

Mike has been causing chaos on the internet for more than a decade, he's been around to see a lot happen (and sometimes help it along). He loves building and learning in the open and sharing what he gains along the way via streams and other means.

I'm passionate about expanding the intersection of entrepreneurship, innovation, and impact. My brand of leadership revolves around collaboration. By bringing people together, connecting the dots and building bridges stakeholders, business leaders, academics, politicians, and organizations come to the table in ways they wouldn't have thought about otherwise. I enjoy jumping into complicated messes, building and rebuilding, creating teams, nurturing startups and nonprofits.