Speakers

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  Markku Lepisto

  Google

  Head of IoT/ML Solutions, APAC, Google Cloud

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  Tim Pietrusky

  NERDDISCO

  digital artist, open source hacker

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  Sam Wray

  2xAA

  Digital Artist, Creative Coder, Musician and Visualist

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  Dmitry Vinnik

  Facebook

  Open Source Developer Advocate

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  Carlos Mota

  Google Developer Expert for Android

  See Bio
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  Abdullah Ba Mashmos

  Hakawati Studio

  Founder

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  Ash Davies

  Google Developer Expert for Android

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  Kamal Shree

  Google Developer Expert in Flutter & Dart

  See Bio
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  Allen Firstenberg

  Google Developer Expert for Google Assistant

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  Luis Aviles

  Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and Angular

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  Márton Braun

  Kotlin enthusiast, slight StackOverflow addict, aspiring educator and writer

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  Nicolas Fränkel

  Hazelcast

  Developer Advocate

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  Dean Schuster

  Truematter

  UX Strategy Expert and Partner

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  Jo Franchetti

  Ably

  Developer Advocate

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  Grace Jansen

  IBM

  Developer Advocate

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  Srushtika Neelakantam

  Ably Realtime

  Developer Advocate

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  Nariman Ammar

  Center for Biomedical Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

  Research Scientist

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  Liran Tal

  Snyk

  Developer Advocate

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  Fatih Acet

  Superpeer

  Co-founder and CTO

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  Jamie Coleman

  IBM

  Software Developer and Developer Advocate

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  Zan Markan

  CircleCI

  Developer Advocate

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  Jan-Henrik Damaschke

  Visorian

  CTO and Senior Cloud Architect

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  Angel Rivera

  CircleCI

  Developer Advocate

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  Adam Gordon Bell

  Earthly Technologies

  Developer Advocate

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  Andrei Danilov

  Typeform

  Platform Engineer

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  Florian Rappl

  smapiot

  Solution Architect

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  Barak Schoster

  Bridgecrew

  CTO and Co-Founder

  See Bio
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  Sagar Patel

  Consultant Data Scientist and Academic Trainer

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  Renaldi Gondosubroto

  GReS Studio

  Founder and Project Lead

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  Olena Borzenko

  Durstexpress

  Senior Backend Engineer

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  Suhavi Sandhu

  Guidewire Software

  Software Engineer

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  Rob Richardson

  Software craftsman, Microsoft MVP, Published author

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Markku Lepisto

Google

Markku is a Cloud Solutions Architect at Google. He has worked in cloud computing for the past 10 years. Before joining Google, Markku led the cloud architecture of Nokia Siemens Networks’ global business units, and covered APAC as a technology evangelist at Amazon Web Services. He works out of Tokyo, and helps developers and customers across APAC understand how to best use and architect solutions for Google Cloud. Markku is the IoT/ML solutions lead for APAC for Google Cloud.

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Tim Pietrusky

NERDDISCO

digital artist, open source hacker, co-founder of LiveJS, 1/2 of schickmalzwo, mentor, visual spectacular, lightweaver and loop-drop-rookie

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Sam Wray

2xAA

Digital Artist, Creative Coder, Musician and Visualist living in London. Sam has an unstoppable interest in interactive arts, emerging technologies, their place in the every day and beyond.

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Dmitry Vinnik

Facebook

Dmitry is an Open Source Developer Advocate at Facebook, where he focuses on projects in the mobile space. His goal is to help developers be more productive through open source. Dmitry continues being a developer-first, so he applies the same mindset and passion when working on open source projects, creating new educational content, or giving conference talks. Dmitry has a background in medicine and bioinformatics, but these days he is more interested in understanding developer wellness and work-life balance.

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Carlos Mota

Google Developer Expert for Android

Carlos Mota is an Android GDE. He can easily be spotted either working on Android applications written in Kotlin or developing them along with Kotlin Multiplatform. An enthusiastic about new technology and always trying to reach the last 20% of all of his side projects that seem to be really far away. He loves to share his knowledge with others either by giving talks, teaching, writing, or along with a cold beer in the nearest pub. GDG Coimbra organizer and Kotlin evangelist, he also has a huge passion for travel, photography, space, and the occasional run.

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Abdullah Ba Mashmos

Hakawati Studio

Besides being a dreamer 🚀 Abdullah is the Founder of Hakawati studio for game development and interactive media. He is the Head of Interactive Development Department at Backyard Experiential, and he is a Research assistant at Prince Sultan University.

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Ash Davies

Google Developer Expert for Android, enthusiastic speaker, lead engineer at ImmobilieenScout24, Kotlin aficionado, spends more time travelling than working.

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Kamal Shree

Kamal is a Google Developer Expert in Flutter & Dart with 11 years of experience in Web Technologies, Android and Flutter. She has worked for multinational firms in India, the Netherlands and USA. She is an active Youtuber (WhatsUpCoders) and an International Speaker.

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Allen Firstenberg

Allen is a Google Developer Expert for the Google Assistant and other technologies, helping other developers understand how they can apply the skills they already have to this growing technology. He is a Senior Project Engineer at Objective Consulting, co-author of "Designing and Developing for Google Glass", enjoys the history of technology, and has occasionally been known to wear light blue shirts.

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Luis Aviles

Luis Aviles is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and Angular and an enthusiast of Open Source software and communities.He is a public speaker and he has participated in different international technology conferences and events, giving technical talks, workshops, and various training sessions.He’s the founder of the Angular Bolivia community and the NG Bolivia conference.When he’s not coding, Luis is reading about Astronomy or nerding about outer space, photography, or even doing Astrophotography.

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Márton Braun

A Kotlin enthusiast since the 1.0 of the language. Android Developer Advocate at Stream. Google Developer Expert for Kotlin and Android. Android/Kotlin tech editor at RayWenderlich.com. Instructor at BME-VIK, teaching Kotlin and Android. Ranked right around the very top of the Kotlin tag on StackOverflow. Creator of a couple open source Kotlin libraries.

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Nicolas Fränkel

Hazelcast

Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps. Currently working for Hazelcast. Also double as a trainer and triples as a book author.

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Dean Schuster

Truematter

Founder and partner of truematter, a user experience strategy firm, Dean has been advocating for user-centered digital products since the advent of the commercial web. He oversees truematter’s UX practice, leading strategic engagements for innovative regional organizations as well as the Fortune 100. Dean’s expertise and work includes researching, prototyping, and testing digital products with real users. He regularly speaks, writes, and teaches on user experience design & strategy, usability, user research, content strategy, and building UX-focused development teams. He also organizes UX Columbia.It’s not all UX all the time (even though it’s close). Dean is also an avid ultra marathoner, trail race-director, reader, and traveler.

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Jo Franchetti

Ably

Jo is a developer advocate at Ably. She is passionate about Realtime Data, PWAs and great CSS. She’s got 10 years experience as a front end developer and has worked in various parts of the tech industry from startups, agencies, charities to large organisations. She is also a mentor and organiser at codebar.io where she is able to act on her passion not only for teaching good use of the web but also for improving the diversity and inclusivity of the tech industry.

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Grace Jansen

IBM

Grace is a Developer Advocate at IBM, working with Open Liberty and Reactive Platform. She has been with IBM since graduating from Exeter University with a Degree in Biology. Grace enjoys bringing a varied perspective to her projects and using her knowledge of biological systems to simplify complex software patterns and architectures. As a developer advocate, Grace builds POC’s, demos and sample applications, and writes guides and tutorials. She is a regular presentor at international technology conferences and has recently authored a book on reactive systems. Grace also has a keen passion for encouraging more women into STEM and especially Technology careers.

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Srushtika Neelakantam

Ably Realtime

Srushtika Neelakantam is a Developer Advocate for Ably Realtime. She is a passionate tech advocate, with a keen interest in real-time and web technologies. She loves spending time fiddling around with tech and then simplifying that for others by speaking or writing about it. She is a co-author of “Learning Web-Based Virtual Reality” and supports the open web by volunteering with Mozilla’s Tech Speaker and Reps programs.

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Nariman Ammar

Center for Biomedical Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Cross-disciplinary Computer scientist applying computational methods and technologies in various applications in healthcare and Medicine to support clinical and public health decisions to improve the health of individuals and populations, narrow health disparities, decrease healthcare costs, and improve overall human well-being.

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Liran Tal

Snyk

Liran is an energetic member of the Node.js foundation Security WG, the author of Essential Node.js Security, and core contributor at OWASP NodeGoat. As a developer advocate at Snyk he works to create a more secure ecosystem for Node.js and JavaScript and has involved in projects such as leading the MEAN.js framework, andthe docker container tool Dockly. Liran is strongly passionate about Open Source since an early age, and enjoys mentoring, and empowering others as they make their way in the community.

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Fatih Acet

Superpeer

Fatih is currently co-founder and CTO at Superpeer which is started in Jan 2020 and got a $10M investment so far. Before creating Superpeer he was Sr. Frontend Engineer at GitLab. He is one of the Google Developer Experts in Web Technologies. He is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and works remotely since 2013. He loves to see the things he created used by thousands of others. When not working, he publishes videos about software development on his YouTube channel and enjoys being a barista at home.

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Jamie Coleman

IBM

Jamie is a software developer and Advocate for Open Liberty, MicroProfile and Kabanero based at IBM’s R&D Laboratory in Hursley, UK. He is a subject matter expert in containerised solutions and takes a keen interest in emerging technologies with experience in Maven, git, Jenkins and microservice architecture. He fell in love with Java at University and has gone on to talk at many conferences about using Java with microservices. He has worked on a wide variety of projects such as modernising CICS mainframe testing infrastructure, creating and automating the creation of Docker images for IBM’s products, contributing to a DevOps pipeline offering and creating web applications for events at the Lab. His recent passion is around raising awareness about energy consumption of technology and discovering ways to help reduce technologies carbon footprint.

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Zan Markan

CircleCI

Zan is a developer advocate at CircleCI, on a mission to educate and inspire developers on the topics of CI/CD, DevOps, and software quality. Across his career he has worked in companies of various sizes, from enterprises to own startups, and everything in between, and across industries as diverse as retail, AI, and developer tools. He’s passionate about serverless technologies, mobile development, and developer experience. Outside of work, he enthuses over airplanes, craft beer, and the Oxford comma.

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Jan-Henrik Damaschke

Visorian

Jan-Henrik Damaschke is CTO and Senior Cloud Architect at Visorian GmbH a Cloud native specialized German consulting company from Hamburg. He is a Microsoft MVP for Azure and was previously also awarded in Enterprise Security and PowerShell. He is involved in many community events as speaker as well as organizer and writes articles cloud native and security topics. Jan-Henrik is passionate about sharing knowledge with others as an MVP, MCT, at conferences, meetups and at his blog itinsights.org. He has written a book on Azure infrastructure solutions and is still active as co-author and reviewer.

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Angel Rivera

CircleCI

Angel started his career as an US Air Force Space Systems Operations specialist in Cape Canaveral AF Station where he realized his passion for technology and software development. He has extensive experience in the private, public and military sectors and his technical experience includes military/space lift operations, technical writing, software development, SRE/DevOPs engineering. He also has a wealth of experience in defense and federal sectors such as contracting, information systems security and management. You can usual find him speaking at or organizing local tech meetups and hackathons where he enjoys engaging with developers. Angel’s passions are positive disruption, learning, teaching, mentoring but most of all inspiring all forms of technologists & building awesome tech communities.

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Adam Gordon Bell

Earthly Technologies

Adam Gordon Bell hosts CoRecursive, a popular podcast on software development that has over 600,000 unique listens. He has interviewed UNIX creators, programming language authors, and many other high profile tech personalities. He formerly worked for Tenable, building cloud security and container security products. He is now working on the open-source build tool.

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Andrei Danilov

Typeform

Throughout the different roles Andrei has been involved in the industry, both from an individual contributor and manager perspective. He has always enjoyed the creative way of looking at technology and, through his blog and talks. Andrei hopes to inspire many IT professionals to bring value to their organizations in new, diverse and ingenious ways. https://danilov.es

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Florian Rappl

smapiot

Dr. Florian Rappl is Solution Architect for IoT and distributed web applications at smapiot. His main interest lies in the creation of innovative architectures that scale in development and usage. He won several prizes for his work and is a Microsoft MVP in the area of development technologies. He regularly blogs and writes articles for popular magazines and websites in the web development space.

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Barak Schoster

Bridgecrew

A tech-leader and open-source enthusiast based in Tel Aviv, Barak’s passion for software began at the age of 14. Starting with a BSc in Computer Science and MBA in IT, he went on to serve as tech lead of big data engineering at the IDF C4I & Cyber Security Directorate before making his mark and continued as data scientist and software architect at Fortscale and RSA Security.In 2019 Barak left RSA and joined the founding team of Bridgecrew, an innovative cloud security company as CTO.

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Sagar Patel

Sagar is always on the lookout to solve problems using Computer Science and Engineering. He brings a unique blend of problem-solving skills using cross-domain technologies in Data Science, NLP, Cloud Computing, Web Development, Hardware Networking, and Online Marketing. He is also a passionate mentor with 1200+ hours of classroom and corporate training experience helping people apply concepts like statistical testing, decision sciences, machine learning, and natural language processing.

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Renaldi Gondosubroto

GReS Studio

Renaldi Gondosubroto is the Founder of GReS Studio and a Developer Advocate in the tech community. His personal vision is to be able to get more young minds into taking leadership positions in the companies that will come. Through his passion of developing software and contributing to the opensource community, Renaldi wants to encourage the innovation of new solutions to usher forward and promote a new era of innovations that can be used by everyone. He enjoys sharing his knowledge regarding his experiences within the tech industry with many other people in order to also inspire and put them in the right track for success, both in conferences and in regular everyday situations. As part of this, he has been a tech speaker in numerous events for the past four years and runs tech meetups and workshops to promote better understanding of technical skills.

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Olena Borzenko

Durstexpress

Olena is a senior backend engineer at Durstexpress from Berlin in Germany. She has previously worked in a service company based in Ukraine and took a part in the creation of various products from small startups, B2B applications, to enterprise platforms. Moreover, she is passionate about new technologies, clean code and best practices.In her free time, when she’s not spending it on hobbies, she likes to build demos around real-life use cases, share knowledges with others, and the opposite, learn about someone else's experience.

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Suhavi Sandhu

Guidewire Software

Suhavi is just your average Gen Z who loves to code. As a result of forced social isolation due to COVID-19, she has found solace in virtual tech conferences and joined communities such as Women who Code, Gitcoin and Medium. She has also mentored at local hackathons like SheHacks and ElleHacks. When she’s not busy being a rockstar Ruby on Rails developer at work, she can be found coloring her Github commit history green.

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Rob Richardson

Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, React and Vue. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development.