Gulrukh Ahanger, Exec Director, Applications Engineering, Comcast
Gulrukh Ahanger
Exec Director, Applications Engineering,...

Gulrukh Ahanger is a seasoned technology executive with years of experience of driving enterprise-level changes and inspiring actions. She has successfully led companies through technology...more

Ben  Alman, creator, Grunt
Ben Alman
creator, Grunt

Ben Alman works at Bocoup, where he is responsible for the development of intermediate and advanced JavaScript and jQuery training curricula, as well as the creation and maintenance of JavaScript-based...more

Burin Asavesna, javascript, ruby, mobile, user experience, texas!
Burin Asavesna
javascript, ruby, mobile, user experience,...

Burin Asavesna is a software developer currently hacking on JavaScript-heavy mobile apps, including the recent TripCase redesign. When he’s not racking his brain on JavaScript, he’s...more

Dana Bauer, Developer Relations Group, Rackspace
Dana Bauer
Developer Relations Group, Rackspace

Dana Bauer is a developer and community advocate with the Developer Relations Group at Rackspace. Her team builds the tools that make OpenStack and the Rackspace Cloud easy to use for developers. Dana...more

Jim Benson, creator, Personal Kanban
Jim Benson
creator, Personal Kanban

Jim Benson is the creator of Personal Kanban, a pioneer in the field of Lean Management, and a recognized international keynote speaker. He is the CEO of Modus Cooperandi, which is the first company...more

David A. Black, author, The Well-Grounded Rubyist
David A. Black
author, The Well-Grounded Rubyist

David A. Black is a Lead Developer and Team Lead at Cyrus Innovation, and a long-time Ruby programmer, author, trainer, speaker, and community organizer. He is the author of the popular book The...more

Kimberly Blessing, Director of UI Development, Think Brownstone
Kimberly Blessing
Director of UI Development, Think...

Kimberly Blessing is the Director of Web Development and Technology Consulting at Think Brownstone, an experience design firm based in the Philadelphia area. In her 20-year career on the Web,...more

A. Bonnaire-Sergeant, creator, Typed Clojure
A. Bonnaire-Sergeant
creator, Typed Clojure

Ambrose is an active member of the Clojure community. He created Typed Clojure and has contributed to projects like core.match and core.logic.

Michael Bryzek, CTO & Co-founder, Gilt Groupe
Michael Bryzek
CTO & Co-founder, Gilt Groupe

Michael Bryzek is the CTO and co-founder of Gilt Groupe [www.gilt.com], an innovative online shopping destination offering its members special access to the most inspiring merchandise, culinary...more

Don Coleman, author, Beginning NFC
Don Coleman
author, Beginning NFC

Don Coleman is a software developer who enjoys hacking with Phones, Arduino and other hardware. As the Director of Consulting for Chariot Solutions he works with teams and clients to reinvent their...more

Evan Czaplicki, creator, Elm
Evan Czaplicki
creator, Elm

I am a functional programmer at heart, and my broad goal is to provide the tools and learning resources to make functional languages common in industry. At Prezi, my focus is developing Elm’s...more

Chas Emerick, author, Clojure Programming
Chas Emerick
author, Clojure Programming

Chas is a long-time contributor to the Clojure and ClojureScript languages and ecosystem, and is a coauthor of the ‘Clojure Programming’ book from O’Reilly.

Darach Ennis, VP R&D at Ubiquiti Networks
Darach Ennis
VP R&D at Ubiquiti Networks

Darach is a polyglot programmer interested in functional reactive development in high performance and large scale systems.

Donn Felker, author, Android Application Development for Dummies
Donn Felker
author, Android Application Development...

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Donn will not be able to make it in person to Philly ETE. His talk Android From The Trenches will be recorded and posted at a later date.

Donn Felker is a accomplished...more

Camille Fournier, Head of Engineering, Rent the Runway
Camille Fournier
Head of Engineering, Rent the Runway

Camille Fournier is the Head of Engineering at Rent the Runway. Prior to joining Rent the Runway she was an infrastructure engineer at Goldman Sachs. In her limited spare time she is a distributed...more

Tim Fox, creator, Vert.x
Tim Fox
creator, Vert.x

Tim has been doing software engineering for almost 18 years, and has spent the last 8 years exclusively working in open source. Tim is employed by Red Hat where he is the creator and project lead for Vert.x...more

Ellen Friedman, co-author, Mahout in Action
Ellen Friedman
co-author, Mahout in Action

Ellen Friedman is a committer for the open source Apache Mahout project and a contributer for the Apache Drill project. She works as a consultant in big data and scientific projects and writes about...more

Brian Goetz, Java Language Architect, Oracle
Brian Goetz
Java Language Architect, Oracle

Brian Goetz has been a professional software developer for more than twenty five years. Brian is the author of the very successful ‘Java Concurrency in Practice’, and has written over 75...more

John Granieri, Research Computing Systems, SIG
John Granieri
Research Computing Systems, SIG

John works on backtesting and research computing systems at SIG, and is a participant in PhillyPUG. He previously worked with 3D interactive virtual prototyping and human factors simulation systems.

Jeff Hodges, Distributed Systems Engineer, Twitter
Jeff Hodges
Distributed Systems Engineer, Twitter

Jeff Hodges is a distributed systems engineer at Twitter, Inc. Currently writing code for the web server fronting all of Twitter’s web traffic, Jeff has previously fought spam (and other darker...more

Jafar Husain, Tech Lead, Netflix
Jafar Husain
Tech Lead, Netflix

Jafar Husain is a Tech Lead at Netflix, has 16 years of industry experience and has developed software for companies like GE, Microsoft. He specializes in building web servers and clients using...more

Kyle  Kingsbury, creator, Jepsen
Kyle Kingsbury
creator, Jepsen

Kyle Kingsbury is the author of Riemann, Jepsen, Knossos, Clojure from the Ground Up, and a bunch of other open-source stuff. He writes Clojure and helps monitor distributed systems at Factual.

Tobi Knaup, co-founder, Mesosphere
Tobi Knaup
co-founder, Mesosphere

Tobi is a co-founder of Mesosphere, a startup that aims to simplify the development and operation of large scale infrastructure and distributed systems.
He is the main author of Marathon, an Apache Mesos...more

Roland  Kuhn, Project Lead, Akka
Roland Kuhn
Project Lead, Akka

Roland Kuhn is leading the Akka project at Typesafe, a co-author of the Reactive Manifesto, co-teaching the Coursera course “Principles of Reactive Programming” and a passionate open-source...more

Diana Larsen
co-author, Agile Retrospective: Making...

A founding partner of FutureWorks Consulting, Diana Larsen is considered an international authority in the areas of Agile software development, team leadership, and Agile transitions. Diana works with...more

Larry  Maccherone, creator, Luminize
Larry Maccherone
creator, Luminize

Larry Maccherone is the Director of Analytics for Rally Software and a frequent presenter at Agile conferences around the world. He has been with Rally since 2009, first as an Agile coach and then...more

Jan Machacek, CTO of Cake Solutions and Scala/FP enthusiast
Jan Machacek
CTO of Cake Solutions and Scala/FP...

Jan is a passionate technologist with hands-on experience with the practical aspects of software delivery (architecture, quality, CI, CD); the project management approaches (applying the principles of...more

Filip Maj
Mobile Automator at SauceLabs, Apache...

Fil lives in Vancouver, Canada, and like all reasonable Canadians, enjoys drinking beer and all things hockey. Fil began his programming career working for Nitobi and helping create the PhoneGap...more

Sean McCullough, Engineer, Groupon
Sean McCullough
Engineer, Groupon

Sean is the engineering lead for the Node.js platform transition at Groupon. Over the last 4 years he’s worked to provide solid technology offerings for product companies and dreams of making it...more

Chris Merrick, Director of Engineering, RJMetrics
Chris Merrick
Director of Engineering, RJMetrics

Chris is the Director of Engineering at RJMetrics, where he builds software that helps online businesses make data-driven decisions. He was the company’s first engineer and has worn many hats as...more

Cliff Moon, Founder & CTO, Boundary
Cliff Moon
Founder & CTO, Boundary

Cliff Moon is Founder and Chief Technical Officer at Boundary. Prior to Boundary, Cliff was a lead engineer for Powerset (natural language search engine acquired by Microsoft) where he was instrumental...more

Jon Moore, Technical Fellow, Comcast Corporation
Jon Moore
Technical Fellow, Comcast Corporation

Jon Moore describes himself as being equally comfortable giving architecture talks and personally writing production-ready code. A Technical Fellow at Comcast Corporation, he runs the Core Application...more

Saul Mora, creator, MagicalRecord
Saul Mora
creator, MagicalRecord

Saul is the Founding Panda at MagicalPanda and is the author of the popular open source framework MagicalRecord (http://magicalrecord.com), a library for use with Core Data. Saul also produces NSBrief...more

Aaron  Mulder, CTO, Chariot Solutions
Aaron Mulder
CTO, Chariot Solutions

Aaron Mulder is the chief technical officer of Chariot Solutions, where he helps companies with their Java, Java EE, Rails, and Open Source architecture challenges. When not consulting, you can usually...more

Abhi Nemani, Former Technologist, Code for America
Abhi Nemani
Former Technologist, Code for America

Abhi Nemani is a writer, speaker, organizer, and technologist.

Most recently, Abhi helped build the national non-profit, Code for America, a technology organization dedicated to reinventing government...more

David Nolen, contributor, Clojure core.async
David Nolen
contributor, Clojure core.async

David Nolen is a JavaScript developer at The New York Times. He is the main developer of the Clojure Contrib library core.logic, a Prolog-like logic engine, and match, an optimizing pattern match...more

Carl Quinn, co-host, Java Posse
Carl Quinn
co-host, Java Posse

Carl Quinn has been developing software professionally for 34 years, starting with BASIC on an Apple II, slogging through C/C++ on DOS, Windows and embedded, and finally landing in the Java-on-Linux...more

David Richardson, Research Computing Systems, SIG
David Richardson
Research Computing Systems, SIG

David is currently a programmer working on SIG’s trading systems and the organizer of Philly++. He previously worked as a computer science researcher specializing in computational chemistry,...more

Linda  Rising, Author, Design Patterns in Communications
Linda Rising
Author, Design Patterns in Communications

Linda Rising is an independent consultant based in Nashville, Tennessee. Linda Rising has a Ph.D. from Arizona State University in the field of object-based design metrics and a background that...more

James Roper,  lead developer, Play Framework
James Roper
lead developer, Play Framework

James is an Australian open source developer working as the lead developer for Play Framework at Typesafe. His passion is to see reactive software development adopted in the enterprise. In the past he...more

Ben Scheirman, Director of Technology, ChaiONE
Ben Scheirman
Director of Technology, ChaiONE

Ben Scheirman is a software craftsman, speaker, author, and blogger. He’s been developing software for nearly 15 years, and currently focuses on Ruby and iOS. Ben also runs NSScreencast.com, a...more

Joel Spolsky, Founder & CEO, Stack Exchange
Joel Spolsky
Founder & CEO, Stack Exchange

Joel Spolsky, founder and CEO of Stack Exchange, is a globally recognized expert on software development. His website Joel on Software is popular with programmers around the world. In 2000, he founded...more

Gil Tene, co-founder and CTO, Azul Systems
Gil Tene
co-founder and CTO, Azul Systems

Gil Tene is CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems. He has been involved with virtual machine technologies for the past 20 years. Gil pioneered Azul’s Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector (C4),...more

Dave Thomas, author, Pragmatic Programmer
Dave Thomas
author, Pragmatic Programmer

Dave Thomas is a programmer. He also writes books (including the Pragmatic Programmer, Programming Ruby, Agile Web Development with Rails, and Programming Elixir), teaches courses, runs a publishing...more

David Turanski, lead, Spring Data GemFire
David Turanski
lead, Spring Data GemFire

David Turanski is a Senior Software Engineer with Pivotal. David is a member of the Spring Data team and lead of the Spring Data GemFire project. He is also a committer on the Spring Integration...more

Matt Turck, Managing Director, FirstMark Capital
Matt Turck
Managing Director, FirstMark Capital

Matt Turck is a Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, an early stage venture capital firm based

in New York. Matt focuses on software investments across a variety of verticals (including

finance and...more

Dean Wampler, co author, Programming Scala
Dean Wampler
co author, Programming Scala

Dean Wampler, Ph.D. is a consultant for Typesafe. He specializes in scalable, distributed, data-centric application development, “Big Data” or otherwise, applying Functional Programming...more

James  Wanga, Morgan Stanley
James Wanga
Morgan Stanley

James Wanga has spent the past 13 years designing software for brands such as NPR, Dow Jones, HBO and Morgan Stanley. His work includes the design and implementation of a real time communications...more

Robin Ward, co-founder, Discourse
Robin Ward
co-founder, Discourse

Robin is the co-founder of Discourse, the free and open source Forum software that hopes to remind people that paragraphs are awesome and that using more than 140 characters at a time often makes for...more

Eric Windisch, Docker Inc., Cloudscaling
Eric Windisch
Docker Inc., Cloudscaling

Eric Windisch has been building systems automation since 2002.

In 2001, Eric began his professional journey by supporting CPanel, one of the earliest hosting automation solutions and worked intimately...more

Greg Young, Originator of CQRS
Greg Young
Originator of CQRS

Greg Young is an independent consultant and entrepreneur. He is always involved with many concurrent projects, currently these include building out a distributed event store and mighty moose (a...more