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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
VP R&D at Ubiquiti Networks
Darach is a polyglot programmer interested in functional reactive development in high performance and large scale systems.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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