Jurgen Appelo is a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, illustrator, developer, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, and… Dutch guy.

Since 2008 Jurgen writes a popular blog at www.noop.nl, that covers topics including Agile...more

Michael Bevilacqua-Linn has been programming computers ever since he dragged an Apple IIGS that his parents got for opening a bank account into his fifth grade class to explain loops and variables to a bunch of pre-teenagers. He currently...more

Tim Branyen is an open source developer working for Matchbox in Boston. He focuses his time on development tools to help make the web better to develop for. As a contributor to the Backbone project and the maintainer of the Backbone Boilerplate and...more

Joe Campbell joined Comcast Interactive Media (CIM), a division of Comcast Corporation, approximately three years ago as a Senior Software Architect from ING Direct fsb in Wilmington Delaware. He works with business and development teams to help ...more

Cliff Click is the CTO and Co-Founder of 0xdata, a firm dedicated to creating a new way to think about web-scale data storage and real-time analytics. I wrote my first compiler when I was 15 (Pascal to TRS Z-80!), although my most famous compiler is...more

William is a Managing Director with DreamIt Ventures, a leading global startup accelerator that operates programs in New York, Philadelphia, Austin, and Tel Aviv. At DreamIt while working with all of the portfolio companies, William also leads...more

Nick Dipatri is Senior Software Engineer at LifeShield. He has a degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers and has been doing software development since his first Commodore 64. Nick has designed a tactical-radio emulator for the Department of...more

Jason has been writing software for the past 18 years on projects ranging from C on Win32 and Unix to server applications in Java and now Scala. He came to functional programming via Haskell a few years ago and had once despaired of ever doing FP on...more

Dan grew up in Brooklyn, with the mathematical distinction of occupying the zip code corresponding to the first five digits of the Fibonacci sequence. He earned a degree in Math from Yale, and has since been working as a developer at small startups that...more

Anita Garimella Andrews is a senior Internet marketing and product management executive with 15+ years experience. She has expertise in analytics, building B-to-B and B-to-C platforms, e-commerce, social gaming and viral metrics...more

Husband, Dad to three dogs, and all around nice guy. As a consultant Kevin gets to spend his time building great products, for great clients. Focusing on both iOS and Android he has the best of both worlds.

Philipp Haller has been a member of the Scala team since 2006. His research on concurrent programming with race-free actors in Scala has been published in leading conferences, winning a best paper award. He is the creator of Scala’s first...more

Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure and designer of Datomic, is a software developer with over 25 years of experience in various domains. Rich has worked on scheduling systems, broadcast automation, audio analysis and fingerprinting, database design,...more

Charlie Hunt is the Architect of Performance Engineering at Salesforce.com and the lead author of the popular book, Java Performance. At Salesforce.com, Charlie is responsible for improving the performance of Salesforce.com’s infrastructure,...more

Trevor Lalish-Menagh is a senior web developer at Comcast Interactive Media where he spearheaded the front-end unit testing initiative, and co-created EnvJasmine (github.com/trevmex/EnvJasmine), a headless self-contained framework for testing...more

Howard Lewis Ship is the creator and lead developer for the Apache Tapestry project, is respected in the Java community as an expert on web application development, dependency injection, Java meta-programming, and developer productivity. He has...more

Fil spends his time working with Adobe, mostly on the open source project powering PhoneGap, Apache Cordova, and web stuff. He is passionate about the open web and love programming in general, but JavaScript in particular. He lives in Vancouver, B.C.,...more

Jessica McKellar is a software engineer from Cambridge, MA. She is a maintainer for the Twisted event-driven networking engine, wrote a chapter on Twisted for The Architecture of Open Source Applications Volume II, and is working with...more

Daniel Mezick is a trusted adviser to leaders, software teams and their executive sponsors. He is the author of the book THE CULTURE GAME (www.TheCultureGame.com). He’s also a community leader at AGILE BOSTON (www.agileboston.com) and one of the...more

Heather Miller has been a member of the Scala team, and a PhD student under Martin Odersky, since 2011. Alongside of her research which touches on different aspects of parallel and distributed programming, she is a regular contributor to...more

Avital Oliver, core developer at Meteor, previously worked in a great variety of software environments including a large-scale re-implementation of the Israeli Air Force tactical information system. After completing his Masters’ thesis in...more

Claudia Perlich is a renowned data scientist who currently serves as Chief Scientist at m6d. In this role, Claudia designs, develops, analyzes and optimizes the machine learning that informs brands on how to find their best prospective customers....more

Ken Rimple is the author (with Srini Penchikala, and contributions by Gordon Dickens) of Spring Roo in Action, published by Manning Publications (http://manning.com/rimple). Ken created and leads the Education Services team for Chariot Solutions, which...more

Chuck is a technology entrepreneur with a number of successful company and product launches. He co-founded PhindMe Mobile that he joined with Movitas in 2010 to help create a unique mobile technology solution for the travel and tourism industries. With...more

Ken has been in the software development industry for forty years. Yes, forty. He has held almost all positions, from bottle washer to cook to maitre d’hotel. Ken and Jeff Sutherland developed the Scrum process in the early 1990’s and...more

Stuart Sierra is a developer at Relevance, a member of Clojure/core, and the co-author of Practical Clojure (Apress, 2010). He is heavily involved in the development of Clojure and has written numerous open-source libraries. Prior to 2010, he worked...more

Cory is the current maintainer of JsTestDriver and a Senior Software Engineer in Test at Google. He spends far too much time trying to come up with puns for JavaScript language concepts and playing with browser bugs.

David Stemmer is a mobile application architect and consultant. He has experience developing for native platforms (Android, iOS) as well as mobile web applications (HTML5/Javascript/Phonegap). He is a proponent of open-source application frameworks...more

Jean Tabaka, Agile Fellow with Rally Software, is continuing on her 30-year path of learning about software development principles, processes, and practices for people. She seeks a humane approach to bringing high value to our communities of creators...more

David Turanski is a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource, a division of VMWare. 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 project. David has...more

Jim Weirich first learned about computers when his college adviser suggested he take a computer science course: “It will be useful, and you might enjoy it.” With those prophetic words, Jim has been developing now for over 25 years, working...more

Navarrow Wright has emerged as one of the distinctive and insightful voices in America and a premier expert on how the convergence of technology, the Internet, mass media and social media can change lives, businesses and society.

Today, Navarrow...more