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Kristina J. Robinson is a Software Engineering Manager at InfluxData. With over 20 years of software development experience, she is thrilled to be a part of the InfluxData UI team. Most recently, Kristina spent time in the financial tech sector working as front-end developer. Kristina graduated from Rice University with a degree in Computational and Applied Mathematics. She currently lives in San Antonio, TX, with her husband and teenage son, and has another son in college. She also has two cats, and fosters dogs and cats frequently. She plays video games with both her boys. She reads voraciously, enjoys paper crafts and knitting, and plays several musical instruments.

Gal is the Director of Engineering at Epsagon. Gal has a background in cyber-security, with experience in reverse engineering, networks analysis, and was part of an army elite intelligence-unit before joining Epsagon.

Product Manager at heart. Noa’s forte is creating products specially made for engineers and tech-savvy geeks. With her strong technical background as a former software engineer, her main passion is to simplify complicated technological pains into intuitive solutions and easy-to-use products that anyone can understand and use. She is currently the Lead Product Manager for the Wix CLI. She is a public speaking enthusiast and won't miss an opportunity to present her products in front of an audience.

Dieter is a seasoned Solution Engineer with over 20 years of experience in developing and optimising applications across various industries. With a strong background in software development, he deeply understands the challenges and needs of developers and clients alike. At DataStax, Dieter empowers his clients by using advanced data technologies and best practices to implement generative AI applications, helping them accelerate development cycles and deliver cutting-edge solutions. Passionate about developer empowerment, he provides tools and technologies that catalyse innovation and efficiency.

Java developer, Software Architect and Enterprise Commerce Expert. Dad of one soon to be two, loves music, photography, cooking and running.

Oli is currently a Frontend Engineer & Tech Lead at Cleo working across the mobile (React Native) & web (React) products. He sits within the savings squad whose mission is to help Cleo users build a safety net of savings.

Engineer Graduate, Software testing ISTQB certified and professional experience as a Software Developer. Current Solutions Engineer as Snyk.

Miroslav Malecha is Director of Product management at Bonitoo.io. He has a background in computer science and has been focused on defining software products in data science, enterprise architectures and cloud computing. Prior to joining Bonitoo, Miroslav held product management positions at Good Data and Hewlett-Packard Software. When Mirek is not working, you can find him speeding down hills on his ebike in the forests near Prague.

Will divides his time between web development and teaching, and has ever since 2005, when he started his web development career removing duplicate data from his friend's map-based property search app. Since then he has coded and taught in diverse contexts, from national newspapers to the shores of the Atlantic ocean. A qualified school-teacher, he is nevertheless passionate about alternative forms of education. He has spent the last two years researching and building his home-ed support platform, Aldeia (using React, obviously).

Jeff Schnitter is a Solution Architect at Cortex. He has spent the majority of his career working in build and release engineering, development pipeline automation, developer experience and developer productivity. Prior to joining Cortex, he had stints at IBM, PeopleSoft/Oracle and Workday.

Webmaster before it was cool, pixel pusher, javascript-something, conference organiser, father of two, but mostly known for yelling at clouds.

I'm Selam and I'm currently a software engineer at Apella. I've always been fascinated by technology and its potential to make our lives better and more equitable. As an advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), I'm committed to making tech a come inclusive place for everyone. I'm passionate about computer ethics and ensuring that technology is developed and used in ethical and responsible ways. I believe that technology can be a powerful force for good, but only if we approach it with a thoughtful and ethical mindset.

Sam Stepanyan is an OWASP London Chapter Leader and an Independent Application Security Consultant with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry with a background in software engineering and web application development. Sam has worked for various financial services institutions in the City of London specialising in Application Security consulting, Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), developer training, source code reviews and vulnerability management. He is also a Subject Matter Expert in Web Application Firewalls (WAF). Sam holds a Master’s degree in Software Engineering and a CISSP certification.

Jeff Hoffer is the Technical Leader for Growth at Rollbar, working to improve Rollbar's current products and assist in developing new products that engage customers by bringing Continuous Code Improvement tools to where they are. With over 20 years of experience developing software for startups and enterprises, scaling to Internet traffic, building and maintaining commercially licensed products, and developing internal enterprise tools, Jeff has worked as a Software Engineer, Software Architect and in Director and VP roles leading technology organizations at Intuit, The Bouqs Company, Lunchbox (acquired), Accordent (acquired by Polycom) and Countrywide along with consulting work at many other prominent firms. Jeff has a passion for software development which is why he loves working at Rollbar so much with the focus on improving the professional lives of developers and the strong engineering culture.

Dirk-Willem van Gulik is one of the internet engineers behind the world wide web and of the founding fathers of the apache web server. He was the President of the Apache Software Foundation during its first 10 years. He has worked for the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, the United Nations, telecommunications firms, several satellite & space agencies and founded several startups. He participated in different international standards bodies, such as the IETF and W3C on metadata, GIS, PKI, Security, Architecture and Internet standard since the early days. He build the initial engineering team at the very first ‘webserver’ startup: Covalent, helped make big-data and the semantic web reality at Asemantics and created the first first instant play P2P viewer at joost.com. He was the Chief Technical Architect at the BBC where he shaped the audience facing development-delivery platform Forge in the time for the 2020 Olympics and where he made information security and compliance a core enabler for business processes. He provides technical due diligence to investors and assists companies with their technology; taking an (interim) CTO role where needed. He currently works on several medical and privacy intensive security projects with a heavy emphasis on Architecture and Governance. During the Corona crisis he assisted the Ministry of Health of the Netherlands, the EU and the UN with the `CoronaMelder'; where opensource, cryptography and security-by-design helped build trust. And, more recently has spend waay to much time in Brussels on the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and the Product Liability Directive (PLD) as Europe brings in significant regulation of IT and Open Source. When not at work, he loves to sail or hang out with the lovely people at his local https://makerspaceLeiden.nl.

Jason Santos is a Senior Solution Architect at Rangle.io, where he is responsible for mentoring teams, understanding problems, finding solutions, and providing technical expertise to different projects. In the few years he has been at Rangle, he was able to contribute to the success of large projects in the Banking, Healthcare and Electronic Payment spaces, helping shape Enterprise architecture, leading teams and implementing full stack solutions using NodeJS microservices and cloud-native technologies, as well as both Angular and React. He brings with him 30 years of experience in building software across multiple languages and environments, from embedded software to IDEs and Debugging tools -- designing and implementing software frameworks and building applications on both back-end and front-end since the late 1990s. Being a certified SAFe Agilist, Jason is a strong advocate of process improvement, DevOps and agile delivery practices; he is also passionate about knowledge sharing and mentoring other developers.

I have woven application development into my entire career, from time in the U.S. Army and U.S. Government to stints with the Big Four, the world's largest cloud services provider, and smaller startups. I have started my own company – twice – once providing consulting services and most recently with WorkFone, a software as a service startup that provided virtual digital identities to government clients. I love to build in public with Go and all things serverless!

Self taught frontend developer from India who loves to tinker around with modern web technologies, College student & currently working at timeless.co

Taylor is a Solutions Engineer who leads the new Yugabyte Cloud sales engineering effort helping small and large companies alike modernize their legacy databases. He has a strong passion for distributed databases having worked with them for most of his career.

Dara is a Software Engineer currently working at Spotify where she develops tools and services that provide internal teams with access to user account data. She began her career as a Frontend Engineer in the finance sector, and recently transitioned into full-stack development. With over 6 years of hands-on experience, Dara is particularly passionate about merging her creative and technical skills to design and build user-centric products that foster community. Outside of work, she loves to mentor other women who are at an early stage in their tech careers.

Dora Makszy, an experienced product design lead, focuses on seamless product delivery through efficient collaboration with cross-functional teams, especially developers. With over 17 years of international experience in various roles (developer, business analyst, manager and mainly a designer), she has a comprehensive understanding of the entire process.

Chris has a background as a web developer. He previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer at a company that used Sentry for error monitoring. Chris liked the product so much that he decided to come work for Sentry and make finding and fixing bugs easier for other developers.

Currently, Robert Hostlowsky is working as a developer, coach and systems engineer. He published an online video course about developing a full-stack GraphQL application online-course. He loves DevOps culture on modern cloud infrastructure, uses the latest state-of-the-art web technologies, and loves how it plays nicely together at minimum effort and cost. He loves web technologies. Feeling being a part of the developer community he is co-organizing the JSCraftcamp, Munich.