Coffee and Open Source

Throughout his career, Nikhil Nandagopal has always looked for a better way to do things: he’s built out a logistics operation for the largest e-commerce company in India (a direct competitor to Amazon), helped build up a travel company with over 5 million users, and even worked to scale a food delivery service from 50 meal deliveries a day to over 50,000. Now, his focus is on internal tools. From developer to product manager to entrepreneur (twice!), Nikhil's experience lends itself to both sides of the internal tool development conversation. Engineers need helpful internal software, but hate actually sitting down and making it for themselves. And businesses must use tools if they want to scale properly. Nikhil wanted to find a way to turn the arduous work of app-making into a streamlined process that would only cost engineers hours instead of months. So he teamed up with Arpit Mohan and Abhishek Nayak to create Appsmith, a program built to put easily customizable tools directly into developers’ hands. What started as a small open-source project has become a program that is used daily by over 10,000 teams, employs people in eight different countries, and has raised over $50 Million in capital. With a project built by engineers, for engineers, Nikhil is helping companies work better and dream bigger. You can follow Nikil on Social Media https://twitter.com/NikilNandagopal https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhil-nandagopal-05534241/ Also check out these links from Nikil https://www.appsmith.com/ https://twitter.com/theappsmith https://www.instagram.com/the_appsmith/ https://www.youtube.com/c/Appsmith PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST - Spotify: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-spotify - Apple Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-apple - Google Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-google - RSS: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-rss You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/​​ Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin)

Bekah graduated from the Flatiron School Software Engineering program in May of 2019 and since then has spent time as a frontend developer, started the Virtual Coffee developer community, spent time in DevRel and has continued to mom her four kids. She currently co-hosts the Virtual Coffee podcast, tries to work on her postpartum wellness OSS project, and lifts heavy things in her free time. You can follow Bekah on Social Media https://twitter.com/BekahHW https://bekahhw.github.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/bekah-hawrot-weigel https://github.com/BekahHW https://www.youtube.com/@bekahhw Also check out these links from Bekah https://virtualcoffee.io/ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST - Spotify: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-spotify - Apple Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-apple - Google Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-google - RSS: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-rss You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/​​ Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin)

Diana Pham is a Developer Advocate at Vonage, where she helps developers and companies see the potential in communication APIs. She holds a MS in Computer Science degree from Northeastern University, and regularly talks about communications APIs, DevRel and oysters. You can follow Diana on Social Media https://twitter.com/dianasoyster https://www.linkedin.com/in/hidianapham/ https://www.youtube.com/@DevDianahttps://www.instagram.com/cacheflights_/ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST - Spotify: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-spotify - Apple Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-apple - Google Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-google - RSS: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-rss You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/​​ Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin)

Dejan Miličić is an enthusiastic consultant and developer advocate at RavenDB with more than 20 years of experience as a professional software developer in designing, writing, and maintaining applications. Dejan is passionate about Open Source, RavenDB, Software Architecture, and Software Professionalism, supporting the Software Crafting Serbia community via workshops and meetups. He is an active proponent of knowledge sharing, professional ethics, and the usage of Type Driven Development and Functional techniques to reduce complexity, increase expressiveness, and improve the correctness of software.

In his spare time, Dejan works on open-source projects, mentors startups in various development phases, and participates in Startup Accelerator programs supporting entrepreneurs through on-site and off-site consultations.

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Kris Nóva is an author, engineer, public speaker and transgender activist best known for her work on Aurae, Linux, and Kubernetes.

She specializes in Linux kernel security, distributed systems, infrastructure management, and open source software engineering. In 2022 she authored Hacking Capitalism an independently published book about modeling the tech industry as a system. In 2017 she co-authored Cloud Native Infrastructure published by O’Reilly Media with Justin Garrison.

Nóva is well known for her open source work. She has created many successful open source projects and has contributed to projects like Linux, Kubernetes, Rust, Go, etc. A popular public speaker, she is best known for her Kubernetes clusterfuck talks.

Today she works as a principal engineer at GitHub focusing on infrastructure platform engineering. 

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Dylan Beattie is a consultant, software developer and international keynote speaker. He’s the director of Ursatile, an independent consultancy based in London that specialises in helping organisations bridge the knowledge gap between software development and business strategy. Dylan has been building data-driven web applications since the 1990s; he’s managed teams, taught workshops, and worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s a Microsoft MVP, and he regularly speaks at conferences and user groups all over the world.

Dylan is the creator of the Rockstar programming language, and he’s performed his software-themed parodies of classic rock songs all over the world as Dylan Beattie and the Linebreakers. He’s online at dylanbeattie.net and on Twitter as @dylanbeattie.

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This is Jenn in her own words.

I’m Jenn Junod, it’s lovely to meet you!

As someone who thrives on human connection, I advocate for those who have gone unheard. My passion and experience create a space where people can come together, be it learning live, hosting Sh!t You Don't Want to Talk About, or being a Developcado.

I am a developcado (devrel), speaker, podcast host, and live streamer.

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Jason Lengstorf is the host of Learn With Jason, where he pair programs live with web experts to learn something new in 90 minutes. He helps dev tooling companies create more effective media and outreach so they can better educate and connect with developer communities. Jason advocates for continued learning through collaboration and play. He is the undefeated smashburger champ and lives in Portland, OR.

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Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 18+ years of experience. She is currently the Field CTO at Honeycomb, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights.

She lives in Vancouver, BC with her wife Elly, partners, and a Samoyed/Golden Retriever mix, and in Sydney, NSW. She plays classical piano, leads an EVE Online alliance, and advocates for transgender rights.

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Matty Stratton is the Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, a well-known member of the DevOps community, founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, and the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences. 

Matty has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL. 

He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke. 

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Scott has been a developer for 30 years and has been blogging at https://hanselman.com for 20 years! He works in Open Source on .NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, Oregon. Scott has been podcasting for over 800 episodes of http://hanselminutes.com over 15 years and 700 episodes of http://www.azurefriday.com. He's written a number of technical books and spoken in person to over one million developers worldwide! He's also on TikTok, which was very likely a huge mistake.

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Mark is a cloud solution architect at Microsoft focused on cloud native architectures and DevOps. He has seen a lot of tech come and go but the current crop has intrigued him like nothing that has come before. The windmill at which he chooses to tilt are the technology practices of traditional enterprises. He is oddly optimistic on the prospects for real change.  

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Glenn Block is a seasoned leader with 25 years+ experience in software engineering and product management. He is currently working on a stealth startup and also advising organizations on product strategy. Throughout his career, he worked at a number of hi-tech companies including Microsoft, Docusign, Auth0, and Splunk. Glenn has been a big advocate for the open source and developer community and was a maintainer for several successful open source projects. In recent years, Glenn has been very passionate about moving the ball forward for creating a more inclusive and safe environment in tech. He invests a large amount of his energy in mentoring, advising, and sponsorship especially for black women, women of color, and the LBTQ community. He has also worked in multiple organizations to change culture and policies, and has been active with multiple non-profit organizations in this space such as TechBridge Girls and Tech2Empower. Most recently, Glenn became a volunteer fellowship coding instructor at Code Nation. Glenn is a lifelong learner and recently went back to school receiving his executive MBA at Seattle University. He is also an avid rock climber and amateur astronomer. He lives with his wife and life partner in his new home in San Francisco. 

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Ricardo is a principal developer advocate at Amazon Web Services; he works with builders, technology leaders and enterprise executives to help them transform their businesses. 

Prior to joining AWS Ricardo worked for one of the largest professional services firms. 

He has over twenty years of experience leading open source, emerging technology and innovation programmes. He has been working with cloud technologies since 2008. 

Ricardo is passionate about cloud, innovation and open source and is excited about how cloud accelerates and amplifies customers’ ability to innovate. 

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https://twitter.com/094459 

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You can follow Andres on Social Media 

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Caribbean Developers Conference: https://cdc.dev  

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Andy is a Developer Relations professional at Twitter. 

Prior to joining Twitter in 2014, Andy was Developer Advocate for Cloud Foundry, the OSS Platform-as-a-Service, at VMware/Pivotal. Earlier, he spent 10 years at IBM; and 4 years at the UK Post Office, where he helped the company navigate the challenges of Y2K. Andy has over 20 years of experience with Linux, and with contributing to Open Source projects. He was a leading member of the MQTT Open Source community for five year, and took an active role in building the developer ecosystem. 

He has 20+ years of experience as a coder, and in collaborating with and supporting developer communities. Andy earned an M.A. in Modern History from Brasenose College, Oxford. He is @andypiper on Twitter. 

You can follow Andy on Social Media 

https://twitter.com/andypiper https://andypiper.me/ 

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https://gamesatwork.biz 

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Georgia is a software engineer with 22 years of professional experienced, 20 of which were in the gaming industry working on AAA products such as Dark Age of Camelot, Madden, and Donkey Kong franchises.  

You can follow Georgia on Social Media 

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Joe Beda is a technologist with a history of working across many parts of our industry from web browsers to real time communication systems to cloud computing.  He started his career at Microsoft working on Internet Explorer and client platforms before moving on to Google. During his tenure at Google he started Google Compute Engine and helped start Kubernetes. He then co-founded Heptio and, after 2 years, sold it to VMware. Joe was at VMware for several years helping to create the Tanzu suite of products.   

Joe holds a B.S. from Harvey Mudd College and lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife Rachel (a medical doctor and also an HMC alum) and their two daughters.  You can follow Joe on Social Media https://twitter.com/jbeda https://www.eightypercent.net/  

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Chris is a Senior Customer Engineer on the Fast Track for Azure team at Microsoft. He has a focus in modern applications built with DevOps, microservices, containers, Single Page Apps, RESTful APIs, and cloud technologies following agile practices. In his free time, Chris is a speaker at numerous meetups, an avid reader and a gamer.  

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David Pine works in Developer Relations at Microsoft, focusing on .NET and Azure developer content. He is recognized as a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, and is Twilio Champion. David focuses on the developer community, actively seeking opportunities to share knowledge through speaking engagements around the world. David advocates for open-source, the .NET Foundation, C#, TypeScript, SignalR, Reactive Extensions, Azure and .NET. He's a founding member and co-host of The .NET Docs Show Twitch stream, part of the .NET Live TV family of streaming shows.  

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Eric Lawrence has been working on the web in one way or another for over two decades now, including over fifteen years as a Program Manager at Microsoft. He created the Fiddler Web Debugger and a variety of other tools. After Fiddler was acquired, he spent three years working on it full-time, then spent two years helping bring HTTPS everywhere as a member of the Chrome Security team. In 2018, Eric returned to Microsoft to again work on networking and the web platform for the Microsoft Edge team.

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https://textslashplain.com/2020/02/09/demystifying-browsers/

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Jay is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, based in San Diego, Ca. A multipotentialite, Jay enjoys finding unique ways to merge his fascination with productivity, automation, and development to create tools and content to serve the tech community.  

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Ram Iyengar is an engineer by practice and an educator at heart. He was (cf) pushed into technology evangelism along his journey as a developer and hasn’t looked back since! He enjoys helping engineering teams around the world discover new and creative ways to work. He is a proponent of community-first product development.  

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With a diverse career that spans over eighteen years, Sarah has been a part of every aspect of the IT world. Sarah is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and ex-Microsoft employee. 

Born and raised on a dairy farm in Scotland, Sarah holds true to her heritage by embracing the natural world through her appreciation for technology. For Sarah, technology is a way to see life as it grows and adapts, ever-changing, just like the natural world of farming. 

Sarah is proud to give back to her community. As a STEM Ambassador, Sarah helps others learn how IT can impact and change their lives for the better. Most specifically, she enjoys teaching the next generation of young women how they too can rise in a male-oriented field and succeed in their own careers. Sarah also founded the Glasgow Azure User Group, a community collective that meets bi-monthly to network and discuss the latest in technology. 

Sarah’s enthusiasm in the field of technology has given her the opportunity to speak at public events, most notably, Microsoft Ignite. 

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Amy Lewis is a Community Advocate by choice and Senior Director, Office of the CTO at Dick’s Sporting Goods by trade. Better known as @CommsNinja, Amy is a former co-host of the Geek Whisperers and Speaking in Tech podcasts, creator and former host of the video series TechConfessions, PopUpTechTalks, and Engineers Unplugged. She uses old-school tools (whiteboards and bacon) and new-school platforms to engage technologists from around the globe. When not on the clock, this soccer mom is a left-footed striker. 

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https://commsninja.wordpress.com/ 

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Martin is the Director of Developer Relations at GitHub where he helps developers and open source communities to create delightful things. Prior to that he was part of the team at Microsoft building the tooling for DevOps teams inside and outside the company where he helped change how the company built software, by helping them change how they work with open source communities and how they talk with developers.  

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Ty is a Senior Staff Engineer at Uber where he leads the Android platform and is the chairman of Uber's Open-Source Technical Steering Committee. He has a passion for tools, frameworks, and open-source to help developers make great mobile apps. He is a Google Developer Expert for Android and Kotlin, engaging regularly with the community through conferences, open-source, and writing, as well as an organizer for conferences and meetups. He is an angel investor and tech advisor, as well as a member in multiple venture capital advisory syndicates. Ty has been at Uber for 6 years and prior to that he worked at Twitter on the Fabric developer tools, Evernote, and a variety of smaller startups and consulting firms.  

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Demetris Cheatham is the Senior Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at GitHub. She is responsible for leading the company’s long-term strategy across four pillars: People, Platform, Policy, and Philanthropy. Her work includes aligning diversity, inclusion and belonging to the company’s global expansion, growth and business strategy, and plan for the future footprint of its workforce. 

Prior to joining GitHub, Demetris was the Global Diversity and Inclusion Lead for Red Hat where she was responsible for implementing the diversity and inclusion strategy for the company and its 15,000+ employees located around the world. Demetris also previously served as the Chief of Staff to the Chair Pro Tempore (Vice Chair) of the Council of the District of Columbia and the Committee on Business and Economic Development which had oversight of government agencies with a collective budget of over $2.6B. 

Demetris started her career as a Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York and was later selected as the first woman and youngest Executive Director to lead the National Bar Association, the nation’s oldest and largest international network of over 65,000 predominantly African-American attorneys and judges. 

Demetris is a lecturer at North Carolina State University’s Poole College of Management where she teaches Introduction to Entrepreneurship. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee at Ravenscroft School and Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee. 

Demetris was recognized as a National Business Journal Influencers: Rising Star, received the 2019 Triangle Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 Leadership Award and was awarded the Mayor’s Award for Commitment to Community. She was previously named to the Power 100 List for Black Lawyers in America. 

Demetris earned a B.S. in Computer Science with honors from North Carolina A&T State University and a JD/MBA from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and the University of Maryland Robert F. Smith School of Business, respectively. She is a licensed attorney in the State of Maryland and a certified Executive Coach. Demetris lives in North Carolina with her husband, Cornelius, and daughter Zahra Joy. 

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Clark is a community builder, living somewhere along the IL/WI border. He is married to his best friend, amazing wife, business partner, and they share the joys of raising two kids.  

He is a historically trained software developer, architect, product manager, and has managed to fool companies such as Allstate, Microsoft, Telerik to let this crazy passionate, entrepreneurial, see no boundaries of a person work for them. He and his wife have founded two companies THAT Conference and Unspecified.  

He fell backward into software development because computers help people scale. It's his love for people, his love for helping one another, that's led him to a life of building products that build communities. It's his mission to create software that connects people in a more profound and meaningful way.  

Today, THAT Conference is one of the largest Family Friendly Technology Conferences. During the pandemic, they created a SAAS platform to connect geeks across the globe. Unspecified is their boutique software development company. They take their extensive enterprise application skills and help small businesses build software to better their business.  

Regardless of titles, he will always call himself a practitioner.  

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https://that.us/ 

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Morgan is a Developer Relations Program Manager at Microsoft focusing on Student Advocacy.   

Here is more about Morgan in her own words  

I feel in love with STEM in 5th grade during my 3 hour tenure commanding the starship Voyager. From there my passion for science, exploration, experimentation, gamification, STEM education, space, and computers grew and grew. It started with me saving my babysitting money to buy Star Trek Voyager and then Battlestar Galactica and later turned into me saving my food/retail job money to buy a Raspberry Pi and my first Dell Inspiron laptop. Truth is, I never intended to work in tech, much less at Microsoft. I never thought I was smart enough or technical enough. Truth is, a lot of days I still feel that way. But the other truth is, I love what I do. I’m a proud geek. And that is that.  

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https://hellomorgan.dev/    

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Kelsey Hightower is a Principal Engineer at Google working on Google’s Cloud Platform. He has helped develop and refine many Google Cloud Products including Google’s Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Functions, and Apigees’s API Gateway. Kelsey spends most of his time with executives and developers spanning the global fortune 1000 helping them understand and leverage Google technologies and platforms to grow their businesses.  

Kelsey is also a huge open source contributor and currently maintains multiple projects that aid software developers and operations professionals in building and shipping cloud native applications. He is also an accomplished author and keynote speaker with a knack for demystifying complex topics and enabling others to succeed.  

Kelsey is also known for his work in the community and was the inaugural winner of the CNCF Top Ambassador award for his work in helping bootstrap the Kubernetes community. He is also a mentor and technical advisor helping founders turn their visions into reality.

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Brian is a developer who has been building and architecting software for all different types of purposes and applications. His initial focus was on ASP.NET, C#/.NET, SQL and WPF, but he has since shifted to technologies such as Swift, Ionic, Angular and Node.js (basically JavaScript). Brian is an author of several courses on Pluralsight and co-authored the Angular Security Guide documentation. He has presented many talks at public and private conferences as well as at local code camps covering topics such as secure application development practices and getting started in Open Source Software. You can best get in touch with him on Twitter, GitHub or at clarkio.com.  

Brian also hosts regular live code stream sessions on Twitch. There you’ll find him working on the various GitHub projects you see below. He also shares how he prepares for upcoming talks, tips and tricks on the latest features found in VS Code and views behind the scenes of conferences as an attendee.  

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Elahn's bio in her words  

My journey as a self-taught developer started August 9, 2020. Since then, I am grateful to say that I've gained an awesome community of developer friends around the globe! I have also started my own book club called .NET Book Study, as well as my own YouTube channel 'Elahn Danee Codes'.  

My mission is to 1. Continue learning how to code as a self self-taught C# developer; 2. Create content that teaches and encourages .NET newcomers; and 3. Cultivate an online community, in which .NET newcomers feel supported and empowered.   

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZpg20byiIpKa1cJc1hEpTg  

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Christos Matskas is a Program Manager at Microsoft focusing on Security and Identity, focusing specifically on the developer experience for Azure Active Directory. He has been a developer for over 15 years focusing on Microsoft technology. He is passionate about engaging with development communities and can be found on Twitter, GitHub, and Twitch talking about all sorts of tech topics.   

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Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin).

Mattias occasionally speaks and blogs about open-source, DevOps, .NET and Azure. He is a .NET and DevOps user group and conference organizer and maintains thirty or so OSS projects, contributes to a few more, consumes and benefits from many more. He is a .NET Foundation individual, project and board member, a business owner & employer and foremost father of two & husband of one.  

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Philip Laureano has been a frequent conference speaker, living in Australia and grew up in California. His love of OSS took him halfway around the world, back in the early days of .NET

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Marie Antons is a Community Engineer and mentor. She transitioned from the culinary industry to software in 2020 and has never looked back.  

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Suz Hinton is a senior software developer and open source maintainer who has been working in software for over 15 years. She currently works on developer tools and API experience at Stripe. Suz is a strong advocate for privacy, security, accessibility, and prioritizing the user experience in everything she does.  In her spare time, she enjoys maintaining OSS, creating 3D artworks, messing with hardware / IoT, and reading books.  

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https://github.com/noopkat

Nitya has spent over two decades in tech spanning research, academic, startups, communities, and now advocacy. She is the creator of SketchTheDocs, a visualization guide for technology concepts

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Kat Cosgrove is a Developer Advocate, a CNCF Ambassador, and an actual cyborg. Her professional background has run the gamut from bartender, to video store clerk, to teacher, to software developer. She credits this wide-ranging experience for her success as a speaker, developer, and advocate. Her specialty is approachable 101-level content for junior developers or anyone else who considers themselves a newbie, with a particular focus on DevOps.

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Den is an engineer who is currently working on helping scale the developer relations organization as a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. He previously helped build the cloud at AWS, was the first product manager on docs.microsoft.com, and helped deliver the groups feature in Microsoft Outlook.

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Sam Smith is a Customer Success Architect at GitHub, where he helps customers accelerate their DevOps journeys. He is primarily interested in developer productivity with DevOps and GitHub. He is also interested in .NET, Azure PaaS, and game development with Unity3d.

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Brian Douglas is a Developer Advocate at GitHub where he works on increasing use of the GitHub’s platform specific features (Ask him about GitHub Actions!) through technical content distributed on the internet. In addition to that, Brian has a passion open source and loves mentoring new contributors.

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Jeff Wilcox is a software engineer at Microsoft, currently working in the Open Source Programs Office. Jeff specializes in cross-platform software development and helping Microsoft better embrace open source technologies at scale.

Previously, Jeff worked as an architect and development manager on the Azure team, as well as all the core Microsoft developer platforms spanning desktop and browser client to the phone and server-side apps.

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Jen is a Google Developer Expert and a Principal Cloud Developer Advocate Lead at Microsoft with over 20 years' experience as a web and mobile developer, specializing in creating cross-platform mobile apps. She is a multilingual multiculturalist with a passion for hardware hacking, mobile apps, Vue.js, machine learning and discovering new things every day. She is also the founder of Front-End Foxes, an international initiative and a 501(c)(3) nonprofit created to help women learn front-end technologies.

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Jeff is currently an Alexa Evangelist role for Amazon, and is the author of Migrating to Windows Phone, and several "31 Days..." series on his website covering Windows Phone and Windows 8 development. He also serves as an organizer for the Stir Trek conference. 

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Tracy Lee is a serial entrepreneur and Google Developer Expert who loves to build companies and communities. She is the co-founder of This Dot Media and This Dot Labs. Her most recent love is coding in Angular, React, and Ember.

In her free time, she runs Venture Hacked with the mission to help create relationships between startups and investors.

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Richard is a public speaker, father, and consultant currently living in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. His interests range from technology to entrepreneurship. He is also interested in programming, volunteering, and web development.

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Mark is a technology executive with a passion for building new businesses by focusing on developing the ecosystems around them, most recently founding the OpenStack open source cloud platform and leading the Marketing & Business Development efforts to make OpenStack the ubiquitous cloud platform.

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https://twitter.com/sparkycollier 

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Mislav is the Product Manager for the GitHub Cli at GitHub. He currently lives in the Netherlands. 

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Matt is a software engineer on the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft

Jeffrey T. Fritz – or simply “Fritz” is a Program Manager for Microsoft on the ASP.NET and .NET Community Outreach teams.

Jeff is a technical advisor, an executive consultant, and an attorney. As a solution architect on the Multicloud team at World Wide Technology—and with his unique experiences that combine tech and business—he maintains a passion for solving problems with inspired solutions, improving life through technology.

A dedicated member of the developer community, Jeff has been a director of the .NET Foundation and a Microsoft MVP, and travels internationally to speak on technical, business, and community-oriented topics. He serves as a lead organizer for the Kansas City Developer Conference, #MetaConference, and Dev Around The Sun.

Cam Soper is a .NET content developer at Microsoft. He is a Geek, gamer, musician, speaker. His interests include Home automation, robot BBQ, and he is a 3D printer enthusiast.

Hayden Barnes is a Senior Mgr. for Windows, Docs & Internal DevOps at Rancher Labs. He is a Microsoft MVP and former Engineering Manager for Ubuntu on WSL & founder Pengwin Linux.  

Ian Lance Taylor has been writing free software since 1990. He is the main author of Taylor UUCP, the gold linker, and the Go frontend to GCC. He is a member of the GCC steering committee. He joined Google in 2006, and since 2008 has been working on the Go programming language.

Mordechai Zuber is a software developer based in Israel.

Jerome Hardaway is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft and The Executive Developer of Vets Who Code. Having served in the Air Force as Security Forces then transitioned into software engineering, he is focused on helping underrepresented members in the veteran community learn and break into tech. He has received numerous awards and honors due to his work but the most rewarding part to him is easing the point of entry so that others have easier paths into tech than he did.

Noelle has been speaking professionally for 20+ years now and have given over 800 keynote presentations to audiences as large as 10,000.

As an experienced speaker, Noelle and her team want to provide two key things for your next event…

A great experience on stage — Noelle has presented to audiences both large and small in a variety of different settings and contexts. As a presenter, Noelle will use stories, empathy and humor to not only make a point but to keep your audience engaged and listening. They will leave with practical, actionable next steps to take with them beyond that session.

A great experience off stage —We know as a conference planner, there are a lot of details you have to manage and juggle. The speaker should be the last of your concerns. We’ve worked with hundreds of event planners and are regularly told we make their lives easier and how grateful they are for our experience with the process.