Speakers at GOTO Chicago 2018

Aaron Bedra

DRW

Security expert and Senior Engineer at DRW

Talks:

Security and Trust in a Microservices World

Masterclasses:

AWS Security Essentials Workshop

#microservices

#security

Adam Herzog

GOTO

Director of Developer Relations at GOTO

Talks:

NamasteOps: Bringing mindfulness to the workplace

#yoga

#mindfulness

Adrian Cockcroft

Amazon

Vice President Cloud Architecture Strategy at Amazon Web Services

Talks:

Developing a Chaos Architecture Mindset

Dynamic Non-Events

#microservices

#chaos engineering

#cloud native

#automation

#safety

#cloud

Adron Hall

Thrashing Code

Coder, Messenger, Recon, Infrastructure, Ops, & A Sprinkling of Metal

Talks:

Node Systems for Node.js Services on Nodes of Systemic Nodal Systems

#node

#nodejs

Aino Vonge Corry

GOTO

Retrospectives Facilitator, Teacher & Technical Conference Editor

Talks:

Polyglot Agile

#agile

#casestudy

#polyglot

#multilingualism

#people

#communication

Ajit Kadari

Pivotal

Cloud Application and Platform Architect at Pivotal

Masterclasses:

Building Next-Gen Cloud-Based Apps: Workshops on Cloud, Serverless, and Container Orchestration

Alena Hall

Microsoft

Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft

Talks:

Distributed Data Stores on Kubernetes

#distributed

#containers

#opensource

#kubernetes

#cloud

#cassandra

Allard Buijze

AxonIQ

Creator of Axon Framework

Talks:

A Pragmatic Approach to Event-driven Microservices

Masterclasses:

CQRS and Event Sourcing with Axon Framework

#microservices

Amanda Laucher

Mined Minds

Co-Founder of Mined Minds

Talks:

Coal to Code: Developing Developers

#developers

#education

#diversity

#shift

#disruption

Angela Wang

Amazon Web Services

Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services

Masterclasses:

Building Next-Gen Cloud-Based Apps: Workshops on Cloud, Serverless, and Container Orchestration

Anupama Pradhan

HCSC

Senior Director IT Product - Data at HCSC

Talks:

Devops for Microservices and ALL of the components

Benjamin Mitchell

Equal Experts

Experienced Agile Delivery Practitioner & Advocate of Effective Communication Skills

Talks:

Secrets of Effective Communication You Can Learn (from my Failures!)

#effective communication

#human side

#agile

#people

#communication

Bret Fisher

Core Enable

Docker Captain, DevOps Trainer and Consultant

Talks:

Going Docker and Swarm Production Like a Pro

Masterclasses:

Build Container Orchestration with Docker Swarm

#containers

#docker

#devops

#swarm

#production

Brian Leroux

begin.com

Cofounder at Small Wins

Talks:

Architecture as Text: Setup AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, and DynamoDB on Easy Mode

Masterclasses:

Master Serverless with Amazon Web Services and JSF Architect

#serverless

#aws lambda

#sns

#dynamodb

#arc.codes

Bridget Kromhout

Microsoft

Co-host of Arrested DevOps Podcast & Principal Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft

Talks:

Arrested DevOps Live!

Masterclasses:

Building Next-Gen Cloud-Based Apps: Workshops on Cloud, Serverless, and Container Orchestration

#distributed

#devops

#podcast

#live

Cameron Stewart

Pivotal

Partner Solutions Architect at Pivotal

Talks:

Cloud Foundry Container Runtime: BOSH-Powered, Web-Scale Release Engineering for Kubernetes

#containers

#kubernetes

#open source

#runtime

#cloud foundry

Casey Rosenthal

Verica

CEO / Cofounder of Verica.io

Talks:

Deprecating Simplicity

#process

#velocity

#complexity

Catherine Swetel

C Swetel LLC

Once described as the Altoids of Lean-Agile feminism

Talks:

The Development Metrics You Should Use (but Don’t)

#process

#estimates

#metrics

#agile

#people

#communication

Chris Corriere

Large

Sociotechnological Mathematician at Large

Talks:

Sales & Tech - Our Differences Make the Difference

#sales and tech

#human side

#cooperation

#trust

#conflict

#agile

#people

#communication

Chris Munns

Amazon

Principal Developer Advocate - Serverless at Amazon Web Services

Talks:

Alexa, Let’s Build a Serverless Skill

Masterclasses:

Building Next-Gen Cloud-Based Apps: Workshops on Cloud, Serverless, and Container Orchestration

#serverless

#aws

#aws lambda

#alexa

#dynamodb

#alexa skills kit

Dan North

Dan North & Associates

Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal Consultant

Talks:

SWARMing: Scaling Without A Religious Methodology

Masterclasses:

Testing Faster

#agile

#people

Dave Farley

Continuous Delivery Ltd.

Founder and Director of Continuous Delivery

Talks:

Farley's Laws

Masterclasses:

Continuous Delivery Training Course: Theory, Technology and Practice

#agile

#lean development

#devops

#continuous delivery

#people

#communication

Dave Thomas

Kx Systems

Chief Scientist, CSO Kx Systems & Father of OTI

Talks:

Legacy Evolution – The Innovation Opportunity!

#technical debt

#innovation

#targeted technology adoption

#accelerated development

#data driven

Dean Wampler

Lightbend

VP of Fast Data Engineering at Lightbend and O'Reilly author of several Functional Programming books

Talks:

Bash and All That; Why Ancient *NIX Tools Are Still Essential

#bash

#programming languages

Dominica DeGrandis

Tasktop

Author of Making Work Visible and Director of Digital Transformation at Tasktop

Talks:

Calendars for Humans - How to Undo the All-day Cram

#meeting culture

#optimize

#management buyin

#human side

#agile

#people

#communication

Eric Mizell

OverOps

VP of Solution Engineering at OverOps

Talks:

Java Jedi Powers: How to Accelerate Delivery of Reliable Software

Erica Windisch

IOpipe

Founder of @IOpipes. Building tools for Serverless & AWS

Talks:

The Truth Behind Serverless

#serverless

#architecture

#design patterns

#containers

Erik St. Martin

Microsoft

Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft

Talks:

Building Distributed Systems with Kubernetes

#distributed

#containers

#opensource

#kubernetes

Evelina Gabasova

The Alan Turing Institute

Machine Learning Expert & Data Scientist at The Alan Turing Institute

Talks:

Exploring StackOverflow Data

#ml

#machinelearning

#stackoverflow

#r

#f#

#bigdata

Francesc Campoy

source{d}

Gopher, Host of the Just For Func Podcast, and VP of Developer Relations at source{d}

Talks:

The Robustness of Go

Delivering AI on Code: Live Demo of source{d}

#go

#erlang

#languages

#robustness

#machinelearning

#sourcecode

#sourced

#codeanalysis

#livedemo

#opensource

Frans van Buul

AxonIQ

Evangelist at AxonIQ

Talks:

Microservice message routing on Kubernetes

Georges Saab

Oracle

Vice President, Software Development, Java Platform Group at Oracle

Talks:

Rapid Java Innovation

#languages

Ian Crosby

Container Solutions

Senior Engineer at Container Solutions

Talks:

Kubernetes: Crossing the Chasm

Masterclasses:

Production Grade Kubernetes

Jamie Dobson

Container Solutions

CEO of Container Solutions

Talks:

Cloud Native Strategy (Closing Remarks)

Refactoring Patronage: Building a Sustainable Future for Impactful Open Source Projects

Jeff Hodges

Darkish Green

Distributed Systems Engineer & Consultant

Talks:

Practicalities of Productionizing Distributed Systems, 2018

#distributed

#productionizing

#devops

Jessica Kerr

Atomist

Developer at Atomist

Talks:

Software Automation in a Polyglot Stack

#backend

#languages

Jim Basler

Pivotal

Cloud Application and Platform Architect at Pivotal

Masterclasses:

Building Next-Gen Cloud-Based Apps: Workshops on Cloud, Serverless, and Container Orchestration

Joe Armstrong

Whoomph Software

Principal Inventor of the Erlang Programming Language

Talks:

Refactoring Patronage: Building a Sustainable Future for Impactful Open Source Projects

Computer Science - A Guide for the Perplexed

The Do's and Don'ts of Error Handling

#computerscience

#users

#mismatch

#error handling

#fault-tolerance

#languages

Jordan Hendricks

Joyent

Software Engineer at Joyent

Talks:

Designing Features for Mature Systems: Lessons Learned from Manta

#distributed

#legacy

#cloud

#opensource

Josh Kahn

Amazon Web Services

Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services

Masterclasses:

Building Next-Gen Cloud-Based Apps: Workshops on Cloud, Serverless, and Container Orchestration

Juliet Hougland

Stitch Fix

Data Platform & ML Engineer at Stitchfix

Talks:

Production Model Deployment

#ml

#machinelearning

#production

#deployment

Katherine Kirk

Independent

Independent Consultant - Transformation in Tech

Talks:

Politics & Hierarchy: How We Create It & How to Stop

SWARMing: Scaling Without A Religious Methodology

#politics

#empowerment

#hierarchies

#human side

#agile

#people

#communication

Kelley Robinson

Twilio

Developer Evangelist at Twilio advocating for secure software development

Talks:

Analyzing Pwned Passwords with Apache Spark

#spark

#scala

#sql

#distributed data

#live demo

#languages

Kenny Bastani

Pivotal

Developer Advocate at Pivotal

Talks:

Cloud Native Java

#java

#languages

#cloudnative

#cloud

#rest

#webservices

Kevin Tsai

Google

Big Data and Machine Learning - Google Cloud Platform

Talks:

Developing a ML model

#ml

#machinelearning

Kevlin Henney

Curbralan + curbralan.com

Programming+Patterns Practice+Process

Talks:

Old Is the New New

Masterclasses:

Architecture with Agility

#fundamentals

#languages

#architecture

#mature

#trends

#recurring

Kolton Andrus

Gremlin

Co-founder and CEO of Gremlin

Talks:

Breaking Things on Purpose

#microservices

#devops

#breakingthings

#testing

Kyle Kingsbury

Jepsen

Author of Riemann monitoring system and Jepsen series on distributed systems correctness

Talks:

Jepsen 9: A Fsyncing Feeling

#distributed systems

Laura Frank

Codeship

Director of Engineering at Codeship & Docker Captain

Masterclasses:

Build Container Orchestration with Docker Swarm

Liz Rice

Aqua Security

Technology Evangelist with Aqua Security

Talks:

Containers From Scratch

#containers

#docker

#introduction

#livecode

Marija Spaic

Spantree

Software Engineer at Spantree

Talks:

A Walk on the Hype Curve with Serverless

Mark Rickmeier

Table XI

CEO at Table XI and founder of "Walkshop Retreats"

Talks:

How I almost lost my entire company in the first year on the job

Martin Thompson

Real Logic

High-Performance Computing Specialist

Talks:

Cluster Consensus: when Aeron met Raft

Masterclasses:

High-Performance Messaging with Aeron

#clusters

#consensus

#raft

#aeron

#high performance

Marvin Laucher

Mined Minds

Former Coal Miner turned Software Developer and the inspiration for the development of Mined Minds

Talks:

Coal to Code: Developing Developers

#developers

#education

#diversity

#shift

#disruption

Matt Godbolt

Low-level Latency Geek

Talks:

C++ - the Newest Old Language

#c++

#languages

Michael Bernstein

Reify

Co-Founder and Principal at Reify

Talks:

Serverless is about what's next

#serverless

Michael Feathers

R7K Research & Conveyance

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Talks:

Unconditional Code

Masterclasses:

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

#architecture

#robust code

#patterns

#error handling

Michael Irwin

Virginia Tech

Docker Captain, Community Leader & Application Architect at Virginia Tech

Talks:

Dino Apps Deserve Love Too!

#containers

#docker

#legacy

Nirmal Mehta

Booz Allen Hamilton

Chief Technologist at Booz Allen Hamilton and Docker Captain

Talks:

A Strong Belief, Loosely Held: Bringing Empathy to IT

#containers

Noel Rappin

Table XI

Principal Software Engineer at Table XI and host of the Tech Done Right podcast

Talks:

High Cost Tests and High Value Tests

#testing

Peter Pezaris

CodeStream

Founder & CEO of CodeStream

Talks:

Why Development Teams are Throwing Away Institutional Knowledge -- and how to Preserve it

Peter Sbarski

A Cloud Guru

Author of Serverless Architectures on AWS and VP of Engineering at A Cloud Guru

Talks:

Serverless Tales from the Trenches

#serverless

Phil Winder

Winder Research

Machine Learning whiz and Advocate for DataDevOps

Talks:

Life and Death Decisions: Testing Data Science

Masterclasses:

Data Science and Analytics for Developers (Machine Learning)

#ml

#machinelearning

#datascience

#models

#testing

Randy Shoup

WeWork

VP Engineering at WeWork

Talks:

Attitude Determines Altitude: Engineering Yourself and Your Teams

#human side

#attitude

#agile

#people

#communication

Roberto Guerra

Spantree

Senior Software Engineer at Spantree

Talks:

A Walk on the Hype Curve with Serverless

Russ Miles

ChaosIQ

Founder and CEO, ChaosIQ.io

Talks:

Learning to Love your Non-functionals

Masterclasses:

Chaos Engineering Deep Dive

#microservices

#devops

Russell Trow

Container Solutions

Head of Training at Container Solutions

Masterclasses:

Production Grade Kubernetes

Ryan Hunt

HCSC

Senior Developer at HCSC

Talks:

Devops for Microservices and ALL of the components

Sam Aaron

Creator of Sonic Pi & Live Coding Musician

Talks:

Get Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone

Refactoring Patronage: Building a Sustainable Future for Impactful Open Source Projects

Masterclasses:

Distributed Live Coding with Sonic Pi

#music

#livecode

#creative

Satish Malireddi

T-Mobile

Principal Architect at T-Mobile

Talks:

Lessons Learned from T-Mobile’s Journey to Serverless Computing

Seth Hall

Corelight

Chief Evangelist at Corelight

Talks:

Put Your Thoughts on the Wire with Bro.org

Stefan Veis Pennerup

Trifork

iOS Engineer & Machine Learning Lead at Trifork

Talks:

Relating to Machine Learning

#ml

#machinelearning

#mlaas

Stephen Day

Docker

Software Engineer at Docker

Talks:

Containerd Internals: Building a Core Container Runtime

#containers

Todd Montgomery

StoneTor, LLC

Co-author of Aeron, Ex-NASA researcher, Ex-CTO of 29West & network geek

Talks:

Making It Count: Quality is NOT an Option

#code

#quality

#design

#languages

Tomas Petricek

fsharpWorks

Author of 'Real-World Functional Programming' & Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute

Talks:

Learning to Live with Errors

#test

#languages

#errors

Vanessa Spock

Ericsson

Director of Business Operations for Ericsson

Talks:

Sales & Tech - Our Differences Make the Difference

#sales and tech

#human side

#cooperation

#trust

#conflict

#agile

#people

#communication

Victoria Gonda

Buffer

Mobile engineer at Buffer

Talks:

Let Kotlin Come To You

#kotlin

#languages

Woody Zuill

Independent

Senior Consultant, Agile Expertise and Coaching

Talks:

Mob Programming: A Whole Team Approach

Masterclasses:

Estimates or NoEstimates?

#mob programming

#agile

#team

#people

#communication

Zaheda Bhorat

AWS

Head of Open Source Strategy AWS