Software architect and director at ThoughtWorks

• Has been a part of ThoughtWorks’ journey for 15+ years
• Internationally recognized expert on software architecture and design
• Helping organizations with technology strategy, distributed systems design and adoption of SOA

Self-taught front-end developer and school-taught systems engineer

• Actively involved in the tech community, not only in her hometown Lagos, Nigeria
  
• Mentored over 150 students through volunteering at organizations targeted towards increasing minorities in tech
  
• Spoken at multiple international conferences to audiences ranging from 20 to 20,000 people
  

VP of Product Management at D-Wave Systems Inc.

• Previously led a team engaged in customer projects related to algorithms, applications and performance testing
• Involved in all aspects of systems engineering and processor development for D-Wave's quantum computers for almost 20 years now

CTO & co-founder at Verica

• Former chief security architect at UnitedHealth Group
• O'Reilly author on Security Chaos Engineering
• Recently founded the first Chaos Engineering Meetup in Washington DC

Senior developer advocate for MongoDB

• Author of the book Coding for Kids: Python
• International speaker and a LinkedIn Learning instructor who specializes in cloud development courses

Agile coach and consultant

• Managing organizational systems, coaching and consulting for over 10 years

Senior developer evangelist at GitLab

• Has worked with a wide range of customers - from the nation's top healthcare institutions to environmental services companies to the Department of Defense
• Worked as engineering and product manager at several software companies

Machine learning global educationalist

• 8 years experience in developing high class courses
• Masters and a Bachelors in electrical engineering

Senior technical lead for SRE at Vanguard

• Worked closely with the Women's Initiative for Leadership Success at Vanguard
• Advocate for women in STEM

Senior research analyst at Verica

• Seasoned content, event, and digital experience expert with 18+ years in content creation, acquisition, research, strategy and execution
• Previously - director of editorial at Holloway, director of content strategy at Fastly and director of strategic content for O'Reilly Media

Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & principal at Dan North & Associates

• Published feature articles in numerous software and business publications
• Contributed to The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends and 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

Director of security chaos engineering at Capital One

• Established first security chaos engineering function within Capital One
• Previously an innovation, research & development senior manager

Fellow at INNOQ

• 15+ years as an architect & consultant
• Prolific author of Microservices: Flexible Software Architecture
• Has written more than 100 articles and books

DevRel extraordinaire at Tilt

• Google developer expert for Go
• CNCF ambassador
• Passionate about making multi-service systems easier and more accessible to develop in

Associate professor at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science

• Author of The Programmer’s Brain
• Creator of the Hedy programming language
• Was awarded the Dutch Prize for ICT research

Developer at Planning Center. Author of Phoenix in Action. Wannabe renaissance man.

• Author of Phoenix in Action
• Speaker at many past previous Elixir conferences

Consultant at INNOQ

• Developer, speaker, trainer and author in the field of infrastructure, Kubernetes, service mesh
• Maintainer of service mesh comparison on servicemesh.es and co-author of Service Mesh Primer

Lead consultant at OpenCredo

• Over 20 years of experience as a lead developer in the finance industry
• Delivers software in a multitude of languages and technologies (Kafka, Javascript, Java, Golang)

Manager of applied security at Cardinal Health

• Cybersecurity leader
• International-reaching speaker and author on Security Chaos Engineering, application security and leadership

Founder of Manicode Security

• Author of Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications
• Volunteers for the OWASP foundation (project co-lead for the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard & the OWASP Cheetsheet Series)

Founder and principal consultant at Wise Noodles

• Runs workshops on effective collaboration in organizations at all levels, from the shop floor to the c-suite
• Has worked globally with small startups to some of the largest organizations in the world and helped them to create an environment that supports effective collaboration and streamlined deliveries

VP of product management & product strategy at Capsule8

• O’Reilly author on Security Chaos Engineering
• Previously served in product roles at SecurityScorecard and BAE Systems Applied Intelligence after co-founding IperLane, a security startup

Veteran agile coach

• Scrum Trainer Fellow at Scrum Inc.
• Over 20 years international experience with agile ways of working
• Helped companies like LEGO, BP, Nestlé, and Jägermeister become more agile

Head department architect at Northern Trust Corporation

• Achieved "Expert Engineer" status at Chase for her Microservices Design and Machine Learning accomplishments
• Previously worked for world-renowned organizations such as IBM and Nokia

CEO at Table XI and founder of "Walkshop Retreats"

• Created more than 100 mobile apps
• Author of the Sticky Note Game, designed to drive employee engagement and career growth.

Distinguished software engineer

• Author of the book Svelte and Sapper in Action published by Manning
• Mark has run 50 marathons

Agile coach & mindfulness trainer

• 15 years experience of coaching and training (mostly) IT companies
• Certified trainer for "Search Inside Yourself", a mindfulness and emotional intelligence program developed within Google

Developer at the SANS Institute

• Cybersecurity pro
• Mentor for development topics such as BDD, TDD and clean-code
• Loves teaching

Data architect at Northern Trust Corporation

• Strong business development professional skilled in data warehouse architecture, dimensional modeling, requirements analysis and enterprise architecture
• MBA in Management Information Systems from DePaul University

Tech lead

• Can handle anything from front-end to DevOps
• Master’s Degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Developer advocate at Mattermost

• Board member of Open Sourcing Mental Illness (OSMIhelp.org)
• Organizer of DevOps Days Buffalo, CodeDaze and ElixirDaze

Holistic life coach, Reiki master, nutritionist, yoga teacher, meditation

• Reiki master
• Tarot and oracle reader

Co-founder and principal consultant at INNOQ

• Founding member of iSAQB and a member of the OBJEKTspektrum Fachbeirat
• Involved in the IT industry since 1990

Web expert

• Learned object oriented C++ at age 10
• Won a web development award from National University of Qatar at age 15