Speakers
Brian Sletten - Forward Leaning Software Engineer @ Bosatsu Consulting
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.
Pratik Patel - Developer Advocate @ Azul Systems
Pratik Patel is a Java Champion and developer advocate at Azul Systems and has written 3 books on programming (Java, Cloud and OSS). An all around software and hardware nerd with experience in the healthcare, telecom, financial services, and startup sectors. He's also a co-organizer of the Atlanta Java User Group and North Atlanta JavaScript meetup, frequent speaker at tech events, and master builder of nachos.
Venkat Subramaniam - Founder @ Agile Developer, Inc.
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.
Celal Ziftci - GOOGLE - Software Engineer
Seasoned software leader that loves creating products from ideation to launch using state of the art software development practices.
At the moment, I'm focused on using Generative AI, specifically Large Language Models (LLMs), to improve developer/product efficiency, including code migrations/transformations, code/test generation, and debugging.
Stacey Watro - SQUARESPACE - Staff Software Engineer
Stacey Watro is a versatile software engineer who thrives on building collaborative, high-performing teams. An experienced Spring Boot and Gradle practitioner, she is passionate about leveraging open-source solutions to tackle complex challenges and drive innovation. She is currently a Staff engineer at Squarespace.
Nick Washburn - Sr. Managing Director @ Intel Capital
Nick is a voting member of Intel Capital’s investment committee and co-manages Intel Capital’s cloud investment domain. Nick focuses on early-stage investments in cloud-native infrastructure, developer tools, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and data platforms.
Nick currently serves as a director or observer on the boards of Fly.io, Freshpaint, Moderne, RouteThis, and Tetrate. Nick also works closely on Intel Capital's investments in Anyscale and Upbound.”
Jonathan Vogel - Senior Developer Advocate @ Amazon
Jonathan Vogel is a Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon, passionate about empowering developers with cutting-edge cloud technologies, AI-driven solutions, and scalable architectures. With a background in software engineering and cloud computing,
Kaushik Vejju - UBER - Software Engineer
Kaushik Vejju is a Software Engineer on the Java Platform Team at Uber.
Isaac Van Doren - Software Engineer @ Paytient
Isaac Van Doren is a software engineer passionate about building better software faster. He is an avid Roc user and contributor and a fan of functional programming. At Paytient he builds software to help Americans access and afford healthcare.
Prince Valluri - LINKEDIN - Principal Staff Software Engineer
Prince is a Senior Staff Engineer at LinkedIn, specializing in Developer Productivity for nearly 9 years. Passionate about enhancing productivity to cultivate 10x engineers, Prince has made significant contributions to builds, deployments, and code collaboration. Recently, they led the successful migration of LinkedIn's source control from Gerrit to GitHub.
Dania Valladares - Stacklok, Software Engineering Manager
Dania is a Software Engineering Manager at Stacklok. She is deeply committed to fostering an inclusive workplace environment where every team member can thrive through continuous learning, growth and personal fulfillment. With a strong foundation in engineering full-stack, enterprise-level applications, Dania is shaping how developers use AI coding assistants and agents responsibly and with confidence.
Ryan Trontz - TINDER - Senior Software Engineer, Backend Platform
Ryan Trontz is a Senior Software Engineer on the Backend Platform team at Tinder. A lifelong learner and former educator, Ryan brings over a decade of teaching experience to his engineering work. He's passionate about building tools, processes, and documentation that don't just solve problems, but make his coworkers fundamentally better learners and technical problem solvers.
Devin Thomson - TINDER - Senior Engineering Manager, Backend Platform
Devin Thomson is a Sr. Engineering Manager at Tinder leading the Backend Platform team, where he owns core backend services and the internal developer platform. His team focuses on distributed systems infrastructure, language runtime and framework management and upgrades, build and dependency management, and tooling.
Devin has a deep background in Java and Nodejs backend engineering, event-driven and streaming architecture, and large-scale migrations and rewrites that keep Tinder’s systems maintainable and performant.
Sean Sullivan - GRUBHUB - Software Engineer
Sean Sullivan is a Staff Software Engineer at Grubhub. Sean's career has spanned everything from Java servlets to web scale cloud applications. Sean is passionate about platform engineering and open source communities. He is a contributor to multiple open source projects, including OpenRewrite. He lives in Oregon in the United States.
Sam Snyder - VP of Engineering @ Moderne
Sam Snyder has spent the past decade working on improving developer happiness with better tooling. At Tableau software, he used data from the development and deployment pipeline to systematically seize the greatest opportunities for improvement and eliminate the greatest pain points. At Gradle, he integrated that process and data visualization methodology into Gradle Enterprise. Now as VP of Engineering at Moderne, Sam leads development on the core refactoring technologies and teaches Moderne's customers how to automate away the tedious, repetitive parts of software development.
Jason Simpson - Vice President Of Engineering @ Choice Hotels International
As an award winning technology leader, I have over 25 years of experience in software engineering and development, strategic planning and operations. I have architected, engineered, and run many software solutions for product teams, customer systems, and engineering platforms; for internal business units including: Sales and Support, eCommerce, Telecom, Security, Operations and others. I have been instrumental in building SaaS platforms, integrating complex systems, running cloud scale infrastructure and driving change across large organizations.
My career to date revolves around being both a transformative leader and hands-on manager, backed by a strong track record of adding business value, providing strategic insight, leading execution, evaluating technology plans, building budgets, implementing IT strategies, improving security, and creating strong technical teams.
I thoroughly enjoy delivering technology solutions that delight customers. I am currently leading the Cloud Engineering and Franchisee Systems at Choice Hotels International.
Additionally, I currently serve on various boards and councils, including Menlo Ventures CxO Advisory Board, Delphix Customer Advisory Board, and NetApp Customer Advisory Board.
Vinicius Senger - Sr. Developer Advocate for Java @ AWS
Vinicius Senger is a developer, inventor, and technical speaker working for AWS in California in the Global Specialist Team as a Senior Developer Advocate for Java. He started developing software at just 8 years old and never stopped accumulating 30 years of work in the IT area. Founder of Globalcode and The Developers Conference, Vinicius was considered top 20 influencer in IoT development, Java Champion winning two Duke's Choice Award in California for innovation projects in automation, robotics, boats, houses, helmets and many others. Since 2017 at AWS, he has been working with Java, IoT, Serverless, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and traveling around the world promoting open-source technologies and AWS services.
Jonathan Schneider - MODERNE - CEO & Co-founder
Jonathan Schneider is co-founder and CEO at Moderne, which automates software migrations, security and maintenance at scale. A recognized Java Champion, Jonathan founded OpenRewrite, an auto-refactoring tool, at Netflix and later founded the Micrometer project while a member of the Spring Team. He co-authored “Automated Code Remediation: How to Refactor and Secure the Moderne Software Supply Chain” (O’Reilly) and authored “SRE with Java Microservices” (O’Reilly). An Army veteran, Jonathan is also a two-time recipient of the Bronze Star.
Baruch Sadogursky - Principal Developer Productivity Engineering Advocate, Gradle
Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) did Java before it had generics, DevOps before there was Docker, and DevRel before it had a name. He started DevRel at JFrog when it was ten people and took it all the way to a successful $6B IPO by helping engineers solve problems. Now Baruch keeps helping engineers solve problems but also helps companies help engineers solve problems. He is a co-author of the “Liquid Software” and “DevOps Tools for Java Developers” books, serves on multiple conference program committees, and regularly speaks at numerous most prestigious industry conferences, including Kubecon, JavaOne (RIP), Devoxx, QCon, DevRelCon, DevOpsDays (all over), DevOops (not a typo) and others. After a tenure of eleven years in JFrog DevRel, Baruch is the Principal Developer Productivity Engineering Advocate at Gradle.
Kiran Rouzie - THOUGHTWORKS - Global Head of Organizational Change & Transformation
The World's #1 Expert on the EVOLVED TEAM as featured in: Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur, Forbes and Success.
CTO, Certified Coach, Certified Change Management Expert, TEDx speaker specializing in Technology, AI Adoption & Utilization.
Kiran Rouzie has a proven track record of developing high performing organizations that grow profit and revenue.
She is a highly personable, visionary, innovative and results-oriented leader. Her work as a CTO and transformational digital leader has helped executives solve the most critical and strategic challenges facing companies today.
She has a proven ability to implement operational excellence, process re-engineering and Agile principals that accelerate product development and improve overall organizational efficiency. And, demonstrated success in identifying appealing market opportunities and formulating successful strategies.
As a certified coach, strategy advisor and certified change management expert she has delivered undeniable results – transforming leaders, teams and organizations for clients such as:
Apple, Google, Amazon, Ritz-Carlton, Delta Airlines, Thoughtworks.
Her broader experience includes Leading: Innovation, Technology Commercialization, R&D, SDLC, Product Development, L&D, Global Support and Technology Operations.
Andy Piper - Vice President of Engineering @ Diffblue
Vice President of Engineering at Diffblue, driving fundamental change in how developers write code
Andy serves as VP of Engineering at Diffblue, creators of the game-changing AI technology that fundamentally transforms the way developers write code. Previously, he was Head of Product Engineering at CBRE and CTO of Push Technology Limited.
Andy has more than 20 years of combined engineering and technology leadership, and extensive Java experience which includes time at BEA and Oracle. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Cambridge.
Roberto Perez Alcolea - NETFLIX - Staff Software Engineer, JVM Ecosystem
Roberto Perez Alcolea is a Software Engineer at Netflix who focuses on the JVM development lifecycle, spanning build automation and testing infrastructure. With a deep appreciation for the JVM ecosystem and Build Tools, he works on improving how Netflix engineers build, test, and publish software.
Roberto contributes to maintaining Netflix's build-package-publish infrastructure through Nebula (Gradle) plugins, helping with dependency management and artifact publishing across the organization's projects. He's also involved in testing strategy initiatives, including working on E2E testing frameworks that incorporate observability and failure analysis.
Roberto advocates for modern integration testing practices and helps teams adopt container-based testing approaches, which led him to become a Testcontainers Community Champion. He enjoys sharing knowledge at conferences, contributing to open-source projects, and collaborating with engineers on testing best practices.
Roberto believes strongly in community-driven innovation and enjoys both learning from fellow engineers and sharing his experiences to help advance the broader JVM and testing communities.
Ben Loyd Pearson - Director of DevEx Strategy @ LinearB
Ben hosts Dev Interrupted, a podcast and newsletter for engineering leaders, and is Director of DevEx Strategy at LinearB. Ben has spent the last decade working in platform engineering and developer advocacy to help teams improve workflows, foster internal and external communities, and deliver better developer experiences.
Marcin Osiecki - BNY - Distinguished Engineer, Senior Director
Marcin Osiecki has over 25 years of experience developing software for the financial industry. After earning a Master's degree in Computer Science from Columbia University, Marcin worked for several Wall Street investment banks and fintech companies before joining BNY in 2015. In 2021, Marcin was promoted to “Distinguished Engineer” in recognition of his contributions to technology at BNY Mellon.
Marcin is a practitioner, advocate for technical excellence, effective usage of AI tools, agile methodologies, continuous learning and creative thinking. He holds a patent on electronic signature matching (USSN: 16/182,789) and is passionate about eliminating inefficiencies.
Marcin currently resides in New York with his wife and three sons.
Benjamin Muschko - AUTOMATEDASCENT - Software Engineer
Benjamin Muschko is a software engineer, consultant, and trainer with more than 20 years of experience in the industry. With deep experience working with major enterprise transformations, he's seen firsthand what separates successful modernization efforts from costly failures.
Rooz Mohazzabi - VP @ Moderne
Developer tools GTM and community leader at Moderne. Ex Gradle, co-founder of SF Java User Group and SF Android meetup. Organizer of DPE Summit and Silicon Valley Productivity Engineering meetup.
Anshuman Mishra - UBER - Senior Software Engineer
Anshuman Mishra leads the Java Platform team at Uber, overseeing Uber’s Java framework, JVM and GC tuning, version upgrades, build systems, and core libraries. He has deep expertise in the Java compiler, Bazel, remote caching and execution, and large-scale automated refactoring. At Uber, he has driven multiple modernization efforts.
Robert Miles - AWM Global CTO @ JPMorgan Chase
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Alex Merced - Senior Tech Evangelist @ Dremio
Alex Merced is a Senior Tech Evangelist for Dremio and has worked as a developer and instructor for companies like GenEd Systems, Crossfield Digital, CampusGuard and General Assembly.
Alex is passionate about technology and has put out tech content on outlets such as blogs, videos and his podcasts Datanation and Web Dev 101. Alex Merced has contributed a variety of libraries in the Javascript & Python worlds including SencilloDB, CoquitoJS, dremio-simple-query and more.
Nick McKinney - Senior Lead Software Engineer @ JPMC
At JPMorgan Chase, Nick's team is responsible for a light-weight framework with the goal of enabling effective Spring Boot usage across the enterprise. In the industry, Nick is an open-source collaborator on the OpenRewrite project.
Eve Matthaey - META - Software Engineer
Eve is an Android engineer at Meta, where she leads the Kotlin conversion project.
Josh Long - BROADCOM - Spring Developer Advocate
Josh (@starbuxman) has been the first Spring Developer Advocate since 2010. Josh is a Java Champion, author of 7 books (including “Reactive Spring”) and numerous best-selling video training (including “Building Microservices with Spring Boot Livelessons” with Spring Boot co-founder Phil Webb), and an open-source contributor (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Axon, Spring Cloud, Activiti, Vaadin, etc), a Youtuber (Coffee + Software with Josh Long as well as my Spring Tips series ), and a podcaster (“A Bootiful Podcast”).
Rachel Laycock - THOUGHTWORKS - Chief Technology Officer
Rachel Laycock is Chief Technology Officer of Thoughtworks, responsible for shaping and communicating the company’s global technology strategy. Over more than a decade at Thoughtworks, she has partnered with clients worldwide to modernize their technology estates, build resilient digital platforms, and unlock new avenues for growth.
In recent years, Rachel has led Thoughtworks’ efforts to help both the organization and its clients develop and execute successful AI strategies—bridging technology innovation with real business impact. Her work has focused on embedding responsible AI practices, accelerating AI adoption through modern data and platform capabilities, and ensuring organizations can realize measurable value from AI investments.
Prior to becoming CTO, she led the global Enterprise Modernization, Platforms, and Cloud business, helping organizations accelerate time to market, reduce costs, and embed cultures of continuous improvement. Rachel began her career at Thoughtworks as a developer and brings a rare blend of deep technical expertise, commercial focus, and executive leadership to her role.
Javiera Laso - THOUGHTWORKS - Lead Engineer Consultant
I’m a Lead software engineer and architect with a background in biotechnology. I specialize in modernizing legacy systems, transforming them into scalable, efficient, and maintainable solutions. I focus on applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles to create software that not only meets technical requirements but also aligns with business goals.
I have experience designing modular, cloud-ready architectures and using techniques like microservices and event-driven design to solve complex challenges. I’m passionate about continuous learning and improvement, and I enjoy mentoring teams and promoting best practices in software development. My approach combines deep technical knowledge with a practical understanding of business objectives, ensuring that the solutions I deliver are both effective and future-ready.
Olga Kundzich - Co-founder & CTO @ Moderne
Olga Kundzich is Co-founder and CTO at Moderne, which automates software refactoring at scale. She has extensive experience building enterprise software solutions. Previously, she worked as a technical product manager at Pivotal, focused on application delivery and management solutions (e.g., Spinnaker), and was a lead software engineer and manager at Dell EMC, working closely with enterprise users on implementing data protection practices.
Kurt Kluever - Software Engineer @ Google
Kurt is a Staff Software Engineer at Google on the Java and Kotlin Ecosystem team (the team behind Guava, Truth, Flogger, Dagger, etc). During his 16+ year tenure, Kurt has worked on core libraries, static analysis, education, and documentation. He holds the honor of having submitted the most Java changes in Google's history. Kurt specializes in large scale changes, refactorings, migrations, and all things code health.
Dov Katz - MORGAN STANLEY - Managing Director, Distinguished Engineer
Dov Katz is a Managing Director and Distinguished Engineer at Morgan Stanley, specializing in DevOps and developer productivity. With a deep passion for enhancing software development practices, Dov has played a critical role in shaping Morgan Stanley’s engineering culture through innovative tooling, automation, and scalable infrastructure solutions.
In addition to their technical leadership, Dov serves as Chairman Emeritus of FINOS (the Fintech Open Source Foundation).
Emily Jiang - Cloud Native Architect Advocate IBM
Emily Jiang is a Java Champion. She is Liberty Cloud Native Architect and Chief Advocate, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) in IBM, based at Hursley Lab in the UK. Emily is a MicroProfile guru and has been working on MicroProfile since 2016 and leads a number of specifications including MicroProfile Config and Fault Tolerance. She interacts with most of the other MicroProfile specifications. She is also active in Jakarta EE specifications. She is a co-lead in Jakarta Config and also a Jakarta Context and Dependency Injection (CDI) committer. At IBM, she leads the effort of implementing all of MicroProfile specifications on Open Liberty.
She is passionate about MicroProfile and Jakarta EE. She regularly speaks at conferences, such as QCon, Code One, DevNexus, JAX London, Voxxed, Devoxx, EclipseCon, GeeCon, JFokus, etc.
Kris Jenkins - Lead Developer Advocate @ Snowflake
Kris Jenkins is a lifelong computer geek who loves designing software, writing it, and talking about it afterwards. He's been a software developer, a Co-Founder and a CTO, and these days he's a Developer Advocate, talking about how we can all build better systems.
Brian Houck - MICROSOFT - Sr. Principal Applied Scientist
Brian Houck is an Applied Scientist at Microsoft who focuses on understanding, and improving, the developer experience within engineering organizations. His work combines large-scale telemetry analysis, field experiments, surveys, and qualitative research to uncover the technical, cultural, environmental, and organizational factors that shape developer productivity and wellbeing.
Brian co-authored the SPACE framework, now one of the most widely adopted approaches for measuring developer productivity worldwide, and his published research continues to guide engineering and policy decisions at Microsoft and across the industry. At Microsoft, Brian leads the research for EngThrive, the company’s central developer experience initiative. His philosophy is simple: Improving productivity requires addressing both the technical constraints that limit innovation and the human factors that shape how people experience their jobs.
Barkha Herman - Developer Advocate @ StarTree.ai
Barkha Herman is a technologist, experienced developer advocate, and the founder of WiTVoices and South Florida Women in Tech. With a deep understanding of technology and a love for fostering inclusive and diverse tech communities, Barkha is dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations to thrive in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Currently, Barkha is thriving as a Developer Advocate at StarTree.ai, where she collaborate with developers, engineers, and product teams to create innovative solutions that streamline development processes and enhance user experiences.
In addition to her work at StarTree.ai, she takes great pride in founding and leading WiTVoices and South Florida Women in Tech. These organizations are committed to empowering women in technology and creating a supportive environment for their professional growth. Through mentorship programs, networking events, and educational initiatives, they strive to break barriers and foster inclusivity in the tech industry.
Mark Heckler - MODERNE - Senior Director of Field Engineering
Mark has worked with key players in numerous industries and organizations to develop, deliver, and maintain critical capabilities securely, on time, and on budget. Mark is a Java Champion, open source contributor, author of Spring Boot: Up and Running (https://bit.ly/springbootbook), and a licensed, instrument-rated pilot.
Klaus Haeuptle - SAP - Distinguished Software Engineer
Klaus Haeuptle is a Distinguished Software Engineering in the Developer Experience Team at SAP. In his current role he is driving improvement initiatives and leading a large community with more than 5k software engineers. Before he worked as software engineer and architect in supply chain management, procurement, finance and governance risk and control.
Harald Aamot is a medical informatics and distributed-systems specialist whose work centers on large-scale refactoring and cloud transformation. He helps enterprises modernize complex, data-heavy platforms by automating code migration, reducing technical debt, and aligning to standards using OpenRewrite and ecosystem tools. His expertise spans cloud-native architectures, microservices on SAP BTP, in-memory computing with SAP HANA, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and privacy-preserving analytics in regulated environments. As a development expert, he champions developer experience, performance, and reliability to accelerate delivery while maintaining security and compliance and governance. Harald speaks on scalable code transformation, pragmatic legacy-to-cloud paths, and building trustworthy, sustainable software at enterprise scale.
Niklas Gustavsson - SPOTIFY - Chief Architect
Niklas Gustavsson is the Chief Architect at Spotify where he focuses on holistic architecture, technology innovation and engineering practices, and with a strong interest towards making architecture more data-driven.
Mihaela Gheorghe-Roman - Software Architect @ Systematic
Mihaela is a Software Architect at Systematic, Romania. Ph.D in artificial neural network algorithms, Assistant Professor at the University of Cybernetics and Informatics in Bucharest, she is a dedicated lead developer and architect who enjoys sharing her knowledge.
In her professional career, spanning over 13+ years, she worked for telecom and defence domains with a focus on Java, Spring Boot, C, C#, Scala and Angular.
Apart from her passion for programming, she loves parrots, she is enthusiastic about traveling the world and doing a lot of sports, from running at marathons, martial arts and to different aerobic trainings.
Arun George - Director Software Engineering @ Walmart Global Tech India
Director - Software Engineering at Walmart Global Tech, with more than 20 years of software industry experience. Loves .Net full-stack application development, JavaScript UI Frameworks, and cloud-native application design and architecture. Have worked primarily on Warehouse Management, Supply Chain Management, and Retail domains.
Justine Gehring - Research Engineer @ Moderne
Justine Gehring is a talented researcher in the field of Machine Learning (ML) for code and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Her focus lies in generating code under challenging circumstances, specifically in scenarios such as sparse data where library-specific code is required, as well as managing a substantial amount of code at a time. Justine is a research engineer at Moderne.
Bryan Friedman - MODERNE - Director of Technical Marketing
Bryan Friedman has spent his career working on software platforms and developer-facing tools, with a focus on how teams build and operate complex systems in real-world enterprise environments. His background spans product management, developer relations, and technical marketing, and he has worked closely with engineering and IT teams on cloud platforms, application infrastructure, and developer enablement.
Before moving into platform and product-focused roles, Bryan worked in enterprise IT and application development, supporting and building production systems across a range of domains. That experience informs a practical, grounded perspective on software architecture, developer productivity, and the tradeoffs involved in building tools for real teams with real constraints.
Szczepan Faber - AIRBNB - Engineering Leadership
Helping developers get more done, maker of Mockito and other open source, principal engineer at Airbnb
Khalid Elsawaf - MORGAN STANLEY - Executive Director
Khalid Elsawaf is the Secured Financing Tech (SFT) Post-Trade Lead Architect and Prime Brokerage & Secured Financing Tech (PBSFT) Montreal Lead. Khalid is passionate about improving developer productivity and has lead and participated in multiple initiatives, including driving the firm's DevOps transformation, adoption of a data-driven approach to rationalizing change management, and technical debt remediation at scale using industry standard tools. Khalid is also the Institutional Securities Technology (IST) division representative on the Software Development and Change Management Control Committee (SDCMCC), responsible for the firm's SDLC policy and procedure. Khalid currently co-leads the Evolution @ Scale working group under the DevOps Automation Mutualization special interest group for FINOS (Fintech Open Source Foundation).
Khalid joined Morgan Stanley in 2014 as an Associate, and was promoted to Vice-President in 2018 and to Executive Director in 2023.
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Khalid worked at Oracle in Montreal, starting as junior developer in 2006 until his departure in 2014 as a software development manager.
He holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering degree (with honors) from Concordia University in Montreal.
Ellen DeWitt - SQUARESPACE - Software Engineer
Ellen DeWitt is a Software Engineer at Squarespace working in backend development using Golang and Java, with strong experience in developing Spring Boot applications. Her technical focus is on improving developer efficiency through automation and code extensibility while contributing to high-performance, maintainable systems.
Brian Clark - Developer Advocate @ Snyk
Brian Clark is an engineer and security specialist dedicated to helping developers implement best practices for secure application development. As a Developer Advocate at Snyk, he shares expert insights on protecting applications from critical vulnerabilities, securing npm packages, and mitigating risks in open-source software. Brian has contributed to the Web Almanac Security chapter in both 2022 and 2024, helping document and analyze the state of web security. Through his engaging content and presentations, Brian explores the security implications of popular developer tools, AI-assisted coding, and VS Code extension security. His practical, hands-on approach and clear communication style make him a trusted resource for developers looking to strengthen their security expertise in modern software.
Aubrey Chipman - NETFLIX - Senior Software Engineer
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Christos Chatzis - Sr Technology Manager @KaizenGaming
Christos is a technology leader specializing in big data and software engineering. He leads distributed teams and shares insights at conferences and publications. He is the author of “git push -f leadership” newsletter and the founder of “leadership discussions in tech” meetup. In his free time, he enjoys basketball, HYROX training, and playing with his son and family.
DaShaun Carter - Engineer @ Broadcom
DaShaun is a husband, father of four, volunteer, struggling athlete, former professional cheerleader, Raspberry Pi enthusiast, and Spring Developer Advocate at Broadcom. Deliberately practicing to build, run, and manage, better software, faster.
Michael Carducci - Holistic Software Architect
Michael Carducci is a seasoned IT professional with over 25 years of experience, an author, and an internationally recognized speaker, blending expertise in software architecture with the artistry of magic and mentalism. His recent book, “Mastering Software Architecture,” reflects his deep understanding of the multifaceted challenges of building resilient, effective software systems and high-performing teams. Michael's career spans roles from individual contributor to CTO, with a particular focus on strategic enterprise architecture and digital transformation.
As a magician and mentalist, Michael has captivated audiences in dozens of countries, applying the same creativity and problem-solving skills that define his technology career. He excels in transforming complex technical concepts into engaging narratives, making him a sought-after speaker, trainer, and emcee for internal and tech events worldwide.
In his consulting work, Michael adopts a holistic approach to software architecture, ensuring alignment with business strategy and operational realities. He empowers teams, bridges tactical and strategic objectives, and guides organizations through transformative changes, always aiming to create sustainable, adaptable solutions.
Michael's unique blend of technical acumen and performative talent makes him an unparalleled force in both the tech and entertainment industries, driven by a passion for continuous learning and a commitment to excellence.
Kevin Brockhoff - Cloud Architect @ CGI
Kevin applies his 20+ years of software architecture, engineering, and management experience to solving difficult cloud adoption challenges such as recently:
- Untangling a ball-of-mud monolith into cloud-deployable components.
- Productionizing several legacy systems with cloud-native instrumentation and tooling.
- Leading the architectural runway team for a SAFe release train.
- Streamling and automating an organization's big data pipelines.
Yishai Beeri - CTO @ LinearB
Yishai Beeri likes to solve problems, and that’s why he was so fascinated with programming when first encountered Logo back in the 80s, where the possibilities seemed endless.
He has made it a focus of his career to solve complex programming problems, both as a consultant and entrepreneur. In 2014 he joined the CTO office of a fast-moving cloud security startup, which later was acquired by a networking giant. At this startup he also met Ori Keren and Dan Lines, now co-founders of LinearB. He joined them shortly after the company was established, in order to get back to what he loves most about engineering, solving big challenges, and this time he is focusing on the world of dev team metrics and software delivery management. He is also the host of the very successful Hebrew Podcast - Dev Interrupted.
Tim te Beek - Solutions Engineering Manager @ Moderne
Tim te Beek is a staff software engineer at Moderne, which automates software refactoring at scale. He has extensive experience contributing to and presenting on Open Source software within the Java ecosystem. Previously he worked as a consultant specializing in migration engineering and developer productivity.
Dinesh Arora - WELLS FARGO - Principal Engineer, Engineering Strategy
Dinesh Arora is a Principal engineer at Wells Fargo. He is part of Engineering Strategy , where he is responsible for developing and executing the engineering strategy for the company's digital transformation. He has over 18 years of experience in the tech industry. Dinesh is passionate about solving complex problems with innovative engineering solutions. He is skilled at setting vision and strategy, building and leading high-performing teams, and executing on complex projects.
Guadalupe Aliseda-Canton - DUOLINGO - Software Engineer
Guadalupe Aliseda-Canton is a Software Engineer at Duolingo focused on platform and infrastructure modernization. She enjoys building workflows that help teams move faster through infrastructure automation and developer productivity tools.
Rui Abreu - META - Software Research Engineer
Rui Abreu is a Research Software Engineer at Meta. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science - Software Engineering from the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, and a M.Sc. in Computer and Systems Engineering from the University of Minho, Portugal. His research revolves around software quality, with emphasis in automating the testing and debugging phases of the software development life-cycle as well as self-adaptation. He has extensive expertise in both static and dynamic analysis algorithms for improving software quality. He is the recipient of 5 Best Paper Awards, and his work has attracted considerable attention.
Mohammed Aboullaite - Community Catalyst @ Spotify
Mohammed is a community catalyst, a true open source believer, Java Champion and one of Google developer expert.
Harald Aamot - SAP - Development Lead - Large Scale Refactoring
Harald is a medical informatics and distributed-systems specialist whose work centers on large-scale refactoring and cloud transformation. He helps enterprises modernize complex, data-heavy platforms by automating code migration, reducing technical debt, and aligning to standards using OpenRewrite and ecosystem tools. His expertise spans cloud-native architectures, microservices on SAP BTP, in-memory computing with SAP HANA, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and privacy-preserving analytics in regulated environments. As a development expert, he champions developer experience, performance, and reliability to accelerate delivery while maintaining security and compliance and governance. Harald speaks on scalable code transformation, pragmatic legacy-to-cloud paths, and building trustworthy, sustainable software at enterprise scale.