GitHub Satellite

Thomas Jansen

Product Management

SAP

Thomas Jansen is a Product Owner at SAP focusing on improving the life of developers by providing tools and services for their daily work. Besides creating and running internal and open source apps and services, he helps establishing products like GitHub and Travis-CI at SAP. He has worked in the role of a developer, project lead and product owner and coached teams in agile software engineering and design thinking practices. Thomas is determined to build great services for end users, develop well crafted products and get things done.

Marjori Pomarole

Software Engineer

Facebook

Marjori Pomarole is a Software Engineer on the Security Infrastructure team at Facebook London. She currently leads development for Invariant Dectector, a security tool for finding and blocking anomalies in write requests on Facebook.

Laurent Ploix

Technical Product Owner

Spotify

Laurent is Technical Product Owner at Spotify, in charge of the client continuous integration infrastructure. He is passionate about software development effectiveness, as it involves both people interactions and technical tooling. He likes to develop in Python.

Thomas Sugden

Executive Director

UBS

Tom works at UBS where his team created the e-commerce platform for the Investment Bank, Asset Management and Wealth Management Americas divisions. He is an enthusiast of open-source and collaborative development processes and their potential to improve enterprise software.

Chris Wanstrath

Co-founder & CEO

GitHub

Chris Wanstrath co-founded GitHub in 2008 to make it easier to build software. Prior to GitHub, Chris briefly attended the University of Cincinnati before moving to San Francisco to work as a software developer at CNET Networks on GameSpot, TV.com, and Chow. He left CNET in 2007 to start his own business, which eventually led to GitHub.

A self-taught programmer, Chris has contributed to and published dozen of open source projects, written extensively about technical topics, and given talks at conferences all around the world. When he's not thinking about code or octocats he's probably making music or reading.

Eric Bowman

VP of Engineering

Zalando

Eric Bowman is VP of Engineering at Zalando, where he has worked over the last year to transform Zalando’s engineering teams to organize themselves and architect their systems to achieve Radical Agility. Zalando is the biggest fashion e-commerce site in Europe, and is building a cloud-based platform to disrupt how the world connects to fashion. A 20-year industry veteran, Eric has been a technical leader at several startups as well as Gilt Groupe, TomTom, 3, Electronic Arts, and Maxis, where a lifetime ago he was one of the three amigos who built The Sims 1.0.

Kakul Srivastava

VP, Product Management

GitHub

Kakul Srivastava is VP of Product Management at GitHub. She is a tech entrepreneur focused on building companies that empower people and create community. Kakul has helped build some of the best loved consumer tech products -- Adobe's Photoshop line of software, Flickr, Yahoo! Messenger, and Yahoo! Mail. She was the founder and CEO of Tomfoolery, Inc., a start-up dedicated to making beautiful social apps for work. Tomfoolery was bought by Yahoo in 2014. Kakul is a graduate of MIT with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering, and also holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. She serves as Co-Chair on the Board of Cure Violence, a non-profit dedicated to stopping violence in some of the world’s most high-risk communities, and is an active volunteer, advising in official and unofficial roles, to a number of start-ups and non-profits. She lives in SF with her husband and two children.

Jenny Duckett

Senior Developer

GOV.UK

Jenny is a senior developer at the UK's Government Digital Service. She's tech lead of the Custom Formats team, which owns the more specialised publishing formats and tools on GOV.UK, the single domain for government.

Javier Marcos

Security Engineer

Facebook

Javier Marcos is a security engineer at Facebook with experience working on both offensive and defensive teams. He is currently a member of Facebook's Detection Infrastructure team and manages the Facebook CTF platform.

Nicole Sanchez

VP, Social Impact

GitHub

Nicole Sanchez is GitHub's VP of Social Impact. She an organizational culture and management expert with over 20 years of experience. Prior to joining GitHub, she was CEO of Vaya Consulting, a firm focused on supporting tech companies on diversity and inclusion efforts . Nicole holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. A self-described “people and culture geek,” Nicole has worked in both the public and private sectors on issues of engaging communities in education access, technology, and civic participation.

Alex Muller

Developer

GOV.UK

Alex is the technical lead and only developer on the GOV.UK infrastructure team, which keeps the UK government's website running reliably. At the moment the team is improving disaster recovery and thinking about the future of GOV.UK's hosting.

Guðmundur Bjarni Ólafsson

Software Engineer

Heroku

Guðmundur Bjarni Ólafsson is a Software Engineer on the Developer Experience team at Heroku. For the past year or so, he has been working on Heroku pipelines, GitHub Sync integration and review apps.

Usually found working remotely, meditating, CrossFitting, geeking out over coffee, going for walks, playing the piano or reading in Copenhagen, Denmark.

And yes, my name is Icelandic, and yes, my father’s name is Ólafur. Halló.

Judy Gichoya

Manager, Global Events

OpenMRS

Judy Gichoya enjoys writing code to save lives. A medical doctor from Kenya, she has worked with OpenMRS for the last 8 years. OpenMRS is the largest Open source medical records system used in over 42 countries with one of the most vibrant worldwide communities in open source. Judy is specializing in radiology, and works to help doctors care for patients using technology. Her passion is in global health and informatics, and she merges her medical and IT skills supporting health care in places like Malawi where there are only 2 radiologists taking care of a population of over 16 million people. Her experience with OpenMRS is as a developer, community member and implementer in various African and Latin America countries. Read her blog at Gichoya.me or on twitter @judywawira

Ron Cohen

Founder

Opbeat

Ron Cohen leads engineering and product at Opbeat where he's adamant about building efficient engineering and product teams by breaking down silos, minimizing process and increasing trust and empathy. He's also an avid runner.

Elizabeth (Ploshay) McCauley

Board Member

Code to Inspire

Elizabeth serves on the board of Code to Inspire, the first Girl’s Coding school in Afghanistan. She works as Global Business Development Head for Coinsecure, India’s largest Bitcoin exchange and additionally just cofounded a dedicated hardware wallet project. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Bitcoin Foundation since 2013.

Elizabeth is passionate about finding decentralized solutions to promote individuals liberties and global financial inclusion.

Dirkjan Bussink

Engineering Manager

GitHub

Dirkjan Bussink joined GitHub in December 2013 and is currently the engineering manager for GitHub Enterprise.

Justin Dorfman

Director of Developer Relations

MaxCDN

Justin Dorfman is MaxCDN’s Director of Developer Relations and is responsible for evangelizing the company’s technologies and championing the needs of developers who use the network.

Justin started BootstrapCDN in 2012 and is heavily involved with the FOSS community contributing to Bootstrap, Font Awesome, Grunt, Ionic, jQuery Foundation, Twemoji, Nginx & GNU Bash.

Jessie Frazelle

Engineer

Mesosphere

Jessie Frazelle is on the security team at Mesosphere working on multi-tenancy for DCOS. She also recently worked on adding seccomp in Docker. She is typecast as the person who runs everything in containers including desktop apps. She has been a Docker maintainer for almost 2 years.

Nerd by day, rap battle champion by night.

Brandon Keepers

Head of Open Source

GitHub

GitHub has changed the way open source is built, and Brandon is changing the way GitHub builds open source. An engineer by trade, he believes open source is a fundamental to building great products, and great products sustain healthy open source projects. He shares his endeavors on twitter as @bkeepers and on his blog at opensoul.org.

Erica Stanley

Co-founder, Atlanta Network

Women Who Code

Erica Stanley is a software engineer, researcher and tinkerer. She holds a B.S and M.S in Computer Science from Clark Atlanta University. She has also conducted post-graduate research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in graphics, data visualization and telepresence. Always eager to explore the intersection of emerging technologies and social science, Erica has worked with various technologies at the heart of IoT, including: sensor optimization, mobile & embedded development and cloud computing for over 16 years.

She is also passionately working towards gender and multicultural inclusion in tech, via education and exposure to opportunities. Erica co-founded the Atlanta network of Women Who Code, where she leads new developer workshops and organizes monthly tech talks, hack nights and networking events for women technologists. She also sits on the advisory board of 100 Girls of Code where she helps develop new strategies and curriculums to show girls ages 8 - 18 the possibilities of technology.

Jessica Lord

Node.js Developer

GitHub

Jessica Lord is an open source Node.js developer on GitHub’s Electron team building tooling to support the ecosystem. Prior to joining GitHub three years ago she was a Code for America fellow and urban designer.

Brent Beer

Solutions Engineer

GitHub

Brent Beer has used Git and GitHub for over 5 years through trainings for GitHub, contributions to open source projects, and professionally as a software developer. Brent now works as a solutions engineer for GitHub in Amsterdam to help bring Git and GitHub to developers across the world.

Jerry Caupain

IT Architect

KPN

Jerry Caupain is on the architecture team at KPN (business 2 business) and currently involved with IT ops automation projects.Prior to joining the architecture team, he was a SysAdmin/technical consultant managing Linux and Unix systems and Java-based middleware. KPN has recently started to use GitHub in the area of automated configuration management. Software is really eating everything!

Desert Horse-Grant

Director of Strategy and Operations, Solid Tumor Translational Research

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Ms. Horse-Grant catalyzes scientific collaboration and propels research advances to the clinic through her innovative, strategic thinking and organizational development skills. In this capacity, she guides strategy for Solid Tumor Translational Research, a 450-member, multi-institute, multidiscipline initiative centered at Fred Hutch that is designed to enhance collaborative projects, eliminate barriers in cancer research and secure funding for pioneering studies. In this role, she facilitates biospecimen acquisition and processing for precision oncology efforts and identifies and advances new research that can be translated to patients within five years. She is leading the STTR Innovation Laboratory, a think tank focused on biotool development. In 2015, she was named a Life Science Innovation Northwest Women to Watch in Life Science by the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association and also one of 15 Disruptive Women to Watch by Disruptive Women in Health Care.

Lisa McFerrin

Bioinformatics project manager, STTR

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Lisa McFerrin has a passion for designing tools that facilitate collaborative and reproducible research in order to advance our understanding of cancer biology and improve patient care. She is part of the Oncoscape team, an open-source software project that helps scientists integrate and analyze information from molecular research in the laboratory with patient records and clinical studies. We believe that computers can revolutionize cancer research, and we are making direct efforts to connect the pipeline in translational medicine, reduce duplicative efforts, and create a mechanism for sharing cross-disciplinary research and developments.

Zdenek Nemec

Bioinformatics project manager, STTR

Apiary

Zdenek “Z” Nemec is a computer systems researcher and architect. He is the author of the innovative API description language API Blueprint and also the author of the data modeling language MSON. He currently works at Apiary as the Director for domain specific languages, product manager and research lead for API design.

Mike McQuaid

Software Engineer

GitHub

Mike McQuaid is a software engineer at GitHub. He maintains the Homebrew OS X package manager and has contributed to a wide array of open-source projects.