Speakers

Alex is a developer on the Stack Overflow Talent team. His talk "How to be Awesome" is a guide for junior developers to further their careers by working on side projects, and how to make a great first impression when applying for a job.

Arie developed the Stack Overflow mobile app while travelling around the world. He enjoys speaking on career development, mobile design (especially iOS), other cultures and languages, and turning espresso into code.

Alexa is passionate about helping companies understand how to scale marketing teams and the role technology and community can play in driving business success. She speaks regularly about branding and growth strategies at startups, diversity in tech, and career growth for millennials.

Ben has worked at Stack Overflow for over five years, and has given talks on various topics such as localStorage messaging, IL code generation, and regex performance. With interests such as algorithmic unicorn generation and April 1st, he is a proponent of fun-ctional programming (and bad puns).

David speaks on programming, management, and cognitive biases as they apply to hiring and decision making in the workplace. He specializes in .NET on topics such as performance and optimization, distributed caching, cloud computing, and search algorithms.

Josh is a Senior Product Designer on the Design team. He enjoys talking about style guides, experience design, and design processes.

Jon is a developer on the Developer Affinity and Growth team at Stack Overflow. He's also the founder of Bento, a tech education site for self-taught developers. He frequently speaks on product development, tech education, and diversity.

Marc is a developer often focusing on tools and libraries for high performance / scalability development; his talks often focus on similar subjects - in particular things like IL generation, redis SE.Redis, database access (dapper), web scalability, and related topics

Matt speaks on engineering and engineering management. He specializes in recruiting, getting developers talking to salespeople, and the Go programming language. He is also the founder of Alikewise, a dating site based on books.

Possibility, innovation, and relentless movement forward are at the core of what drive Nada. She enjoys speaking about building scalable and efficient marketing systems, empowering women, and living life to the fullest through running.

Nick is a developer and SRE on the Core and Site Reliability Engineering teams at Stack Overflow. Nick's passion is performance and efficiency through the entire stack. He does in-depth talks on infrastructure and code approaches used at Stack Overflow, including the story and reasoning behind them.

dad, data team member at stack overflow, GA Tech grad student, high power rocketry enthusiast, connoisseur of head rubs

Oded has been a developer since 1997 and started using Stack Overflow during its beta period. He is now working at Stack Overflow, improving the site (when not bringing it down). He talks about both the community and engineering aspects of the site.

Dan builds tools to make internal process and procedure efficient and consistent. He worked previously in education as both an educator and technical staff. He has spoken on a variety of topics, including Google Glass, Leap Motion, Technology in Education, Django Web apps - and other past tinkerings.

Jeff speaks about startups, the management and scaling of both sales teams and software development teams and how the two are much similar than you might think. His talk ‘The Developers Guide to Running a Sales Team’ can be seen here.

Will is the Director of Product for Stack Overflow Talent. He frequently speaks about the Stack Overflow Talent product, helping recruiters understand better how to hire developers, and product development best practices.