Speakers

Kyle Daigle is Senior Engineering Manager of API Engineering at GitHub and helps build and improve its platform. Before GitHub, he built and integrated APIs for banks, credit unions, realtors, and small businesses. Kyle is passionate about using APIs to enable teams to collaborate more effectively. Kyle lives in Connecticut with his wife and son and enjoys a crisp New England apple on a fall day.

Mark Tareshawty has been enjoying making people misspell the storage capacity for 1024 gigabytes since he grabbed the @tarebyte handle many years ago. He is a Platform Engineer at GitHub based in Columbus Ohio, and enjoys contributing to open source and building tools that makes peoples lives better.

Kir Shatrov is a Developer Infrastructure Engineer at Shopify where he works on the core Rails platform and infrastructure. When not into working, Kir enjoys learning new technologies, speaking at conferences and biking.

Jacob is the lead engineer for the Met Office Informatics Lab with experience in software development, operational system engineering and cloud architecture. He uses these skills to ensure the lab is building robust prototypes that are pushing the boundaries of technology.

Kat is a cat-cuddling Product Designer at GitHub on the Community and Safety team, where she builds tools that empower communities. She’s a California native who loves story-driven design, code, and rock climbing.

Mike McQuaid is a senior software engineer working on open source at GitHub based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is also the lead maintainer of the Homebrew macOS package manager, author of Git in Practice and has contributed to a wide array of open source projects

Before GitHub, Vitor was a senior software engineer in the financial and healthcare industries. These days Vitor helps GitHub customers to be successful using the GitHub platform.

Andrew is the Chief Waffle Maker at Waffle.io, where he runs product, works with customers, and dabbles with code. Andrew is all about solving the right problem for the right customer at the right time. You’ll often find Andrew mountain biking or backcountry skiing in the mountains near Boulder, Colorado.

Danielle has been shipping bugs for over a decade. She has worked with a variety of technologies and spent 8 years as an iOS engineer. As a member of the CocoaPods Core Team, and as a Software Engineer at CircleCI she can mostly be found building and breaking developer tools. She is also an avid traveller and nomad who despite falling in love with Berlin is usually on a aeroplane.

Jaime Jorge is the CEO and Co-founder of Codacy where he focuses on helping his team create best platform for developers and teams to make great engineering decisions. Jaime has a MsC in software engineering and has been studying and researching code analysis and quality since college. His biggest drive is helping developers improve their products and this was the reason Codacy was born. On his free time he enjoys hikes, traveling and brazillian jiu-jitsu both in Europe and in San Francisco.

Cory is the Co-founder, CTO at Rollbar where he focuses on building the right team and product to help thousands of developers find an fix bugs in their production systems. Cory is passionate about enabling others to succeed and grow, knowing that the best investment is in people. He also loves hiking around the San Francisco Bay Area, traveling all over the world, the occasional all night dance party and making space for self improvement and reflection.

Matt is a technical documentation nerd turned trainer with experience in laboratory information systems, IT security certifications, payment authentication platforms, and GitHub. He loves helping people work smarter.

An agile, bold, and passionate software developer interested in augmented user experience, technological challenges, and business transformation. As a supporter of knowledge sharing, I co-founded Ch'ti JUG a few years ago, a developer community in Lille, to organize events. I share with others by speaking to events like Devoxx France, Ch'ti JUG, Codeurs en Seine, and BBL.

I spent several years as Technical Leader and Software Developer on strategic projects in various domains like API, Big Data, UX, Web, Mobile. I am always looking for new challenges in the field of innovation like Digitalization, Mobility, Makers, AI, Collaborative Economy, and Block Chain.

I want to keep practicing software development and to be involved in every step of a product lifecycle. I am not a project manager, but I am a doer, a learner, a corporate hacker, and I try to be a leader!

Kai Hilton-Jones heads up GitHub's Solutions Engineering team in Europe and helps developers and organisations to build better software, faster. During a career spanning more than 20 years Kai has enjoyed roles in software development, operations, database administration and data science before discovering a passion for customer advocacy and community interaction. Kai and his team help companies to evaluate and adopt GitHub, ultimately reducing friction and breaking down barriers to collaboration.

Thomas Jansen is a Product Expert 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, Travis CI, ZenHub and Slack 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.

Based in Berlin, Germany, Lothar Schulz is responsible for Zalando’s source code management as well as other continuous delivery systems. Before joining Zalando, Lothar held positions with Txtr, T-Systems/Deutsche Telekom and Nokia as team and project manager.

Alex has over 11 years multi-platform Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) experience and is currently working in a global team providing essential ALM tooling to the development community within HSBC.

I’ve been working with one of the larger business units of Continental Automotive for more than sixteen years.

Although I had fallen in love with programming of computers of all kinds in my early childhood and I always enjoyed to spread my experiences, knowledge and skills in what I’m doing after school I chose the studies in Mechanical Engineering over the studies for being a teacher for Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics.

After eleven years as embedded software developer and later software architect developing driver assistance functions for the series production in collaboration with various OEMs, the recent years I have been helping modernizing the embedded software engineering. Here I can put in my enthusiam in teaching and the circle seems to go full around.

I’m forty-one years old, married and have two kids.

John Witchel is the President/COO of GitPrime, the leader in engineering productivity analytics. With over 200 customers worldwide, GitPrime helps engineering leaders maximize the productivity of their teams with a suite of productivity analytic tools available in the cloud or on-prem. Most recently, John oversaw the FinTech engineering practice at Tesla. He joined Tesla by way of acquisition of his previous startup, Common Assets, the creator of SolarBonds. Prior to that John was the co-founder and CTO of Prosper, America’s first person to person lending platform. A Stanford alumni with a Masters in CS, John is a former American record holder in swimming. Today, he lives in Durango, Colorado and is an avid off-road racer.

Konrad Djimeli is a Computer Science student at the University of Buea, Cameroon. He is a software developer and an organizer within the Silicon Mountain community in Africa. He is an open source developer, evangelist and a GitHub Campus Expert in his community. He also believes you are only as limited as your ambitions and he is dedicated to helping others reach their full potential. http://djimeli.me/

Victor is a Build & Configuration Engineer working and living in the UK. He works across different teams to build and improve Continuous Integration/Delivery environment, development tool workflows and infrastructure.

Raul is a Build & Configuration Engineer working and living in Barcelona. He works across different teams to build and improve Continuous Integration/Delivery environment, development tool workflows and infrastructure.

Phil Haack (pronounced "hack") never misses an opportunity to point out the pronunciation of his last name. He is the Director of Engineering for Client Apps at GitHub. Client Apps is a group that consists of the Desktop, Atom, Electron, and Editor Tools teams. He blogs at http://haacked.com/ and tweets droll observations as @haacked on Twitter. He also says words at conferences here and there. He has quit writing technical books many times now and hopes this last time will stick.

Panna Pavangadkar is the Global Head of Developer Experience at Bloomberg Engineering. Her team is responsible for making the process of developing, deploying, scaling and managing applications more efficient, so that developers can focus on building great applications for the Bloomberg customers.

Her past experience with various engineering roles with databases, operating systems, infrastructure and application development as Technical Fellow, Vice President at Goldman Sachs, New York and J P Morgan, Singapore and NIIT Pune, India, give her a unique perspective to understand and work with bringing in wide scale change within the developer and engineering communities.

Marc is a former Secondary Science and Computer Science teacher, and self-taught programmer. He now works for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, helping to fulfill their charitable mission by producing educational resources and engaging in outreach work. He's also authored A Beginner Guide to Coding - a book aimed at introducing children to programming through Scratch and Python.

Jamie is an engineer on GitHub's Professional Services team, where she enables companies to wield the power of GitHub Enterprise responsibly. She has a background in art history, and has worked at Microsoft, Google, and Nintendo of America. She likes Linux, open source, and documenting all the things. When not Hubbing, she lives and travels in a Westfalia Vanagon with her partner, Maxwell, and corgi, Yorick.

Stefan has been a software developer, teacher and consultant for over 10 years, he believes "code is beautiful" and achieving it through collaboration. On the Professional Services team at GitHub his focus lies in helping companies migrate to Git and GitHub, learn about the GitHub Flow, and add continuous integration and deployment to their development tools.

Eric is a Trainer at GitHub, travelling the world to teach customers how to best adopt and utilize all things Git. A teacher by trade, he's deeply invested in education, open source software, and enthusiastic about non-technical users and software developers alike.

Nathan is a Principal Services Engineer at GitHub, where he works closely with customers to teach their teams to how to build better software together. With experience in web development, product & UI design, and project management, Nathan cares deeply about the craft of building great software. At GitHub, he relishes in the opportunity to share this love of code and collaboration with teams of all sizes.

With a background in creative arts and software development curriculum, Briana collaborates with teams and individuals working with the visionary tools available through Git and GitHub. Through a positive and energetic approach, she helps others achieve their own exciting new ventures through the use of these innovative technologies.

Michael Johnson is a Services Engineer at GitHub from Denver, Colorado. He helps companies get started with and improve their use of GitHub Enterprise and related tools. He loves to learn from and teach others about how to improve the software development process.

Steve has worked in the wonderful world of software for over a decade, where he has enjoyed working with software teams of all shapes and sizes. As part of GitHub Professional Services, Steve now enjoys helping other teams work together to ship better software, faster. Originally hailing from the UK 🇬🇧, Steve is based in Franklin, Tennessee, where he enjoys riding his bike, spending time with his wife and 3 kids, hunting for records, and not eating barbecue. Steve is tagged with