Richard Rodger is the author of The Tao of Microservices, a new book from Manning focused
on the design and management of microservice architectures. Richard is the host of the
Dublin Microservices Meetup, and the maintainer of the open source senecajs.org
microservice framework. His first book Mobile Application Development in the Cloud (Wiley,
2010) is one of the first major works on the intersection of Node.js, Cloud, and Mobile.
Avishai is a veteran developer that led development with several global hi-tech companies. Among his roles, he served as the Chief Architect of HP ALM (Quality Center & Performance Center), leading the HP Mercury ALM architects team in building tools for developers. Later in his career, he managed a line of business at Panaya (acquired by Infosys for $200 Million) and led a team of product managers at Cellebrite (The global leader in digital intelligence solutions). Today he manages a product team at Salt Security, a leading provider of API cybersecurity tools. He is a technology enthusiast.
Peter Leeson is a freelance consultant and coach focused on business effectiveness. With half a century of experience in the software industry, he is a former process improvement appraiser and instructor for the CMMI Institute. He is an internationally renowned speaker, instructor, and consultant. After spending many years being a process improvement consultant, Peter has focused more and more on the need for job satisfaction and the feeling of achievement as the ultimate key to quality, which means lower time to market and lower costs. Peter has worked in nearly every continent (still missing South America and Antarctica) and believes that any change for the better in an organisation has to be deeply rooted in the culture of the country, the organisation and the team. Rather than pushing a standard, model or theory, Peter believes in identifying the most pragmatic approach to resolving quality-related issues in the organisation by clearly aligning top-down objectives, goals and strategies with bottom-up practices and culture.
Wojtek is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS dedicated for Central and Eastern European region. Working with Cloud Computing and Data Engineering since 2015 - in different roles: starting from IT Operations Engineer,
Software Engineer and Cloud Architect. Functional programming and Serverless architecture aficionado.
9 x Certified AWS Specialist. Speaker, lecturer, and content creator.
Boštjan Kaluža, PhD is the Chief Data Scientist at Evolven. He's done a lot of research into artificial intelligence and intelligent systems, machine learning, predictive analytics and anomaly detection. Prior to Evolven, Boštjan served as a senior researcher in the Department of Intelligent Systems at the Jozef Stefan Institute, the leading Slovenian scientific research institution and led research projects involving pattern and anomaly detection, machine learning and predictive analytics. Focusing on the detection of suspicious behavior and data analysis, Boštjan has published numerous articles in professional journals and delivered conference papers. Boštjan published two books on data science, Instant Weka How-to, exploring how to leverage machine learning using Weka, and Machine Learning in Java, for learning how to use Java's machine learning libraries to gain insight from data. Boštjan is also the author and contributor to a number of patents in the areas of anomaly detection and pattern recognition.
Thomas Sundberg is an independent consultant and contractor based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has been working as a developer for more than 25 years. Thomas has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, in Stockholm. He has taught programming at The Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, one of the leading technical universities in Sweden.
Thomas has developed an obsession for technical excellence that translates to software craftsmanship, clean code, test automation and continuous deployment. Definition of done according to Thomas is working software, in production.
He runs a blog where he writes about programming, software craftsmanship, TDD, BDD and whatever problem he wants to share a solution for. It can be found at Think Code AB.
Thomas tweets as @thomassundberg
Dan is a speaker, author, coach, and consultant in agile and predictive project management.
He is partner at Colors in Project and lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Babes-Bolyai University where he delivers trainings and courses on Agile Methodologies, Project Management and Databases.
He has more than 20 years of software development experience, more than half of which spent coordinating teams of various sizes as technical leader, Project Manager, Scrum Master or Director of Delivery.
He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj Napoca and since 2000 has a PhD in Informatics. Dan is passionate about video games and animated movies.
Denis is a passionate developer with interests in professionalisation of the software development discipline, who also loves distributed systems that interact in a complex environment. He has been involved in leading teams delivering software products in various fields such as banking, insurance, healthcare, performance advertising. He is interested in everything related to latest in software and tech.
Cătălin was responsible to ramp-up and today he leads the activities in the field of computer vision and artificial intelligence for assisted and automated driving. Together with a team of talented engineers, he develops state-of-the-art mobility technologies and transforms the latest research findings into innovative automotive products and intelligent mobility solutions, which are valuable goals for Bosch especially in this highly challenging field. Using the latest AI based computer vision methods and technologies, having these advanced research and development activities in Romania, and capitalizing on local expertise in creating AI based systems give him extra motivation, especially when the solutions are implemented on a large scale.
I am one of the lucky people to do what they love to do, to fuel my passion for technology. Slowly I moved from building things and discovering new technical challenges by myself, to build teams and work with them to do this together. And more interesting I discovered a real sense of personal accomplishment by sharing what I know with the others. Writing articles, speaking at events, mentoring are things which I never thought I would love to do, but definitely are completing my passion for technology. All the experience I gained, the roles which I filled over time are just a consequence (even a bonus) of what I like to do.
Gabriel Ciuloaica is a Software Architect & Technical leader with 20+ years experience in delivering professional services to large global businesses in telecommunication and gambling industries. He is currently working as an Independent Software Consultant. During the time he worked with teams from companies like WowApp, Gemini Solutions, Adlogica,IQuate, CloudSphere, Metro Systems, Unicredit and Dream11 to reach their goals. Before working as consultant he was working for large organisations like Softvision, Intellisync, Nokia and Betfair having different leadership roles.
I am passionate about technology and people, and I spend a great deal of time getting the two play nice together. All with the intent of building great Software Products.
As an employee, consultant and business owner I had the great opportunity to work with and for companies ranging from Startups to Enterprises. and build products used by most of the Fortune 100 companies. For over 20 years I wrote software, I recruited/ coached and managed several hundreds talented engineers, designers and managers, and I brought tens of products to life. And I loved (almost) every bit of this.
Currently I am driving the Technology & Product Development strategy at Nordlogic Software, as its CTO.
Cornel Stefanache, AscentCore's CTO, is on a mission to help augment customer businesses using AI, cyber security, privacy and visualization through tailored technical solutions. His experience and deep knowledge allow him to be well aware of the trade-offs between reliability, flexibility, performance and ease of implementation, and easily identify potential growth that can be achieved with technical solutions. Within the company, he is also the Lead researcher of AC Labs, a research department that focuses on coming up with creative and innovative solutions to accommodate customer needs and giving back to the community through open-source principles.
I am a happy father, a passionate reader, and an enthusiastic developer. During the past 20 years, I've been fortunate to work with some of the best and brightest software developers at IBM, DataGrid Software, and now at Snyk.
UML, IoT, ML/AI, Security, and DevOps are fields I've dabbled in using various programming languages. Irrespective of the domain or tools I've used, writing code that helped people was always the most important thing.
Ultimately, everything is better with the help of a community, which is why I love sharing my experience and learning from others.
As an IT consultant with more than 20 years of industry experience, Tudor is a Certified Ethical Hacker, a Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, and a regular speaker at local and regional community events.
His current areas of focus revolve around Cloud Strategy, Cybersecurity, GDPR, IT Governance & Risk Management, Data Protection, Systems & Network Administration, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, Business Process Optimization, and Digital Transformation.
Rareș is a determined Senior Full-Stack developer with a passion for innovation in the field of web applications and a drive towards discovering new ways of making the web as user friendly and as accessible as possible. As a proud Code Crafter, he strives for code that is both resilient and efficient, always searching for new ways of making software better. Today, Rareș will share with you one of his newest topics of interest, Micro Frontends, and will help you answer the big question, to Use or Not to Use them.
Iurie is an experienced mobile developer and technology geek. He is continuously researching on Technology and channeling it to his skills development; a road that led him to build his own electric skateboard, of which he's pretty proud of :) Currently, Iurie is using his knowledge inside Fortech to grow the internal mobile community, not only on native iOS and Android but also through several cross-platform solutions. All this while trying to build a strong, high-performance team. He also supports various internship programs as a mentor and has formed a close bond with those he interacted with during mentoring, beyond work.
Helping developers to grow and see their progress motivates Iurie to make things click in their minds - this being as well the theme of his presentation at The Developers Conference.
Frank J. Pietrucha is a communications professional who specializes in delivering big digital-era ideas, and clear, persuasive messages that win hearts, minds, and budgets. President of Definitive Communications for over twenty years, Frank has communicated on behalf of technology companies, government organizations and economic development interests. He is author of the Washington Post bestseller Supercommunicator: Explaining The Complicated So Anyone Can Understand (Harper Collins, 2014).
After completing a multi-year contract to help NASA engineers overcome communications challenges, Frank turned his attention to international markets, specifically, Romania. He is co-founder of the INNES Innovation Center opening fall, 2023 in Craiova. He is a board member at the newly formed Romanian American Chamber of Commerce, International IT chapter and a board member at the Romanian American Chamber of Commerce’s International Cybersecurity chapter.
Frank is a graduate of Cornell University and lives on Captiol Hill in Washington, DC.