He coded using a plethora of languages starting with Pascal (yes, he is old), Basic (before it got Visual prefix), ASP (before it got .Net suffix), C, C++, Perl, Python, ASP.Net, Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, Java, Scala, etc. He never worked with Fortran. His current favourite is Go.

More then 10 years of exeperience in IT management and in leadIng of strategic IT projects in telecommunications industry.

Michal works in Kiwi.com as a Full-stack Javascript Tech Lead so his passion is to solve every issue with Javascript. He dreams about web apps written in ReactJS, mobile apps in React Native, backend implemented as serverless and API implemented as a GraphQL.

In love with distributed systems and databases. Preacher of the agile practices. Over 8 years of experience, where last 6 working as the tech team lead. Currently leading division of 5 teams handling the data in Infobip. Initiator and organizer of 2 active meetup groups in Zagreb - "Java" and "Leading in Tech". Aside from IT, he is an outdoors & photo (and Instagram) enthusiast.

Tiffany is a Developer Advocacy Lead at Shopify on the Partnerships Education Team, based in Toronto, Canada. She also works as a professor teaching interaction design and development in the joint York University/Sheridan College Design Program. Tiffany specializes in front end development, theming, user experience design, and accessibility.

Software developer at NSoft. Focus of his work there is planning, building and maintaining scalable web applications and services. He has worked with both frontend and backend technologies, with focus on JavaScript frameworks and related technologies.

I love to build, design, teach, and learn. Making things at Mojang. Formerly spotify and github.

DeVaris Brown is a currently PM @ Heroku responsible for Developer Experience. Prior to Heroku, he worked at Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Visual Supply Company, and Zendesk in various PM and engineering roles. When he’s not sitting in front of a computer, you can find DeVaris behind a camera capturing moments in time or behind a set of turntables, moving a sea of people through music.

Kaj is a co-founder of MariaDB Corporation Ab, and served on its Executive Team in several positions, most recently Chief Evangelist. Hi is a software industry generalist, having served as VP Professional Services, VP Engineering, CIO and VP Community Relations of MySQL AB prior to the acquisition by Sun Microsystems. At Sun, Kaj served as MySQL Ambassador to Sun and Sun VP of Database Community. Board member at Footbalance Systems Oy (Helsinki, Finland). Past founder, CEO and 14 year main entrepreneur of Polycon Ab (Finland).

Consultant Front-end Architect: @google, @UN, @Etsy, @kickstarter, @BBC, @Unilever, @Deloitte, and more • Speaker • Author: @cssguidelines

Has been working in NSoft as a Software Developer. Enjoys working in JavaScript, both frontend and backend. Has strong negative feelings about working with CSS (:shrug:). Lately, she spends most of her time wandering in Vue ecosystem.

Graphics editor, @nytimes investigations team. Open sourceror

Felix is a Senior Staff Engineer and tech lead at Slack. He’s a co-maintainer of Electron, many JavaScript libraries, and the infamous windows95 app. He’s written extensively about web technologies and is the organizer of CovalenceConf.

I've been earning money doing FrontEnd since 2007 although I work on IT since 2004. I like to call myself as JS formatter and CSS tweaker since I don't really care about job titles. I'm very concerned about company culture, therefore, I love to be and shape the company I want to work by leading by example and giving nice and constructive feedback. Tech-wise, I'm a framework agnostic more than that, I prefer Web standards over frameworks.

Experienced software professional with a penchant for designing simple, secure and scalable systems. I have a good grasp of operating system and networking fundamentals and am good at designing algorithms. I have also had exposure to web design, embedded systems development and mobile app development in the past, and have dabbled with computer graphics.

Mete is a Developer Advocate at Google, focused on helping developers with Google Cloud. As a long-time Java and C# developer, he likes to compare the two ecosystems. Prior to Google, he worked at Microsoft, Skype, Adobe, EMC, and Nokia building apps and services on various web, mobile and cloud platforms. Originally from the island of Cyprus, he currently lives in Greenwich of London, not too far away from the prime meridian.

My experience runs the full stack, from the top to the bottom. I’ve managed teams that have built low-level real-time operating systems from the vectors into chips, to consumer UI; high-end 3d games/engines; and fundamental research (Kinect). I’ve personally coded web sites, web servers, datacenter tools, desktop publishing tools, and video games. I've filed roughly 50 patents with at least 26 final approved.

U.M.K. Dikshit is a Mozilla Tech Speaker, Representative, and part of its Hyderabad Community, India. He currently also devotes his time with ICRISAT where he works with drones to develop and trial techniques to connect farmers. Overall he is your next door friendly software guy.

He worked as system engineer, software developer and long-time IT entrepreneur. Open Source Software Advocate. Now manages ICT Županija project, with the motivation of launching the entire IT sector in the Split-Dalmatia County

Seb is inspiring builders to unlock the value of the AWS cloud, using his secret blend of passion, enthusiasm, customer advocacy, curiosity and creativity. Before joining the AWS Evangelist team, Seb built & lead the AWS technical training team in EMEA, and the Alexa solution architecture team in UK, France, Italy and Spain.

Cedrick is a Developer Advocate at DataStax, where he is able to share his passions about development and distributed architectures. With several positions as Developer, Technical Architect or Presales_ and strong background on integration middleware he had multiple opportunities to empower his customers to build cutting-edge distributed applications.

Bruno got his 1st open source related certificate in 1999, as Suse Linux System Administrator. He worked as sysadmin, developer, DBA and consulter, always connected to various open source technologies, mostly, but not only databases. He is part of Couchbase DACH & Central Europe team and is located in Munich, Germany.

Having more than 15 years of experience in the industry, Yolanda has been contributing to several projects in the OpenStack and Linux Foundation communities. As Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, she investigates new technologies and creates proofs of concept for partners to embrace new technologies.

Ivan is a software architect with strong technical and social skills working for Oracle. His mission is to enable every client's success by shaping the vision and providing creative transformation based on cloud technologies. Ivan is passionate about user experience design, inspired by technology, playful in coding. Architecture is a masterpiece of art for him.

Born and raised in NW London of mixed-ethnic background, following an MA in Theology from the University of Cambridge Bilal moved into a career in Youth Engagement, public speaking and facilitation and has delivered hundreds of speeches and workshops around social justice, enterprise and diversity and inclusion as a result. Currently working as a freelance facilitator, infrequent radio Breakfast Show Host and host of Over The Bridge Podcast, Bilal spends much of his time engaging audiences in critical thinking to understand the root causes of oppression and has subsequently written articles for the BBC . As a host, Bilal has had the privilege to work in multiple countries around the world with clients in both charitable and corporate sector industries and has spoken in venues such as the SSE Arena Wembley.

Former software developer, currently working as Chief Technology Officer at NSoft. Originally c# and database developer turned to Javascript with over 15 years of experience in web development.

Ivan is the founder of the Shift Conference. Alongside this he co-founded Codeanywhere, the first cross platform Cloud IDE, which now has over a million users worldwide.

Currently working as Chief Advisor to the minister at the Ministry of Labor and Pension System. Member of the Managing Board of the Croatian Employment Service, member of the Supervisory Board of the Croatian Pension Insurance Company.

I'm a pair programming evangelist. Vim editor user and enthusiast. In love with Ruby since 2007. My highlight experiences involve performance and architecture. I worked a few years writing automated strategies for financial markets, processing millions of events per day. I also worked in different domains and technologies including embedded systems, 3D printers, web and mobile development.

Ivan is a cross-platform mobile apps and web services developer. He switched from C++ to C# six years ago, during which time he crossed from implementing and optimizing data crunching libraries through desktop and web apps on .NET stack to Xamarin mobile apps and ASP.NET web services. In his spare time he teaches Xamarin at multiple universities, consults regarding ASP.NET as an Microsoft Certified Trainer, and breaks and optimizes his old code.

Developer at Shift and Codeanywhere