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Asanka joined WSO2 in June 2008. He focuses on WSO2′s vertical market capabilities including financial services.
He has over 10 years of industry experience, working on projects ranging from desktop and Web applications through to highly scalable, distributed systems and service-oriented architectures in the financial domain, mobile platforms and business integration solutions.
His areas of specialization include application architecture and development using Java technologies, C/C++ on Linux and Windows platforms. He is also a committer of the Apache Software Foundation where he contributes to the Apache Synapse.
Asanka has a B.Sc in MIS from the National University of Ireland (University college Dublin).
Adam joined Research In Motion, Inc. in late 2008 as Product Manager of the WebWorks Development Platform SDK and Tooling. Adam has spent much of his career in the mobile industry first starting with J2ME back in 1998 with Sun Microsystems, Inc. where he worked for a combined 14 years. Other companies he has worked at include Adobe Systems, Nokia and Wind River Systems.
Avinash Agrawal is responsible for the setiQuest program – crowdsourcing the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, defining the vision and roadmap. He also oversees the execution of the program. In previous roles, he has managed large globally-distributed software teams responsible for cloud infrastructure management products.
Vineet is cofounder of OSSCube is currently accountable for building Alliances and open source community. Vineet is a serial entrepreneur and OSSCube is his 5th venture. Vineet’s passion to promote Open Source led to foundation of OSScamp – India’s largest unconference on open source.
Vineet regularly speaks in conferences and meet-ups. Vineet has worked closely with PHP since 1999.
Lance Albertson is the Associate Director of Operations for the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSL) and has been involved with the Gentoo Linux project as a developer and package maintainer since 2003. Since joining the OSL in 2007, Lance has managed all of the hosting activities that the OSL provides for nearly 160 high-profile open source projects.
Prior to joining the OSL, Lance was a UNIX Administrator for the Enterprise Server Technologies group at Kansas State University. Lance prepared for life as a career systems administrator by grappling with natural systems first, joining his father near Hiawatha, Kansas on the family farm growing corn and soybeans.
In his free time he helps organize the Corvallis Beer... Read More.
Jonathan Aldrich is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the director of CMU’s undergraduate minor program in Software Engineering, and teaches courses in programming languages, software engineering, and program analysis for quality and security. In addition, he serves as a consultant on architecture, design, process, and legal issues in the software industry. Dr. Aldrich joined the CMU faculty after completing a Ph.D. at the University of Washington and a B.S. at Caltech.
Dr. Aldrich’s research centers on programming languages and type systems that are deeply informed by software engineering considerations. His research contributions include verifying the correct implementation of an architectural design, modular formal reasoning about code, and API protocol specification and verification. For his work on... Read More.
Eric is a Ruby developer but can sometimes get distracted by shiny things, like node.js or Cocoa Touch. He is excited by finding pragmatic solutions to hard problems, and turning those problems into compelling products. Catch him in a coffee shop and he would be just as willing to engage in a discussion of literature as he would the benefits of TDD.
Alasdair Allan is the author of Learning iOS Programming, Programming iOS Sensors, Basic Sensors in iOS, Geolocation iOS, iOS Sensor Apps and Arduino and Augmented Reality in iOS, all published by O’Reilly Media. He is a senior research fellow in Astronomy at the University of Exeter. As part of his work there he built a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes which, acting autonomously, reactively scheduled observations of time-critical events. Notable successes included contributing to the detection of the most distant object yet discovered, a gamma-ray burster at a redshift of 8.2.
Alasdair also runs a small technology consulting business writing bespoke software, building open hardware and providing training. He sporadically writes blog posts about things that interest him, or more frequently provides commentary about... Read More.
Mark Allen has over 10 years of experience as a software developer, system administrator and security architect. He has given presentations to hundreds of peer developers at his $dayjob and at venues like the Frozen Perl workshop.
Cat Allman has been involved with the free and Open Source community since the mid 1980s, including stints at Mt Xinu, Sendmail, Inc, and the USENIX Association. Her outreach role in the Open Source Programs Office at Google is like slipping into a warm bath of FOSS goodness.
An internationally known author and lecturer, Mike Amundsen travels throughout the United States and Europe consulting and speaking on a wide range of topics including distributed network architecture, Web application development, Cloud computing, and other subjects. His recent work focuses on the role hypermedia plays in creating and maintaining applications that can successsfully evolve over time. He has more than a dozen books to his credit. His most recent book is “Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node” He also contributed to the book “RESTful Web Services Cookbook” (by Subbu Allamaraju). He is currently working on a new book, “Programming the Web with Cloud9.” When he is not working, Mike enjoys spending time with his family in Kentucky, USA.
A powerhouse of tireless can-do enthusiasm, Lasse brings a unique blend of business, technical and people skills to leading Forgerock. His twenty-plus years of experience in the software industry include leadership roles at both Sun Microsystems and Texas Instruments, most recently as CTO for Sun Central and Northern Europe. His passion and vision combine to ensure ForgeRock is always ready to execute and deliver. 2000-2003 Co-Founder and CTO of www.gravityrock.com. Lasse has also played keyboards in several bands. His special skills spans being an entrepreneur, the network is the computer (cloud computing), identity and access management, web 2.0, infrastructure software, open source, distributed organizations, and leadership.
Truculent troubadour. Effete esthete. Gentleman ordinaire. I invented boasting.
Rik Arends is co-founder and CTO of Cloud9 IDE. As a C++ developers with over 15 years of experience in 3D, computer vision and video, Rik has developed software engines behind browser based vidieo mixing, large stage projections and multitouch tabletop computing used by Cocal Cola, Nokia and DJ Tiesto. Well versed in declarative techniques as well as having a strong focus on performance and pushing the boundries, Rik has a unique perspective on the web environment from both JavaScript and C++ angles.
With a background in communications and marketing as well as graphic and digital design, Eric joined the City of Portland’s eGovernment Team to help design, create, and realize Gov 2.0 solutions.
For many years a Perl Bioinformatics programmer in Philadelphia for a major pharma company helping scientists load, analyze and view their data.
Jono Bacon is the Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical, leading a team to grow, inspire and enthuse the global Ubuntu community. He is the author of “The Art of Community,” (O’Reilly), co-author of “Linux Desktop Hacks” (O’Reilly) and the “Official Ubuntu Book” (Prentice Hall).
He is the founder of the annual Community Leadership Summit, co-founder of the popular LugRadio and Shot Of Jaq podcasts, and a common speaker on community management, Linux, and best practices. He is also the founder of the Jokosher, Acire, Python Snippets, and Lernid projects.
In addition to this, Bacon is leading an effort to change the music industry, inspired by Open Source and Free Culture, through Severed Fifth, an innovative music project, band and philosophy.
Tarus Balog has over 20 years of experience managing digital networks, and most of that time was spent with expensive commercial management products. For over the last seven years he has been involved with OpenNMS, the first real open source alternative for managing enterprise networks.
Sonya Barry has been with Java.net since she was a graduate student intern at Sun Microsystems in 2006. She took over as Community Manager in February 2009 and has managed the site and Java community through the transition from Sun to Oracle.
Henrique Batos is a passionate software developer interested in ways of using technology to improve people lives. He is an idrealist working on turning ideals into actions.
He is deeply involved in open source community building, organizing meetings, events, sprints, parties, and many other initiatives to gather people with passion about technology and freedom.
Dr. Charles A Bell is a Senior Software Engineer at Oracle. He is currently the lead developer for MySQL utilities and a member of the MySQL Backup and Replication team.
He is co-author of the book MySQL High Availability (O’Reilly Media, Inc.)
He lives in a small town in rural Virginia with his loving wife. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005. His research interests include database systems, versioning systems, agile software development, and open source hardware.
As a speaker at OSCON I believe we should all strive to create a fun, educational, enjoyable and harassment-free conference experience for everyone.
I’m pleased to say Tim O’Reilly thinks so too!
If you are being harassed, or witness harassment please report it to venue security, the police, the conference organisers or a trusted friend. You do not have to put up with it.
For more detail on what a code of conduct which includes an anti-harassment policy should contain, please review the geekfeminism wiki conference anti-harassment policy template
Donna Benjamin is the Executive Director of Creative Contingencies, an Australian company specialising in customised web services, research and event management. She is a passionate advocate of Free and Open Source... Read More.
Brendan is Co-founder and CTO of Wurk Happy. He holds a BA in Computer Science and Sculpture from Bard College and geeks out over language design, concurrency, scalability, and coffee.
Tim is a full-stack generalist and passionate teacher who loves coding, presenting, and working with people. He is founder and principal software developer at the August Technology Group, a technology consulting firm focused on the JVM. He is a speaker internationally and on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour in the United States, and is co-president of the Denver Open Source User Group. He has recently been exploring non-relational data stores, continuous deployment, and how software architecture should resemble an ant colony. He lives in Littleton with the wife of his youth and their three children.
Sebastian Bergmann has instrumentally contributed to tranforming PHP into a reliable platform for large-scale, critical projects. Enterprises and PHP developers around the world benefit from the tools that he has developed and the experience he shares.
Andrew Berkowitz is a founder and Vice President of Product Development at TeamSnap.com. He is also Head Coach of ComedySportz Portland, a branch of the international Comedy Improv Theater.
Vaibhav Bhandari is a seasoned software professional with over six years of experience in technical and managerial positions.
He has gathered broad experience in Software Development through three product cycles in varied businesses at Microsoft (Windows PowerShell, Windows Mobile Operating System, and Microsoft HealthVault) in addition to several start-up ventures of his own.
He helps with developer experience for Microsoft HealthVault and specializes in Medical Ontologies and HealthCareIT standards.
As Program Manager with Microsoft Health Solutions Group working on Microsoft HealthVault, Bhandari’s current work also includes a book titled, Programming HealthCare Silos – A Web 2.0 Developers Guide to HealthCare IT .
Greg Biggers is a prophetic voice in a medical and health wilderness.
As Chief Instigator and CEO at Genomera, he is catalyzing consumer health collaboration—where patients (Genomera just calls them people) drive the research agenda, and engage with one another to solve problems faster and more efficiently than the traditional bottlenecks allow.
He can often be found sailing a Santana 22 on San Francisco Bay.
Ola Bini is a Swedish developer currently working for ThoughtWorks in London, United Kingdom. He has been one of the core developers for JRuby since 2006 and is the author of APress book Practical JRuby on Rails. He has much experience with Java, Ruby and LISP. He has been involved with several other open source projects but JRuby takes most of his time.
He has been known to like implementing languages, writing regular expression engines, YAML parsers and other similar things that exist at the border computer science.
Ola has presented at numerous conferences including The Server Side Java Symposium – Europe, RailsConf Europe, JavaPolis and
Matt Blair has been a freelance programmer and consultant for fourteen years, with an increasing emphasis on Open Source Software over the last ten years. He has recommended and implemented systems using Firebird, PostGreSQL, Plone, Drupal, Wordpress, Django and CouchDB.
As technology director of HumaniNet, a non-profit that assists disaster relief and economic development projects all over the world, Matt analyzed and adapted technology for low- and no-bandwidth environments, and designed and managed distributed mapping processes during several disaster response exercises.
In 2010, Matt’s “PDX Trees” iOS app, based on Heritage Tree data released by the City of Portland, won the “Most Appealing App Award” in Portland’s Civic Apps challenge.
His new Public Art PDX app, built in collaboration with the Office of Mayor... Read More.
Roger heads the West Coast Operations for 10gen, the company that develops and supports the open source database MongoDB. He has over 20 years of experience of building and delivering great and innovative products to market and has deep expertise and knowledge of database architectures and internals. Roger holds several patents for database and middleware technology. His experience leading product development and engineering teams includes 12 years with Oracle’s Database and Application Server development organization where he pioneered products that delivered heterogeneous interoperability, as well as several years as SVP of product operations and engineering at Apple’s PowerSchool division. Roger also held leadership positions at OuterBay and Efficient Frontier. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in computer science from the HogeSchool Enschede.
Joshua is an engineer at LBNL, his expertise includes web and cloud technologies. He is currently developing RESTful web services for the NERSC supercomputing center, and works on “globus.org” a hosted managed file transfer service.
Joe is the creator of the Android implementation of PhoneGap, which has been used in products featured in Popular Science, and as part of the Sony Web SDK. He also works on various client projects developing mobile applications for many platforms using PhoneGap and other frameworks that leverage web technologies. He spends his spare time going to various security conferences, and helping run the Vancouver Hacker Space, which he co-founded, as well as contributing to other Open Source projects.
Andrey is the lead language designer in Project Kotlin. He started his career at Borland working on language implementations for MDA support. He spent a few years teaching in college and developed courses in Basics of OOP, Software Design and Programming Practice. Andrey joined JetBrains to start Project Kotlin in 2010. He serves as a Java Community Process expert in a group working on JSR-335 (“Project Lambda”).
Andrey is a frequent conference speaker delivering talks at venues like OSCON, StrangeLoop and Devoxx.
Michael Brewer is the Lead Application Developer for the Franklin College Office of Information Technology at The University of Georgia. He designs database-backed web applications used by thousands of students and faculty and serves on several college and University-wide committees on Web development, best practices, and application security. In 2005, he won an Advising Technology Innovation Award from the National Academic Advising Association for an academic advising application he created and maintains. A speaker at OSCON in 2011, he is also on the board of the United States PostgreSQL Association. He holds bachelor degrees in Mathematics and Music from The University of Georgia. A member of ASCAP, he conducts the oldest continually operating community band in the state of Georgia; he has arranged... Read More.
Working w/people more awesome than me @ Mozilla as @firefox engagement lead on the creative team, lover of open source & purveyor of hugs, big ideas, (im)famous fails & bold moves. You might also know me as the person who made off with Twitter’s 10×10 Chirp sign from their original developer conference.
Jonathan Bryce is a founder of The Rackspace Cloud. He started his career working as a web developer for Rackspace, and during his tenure, he and co-worker Todd Morey had a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site — all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision became The Rackspace Cloud. He currently spends his time on OpenStack, the open source cloud software initiative.
Paris is co-founder of Secret Lab Pty. Ltd., leading production and design efforts in the mobile game and app development space. A frequent speaker at conferences, workshops and training sessions, Paris enjoys discussing engineering, product development, design and other facets of the mobile and game development worlds. Recent conferences include Apple Australia’s /dev/world/2011 in Melbourne (and 2008, 2009 and 2010), a keynote at CreateWorld Brisbane 2010 (and a speaker in 2009 and 2011), IxDA’s Interaction 11 in Boulder (March 2011), XMediaLab Location-Based Services in Malmo, Sweden (January 2011), a tutorial and a session at OSCON 2011 and many others.
Paris is the co-author of the books ‘iPhone and iPad Game Development For Dummies’ and ‘Unity Mobile Game Development For Dummies’. The books cover game... Read More.
Clint Byrum is a member of the Canonical Ubuntu Server Team, bringing years of Ops and Development experience in web environments to the task of making Ubuntu Server shine. irc: SpamapS
Bryan Call has been writing code and working with on large scale solutions for 14 years. He has experience optimizing and profiling projects, including Apache Traffic Server and many internal projects at Yahoo!.
He came to Yahoo! through an acquisition of a startup and has been working there for the last 12 years. He has worked on various products and teams, such as WebRing, GeoCities, People Search, Yahoo! Personal, Tiger Team (internal consulting team), Architect in the Platform Group, Architect in the Edge Platform, and now is working in the R&D Systems Group.
Bryan is also a commiter on the Apache Traffic Server project and instrumental in bring Traffic Server to the Apache Foundation.
Jason Cannavale, Rackspace Cloud Builders Solutions Architect, develops and deploys OpenStack private clouds for Rackspace’s Fortune 500 clients. Jason is also Rackspace’s lead engineer for Citrix’s Project Olympus as well as the technical lead for several key partnerships within the OpenStack community. Previous work includes the Rackspace RackConnect product enabling Hybrid (cloud/physical) computing and large public cloud customer deployment.
Brian Capouch is a longtime open source user, programmer, and hacker.
He teaches CS using 100% Open Source tools at small Indiana college, run a small wireless ISP; Asterisk and openWRT are his specialities.
Lucas Carlson is a professional Ruby programmer who specializes in Rails web development. He has authored a half dozen libraries and contributed to various others including Rails and RedCloth. He lives in Portland, Oregon and maintains a website at http://rufy.com/.
Tim is an ardent supporter of open-source software who believes that writing code should be fun. Tim is a core member of the node.js community and loves to help people learn and grow. He runs the howtonode.org website which teaches about JavaScript techniques and node in general. Also Tim spends his days doing all he can to make webOS the best developer platform in the world leveraging nodeJS and webkit on mobile devices.
Piers Cawley started programming Perl in the mid nineties, but recently spent a few years working as a Ruby programmer.
He’s currently working for the BBC, applying Modern Perl techniques to MediaSelector, part of the iPlayer backend.
He used to write a weekly summary of developments in Perl 6 for the perl.com website.
Francesco Cesarini has used Erlang on a daily basis for over 15 years, having started his career as an intern at Ericsson’s computer science laboratory, the birthplace of Erlang. He moved on to Ericsson’s Erlang training and consulting arm working on the first release of the OTP middleware, applying it to turnkey solutions and flagship telecom applications.
In 1999, soon after Erlang was released as open source, he founded Erlang Solutions. With offices in the UK, Sweden, Poland (and soon the US), they have become the world leaders in Erlang based consulting, contracting, training, systems development and support services. In 2008, they launched the Erlang Factory conferences. At Erlang Solutions, Francesco has worked on major Erlang based projects both within and... Read More.
If Zend puts your picture on a deck of cards, you’ve either arrived in the PHP world or are a terrorist. Terry Chay is a PHP Terrorist. He works at WordPress, and, when he isn’t doing that, he’s saying outrageous things on his blog—which is also like working on WordPress. In previous lives he architected the third largest social network in the U.S. in PHP, developed the largest revenue-generating product in PHP for Plaxo (later purchased by Comcast) as their first web engineer, programmed the communication layer between an internet-enabled home control device and the web browser, voice portals, PDAs and cell phones via SOAP and XMLRPC in PHP, and built the first travel search engine in…
Ben Cherian is the General Manager of Emerging Techonologies at DreamHost. Prior to joining the DreamHost Team, Ben was the managing partner of ServiceCloud—a cloud-focused managed services provider. He also ran a consulting company called Kinetic Path, which provided companies with on-demand part-time executive IT management, project management, managed services, virtualization consulting, SAN consulting, and help desk consulting. Ben is an eternal entrepreneur that enjoys building businesses, and with 20 years of professional experience and several successful business launches under his belt he’s pretty good at what he does. Ben enjoys working at DreamHost because he’s got a terrible diet and DreamHost gives him great medical coverage. Ben holds a degree in Computer Science from Georgia State University. He currently resides in the Los... Read More.
Since last speaking at OSCON in 2004, Ryo Chijiiwa received a piece of paper from the University of Chicago, declaring him a reasonably competent Computer Scientist. In 2005, he turned down a job offer from Mark Zuckerberg, joining Yahoo! instead, where he lasted a little over 3 years before jumping ship to Google. In 2009, he left Google too, as their free gourmet food lost sway over his wild spirit. Later that year, he bought 60 acres of vacant undeveloped land in the woods of Northern California, which he has been wrestling into habitability since, and on which he has so far built two huts, named in true geek-fashion, Hut 1.0 and Hut 2.0 respectively.
Stephen Chin is a Java Evangelist at Oracle specializing in UI technology and co-author of the Pro JavaFX Platform 2 title, which is the leading technical reference for JavaFX. He has been featured at Java conferences around the world including Devoxx, Codemash, OSCON, J-Fall, GeeCON, Jazoon, and JavaOne, where he twice received a Rock Star Award. In his evenings and weekends, Stephen is an open-source hacker, working on projects including ScalaFX, a DSL for JavaFX in the Scala language, Visage, a UI oriented JVM language, JFXtras, a JavaFX component and extension library, and Apropos, an Agile Project Portfolio scheduling tool written in JavaFX. Stephen can be followed on twitter @steveonjava and reached via his blog: http://steveonjava.com/
Shreyas Cholia works on science gateway, web and grid technologies for NERSC, with the goal of making high-performance and distributed computing more transparent and accessible. He has also been involved in various grid and data-driven science efforts at NERSC since 2002. Prior to his appointment at NERSC, Shreyas was a developer and consultant at IBM. He has a bachelor’s degree from Rice University, where he double majored in Computer sciences and Cognitive Sciences.
Tom Christiansen is a programmer, author, and lecturer who’s been involved with Perl since its initial public release back in 1987. Tom is the owner of the PERL.COM domain and website, and original author of much of Perl’s online documentation. Tom is lead author of the The Perl Cookbook and co-author of Programming Perl, Learning Perl (2nd edition), and Learning Perl on Win32 Systems, all bestselling titles by O’Reilly & Associates.
He served two terms on the USENIX Association Board of Directors, and was president of The Perl Journal. Perl users selected Tom to receive the first White Camel Award in 1999. In 2000, Members of the Open Source community voted Tom Best Newbie Helper in the first annual Andover.Net Slashdot Open Source... Read More.
WESLEY J. CHUN, MSCS, is the author of Prentice Hall’s bestseller, Core Python Programming, its video training course, “Python Fundamentals” (LiveLessons DVD), and co-author of Python Web Development with Django. In addition to being a software architect and Developer Advocate at Google, he runs CyberWeb, a consulting business specializing in Python software engineering and technical training. He has over 25 years of programming, teaching, and writing experience, including more than a decade of Python. While at Yahoo!, he helped create Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! People Search using Python. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Music from the University of California.
Brian Clark, Vice President, Product Management, has nearly 30 years of software and technology experience, and was one of the early architects of Objectivity/DB.
Before joining Objectivity, Brian worked at Automation Technology Products, providing leading tools in the MCAD market. Prior to that, he was with Project Management Services at International Computers Limited, one of Europe’s leading computer companies at the time. Brian holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Sheffield University, England.
Luke is a long time open source author and user who recently created the award winning open data app VanTrash. He’s a co-founder of the Vancouver Hack Space and a member of the Pacific Northwest juggling community.
Ben Collins-Sussman is one of the founding developers of the Subversion version control system, and co-authored O’Reilly’s “Version Control with Subversion” book. Ben co-founded Google’s engineering office in Chicago, ported Subversion to Google’s Bigtable platform, led Google Code’s Project Hosting team, and now manages the engineering team for the Google Affiliate Network. Prior to joining Google, Ben was a senior software engineer on the version control team at CollabNet. He has been an active open source contributor for over twelve years, contributing to projects related to version control and gaming.
Ben collects hobbies which tend to explore the tension between art and science. He has given numerous talks about the social challenges of software development. He writes interactive fiction games and tools, and was the... Read More.
Derek is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience, specializing in high performance distributed systems. With tenures at Google and TIBCO Software, he specializes in Distributed Systems Architecture, High Performance Messaging Systems, and Event-Driven Systems. His current focus is Cloud Foundry and the Open PaaS at VMware Inc.
Damian Conway is an internationally renowned speaker, author, and trainer, and a prominent contributor to the Perl community. Currently he runs Thoughtstream, an international IT training company that provides programmer training from beginner to masterclass level throughout Europe, North America, and Australasia. Most of his spare time over the past decade has been spent working with Larry Wall on the design and explication of the Perl 6 programming language. He has a PhD in Computer Science and was until recently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, Australia.
Dave Copeland is a veteran software developer with over 15 years of professional development experience, starting on UNIX and C, moving into Java, and now using Java, Ruby, and Scala on a daily basis for LivingSocial. He lives in the command line and firmly believes in getting polished things done quickly, not making a mess, and leaving things better than how he found them.
Zach is the API manager for StatusNet. He’s built the software’s REST-oriented APIs as well as integration with social servers like Facebook and Twitter.
Jon A. Cruz is a professional developer with over 20 years of experience, working extensively in multimedia, including programming and 3D art creation, and has developed for a wide variety of platforms. Work includes R&D for mobile and other devices, servers for large mail and messaging systems, enterprise security applications, and user interface design and development. Currently involvement in Open Source is as a core developer and board member with Inkscape.
He represents Inkscape with the OpenICC and Create projects, focusing on shared resources and collaboration with other software. He has participated as a mentor in Google’s Summer of Code since its first year. He was a keynote speaker at SVG Open, has presented talks internationally including linux.conf.au and the Libre Graphics Meetings in... Read More.
Scott Davis is the founder of ThirstyHead.com, a training and consulting company that that specializes in leading-edge technology solutions like HTML 5, NoSQL, Groovy, and Grails.
Scott has been writing about web development for over 10 years. His books include JBoss at Work (O’Reilly), The Google Maps API (Pragmatic Bookshelf), GIS for Web Developers (Pragmatic Bookshelf), Groovy Recipes (Pragmatic Bookshelf), and Getting Started with Grails (InfoQ). Scott is also the author of two popular article series at IBM developerWorks—Mastering Grails and Practically Groovy.
Eric Day works on various open source projects such as OpenStack and Gearman. He has been writing high-performance, multi-threaded, and multi-tenant servers for most of his career. Always with an emphasis on efficiency and security, he has written complete HTTP/SSL, DNS, Gearman, and IMAP implementations, along with designing and implementing custom storage and database systems. Most of his work has been done in clustered and distributed environments.
Eric also keeps active in the open source community through speaking at conferences and user groups, as well as helping organize camps and conferences in Portland, OR. When not hacking on code, he can be found playing hockey, running, biking, or enjoying a good vegan meal with his wife.
Carlos has developed for the web for more than 15 years and has worked with Python since 2000. He has worked in dozens of Zope and Plone projects of all sizes and recently has been doing more and more BFG and Django web development.
He is the author of the book “Web Development with Grok” and has contributed to the BFG and Plone open source projects. He is currently writing a book about the Zope Object Database.
My name is Selena Deckelmann and I’m founder and COO of Prime Radiant. Our first product Checkmarkable helps organizations document, share and tweak their processes.
I contribute to PostgreSQL, run conferences, and keep chickens. I also give a lot of technical talks.
Chris DiBona is the Director of Open Source for Mountain View, Ca based Google, Inc. His job includes managing open source related compliance and outreach programs for the company. More information about Google’s open source program can be found at http://code.google.com/opensource.
Before joining Google, Mr. DiBona was an editor/author for the hugely popular online website slashdot.org and he is an internationally known advocate of open source software and related methodologies. He co-edited the award winning essay compilations “Open Sources” and “Open Sources 2.0” for O’Reilly and writes for a great number of publications. He was briefly the Linux guy on TechTV, starred in Floss Weekly and speaks on a variety of open source issues internationally.
John Dickinson is a developer at Rackspace Hosting where he works on Rackspace’s Cloud Files product. He has been active in the Openstack community since its inception and is Project Technical Lead for Openstack swift. When not working, John enjoys working on his car and spending time with his wife and sons.
Johnny Diggz is a musician, filmmaker, entrepreneur and Chief Technology Evangelist at Tropo. In 1995, Diggz launched iPost Universal Messaging, the world’s first Internet-based unified messaging platform. In 2000, he co-founded Voxeo, the industry leader in unlocked communications.
He produced the indie feature film, The Karaoke King, a musical comedy which premiered in 2007 at the Cinema City International Film Festival. Since 2008 he’s performed as dueling piano player at Howl at the Moon in Orlando and is the co-host of the award-winning Drew Show Podcast.
In 2010, Diggz launched Geeks Without Bounds, an international humanitarian organization of geeks working together to assist people whose survival is threatened by lack of access to technology or communications due to violence, neglect, or catastrophe.
Mike has spent the last decade studying the ways people communicate and working to make their conversations better. As the CTO and co-founder of Socialbomb, he’s worked with companies like Fisher-Price, HBO and Pepsico to build social applications and platforms that connect users with their friends, their devices, and the world around them.
Prior to starting up Socialbomb, Mike developed installations, sites, and games for Unified Field and the Institute of Play. His personal and collaborative projects have appeared in the New York Times, National Public Radio, Gothamist, BoingBoing, Gizmodo and MAKE Magazine.
Mike holds a BA in Journalism & Media Studies from Rutgers University and an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU ITP, where he is now an adjunct... Read More.
Chase Douglas is a software developer at Canonical working primarily on multitouch user interface support. For the past year, Chase has been involved with developing gesture support through Canonical’s uTouch framework and multitouch support through the X.org window system. Prior to working on multitouch, Chase spent three years performing Linux kernel and plumbing layer development and maintenance at Canonical and IBM.
Edd Dumbill is a technologist, writer and programmer based in California. He is the program chair for the O’Reilly Strata and Open Source Convention Conferences.
He was the founder and creator of the Expectnation conference management system, and a co-founder of the Pharmalicensing.com online intellectual property exchange.
A veteran of open source, Edd has contributed to various projects, such as Debian and GNOME, and created the DOAP Vocabulary for describing software projects.
Edd has written four books, including O’Reilly’s “Learning Rails”. He writes regularly on Google+ and on his blog at eddology.com.
Steven has been involved in Open Source for over 20 years, and a Linux user for over 15 years. Since moving to New Zealand he has provided technical direction and operational guidance for a number of New Zealand companies on the use of Open Source and Linux. His experience has included over 3 years running the the Linux operations team at IBM NZ, and the development of myPVR a MythTV based PVR solution designed for the New Zealand Market. He now works for Red Hat as a Solution Architect for NZ focusing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Virtualisation and cloud.
He was one of the original members of the HealthVault team and has impacted the scope and design of the platform through his work on the Pilot, Beta, V1.0 and current releases of HealthVault. Some of his focus areas have included platform security (access control, identity), connectivity interfaces, protocols for medical imaging and large BLOB support, scalability, and performance of the service. A large part of his work has focused on addressing the privacy issues in online PHR systems involving patients and providers. Ali is currently involved with Microsoft’s integration of the Direct Project. He is an active contributing member of the Direct Project’s open source .NET reference implementation group. Ali’s past projects have included embedded systems software for mobile devices, 3G... Read More.
Schuyler Erle has been a Free Software developer and evangelist for over a dozen years. He was a co-author of ‘Mapping Hacks’ and ‘Google Maps Hacks’. Schuyler was also a co-founder of the OpenLayers and TileCache projects, and is a charter member of the OSGeo Foundation. Schuyler currently resides in San Francisco, where he designs and builds new and exotic geospatial technology at SimpleGeo.
Programmer at Elevated Code working with Ruby, Rails, and occasionally iPhone development. Writer of essays, recipes, horror comics, and knitting patterns. Photographer working with digital and film cameras, including Polaroid, Holga, and pinholes. Community organizer of unconferences like WhereCampPDX, and co-founder of Open Source Bridge. Core team member of the infamous Calagator. Agitator for a variety of grassroots local tech.
Rabble is the founder of Cubox SA, a rails development shop in Montevideo, Uruguay. He has extensive experience doing ruby on rails development and generally causing a ruckus. He was the architect for Odeo.com and Yahoo! Fire Eagle location broker platform.
In 2008, Tony co-founded Basho Technologies which makes Riak, an open-source, distributed data store. As Chief Operating Officer at Basho, Tony directs product development, support, sales and marketing. Prior to Basho, he held senior management positions at Akamai Technologies, DIGEX (now Verizon Business), and Oplayo, OY, a Helsinki-based start-up.
Tony’s favorite things about Basho: the open source community that has embraced Riak, the chance to work with people much smarter than he is and learn from them, and the opportunity to play a part, for the third time in his career, in establishing a new technology category.
Tony lives in Portland, Oregon, and looks forward to riding his bike to OSCON.
Kevin Falcone is a developer at Best Practical Solutions, LLC, producer of open source tools including RT: Request Tracker. At Best Practical, Kevin works on a number of projects including RT, Hiveminder, and the Jifty framework.
James Falkner oversees the 45,000-strong open source Liferay Community. In this role, James provides information, education, community tooling, and leadership development, while constantly encouraging participation and growth of the community. James has over 14 years of experience in technology, and blends his strong technical background with a passion for open source. James has been involved with enterprise web development and the Liferay Community since 2008.
Prior to joining Liferay, James led development of several key technologies in Oracle’s Web Center stack, including its collaboration and social networking services. James is also an alumnus of Sun Microsystems, where he was the principal architect for Sun’s portal technologies, and participated in several open source projects such as OpenSolaris, OpenPortal, GlassFish, and Community Equity. James holds a B.S.... Read More.
Sue Feldman, RN, MEd, PhD – Affiliate/Expert in Health Informatics & Educational Technologies; Claremont Graduate University
Sue S. Feldman, RN, MEd, PhD is the Assistant Director of the Kay Center for E-Health Research at Claremont Graduate University (www. kaycenter.org). She has clinical, practical, and analytical expertise in health information systems analysis, design, and training. Her primary research efforts are in the use of information systems in the continuum of disability health management and services. She led three nationally publicized case studies about utilization of the Nationwide Health Information Network for the transmission of electronic health record information in the Social Security Administration disability determination process and co-led system, program, and policy analysis for the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India. She is currently involved in designing... Read More.
Victor Felix is currently an engineer at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore and is the author of the Grid::Request Perl module on CPAN and has extensive experience with configuring, using and maintaining distributed software and systems.
Paul Fenwick is the managing director of Perl Training Australia, and has been teaching computer science for over a decade. He is an internationally acclaimed presenter at conferences and user-groups worldwide, where he is well-known for his humour and off-beat topics.
In his spare time, Paul’s interests include security, mycology, cycling, coffee, scuba diving, and lexically scoped user pragmata.
*Photo attributed to Joshua Button.
Firtman is a mobile and web developer, professor and founder of ITMaster Professional Training. He is Adobe Community Champion and author of many books, including “Programming the Mobile Web” published by O’Reilly Media in 2010 and the upcoming book “jQuery Mobile: Up and Running”. He has a blog about mobile web development on www.mobilexweb.com.
He is a professional in iOS development, mobile browsers, HTML5, mobile web 2.0, plus native Android and Java ME development.
He was a speaker at many international events, such as Velocity 2010, InsideMobile, Google DevFest, Nokia Developer Days, Adobe en Vivo, Nokia Talk and Campus Party Europe. He has received different recognitions, such as Forum Nokia Champion yearly since 2006, as one of the top mobile developers worldwide; Adobe Community... Read More.
Brian Fitzpatrick started Google’s Chicago engineering office in 2005, and currently leads several of Google’s Chicago engineering efforts, including Transparency Engineering and The Google Affiliate Network. He also started and leads Google’s Data Liberation Front, a team that systematically works to make it easy for users to move their data both to and from Google. Lastly, he serves as internal advisor for Google’s open source efforts.
Prior to joining Google, Brian was a senior software engineer on the version control team at CollabNet, working on Subversion, cvs2svn, and CVS. He has also worked at Apple Computer as a senior engineer in their professional services division, developing both client and web applications for Apple’s largest corporate customers.
Brian has been an active open source contributor... Read More.
Beth Flanagan is a release engineer at Intel and works in the Opensource Technologies Center as the Yocto Project release engineer. Beth has worked for Intel since Nov 2010, maintaining and extending the Yocto autobuilder and contributing the license tracking and build statistics features for Yocto.
Richard Fontana is Red Hat’s Open Source Licensing Counsel. At Red Hat he spends his time advising developers about FOSS licensing, copyright and patent issues, educating non-developers about FOSS culture, and promoting open standards and intellectual property legal reform.
Before joining Red Hat, Fontana was an attorney at the Software Freedom Law Center, where his principal client was the Free Software Foundation. He was co-author, with Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen, of the GNU GPL, version 3.
Neal Ford is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author and/or editor of 6 books spanning a variety of technologies, including the most recent The Productive Programmer. He focuses on designing and building of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, speaking at over 100 developer conferences worldwide, delivering more than 600 talks. Check out his web site at www.nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at nford@thoughtworks.com.
Dawn Foster provides consulting services for companies wanting to engage with online communities by focusing on the business value of engaging with online communities and social media and helping companies find a way to engage that supports the overall strategies and business goals of the company. Dawn has more than 14 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in strategic planning, management, community building, community management, open source software, market research, social media, and RSS.
Dawn has experience and a passion for bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events. Dawn has experience building new communities, managing existing communities, and providing consulting and advice to companies with a particular emphasis on developer and open source communities.... Read More.
Allan Foster is a founding member of ForgeRock, bringing skills in the entire Identity management space. He has proven skills in Access Management, Federation, and Portal Architectures. Allan is based in Portland, Oregon in the USA, and has worked with the ForgeRock products, as well as prior version of the products for several years. Allan brings 25 years of experience in the development, internet, and Identity management spaces to ForgeRock. Allan’s career has reached from Apple Computer inc, to Netscape, AOL, Guru Associates, and Sun Microsystems before joining the team at ForgeRock. Allan has spoken at numberous technical conferences within the USA as well as internationally.
brian d foy is the co-author of Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl, and Effective Perl Programming, the author of Mastering Perl, the publisher of The Perl Review, the author of dozens of modules on CPAN, and a Perl trainer and consultant for The Perl Review, LLC.
Paul Fremantle is Chief Technology Officer of WSO2, where he leads the technical team in building the Open Source SOA and Cloud middleware. Paul is a Member of the Apache Software Foundation and VP of Apache Synapse, as well as regular technical blogger and presenter. Paul was listed as one of Infoworld’s top 25 CTOs in 2008 and was previously a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM. He holds two Master’s degrees from Oxford University, and has co-authored two books on XML and Web Services.
Marko Gargenta founded Marakana in 2001 to help underprivileged youth, minorities, and inner-city kids learn web technologies and get ahead in life. So Marakana emerged with goal of helping people get better at what they do professionally, focused on open source software training.
Marko is creator of Marakana Android Training series series. He has taught Android to over 1,000 developers at companies such as Cisco, Motorola, Qualcomm, DoD and many others. Marko is a co-founder of San Francisco Android Users Group and regularly teaches Android Bootcamp at Marakana.
Marko is author of Learning Android book published by O’Reilly Media. This book is based on Android Bootcamp and incorporates best learning practices for new developers to start creating applications... Read More.
As a speaker at OSCON I believe we should all strive to create a fun, educational, enjoyable and harassment-free conference experience for everyone.
I’m pleased to say Tim O’Reilly thinks so too!
If you are being harassed, or witness harassment please report it to venue security, the police, the conference organisers or a trusted friend. You do not have to put up with it.
For more detail on what a code of conduct which includes an anti-harassment policy should contain, please review the geekfeminism wiki conference anti-harassment policy template
Matthew Garrett is a kernel developer at Red Hat, specialising in power management, firmware and mobile technologies.
Glenn Gebhart is a systems engineer at Vertica Systems, Inc. with a focus on the start-up and FOSS community in the Pacific Northwest. Other hats he has worn: field engineer, production operations manager, analytics guy, and bartender. When not flipping bits for a living he enjoys eating, drinking, and practicing kung-fu.
My two lives: Community Manager of Genomera, a startup focused on health meets social (like facebook + mint.com for health-tracking). Founder and President of BioCurious, a bay area hackerspace for biotech, where education + collaboration = innovation.
Joseph B George is the director of product strategy and marketing for Cloud and Big Data Solutions at Dell, the team responsible for developing strong open source solutions such as the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution, the Dell Apache Hadoop Solution, and the Dell Crowbar software framework.
Prior to coming to Dell, Joseph held key strategy, product management, and technical roles at companies like HP, BMC Software, and Halliburton. Covering areas such as enterprise management software, virtual desktops infrastructure (VDI), scale out computing, and transaction management, Joseph has spent over 13 years in the areas of enterprise software, virtualization, and cloud technology.
Joseph holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering, as well as a master’s in business administration (MBA), both from the University... Read More.
Brian Gerkey is Director of Open Source Development at Willow Garage. Before joining Willow Garage, he was a Computer Scientist in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI, and before that, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford University. Prior to working on ROS, Brian was founder and co-lead developer on the open source Player Project, which still produces one of the most widely-used software platforms for robotics research and education. Brian has presented at numerous robotics conferences over the last 10 years; recently he was a keynote speaker at SIMPAR 2010, and gave invited talks to the OMG robotics standards group and the BRICS (Best Practices in Robotics) research camp.
Andrew Gerrand is an Software Engineer at Google where he is one of the core contributors to the Go Programming Language. He spends most of his time trying to make it easier for programmers to learn and use Go. As well as working on the Go core, he manages the Go community and has given presentations and tutorials on Go in many countries across four continents.
Rich Gibson works on the Gigapan and Explorable Microscopy Projects for Carnegie Melon University and NASA’s Intelligent Robotics Group, and independently creating high resolution portraits of people and developing new ways to archive physical spaces with explorable images.
He is a bricoleur hacker, artist, programmer, author, and builder.
He helped create the Neogeography movement, coauthoring Mapping Hacks and Google Maps Hacks. The process of working with and exploring how we interact and explore space lead him to the more generalized world of providing both context, and detail with explorable images.
For the past four years he has been obsessed with creating new ways to capture and use high resolution images of everything, including the Chaos Communications Camp in 2007, Volcanos in Arizona for
Becky Gibson is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM’s Emerging Internet Technologies Group. Her current focus is contributing to the open source PhoneGap project to enable building compelling mobile applications using Web technologies. Becky works on the iOS side of things and has enjoyed dusting off her C/C++ skills to learn Objective C! While busy with PhoneGap she hasn’t forgotten her roots in Web Accessibility and making the Web usable for all. Her goal is an inclusive mobile world with applications usable by all in any environment. She was the Accessibility Lead for the Dojo Open Source toolkit and contributed to making it the first truly accessible JavaScript toolkit. Becky has over twenty years of development experience and has worked on various
Meghan Gill leads the marketing and community development efforts at 10gen. 10gen began the open source MongoDB project, and provides commercial support, training, and consulting for Mongo. MongoDB is a high performance, non-relational, document-oriented database. At 10gen, Meghan organizes developer events to educate and grow the MongoDB community, including conferences, user groups, contests, training, webcasts, and more.
I work for the City of Portland, OR as their web developer. I’ve been the lead developer to their website refresh project (still in development). I create AJAX apps and write API specs, documentation, and libraries which are used to create more accessible and open government data.
On the side I write on my personal blog as well professionally on blogs such as Bittbox.com. You may have also seen some of my writing on the front page of Hacker News. I’m the creator of sites such as Project Deploy* and PatternWall. I’ve worked with, and done work for Daniel Erickson (formerly of Storify, now Yammer), Caleb Kimbrough (of Lost & Taken, Bittbox, and numerous other sites), BatchGeo, Safeco, and Nestle.
Jason Goldwater, MA, MPA, is a Health IT Project Manager at NORC. He has extensive experience in the development and implementation of health information technology, specifically around electronic health records, standardized system design, and performance-based metrics to evaluate the necessity, effectiveness and economic impact of emerging technologies in health. He has worked for a number of years on the creation of standard-based interfaces and data warehouses to support public health activities, such as immunizations, asthma and diabetes. Mr. Goldwater worked in the Office of Clinical Standards and Quality at CMS in the design, development and implementation of the Nursing Home Information Feedback Tool (NHIFT) which was a tool designed to allow individual nursing homes to collected data along Federal and state quality... Read More.
John Goulah has been working in New York City over the last several years for a number of web sites in both technical and management roles, as well as the co-founder of several startups. Having spent much of his youth touring in rock bands and hacking from the road, he is no stranger to crowds, be it a smoke filled room or presenting to the company board. He strives for non mundane tasks and has automated himself out of his last few endeavors, which has landed him in his current role as an Engineer at Etsy, the leading marketplace for handmade goods.
John Graham-Cumming is computer programmer and author. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed for a doctorate in computer security. As a programmer he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Germany and France. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004.
He is the author of a travel book for scientists published in 2009 called The Geek Atlas and has written articles for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, New Scientist and other publications.
He can be found on the web at jgc.org and on Twitter as @jgrahamc.
If you’ve heard of him at all, it’s likely because in 2009 he successfully petitioned the British Government to apologize for the... Read More.
Scott is the founder and director of the O’Reilly School of Technology, a division of O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Founding member of the Southern California Linux Expo, current Community Relations & Conference Operations chair, active member of the Free & Open Source Community. A system administrator from Thousand Oaks, CA. Live with my wife, two cats & one guinea pig.
In the absence of an official conference code of conduct, I’d like to state, that as a speaker at OSCON I believe we should all strive to create a fun, educational, enjoyable and harassment-free conference experience for everyone.
If you are being harassed, or witness harassment please report it to venue security, the police, the conference organisers or a trusted friend. You do not have to put up with it.
For more detail on what an anti-harassment policy should contain, please... Read More.
Carson Gross has been working on Gosu for four years now. He also works on various Gosu-based open source projects: http://vark.github.com, http://ronin-web.org and http://lazygosu.org
Patrick Guiran has graduated from the French computer Science school of Engineering EPITA in 2006, with a major in Real-Time software programming. After working for Tele2 ISP, and on eCOS/ARM for the world wireless leader Parrot, he has joined Linagora to contribute to a high-volume low-latency electronic payment system for the leading router of interbanking authorizations SER2S. In 2009, he joins the Linagora Run Services business unit as the Open Source expert. He is now the manager of the Open Source Software support team.
Daniel Haas graduated from the Harvard EECS program with a degree in Computer Science. He is now a software engineer and the Lead Architect of the Indivo X project at the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program in Boston.
John T. Haller is the founder and lead developer of PortableApps.com, the world’s most popular portable software platform allowing anyone to take their applications with them on a USB flash drive or other removable device and use them on any PC. He has a deep interest in using computers and software in new ways and enabling software to work the way users think.
John is best known for creating portable software like Firefox Portable but has also become known for online jokes (see: MAFIAA ) and fun utilities (see: Billy Mays Caps Lock ). Before creating PortableApps.com, he founded a web development firm, donated a kidney, worked in a tech startup, worked in a corporate bank, went to college... Read More.
Eran Hammer-Lahav is an active standards developer and advocate, working for Yahoo! as Sled.com project lead. Most recently was the editor of the OAuth specifications. Previously the founder of Nouncer, an internet startup building social content distribution technologies, focused on scalability and performance. Prior to Nouncer, Eran headed software development teams for financial institutions and managed IT for political and governmental organizations with focus on social networks. In 1994 Eran founded ‘A Different Stage’, the first online publishing house for Israeli literature, and published a short stories magazine. Eran attended the Tel Aviv University Film School.
Tom Hanlon is currently an instructor at Cloudera where he delivers courses on the wonders of the hadoop ecosystem.
Before beginning his relationship with hadoop and large distributed data, he had a happy and lengthy relationship with MySQL with a focus on web operations.
He has been a trainer for MySQL, Sun , Percona.
Marcus Hanwell received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Sheffield, UK, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He spent a summer in Silicon Valley at a startup company in 2002, and participated in the Google Summer of Code program in 2007, as a student, and from 2008-2010, as a mentor with the KDE project. In 2011 Marcus led VTK’s application to be a mentoring organization, which was accepted, and acted as the primary organization administrator and mentor to one project concerned with chemistry visualization in VTK.
After completing his Ph.D. at the University of Sheffield in 2007, Marcus worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh in the department of chemistry. His Ph.D. and post-doctoral work involved... Read More.
Steve Hargadon is the Social Learning Consultant for Elluminate/Blackboard Collaborate, founder of the Classroom 2.0 social network, host of the Future of Education interview series, and co-chair of the Global Education Conference. He pioneered the use of social networking in education, particularly for professional development. He blogs, speaks, and consults on educational technology, he runs the Open Source Pavilion and speaker series for the ISTE, CUE, and other edtech shows, and is the organizer of the annual EduBloggerCon, OpenSourceCon, and the “unplugged” and “bloggers’ cafe” areas at both ISTE and CUE. He is also the Emerging Technologies Chair for ISTE, the author of “Educational Networking: The Important Role Web 2.0 Will Play in Education,” the recipient of the 2010 Technology in... Read More.
Matt would like to be an Open Source pragmatist, but is probably more of a zealot. He once impersonated Alan Cox, apparently they look similar. He has spoken at OSCON, PyCON, SCALE and local user groups in Utah and the Bay Area. Matt has programmed in Python since 2000 writing websites, as well tooling and scripts for search engines, build systems, and business intelligence. He is a rabid Linux (l)user.
Erik Hatcher is the co-author of “Lucene in Action” as well as co-author of “Java Development with Ant”. Erik has been an active member of the Lucene community – a leading Lucene and Solr committer, member of the Lucene Project Management Committee, member of the Apache Software Foundation as well as a frequent invited speaker at various industry events.
Erik is a co-founder of Lucid Imagination, dedicated to Lucene/Solr support services.
John ‘Warthog9’ Hawley has led the system administration team on kernel.org for several years leading a team including four other administrators. He is specifically working on system operations, the wikis and the kernel.org Gitweb. His other exploits include working on Syslinux, OpenSSI, a caching Gitweb, and patches to bind to enable GeoDNS. He’s the author of PXE Knife, a set of interfaces around common utilities and diagnostics tools needed by an average systems administrator. He currently works for Linux Foundation working on Kernel.org full time. In his free time he enjoys cooking extravagant meals and watching bad movies.
Leif Hedstrom is a Principal Architect at GoDaddy.com, working on the hosting services and various Open Source projects. Before joining Go Daddy, Leif worked on several Akamai CDN solutions, using Apache Traffic Server. At Yahoo! Inc. he designed and implemented several CDN services used by many millions of users. As the chair person of the Apache Traffic Server Project Management Committee(PMC), he’s actively involved with development and evangelism of the project. Leif is also a member at the Apache Software Foundation. His prior experiences also includes working at Infoseek, Netscape and Propel.
Leif is an avid dirt biker, alpine skier, dog person, scuba diver and family man. And of course, he’s a huge computer nerd.
Chris is a geo-analytics engineer at GeoIQ specializing in all things open source and big data relate. This has included analyzing Twitter streams and a project to improve the cartography within GeoCommons. He’s been using/contributing to open source projects for 7 years. His academic/profession background is in the physical sciences.
Rein fell in love with Ruby at first sight, captivated by the beauty and elegance of the language, the simplicity of its design, and the communicativeness of its syntax. He currently works at Hashrocket, sharing his love of Ruby and crafting amazing websites with awesome teammates for a bunch of wonderful clients. He also loves guitar, piano and kittens.
Raymond Hettinger is long-standing core developer for the Python Language and has created many of its features including itertools and sets. He is a board member for the Python Software Foundation and editor of an upcoming Python community book.
ichard Hipp has been working in 0pen-source software for decades and is the lead programmer for SQLite database and the Fossil DVCS. He is the recipient of the 2005 Google/O’Reilly Open Source Award for Best Integrator. Richard holds graduate degrees from Georgia Tech and Duke University. He lives in Charlotte, NC, and makes his living writing and supporting open-source software.
With a background in Mechanical and Systems Engineering, Rob Hirschfeld, principal cloud solution architect at Dell, specializes in large scale, integrated, and innovative cloud systems. Lately, he’s been leading Dell’s OpenStack and Crowbar projects.
As a senior architect, Rob helps Dell to set strategy for cloud computing, drives innovative cloud solutions to market, and works with customers on their cloud implementations.
Rob is a graduate of Louisiana State University and Duke University, and, in addition to cloud technologies, Rob is also widely regarded for his passion and expertise on the Agile process.
You can find Rob’s thoughts on cloud innovation at his blog www.RobHirschfeld.com or on Twitter.
Vickie Hoffman is CEO and a co-founder of Roberts-Hoffman Software, Inc. She has over 20 years experience in developing and implementing healthcare solutions for providers and hospitals. Vickie has managed implementation projects from front office registration/admissions to electronic medical record. She has a degree in business administration.
Bastian is a Software Engineer at ResearchGate, the leading social network for scientists, working there on everything API related. Before that he was responsible for the integration of OpenSocial, OAuth, OpenID and other open standards into the largest german based social networks, studiVZ, schülerVZ and meinVZ. He is also a frequent speaker on international web technology conferences, always trying to promote open standards and protocols. This, together with his activity in the OpenSocial foundation and as a committer and PMC member for the Apache Shindig project makes him a strong advocate for the vision of an truly open and distributed social web.
Consultant, trainer and software designer of many years standing. Director of the Python Software Foundation and author of “Python Web Programming”, Steve has given many popular Python talks and classes over the years.
My wife and two children fill most of the time that I’m not at work or tinkering on some free software project. I work for Intel to help 3rd party companies and developers write or port their applications to MeeGo.
Interesting facts about me:- Volunteered for a non-profit in France for 5 years.
- In junior high, I contributed regularly to Nintendo Powers’ Tips Column.
- During my honeymoon my wife and I got stuck in the 4th largest ice cave in Germany during a rain storm.
Eric is a developer at Urban Airship. He has a blog called Surfing in Kansas where he talks about testing and other Python, Ops, and Deployment related things. When not working, he is probably hacking from a hammock somewhere in the world.
Bradley Holt is a web developer, entrepreneur, free/open source software contributor, community facilitator, speaker, and an author. He is the co-founder of Found Line, a creative studio with capabilities in web development, web design, and print design. He is a minor contributor of source code, bug reports, or documentation to several free/open source projects including PHP and Zend Framework. He organizes the Burlington, Vermont PHP Users Group and is a co-organizer of Vermont Code Camp. He has spoken at SXSW Interactive, OSCON, OSCON Data, the jQuery Conference, ZendCon, and CouchConf. He is the author of Writing and Querying MapReduce Views in CouchDB and Scaling CouchDB, both published by O’Reilly Media.
He blogs at bradley-holt.com and... Read More.
Garrett Honeycutt has been hacking *nix based systems and spreading the merits of open source software for over ten years. He began using Puppet in 2007 while building out a national carrier grade VoIP system. Previously he has worked on such things as building core internet infrastructure for an ISP and creating mobile media distribution platforms.
Mingsheng Hong is a technical marketing specialist at Vertica (an HP company), focused on connecting the product’s technical strengths with its business impact, as well as incubating new use cases on Big Data analytics. Prior to his marketing role, Mingsheng spent 3 years at Vertica as a software architect and engineer, leading the development of a number of core product features. Mingsheng obtained his Computer Science Ph.D. degree at Cornell University, where he pioneered Complex Event Processing (CEP) technology and built Cayuga, the world’s first expressive and scalable CEP engine. Mingsheng is also a co-founder of the Microsoft CEDR event processing project, which became the Microsoft StreamInsight technology shipped with Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Tom Hughes-Croucher is the Principal at Jetpacks for Dinosaurs, a consultancy that helps to make their client’s web sites really fast. He provides technology leadership and expertise in high performance web sites and Node.js for the company.
Tom is the co-author of the O’Reilly book “Up and Running with Node.js”.
Tom has also worked at Joyent as the Chief Evangelist with the Node.js team. Before that he was the Lead Technology Evangelist for North America and a Senior Developer at Yahoo!.
Tom has contributed to a number of Web standards for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the British Standards Institute (BSI). He is worked with some of the world’s leading brands including Walmart, NASA, Yahoo!, Tesco, Three Telecom and the UK’s Channel... Read More.
Tyler is a veteran web developer with a penchant for the Ruby language and frameworks including Ruby on Rails and Merb. He enjoys creating practical, intuitive interfaces with semantic markup, well-crafted JavaScript, and pretty colors. When he’s not coding, you’ll find him in the kitchen cooking up new recipes and mixing classic cocktails.
Henrik Ingo is active in the MySQL and Drupal communities. Professionally he has worked at MySQL AB, Sun and Monty Program on MySQL and MariaDB and prior to that in the Finnish mobile cluster on Symbian, Maemo and VoIP projects. He currently works for Nokia as a MySQL and Performance specialist. He is the author of the book “Open Life: The Philosophy of Open Source” (http://openlife.cc) a book on open source community ethics and business models.
I’m a minimalist who enjoys solving interesting and complex problems. I enjoy javascript as a language and node.js as a platform.
Philip Jackson is the Development Community Advocate for SoftLayer Technologies, serving as the personal contact point for customers integrating with the SoftLayer API. Phil’s experiences in customer service, training, sales, sales engineering and development have culminated into the advocation of resource environments for both external and internal developer communities.
Daniel Jacobson is the Director of Engineering for the API at Netflix, responsible for delivering Netflix content to hundreds of devices. Prior to Netflix, he was Director of Application Development at NPR, leading the development of NPR’s custom content management system. He also created NPR’s API which became the distribution channel for getting NPR content to mobile platforms, member station sites throughout the country as well as to the public developer community. Daniel also co-authored the O’Reilly book, “APIs: A Strategy Guide.”
Brian Jepson is an editor for O’Reilly Media; he covers a number of areas, including Arduino, wireless sensor networks, mobile devices, as well as some Microsoft and Apple topics.
He likes to hack on gadgets such as Arduino and the Netduino in his spare time, and he is also the co-founder and co-host of Providence Geeks, a monthly gathering in Providence, RI.
Paul is an internationally recognized PHP expert who has worked as everything from junior developer to VP of Engineering in all kinds of organizations (corporate, military, non-profit, educational, medical, and others). Paul’s latest open-source project is the Aura project for PHP 5.4. Among his other accomplishments, Paul is the lead developer of the Solar framework, the creator of the Savant template system, has authored a series of authoritative benchmarks on dynamic framework performance, and was a founding contributor to the Zend Framework (the DB, DB_Table, and View components). In a previous career, Paul was an intelligence operations specialist for the US Air Force, and enjoys punching 7.62mm holes at 400 meters.
Dr Jones received his MD from Stanford in 1969. He spent the next 26 years at the University of Chicago where he and his colleagues developed the Centennial Patient Care Workstation, a model for allowing clinicians to enjoy the benefits of new information technology.
In 1995, Dr. Jones joined Oacis Healthcare Systems, where he focused more deeply on the clinical functionality of applied informatics. At Oacis, he had the opportunity to work closely with some of the founding members of the HL7 organization. Understanding how clinicians communicate with one another led to an appreciation of how the standardization of clinical information fosters more rapid and accurate communication.
In 2000, Dr. Jones joined Oracle where, as Chief Medical Officer, he provided the clinical leadership for... Read More.
Sheeri K. Cabral has a master’s degree in computer science specializing in databases from Brandeis University. She has background as a systems administrator; has worked with Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Solaris, RedHat/Fedora, AIX, and HP-UX. Unstoppable as a volunteer and activist since age 14, Cabral founded and organizes the Boston, Massachusetts, USA, MySQL User group, and wrote the MySQL Administrator’s Bible (www.tinyurl.com/mysqlbible). She currently works for PalominoDB, a remote database management company
Adam Kalsey has been an internet entrepreneur since 1995. He’s the Product Manager for Tropo and and a developer advocate at Voxeo, evangelizing Voxeo to developers and startups. He was a co-founder of IMified, where he created the leading platform for Instant Messaging applications, and joined Voxeo through the acquisition of IMified in June 2009. Previously, he was founder and CTO of Pheedo, a pioneer in RSS advertising and had served as VP of Product for cloud computing and advertising companies. Adam’s passion for startups led to his co-founding SacStarts, a Sacramento entrepreneur community. Adam blogs about technology, user experience, and baseball at Kalsey.com and can be found on most social services as akalsey.
Jacob Kaplan-Moss is one of the lead developers and co-creator of Django. Jacob’s an experienced software developer with a focus on web application architecture. He’s a consultant with Revolution Systems, where he helps companies deploy and scale websites using Python and Django. Jacob previously worked for the Lawrence Journal-World, a locally-owned newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas, where he helped develop and eventually open source Django.
Erik Kastner has given presentations large and small, from the international Rails conference to informal company brown-bag. He strives to find the laziest way to get things done – even if it ends up being a lot more work. Automation, exploration and the simple joy of building underpin just about everything he does. Other than a strange, dream-filled few years in San Francisco, Erik has lived in New Jersey his whole life. He works at Etsy in Brooklyn hand-crafting code, crafts and tools.
Roan Kattouw has been a MediaWiki developer since 2006, and began working for the Wikimedia Foundation in 2009 as part of the Wikipedia Usability Initiative.
Yehuda Katz is a member of the SproutCore, Ruby on Rails and jQuery Core Teams; during the daytime, he works as a framework architect at Strobe. Yehuda is the co-author of the best-selling jQuery in Action, the upcoming Rails 3 in Action, and is a contributor to Ruby in Practice. He spends most of his time hacking on open source—his main projects, along with others, like Rubinius, Thor, Handlebars and Moneta—or traveling the world doing evangelism work. He blogs at http://yehudakatz.com and can be found on Twitter as @wycats.
Avni Khatri is a Web Applications Architect at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Lab of Computer Science. She builds database-backed medical applications using OpenACS, an open source web application toolkit. Prior to coming to MGH, she worked at Yahoo! Inc. as a Senior Front-end Engineer on the Flex Force Tiger Team. She was also co-president of the Southern California chapter of Yahoo! Women in Tech.
In her free time, she contributes to Kids on Computers and she plays guitar. In May 2011, she traveled to the Huajuapan de Leon region of Mexico for a Kids on Computers summit where she helped install two new computer labs and upgrade two existing computer labs.
Mats Kindahl lead software developer at MySQL/Oracle. He is the main architect and implementor of the MySQL row-based replication and several other replication features.
He is co-author of the book MySQL High Availability (O’Reilly Media, Inc.)
In the time before starting at MySQL, he has worked with research in formal methods, automated program analysis, distributed systems, and as implementor of C/C++ compilers.
Craig Kitterman is a Senior Technical Ambassador in the Interoperability Strategy team at Microsoft focused on PHP, Java and cloud technologies. Craig is responsible for engaging with the global developer community to drive awareness inside of Microsoft as to the practical needs of the community and to raise awareness within the community of new technologies and techniques to enable non-Microsoft technologies to shine on the Windows and Windows Azure platforms. Craig has over 15 years of experience in software engineering and technology strategy and enjoys the study of technology trends – his current interests include open government, cloud computing and social media. Craig lives outside of Seattle in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains with his wife and three kids and spends his spare... Read More.
I’m a software engineer and technical project manager (LinkedIn), focused on web application development with open source tools and languages. I live in Portland, Oregon with my wife, four cats and a dog. I grew up in Northern California and graduated with a BA in English from UC Davis.
My day job is with Mozilla (makers of Firefox) as a Web Product Engineer and I’m very active in the Portland Tech community. I am co-chair of the annual Open Source Bridge Conference, am a board member and treasurer of the Legion of Tech, organizer of Code ‘n’ Splode, a user group for women in technology, and co-founder and secretary of the Stumptown Syndicate.
My non-tech activities include Hatha Yoga, cycling, hiking, folding origami and other... Read More.
In the absence of an official conference code of conduct, I’d like to state, that as a speaker at OSCON I believe we should all strive to create a fun, educational, enjoyable and harassment-free conference experience for everyone.
If you are being harassed, or witness harassment please report it to venue security, the police, the conference organisers or a trusted friend. You do not have to put up with it.
For more detail on what an anti-harassment policy should contain, please review the geekfeminism wiki conference anti-harassment policy template
Peter is the Lead Software Engineer for the Open Source Lab. During his six years at the lab, he’s worked on many projects to improve life at the lab and academic... Read More.
Bradley M. Kuhn is a Director of FSF, and is President and Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy. Kuhn began his work in the Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) Movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early adopter of the GNU /Linux operating system, and began contributing to various FLOSS projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn’s non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the Free Software Foundation. As FSF’s Executive Director from 2001-2005, Kuhn led FSF’s GPL enforcement,... Read More.
Marc Lavallee is the Technology Architect for Project Argo, a collaboration between NPR and 12 member stations aimed at strengthening local journalism online.
Robert (a/k/a r0ml) Lefkowitz is a computer professional and amateur philosopher. He has worked primarily in large IT organizations where he facilitates information flows. His interests include semasiology and medieval history. He also juggles clubs.
Andy Lester (@petdance) has been a business programmer for over two decades. His first book, Land The Tech Job You Love, on job search strategies for programmers, sysadmins and other technical people, is published by Pragmatic Bookshelf.
Andy maintains the Perl news blog Perlbuzz, @perlbuzz. He’s active in the Parrot, Perl 6 and Perl 5 projects, and maintains over a dozen testing-related modules.
Joseph R. Lewis is the chief web architect at Sandia National Laboratories, where his activities include research and development of semantic web, social media, and mobile technologies for scientific collaboration and national security applications. Mr. Lewis is an author of two books on web development: Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript (2008) and AdvancED CSS (2009). Mr. Lewis is also an accomplished and formerly professional double bassist and guitarist who still teaches music in his spare time.
Patrick is the runs the product management and engineering teams for Neustar’s Web Performance Management group, which is offers several cloud-based monitoring, load testing, and performance-related services.
Patrick came to Neustar via an acquisition of his second startup, BrowserMob. Prior to that, he worked at Gomez in the product management group after his first startup was acquired.
Patrick is an avid open source contributor, having founded OpenQA, created Selenium Remote Control, and co-created Struts 2.
Patrick has held management and software engineering positions with Jive Software, Spoke Software, and Cisco Systems.
Van is a software engineer and practicing lawyer at Haynes and Boone, where he spends most of his time helping clients with patent and open source questions. His specialty is translating from “lawyer” to “engineer” and back.
Van has been involved with open source since 1994. He speaks and writes regularly on open source issues, and has been recognized as an authority on open source licensing. He published his first book on open source software and intellectual property law and is working on a second book addressing the economics of open source.
Before becoming a lawyer, Van was a research and development engineer at NTT/Verio, building automation tools and distributed systems. Van still writes software in his spare time. He is a member of... Read More.
Philip Lindsay (also known as follower from rancidbacon.com ) creates tools to encapsulate the knowledge he gains from exploring and understanding technology in order to help others do their jobs more effectively. He translates technology.
In addition to teaching introductory Arduino workshops Philip has contributed USB and networking code to the Arduino eco-system.
When not exploring technology for the fun of it, Philip creates documentation, code libraries and example projects for SparkFun Electronics and other clients.
Tim O’Reilly once called Philip a “troublemaker” for his early Google Maps reverse engineering efforts.
Philip has a particular interest in the areas where design, art, craft and technology intersect.
Marcello Lioy Director of Engineering Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
Marcello Lioy is director of engineering at Qualcomm Innovation Center Inc. (QuIC ), a wholly-owned Qualcomm subsidiary focused on mobile open source contributions. He works on the core team that launched the AllJoyn open source project and serves as the chief liason to the open source community for the initiative. In this role, he is responsible for project governance, release policies, and more. AllJoyn is a peer-to-peer technology developed to enable secure, ad hoc, and proximity-based communication networks.
Upon joining Qualcomm in 1997, Lioy was assigned to the software development team that supports high speed computer networking over 3G networks, where he managed a variety of projects including mobile IPv4, IPv6, and the restructuring of the... Read More.
Computer Scientist and Senior Technical Adviser for the Forge.mil project, the Chief Information Assurance Executive, the Chief Information Officer and the Chief Technology Officer of the Defense Information Systems Agency on issues of Security, Information Assurance and Open Technology. Aaron is very proud to be one of the formative Community Managers for the Forge.mil Project with an active community of over 10,000 users and growing.
Mr. Lippold is an active proponent and driving force for Open Technology and Open Methods for DISA and the Department of Defense.
Prior to joining DISA, Mr. Lippold was a Research Programmer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications working on High Performance Computing projects running Linux RedHat on IBM platforms.
Aaron Lippold is a graduate of... Read More.
James Loope is the Operations Lead at Janrain, specializing in scalable infrastructure, virtualization, cloud infrastructure and computer security.
Federico Lucifredi is the maintainer of the man suite, the primary documentation-delivery tool under Linux, a graduate of Boston College and Harvard University, and the Ubuntu Advantage Product Manager at Canonical. As a software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell corporation, Federico was part of the SUSE Linux team for five years, overseeing the update stack of a 150 million dollar maintenance business. Previously, Federico has been a CIO and a network software architect at technology and embedded Linux startups, and he has spent two years teaching in Boston University’s graduate and undergraduate programs, while simultaneously consulting for MIT. He is a frequent speaker at user group and conference events, notably the Linux Foundation’s LinuxCon, LinuxWorld, the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, and the IMPlanet... Read More.
Simon MacDonald is an Advisory Software Engineer in IBM’s Emerging Internet Technologies Group. Simon has over fifteen years of development experience and has worked on a variety of projects including object oriented databases, police communication systems, speech recognition and unified messaging. His current focus is contributing to the open source PhoneGap project to enable developers to create cross platform mobile applications using Web technologies. Simon’s been building web applications since the days they were written using shell scripts and he still has nightmares about those dark days.
Filip Maj is a software engineer at Nitobi where he works on the PhoneGap framework and other mobile and web app projects. He’s part of the PhoneGap training team and has been teaching developers across North America how to put PhoneGap to work for their own mobile development projects.
Sastry is currently an Architect at eBay overseeing their enterprise middleware architecture. He successfully drove the design and architecture of eBay SOA platform and played a key role in their SOA strategy transformation. He also spearheads the open source initiative at eBay and is responsible for open sourcing their SOA platform. He is a technology evangelist with over 2 decades of experience in architecting and building scalable distributed computing systems, in the areas of Application Servers, Java/J2EE/Web Services, SOA and Grid/cloud Computing. Prior to joining eBay, Sastry was co-founder and CTO of OpenGridSolutions, Founding member and Architect at SpikeSource, and an architect at Oracle. Sastry also worked at many other companies in the early stages of his career and holds... Read More.
Based out of Singapore, Shyam [pronounced sha-am] is a systems administrator on the Mozilla IT team and gets to break most things at work. A geek at heart, he’s a part time Gentoo developer, loves photography, biking as well as motorsport and was a race official in the 2010 Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix and the 2011 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix.
Jon is the co-founder of Secret Lab, the world’s least not-evil mobile development studio. Jon heads up the development team at Secret Lab, develops mobile applications for Meebo, and is a PhD student at the University of Tasmania in Australia.
Neil Mansilla is the Director of Developer Products and API evangelist for Mashery. He is a passionate software engineer and tech entrepreneur. Neil previously founded several web and software companies in verticals including search, e-commerce, real estate and healthcare. He is responsible for helping developers discover, learn and utilize the platforms on the Mashery API Network.
Francois has been involved in Open Source communities for more than 10 years. In addition to being a contributor on a number of Open Source projects, he is the lead developer of Libravatar, the author of two small Open Source applications (safe-rm and email-reminder), a licensing volunteer for the Free Software Foundation and a Debian developer.
Currently working for Catalyst IT in New Zealand, Francois enjoys introducing people to the ideas behind Free Software and discussing the intricacies of Open Source licenses.
Ask me about HTML Canvas, GUI toolkits, and visual design. Or ask me to rant about Java stuff.
Josh Marinacci is a blogger and co-author of Swing Hacks for O’Reilly. He is currently a Developer Advocate for the webOS at HP. He previously worked on JavaFX, Swing, NetBeans, and client lead for the Java Store at Sun Microsystems.
Josh lives in Eugene, Oregon and is passionate about open source technology & great user interfaces. He uses a Palm Pre 2, HP TouchPad, and Nikon D50 SLR to spread understanding of great design in software.
Alex Martelli wrote “Python in a Nutshell” and co-edited “Python Cookbook”. He’s a PSF member, and won the 2002 Activators’ Choice Award and the 2006 Frank Willison Award for contributions to the Python community. He works as Senior Staff Engineer for Google. You can read some PDFs and watch some videos of his past presentations.
Brian Martin is the founder and chief consultant of Martin Consulting Services, Inc. Martin Consulting provides System Administration, Programming, and Training services to companies of all sizes in the greater Portland Oregon area.
Guy Martin is a Community Management & Strategic Consultant at CollabNet. In addition to helping customers build collaborative communities using Open Source best practices, he provides high-level strategic guidance in the cultural and organizational changes necessary to best take advantage of CollabNet’s Agile ALM tools. He has over 15 years of experience in software engineering, technical marketing, and community management. Prior to CollabNet, he helped develop collaborative communities for Motorola and Sun Microsystems.
Mr. Martin was awarded a Federal 100 award in 2010 by Federal Computer Week for his work on the Forge.mil project. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA.
Kate Matsudaira fills the role as Vice President of Engineering at SEOmoz where she is responsible for managing the core technology team. Prior to SEOmoz, she filled the role of VP Engineering at another startup, Delve Networks (acquired by Limelight). At Delve she helped create and monetize a very large distributed system used for online video delivery and video search. Prior to that she worked in at other leading technology companies like Amazon.com, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems. Kate has extensive knowledge of building large scale distributed web systems, web services, and search. Kate has a B.S. in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College, and has completed graduate work at the University of Washington in both Business and Computer Science (M.S.).
Scott Mattocks is the Web Development Lead at GSN.com. He leads a team of skilled developers in support of GSN’s on-line games group. Recently, Scott helped to launch WaterSpout, a WebSocket server, with long polling fallback, written entirely in PHP. Scott is also a contributor to PEAR and is the author of “Pro PHP-GTK”
Mike Mayo is the creator of the Rackspace Cloud and Slicehost iPhone apps and builds open source software for the Rackspace Cloud. He has worked for Coupa Software, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and FedEx. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Christian Brothers University, maintains a blog at overhrd.com, and actively talks about technology on Twitter as @greenisus.
Matt’s been working on TV UI prototypes and products for three of his five years at Netflix. Before Netflix, Matt co-founded Plusmo (now part of AT&T) and designed web UI at Symbol (now part of Motorola Solutions).
Raymond (www.raymondmccauley.net) is Chief Science Officer at Genomera, working on health collaboration and personal genomics. He has 20 years of experience in the biotech and high tech arenas, with Exponential Biosciences (www.exponentialbio.com), Illumina (http://www.illumina.com/), Ingenuity Systems, QIAGEN Genomics, Applied Carbon, various startups and governmental agencies, and a stint as executive producer for PBS television series at TANSTAAFL Media.
Raymond is on the faculty of Singularity University (singularityu.org), an advisor to two biotech stealth startups, and an active participant in the BioCurious Community Lab (www.biocurious.org), DIYgenomics (www.diygenomics.com), and Quantified Self communities. His background is in computer science, electrical engineering, biochemistry, biophysics, and bioinformatics, including graduate studies at Texas A&M University and Stanford University, with support from the NSF Student Scholar Program and... Read More.
Matthew McCullough is an energetic 13 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a Denver consultancy. Matthew currently is a member of the JCP, reviewer for technology publishers including O’Reilly, speaker on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour, author of the DZone Maven RefCard, and President of the Denver Open Source Users Group.
His experience includes successful JEE, SOA, and Web Service implementations for real estate, finance and telecommunications firms in addition to publishing several open source libraries. Matthew jumps at opportunities to mentor and educate teams on how to leverage open source. His current topics of R&D are Cloud Computing, Maven, iPhone, Distributed Version Control (Git), and Debugging Tools.
Matthew resides in Denver... Read More.
Charles has over a decade of experience as a systems administrator. He has worked for Atlassian for over three years administering large scale Java applications. Previously he worked for the University of California, Davis developing Python-based web applications using Zope and Plone. Currently Charles is the lead Systems Engineer for Bitbucket, a Mercurial based code hosting site built using Django.
Director, Engineering, Cloud Platforms at Citrix Systems.
Dr Melton is the CTO for Code for America, a national nonprofit bringing technologists (i.e ‘geeks’) into government for year-long fellowships. He is a public-minded, generation-net coder passionate about cities, urban affairs and civic action. Dan’s past projects include Urbata, an urban data mapping tool for mid-sized cities; and the Kansas City DrillDown, a multi-layered urban data mashup of utility, credit and city records that recounts the population and challenges the US Census. A Ruby enthusiast, Dan has contributed to multiple open source gov’t projects. Hailing from the midwest, he received his bachelor’s degree in Economics and Political Science, his masters in Public Administration and doctorate in Public Affairs and Economics from the Henry Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at the University... Read More.
John Mertic serves as the Community Manager for SugarCRM, having several years of experience with PHP web applications and open source communities. A frequent conference speaker and an avid writer, he has been published in php|architect, IBM Developerworks, and in the Apple Developer Connection, and is the author of the book ‘The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM: Better Business Applications’ and the book ‘Building on SugarCRM: Creating Applications the Easy Way’. He has also contributed to many open source projects, most notably the PHP project where is the creator and maintainer of the PHP Windows Installer.
Amir Michael joined Facebook in 2009 and leads the hardware design team responsible for the design and implementation of the servers that power one of the most-trafficked sites in the world.
Amir was part of a small team at Facebook that embarked on project to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. The result of that project was a Facebook first dedicated data center which is 38% more efficient and 24% less expensive to build and run than other state-of-the-art data centers. Amir plays an active role in the Open Compute Project, Facebook’s initiative to share the custom-engineered technology in its first dedicated data center as an open source project.
Prior to Facebook, Amir worked at Google where he... Read More.
Jeremy is an active member of the Symfony2 community and has been a core contributor to the framework since early 2010. He is also involved with numerous other projects: Doctrine MongoDB ODM, Silex micro-framework, Composer (PHP package management) and Imagine (image processing).
Although not a serial speaker, he has had the honor of presenting at Symfony Live Paris and conducting a tutorial at OSCON during 2011. He is currently a lead software engineer with Exercise.com and has previously built great things at OpenSky and InterActiveCorp.
Colin Miller is the Product Unit Manager for the .NET Micro Framework. This is an Open Source version of .NET for very small devices. In 35 years in the inudstry, Colin has worked in almost every facet of computing from embeddedd to database to WEB services to developer tools and more. He has run the .NET Micro Framework project as an Open Source Collaboration since 2009.
Jeremie Miller is the inventor of Jabber/XMPP technologies and was the primary developer of jabberd 1.0, the first XMPP server. He also wrote one of the very first XML parsers in JavaScript in 1997.
He began developing software as a teenager in rural Iowa. Later, he attended Iowa State University where he studied computer and electrical design. He broke off his studies early in 1995 to join an Internet startup company and has been working with startups since then.
Jeremie is currently developing the Locker Project (http://lockerproject.org) and TeleHash (http://telehash.org), platforms and protocols for empowering individuals with their personal data and making it easy to build truly distributed applications.
He is from Cascade, Iowa, where he lives with his wife and three sons.
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H. Wade Minter is the chief architect, system administrator, and senior developer for TeamSnap, an application that makes managing sports teams and groups easy.
David has been at this for over 10 years. He started his professional experience as a founding member of Security Focus, which was acquired by Symantec in 2002. During that time he moderated the Bugtraq mailing list, a historically important forum for discussion of security vulnerabilities, for over four years. He has spoken at Black Hat, Can Sec West, AusCERT and numerous other security conferences, as well as made contributions to books, magazines and other publications. David also participated in a NIAC working group on behalf of Symantec to develop the first version of the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) model and served as an editor for IEEE Security & Privacy for several years. His current obsession is building Subgraph, his open... Read More.
Perl hacker, Software Engineer at DotCloud, founder of Shibuya.pm and YAPC::Asia organizer. Loving TV shows, football and 8 bit video games.
Matthew Momjian is a freshman at Franklin & Marshall College who has been interested in computers since he can remember. Tracing his roots back to his father’s BSD/OS server (still running), which he learned to use around the age of 5, he is proficient in a number of programming languages.
At OSCON this year he will be focusing on 3D content creation with Blender, which he has been using since mid 2006.
Sherri Montgomery is a systems analyst for Mentor Graphics. As a member of the Business Intelligence team she makes huge data sets meaningful, cultivates order, grows projects, engages users, facilitates teams, and spends a great deal of time immersed in a sea of metadata, surfing the semantic layer.
In her spare time Sherri helps put on Ignite Portland and manages conference logistics for Open Source Bridge. She also meditates, makes awesome vegan food, creates art for trade, teaches Hatha Yoga and hikes. Sherri can often be found teaching yoga to geeks at conferences she participates in.
Gleicon Moraes is a developer using python, ruby and erlang who loves distributed systems, loves non relational databases.
Ralph Morelli is Professor of Computer Science at Trinity College, where he has been teaching computer science since 1985. He is also Principal Investigator of the Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Project (http://www.hfoss.org), an NSF-funded initiative aimed at getting undergraduates engaged in building FOSS that serves the public good. In Spring 2011 he taught students App Inventor for Android in his “Computing with Mobile Phones” course.
Alison Muckle, B.A. is a Senior Research Analyst in the Health Care Department at NORC. She has experience in health information technology (health IT) research, program and policy evaluation, and quantitative and qualitative research methods. Currently, Muckle provides research support in the areas of study design, instrument development, qualitative methods and data analysis for a range of program evaluations and projects focused on health IT. Muckle serves as technical lead for the evaluation of the ONC Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) Program, which supports innovative collaborative research in four critical areas. She has a strong interest in open source healthcare technologies, and her previous work includes development of content for HRSA’s open source EHR toolbox for health centers. Additionally,... Read More.
Patrick Mueller is a software developer at IBM in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. He’s been working on web software and mobile software for a long time, in many languages, across many OSes. Patrick is currently working on the weinre mobile web debugger and other Cordova related things.
Eni Mustafaraj is a Hess Fellow at Wellesley College. She has been teaching App Inventor since Fall 2009. In her latest course, Web Mashups, students built apps to gather data for creating mashups about Wellesley College.
Karl Naden is a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Jonathan Aldrich. Karl’s research focuses on the design and development of the Plaid programming language. Karl holds a B.A. in math and history from Williams College. When he is not working, you might find him singing, running, cooking, or playing board games.
Gerardo Narvaja has worked in the software industry for more than 20 years, spending most of his career working on database software as a consultant, sales engineer and DBA. He worked for MySQL for a little more than 6 years. He is currently working for OpenMarket Inc as a Sr MySQL DBA.
Dave Neary is the founder of Neary Consulting, specialising in growing open communities and developing free software strategy. In this role, he has worked as the docmaster of the Maemo community, and OpenWengo community manager.
With a long history of participation in free software projects, including the GIMP, GNOME, OpenWengo, Maemo and MeeGo, Dave has been exploring the subject of company/community interactions for over a decade.
Peter is co-founder of a number of popular Open Source projects such as Neo4j, Tinkerpop, OPS4J and Qi4j. Peter loves connecting things, writing novel prototypes and throwing together new ideas and projects around graphs and society-scale innovation. Right now, Peter is concentrating on turning Open Source projects into profitable enterprises at Neo Technology, the company sponsoring the development of Neo4j, the Graph Database. Also, Peter is a Mentor helping startups at Startupbootcamp Copenhagen and organizing events like http://www.thoughtmade.com and TEDx Öresund.
Christopher is a semi-professional nerd, currently working in Android development for Secret Lab, a boutique development studio based in Hobart, Australia for clients throughout the world. Since he likes it when developers share their experiences, he has organised developer-focused miniconfs at Linux.conf.au since 2010, and is co-organiser of PyCon Australia 2012 and 2013, to be held in Hobart, Australia (ask him about it!).
When not coding, Christopher can be found taking long, artificially-lit walks down fake beaches, arguing the benefits of Python to anyone who won’t listen, and watching other people drinking beer. He enjoys presenting on Mobile development at Open Source conferences, and presenting on Open Source development at Mobile conferences.
John Newton is CTO and Chairman of Alfresco, an open source enterprise content management system founded in 2005. John has spent the last 25 years building information management software, including co-founding Documentum, the enterprise content management software company with Howard Shao in 1990. John started his career in 1981 in databases as one of the original engineers at Ingres and ultimately ran the database development group. John was also one of the first entrepreneurs in residence in Europe at Benchmark Capital. John blogs frequently on changes in information management as it evolves with open source, Web 2.0 and the commoditization of software and hardware.
Clinton R. Nixon is a developer at Relevance:”http://thinkrelevance.com”, the home of Clojure/core. He has been computing for 25 years and loves Perl, Clojure, public speaking, and learning new things.
Rick Nixon serves as Program Manager, eGovernment and Technology Initiatives, at City of Portland, Oregon. In this role, Rick is responsible for supplying process and technology to the City’s open data, open standards, and open source software solutions. After having successfully launched the Civic Apps For Greater Portland initiative (CivicApps.org), Rick continues to work with regional government agencies, private sector third parties, and championing of citizen engagement and transparency in government vis-à-vis the local software community in the form of get-togethers, hackathons, app design contests, council resolutions, and more.
Sarah Novotny is the CIO of a video game production house, Meteor Entertainment. She regularly talks about infrastructure automation and geek lifestyle. She is a founder and board member of Blue Gecko which does remote administration and management of databases around the world.
She is additionally a Program Chair of Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. Her technology writing and adventures as well as her more esoteric musings at sarahnovotny.com. For twittery things, check out twitter.com/sarahnovotny. To connect with her on LinkedIn, wander over to linkedin.com/in/sarahnovotny.
Bob Nystrom is a Googler working on the Dart programming language. In past lives, he was a game developer, a UI designer, and a computer animator.
Yann Orlarey was born in 1959. While studying economics and computing at university, he also attended electroacoustic music classes at the conservatory in Saint-Etienne. He has been a member of Grame since 1983, and is currently a scientific director of this organization. His own research is concerned mainly with formal languages for musical composition, and real-time operating systems. He has created, alone or as part of a team, a number of musical systems and programs. His repertoire includes music on tape, interactive pieces, and instrumental pieces for soloists, small groups and orchestras. Most of his works bring in computing techniques, either for the performers’ instrumental playing situations or in the compositional process as such. He has co-written several pieces within the Grame framework, for example... Read More.
Jeff Osier-Mixon is the community manager for the Yocto project, working at Intel. Jeff blogs about open source issues and maintains an open source conference calendar at http://jefro.net/blog (Jeff’s Open Source Resource).
Joe Pamer is the Lead Developer for the F# team at Microsoft. He has been at Microsoft for six years, with much of that time having been spent on F#.
Joel is a flight dynamics engineer in the Navigation and Mission Design Branch at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He has been an integral member of the GMAT development team since January 2010, focusing on validation testing, documentation, and new feature development.
Joel graduated with a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Mississippi State University. His research interests include astrodynamics, space mission design, and engineering software.
Adam hacks on web technologies at Socialbomb. He is also an adjunct professor at Hunter College and NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Trevor Parscal has been working at the Wikimedia Foundation since 2008, focusing his engineering and design efforts on the front-end of MediaWiki. Key projects he’s worked on include redesigning the look and feel of Wikipedia and creating ResourceLoader which optimizes the way JavaScript, CSS and image resources are sent to the client.
Mr. Patten has spent the last 25 years developing educational software for a variety of clients. He has managed the engineering departments for several companies, including his own, and has won several awards for software design. He is currently bringing Open Source software solutions to schools to help maximize their technology dollars and close the digital divide between students of diverse economic backgrounds. Mr Patten is also the Executive Director of the National Center for Open Source and Education – a non profit organization advocating Open Source adoption in K-12 schools throughout the country.
Shawn Pearce is the second in command of the Git project. He has been actively involved in the project since early 2006, contributing more than 1300 changes in 3 years. Shawn is the author of git-gui, a Tk based graphical interface shipped with git, and git-fast-import, a stream based import system often used for converting projects to git. Besides being the primary author of both git-gui and git-fast-import, Shawn’s opinion, backed by his code, has influenced many key design decisions that form the modern git implementation.
In early 2006 Shawn also founded the JGit project, creating a 100% pure Java reimplementation of the Git version control system. The JGit library can often be found in Java based products that interact with Git, including plugins for... Read More.
Eduardo was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems where he led projects in a number of areas, from IDEs to Middleware. He was the specification lead for multiple JSRs; including JSP. Most recent responsibilities at Sun included engineering manager for Hudson, open source and community strategy for Sun’s middleware products, including GlassFish, and multiple adoption-related activities, most notably, chief editor for TheAquarium. After a stint at Oracle in 2010, Eduardo joined RIM in December 6th, 2010 as Sr. Director, Open Source.
Jeremy Pennycook is a recent addition to NPR’s digital team. With a focus on the intersection of technology and journalism, he manages various mobile products for NPR. Jeremy holds a master’s degree in mass communication from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. He has participated in the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, Gannett’s New Media Innovation Lab, the Carnegie-Knight News 21 Initiative, and the Knight News Challenge.
Jeremiah sees the magic in technology. He knows how to do things now, and he also knows how to think about possibilities. Jeremiah likes to imagine new kinds of indexes, new kinds of teams, new kinds of applications — this means when you need to reinvent something, or get unblocked, you should talk to Jeremiah.
I’m a consultant/manager/founder/owner/whatever with Brent Ozar PLF. We do database and storage consulting. We can talk about your architecture. We can help you plan to grow around your current infrastructure or help you build a new one.
I also enjoy writing descriptions about myself in the third person.
Aaron Peterson is a seasoned systems and networking engineer serving as a Technical Evangelist for Opscode, the makers of Chef. He has wielded real-time command-line kung fu to tens of thousands of servers at once and automated global production infrastructure at Amazon.com. He is excited about information design and visualization, scale, and analysis.
Christophe Pettus has been developing using PostgreSQL since 1998. He consults on database design and application development through PostgreSQL Experts.
Matt is VP of Customer Solutions and co-founder at DataStax (formerly Riptano), the commercial leader in Apache Cassandra™. Prior to DataStax, Matt built and managed the Email and Apps infrastructure development group at Rackspace. Prior to Rackspace, Matt was at Webmail.us where he worked in various management roles in infrastructure and scalability. Matt holds a BS from Virginia Tech in Computer Science.
Ethan Phelps-Goodman is a Sr. Software Developer at the Sunlight Foundation, where he leads the Data Commons project. His work focuses on combining various sources of data—campaign finance, lobbying, earmarks, voting records, contracts, etc.—into a comprehensive tool for investigating money and influence in politics.
Simon Phipps has engaged at a strategic level in the world’s leading technology companies, starting in roles such as field engineer, programmer, systems analyst and more recently taking executive leadership roles around open source. He worked with OSI standards in the 80s, on collaborative conferencing software in the 90s, helped introduce both Java and XML at IBM and was instrumental in open sourcing the whole software portfolio at Sun Microsystems. A Director of the Open Source Initiative and the UK’s Open Rights Group, he takes an active interest in Free and Open Source software, serving at OpenSolaris, OpenJDK and OpenSPARC, and is a widely read commentator at InfoWorld, Computerworld and his own Webmink blog.
He holds a BSc in... Read More.
Rob Pike is a Distinguished Engineer at Google, Inc. He works on distributed systems, data mining, programming languages, and software development tools. Before Google, Rob was a member of the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs, the lab that developed Unix. While there, he worked on computer graphics, user interfaces, languages, concurrent programming, and distributed systems. He was an architect of the Plan 9 and Inferno operating systems and is the co-author with Brian Kernighan of The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming. Other details of his life appear on line but vary in veracity.
Fabien Pinckaers was only eighteen years old when he started his first company. Today, over ten years later, he has founded and managed several new technology companies, all based on Free / Open Source software.
He originated Tiny ERP, now Open ERP, and is the director of two companies including OpenERP. In four years he has grown the OpenERP from one to sixty-five employees without loans or external fund-raising prior to raising 4 million dollars in 2010 and leading the expansion of OpenERP in over 50 countries.
He has also developed several large scale projects, such as Auction-in-Europe.com, which become the leader in the art market in Belgium. Even today people sell more art works there than on ebay.be.
He is also the... Read More.
Noirin Plunkett is a jack of all trades, and a master of several. A technical writer by day, her open source work epitomizes the saying “if you want something done, ask a busy person”.
Noirin got her open source start at Apache, helping out with the httpd documentation project. Within a year, she had been recruited to the conference planning team, which she now leads. She was involved in setting up the Community Development project at Apache, and acts as organization admin for Apache projects participating in Google Summer of Code. And, of course, she continues to contribute to ASF projects as diverse as Infrastructure and Incubator, and sits on the boards of both the Apache Software Foundation and the Open Cloud Initiative.
When... Read More.
Gregg Pollack works at Envy Labs, where he produces a podcast, creates educational screencasts, and develops websites with Rails. He also runs the Ruby Hero Awards, organizes the Orlando Ruby Users Group, and is also sometimes known as the Ruby on Rails guy in the “Rails vs” commercials or the “C” in MVC.
Francis Potter helps digital technology businesses build better products faster by optimizing technical roadmaps, igniting development teams around new initiatives, implementing best practice development processes, coaching and training engineers transitioning to management roles, and developing applications. His company, The Hathersage Group, recently built a web and mobile application for the SETI Institute which was presented at OSCON 2011.
Jeff Potts, Chief Community Officer, has been a recognized and award-winning leader in the Alfresco community for several years. He has over 18 years of content management and collaboration experience, most of that having come from senior leadership positions in consulting organizations. Jeff has made many contributions to the Alfresco community since he started working with Alfresco in 2005. Examples range from code, to tutorials and informative blog posts, to code camps, meetups, and conference sessions. In 2008, Jeff wrote the Alfresco Developer Guide, the first developer-focused book on Alfresco. He has also been active in the Apache Chemistry project where he leads the development of cmislib, the Python API for CMIS. Jeff holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems from the... Read More.
Chris has been a Senior Developer and Software Engineer for the past seven years. He currently lives in Florida.
Working for a six man company in Scotland, a world leader in Fixed Income financial data, and several Fortune 500 companies, Chris gained a lot of experience in how software businesses around the world are run. Training as a Technical Writer he believes that software should be designed to focus on the audience, not the other way around.
He currently consults on technology for several entrepreneurs, is an active member of Moose developer team, and heads up the Extended Core Working Group for the Enlightened Perl Organisation.
Evan is the founder and CTO of StatusNet Inc and lead developer of StatusNet, the Open Source social networking software. He also chairs the W3C group for federated social web technologies. Originally from San Francisco, he now lives and works in Montreal.
Arno Puder is an Associate Professor at the San Francisco State University. Prior to his current position, he worked for AT&T Labs Research and Deutsche Telekom AG. His interests include middleware, ubiquitous computing, and applications for sensor networks. He is the founder of the Open Source project XMLVM, a byte-code level cross-compiler.
Paul Querna is an Architect at Rackspace, and former Chief Architect at Cloudkick. Paul has participated in many open source projects and is a committer to the Apache HTTP Server and Apache Libcloud, the open source library for developers to build portable cloud applications. Paul also previously served as VP of Infrastructure for the Apache Software Foundation.
Brian Quinlan is a SCUBA instructor and core Python developer. Brian is basically nomadic but currently lives in sunny Sydney. In his non-free time he works at Google as a Software Engineer on the App Engine team.
Charlie Quinn has over 20 years of systems development experience and has recently joined the Benaroya Research Institute in Seattle, WA as the Director of Data Management and Data Integration. Prior to joining Benaroya he worked on various projects usually involving systems and data integration, data mining, and graphic visualization in Canada, the US, and parts of Asia.
More recently, he has worked with the Baylor Institute for Immunology Research in Dallas, Texas developing new techniques for data reduction, data mining, distributed collaboration, data management and data integration.
When not working he seems to run a lot of marathons, the occasional triathlon, and spends a fair bit of time outside exploring the pacific northwest.
Gianugo Rabellino is the Senior Director for Open Source Communities at Microsoft. He is also a Vice President of the Apache XML Project Management Committee and Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Sourcesense.
Gianugo has a deep understanding of open source technologies and platforms, and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the group of passionate and committed individuals who share his same enthusiasm for interoperability and openness between Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms.
Matt writes network programs for Voxer, which is a very large node.js installation.
CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost, inventor of socket.io, mongoose, open source enthusiast.
David Recordon is the Senior Open Programs Manager at Facebook, where he leads open source and open standards initiatives. He joined Facebook from Six Apart where he focused on platform strategies, and previously worked at VeriSign in the emerging business group. David has played a pivotal role in the development and popularization of key social media technologies, such as OpenID and OAuth. He collaborated with Brad Fitzpatrick in the development of OpenID, which has since become the most popular decentralized single-sign-on protocol in the history of the Web. In 2007, he became the youngest recipient of the Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award.
Brian Rice is a software developer and consultant with a long-time interest in programming language design and paradigms. He has a background in engineering mathematics, embedded systems, and data-warehousing and analytics. He feels more at home with category theory than in Haskell, but don’t hold that against him.
I am a software engineer for the Wikimedia Foundation. I work on fundraising, mobile/offline and features development for the foundation. In 2010, I focussed on the back-end infrastructure for the Foundation’s annual fundraiser, developing payment processing pipelines, fraud prevention solutions and integration with Drupal/CiviCRM. Prior to working for the Foundation, I was a contract software developer, using and evangelazing open source technologies. I love working with large sets of data, on operations-related stuff and integrating/extending open source tools.
David Richards, MBA, has been working in the software industry for over 15 years. Over the past few years, he has been developing medical solutions for his own company and clients. David has also contributed a couple dozen machine learning or analytic libraries to the open-source world. Among these open-sourced projects are Fathom, a decision support framework, and Open Mobius, a website for setting up decision support systems. Some of David’s thoughts on software and technology can be found at fleetventures.com. He can be contacted at david@fleetventures.com.
In the absence of an official conference code of conduct, I’d like to state, that as a speaker at OSCON I believe we should all strive to create a fun, educational, enjoyable and harassment-free conference experience for everyone.
If you are being harassed, or witness harassment please report it to venue security, the police, the conference organisers or a trusted friend. You do not have to put up with it.
For more detail on what an anti-harassment policy should contain, please review the geekfeminism wiki conference anti-harassment policy template
Jacinta Richardson runs Perl Training Australia, a micro-business offering courses throughout Australia. Both as part of her job and a massive free-time sink, she is involved in running conferences (linux.conf.au 2007, Open... Read More.
David Riley is a committed entrepreneur with startup experience in the private sector and large scale IT projects in the federal sector. He is recognized for his skill in bringing together and managing diverse groups with competing interests. These effective collaborations then take on large, complex problems and produce practical solutions in a reasonable timeframe and within budget.
Before becoming a founding principle for the Alembic Foundation, David was the CONNECT initiative lead for the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) Program in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). In this role, he coordinated numerous, diverse federal agencies, states and private sector organizations to enhance health information sharing on a nationwide basis. His work at FHA resulted in the development and... Read More.
Esen Sagynov is a CUBRID open source RDBMS Project Manager at NHN, Korea’s #1 IT services provider. Interested in open source sofware, database and Web optimizations, Esen is the only one you need to talk to if you have questions regarding CUBRID or databases in general. But be warned, talking to Esen may easily turn you into a CUBRID fan like his own self.
For more info view his LinkedIn or talk to him directly @CUBRID.
Karen M. Sandler is the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. Prior to joining GNOME, she was General Counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center. Karen continues to do pro bono legal work with SFLC and serves as an officer of both the Software Freedom Conservancy and SFLC. Before joining SFLC, she worked as an associate in the corporate departments of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and Clifford Chance in New York and London. Karen received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she was a James Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. Karen received her bachelor’s degree in engineering from The Cooper Union.
Johannes Schlueter is a long time contributor to different OpenSource projects living in Munich/Germany he is working for Oracle’s MySQL engineering team. He is serving as release manager for PHP 5.3.
Johannes Schlueter is a long time contributor to different OpenSource projects living in Munich/Germany. he is working for Oracle’s MySQL engineering team. He is serving as release manager for PHP 5.3.
Christopher Schmitt is the founder of Heat Vision, a small new media publishing and design firm. An award-winning Web designer who has been working with the Web since 1993, Christopher interned for both David Siegel and Lynda Weinman in the mid-90s while he was an undergraduate at Florida State University working on a fine arts degree with an emphasis on graphic design. Afterward, he earned a master’s in communication for Interactive and New Communication Technologies while obtaining a graduate certificate in project management from FSU’s College of Communication.
In 2000, he led a team to victory in the Cool Site in a Day competition, where he and five other talented developers built a fully functional, well-designed Web site for a nonprofit organization in eight... Read More.
Dr. Schooley is a Research Fellow and Faculty member at the Kay Center for eHealth Research, School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University. His experience spans both academia and industry and has focused on designing and evaluating software systems for use in multi-organizational public-private e-government environments. His recent innovations for multi-agency emergency medical response and his work with the U.S. Social Security Administration’s Ticket to Work program has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Department of Transportation, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, private foundations, and industry partners. Leveraging open source has been a key focal point in each of these endeavors. He has presented and published over 50 technical reports, white papers, and research articles on these topics.
Kevin Schroeder, Technology Evangelist for Zend Technologies, is well versed in a wide variety of technologies pertinent to both small and large scale application deployments. He has developed production software using a wide variety of languages including PHP, Java (standalone and web-based applications), Javascript, HTML, SQL, Perl, Visual Basic, ASP and occasionally C. His software development experience is accompanied with extensive experience as system administrator on platforms including Linux, Solaris and Windows on scales of a single server up to several hundred servers on installations that range from a few to millions of users. He has spoken at several conferences and is also the co-author of “The IBM i Programmer’s Guide to PHP” and author of the upcoming “You want... Read More.
Dr. Schroeder is President and co-founder of Kitware, an open-source software company developing leading edge scientific tools for data visualization, computer vision, medical imaging, and quality software process. Will’s role at Kitware is to identify technology and business opportunities, and to obtain the necessary support for Kitware to meet these opportunities.
Prior to founding Kitware, Will worked at GE Research where he was principle developer for the open-source Visualization Toolkit (vtk.org) software, including writing a textbook published by Prentice-Hall. While VTK provided the impetus to found Kitware, Dr. Schroeder has also been involved in the creation of other open-source systems including the medical image analysis toolkit ITK (itk.org), and the software process tools CMake (cmake.org) and CDash (cdash.org).
Dr. Schroeder has been a... Read More.
Nathaniel T. Schutta is a senior software engineer focussed on making usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written two books on Ajax and speaks regularly at various worldwide conferences, No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, universities, and Java user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota where he teaches students to embrace dynamic languages.
Randal L. Schwartz is a renowned expert on the Perl and Smalltalk programming languages, having contributed to a dozen top-selling books on the subject, and over 250 magazine articles. Schwartz runs a Perl and Smalltalk training and consulting company (Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc of Portland, Oregon), and is a highly sought-after speaker for his masterful stage combination of technical skill, comedic timing, and crowd rapport. And he’s a pretty good Karaoke singer, winning contests regularly.
Books authored/coauthored:
- Programming Perl (multiple editions)
- Learning Perl (multiple editions)
- Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
- Learning Perl Objects References and Modules (multiple editions)
- Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl
- Object Oriented Perl
- Randal Schwartz’s Perls of Wisdom
Magazine articles and columns:
- UnixReview Magazine
- PerformanceComputing... Read More.
As a speaker at OSCON I believe we should all strive to create a fun, educational, enjoyable and harassment-free conference experience for everyone.
I’m pleased to say Tim O’Reilly thinks so too!
If you are being harassed, or witness harassment please report it to venue security, the police, the conference organisers or a trusted friend. You do not have to put up with it.
For more detail on what a code of conduct which includes an anti-harassment policy should contain, please review the geekfeminism wiki conference anti-harassment policy template
Schwern has a copy of Perl 6, he lets Larry Wall borrow it and take notes.
Schwern once sneezed into a microphone and the text-to-speech conversion was a regex that turns crap into... Read More.
Paul Scott is currently employed by DSTV Online as a senior developer and Free Software evangelist. Paul is also chief software architect for the AVOIR network.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Botany, from the University of Port Elizabeth. He has many interests including Geographical Information Systems, Botany, Computer Science and Free Software.
He has created and contributed to many Free Software projects and at any one time, is working on around 10 different FOSS projects collaboratively with a global community.
He has a strong interest in e-learning and teaching, using Free Software, and has contributed greatly to the AVOIR network and projects. He has a passion for coding and a passion for capacity buiding and skills transfer.
... Read More.
Author of “Perl Medic” (2004), “Perl Debugged” (2001), “Perl Fundamentals” (DVD, 2007), and O’Reilly School of Technology’s on-line Perl courses. Perl trainer and consultant. Speaker at OSCON, YAPC, and the Perl Whirl cruise. Now launching an additional career as a business coach for technology professionals.
Damien Seguy is a LAMP consultant.
Damien coaches large teams about industrialisation and security. He works actively in the field of performances and technology study to startup and large institutions in France. He is also co-author of several books, Zend Certifications, phather of the elePHPant plush toy. He founded AFUP and PHP Québec.
Garrett Serack worked as an independent software development consultant in Calgary, Canada, for 15 years, with clients in fields such as government, telecom, petroleum, and railways. Joining Microsoft in the fall of 2005 as the Community Program Manager of the Federated Identity team, Garrett has worked with the companies and the Open Source community to build digital identity frameworks, tools, and standards that are shaping the future of Internet commerce and strengthening the fight against fraud.
In the summer of 2007, he transitioned to Open Source Technology Center at Microsoft where he works as a Software Development Engineer and operates closely with Open Source communities to improve the quality and performance of their software on the Windows Platform. Garrett has started a number of Open... Read More.
Shahid N. Shah is an internationally recognized and influential government technology and healthcare IT thought leader and writer who is known as “The Healthcare IT Guy” across the Internet. He is a strategist for various federal agenices on IT matters and winner of Federal Computer Week’s coveted “Fed 100” award given to IT experts that have made a big impact in the government. Shahid has architected and built multiple clinical solutions over his almost 20 year career. He helped design and deploy the American Red Cross’s electronic health record solution across thousands of sites; he’s built two web-based EMRs now in use by hundreds of physicians; he’s designed large groupware and collaboration sites in use by thousands; and, as an ex-CTO for a billion dollar... Read More.
Vin is responsible for enterprise-focused marketing strategy of open source software on Intel architectures. In this role, Vin drives awareness of Intel technologies into the open source ecosystem, and collaborates with OEM and OSV partners to deliver open source solutions to enterprises worldwide. Before Intel, Vin worked at HP for 15 years, most recently as the strategic product planner for open source and Linux on HP ProLiant servers. Vin has an academic background in history of technology and electrical engineering.
Sarah Sharp is the author of GardenGeek, a set of tools to help garden hackers:
http://github.com/sarahsharp/GardenGeek
This tool was used to plan plantings for her own backyard garden. She’s been eating the dog food (er, vegetables) with relish.
Sarah has been a gardener for over 10 years. She does crazy things like live carless, bicycle tour the New Zealand North Island (really hilly), and raise bees for pollinating her garden.
When she’s not digging around the dirt, Sarah works on the USB subsystem of the Linux kernel. Sarah Sharp is the author of the Linux xHCI host controller driver, and has contributed to USB device driver power management. She is a software engineer at Intel’s Open Source Technology Center.
Remy is the founder and curator of Full Frontal, the UK based JavaScript conference. He also runs jQuery for Designers, co-authored Introducing HTML5 (adding all the JavaScripty bits) and is one of the curators of HTML5Doctor.com.
Whilst he’s not writing articles or running and speaking at conferences, he runs his own development and training company in Brighton called Left Logic. Generally speaking, he’s about as crazy about JavaScript, HTML & CSS as a squirrel is about his nuts during the winter!
Darian Shimy is the VP of Technology at Attensity, the leading provider of text analytics solutions for customer experience management.
Ricardo Signes was thrust into the job market with only a rudimentary humanities education, and was forced to learn to fend for himself. He is now a full-time Perl programmer, maintainer of the Perl Email Project, and frequent contributor to the CPAN.
Lindsey Simon is a Front-End Developer at Twist, a mobile startup in San Francisco. Simon hails from Austin where he worked at startups, taught computing at the Griffin School, and was the webmaster for years at the Austin Chronicle.
Jordan is a hacker in San Jose, CA. When not wearing a sysadmin hat or writing code, he enjoys hanging out with his awesome wife and dog.
You can find him on twitter as @jordansissel and on github as the same.
Joseph Smarr is a software engineer at Google, focused on socially enabling the web using open standards. Previously, he was Plaxo’s Chief Technology Officer, where he led their initiative to open up the social web, starting with co-authoring the Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web in 2007. He has served of the Board of Directors of the OpenID Foundation and OpenSocial Foundation. A frequent speaker and community participant in the social networking and web development communities, Joseph has built web applications for many years. Joseph has a BS and MS from Stanford University in Artificial Intelligence. His website is josephsmarr.com, or just Google him!
Chris Smith is a web site architect for Xerox.com by day and transportation geek and City of Portland Planning Commissioner by night
Stewart Smith joined Percona in 2011 as Director of Server Development with a deep background in database internals including MySQL, MySQL Cluster, Drizzle, InnoDB and HailDB.
Prior to joining Percona, Stewart worked at Rackspace on the Drizzle database server focusing on getting it through a critical milestone of a stable Generally Available (GA) release. Prior to Rackspace, he worked on Drizzle as a member of the CTO Labs group inside Sun Microsystems.
As one of the founding core developers of the Drizzle database server Stewart has deep expertise in the code base. He had direct involvement in significant refactoring of the database server including removing the FRM, the InnoDB storage engine, xtrabackup, the storage engine API, CATALOG support and countless bug fixes.... Read More.
Bryan A Smith is a Debian Gnu/Linux and BSD enthusiast, hardware hacker and Systems Engineer. Bryan has used Open Source Operating Systems since the days of Red Hat 5 Hurricane.
He contributes to several Open Source projects and has helped launch several startup ISP’s based in his area using Open Source software as a framework.
Bryan is currently the Chief Technical Officer at Tacit Labs Inc and Lead Systems Administrator at Dreamfish.com Global Collaborative
Bryan spends his free time organizing Fossetcon, administering his free Linux shell server SHellium.org, advocating Open Source, proctoring BSD Associate Certification, writing poetry and playing Bossa Nova and Flamenco guitar.
Daniel Spiewak is a software developer based out of Wisconsin, USA. Over the years, he has worked with Java, Scala, Ruby, C/C++, ML, Clojure and several experimental languages. He currently spends most of his free time researching parser theory and methodologies, particularly areas where the field intersects with functional language design, domain-specific languages and type theory.
Daniel has written a number of articles on his weblog, Code Commit, including his popular introductory series, Scala for Java Refugees.
Stoyan Stefanov (http://phpied.com, @stoyanstefanov) is a Facebook engineer. Previously at Yahoo! he was the creator of the smush.it online image optimization tool and architect of YSlow 2.0. performance tool. Book author (JavaScript Patterns, Object-Oriented JavaScript), contributor (Even Faster Web Sites, High-Performance JavaScript) and speaker (Velocity, JSConf, Fronteers, Ajax Experience).
Keith has spent the last 20 years working and consulting in enterprise level IT organizations, both government and commercial. Experience includes not only technology but managing impacts on people, organizations, and business process. As an Adobe Flex user group community leader for that past few years Keith has been working to build bridges between Flex, PHP, Java and other communities.
Melanie Swan is the founder of DIYgenomics.org which coordinates crowd-sourced clinical trials (http://www.DIYgenomics.org/). Her educational background includes an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a BA in French and Economics from Georgetown University and recent coursework in bioscience, nanotechnology, physics, and computer science.
Ms. Swan’s career has focused on research, finance, and entrepreneurship, including founding a technology startup company, GroupPurchase, which aggregated small business buying groups. She was Director of Research at Telecoms Consultancy RHK/Ovum and previously held management and finance positions at iPass in Silicon Valley, J.P. Morgan in New York, Fidelity in Boston and Arthur Andersen in Los Angeles.
Ms. Swan serves as an advisor to research foundations, government agencies, corporations, and startups... Read More.
- Chairman and Founder of SofCheck, Inc (2002-present).
- Designer of ParaSail programming language (2010-present).
- Lead designer of Ada 95 programming language (1990-1995).
- Designer and implementor of optimizing compilers(1980-present).
- Chief Scientist and then CTO at Intermetrics/Averstar/Avercom (1980-2002).
- System Programmer for first Unix system outside of Bell Labs (Harvard-Radcliffe Student Timesharing System, 1975-1979).
- Harvard College, Summa Cum Laude (1971-1975).
Oren Teich is responsible for product management at Heroku. For over 11 years he’s been focused on making developing and deploying applications a better experience. Prior to Heroku, Oren worked with various tech companies such as Sun Microsystems, MontaVista Software, Cobalt Networks and Replicate Technology.
Dr. Lars Thalmann is the development manager for MySQL replication, backup, and connectors. He is responsible for the strategy and development of these features and leads the corresponding engineering teams. Thalmann has worked with MySQL development since 2001, when he started as a MySQL Cluster developer. More recently, he has driven the creation and development of the MySQL backup feature, has guided the evolution of MySQL replication since 2004, and has been a key player in the development of MySQL Cluster replication. Thalmann holds a doctorate in Computer Science from Uppsala University, Sweden. He is one of the authors of the “MySQL High Availability” book.
Laura Thomson is a Senior Software Engineer at Mozilla Corporation on the web team, after spending much of the previous decade as a consultant and trainer on various Open Source technologies.
Laura is the co-author of “PHP and MySQL Web Development” and “MySQL Tutorial”. She is a veteran speaker at Open Source conferences world wide.
Richard Tibbetts has been involved in Complex Event Processing since it’s origins in academia, and authored the Linear Road benchmark for real-time event processing. At StreamBase, Tibbetts is responsible for the design and implementation of the StreamSQL EventFlow programming language and the high-performance, low-latency server components of the StreamBase Event Processing Platform. He has extensive experience applying StreamBase and other technologies to mission-critical event processing problems at leading investment banks, hedge funds, and government agencies.
Joshua Timberman has over 10 years experience in Linux and Unix system administration. His background includes deploying highly available enterprise application environments and providing internal infrastructure services and team-based training. Joshua currently works for Opscode as a technical program manager, where he is responsible for Opscode’s open source Chef cookbooks and Chef Fundamentals training course materials.
Kim has been engineering user interfaces since 2000. She started working on streaming experiences for Netflix in 2007 and was the lead UI engineer on the Webkit-based framework being used on the PlayStation3, GoogleTV and a growing list of CE devices. Previously, Kim managed user interfaces at WorldNow and built content management systems at Boston.com.
Fred Trotter is the leading consultant and advocate for Free/Libre and Open Source (FOSS) Health Software. In recognition of his role within the Open Source Health Informatics community, Trotter was the only Open Source representative invited by the NCVHS to testify on the definition of ‘meaningful use’.
Trotter has contributed code to FreeMed, OpenEMR is the current project manager of MirrorMed and the original author of FreeB, the worlds first GPL medical billing engine. In 2004 Fred Trotter received the LinuxMedNews achievement award for work on FreeB. Fred Trotter manages the Open Source EHR review project with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Open Source Working Group (oswg). Fred is also a member of WorldVistA.
Fred Trotter is a recognized expert in... Read More.
James is an author and open source geek. James authored the two books about Puppet (Pro Puppet
For a real job, James is VP of Tech Ops for Puppet Labs. He likes food, wine, books, photography and cats. He is not overly keen on long walks on the beach and holding hands.
David Uhlman is CEO of ClearHealth Inc. and a has been longstanding contributor and entrepreneur in open source technology for 15 years including contributions to Linux, CentOS, Java, Wordpress, . He is a frequent speaker and contributor including previous talks at OSCON, SCALE, and others. He is co-author of the upcoming Oreilly book “Getting to Meaningful Use and Beyond”.
ClearHealth Inc is the company associated with the ClearHealth open source project, a practice management and electronic medical record system derived from VA VistA started in 2003 which now has over 4 million patients in more than 1,000 installations including notable large scale systems like Tarrant County TX, The Primary Care Coalition, The University of Texas Medical Branch and numerous Federally Qualified Health Centers... Read More.
Sinan Unur is an economist by training and currently works as an independent programmer and consultant helping his clients make sense of large and complicated data sets.
He earned his Ph.D. in Consumer Economics at Cornell University where he worked as a Senior Lecturer until 2009, teaching Economics and Statistics to graduate and undergraduate students. Unur’s passion for Perl dates back about ten years to when he decided to switch from Java to Perl as his tool of choice for writing Economics experiments. He is an active contributor to the Perl tag on Stackoverflow and maintains Perl’s Crypt::SSLeay and Net::Sharktools modules on CPAN.
Eric is an independent consultant and trainer. His domain of expertise include Web development and XML technologies.
He is the creator and main editor of XMLfr.org, the main site dedicated to XML technologies in French, the author of the O’Reilly animal books XML Schema and RELAX NG and a member or the ISO DSDL (http://dsdl.org) working group focused on XML schema languages.
He his based in Paris and you can reach him by mail (vdv@dyomedea.com) or meet him in one of the many conferences where he presents his projects.
Jason is a designer, husband, and father. He’s Design Lead at Envy Labs, a leading web development firm in Orlando, FL, edits Branding Matters a popular blog on branding and design, and is Chief Brewmeister at Brewwd combining great design with great beer. He’s also a self-proclaimed craft beer snob and a borderline crazy UNC Tarheel fan.
The former lead developer of MediaWiki and CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation, Brion now is the senior architect at StatusNet Inc.
Gopal Vijayaraghavan is a principal engineer at Zynga and works out of their Bangalore office. He is part of the Systems Engineer Group, working towards improving PHP’s performance profile for Zynga games hosted on EC2. He is a lead developer of the open source PHP APC (alternative php cache). He hacks on PHP/APC as part of his work and otherwise. He is an avid photographer, biker and traveler, his photos can be found on flickr:http://flic.kr/t3rmin4t0r/ and his ramblings at his blog:http://notmysock.org/blog/.
Jesse Vincent is current project lead (“pumpking”) for Perl 5. He’s also the author of RT and Hiveminder and the founder of Best Practical Solutions, LLC, a company dedicated to open tools to help people and organizations keep track of what needs doing, when it gets done, and who does it. Before founding Best Practical, Vincent worked as the systems lead for a now-defunct dotcom and as a software designer at Microsoft.
Paul started as a Unix admin, then moved into devops before he knew what it was called. After writing applications to auto provision infrastructure and network equipment he joined Rackspace in 2007.
Ariel Waldman is an open science strategist, interaction designer and the founder of Spacehack.org, a directory of ways to participate in space exploration. She currently works at Institute For The Future, a non-profit founded by early internet pioneers and ARPANET researchers. Recently, she founded Science Hack Day SF, an event that brings together scientists, technologists, designers and people with good ideas to see what they can create in a weekend.
Additionally, she sits on the advisory board for the SETI Institute ‘s science radio show Are We Alone?, is a contributor to the book State of the eUnion: Government 2.0 and Onwards, and is the founder of CupcakeCamp. In 2008, she was named one of... Read More.
Chris Walker is the founder of Secret Labs LLC and inventor of the Netduino open source electronics platform. He lives in New York City.
Deborah Wallach is currently a Staff Engineer at Google, where she is part of the Google App Inventor for Android team, a project that allows people of all ages with no programming experience to create applications for Android phones.
Deborah joined Google in 2002, and was one of the original engineers on the Bigtable project, a distributed storage system for managing structured data that was designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many projects at Google store data in Bigtable, including web indexing, Google Earth, and Google Finance.
Prior to Google, she was part of the Western Research Laboratory (WRL) of Digital Equipment Corporation, which is now part of Hewlett-Packard Labs. As a Principal Member of... Read More.
Kris is a member of the Symfony core team, Symfony Guru at OpenSky, and long-time advocate for simple solutions to complex problems. He works from his home office in Portland, Oregon where he and his wife raise their three young children.
Nick is a Rails convert-in-training and WordPress aficionado. He splits time between design and front-end development, ensuring a successful bridge to functionality. Pixels and proportions are his leading causes of lost sleep, followed closely by Dr. Pepper intake.
Dean Wampler is Principal Consultant at Think Big Analytics, specialists in “Big Data”, Machine Learning, and the Hadoop ecosystem. He speaks frequently at conferences on various topics, such as the effective use of different programming languages and modularity paradigms: functional, object-oriented, and aspect-oriented programming.
Dean is the author of Functional Programming for Java Developers (O’Reilly, 2011) and the co-author of Programming Scala (O’Reilly, 2009).
Dean was the co-editor of the Multiparadigm Programming special issue of IEEE Software (Sep/Oct 2010).
Simon Wardley, based in the UK, is a Researcher for the Leading Edge Forum and his focus is on the intersection of IT strategy and new technologies. Simon’s current research project is entitled A Lifecycle Approach to Cloud Computing.
Simon is a seasoned executive who has spent the last 15 years defining future IT strategies for companies in the FMCG, Retail and IT industries. From Canon’s early leadership in the cloud computing space in 2005 to Ubuntu’s recent dominance as the #1 Cloud operating system.
As a geneticist with a love of mathematics and a fascination in economics, Simon has always found himself dealing with complex systems, whether it’s in behavioural patterns, environmental risks of chemical pollution, developing novel computer systems or managing companies.... Read More.
Steve Watt works on Technology Strategy for Hewlett-Packard. Prior to that he spent 10 years working as a Researcher and Software Architect of Emerging Technologies within IBM Software Strategy. Steve is an Apache contributor, active in Open Source and chairs the Hadoop & Big Data User Group in Austin, Texas. Prior to working for HP and IBM, Steve spent several years consulting in the Middle East and working for startups in the United States and his native South Africa. Steve holds 12 US Patents (with 18 Patents Pending) and has published a number of technical books and articles.
Kim Weins is the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Products at OpenLogic, an open source provider focused on helping enterprises successfully and safely use open source software. Kim works with large enterprises to share open source governance and compliance best practices and to evangelize the benefits of using open source software. Kim helps to shape OpenLogic’s pioneering open source offerings, including an aggregated support model backed by open source developers, open source scanning and governance tools and services that guide companies through compliance with GPL and other open source licenses.
Luke Welling is from Melbourne, Australia, but lives in rural Maryland and works remotely for Silicon Valley startup, PandaWhale.
He’s seen lots of good code and bad code, and tries to write more good than bad. Over the last decade, he has applied PHP in many places where it was intended, and in many places where it was never meant to go.
With his wife Laura, he wrote the bestselling book PHP and MySQL Web Development and often speaks about PHP at conferences and user groups. This is his 10th year speaking at OSCON.
His hobbies include riding his horses and sticking Splayds in toasters, although he has not yet attempted to do both at once.
Estelle Weyl started her professional life in architecture, then managed teen health programs. In 2000, she took the natural step of becoming a web standardista. She has consulted for Kodakgallery, Yahoo! and Apple, among others. Estelle shares esoteric tidbits learned while programming CSS, JavaScript and XHTML in her blog at http://evotech.net/blog and provides tutorials and detailed grids of CSS3 and HTML5 browser support in her blog at http://www.standardista.com. She is the author of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for Mobile and HTML5 and CSS3 for the Real World. While not coding, she works in construction, de-hippifying her 1960’s throwback abode.
Rod Whitby is the founder and project lead of the WebOS Internals open source development group.
Dustin Whittle works as a consultant and trainer for Sensio Labs. Sensio Labs is the creator of the open-source PHP framework Symfony. Previous to Sensio Labs, he worked as an engineer and developer advocate at Yahoo Developer Network. Find out more at dustinwhittle.com
Eric Wilhelm is a software and systems consultant, leader of the Portland Perl Mongers, and author of many CPAN modules. Eric is a contributor to several open source projects and founder of a few others.
Aaron is an attorney with the Software Freedom Law Center, where he advises free software projects and developers. At SFLC, Aaron has counseled developers on license compatibility, patent liability, forming nonprofits, clean-room development, and many other issues. He also has a B.S. in computer science and writes code when he’s not lawyering.
David Wolber is a professor of Computer Science at the University of San Francisco. David teaches App Inventor in his “Computing, Robots, and the Web” course at USF. The apps created by his students– mostly humanities and business majors with no prior programming experience–have been chronicled the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Tech Crunch, Fortune.CNN.com, and Yahoo news.
Anne Wright is Co-principal Investigator and Director of Operations for the BodyTrack project in the CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. She received B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996. After leaving MIT, she co-founded Newton Research Labs, a successful robotics and computer vision company, then joined the Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA Ames Research Center where she served as Lead Systems Engineer for Prototype Mars Rovers. While at Ames, Anne became interested in how to harness sensing and data visualization technologies and techniques originally developed for the rovers to help people “debug” diffuse environmentally related conditions such as allergies, food sensitivities, asthma and migraine triggers, etc. She... Read More.
Brian Wylie is a principle member of technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Brian holds a BS in computer engineering and an MS in computer science from the University of New Mexico. Brian’s research interests include scalable informatics, volume visualization, information visualization, and illustrative techniques. He is actively involved in the open source visualization community, including notable roles as a member of the Visualization ToolKit(VTK) Architecture Review Board and project lead for the Titan Informatics Toolkit (titan.sandia.gov).
Embedded Linux consultant, developer and enthusiast almost 20years of involvement in opensource. He has worked on numerous Linux architectures including x86, ARM, and Power PPC. Areas of interest include low power and small foot print Linux for mobile Linux devices with a focus on low level kernel and hardware details.
Dan York is Director of Conversations at Voxeo Corporation focused on analyzing/evaluating emerging technology, participating in industry standards bodies and addressing VoIP security issues. He is also leading Voxeo’s move into “social media” with the deployment of blogs and future podcasts.
As Best Practices Chair for the VOIP Security Alliance , Dan will be leading the project to develop and document a concise set of industry-wide best practices for security VoIP systems. He is also heading up VOIPSA’s move into “social media” with VOIPSA’s group weblog. Additionally, Dan is the producer of Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast where since October 2005 each week he and co-host Jonathan Zar discuss VOIP security news and interview people involved... Read More.
Nicholas C. Zakas worked at Yahoo! for almost five years, building and defining front-end strategy for some of Yahoo’s largest sites. Nicholas is also the author of several books, including High Performance JavaScript, Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, and Professional Ajax. Nicholas is now a front end engineering consultant working alongside Nicole Sullivan.
Ilen Zazueta-Hall is Software Product Manager for Enphase Energy. She arrived there via a circuitous path through start ups (IGN, Workingpoint) and large enterprises (LeapFrog, Salesforce.com) trying her hand at everything from development to design.
In her spare time she is volunteer coordinator for Railsbridge’s Open Workshops for Women.
Zemlin’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, SaaS and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate the adoption of Linux and support the future of computing.
Zemlin’s career took root at Western Wireless, which had a successful IPO and was later acquired by Deutsche Telekom and renamed T-Mobile USA. He was also a member of the founding management team of Corio, a leading enterprise application service provider that had a successful IPO in July 2000. Other posts have included vice president of marketing at Covalent Technologies and executive director at Free Standards Group (FSG).
In his leadership role today at The Linux... Read More.
Zhi-Da is a software engineer who has worked in a variety of areas including parallel computing, security, and web applications. He’s built and used several A/B testing systems in recent years. He currently works on A/B testing, search, and other neat stuff at Etsy.
Gabe Zichermann is an author, highly rated public speaker and entrepreneur. He is the chair of the Gamification Summit and editor of the industry’s leading publication, The Gamification Blog. His most recent book, “Game-Based Marketing” (Wiley, 2010) has achieved critical and industry acclaim for its detailed look at innovators who blend the power of games with brand strategy. His next book, “Gamification by Design” (O’Reilly, 2011) looks at the technical and architectural considerations for designers in this burgeoning field. A resident of NYC, Gabe is a board member of StartOut.org, advisor to a number of startups and Facilitator for the Founder Institute in Manhattan. For more information about Gabe and Gamification, visit http://Gamification.Co
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