WeAreDevelopers World Congress

Joel Spolsky is cofounder of HASH, a startup working on the Block Protocol, an open standard for data-driven, structured blocks, so that web applications are both human and machine readable.

He was the CEO and co-founder of Stack Overflow, a network of Q&A sites visited by over 100 million people every month. He is a globally-recognized expert on the software development process. His website Joel on Software (joelonsoftware.com) is popular with software developers around the world and has been translated into over thirty languages. As the founder of Fog Creek Software (now Glitch) in New York City, he created FogBugz, a popular project management system for software teams, and Trello, a popular online project management application. Joel has worked at Microsoft, where he designed VBA as a member of the Excel team, and at Juno Online Services, developing an Internet client used by millions. He has written four books: User Interface Design for Programmers (Apress, 2001), Joel on Software (Apress, 2004), More Joel on Software (Apress, 2008), and Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky’s Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent (Apress, 2007). Joel holds a BS from Yale in Computer Science. Before college he served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a paratrooper, and he was one of the founders of Kibbutz Hanaton. Today he serves as the co-founder of HASH.

Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++ aswell as the author of The C++ ProgrammingLanguage (4th Edition) and ATour of C++ (2nd edition), Programming:Principles and Practice using C++ (2nd  Edition), and many popular and academicpublications.

Dr. Stroustrup is a member of the US National Academy ofEngineering, and an IEEE, ACM, and CHM fellow. He received the 2018 CharlesStark Draper Prize, the IEEE Computer Society's 2018 Computer Pioneer Award, and the 2017 IET Faraday Medal.

He did much of his most important work in BellLabs. His research interests include distributed systems, design, programmingtechniques, software development tools, and programming languages.To make C++ a stable and up-to-date base forreal-world software development, he has been a leading figure with the ISO C++standards effort for more than 30 years.

He holds a master’s in Mathematicsfrom Aarhus University, where he is an honorary professor in the ComputerScience Department, and a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University,where he is an honorary fellow of Churchill College.

Anu Bharadwaj is the President of Atlassian, focused on bringing Product, Business, Design and Engineering teams closer together to deliver innovative products that customers love while supercharging the growth of Atlassian’s businesses.

As an accomplished executive with nearly 20 years of experience in leading transformations and building billion-dollar businesses for high-growth startups and enterprises, Anu brings deep expertise across Product, Operations, and Engineering to help teams deliver customer-focused growth. As COO of Atlassian, she was responsible for scaling a distributed workforce in 13 countries while leading Atlassian’s SaaS transformation, building the Cloud enterprise business, and scaling cloud platform teams. Before Atlassian, she held various leadership roles at Microsoft, and launched multiple products for the Visual Studio ALM team.

Anu is deeply passionate about growing diverse teams and making the world a better place through technology and effective philanthropy. She serves on the board of Outsystems, advises young and emerging companies (Snyk, Xembly) and is part of the Operator Collective venture fund that pioneered the collective venture model to empower diverse founders.

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Thomas Dohmke is CEO of GitHub and drives the company’s mission of making GitHub the home for all developers. Fascinated by software development since his childhood, Thomas is passionate about building tools developers love and creating products that drive software development forward. He previously co-founded HockeyApp and led the company as CEO through its acquisition by Microsoft in 2014. Thomas holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from University of Glasgow, UK. He lives in the Seattle area, is a LEGO enthusiast, and enjoys coding and making his GitHub contribution graph green in his spare time.

As Chief Decision Scientist at Google Cloud, Cassie Kozyrkov advises leadership teams on decision process, AI strategy, and building data-driven organizations. She is the innovator behind bringing the practice of Decision Intelligence to Google, personally training over 20,000 Googlers. Prior to joining Google, Cassie worked as a data scientist and consultant. She holds degrees in mathematical statistics, economics, psychology, and neuroscience.

Scott has been a developer for 30 years and has been blogging at https://hanselman.com for 20 years! He works in Open Source on .NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, Oregon. Scott has been podcasting for over 800 episodes of http://hanselminutes.com over 15 years and 700 episodes of http://www.azurefriday.com. He's written a number of technical books and spoken in person to over one million developers worldwide! He's also on TikTok, which was very likely a huge mistake.

Prashanth is a proven technology executive with extensive experience leading and scaling high-growth global organizations. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s Cloud & Infrastructure Services portfolio of businesses, including the Managed Public Clouds, Private Clouds, Colocation and Managed Security businesses.

Before that, Prashanth held a range of senior leadership roles at Rackspace including Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s high growth, global business focused on the world’s leading Public Clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Alibaba Cloud, which became the fastest growing business in Rackspace’s history.

Prior to joining Rackspace, Prashanth was a Vice President at Barclays Investment Bank, focused on providing Strategic and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) advice for clients in the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) industries. Prashanth was also a Manager at Capgemini Consulting where he managed Operations transformation engagements and consulting teams across the US. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an M.Eng in Engineering Management from Cornell University and a B.S. in Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Maine.

Dan is a software engineer on the React team at Meta.

Miško Hevery is the CTO at Builder.io, where he is helping to empower anyone to create blazing fast sites. Previously he has worked at Google, where he created Angular, AngularJS and was co-creator of Karma. Before focusing on making the web better, he brought testing culture to Google and the world through his blog. Miško started his career by designing digital circuits and moved to databases, full-stack development, and finally, front-end frameworks, giving him a unique perspective. He understands all of the layers from the web down to a transistor.

David Singleton is chief technology officer at Stripe, where he is responsible for guiding its engineering and design teams as they build economic infrastructure for the internet. Since joining Stripe, David has helped grow the technology org across the US and developed new engineering hubs in Singapore and Dublin as well as Stripe’s fifth hub, remote engineering, across the globe.

David joined Stripe after an 11-year career at Google where he was VP of Engineering leading product development and coordinating more than 15 different hardware partnerships. Prior to Google, David spent three years at Symbian, the pioneering mobile phone operating system, developing operating system software and leading handset development projects for Nokia and Samsung smartphones.

David has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, skiing, and tinkering with neural networks. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two kids.

Angie Jones is the Global Vice President of Developer Relations for TBD, Block’s new business unit focused on decentralized technologies. She is an award-winning teacher and international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software companies and conferences all over the world.

As a Master Inventor, Angie is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than 25 patented inventions in the areas of metaverses, collaboration software, social networking, smarter planet, and software development processes.

Scott Chacon is the former cofounder of GitHub; now cofounder of GitButler, a next generation version control client, based in Berlin. Scott helped grow GitHub from 4 cofounders to 450 employees over 8 years, eventually being acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Scott is also the author of Pro Git, published by Apress and found online at git-scm.com. In unrelated news, he holds a WSET Level 3 certification in Wines and Spirits and owns a dog rescue outside of Berlin.

Flavilla Fongang is an award-winning serial entrepreneur and founder of 3 Colours Rule, an award-winning branding and marketing agency. Flavilla was awarded the “She’s Mercedes” businesswoman award by Mercedes Benz. She is the author of “99 Strategies to get customers”. She is also the founder of Global Tech Advocates – Black Women in Tech. She is a BBC brand advisor. Computer Weekly named her among the top 2 most influential women in tech in the UK. She is an Entrepreneurship Expert with the Entrepreneurship Centre for Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Aleph Alpha Founder & CEO Jonas Andrulis is a serial entrepreneur and former AI R&D manager at Apple’s Special Projects Division (SPG). For several years, Jonas Andrulis has been at the forefront of the development towards transformative AI. His experience ranges from innovative academic experiments to building and operating petabyte machine learning pipelines for computer vision and language processing.

Former Yahoo, Mozilla, Microsoft. JavaScript and Accessibility expert. Worked on Chromium Developer Tools. Author of the Developer Advocacy Handbook, LinkedIn Learning and Skillshare Trainer. Cinephile.

Mike Butcher (M.B.E.) is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch. He has written for UK national newspapers and magazines and been named one of the most influential people in European technology by Wired UK.

He has spoken at the World Economic Forum, Web Summit, and DLD. He has interviewed Tony Blair, Dmitry Medvedev, Kevin Spacey, Lily Cole, Pavel Durov, Jimmy Wales, and many other tech leaders and celebrities. Mike is a regular broadcaster, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, CNBC, Channel 4, Al Jazeera and Bloomberg.

He has also advised UK Prime Ministers and the Mayor of London on tech startup policy, as well as being a judge on The Apprentice UK. GQ magazine named him one of the 100 Most Connected Men in the UK.

He is the co-founder ThePathfounder.com newsletter; TheEuropas.com (the Annual European Tech Startup Conference & Awards for 12 years); and the non-profits Techfugees.com, TechVets.co, and Coadec.com.

He was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2016 for services to the UK technology industry and journalism.

Dylan Beattie is an independent consultant who has been building data-driven web applications since the 1990s. He’s managed teams, taught workshops, and worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s a Microsoft MVP, and he regularly speaks at conferences and user groups all over the world.

Dylan is the creator of the Rockstar programming language, and is known for his live music shows featuring software-themed parodies of classic rock songs. He’s online at dylanbeattie.net and on Twitter as @dylanbeattie.

Tanya Janca, also known as SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of ‘Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’. She is also the founder of We Hack Purple, an online learning academy, community and podcast that revolves around teaching everyone to create secure software. Tanya has been coding and working in IT for over twenty years, won countless awards, and has been everywhere from startups to public service to tech giants (Microsoft, Adobe, & Nokia). She has worn many hats; startup founder, pentester, CISO, AppSec Engineer, and software developer. She is an award-winning public speaker, active blogger & streamer and has delivered hundreds of talks and trainings on 6 continents. She values diversity, inclusion and kindness, which shines through in her countless initiatives.

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Jeremy Keith lives in Brighton, England where he makes websites with the splendid design agency Clearleft. You may know him from such books as DOM Scripting, Bulletproof Ajax, HTML5 For Web Designers, Resilient Web Design, and, most recently, Going Offline.

Brenda Romero is an award-winning game designer, Fulbright scholar, entrepreneur, artist, writer and creative director who entered the video game industry in 1981.

John is an award-winning game designer, level designer, and programmer whose work portfolio includes 130 games, of which 107 have been published commercially. John Romero has co-founded eight widely successful game companies, including id Software, Gazillion Entertainment, and Loot Drop. He co-owns Loot Drop and Romero Games. He is regarded as one of the world’s best game designers and his products have won over a hundred awards to prove it. Furthermore, John Romero is fully a self-taught designer and programmer, drawing inspiration from early Apple II programmers.

Kriti Sharma creates AI technology to help address some of the toughest social and business challenges of our time — from domestic violence to productivity to mental health and inequality. Sharma was recently named in the Forbes "30 Under 30" list for advancements in AI. She was appointed a United Nations Young Leader in 2018.

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a best-selling author, speaker, educator, and highly sought after expert in Bitcoin and open blockchain technologies. He is known for making complex subjects easy to understand and highlighting both the positive and negative impacts these technologies can have on our global societies. As an educator, his mission is to educate as many people as possible, in as many places as possible, in as many languages as possible, about Bitcoin and open blockchains.

Andreas has served as a teaching fellow for the free Introduction to Digital Currencies course offered to the public at the University of Nicosia. Along with co-authoring the course curriculum, Andreas has also written two best-selling technical books for programmers, Mastering Bitcoin and Mastering Ethereum. He has published The Internet of Money series of books, which focus on the social, political, and economic importance and implications of these technologies. In addition to these books, he has authored hundreds of syndicated articles on security, cloud computing, and data centers; and is a frequent speaker at technology and security conferences worldwide. His live talks are always unique, unscripted, and combine economics, psychology, technology, and game theory with current events, personal anecdote, and historical precedent.

Andreas has been interviewed by Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, and Financial Times for his industry expertise. He has been a repeat guest on The Joe Rogan Experience and London Real. He has been featured in numerous documentary films, and is a permanent host on the Let’s Talk Bitcoin podcast with more than 400 episodes recorded to date. He has also appeared as an expert witness in legal cases and regulatory hearings around the world, including the Australian Senate Banking Committee and the Canadian Senate Commerce, Banking and Finance Committee. Currently, Antonopoulos is working on his sixth book and third technical work, Mastering the Lightning Network. To learn more about Andreas’ work visit Patreon.

Being associated with the industry since 2004, I have lent my expertise predominantly in the solution architecture field. I have gained accolades for revolutionising the scalability of frontend architectures with micro-frontends, from increasing the efficiency of workflows, to delivering quality in products. My colleagues know me as an excellent communicator who believes in using an interactive approach for understanding and solving problems of varied scopes.
I helped DAZN becoming a global streaming platform in just 5 years, now as Principal Architect at AWS, I'm helping our customers in the media and entertainment space to deliver cost-effective and scalable cloud solutions.
Moreover, I'm sharing with the community the best practices to develop cloud-native architectures solving technical and organizational challenges.

My core industry knowledge has been instrumental in resolving complex architectural and integration challenges. Working within the scopes of a plethora of technical roles such as tech lead, solutions architect and CTO, I have developed a precise understanding of various technicalities which has helped me in maximizing value of my company and products in my current leadership roles.

Ire Aderinokun is an independent User Interface Engineer from Lagos, Nigeria. She is an invited Google Expert, specialising in the core user interface technologies of HTML, CSS, and Javascript, but is interested in all aspects of technology. She is a co-founder of Helicarrier (YC S18), a company building cryptocurrency infrastructure for Africa, and is passionate about how this technology can support global financial freedom.With a decade of experience in the industry, Ire has shared her knowledge though her blog, bitsofco.de, and speaking at conferences around Africa and the world.

Martin Wezowski is the Chief Futurist, and Head of NVT Future Hub, for SAP’s Technology & Innovation. With a drive to "lead from the future" and a mission to to unfold what is next for the future of human work, our global ecosystems, and SAP. Martin crafts future outlooks, concepts, defines and runs long term innovation frameworks.

He is lecturing as a faculty member of Futur/IO, a European future institute and other education programs. He moved across a range of disciplines from UX, to systems, to define innovation visions and strategies. 2017 he was named 1 of 100 most innovative minds in Germany as the “Software visionary” (“Handelsblatt”).

"I want to innovate what we call "work" out-of our lives. We are shaping SAP's innovation vision; the empathic symbiosis between humans and machines, investigating how we learn technology, and most of all, how technology learns us, especially when tech moves forward faster than how we, leaders, developers, humans seem to manage the implications"

Hey! 👋 I'm Sebastián Ramírez (tiangolo), the creator of FastAPI, Typer, SQLModel, and other open source tools, mainly using Python.I'm currently a Staff Software Engineer at Forethought while also helping other companies as an external consultant. 🤓

I've been a web developer for 25 years. I love the web and am committed to making it bigger, better, faster and more accessible to everyone.

Armin Ronacher is Director of Engineering at Sentry and leads the team responsible for client SDKs and event processing. He's obsessed with beautiful APIs and systems and created the Python Flask framework.

What to say about this exceptional young person? She is a true Wunderkind! Alex developed an interest for science, programming, physics and chemistry since the early age of 12. Today, at the age of only 19, she already holds a Bachelor degree with distinction from the Technological University Dublin and is widely considered as one of the great generational talents. She was part of various programs at the MIT, CERN and IBM. She has received various honors and accolades and besides studying Molecular Medicine she also speaks regularly about Quantum Computing and Machine Learning at international conferences.

Wei Hu is the Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Oracle. He leads the development of mission-critical database capabilities as well Blockchain, Kubernetes, Microservices, and Globally Distributed Databases.Mr. Hu has B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has been with Oracle since 1998, holds more than 40 patents, and is the author and co-author of several books and papers.

Tanmay Bakshi is a 16-year-old Canadian author, AI and ML Systems Architect, TED & Keynote speaker, Google Developer Expert for Machine Learning, and IBM Developer Advocate. He has addressed over 200,000 executives, students, and developers worldwide at conferences, universities, financial institutions, and international companies. The United Nations, Linux Foundation, Apple, SAP, IBM, KPMG, Microsoft, and Walmart are a few of the organizations he has keynoted for.

Tanmay has been covered in the media, being featured in the Toronto Star, on the front page of The Vancouver Sun, pictured on stage doing what he loves to do - sharing his knowledge with the world, in Forbes and CNBC, as well as in Bloomberg Businessweek as a Young Entrepreneur, in The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, just to name a few.

His YouTube channel called “Tanmay Teaches” is where he shares his research and knowledge with audiences of all ages, and is the host of the live series “Tech Life Skills with Tanmay”. He has had the honour of being the recipient of the Life Mentor Award by the Hon. Lt. Governor of Manitoba, Twilio Doer Award, Knowledge Ambassador Award, and Global Goodwill Ambassador at LinkedIn.

He has developed machine learning powered systems, such as "Heart ID", a deep neural network based Electrocardiogram-based identification system, which won HPCWire's Readers’ Choice Award for Best Use of High Performance Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence. He's also worked on lower level software, like an ultra low-latency call tracer utility that can scale to trillions of function calls, and is powered by LLVM, for the IBM Db2 codebase.

Bear Douglas leads Developer Relations at Slack, where she and her team help developers build more pleasant and productive ways to work. Before Slack, she led the Developer Relations teams for the mobile and data platforms at Twitter, and worked on native mobile DevRel at Facebook and Parse. She's passionate about developer experience, great documentation, and a cappella music.