Jim Webber

Dr. Jim Webber is director of professional services for ThoughtWorks where he works on dependable distributed systems architecture for clients worldwide. His current interests are in using the Web for building distributed systems. Jim is an active speaker at conferences across the globe, and is currently working on a new book called "REST in Practice."  He blogs at http://jim.webber.name and he tweets often @jimwebber.

Ian Robinson

Ian Robinson is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, where he specializes in service-oriented and distributed systems development.
He has written guidance for Microsoft on implementing integration patterns with Microsoft technologies, and has published articles on business-oriented development methodologies and distributed systems design-most recently in The ThoughtWorks Anthology (Pragmatic Programmers, 2008).
He is currently co-authoring a book on Web-friendly enterprise integration

Diana Larsen

Diana Larsen sparks the creation of workplaces where productive teams display resilience in times of change and deliver software their customers want and use. Drawing on 15+ years of working with technical professionals, Diana takes a pragmatic approach to consulting with leaders and teams to promote work process designs where innovation, inspiration, & imagination flourish. Diana co-authored Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great!

Emil Eifrém

Emil is the founder of the Neo4j graph database project and CEO of Neo Technology. He was a programmer by passion the first 15 years on this planet and by passion & profession the remaining 15. He founded his first free software project at age 16. Now Emil's main focus is on preaching the demise of tabular solutions everywhere.

Sean Cribbs

Sean Cribbs returned to programming in 2006 after three years as a professional musician and instantly fell in love with Ruby. Since 2007, he has been crafting web applications as Prime Motif, Inc. primarily in Ruby, Erlang, and Javascript. In March 2010, Sean joined Basho Technologies to support and evangelize their internet-scale database, Riak. An active open-source author and contributor, he has also been lead developer and release manager of Radiant CMS since 2008.

Sanyu Kiruluta

Sanyu Kiruluta is the Team Lead for Developer Relations, EMEA at Research In Motion. She is responsible for driving and managing the development of applications for the BlackBerry platform, She co-ordinates and oversees multiple aspects of the BlackBerry applications programme to ensure the creation and delivery of compelling, high-quality and targeted applications which will appeal to business and consumer users in local markets across EMEA.

Jeff Wilcox

Jeff Wilcox is a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Silverlight team, currently working on Silverlight for the Windows Phone and the phone application development story. Jeff was a founding member of the Silverlight Toolkit team, created and designed the Silverlight Unit Test Framework. Previously he worked on the ASP.NET team. Jeff is an alumnus from the University of Michigan with a degree in Computer Science.

Einar Ingebrigtsen

Einar is a Silverlight MVP, he is the author of Balder - 3D engine for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. The last ten years he has been focusing his effort on LOB application development in the .net sphere, touching most of Microsofts technology. Since the launch of Silverlight 1.1 Alpha, Einar has dedicated a lot of his time and effort to Silverlight, he has worked on a few Silverlight LOB applications and has been touring Norway since then to spread the word about Silverlight.

Mathias Stearn

Mathias works on the core MongoDB server and maintains the C language driver. Previously, he worked at FactSet where he used MongoDB in a log analysis application. He has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.

Roy Osherove

The chief architect at Typemock, Roy Osherove is one of the original ALT.NET organizers. He consults and trains teams worldwide on the gentle art of unit testingand test-driven development. He frequently speaks at international conferences such as TechEd and JAOO. Roy is the author of the book The Art of Unit Testing, and writes about subjects such as unit testing, TDD Team Leadership and agile development on his blog is atISerializable.com.

Arun Gupta

Arun Gupta is a Java EE & GlassFish Evangelist working at Oracle. Arun has over 13 years of experience in the software industry working in various technologies, Java(TM) platform, and several web-related technologies. In his current role, he works very closely to create and foster the community around Java EE & GlassFish. He is a prolific blogger at http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta with over 1000 blog entries and visitors from all over the world reaching up to 25k hits/day.

Evan Doll

Evan Doll worked at Apple for the past six years on products including the iPhone and iPad. He delivered popular presentations on iPhone development at WWDC 2008 and 2009. During 2009 he taught the popular iPhone app development course at Stanford University, with over 5 million downloads on iTunes U. Evan currently is the cofounder of a technology startup in Palo Alto.

Jutta Eckstein

Jutta Eckstein is a coach, consultant and trainer from Germany. Her know-how in agile is based on 10+ years experience developing object-oriented applications. She has helped organizations worldwide to apply agile processes in medium to large distributed mission-critical projects. This is also the topic of her books 'Agile Software Development in the Large' and 'Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams'. She has presented at ACCU, JAOO, OOPSLA, SD West, SD Best Practices, XP and Agile

Anders Janmyr

Anders Janmyr is a software coach, speaker, writer and passionate developer.
He has worked with databases, servers, mobile phones and robots, and has experience with small and large  architectures.
He has a wide experience of programming languages and his current favorites in different paradigms are Smalltalk, Ruby, Haskell, Lisp, C# and Javascript.
He loves the combination of dynamic languages and test-driven development since it gives him flexibility and control.

Cory Foy

Cory Foy is an agile developer, consultant and coach with a passion for looking at the entire system within an organization. His background consists of highly technical positions in Java, Ruby, .NET and C#, including working for Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer debugging critical enterprise applications in .NET and C#., developing mobile applications using J2ME and Objective-C and building client-side applications for financial transfer using C#.

Adrian Cole

Adrian founded the open source project jclouds last march, and is actively engaged in cloud interoperability and devops circles. Recently, he's worked at VMware helping make vCloud relevant to developers and ISVs.  He's also put in effort at Opscode on java-chef integration.  Adrian's currently consulting under Cloud Conscious LLC.

Joakim Sundén

Developer, mentor and consultant based in Stockholm, where he helps his clients develop enterprise apps with .NET technologies using lean/agile methodologies and practices such as behaviour-driven development, refactoring and object-oriented design. Even though he has been working as a developer for nearly a decade Joakim still considers himself a humble student of the software craft, on a never ending quest of continuous improvement, always keeping an eye out for alternative and better ways

Marcus Hammarberg

Marcus has been working as a contractor since 1998. During this time he has worked with system development with-in the Microsoft sphere (VB6, C++, .NET, ASP, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC etc.) and almost always been responsible for a team of developers. Marcus is very keen on learning new technologies to produce systems and code with high quality.

Chris Auld

You can usually find Chris Auld at events around the world by walking up the stack from his crazy yellow shoes. Chris is a Director at Intergen, based out of New Zealand. Chris travels the world enthusing others about technology. Chris has been a key global trainer for the Azure Services Platform early adopter program and brings extensive theoretical and hands on experience in building high scale web applications. Chris is a Microsoft Regional Director for the ANZ region.

Ted Neward

Ted Neward is a consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing.

José Valim

José is the lead-developer and co-founder of Plataforma Tec and a member of the Rails Core Team.  He started working with Ruby and Rails in late 2006 and he began contributing actively to Rails during his Google Summer of Code 2009 project, leading him to be invited to be part of the Rails Core Team a few months later. Some say that it is his eureka time to code and bring new open-source projects to life.
Check for yourself what he's up to on his blog http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/

Jeff Norris

Dr. Norris leads the org. at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab. that is resp. for the software and mission control personnel that command robotic spacecraft including the Mars rovers and more than a dozen other missions to destinations throughout the solar system. Past decade he has applied agile techniques to numerous software projects at NASA for robot control, human-computer interaction, and visualization, earning the NASA SW of the Year Award and the Lew Allen Award for Excellence in research

Rob Ashton

Rob Ashton is the technical lead for an SME based in Oxfordshire, England. He designs and builds software in C# on a primarily open source stack and is passionate about good design and continuous improvement.

When not being overworked in his day job, Rob spends his time trying out the latest open source projects and contributing where he can by fixing bugs, adding features, removing pain-points and writing documentation and blog entries where needed.