Speakers
Neal Ford
ThoughtWorks
Neal is Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a software company and a community of passionate, purpose-led individuals, who thinks disruptively to deliver technology to address the toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change.
He is an internationally recognized expert on software development and delivery, especially in the intersection of agile engineering techniques and software architecture. Neal has authored magazine articles, seven books (and counting), dozens of video presentations, and spoken at hundreds of developers conferences worldwide. His topics include software architecture, continuous delivery, functional programming, cutting edge software innovations, and includes a business-focused book and video on improving technical presentations.
Check out his web site at nealford.com.
Jim Holmes
Guidepost Systems
Jim is the owner/principal of Guidepost Systems which lets him engage directly with struggling organizations. He's also an Executive Consultant at Pillar Technology where he works with organizations trying to improve their software delivery process.
He has been in various corners of the IT world since joining the US Air Force in 1982. He's spent time in LAN/WAN and server management roles in addition to many years helping teams and customers deliver great systems. Jim has worked with organizations ranging from start-ups to Fortune 10 companies to improve their delivery processes and ship better value to their customers.
When not at work you might find Jim in the kitchen with a glass of wine, playing Xbox, hiking with his family, or banished to the garage while trying to practice his guitar.
Alexey Lavrenuke
Yandex
Making infrastructure services and tools for performance testing and mobile development. Leading several open source projects: [Yandex.Tank](https://github.com/yandex/yandex-tank), [Pandora](https://github.com/yandex/pandora) and [Volta](https://github.com/yandex-load/volta).
Jessica Ingrassellino
teachcode.org
Jessica Ingrassellino is a musician, teacher, philosopher, researcher, programmer, business owner, and software tester from New York. Before becoming a software tester, she was a full-time music teacher in New York City public schools. In 2015, she completed a dissertation about assessment and school music; in 2016, she wrote "Python Projects for Kids". She runs teachcode.org, working to bring coding education to underserved communities.
Ingo Philipp
Tricentis
Ingo Philipp, Distinguished Evangelist at Tricentis, champions the methodologies and technologies at the core of the company's continuous testing solution. In his previous position as a senior product manager, he orchestrated product development and product marketing. Before that, he worked as a theoretical astrophysicist in the field of high-energy particle physics and computational fluid dynamics. He holds a Master of Science degree.
Nisan Haramati
Wallaroo Labs
Nisan Haramati is a software engineer who works on distributed data systems and their verification at Wallaroo Labs.
Having built and supported a variety of large-scale distributed data systems, he is passionate about making it easier to build robust distributed applications that produce high-quality data.
In his ideal world, the data could prove its own correctness, but in reality, we need to build trust in the systems that we use.
Nisan has a B.Sc from the University of British Columbia.
