Name: NDC Sydney 2020
Start: 2020-10-12
End: 2020-10-16
Location: NDC Sydney

Aaron is a Developer Advocate at Microsoft. Having spent 15 years doing web development he's seen it all, from browser wars, the rise of AJAX and the fall of 20 JavaScript frameworks (and that was just yesterday!). Always tinkering with something new he explores crazy ideas like writing your own implementation of numbers in .NET, creating IoC in JavaScript or implementing tic-tac-toe using git commits.

I am Adam Furmanek and I have been working as a .NET developer for 5 years. Right now I am at Amazon working with Scala, Spark and Machine Learning. I am always interested in digging deeper, exploring machine code and going through implementation details to better understand internals of the technologies I use every day. That's why I like debugging, decompiling and disassembling the code to understand memory models, concurrency problems and other details hidden deeply inside. In my free time I play ping-pong, watch Woody Allen's movies and blog stuff at http://blog.adamfurmanek.pl

Adam Stephensen is an Azure Technical Specialist for Microsoft. If he isn't coding his own prototypes or helping companies deliver cloud solutions, he is probably presenting, training or mentoring on new technologies.

Adam is passionate about building awesome teams, growing technical communities and helping organisations understand where AI & the cloud can help them be successful.

Adam believes communication and agility lead to success: 'fail fast', inspect, adapt, have a lot of fun. 

Adrienne Braganza Tacke is a Filipina software engineer, international speaker, and published author of the book Coding for Kids: Python. She is also a LinkedIn Learning instructor who specializes in Azure and Cloud Development courses. Currently, she is a Senior Developer Advocate for MongoDB where she happily educates and empowers developers to become great ones (perhaps using MongoDB in the process 😉). She takes great delight in solving complex problems, creating awesome things, and using the right tools for the problem at hand. Most of all, she relishes the opportunity to connect with developers from around the world.

Bonus Fun Facts: her favorite PC/video games are Age of Empires II, RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, and the Borderlands series; her favorite lipstick color is Bite's Aubergine; her favorite movies are Inception (really, anything be Christopher Nolan) and The Matrix.

Passionate in technology innovation to make people's life easier and with over 25 years of experience in software development, Gus has been working in various industries from 3D/Animation, Games Development, Desktop Software, mobile apps and very recently Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Well-known for unorthodox ways of solving difficult problems, Gus currently works at Carsales as the Head of AI, inventing and building many cool AI projects such as Cyclops Image Recognition and providing technical direction to various teams across Carsales on AI. 

Gus has an extensive experience in Deep Learning, Convolution Neural Network, Tensorflow, Keras and also loves speaking on AI and future tech related topics at various AI conferences.

Aiko works as a consultant and developer for ThoughtWorks.
He is passionate about data science, software craftsmanship, clean code, and infrastructure engineering. While working with clients he focusses on improving the development process and code quality of the teams he's working with.

Nowadays working in Singapore, Aiko has previously worked with clients in Germany, the UK and India as well. He leveraged Artificial Intelligence to help clients gain a competitive advantage. Recently his focus moved onto infrastructure development for building (data) platforms to better enable client teams.

Amber is an award-winning international businessperson, coach, and speaker. Named as Tulsa’s 40 under 40, Oklahoma’s 30 under 30, and 3-time SHRM award winner with an MA degree in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Oklahoma and certifications in Lean Six Sigma and Scrum. Amber has implemented team best practices in organizations small and large domestically and abroad with a passion for mobilizing ideas and equipping teams to exceed goals. In 2016, Amber was the female, only American, and only blonde Academy elite football coach for the Adidas Gameday Academy/Paris Saint Germain Academy in Bangalore, India. Amber worked with an international team of coaches to transform the organizational design, training, and culture to cultivate a more high performing team. Amber speaks across the United States and has spoken in 7 different countries with clients including Google, LinkedIn Learning, Prezi, OKHR SHRM, ATD, ScanAgile 2019, and TYPO3. 

Amy wears many hats as a freelance developer, business owner and conference addict. She regularly shares her knowledge with her peers and the next generation of developers by mentoring, coaching, teaching and feeding into the tech community in many ways.

Amy can be found volunteering her time with Fenders, ACS, SheCodes (formerly Perth Web Girls) and MusesJS (formerly NodeGirls). She also works as an evangelist for YOW! Conferences, is a Twilio Champion, Microsoft MVP and has been nominated for the WiTWA awards for the last 2 years.

In her spare time Amy shares her knowledge and experience on her blogs and speaking at conferences. She has previously given keynotes at multiple events as well as speaking at several international conferences in the US and Europe.


Originally an itinerant teacher of programming at university, Andy has been writing code professionally since 1996 in Melbourne, Brisbane, San Francisco, Leeds and Singapore. Joining ThoughtWorks as a technical lead in 2002, Andy has deep experience in agile development and has, since 2013, become one of those dreary functional programming evangelists you dread speaking to at parties. Andy is a regular speaker at conferences in Australia and user groups in Melbourne, even though he does not understand monads… not even a little bit.

Anjuan Simmons is a technologist with a successful track record of delivering technology solutions from the user interface to the database. He is an energetic and informative speaker who presents at conferences, seminars, schools, and community centers around the world on topics including Agile software development, diversity, and leadership. Anjuan has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Texas A&M University.

Ann Mwangi is a senior software developer and consultant with ThoughtWorks. She has worked in different team roles spanning multiple continents. Ann contributes to open source projects and serves as a mentor to people interested in pursuing careers in IT. She continually seeks efficient ways to use technology to provide customer value, improve business strategy while empowering the teams in the process. Ann hates being stagnant in life and thus keeps seeking for opportunities to grow personally and professionally.

Anthony has worked in web development since 2007. He is active in the open source community (in particular the Umbraco CMS), and Umbraco MVP, writes tech articles, and is a regular organiser & presenter at conferences and tech meetups. He lives and breathes automation and development processes, and is a vocal proponent of Behaviour/Test Driven Development. 

Anthony has experience in building high performing remote production teams spanning multiple countries. He is an Agile/Scrum/Kanban enthusiast, and is always looking for ways to make development more efficient and enjoyable. Originally from Sydney, Australia, he is now based in London.

Arafat is a Technical Consultant at Velrada and Microsoft MVP (AI). He has been working with Global ISVs of Microsoft and developing some next-gen solutions using cutting-edge Microsoft technologies. 

He's also an active contributor for the community especially on the Bot Framework side. He's one of the founding members of Bot Builder Community Project and have been writing / speaking about Bot Framework, Azure Cognitive Services and Power Platform.

Bahman has more than 11 years of experience in software development. During those years he has worked in a variety of industries and worked with a wide range of tools and technologies. He is a passionate developer and technical lead working for Telstra Health. Previously he had worked for Telstra Purple (Readify) and JAM Web Services. He loves spending time with his family, travel and watching and playing soccer. 

I’m passionate about making the most of my formal Mathematics and Statistics training, professional experience in Marketing and Business Analytics and my interpersonal skills to turn data into actionable insights for businesses.

The intersection of my curiosity, creativity and analytical skills is where the magic happens, and I harness this skill stack to optimise business processes and problems.

It’s easy for the many to get messy, and data without context isn’t constructive, so I talk to people to find the questions, talk to data to find the answers, and then make sure I’m communicating these answers in a concise and compelling way through persuasive storytelling and visualisations, backed up by robust analysis. 

Chad Green is a manager, software development, architect, community leader, Microsoft MVP, and most importantly a father and husband.  Chad works as the Director of Software Development fort ScholarRx developing an affordable, lifelong digital-learning platform for medical students and physicians everywhere.  Over his career spanning three decades, Chad has managed groups from 3 to 63 people, worked on projects in a wide range of markets including education, healthcare, military, government, workforce management, financial services, chemical research, and electronic commerce.  Being a big believer in giving back and wanting to ensure that there are cool events for others, Chad founded and chairs the annual Code PaLOUsa conference, organizers the Louisville .NET Meetup user group and the Monthly Tech Leader Coffee and Discussion, and has helped other groups like the Louisville Tech Ladies and events like Cincy Deliver.

Damian works for Microsoft as a Cloud Developer Advocate, specializing in DevOps.
He's an Australian speaker, author, and developer recently based in Toronto, Canada, but now back home! Formerly a Microsoft MVP and Octopus Deploy developer, he regularly speaks at conferences, User Groups, and other events around the world. But most of the time you'll find him talking to developers and IT Pros to help them get the most out of their DevOps strategies.

Dan Mallott is a Chicago-based consultant for West Monroe Partners in their Technology Practice. His passion is for distributed architecture, designing and building high performing service layers from the API down to the database.

Recent projects have included a new API and UI written in .NET CORE for a large international insurance broker that allows for insurance carriers to easily view upcoming renewing policies and developing a Kafka-based Customer 360-degree View solution for a mid-sized US health insurer.

Past speaking engagements have included NDC Sydney, Cream City Code, Chicago Code Camp, PASS Summit, and numerous SQL Saturdays throughout the US.

In his spare time, he can be found writing his own software instead of using package solutions or on the ice as an ice hockey player and referee. 

Dasith is a solutions architect, full stack .NET developer with distributed systems focus, Keen problem solver and improving cricketer. He's got close to 2 decades of experience designing and building software solutions and loves all things technology. After leading the development of an ERP solution for the construction industry and working on trade printing software for a while he now works as consultant for Telstra Purple (Readify) working with clients of all sizes. As consultant over the last few years he's worked on broad technology stack which consists of all things from Serverless to IoT. He is a recovering competitive fps gamer who still talks about things like mouse sensitivity and ping over a frothy beverage.

Dave has about three and a half decades of experience in a wide variety of languages, techniques, etc.  He is the T. Rex of Codosaurus, LLC (his one-man consulting firm, which explains how he can get such a cool title, at http://www.Codosaur.us/) in Fairfax, Virginia, USA.  His latest passion project is to perfect and spread ACRUMEN, a new simple-but-useful definition he created for Software Quality; see https://www.codosaur.us/ACRUMEN for details.

On lighter notes, he is married, is owned by two cats, and enjoys dark beers, smokey whiskies, playing guitar, and shooting targets.

David is a developer at Microsoft, working on Roslyn, also known as the C#/VB compiler and IDE tools, in Visual Studio.

A developer for the last 20 years, David has had experience in lots of different languages and environments, from cgi-bin scripts in Perl, to genetic algorithms in VB3, and Windows applications in COBOL. A series of terrible decisions, clearly, but he learnt in the end and now spends most of his time developing with .NET in C#, and enabling other developers to do the same.

David is mostly interested in C#, good design and Lego Technic and Creator Expert cars. He can be found tweeting at @davidwengier, streaming at https://twitch.tv/davidwengier, helping to organize the DDD Melbourne conference, and on about a dozen different slacks and discords.

Dennie is Microsoft MVP Developer Technologies and has experience in accessibility in with Microsoft technologies. In daily life Dennie is president and developer at DDSoft, a nonprofit in function of People With Disabilities. Dennie invented technical solutions and systems to help people with disabilities to participate in their daily life. Thanks to his autism he's the right man at the right spot to contribute as a volunteer in function of people with disabilities.

Devlin Duldulao is a full-stack software developer,  a trainer, and an international conference speaker. He loves going to universities and user groups to share his expertise.

Duncan is an Azure App Specialist at Microsoft, founder of foodzone.io and Pluralsight author who travels the world speaking at events and training technology professionals.

If Duncan is not making or teaching software he will likely be climbing a cliff somewhere around the globe. With ascents of some of the tallest rocks in the world from Yosemite's El Capitan to Himalayan big walls in Pakistan.

Dylan Beattie is an independent consultant who specialises in helping organisations bridge the knowledge gap between software development and business strategy. He’s 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 he’s performed his software-themed parodies of classic rock songs all over the world as Dylan Beattie and the Linebreakers. He’s online at dylanbeattie.net and on Twitter as @dylanbeattie.

Dylan Beattie is an independent consultant who specialises in helping organisations bridge the knowledge gap between software development and business strategy. He’s 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 

, and he regularly speaks at conferences and user groups all over the world.

 programming language, and he’s performed his software-themed parodies of classic rock songs all over the world as 

Eldert can be described as an Azure MVP, Cloud Solution Architect, blogger, public speaker and technical author. He can regularly be seen on conferences and user groups, speaking on Cloud related topics, with a strong focus on Azure. His experience with the Cloud comes from his daily work with these technologies in many innovative projects with various clients, as well as his drive to further dive into the latest developments in his spare time. Eldert enjoys sharing his knowledge with the community, and believes this is the best way to each other obtain more and better opportunities.

The speaker is a passionate front-end developer and UI designer from Greece. She is working as an AngularJS developer while taking up a master’s degree in Graphic Arts and Multimedia. She is also creating educational content for several platforms such as Packt, Udemy, Skillshare, at the same time, she produces motivational talks and how-to videos on her youtube channel. She is self-motivated and working hard to make this world a little bit better every day. When she isn’t glued to a computer screen, Eleftheria spends time working out and strolling in the nature. Her friends would describe her as easy-going, passionate about life and the fastest chocolate eater.

Emad Alashi is a software developer whose main interest is in web development, Software Architecture, Software Management, and the human interaction caught in between.

Emad speaks regularly in conferences and user groups, including NDC Sydney, Microsoft Ignite Australia, and in local user groups and code camps like Vic.Net, Azure Meetup, Azure Bootcamps, and Alt.Net in Melbourne Australia.

He is 4-times ASP.NET/IIS MVP, he hosts the DotNetArabi technical podcast, and on whatever time left he writes to his blog on emadashi.com.

Emad, and currently works as a Lead Consultant Telstra Purple, he can be found on twitter @emadashi.

Emily Taylor is a full stack software developer, deliverer and consultant with over ten years experience in the software industry. 

She has built a career on the world wide web building rich .NET web applications and developer tools. She is an open source contributor with a passion for software delivery - you'll find her pushing code to anything that helps get software shipped and into the hands of users.

Eric Rabinovich is a results-driven VP of Engineering with over 19 years of experience in technology and problem solving, and more than ten years of experience holding different management positions. He has worked with small startups, mid-size companies, and large enterprises in industries including biotech, smart cities, IoT, e-learning, and e-commerce. He is experienced in both B2B and B2C in mobile & web environments. Eric believes in and loves mentoring and training developers and leaders, and setting clear objectives for the continuous improvement of knowledge, processes, and personal growth. 

A veteran in the trade, Hackle enjoys programming as a thinking game. He advocates programming functionally while trying to share his learnings in ways that are pragmatic, idiomatic and accessible.



Hannes is a developer, a coach and a father of 3.

In .NET development, he has always had a passion for performance, databases, distributed systems and large scale applications. But most of all, he likes playing devil’s advocate in technical discussions by drawing the ‘it depends’ card.

As a coach, he is enthousiastic about knowledge sharing, personal growth and building careers. All this while keeping in mind that the pace needs to be sustainable.

In his free time, when he’s not building LEGO® castles with his kids, he likes to spend time building guitars, playing chess or poker, tasting whisky and doing all round geeky stuff.

You can occasionally find him on an afterparty stage at PubConf or with Dylan Beattie & the Linebreakers.

Henk is a Cloud Advocate specializing in Artificial intelligence and Azure with a background in application development. He is currently part of the regional cloud advocate team in the Netherlands. Before joining Microsoft, he was a Microsoft AI MVP and worked as a software developer and architect building lots of AI powered platforms on Azure.

He loves to share his knowledge about topics such as DevOps, Azure and Artificial Intelligence by providing training courses and he is a regular speaker at user groups and international conferences.

Software consultant with over 14 years of experience delivering successful software projects. Specialising in Microservices, Serverless, Domain Driven Design, Agile and Lean software development, and Continuous Delivery.

Polyglot Coding Architect in London, founder of #ldnug, speaker, tabletop gamer, geek. Tattooed, pierced, and bearded. The 'guv' on @BrighterCommand

Illia Kavaliou is a Brisbane-based software engineer and consultant with a focus on designing, developing, and delivering elegant serverless and cloud-native solutions. He is passionate about building high-performing teams that utilise cutting-edge technologies for applications development, data integration and business intelligence solutions. Illia has a proven-track record of delivering large-scale serverless applications to production for a large ASX listed company. He is also actively involved in implementing CI/CD pipelines for serverless solutions, and defining QA practices and patterns for serverless applications testing.

As a software engineer and software development manager in finance and e-commerce sectors, Ilya gained more than 10 years of experience in leading the development of complex software in teams, large and small. Before starting his own business, he worked in Europe and North America for several multinational companies.

Ilya Verbitskiy is the founder of WebStoating s.r.o., an agency helping companies to create a successful online business. Outside of work, he's a husband and father and enjoys sports, games and learning everything about everything.

Jakub is a software engineer at Intel working on wide spectrum of applications from cloud-based web services to native libraries all strongly related to cryptography and security. Privately a runner, cyclist, sailor, traveler and pianist, constantly trying to do more.

Jan has been developing software for well over a decade. 
Currently, he is working at 4DotNet as a Cloud Solution Architect/Developer and is awarded by Microsoft with the Microsoft MVP award. 

His main focus is on developing highly performant and scalable solutions using the awesome services provided by the Microsoft Azure platform. Because of his expertise, he has been able to help out multiple customers to bring their on-premise solution to the cloud and guide them towards a better software development ecosystem.

Whenever Jan finds something interesting to write about, he shares his findings on his blog (https://jan-v.nl).

Jason Taylor is a solution architect, trainer, mentor, and full stack developer with almost 20 years professional experience. Currently, Jason specializes in teaching and building enterprise applications utilizing .NET Core, Angular, Vue.js, and Azure. Jason loves a challenge and is skilled at progressing from a simple proposal into a well-defined, coded, and tested solution.

Jernej Kavka (JK) is an SSW Senior Software Architect, Microsoft AI MVP and organizer of the Brisbane AI user group. JK is a full-stack .NET developer, but his passion lies in cogitative services, AI and machine learning. He is the main architect behind SSW's virtual receptionist - SophieAI: 

He is also very active in the developer community and enjoys speaking at conferences like NDC, DDD, as well as User Groups and Hack Days.

Jimmy is a member of the ASPInsiders group, the C# Insiders group, and has received the "Microsoft Most Valuable Professional" (MVP) award every year since 2009. Jimmy is also the creator and maintainer of the popular OSS libraries AutoMapper and MediatR. Jimmy is the chief architect at Headspring, a custom software consultancy based in Austin, TX.

I am a software developer with 11 years of experience in Web Technologies, Android and Flutter. I have worked for multinational firms in India, the Netherlands and US.
 I am an active Youtuber(whatsupcoders) and international speaker with my talks featured in Chicago Meetup, Devfest Michigan, Droidcon Toronto and various Women TechMakers events globally.

Ken has been an Azure fan for many years and is starting to appreciate the simplicity and benefits of the Go language. Having started from writing drivers in assembler through to C# web applications, Ken has "suffered" through most levels of development.

Ken has presented previously at TechReady and NDC Sydney 2016 about his Azure exploits!

Kieran Jacobsen (he/him) is the Head of Information Technology at Telstra Purple and a Microsoft MVP for Cloud and Datacenter Management. Kieran’s interests focus on automating processes and the integration of security processes within DevOps. Kieran describes himself as a jack-of-all-trades, and a keen explorer of technology. Kieran can be seen speaking at regular conferences including NDC Sydney, CrikeyCon and DDD Melbourne. 

Kieran is the founder and maintainer of Planet PowerShell (https://planetpowershell.com) an aggregator of community written PowerShell content. Kieran writes on his blog Posh Security (https://poshsecurity.com). Kieran lives with his husband and cat in Melbourne, Australia.  

Lars is an author, trainer, Microsoft MVP, community leader, aspiring Microsoft Azure expert and part time classic car collector. He is heavily involved in the space of cloud computing services, especially Azure, loves HoloLens and mixed reality, and is a published author, solution architect and writer for numerous publications. He has been a part of the software development community for the past 20 years and co-organises the DDD Melbourne community conference, organises developer events with Microsoft, and also runs a part time car restoration business. He has spoken at numerous technical events around the world and is an expert in Australian Outback Internet.

I'm a software engineer at Swedbank. My team and I are responsible for building a Frontend platform used by 20+ teams in the bank.

Is my daily work related to my talk "How to code music"? Let’s start with answering top FAQ: no, we don't have transactions with cool money sounds (cha-ching💰), nor do we play calming background music when your stock investments go down. At least not yet. However, music coding - it's just simple coding. To be honest, the development of visual and audio elements is quite similar.

I feel that every new development experience, even a crazy one, increases creativity, knowledge, curiosity, and expands mindset.

Liam is a Solution Architect at Lendlease Digital. With more than 15 years experience developing enterprise applications, Liam has seen his share of successful and not-so successful projects.
Currently working on industry revolutionary projects at Lendlease, and previously a Solution Architect at SSW.

Maarten Balliauw loves building web and cloud apps. His main interests are in .NET web technologies, C#, Microsoft Azure and application performance. He is Developer Advocate at JetBrains. He's an ASP Insider and former Microsoft MVP. Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events and organizes Azure User Group events in Belgium. In his free time, he brews his own beer. Maarten's blog can be found at http://blog.maartenballiauw.be.

Magnus is Founder/CEO of Loftysoft a Microsoft Regional Director and a Microsoft Azure Most Valuable Professional. He is a consultant, tutor, process coach, technical lead and an international speaker. Some of his passions include connecting with audiences and organizing online and global conferences such as CloudBurst and GlobalAzure Bootcamp. As the first Azure MVP in the Nordic countries in 2012 he was awarded MVP of the year. He is also an Azure Insider, an Azure Advisor and an ASP.NET Insider and is a go-to person for Microsoft regarding Enterprise Cloud Consulting. Magnus has been a consultant for over 1½ decade and has the maximum possible experience time consulting on the Azure Platform.

Martin has over 15 years of experience in SQL Server technologies. His experience spans both the Database Engine and infrastructure requirements, and Data Warehousing and BI implementations. 

He has worked across many industry sectors including London’s global financial institutions and both State and Federal Government Departments. 

He is a Data Platform MVP, MCT and an experienced conference presenter, having presented at PASS Summit, SQLBits, and SQL Saturday events and User Groups round the world

He also runs the SQL Social group in Melbourne and the Melbourne SQL Saturday event and continues to run rings round the opposition on the football field.

Melissa Houghton is a Senior Developer at Telstra Purple.

Her work is focused on application development using Angular and .Net Core, but she has a wide variety of skills and is always open to learning new things.

She has a passion for technology, learning and giving back to the community. She frequents tech events and is an organiser for DDD Melbourne, past organiser of DDD Perth and other NFP organisations such as CoderDojo.

Originally from California, Melissa now lives in Melbourne, Australia, after 5 years in Perth. Melissa loves to travel, drink wine and learn.

Mesut Durukal is QA & Test Automation Manager at Siemens.
He has a BSc & MSc degree from Boğaziçi University Electrical & Electronic Engineering. He has 7 years’ experience in Defense Industry, working in Multilocation projects serving as the Manager of Verification & Validation activities. He has then been working in Agile Software Testing projects for 3
years. He is acting as a Product Owner & E2E Test Automation Leader for the QA team.

I'm a Developer Advocate at Google, currently focused on helping developers with Google Cloud Platform. As a long-time Java and a recent C# developer, I like to compare the two ecosystems. Prior to Google, I worked at Microsoft, Skype, Adobe, EMC, and Nokia building apps and services on various web, mobile and cloud platforms. Originally from Cyprus, I currently live in Greenwich, not too far away from the prime meridian.

Michael is a Microsoft MVP and the author of the Hot Chocolate project (https://github.com/ChilliCream/hotchocolate), a platform for building GraphQL servers and clients in .NET. For the last three years, this open-source project is his main focus. 

Apart from his work in the open-source community, Michael works as a consultant to help companies to move to GraphQL. You can read about the Hot Chocolate project on his blog https://chillicream.com/blog/.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/michael_staib
GitHub: https://github.com/michaelstaib
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-staib-31519571/
MVP: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5003672

I am a software developer with career focus on back-end development and architecture. I am constantly moving forward to learn new skills, and extend my abilities. Recently I spend most of my spare time reading, developing and writing about web application security. 
 

What fascinates us, engages us and what engages us, helps us to learn.

Stories told with enthusiasm build connections. They build trust and help us interact with greater engagement and creativity for stronger technical solutions.

Nelly Sattari loves problem-solving and is passionate about driving minds to engage with technology. She is a computer engineer and lead developer based in Sydney, Australia and has spent her entire career involved in the IT industry.

Her focus is modern web applications, and she is indebted to her full stack development background and the knowledge she gained there. This experience led her to being awarded the Microsoft Azure MVP (Most Valuable Professional).

Inclusive, local IT communities are her favourite playground and where she facilitates knowledge-sharing platforms, supports user groups and nurtures beginner expertise, while steering clear of buzzwords for a more practical and tangible approach.

Come and join Nelly in an armchair-like, story focused conversation to unpack familiar, yet often undiscussed, problems that will unveil new and thought-provoking solutions.

@nelly_sattari

linkedin.com/in/nsattari

Niels Tanis has got a background in .NET development, pentesting and security consultancy. He also holds the CSSLP certification and has been involved in breaking, defending and building secure applications. He joined Veracode in 2015 and right now he works as a security researcher on a variant of languages and technologies related to Veracode’s Binary Static Analysis service. He is married, father of two and lives in a small village just outside Amersfoort, The Netherlands.

Phil is a developer evangelist for Twilio and a Google Developer Expert. He's been in the web industry for 10 years building with JavaScript and Ruby. He can be found hanging out at meetups and conferences, playing with new technologies and APIs or writing open source code online. Sometimes he makes his own beer, but he's more likely to be found discovering new ones around the world.

Phil tweets at @philnash and you can find him elsewhere online at https://philna.sh.

Distributed systems Developer with experience in mentoring, facilitating and leading teams offering a decade of experience in Large Scale cloud-native application and tooling development. Possessing excellent analytical skills summed up with strong knowledge in Go, JavaScript, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Service Meshes, Observability and monitoring tools. Active open source contributor and contributed to projects like Kubernetes, gvisor, grafana, terraform, firecracker-containerd. I enjoy speaking and spoke at conferences like conference like JS Conf, ContainerCamp AU, DDD Sydney and Go Days. Organiser of Serverless Days Melbourne.

Rabimba Karanjai is a full time graduate researcher, part time hacker and FOSS enthusiast. He is working with Mozilla Research Mixed Reality team on WebVR. He also is a Mozilla TechSpeaker and Google Developer Expert on Web Technologies (WebXR). And would love to chat with you on VR,AR,Security and openweb over a cup of coffee or bottle of beer

I am a versatile Cloud Architect with a passion for leadership and problem-solving with over 12 years of hands-on experience in cloud and web technologies and have a proven track record of applying emerging technologies and processes to drive efficiency in enterprise technology operations. I have successfully designed enterprise applications and fostered innovation, collaboration, and development in teams for my clients and organizations.
 
I possess excellent interpersonal communication, creative, and team management skills, which enable me to manage cross-functional resources in an organization. I have authored three books on Microservices orchestrators: Azure Service Fabric- Microservices with Azure, by Packt, Kubernetes- Kubernetes Succinctly, and Istio Succinctly, by Syncfusion. You can connect with me through my blog: https://thecloudblog.net.


Rian leads software engineering at Amphora Data, a innovative platform for sharing data and knowledge.

Formerly a software engineer at Microsoft, he has a broad range of experience including building Asp.NET Core / React apps, mobile apps, Dev/Ops, and more. 

When he's not coding, you'll probably find him making gin, building furniture, or taking selfies with water buffalo. 

Rob is a software consultant, developer and technical leader with a passion for delivering systems that perform at scale. Rob has over 15 years of experience building distributed systems on the web stack and has read more RFCs than he cares to admit. Rob is an active member of the Perth IT community and regularly shares his ideas at various Meetups and conferences around Australia and internationally. He is also a co-organiser of DDD Perth, the largest IT conference in Western Australia.

Robert is the Delivery Innovation Lead for Telstra Purple globally where he cultivates a culture of empowered and driven innovation, experimentation and continuous improvement.

Robert has a proven track record of successfully delivering software projects with a particular focus on accelerated business value delivery, measurement and realisation and he has also been a proponent for and leader towards positive cultural change and gradual continuous improvement across a number of organisations, teams and projects.

Robin is a Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka, as well as an Oracle ACE Director (Alumnus). He has been speaking at conferences since 2009 including QCon, Devoxx, Strata, Kafka Summit, and Øredev. You can find many of his talks online at http://rmoff.net/talks/, and his blog articles at http://cnfl.io/rmoff and http://rmoff.net/. Outside of work, Robin enjoys running, drinking good beer, and eating fried breakfasts—although generally not at the same time.

a Filipina software developer based in Oslo, Norway

Sam is a passionate full-stack software developer with over 20 years' experience across banking, resources, government, and e-commerce sectors. Sam loves building software!

Sarah is a Principal Technologist working for ThoughtWorks, where she specialises in developing robust software for the future, delivered today. Sarah wears many hats: software architect, technical lead, CTO coach, conference speaker. Although primarily focused on software design, she also has a lot to say about how software should be developed to accommodate the changing pace of business and how people should be treated within teams.



Scott is a software consultant and primarily does web development using ASP.NET Core and JavaScript.  His second dev passion behind web development is building DevOps pipelines and automating everything automatable.  He also co-organizes the Iowa .NET User Group (iadnug.org) in his spare time.  You can find Scott on Twitter @scottsauber or on his blog at scottsauber.com.

Shahid is an independent consultant and Microsoft MVP based in the UK and operating across the globe.
With over a decade of experience in .NET he works with companies to help migrate their existing applications and processes to the Cloud.
He is a passionate proponent of Cloud Native approaches and employing technologies such as Azure and Kubernetes to solve modern development problems.
Shahid is also frequent speaker at both international conferences and local meetups and is co-organizer of a .NET meetup in the UK.

Sjoukje Zaal is a Managing Consultant, Microsoft Cloud Architect, and Microsoft Azure MVP with over 15 years of experience providing architecture, development, consultancy and design expertise. She works at Capgemini, a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation.

She loves to share her knowledge and is active in the Microsoft community as a co-founder of the Dutch user groups SP&C NL and MixUG. She is also a board member of Azure Thursdays. Sjoukje is a public speaker and involved in organizing events. She wrote several books, writes blogs and is active on the Microsoft Tech Community. Sjoukje is also part of the Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board.

Steef-Jan is a Microsoft Azure MVP, blogger, author and frequent public speaker. He has over 20 years of experience as a technical lead developer and application architect, specializing in custom applications, enterprise application integration, Web services and Microsoft Azure. He works for CoditNL as Azure Technology Consultant. Steef-Jan has faced integration and cloud challenges in a diverse range of industries, where he has done architecting, designing, developing, mentoring and supporting sophisticated and innovative software using many different Microsoft technologies and products.

Stefano Tempesta is CTO at Connecting Software, Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, and advisor to the Department of Industry, Australia, on the National Blockchain Roadmap. His current focus is on helping people around the world gain and own their digital identity, with specific attention to the Education sector.

Stefano is also a technology advisor at Carbon Asset Solutions, a climate action, and sustainability network with a mission to slow carbon dioxide emissions and remove excess atmospheric CO2 by using regenerative agriculture technologies.

Stephen Haunts is an independent software developer, Pluralsight Author, Writer for APress, and classroom trainer. Stephen has had a long career working in computer games, banks, retail finance, insurance and healthcare and is now passionate about helping other developers, and professionals succeed in their careers.

Stephen has authored over 14 courses for Pluralsight, written a book on Cryptography for APress, and has spoken and taught workshops at conferences and companies all over the world.

Stephen is also the host of the popular business podcast, the Side Hustle Success Podcast.

Stephen has been a PHP developer for many long years and still loves working with PHP each day. He joined the security industry back in 2012 and since then he's worked on security products, large SaaS applications, and spent a year cleaning infected WordPress sites for fun. Now he's a senior developer at Wordfence/Defiant, working hard to make securing WordPress sites as easy as possible. 

Stephen Vinuya is a Fullstack Developer at AlphaZetta Inc, he has been passionately building websites since 2017. He is also one of the 8 Microsoft MVP for Developers Technology in the Philippines. Graduated as Magna Cumlaude at National University with a degree in Information Technology, Champion in Accenture Program the Future 2016, Champion in UMAK IT Olympics 2015.

Steve Roberts is a Developer Advocate for .NET and PowerShell tools and technologies on Amazon Web Services. Now based in Seattle, Washington, Steve's career as a software developer spans thirty years with a focus on creating developer tools and IDE integrations to help developers be more productive in their chosen languages and platforms.

Prior to becoming a Developer Advocate, Steve spent almost eight years as a Senior Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services, working on the AWS SDKs and tools for .NET and PowerShell developers. He was the development lead for the AWS Tools for PowerShell and the AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services, and also worked on the AWS Toolkits for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, together with the AWS SDK for .NET.

Tarun works as a Senior Engineer with Nine Technology in Sydney, Australia with over twelve years of work experience. He has extensive experience working as a Cloud Architect with various MNCs throughout the world. 

As a Cloud Architect, he worked on large-scale and complex IT engagements for enterprises and helped them build new applications and migrate existing applications to the Cloud. He worked for over four years with Microsoft, where he was primarily working on Microsoft Azure solutions. He has also worked with an Augmented Reality startup, Foyr.com, to build an Automated Interior Designer product for Real Estate Developers. He has worked extensively on cloud computing and IoT applications and has extensive experience working on cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure, AWS, and GCP. 

Tarun has authored two books on Kubernetes and Istio.

Thiago Passos is passionate about technology, learning new skills and sharing what he’s learnt over the years. He's got over 15 years of experience, especially within the Microsoft stack. He’s a solution architect by day, blogger and meetup organizer by night. He’s specialized in .NET Core, Angular and Azure.

Vadym Kazulkin is Head of Technology Strategy at ip.labs GmbH, a 100% subsidiary of the FUJIFLM Group, based in Bonn. ip.labs is the world's leading white label e-commerce software imaging company. Vadym has been involved with the Java ecosystem for over twenty years. His focus and interests currently include the design and implementation of highly scalable and available applications, container and orchestration technologies, Serverless and AWS Cloud. Vadym is the co-organizer of the Java User Group Bonn and Serverless Bonn Meetup, and a frequent speaker on various Meetups and conferences. 

Valeriia Savenko is an engineer on the FastTrack for Azure team at Microsoft, focusing on Azure IoT, with a background in embedded systems design and electrical circuit design. She is passionate about sharing knowledge and experience through speaking at local user groups and conferences, as well as supporting diversity and inclusion in the technology industry.

Vladik (Vlad) Khononov is a software engineer with over 15 years of industry experience, during which he has worked for companies large and small in roles ranging from webmaster to chief architect. Vlad is a long-time proponent of domain-driven design and evolutionary architecture and currently helps companies make sense of their business domains, untangle monoliths, and tackle complex architectural challenges.

Vlad maintains an active media career as a public speaker and blogger. He has spoken at numerous industry conferences — including O’Reilly Software Architecture, DDD Europe, and NDC — about subjects such as domain-driven design, microservices, and software architecture in general. In addition to his media work, he co-organizes the Domain-Driven Design Israel and Tel Aviv Software Architecture meetup groups.

Vladik lives in Northern Israel with his wife and an almost-reasonable number of cats.

William is a Solution Architect at SSW Melbourne with a strong focus on Azure, Automation, DevOps, and Serverless. He works closely with clients to build solutions, mentor development teams and have fun during the whole process. 

In his spare time, he dives into the world of Bots, Machine Learning and 3D Graphics. 

William is an active member of the Melbourne developer community where you can find him attending or presenting at user groups, hack days and conferences every time he has a chance! He is a mentor on the Azure Superpowers Tour and President of the Melbourne .NET User Group.

William is into education and software development, both at the same time whenever possible. He has more than 25 years of full-time software development experience and over 25 years of part-time experience in education. William now specializes in the education of technology, using his personal experience as a software developer, as a team lead, as a development manager, as an IT director, and as a CTO\Partner to help guide technology-oriented education in the real world.

Currently, William is using his passion for education and technology to support .NET developers who are looking to modernize their systems and move to the world’s largest cloud company.

Although it doesn’t look like it, Yaser is an almond croissant addict cleverly disguised as a successful web developer. Since it was relatively clear early on that it would be slightly more than difficult to make a living out of thin air and sitting in a café eating a croissant and drinking a cappuccino, he’s focused his energy on the web, which happily has proven itself to be a wonderful decision.

Apart from that, he has a hunger for public speaking, hence a number of talks in big conferences like NDC and Voxxed Days around the world under his belt.

Yousry is a senior engineer working for Telstra Purple. He is very passionate about all things data including Big Data, Machine Learning and IoT.

He currently works with a big data team enjoying the experience of developing data pipelines, operating big data clusters and eventually finding the needle in the haystack.

NDC { Sydney }

Speakers

Aaron Powell

Adam Furmanek

Adam Stephensen

Adrienne Tacke

Agustinus Nalwan

Aiko Klostermann

Amber Vanderburg

Amy Kapernick

Andy Marks

Anjuan Simmons

Ann Mwangi

Anthony Dang

Arafat Tehsin

Bahman Nikkhahan

Brooke Jamieson

Chad Green

Damian Brady

Daniel Mallott

Dasith Wijesiriwardena

Dave Aronson