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.

Adam Cogan blogs at adamcogan.com and interviews for tv.ssw.com frequently. He is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing in custom enterprise .NET and Azure solutions mostly using Angular and React. His solutions also involve Office365, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, and Power BI.

*Clients* - At SSW, Adam has been developing custom solutions for businesses across a range of industries such as Government, engineering, banking, insurance, and manufacturing since 1990 for clients such as Microsoft, CBA, and Aurecon.

*Scrum* - Adam is a Certified Scrum Trainer with scrum.org, trains developers in Australia, the US, UK and Europe, and contributes to scrum.org thinking. He consults with development teams on improving their scrum process through mentoring and being an SSW Solution Architect and Scrum Master. He has written many rules around Scrum best practices.

*China* - Adam has also run multiple consulting firms in China for the last 12 years. Adam has seen the whole Chinese software ecosystem develop and understand the differences that the Chinese market requires in order to be successful. Adam helps western companies modernize their software, so they are not only servicing the USA and European markets, but also grabbing a slice of the Chinese market of 1.4 billion consumers.

*Speaking* - In addition to being a Microsoft MVP in Azure DevOps, Adam is one of only 3 Microsoft Regional Directors in Australia. In this role, he regularly presents in conferences such as TechEd (USA, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Malaysia). A couple of times a year, he visits Microsoft headquarters in Seattle to learn the latest on Microsoft strategic directions and to undertake training in development technologies. His favourite Microsoft teams that he loves to work with are Nat Friedman’s GitHub and Azure DevOps team, James Phillips’ Power BI team, and Jeff Teper’s SharePoint team.

*Software Architecture* - Adam enjoys working with teams, improving their usage of Scrum and DevOps, reviewing the architecture of large .NET and Azure projects, while also taking an active interest in the overall User Experience (UX). He is also the founder and a mentor of SSW’s FireBootCamp, an intensive 9-week .NET training course where developers are retrained learning developer and architecture best practices.

Adele is a software engineer at Trifork Amsterdam, where she is working on backend systems for the educational sector. Most of her work day is spent in the JVM/Spring ecosystems. Adele got the coding bug later in life but since then has been making up for lost time, going from command line noob to employed software engineer in just one year. Her experiences both in and out of tech have given her a unique perspective on the art of programming together with humans, which she hopes is useful to other humans who program with humans.

Passionate in technology innovation to make people’s life easier and with over 25 years of experience in software development across industries from 3D/Animation, Games, mobile apps Computer Vision and AI. Gus currently works at Carsales as the Head of AI building cool AI techs and providing AI expertise to various teams across Carsales. His current mission is to scale up Carsales’ AI capabilities by democratising AI development to every software engineer & data scientist.
 
Gus is an AWS Machine Learning Hero and has an extensive experience in Deep Learning, building/architecting a large scale end to end AI/ML pipeline and also loves speaking on AI and future tech related topics at various AI conferences to spread his experience, to get more people to join AI industry and to share crazy techs he built at home.

Amy wears many hats as a business owner, senior engineer, mentor and conference addict. She regularly shares her knowledge with her peers and the next generation of developers by mentoring, speaking at and organising events as well as mentoring up and coming developers within her business.

Amy can be found volunteering her time with DDD Perth as Vice Chair and Director of Conference Content, organising Perth Azure User Group and mentoring at various SheCodes events. She has been recognised as a Twilio Champion and a Microsoft MVP since 2019 and has been nominated for the WiTWA awards previously.

In her spare time Amy shares her knowledge and experience writing blogs, speaking at conferences and running workshops on a variety of topics across front end development, accessibility, mental health and more. She has previously given keynotes at international events and conferences around the world.

Andre is a Senior Solutions Engineer at GitHub primarily looking after SMB customers in APAC. He enjoys sharing his knowledge and educating his customers on best ways to implement and use GitHub products. Andre is based in Sydney and comes with a wealth of experience from customer support, IT and security, Operations, Sales and Consulting.
Prior to joining GitHub, Andre worked for an Atlassian partner where he implemented various solutions based on Atlassian tools and trained customers to get the best out out those.
Andre is a gliding instructor so in his spare time (and the weather gods allow) he flies gliders at Richmond RAAF airbase and trains new students.

Annie Talvasto is an international technology speaker, CNCF Ambassador, Azure MVP and specialist in Kubernetes & cloud native ecosystem. Annie hosts & produces the Cloud Gossip podcast and has been a co-organizer of Kubernetes & CNCF Finland meetup since 2017. She has worked at various tech companies from cloud start-ups to enterprises. Annie has spoken at tech conferences on multiple continents, including KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Microsoft Build & Ignite, NDC, KCDC, Global Azure, Future Tech and more. During her career she has spoken to more than 10,000 developers at User Groups meetings & Conferences.

Anthony is an SE Manager at GitHub where he helps a talented bunch of Solutions Engineers in Australia and Japan do their best work.

Formerly a DevOps Architect at Microsoft (3 years) and a Microsoft MVP (11 years), he has spent his career helping educate organisations on how to be more successful with their DevOps transformations.

Anthony's hobbies include travelling, IoT, Home Automation and all things gadget related.Solutions Engineering Manager @ GitHub

Engineering Team Lead at Pepperstone.
Microsoft MVP for TypeScript.
Member of a few OSS github organizations like DefinitelyTyped, TypeStrong.
Creator Atom-TypeScript, grunt-ts, alm.tools, designtsx.
Author Beginning NodeJS and TypeScript Deep Dive.
YouTuber (Basarat Codes).
Top contributor for the TypeScript tag on Stackoverflow.

Ben Dechrai is a technologist with a strong focus on security and privacy. At 11 years old he wrote software to stop his parents from breaking the family PC, and now he works as a developer advocate for Auth0. He enjoys helping developers find the joy of problem-solving and experimentation.

I am a data analytics advocate with an emphasis on generating people first insights.

I come from a unique background with a Bachelor of Science majoring in Mathematics and Psychological Science, and a Master of Applied Artificial Intelligence on the way. I look for unique problem-solving opportunities and thrive in complex environments.

I am passionate about all things data but have a keen interest in the development of machine learning in combination with traditional BI analytics. My role as a consultant keeps me close to the ground, giving me an insight into the technologies being used across many different domains.

Outside of my role as a consultant, I help others get into the data field by teaching the Data Analytics Bootcamp at the University of Western Australia.

Data is a rapidly growing domain. It is my vision to spread awareness of the power that comes with taking control of data.

Brenton is the Chief Technology Officer at Blueshift, a small remote-first software company. He has a relentless drive for continuous improvement and a passion for problem solving which he applies in leading a team of software and ops engineers.

Bryden is a Solution Architect with over 25 years professional experience. He has a wealth of knowledge from a diverse range of areas but with particular focus on database, web services, Microsoft Azure and SaaS based solutions. He's had dealings with customers ranging from the world's largest companies right through to small business. He has a strong understanding of how software will deliver business value to his customers.

Chris Sienkiewicz has been at Microsoft for over 10 years working in a variety of subject areas. For the last 3 years he's been focused on the C# and VB compilers, specifically leading the source generator effort.

Dave Glover is a passionate software developer, with considerable experience and interest in low powered embedded platforms, communications, cloud systems and AI.

David is a developer at Microsoft, working to make your Razor and C# tooling experience better.

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.

David is the founder of Electric Head Software, working as an independent software consultant based in London focusing on iterative software delivery, developer mentoring and cultural change - mostly working with London-based organisations and start-ups.

David has previously served as the chief coding technical architect for JustGiving, and helped market-leading organisations including JUST-EAT, Trainline and Vodafone improve their technical capabilities.

You can find his open source projects on NuGet and GitHub, follow him on Twitter @david_whitney, or check out his technical blog at http://www.davidwhitney.co.uk/Blog.

http://www.electricheadsoftware.com 
http://www.davidwhitney.co.uk 

Developer with a passion for building software of all shapes and sizes on any conceivable platform. 

Dom is a cross-domain developer with over 15 years of experience. Throughout most of his career, he was working as a software development consultant. He's currently a Principal Consultant at Telstra Purple and Telstra Purple Ambassador, Sydney.

He has experience in general computer science, software development, machine learning and cloud data engineering. His main interest is sustainable software delivery practices, data-driven cultures and systems thinking.

Donna has been enabling teams in the IT industry for over twenty years. She is passionate about helping businesses scale and creating inclusive workplaces where people can thrive. 

Donna works for Amazon Web Services, leading the Training and Certification scale team, creating and running innovative training programs across Australia and New Zealand. She was previously the State Delivery Manager at Readify (aka Telstra Purple), leading a team of 80 consultants. She is also the CEO of startup SHOUTOUT - a recognition platform designed to help companies create a culture of gratitude. 

An international conference and keynote speaker, Donna is passionate about the community and is involved with a multitude of not-for-profit groups; Women in Technology WA, Muses Code JS, Tech Girls Movement, Women who Code and the Beacon Foundation. Donna was recognised for her contribution to Professional Services and Community with a 40 under 40 Award in 2019.

Having received advanced degrees in secondary education, Joe began a ten-year career as an educator. While in that career, he furthered his graduate education, earning a doctorate in education with a double-minor in computers and theology. His career focus changed to IT in the early 1990’s when he started as a Computer Consultant at NC State University. Three promotions later, Dr. Perez ended his successful 25-year career at NC State as Business Intelligence Specialist when he took another promotion to become Senior Business Analyst at the NC Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) in the fall of 2017 and has since been promoted to Senior Systems Analyst and Team Lead. In addition to his full-time analytics/BI leadership role at DHHS, Joe was named Chief Technology Officer at a North Carolina corporation in October 2020. A published author with more than 13,000 followers on LinkedIn and several professional certifications, Perez has stayed active in the IT, HHS, and higher education communities as a much sought-after resource, highly-recommended international keynote speaker, data analytics & visualization expert, and specialist in efficiency and process improvement. Perez, a recipient of the IOT Industry Insights 2021 Thought Leader of the Year award, speaks at dozens of conferences each year (with a record-breaking 42 in 2021), and continues to be in high demand to this day, expanding his reach into more than twenty countries on every inhabited continent on earth, impacting thousands.

Through the years, Dr. Perez has never lost his love for teaching, having been a guest speaker for many organizations and internationally-recognized podcasts. When he takes a break from work and speaking, he enjoys spending time with his wife of more than 30 years and their children, whom he says are the "best things that ever happened to me." He also sings, plays the piano, composes songs, and has performed PSA's and voice-overs for schools and other organizations. He also serves as speaker, interpreter, and music director to his church’s Hispanic ministry. If there is any spare time left, he enjoys publishing a widely-acclaimed monthly military newsletter (as Editor-in-Chief of The Patriot News), working out in the gym, and catching up on Star Trek reruns. "It's a busy life indeed, but I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. I’m a firm believer that if I’m not innovating, then I’m stagnating," says Joe. If you need an experienced, dynamic keynote speaker for your event, Dr. Joe Perez is the right choice.

Duncan is a principal frontend engineer for zware.com.au. He works with enterprise and government agencies helping build awesome frontend experiences. If he is not coding he is likely climbing a cliff somewhere around the world.

Eli has been in tech for 6 years, working in industries ranging from telecoms to biotech to analog circuit design; now, they're doing developer advocacy at Scaleway and yelling at the cloud. In their spare time, they like to play video games, knit and sew, and hang out with their cat.

Faten Healy is a Senior Solutions Engineer for APAC at GitHub. Based in Sydney, she has a wealth of experience in all parts of the software development life cycle. In her 13 years of working in technology, she has taken on varied roles — a software developer, technical support, a technical trainer, and her current position in the solutions sales team at GitHub.

Filip is the author of C# Smorgasbord and a handful of Pluralsight courses, speaker at events and user groups around the globe, Microsoft and Xamarin MVP. He loves teaching fellow developers how to master C# by understanding important concepts such asynchronous programming, MSIL and much more.

Climbing the technology mountain and halfway up the side. Experience in .Net, mobile applications and more recently voice interface development. Dabbles in iOT & AR/VR. Focusing on coding for humans and choosing the right tool for the job.

Heather is a passionate coder and entrepreneur. She has experience working with Fortune 500 companies building enterprise level mobile and .Net applications. She spends her spare time at tech conferences supporting the growth of new developers of all genders, ages and backgrounds. When not coding, Heather spends her time as a competitive equestrian and learning the art of mounted archery.

Helen is a Chief Engineer at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and has had multiple roles as a senior technology specialist in various industries including Technology, Utilities and logistics. 

Henry Been is an independent architect and developer from The Netherlands. He enjoys working with software development teams to create and deliver great software. His interests include the Azure cloud, Agile, DevOps, software architecture and the design and implementation of testable and maintainable software.

Besides his work he is a conference speaker at international conferences, is the author oftwo books, and creates online training courses for Pluralsight. For his work in the community he has been awarded the Microsoft MVP Award since 2019. To follow Henry you can go to his blog or look him up on Twitter: @henry_been

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

Jason Taylor is a solution architect, trainer, mentor, and full stack developer with over 20 years of experience. Currently, he specializes in developing, testing, and deploying custom applications to the cloud utilizing .NET, Angular, Blazor, 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 a Microsoft AI MVP, SSW Solution Architect, and organizer of several user groups like AI Hack Days and Global AI The Podcast. JK is a full-stack .NET developer, but his passion lies in Azure Cognitive Services, AI and machine learning. He is the main architect behind SSW's virtual receptionist - SophieAI: https://sswsophie.com

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.

Jo is a Developer Advocate at Spotify. She is passionate about the web a better place, developing fun PWAs, building sparkly wearable internet connected tech, and of course writing beautiful CSS. She is a mentor and organiser at codebar.io and at Front End Foxes where she is able to act on her passion not only for teaching good use of the web but also for improving the diversity and inclusivity of the tech industry.

Joe Albahari is an O'Reilly author and the inventor of LINQPad. His books include "C# 10 in a Nutshell", "C# Pocket Reference" and "LINQ Pocket Reference". He speaks regularly at conferences and user groups, and has been a C# MVP for twelve years running.

Justin is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft and was double-awarded Microsoft MVP in both Azure and Developer Technologies since 2015. He is passionate at serverless technologies, enterprise integration and SRE/DevOps, and tries to find a better way of doing things right and getting things done.

Lars is a Senior Developer Evangelist with Pluralsight, author, trainer, Microsoft Azure MVP, community leader, aspiring YouTube host and part time classic car collector. He is heavily involved in the space of cloud computing services, especially Azure, 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.

With over twenty years of experience in software development and information security, Laura Bell specialises in bringing cyber security into organisations of every shape and size.

, a community-centric online education platform giving developers, testers and architects around the world the skills they need to build high-quality, secure software at speed.

Laura is an experienced conference speaker, trainer, and regular panel member, and has spoken at a range of events such as BlackHat USA, Velocity, and OSCON on the subjects of privacy, covert communications, agile cyber security, and cyber security mindset.

I am an Engineering Manager at Pushpay and have been developing for longer than I can remember. I also run the Auckland Software Craftsmanship and Auckland .Net user groups.

Marilag is a founder, cloud architect and a tech community leader who aims to bridge the skill gap through equal distribution of knowledge across borders, cultures & individuals. Her experience in Cloud and Software Engineering, combined with her passion for mentorship and developer wellness, drive her to tackle the tech upskilling challenge, through her advocacies. She’s the organizer of Azure User Group Manila and Azure User Group Denmark and an Azure MVP. She's also the co-founder of a not-for-profit group called Ulap.org, which helps in training & certifying underserved youths within cloud, data and technology

I am a software engineer working on diverse tech stacks but focusing mostly on .NET in C#, Web Technologies and iOS/Swift.

I am a technology enthusiast who always works on improving development and DevOps processes at our company to make life easier for developers and help deliver high. I was awarded Microsoft MVP for community and open-source work around .NET Core.

Martin is a front-end geek, data architect, and software engineer with multi-year experience helping companies around the world. He enjoys solving problems by coding in creative ways and actively participates in multiple open-source projects.

Matt is an SSW Solution Architect, trainer, and Certified Scrum Master. He has been developing solutions using the full Microsoft stack since .NET 2 (the old one) was in beta.

Matt loves DevOps, DevOps and DevOps. These days he prefers GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps Build Pipelines over other tools. Matt likes clean architecture, using the right tool for the job, seeing developers push changes to production with confidence, automated tests, running solutions on Azure, and now he never has to reminisce about Webforms.



Matt Ellis is a developer advocate at JetBrains. He has spent 20 years shipping software and currently works with language tooling, having fun with abstract syntax trees and source code analysis. He owns and contributes to various open source projects, and believes in the open closed principle.

I'm a well-rounded technologist, aka fullstack developer, although I'm more known outside Purple for my frontend skills as I ran a frontend offline user group called ng-Sydney from late 2014 till before COVID-19 and contributed to a high-profile open-source JavaScript framework called Angular. I also have a few blog posts, tech videos, and conference talks on frontend, .NET, and leadership topics, and am a frequent contributor to the #1 developers Q&A website, StackOverflow, and ranked top 0.75% user for my technical answers.

Inside Purple I've helped several big Purple customers build their front-end applications from scratch, I'm often recognised for being able to bridge the gap between business and technical lingo.

I have up to date experience with latest Microsoft .NET backend technologies, and just-enough knowledge to perform database development, and Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Deployment (CD) infrastructure using Microsoft tools like Azure DevOps, and open-source tools like Docker and Kubernetes, which served me well in several gigs and I look forwards to improve upon.

I also have experience creating and managing the architecture of microservices and building the glue that enables tens of developers across several teams to work together. This was a key part of my 2019-2021 gig, which also involved a niche technology called Elasticsearch (as a search engine not an infrastructure tool, which it can also be used for).

Currently I am assigned directly by Purple as a tech lead for a challenging project, where I mix Agile methodologies with fullstack experience and frequent customer communication.

Melissa Houghton is a Lead Software Engineer at Azenix and a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies.

Her work is focused on application development using Angular, .NET, and Azure, but she has a wide variety of skills and is always open to learning new things.

An advocate for women in tech with a passion for leadership, technology and giving back to the community. She frequents tech events, is an international conference speaker and organiser of DDD Melbourne conference, Melb․NET meetup, and Microsoft AU New Breakpoint Community.

Originally from California, Melissa loves to travel and now lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Michael is a member of the GraphQL technical steering committee, 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. This open-source project has been his main focus for the last couple of years. 

Apart from his work in the open-source community, Michael works as a consultant to help companies move to GraphQL. You can tune into the Hot Chocolate project on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillicream

Follow me on GitHub: https://bit.ly/michaelGitHub
Follow me on Twitter: https://bit.ly/michaelTwitter
Connect on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/michaelLinkedIn
Subscribe on YouTube: https://youtube.chillicream.com
MVP: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5003672

Known as the “Hackathon Queen” I work as a Developer Advocate for GitHub. Everyday I get to engage with the vibrant developer community. As part of the DevRel team, we’re here to listen to the community, understand them, and provide people with the tools and resources to succeed in open source. Coding and development aren’t always just about writing lines of code You’ll often find me talking about collaboration, good documentation, open source, and live coding. These things are important as it helps shape your product or service, as well as how people engage with them. In my ‘spare’ time I’m a streamer, journalist, and always working on something exciting. I’m also the recipient of the Pause Super Connector Award (2020 and 2021), DELL Young Entrepreneur of the Year (2019), DELL Social Media Influencer of the Year (2019), Telstra Business Woman of the Year Finalist (2019), Finalist Esports personality of the year (2018), and many more.

Mohamed is working as a Cloud Infrastructure Architect for AWS Professional Services – Global Telecom Practice based out of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is a subject matter expert in Cloud Infrastructure Architecture helping the customers scale their use of AWS safely and securely, accelerate their adoption of cloud and driving the value of their investment in AWS.

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 IT Engineering Manager 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

Nick is a software engineer and Developer Technologies Microsoft MVP based in London. He is creating educational content on YouTube about everything .NET and C#.

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.

 MVP for 13 years and currently works as a Principal consultant for Telstra Purple. Previously he was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Saasu (

), solution architect at Datacom, then senior consultant for readify, and prior to that a technical architect for EDS Australia. He has over 20 years of industry experience ranging PICK, C, C++, Delphi and Visual Basic 3/4/5/6 to his current speciality in .Net with C#, 

, Azure, Cloud and DevOps.
Paul has been developing in .Net technologies since .Net was first in Beta and was technical architect for one of the worlds first internet banking solutions using .Net technology.
Paul can be seen on various .Net related newsgroups, has presented at the Sydney .Net user group (

) and TechEd, and is also a member of ASPInsiders (

). He has also written some technical articles which can be seen on community sites such as 

). Paul has authored a total of 3 books, Beginning AJAX in 

 AJAX, and the latest book on .Net Performance Testing and Optimisation. He is currently focusing on 3 main pillars which are: Solution architecture (mostly cloud but on prem/hybrid too), DevSecOps and Augmented/virtual reality.
On a more personal note, Paul is married with 3 children, 5 grandkids, holds a 5th degree black belt in Budo-Jitsu and a grade 4 in Wing Chun Kung fu.

Phil is a developer advocate for Sonar and 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.

Microsoft MVP (AI),Business leadership for AI/IoT, Solution Architect for Data Science, Artificial Intelligence/Machine learning developer, Innovation Lead, public speaker/blogger for AI/ML specially with respect to Microsoft technology stack, full stack development experience across variety of programming languages and platforms.

I am a self-driven technology leader with proven skills in leadership, decision-making, and quick learning. I have over 13 years of hands-on experience in cloud and web technologies. I apply emerging technologies and processes to bring efficiency to enterprise technology operations. As a leader, I have successfully established and led engineering teams and designed enterprise applications to solve organizational challenges. I foster innovation, collaboration and bring improvement to engineering teams.

I have authored three books and a free workshop on Microservices orchestrators and Service Mesh: Azure Service Fabric- Microservices with Azure, by Packt, Kubernetes- Kubernetes Succinctly, Istio- Istio Succinctly, by Syncfusion, and Fast Track Istio Workshop on Katacoda. I am an active Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), and DZone MVB (Most Valuable Blogger). You can connect with me through my blog: https://thecloudblog.net.

Richard has developed software for more than 25 years across a wide range of industries and development platforms. He has filled many roles from developer to C-level manager, spent over a decade consulting. was a Professional Scrum Trainer, has authored 2 books, is an 8x Microsoft MVP, and wrote the RGScores application.

Today, he is a Distinguished Engineer at Willow, and runs the Sydney Alt.Net user group. He loves helping people and teams improve their skills and the value they deliver.

Richard Campbell wrote his first line of code in 1977. His career has spanned the computing industry both on the hardware and software sides, development and operations. He was a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, acquired by Radware in 2013 and was on the board of directors of Telerik which was acquired by Progress Software in 2014. Today he is a consultant and advisor to a number of successful technology firms and is the founder and chairman of Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org), a public charity that builds open source software for disaster relief. Richard is also the host of two podcasts: .NET Rocks! (www.dotnetrocks.com) for .NET developers and RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com) for IT Professionals.

Started in 2007 as a .NET developer and still eager to learn new things everyday!

Rob is the Chief Technology Officer of MakerX where he is building out a new type of services company based on a vision 6 years in the making, including the principles, culture, people, approaches, intellectual property and successful deliveries that form the basis of an amazing company. #makersmake

Rob has a proven track record of successfully delivering software, technology and organisational change projects with a particular focus on accelerated business value delivery, measurement and realisation. Rob specialises in leading teams and helping businesses successfully innovate and change by focusing on the delivery of business value using Agile and Lean values and principles and by adopting DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices. He has a passion for and extensive experience in mobile, web, ethical web3 and cloud software development and Intellectual Property (IP) strategy.

Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, React and Vue. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development. You can find this and other talks at https://robrich.org/presentations and follow him on twitter at @rob_rich.

Ryan Oakey is a Neurodiverse (Asperger’s) software developer working on Cloud Platform projects. He completed a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Data Science, and a Masters of Information Technology at the University of Western Australia. In addition to his development work, he does Neurodiversity advocacy both as part of his work and voluntarily in the wider community.

Sammy is the Head of Developer Experience at SixPivot, an Australian based consultancy specialising in .NET application development and cloud consulting. Sammy works with executives to redefine best practices for software developers. She works on everything to do with improving the developer experience from research, strategy, testing and trying again. Working a spectrum of initiatives from internal mentoring all the way to 4-day work weeks. Sammy and her work have consecutively been recognised in AFR's Best Places to Work in Technology and won numerous awards in employee flexibility and diversity & inclusion. 

A regular panellist and speaker at events, conferences and keynote presentations, Sammy is passionate about community, and an organiser for Muses Code JS, Brisbane’s largest coding workshop for women, non-binary and trans folk. 

Sasha has been hiring and leading specialist teams for 15 years in the areas of academia, paramedicine, and tech. She is a passionate advocate for empowering individuals and leaders to amplify their unique skills and experiences for the benefit of their teams and their community. Currently she leads a national team of over 250 software developers, designers data specialists to help solve their customers most interesting and tricky problems. Sasha is an active member of the Women in Tech community where she organises and hosts fabulous events designed to cultivate connection, inspire innovation and incubate talent within the tech community.

Shane is an accomplished senior technologist in the online, systems and automation space. Having held various roles with ASX/Fortune 50 companies, AWS he is now the Chief Architect of Microsoft Australia.

He is a seasoned presenter and was the co-host of the AWS TechChat podcast to which is listened to by more than 1M people.

Stephen is a security consultant and crusted-on PHP developer who spends his days doing Laravel Security Audits and Penetration Tests. When he’s not trying to hack his client’s websites, he teaches Laravel developers about security concepts through his Laravel Security in Depth mailing list. Stephen’s idea of fun is spending a year cleaning infected WordPress sites and picking locks. 

Steve is working as a developer for Microsoft in the team that brings you the ASP.NET technology stack, IIS, and other web things. Previously he developed .NET software as a contractor/consultant for clients in Bristol and beyond, plus wrote some books for Apress, such as Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework. From time to time, he speaks at user groups and conferences, and recently have been running a bunch of training courses on topics such as C#, SQL Server, and of course ASP.NET MVC.

Tarun works as a Solution Architect in Sydney, Australia with over fifteen 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.

Troy Hunt is an Australian security researcher and founder of the data breach notification service, Have I Been Pwned. Troy has a background in software development specialising in information security and is a regular conference speaker and trainer. He regularly appears in the media, works with government and law enforcement agencies and has appeared before US Congress as an expert witness testifying on the impact of data breaches. Troy is also a Microsoft Regional Director (an honorary title) and regularly blogs at 

Vatsalya is a technologist who engages people in interesting conversations around security. His love for security and experience as a developer allows him to try innovative ways of solving problems and enable his teams to deliver secure code without security being a process hindrance.

He loves to tinker with new languages, explore new ways of designing software and dive into something new in the IT world. In his spare time you will find him contributing to random Open Source Software as a way to give back to the community.

Warren Vella is a Solution Architect at Confluent working with Financial Services, Retail, Energy and Government agencies. Prior to joining Confluent, Warren was at AEMO (Australian Energy Market Operator) for over 12 years where he held several roles including Enterprise Integration Architect and Team Lead.

I'm a Customer Engineer for Microsoft working in the Fast Track for Azure team focusing on Azure Application development and modernization. I'm passionate about Serverless and Container technologies and about helping developers build great things using these technologies.

Away from my keyboard, I enjoy hiking and kayaking around the beautiful land of New Zealand

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