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Nicky has worked as an engineer for over 20 years over many industries. She is currently working as Ventures CTO for Blenheim Chalcot, a venture builder which believes in investing more than just funds but investing knowledge and experience, ideas and infrastructure to build new sustainable...

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Peter Elger is the co-founder and CEO of fourTheorem, a company providing expertise on next generation cloud architecture, agile development, AI and machine learning. Formerly a physicist working at the JET fusion research project, Peter was previously co-founder and...

My name is Vincent, ask me anything. I have been evangelizing data and open source for the last 6 years. You might know my from tech talks where I attempt to defend common sense over hype in data science. I currently work at Rasa.

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Currently a Cloud Platform Engineer at American Express. Former cloud platforms engineer at Condé Nast, that contributed to the creation of a centralized, globally distributed platform, with Kubernetes as its centerpiece. In the past worked on maintaining and automating site delivery on...

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Randall's career can be politely summed up as "interesting". He's worked at everything from tiny startups to Netflix to teaching introductory programming at a bootcamp. He wrote a book on RxJS, which didn't impress his cats much.You can find his words in written form at...

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Eugene is CTO at Cossack Labs, a data security engineering company, where his job includes almost everything (as you can imagine a CTO of a small company does): defining product strategy, designing internal products and customer solutions, driving R&D efforts, ensuring the steady cycle...

Sam is a Principal Engineer at the Financial Times, supporting the development of FT.com and the mobile apps. Previously he’s worked at Graze, a start-up that sends snacks through the post. Working in the industry for six years as a software engineer, he’s also spent time on the...

Luke has worked for the Financial Times since 2012 as a Developer and then Platform Architect. Now a Principal Engineer on their Reliability Engineering team, tasked with improving operational resilience and reducing duplication of tech effort across the company.

Lisette Sutherland is a remote-working German-born American living in the Netherlands who is totally jazzed by the fact that it’s possible to work from anywhere. In fact, it’s not just possible; it’s completely, productively workable – if you do it right. Her...

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Emily Jiang is a Java Champion. She is Liberty Microservices Architect and Advocate, STSM in IBM, based at Hursley Lab in the UK. Emily is a senior MicroProfile lead and has been working on MicroProfile since 2016 and leads the specifications of MicroProfile Config, Fault Tolerance and...

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Ags likes distributed systems in all shapes and form. Coding since the age of 8, loves simplicity and continuous delivery. While he has written in many languages, he favours the JVM. Since "most software problems are people problems", he stirs communities, organizes and speaks at...

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Ben Evans is Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. Previously, he was Lead Architect for Instrumentation at New Relic. He also co-founded jClarity, a JVM performance optimization company (acquired by Microsoft in 2019). He is a former member of the JCP Executive Committee, and helped...

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