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 am a professional software engineer for almost a decade. Right now I am at Amazon working with Big Data, 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 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.

Experienced technologist, author and speaker with over 21 years’ experience in various software development focussed roles. Works as a Tech Lead for Willow where we focus on development of digital twins and currently focussed on application security. Alex co-founded DDD Melbourne, has written two .NET books for Apress, spoken at several large conferences including NDC Sydney & Oslo, TechEd/Ignite, Web Directions and Remix and developed courses for online training provider Pluralsight and A Cloud Guru.

Allen is a software developer and consultant at Telstra Purple with broad experience in cloud, mobile and .NET development. His career started back in the Seychelles Islands over 10 years ago as a Junior Dev which brought him to Perth over 4 years ago. He’s passionate about software development, architecture, using product management tools, and enabling software development teams to deliver awesome products that provide value to their users.

Allison helps teams create inclusive web sites and mobile apps. Visual design, user experience, content, code, and QA all play a part and Allison works with them all.
She enjoys introducing people to assistive technologies and different ways of working. Why not try going keyboard-only for an hour?

Alon is the Chief Architect and founder of CodeValue & QLog. With more than 30 years of experience, Alon has done major software development, design, and architecture projects for global leading and cutting-edge companies. Alon is recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director since 2010 and an MVP since 2005. Alon has expertise in many technologies, be it Software Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Windows internals, C++ programming, .NET with C#, Internet of Things, and cross-platform development (Windows & Linux).

, 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 

 as Vice Chair and Director of Conference Content, organising 

 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 

 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.

Now considered a "veteran" of software development, I've been writing, and talking about writing software for over 30 years. As someone who trained as something other than a software engineer, I've always been fascinated in the interface between "professional developers" and "citizen developers" and how to smoothly connect the best practices of the first with the experience and domain-specific knowledge of the second. My current role allows me to explore and enhance that interface.

Arafat is a Solution Architect at EY and Microsoft MVP (AI). He has been working with Global ISVs of Microsoft and developing some next-gen solutions using cutting-edge Microsoft technologies.

Arafat co-founded Global AI - The Podcast which talks about everything around Microsoft AI. He's also an active contributor for the community and co-founded the Bot Builder Community Project on GitHub. He loves to code / write / speak about Microsoft Azure AI, .NET and Power Platform.

Ari Hunt has been coding since he could hold a mouse, using free online tools designed for kids which teach just the same concepts as us adults use in our professional careers. 12-year-old Ari has been sharing his knowledge with other kids on stage and in classrooms since 2019. One day, Ari hopes to work in the software industry and travel the world speaking at conferences.

Bahman has more than 13 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 technologist working for JB Hi-Fi at the moment. Previously he worked for Telstra Health, Telstra Purple (Readify) and JAM Web Services. He loves spending time with his family, travelling and watching and playing soccer.

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.

Ben Cull has left the comfortable consultant lifestyle at SSW Australia for the untamed mountains and treacherous valleys of the startup world with his payments platform, Pinch Payments.

He has extensive experience developing enterprise web solutions, but is now free to apply his efforts to the bleeding edge of today's technologies. He wrestles with Alphas, fights with betas, and reminisces with RTMs so that you don't have to. You can find him talking at conferences around the world about his favourite topics: Payments, Web, and Beer.

Oh boy the beer! If you get caught anywhere near him, you'll definitely get into a discussion about either beer or brewing :)

Damian is a Developer Advocate at GitHub and loves all things DevOps.

Formerly a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft for 4 years, and prior to that a dev at Octopus Deploy (https://octopus.com) and a Microsoft MVP, Damian has a 20+ year background in software development and consulting in a broad range of industries.
Damian regularly speak sat conferences, User Groups, and other events around the world.
 
Most of the time you'll find Damian talking to developers, IT Pros, and data scientists to help them get the most out of their DevOps and MLOps 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. 

Danica Fine is a Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent where she helps others get the most out of their event-driven pipelines. Prior to this role, she served as a software engineer on a streaming infrastructure team where she predominantly worked on Kafka Streams- and Kafka Connect-based projects. Her expertise in streaming systems has taken her to a number of conferences and speaking engagements over the years, giving her the chance to express her love of Kafka to anyone who will listen. Danica is committed to increasing diversity in the technical community and actively serves as a mentor to a number of women in tech. She can be found on Twitter, tweeting about tech, plants, and baking @TheDanicaFine.

Dave is a semi-retired software development consultant (writing code *and* roadmapping projects and features, giving advice on processes and tools, etc.), with over 36 years of professional experience in a wide variety of languages, systems, frameworks, techniques, domains, etc.  He is the T. Rex of Codosaurus, LLC (his one-person consulting firm, which explains how he can get such a cool title, at https://www.Codosaur.us/) near Washington, DC, USA.  In his spare time, he brews mead.

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.

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

Derek Campbell is a Principal DevOps Advocate at Octopus Deploy in the Community team.

Derek is passionate about helping and building Communities and has previously worked in Customer Solutions, where he helped some of the largest customers of Octopus be successful.

During his time in DevOps and automation consultancy, Derek has automated CI/CD pipelines and helped lead and implement CI/CD at numerous companies worldwide. Derek is passionate about helping organizations and people improve using technology to help their personal and business objectives.


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.

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.

Emad Alashi is a software developer whose main interest is in software architecture, software delivery, the cloud, and the human interaction caught in between.

He helps organisations adopt the cloud, embrace DevOps, and build modern systems that achieve the right business goals. Lately his interest has been focused on Event-Driven systems and Cloud-native
 
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 posts to his blog on emadashi.com, and sometimes stream on Twitch at https://twitch.com/emadashi.

Emad, and currently works as a Principal Consultant in Insight, and can be found on twitter @emadashi.

Erin is a Google developer expert with over 15 years experience in a variety of languages, from JavaScript to Model204 (no, nobody else has heard of it either). She is currently a senior web developer at CashApp. She is an active member of the Melbourne developer community, and has spoken at conferences around the world. If you see her at a conference, she'll probably have knitting needles in hand.



Graeme’s IT passion was first stirred with a 1Kb ZX81 in 1983 at 8 years old. He’s now had over 20 years of commercial experience using .Net, Javascript, Java, and VB, as well as writing Lisp neural networks at Uni and having Swift ios apps in the AppStore.

He is currently working at Microsoft helping teams to architect their solutions on Azure.


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


Heather Wilde is CTO of theDifference and is also known as the Unicorn Whisperer because of her special focus on entrepreneurs. She is a professional growth expert, executive coach, best-selling author, and speaker. One of the founding team of Evernote, and co-founder of TWIP, she has won multiple awards for her writing, technology, coaching, and mentorship, including the 2020 International Impact Award for her latest book, "Birth of a Unicorn".

Both a patent inventor and game designer, she is trailblazing the way for other women to do the same. 
She has appeared on Huffpost Live and ABC News, and has appeared in Mashable, BBC News, Huffington Post, and in the Wall Street Journal as well as many other industry publications. Her clients cover North America, Australia, Asia, and the Middle East and she offers training internationally on tech topics such as Cybersecurity, Anticipatory Design, and the Dangers of Overwork.

Wilde's popular Inc and Forbes columns span social media, entrepreneurialism, startups, leadership, fundraising, and diversity issues. She lives in Las Vegas.

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.

Ian Hughes is a consultant with Readify in Australia, and CTO of start-up 

 He has worked in development for 20 years, and talks internationally about Leadership, Agile, DevOps and Mobile. He likes code, science, travel, beer, and football.

James has 20 years of experience in software and network engineering in Australia and the US. Prior to x15ventures, James was at Apple in Cupertino where he was responsible for the software engineering teams that developed productivity apps, the device setup experience and data privacy systems. He has also spent time at Amazon working on applying machine learning to network monitoring at a massive, global scale.

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.

I am a Cloud Developer Advocate for Containers based in Melbourne/Australia with over 20 years in the tech industry. As former Microsoft MVP - Most Valued Professional, I developed my passion to help and sponsor the Community to get into the tech industry, to learn how to collaborate and share their own knowledge with others.
Since 2014, I have been involved on the Containers, Kubernetes, Azure, Devops and Open Source technologies space. 
Full profile here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/advocates/jorge-arteiro

Kieran Jacobsen (he/him) recently joined Phocas Software as the Head of Business Systems. Kieran combines his passion for business process automation, systems integration, and cybersecurity to help organisations rapidly grow and evolve.

Kieran’s involvement in the technology community has seen him present at Microsoft’s Ignite the Tour, NDC Sydney, and CrikeyCon. Kieran is well known for his security focused presentations that blend real-world examples with storytelling.

Microsoft has recognised Kieran’s contributions to the community by awarding him with their Most Valuable Professional since 2017. Kieran is also a member of the GitKraken Ambassador Program.

Kieran lives in Melbourne, Australia with his Husband, and Burmese cat. In his spare time, Kieran enjoys computer games, Dungeons & Dragons, boardgames and Melbourne’s amazing food culture.

Klee is a Software Developer working at Atlassian and organiser of the Newcastle Coders Group. 
He is an Agile, Clean Code and Craftsmanship advocate who loves to talk about what we can do to build better quality, maintainable software. 
Outside of software development fan of Martial Arts, Neftlix and spending time with his wife and cats.

Kris Jenkins is a Developer Advocate for Confluent, a veteran startup contractor, and former CTO & Co-Founder of a gold trading business.  He started his career working for a finance company whose success depended on having a better data model than all their competitors, and the search for better architecture has been with him ever since.


Kris Howard has been building and playing on the Internet for over twenty years. She heads up AWS Developer Relations for Asia-Pacific and Japan, and she speaks regularly at tech conferences around the world. (Well, she used to, anyway.) Her Instagram account is pretty much all selfies and food.

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.

Mark Seemann helps programmers make code easier to maintain. His professional interests include functional programming, object–oriented development, software architecture, as well as software development in general. Apart from writing books about Code That Fits in Your Head and Dependency Injection he has also created several Pluralsight courses, Clean Coders videos, and written numerous articles and blog posts about programming.

Originally poised to become a rock star or (failing that) graphic novelist (in the European tradition) he one day found himself with insufficient talent for either, a master’s degree in Economics, and a desire for working with computers. He has been doing the latter intermittently since 1995. When not working with software or spending time with his family, Mark enjoys reading, listening to and playing music, as well as preparing or consuming gourmet food and wine.

Matthew Renze is a data science consultant, author, and public speaker.

He is the founder of Renze Consulting, an AI consulting company that has trained over 400,000 software developers and IT professionals. His clients range from small tech start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.

He is also the President of Serenze Global, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to improving access to technology education for under-represented individuals by empowering the next generation of tech community leaders.

Matthew is working on his Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence with a Data Science specialization at Johns Hopkins University. He currently has double degrees in Computer Science and Philosophy with a minor in Economics from Iowa State University.

He is a Microsoft MVP in AI, an ASPInsider, and an author for Pluralsight, Udemy, and Skillshare.

His interests include AI, ML, data science, mindfulness, technology education, and tech community leadership.

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.

Tedx Speaker, Tech Girl Superhero, Microsoftie and one of MCV's 30 Most Influential Women in Games. I am a Technology Evangelist who acts as an API between technology and the world. I advocate for STEM, the Games Industry and Developers. I present at around 50 Conferences and Events around the world on Technology, Social Media, Inclusion and Gaming.

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.

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 currently runs Built to Roam which focuses on building rich mobile applications. Nick has been identified as a Microsoft MVP in recognition of his work and expertise with the Windows platform. He is still an active contributor in the device application development space via his blog at http://nicksnettravels.builttoroam.com. 

Solution Architect @SSW providing enterprise solutions for clients.
My focus is .NET, Microsoft Azure, Big Data and Machine Learning. 
https://www.ssw.com.au/people/patrick-zhao/

 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.

Pete Gallagher is a Freelance IoT Consultant at PJG Creations Ltd, a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Azure MVP, Pluralsight Author, experienced public speaker and Meetup organiser.

He has been creating software for decades and is happy programming in just about any language.

Pete has been involved in a wide span of tech in his many years of industry experience, including IoT Projects for; Royal Mail Stamp Vending before there was such a thing as modern IoT, Building Monitoring Systems, Internet Connected Self Service Kiosks, Wildlife Protection and Ecology in Africa and much more.

He has presented internationally on a wide variety of IoT Topics, including the Azure IoT Stack, AI, Robotics, .NET, DevOps, Amazon Alexa, Particle Photon, Arduino etc etc.

Pete helped create the Microsoft AZ220 IoT Developer certification and also has created Pluralsight content to help learners pass the exam.

Pete also organises​ Notts IoT, co-organises Dot Net Notts, Notts Dev Workshop, sits on the Board of LATi, a Loughborough based Advanced Technology networking group, co-organises the Azureish Twitch channel, co-hosts IoTeaLive and is a co-host of the Agile Engineering Podcast.

He is also an active STEM Ambassador and is passionate about making STEM subjects accessible to all ages.

Pete particularly likes gadgets of all kinds!

Phil is a developer evangelist 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.

Rebecca is a developer at Bankwest that is interested in UX, accessibility, self-development, and dogs. She works to ensure there is a common, clear understanding for all users of her systems, as shown by the fact she has been published three times (including in two encyclopaedias), talking about UML. When not working, Rebecca can be found testing other companies products and interfaces (aka, playing video games).

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.

During the day, Ron Dagdag is a Lead Software Engineer with 20+ years of  experience working on a number of business applications using a diverse set of frameworks and languages. He currently support developers at Spacee with their IoT, Cloud and ML development. On the side, Ron Dagdag is active participant in the community as a Microsoft MVP, speaker, maker and blogger. He is passionate about Augmented Intelligence, studying the convergence of Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality, Machine Learning and the Internet of Things.
@rondagdag

Rowdy Rabouw is a web developer with 25 years of experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. Currently, he is a Front-End Focused Senior DevOps Engineer working on Vue.js, Node.js and NativeScript projects with special attention for accessibility. To unwind, Rowdy loves watching superhero movies and Formula One races and enjoys riding on his mountain bike.

Sahar is a Data Chapter Lead at ANZ bank where she's responsible for recruiting/mentoring data professionals and delivering data projects. Sahar has her PhD in IT, MSc in IT-ECommerce and BSc in Computer Science and uses her technical knowledge (machine learning, Cloud, programming, etc) and business acumen to help the bank strike for better.
Sahar enjoys camping and building things (Lego or retaining walls alike).
Sahar has the superpower to eat almost non-stop. But, if she could choose a superpower it would have been "to detect lies".

Sam is a web developer, software architect, consultant, and international man of... trudging through terrible code. Over his 15+ years in industry he has worked on, maintained, refactored, (and probably built) many legacy systems.

He promotes clean code, sustainable architecture, and testable design to anyone who will listen.

Sanket Singh is an avid and passionate Software Engineer at Google. He has worked with organizations like LinkedIn and Harvard - Berkman Klein Centre in the past. He is curious to build products that can solve simple and complex problems but in a graceful way. 
Sanket has always been a forefront runner for writing high-quality code. But he also understands that it is a gradual process and thus it is important to always look back every few months and refractor the code whenever possible so that it's easier to debug in case of any issues. 
He has taken multiple workshops in the past to promote the same and encouraged many engineers to not neglect the power of well refactored code. 
He has taught more than 15000 budding engineers and wants to create a community of people with impactful skills. He runs a YouTube channel with a 25k+ subscriber base where he shares unpopular opinions and his tech journey experiences. 
In his free time, he likes to play chess and mentor budding engineers in the industry. 

Shahid is the Principal Platform Architect at Auror in Auckland, New Zealand.

He is a hands on cloud architect implementing modern platforms predominantly in Azure focusing on PaaS and Cloud Native approaches to solving modern business and software problems.
With an extensive background in software development he brings DevOps principals and approaches to helping teams to deploy and run their software in the most efficient and scalable ways the modern cloud platforms offer.

Shahid is also a frequent speaker at both international conferences and local meetups, runs workshops on Cloud Native technologies, and is a co-organizer of the Auckland Azure Meetup

When he's not working he's likely to be talking about cars, photography or gadgets.

I've been working as a .NET developer for over 16 years now in a variety of industries including government, retail and manufacturing. But I've been hacking around with computer code since I was old enough to read my Dad's copy of the ZX Spectrum BASIC coders manual. 

I've been speaking about Functional C# at various user groups and conferences around the UK, USA,  Europe and Australia and am particularly interested in seeing just how far we can push C# without breaking it.  

I'm currently working on a book for O'Reilly publications about functional programming with C#.  Expected to appear in bookshops some time in 2023.

When I'm not coding, or running after my two small children, I have been known to enjoy the classic series of Doctor Who, Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks, Cryptic Crosswords, and rather more coffee than is probably good for me.

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. 

By day Todd is an App Innovation architect for Microsoft working with people to do great things on Azure. By night he spends way too much time geeking out and building retro, cloud, edge and IoT projects that really seem like a sensible idea at the time.

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 

 William has been involved in software development for over 20 years and is currently working as a Principal Consultant for Telstra Purple.
His interests range from database development, backend developement and UX design focusing on web development for the last fews of years. William has been active in the developer community including speaking at various conferences within Australia.


Wing Ho is a front-end developer with a passion for creating great user experiences and a mission to spread awareness of such front-end woes. He occasionally dabbles in powerlifting amongst all things tech, and loves meeting other passionate people creating for the web together.

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 lead consultant working for Cuusoo. He is very passionate about all things data including Big Data, Machine Learning and IoT.

His experience spans application development stack like C#, web technologies and integration in addition to big data and AI stack. In the last few years, he was mainly working on applications involving Spark, DataBricks, Data Factory & Azure IoT.

NDC { Melbourne }

Speakers

Aaron Powell

Adam Furmanek

Adam Cogan

Alex Mackey

Allen Azemia

Allison Ravenhall

Alon Fliess

Amy Kapernick

Andrew Coates

Arafat Tehsin

Ari Hunt

Bahman Nikkhahan

Ben Dechrai

Ben Cull

Damian Brady

Dan Mallott

Danica Fine

Dave Aronson

David Wengier

Derek Bingham