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.

Adrienne Braganza Tacke is a Filipina software engineer, keynote speaker, published author of the book Coding for Kids: Python, and a LinkedIn Learning instructor who specializes in Cloud Development courses. Perhaps most important, however, is that she spends way too much money on desserts and ungodly amounts of time playing Age of Empires II.

Alex Dunn leads the product team at Voicify and is the founder of Enabled Play. He's also a Microsoft MVP, PubConf Champion, Bixby Premier Developer, and AWS Alexa SME. His background in accessibility, application development, and conversational AI has leaned into enabling applications to do more for businesses and consumers using scalable architectures and design, distributed services, cloud infrastructure, and innovative edge technologies. Alex does his best to remain platform agnostic in his practices and development with specialties in C#, Kotlin, and TypeScript while building for cross-platform compatibility. You might find him co-organizing the Boston Mobile C# Meetup with Microsoft, speaking at all sorts of conferences and events around the world, streaming on Twitch, and on Pluralsight. You can read his regular tips and thoughts in the development community at https://alexdunn.org/ or watch him live at https://twitch.tv/suave_pirate

Outside technology, you can find him playing guitar, working with animal rescue, or exploring the great outdoors.

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).

Hey guys, nice to meet you.

I'm an experienced web developer, doing mainly front-end, specializing in CSS, animations, and creative coding. I've been a guest speaker on a large number of meetups, talking about CSS and JavaScript, or doing some live-coding. I've also published a few articles, and my work is frequently featured on some of the most respectable websites and newsletters.

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 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.

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.

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 :)

Chris is the technical co-founder of https://www.inloop.com.au, the business that brought Australian Fintech success stories https://www.flexischools.com.au and https://www.lanternpay.com (Recently acquired by NAB) to market.

Flexischools was launched in 2008, and today helps hundreds of thousands of Australian families engage with their school communities.

In 2015, LanternPay was launched to tackle the emerging challenges in the consumer directed care sector, particularly the NDIS and other public healthcare insurance schemes.

As CTO of LanternPay, Chris spent half his week being a traditional "CTO" and half his week coding and working alongside an amazing team of talented developers.

Since 2021 he has been providing training & consulting through Dev Cycles Technology Advisory (https://devcycles.io/page/consulting/) at both the strategic CTO-level and the practical hands on software engineering level.

To support teams practicing Domain Driven Design, he recently launched an open-source IDE extension called Contextive (https://contextive.tech) to help with common communication challenges between developers and the broader organisation.

Damian works as a Developer Advocate at Github. 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. 

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 McCarter has been a software engineer for over 25 years. He is a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), C# Corner MVP, solutions architect,  consultant, professional code reviewer, speaker and author in San Diego, California USA. He is the editor-in-chief of dotNetTips.com... a web site dedicated to helping software engineers in all aspects of programming since 1994. 

David has written for programming magazines and has published many books including "David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards", “Rock Your Code: Defensive Programming for Microsoft .NET” available at http://amazon.com/author/dotnetdave. David is a featured writer on the C# Corner website among others. 

David gives lectures on programming and technical interviewing at user groups, colleges, high schools, and conferences such as C# Corner Conference (India), Code Camp, SQL Saturday, DevConnections, VSLive and more. He taught at the University of California San Diego for over 25 years. He also runs his own software/ consulting company called McCarter Consulting. You can find upcoming speaking engagements by at http://bit.ly/dotnetdaverocks.

He is one of the founders and directors of the San Diego .NET Developers Group for its 20-year run. In 2008 David won the INETA Community Excellence Award for his involvement in the .NET community. David is also an inventor of a software printing system that was approved by the US Patient Office in May 2008.

If that's not enough, David is also an award-winning photographer and works for bands such as Queensryche, Buckcherry, Geoff Tate, Eric Johnson, Lit, Gary Hoey, P.O.D., Steel Panther and too many other bands in the United States to list. David is also a guitarist and has had the honor to play with Carl Franklin (.NET Rocks) and the lead guitarist from Lynyrd Skynyrd. 

His Microsoft MVP profile is located at: http://bit.ly/davidmvp

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.

I inspired by software architecture for enterprise applications! I took part in many projects based on monolith, modular monolith and microservices approach.
Now I am consulting companies which wanted to unify architecture of their projects, reduce time for switching developer between the projects, simplify development and support of applications.


Derek has worked across the world in London, Melbourne, Singapore and now from home in Glasgow, Scotland, for Octopus Deploy as a CI/CD Architect in the Customer Success team. Derek works with and helps Octopus Deploy’s biggest clients with their CI/CD pipeline and helps enable their success with Octopus Deploy.

Developer Advocate focused on helping developers across Australia and New Zealand to build their applications on AWS. By engaging technical audiences like developer, community, and user groups to share the latest AWS cloud services in blog posts, social media, and public speaking. Special interest in cloud-native architecture and front-end / mobile development.

In prior roles worked primarily as a Software Developer with over 18 years’ experience designing, architecting and building complex solutions across a range of industries including health, telecommunications, insurance, finance and defence.

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.

Eldert can be described as a Program Manager at Microsoft for Azure Service Bus, a former Azure MVP, 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 work with these technologies in many innovative projects, as well as his drive to further dive into the latest developments in his spare time. In his current for he is responsible for shaping the future of Azure Service Bus. Eldert enjoys sharing his knowledge with the community, and believes this is the best way to each other obtain more and better opportunities.

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.

Herve Viho Aniglo was born in the capital and coastal city, Lome, Togo. Togo is a small country in West Africa located between Ghana and Benin and below Burkina-Faso. He and his family are part of the Togolese ethnic group, Ewe. At a young age, Herve and his family moved to the United States of America for better opportunities. They first arrived in New York then later moved to Memphis. His first name "Herve" (pronounced Her-vay) is French for "Army Warrior." The middle name Viho is Cheyenne for "Chief." These are the characteristics of a leader and they are the characteristic of an "army warrior" and a "chief." Herve serves and follows the directions and tasks of others (army warrior) but at the same time, he sets an example to his fellow peers by showing determination, keeping an upbeat, positive personality and motivation to keep things going (chief). Herve is a well-known networker and connector in Memphis. He is involved with the National Black MBA Association, Black Data Processing Associates, and National Society of Black Engineers. He is also currently pursuing his MBA at the University of Memphis.

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

Joel Lord (@joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by travelling at various conferences all across the globe.
He graduated from college in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he was always in the industry.
In his daily job, Joel is a developer advocate with MongoDB, where he connects with software engineers to help them make the web better by using best practices around JavaScript.
During his free time, he can be found stargazing on a campground somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.


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

Google Developer Expert in Flutter & Dart with 12 years of experience in Web Technologies, Android, and Flutter. I have worked for multinational firms in India, the Netherlands, and the USA. I am a Youtuber (whatsupcoders), Mentor @MentorCruise, and Open-Source Community Builder.

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.


For the last twenty years Kris has been helping companies build amazing things online, first in Australia and now in Europe as part of the AWS Developer Relations team. She also knits and sews, and no, she won't knit you a sweater.

Dr. Kotowick is the founder of a Canadian consulting and development firm focusing on prototype and POC development for complex systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Human Systems Integration from MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, which he completed in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He has served as a consultant, architect, and developer for global firms, startups, and universities; as the Director of Information Technology for an ambulance service; and as a researcher for military navigation systems and for life support systems in space. He specializes in working with enterprise clients to define requirements and explore possible solutions, as well as in leading the development of project architecture, cloud services, and back-end software. He volunteers as a team leader and technology specialist for World Health Organization Emergency Medical Teams deployed to disaster zones, and has a passion for exploring the uses of technology in high-risk environments.

Professional software developer for 20 years. I wrote and maintain the Retirement Income Simulator in my role as the lead software developer at Mercer Australia. I have worked for CSIRO, Telstra, Fosters, Sensis, Intrepid Travel, CBM, Defence, Crown Casino & HP. I love 한글 but I'm really bad at it. I've written articles for oWasp, volunteered at Rhok, been the guitarist in Toehider and played guitar, bass and drums many times at church. I've written mobile apps, built an arduino MIDI foot pedal, released a few albums, been on TV, ascended nethack and got a Grand Master rank in tetris. I don't care what you say, I'm definitely not a nerd.

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.

Liam Westley is Head of Engineering at FreemarketFX, a fintech startup specializing in foreign currency trading, with a cloud native platform in Azure. He quite likes working near London Bridge as there is some fantastic food and coffee to be had within a few minutes walk.

Previous to FreemarketFX, Liam worked at Huddle just down the road in Aldgate helping the mobile and desktop teams create apps to play nicely with microservices.  At Criteria MX, a digital media startup he worked as a consultant via his own company Tiger Computer Services Ltd, specialising in software for Broadcast Television. His Niagara SMS moderation system was used by QVC UK for eight years to display SMS messages from viewers, live, on screen. Liam is also responsible for the ticketing system for Hat Trick Productions which provides e-tickets to shows such as Have I Got News For You and Room 101.

Liam has worked for chellomedia, GMTV, BSkyB, SmashedAtom and Original Thinking Group. In his time he created the first in house weather system for Sky News using Visual Basic 1.0, acted as architect for two general election systems, project managed the launch of the GMTV web site, was key to delivering the first interactive television chat service in the UK for BSkyB and helped launch the first live shopping channels in the Netherlands.

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.

Martin is a freelance software developer and Microsoft Developer Technologies MVP. He specializes in architecting and building cross-platform mobile and cloud solutions on the Microsoft technology stack. Martin loves contributing to open-source, as it is a tremendous source of learning. You can also meet him on Stack Overflow, where he frequently helps other developers. To document his developer journey, Martin regularly writes posts on his blog at https://blog.mzikmund.com/. In spare time he likes to play squash, game on Xbox, read, and search for geocaches.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

Olena is a Senior Software Developer from Berlin in Germany. She has previously worked in a service company based in Ukraine and took a part in the creation of various products from small startups, B2B applications, to enterprise platforms.
Moreover, she is passionate about new technologies, clean code, and best practices.
In her free time, when she’s not spending it on hobbies, she likes to build demos around real-life use cases, share knowledge with others, and the opposite, learn about someone else's experience.

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/

Paul was an ASP.NET MVP for 13 years and currently works as a Principal consultant for Readify. Previously he was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Saasu (saasu.com), 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#, ASP.NET, Azure, Cloud, DevOps and Augmented/Virtual reality.
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 (www.sdnug.org) and TechEd, and is also a member of ASPInsiders (www.aspinsiders.com). He has also written some technical articles which can be seen on community sites such as ASPAlliance.com (www.aspalliance.com). Paul has authored a total of 3 books, Beginning AJAX in ASP.NET, Beginning Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX, and the latest book on .Net Performance Testing and Optimisation. He  is currently focusing on overall architecture, solution design, Microsoft Cloud solutions, DevSecOps practices and Augmented/Mixed reality.
On a more personal note, Paul is married with 3 children, 3 grandkids, holds a 5th degree black belt in Budo-Jitsu and also practices Wing Chun Kung fu.

Pete Gallagher is a Senior Solutions Architect at Octopus Deploy, owner of 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 and much more.

In his role at Octopus Deploy, Peter helps engage the public in the areas of DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Software Deployment , Agile Development 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 had 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 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.

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 as a coder, I've been playing with making computers do whatever my crazed imagination could devise 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,  and India, and am particularly interested in seeing just how far we can push the capabilities of C#.

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 has been a PHP developer for many long years and still loves working with PHP every day. His latest project, Laravel Security in Depth, teaches Laravel developers about security concepts. He’s worked on a number of security products (including Wordfence, the most popular WordPress security plugin), large SaaS applications, single-use disposable apps, and even spent a year cleaning infected WordPress sites for fun! Stephen is a Certified Ethical Hacker and loves teaching non-security people how to think like a hacker by showing just how easy it is to hack into insecure things, both digital and physical!

Suhas is an App Innovation Cloud Solution Architect based in Sydney, Australia. He has 17 years of experience of which he has spent 12 years with Microsoft. While Suhas started his career as a developer, in his current role at Architect, he works with large FSIs helping them build resilient and scalable applications using Azure PaaS services. 

Suhas has presented in many internal and external events including Azure Global bootcamp and local user groups. 


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.

Travis is an accomplished software developer, architect, and periodic speaker. A tech enthusiast and blogger, Travis finds his niche in architecting and working with teams to compose highly automated service-oriented systems both in the cloud and on-premise. Travis currently works as a Principal Software Engineer for SPS Commerce, the world's largest retail network.  He has a strong focus on continually learning new architectures and development patterns across different stacks and technologies, but has a special place in his heart for DevOps and making the software development lifecycle (SDLC) more efficient.

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 

Tyler Nielsen while working in the games industry for 7 years, developed his passion for users and has acted as their advocate throughout his design career.
Transitioning into UX enabled his connection to the full end to end story to foster a new relationship to users needs. He now takes this skillset into his role as Lead of XR for Telstra Purple where innovation and communication is key to building trust for all.

 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.


William is a Lead Platform Engineer at Azenix with a strong focus on Enterprise scale Azure, Automation, DevOps, and Containerization. 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!

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 SSW

Adrienne Braganza Tacke

Alex Dunn

Alex Mackey

Allen Azemia

Allison Ravenhall

Alon Fliess

Amit Sheen

Amy Kapernick

Anjuan Simmons

Arafat Tehsin

Ari Hunt

Bahman Nikkhahan

Ben Dechrai

Ben Cull

Chris Simon

Damian Brady

Dan Mallott