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.

Amy is the Corporate Wellness Manager and Lead Yoga & Meditation Teacher at Happy Melon Studios in Armadale, Melbourne. She has more than 8 years experience working in the corporate space at News Limited and the Australian Football League as well as an in-depth knowledge and practice in yoga, mediation and mindfulness. She is dedicated and passionate about designing and delivering meaningful and sustainable corporate wellness solutions to help improve the overall wellbeing of workplaces. She is also one of Melbourne's much loved Yoga and Meditation Teachers with more than 7 years of experience teaching in studios, online, at events and hosting retreats. Amy teaches in a way that is accessible to all, anatomically intelligent and deeply anchored in the spiritual roots of practice. She will help you slow your nervous system, release physical tension and calm your mind in a way that is both fun and challenging without realising it

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.

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.

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

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 the 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), 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.

Peter Myers is a consultant, mentor, trainer, presenter and instructional designer, and has worked with Microsoft database and development products since 1997. Today he is the principal at Bitwise Solutions, a company providing IT services for the Microsoft Data Platform, with Business Intelligence as its speciality.

He has a broad business background supported by a bachelor’s degree in applied economics and accounting, and he has extensive experience backed by current MCSA and MCSE certifications. He has been awarded Microsoft MVP (Most Valued Professional) for the Data Platform since 2007.

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.

Scott is a web developer who has been blogging at https://hanselman.com for over a decade. He works in Open Source on ASP.NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, Oregon. Scott has three podcasts, https://hanselminutes.com for tech talk, http://thisdeveloperslife.com on developers' lives and loves, and http://ratchetandthegeek.com for pop culture and tech media. He's written a number of books and spoken in person to almost a half million developers worldwide.

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!

NDC { Melbourne }

Speakers

Alex Mackey

Amy Dunstan

David Wengier

Kris Howard

Lars Klint

Melissa Houghton

Michelle Mannering

Peter Myers

Phil Nash

Scott Hanselman

William Liebenberg