Katharina Probst

Katharina Probst is a Director of Engineering at Google, where she works on cloud infrastructure that powers much of Google Cloud Platform. If you’re a Google Cloud customer, you’ll likely rely on software her team has built. Before Google, she was a Director of Engineering at Netflix, where she was responsible for the Netflix API, which helps bring Netflix streaming to millions of people around the world. She also holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. Her technical focus is on scalable distributed systems and cloud computing, but her interests go beyond the technical to the human, where she is passionate about building effective and successful teams and organizations across the world.

You can find her on LinkedIn here.

Katrina Clokie

Katrina is the Chief Technology Officer at Fergus. As an accomplished and experienced IT leader, she is respected in her field and regularly invited to keynote at international conferences where the main themes of her presentations include leadership, knowledge sharing, and communicating change. In 2017 Katrina published her first book, A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps, which was well-received by an international audience and has reached over 6,000 readers. At the 2018 New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards, Katrina was a finalist for the Inspiring Individual of the Year Award.

Follow Katrina on Twitter here and LinkedIn here.

Peter Sbarski

Peter Sbarski is the author of “Serverless Architectures on AWS” and an AWS Serverless Hero. Previously a VP of Education & Research at A Cloud Guru and the organizer of Serverlessconf, the world’s first conference dedicated entirely to serverless architectures and technologies. His work at A Cloud Guru allowed him to work with, talk and write about serverless architectures, cloud computing, and AWS.

Peter is always happy to discuss cloud computing and can be found at conferences and meetups throughout the year. He helps to organize Serverless Meetups in Melbourne, Australia, and is always keen to share his experience working on interesting and innovative cloud projects.

Peter’s passions include serverless technologies, event-driven programming, back end architecture, and orchestration of systems. Peter holds a PhD in Computer Science from Monash University, Australia.

Follow Peter on Twitter @sbarski.

Erwin van der Koogh

Erwin is an old man who frequently yells at clouds, especially when he is trying to install Kubernetes on them. Unfortunately, after his startup was acquired by Cloudflare, he is now helping to build out a new cloud. Fortunately there is very little Kubernetes involved.

Follow Erwin on Twitter @evanderkoogh and LinkedIn at /evanderkoogh.

Matt Fellows

Matt Fellows is the co-founder and Principal Product Manager of Pactflow (now a SmartBear company) and a self-described polyglot who enjoys working at the intersection of technology, humans and ideas – ideally fully caffeinated – and has been doing so at startups through to enterprises since Y2K was a thing. He's passionate about giving back to the tech community, sharing learnings at local meetups and conferences, and is a core contributor to the popular Pact microservices testing framework and author of the Muxy chaos testing tool. When not absorbing the Internet via osmosis, he can be found teaching kids at Code Club, playing basketball or pumping iron like Arnie.Follow Matt on Twitter @matthewfellows and LinkedIn at /digitalmatt.

Follow Matt on Twitter @matthewfellows and LinkedIn at /digitalmatt.

Tim McNamara

Tim is a software developer and data scientist from New Zealand who also has an academic background in the humanities. He is an expert in natural language processing and data engineering.

He is the author of Rust in Action and makes use of the Rust programming language to build everything from data processing pipelines to generative art. Through his book and online video tutorials, Tim has helped tens of thousands of people learning to program with Rust.

Brendan Gregg

Brendan Gregg is an internationally renowned expert in computing performance and now works at Intel as a Fellow. Previously a leader of performance engineering at Netflix, where he did performance design, evaluation, analysis, and tuning. He authored Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools in the Addison-Wesley professional computing series, and received the USENIX LISA Outstanding Achievement award. Previously among the top performance experts at Sun Microsystems, he has delivered industry-leading performance for a variety of products. He has also created widely used performance tools, methodologies, and visualizations, including flame graphs, and pioneered eBPF as an observability technology. His work has saved the industry over US$1B, and has been the basis for multiple startups.

Follow Brendan on Twitter @brendangregg and LinkedIn at /brendangregg.

Pamela Rucinque

Pam Rucinque is a technologist that has focused most of her career on the development of web-based software. As a consultant she has worked with many teams of different shapes and sizes in a wide range of technologies and architectures.

Pam's main interest is in the intersection between people, systems and technology. When working on any organisation, her biggest effort goes into keeping business and tech teams aligned - it saves a lot of time and effort.

Besides work, she loves learning about the subtle and not so subtle differences across cultures, how traditions, behaviours and languages shape a society.

Follow Pam on Twitter @PamRucinque and LinkedIn /pamelarucinqueserna.

Andy Marks

Andy Marks is the Principal Consultant for ThoughtWorks Melbourne. Originally an itinerant teacher of programming at university, Andy has been writing code professionally since 1996 in Melbourne, Brisbane, San Francisco, Leeds and Singapore. Joining ThoughtWorks as a technical lead in 2002, Andy has deep experience in agile development and has, since 2013, become one of those dreary functional programming evangelists you dread speaking to at parties.

Andy is a frequent speaker at conferences in Australia as well as user groups in Melbourne, even though he does not understand monads… not even a little bit.

Donna Spencer

Donna Spencer is a product designer at MakerX. She has extensive experience in user experience, service design, workshop facilitation and information architecture. She has worked in government, education, with startups and much more.

She is a regular conference and meetup speaker, article author and has written 5 UX-related books. She was the founder of UX Australia and ran it for 9 years. She sews, weaves and knits, and is currently renovating an old house. Her cats are known around the world as they like to ‘contribute’ to all presentations and meetings.

Adam Dymitruk

Adam Dymitruk is the author of Event Modeling. The approach is revolutionizing how information systems are described. Adam is a core contributor to event sourcing and CQRS theory and practice since 2008. This included introducing PAXOS to scaling the transactional side of the approach.

Follow Adam on Linkedin here and Twitter here.

Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas has a wide spectrum of experience in the software industry as an executive, investor, board member, consultant, architect, and engineer. He is Chairman of Bedarra Corp, which provides consulting on technology and business strategy for emerging technology, products and services. Bedarra provides virtual CTOs, as well as directors, advisors and mentors to support new initiatives.

Dave served as Chief Scientist/CSO of Kx Systems, First Derivatives Plc. He co-founded Bedarra Research Labs, creators of the Ivy visual analytics workbench. Dave is the founder of YOW! Conferences and Workshops. He was Managing Director of Object Mentor - a company specializing in the training and deployment of Agile and Object-Oriented Software Development methodologies.

Dave has repeatedly demonstrated how to deliver quality software on time and on budget. He is best known as the founder and past CEO of Object Technology International Inc. (formerly OTI, now IBM OTI Labs) where he led the commercial introduction of object and component technology. The company is often cited as the ideal model of a software technology company and was a pioneer in Agile Product Development with a process called Just-In-Time Software. Throughout his career, he has worked with major global corporations as well as startups on business and technical strategy, development organization and process, as well as competitive analysis and strategy.

Dave has a unique ability to translate research breakthroughs into competitive products. He has been a pioneer in the development of embedded systems, object-oriented technology and functional programming. He was the principal visionary and architect for IBM VisualAge Smalltalk and Java tools and virtual machines including the popular open-source, multi-language Eclipse.org IDE. OTI pioneered the use of virtual machines in embedded systems with Tektronix shipping the first commercial products in 1988. He was instrumental in establishing IBM’s Pervasive Computing efforts.

He is a popular, humorous, albeit opinionated keynote speaker with a unique breadth of business experience and technical depth. He is widely published in software engineering literature. Dave remains active in various roles within the technical community including YOW, ECOOP, AOSD, JAOO, Agile Development Conference, OOPSLA Onward, ENASE and Dynamic Language Symposium. He is an adjunct research professor at Carleton University and the Queensland University of Technology as well as a founding director of the Agile Alliance, an ACM Distinguished Engineer, past President of AITO and IEEE Software Advisory board.

Gregor Hohpe

As Director of Enterprise Strategy at AWS, Gregor helps technology leaders transform both their organization and their technology platform. You’ll find him riding the Architect Elevator from the engine room to the penthouse, perhaps automating serverless solutions in the morning and preparing board presentations in the afternoon. His favorite pastime is dissecting buzzwords and replacing them with meaningful decisions and architectural trade-offs.