JAX London 2010

Rachel Davies

Rachel Davies is author of the first “Agile Coaching” book and an invited speaker to software conferences worldwide. Rachel started out working as a software developer and became fascinated with debugging software organizations.

Her mission is to create workplaces where developers enjoy delivering valuable software. She's been working in the field of Agile software development since 2000 and pioneered techniques that are now used by teams all around the globe. Rachel currently works at Unruly, the leading global platform for social video marketing and is the organiser of Extreme Programmers London meetup.

Jutta Eckstein

Jutta Eckstein is an independent coach, consultant and trainer from Braunschweig, Germany. Her know-how in agile processes is based on over ten years experience in developing object-oriented applications. She has helped many teams and organization

Kevlin Henney

Programming · Patterns · Practice · Process

Dierk Koenig

Dierk König works as a fellow for Canoo Engineering AG, Basel, Switzerland. He is a committer to Groovy and Grails, and a manager of the open-source Canoo WebTest project. He is the lead author of "Groovy in Action" book.

Guillaume LaForge

Guillaume is the Groovy Project Manager. Along with Graeme Rocher, he founded G2One, the company dedicated to sustaining and leading the development of both Groovy / Grails and providing professional services around those technologies.

Daniel Terhorst-North

Daniel Terhorst-North uses his deep technical and organisational knowledge to help CIOs, business and software teams to deliver quickly and successfully. He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques. With over thirty years of experience in IT, Daniel is a frequent speaker at technology and business conferences worldwide.

Stefan Tilkov

Stefan was a founder and Principal Consultant at INNOQ Germany, where he spent his time alternating between advising customers on new technologies and taking the blame from his co-workers for doing so. He was a frequent speaker at conferences and author of numerous articles. He supported Skills Matter many times throughout the years, notably as a member of our first Technical Advisory Board.

Stefan Tilkov

Stefan was a founder and Principal Consultant at INNOQ Germany, where he spent his time alternating between advising customers on new technologies and taking the blame from his co-workers for doing so. He was a frequent speaker at conferences and author of numerous articles. He supported Skills Matter many times throughout the years, notably as a member of our first Technical Advisory Board.