GOTO Experts: Tech Leaders, Innovators, and Thought Leaders

Evan Czaplicki

Creator and developer of Elm

Barbara Oakley

Professor of Engineering at Oakland University

Daniel Terhorst-North

Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates

Garth Gilmour

Delivered over 1,000 masterclasses & author of 40+ training courses; Developer Advocate at JetBrains

Mike Amundsen

The ultimate API expert. #api

Charity Majors

CTO at honeycomb.io

Derek Kuc

Principal Software Engineer @ Apollo GraphQL

Matt Turner

DevOps Leader and Software Engineer at Tetrate

Dylan Beattie

Consultant, software developer, creator of the Rockstar programming language

Georges Saab

Senior Vice President of software development for the Java Platform Group at Oracle

Fabio Nudge Pereira

Author of the book Digital Nudge, Futurist, TEDx Speaker and Curator

Evgeny Mandrikov

Software Gardener, Language Team Technical Leader

Adam Tornhill

Founder and CTO at CodeScene Programmer, psychologist, Lisp hacker, speaker and author of several books including "Your Code as a Crime Scene"

Hillel Wayne

Chief Everything Office at Windy Coast Consulting

Ryan Carniato

Tim Berglund

VP DevRel StarTree

Richard Feldman

Functional programming language expert & author of “Elm in Action”

Dave Thomas

Author of The Pragmatic Programmer

Dean Wampler

Product Engineering Director for Accelerated Discovery, IBM Research.

Andrew Kelley

Creator of the Zig programming language

Matt Stratton

Host of the Arrested DevOps podcast and Director of Developer Relations at Aiven

Avdi Grimm

Head Gardener at Graceful.Dev and recipient of the Ruby Hero Award

Sam Aaron

Live Coding Musician and Creator of Sonic Pi

Marty Pitt

Founder at Orbital

Karl Krukow

Senior Director of Software Engineering at GitHub

Dave Thomas

Founder, Keynote Speaker, Software Industry Expert

Pamela Hill

Developer Advocate at JetBrains

Marit van Dijk

Developer Advocate, Open Source contributor

Lennart Augustsson

Principal Programmer at Epic Games

Francesco Cesarini

O'Reilly Author & Founder of Erlang Solutions

Magnus Madsen

Assistant Professor at Aarhus University

Alina Yurenko

Developer advocate for GraalVM at Oracle Labs

Charles Humble

Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

Robert Virding

Erlang co-inventor, and principal language expert at Erlang Solutions

Yehonathan Sharvit

Author of Data-Oriented programming

Bram Verburg

Head of Software Security at Bluecode

Mark Rendle

Creator of Visual ReCode with 7 Microsoft MVP awards and 30+ years of experience building software

Graeme Rocher

Architect at Oracle

Bert Jan Schrijver

JavaOne Rockstar & Champion, NLJUG leader & CTO at OpenValue

Sander Hoogendoorn

CTO at iBood.com

Sander Mak

Java Champion and author of O'Reilly's "Java 9 Modularity"

Erwin de Gier

Software architect at Trifork & coach

Vagif Abilov

Senior consultant at Miles with 30+ years of programming experience

Uri Goldshtein

Founder at The Guild, the largest open source group in the GraphQL ecosystem

Saša Jurić

The ultimate beacon in the Elixir space; author of one of the most important books, "Elixir in action" #elixir #erlang

Dave Farley

Author of the best-selling books “Continuous Delivery” and “Modern Software Engineering” and over 6 million views on his YouTube channel.

Martin Thompson

High-Performance Computing Specialist, Java Champion with 25+ years of experience

Lorna Jane Mitchell

Head of Developer Advocate at Aiven, writer for a number of outlets

Christian Heilmann

Author of several JS books. "Java is to JavaScript what car is to Carpet"

Venkat Subramaniam

Award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

Roy Osherove

Author of "The Art Of Unit Testing" and "Elastic Leadership: Growing Self-Organizing Teams"

Kevlin Henney

Independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer

Matt Brunt

Dungeon master, code tinkerer & cybersecurity pro

Murray Thom

World-leading quantum computing expert at D-Wave

Denise Yu

Senior software engineer at GitHub

Hadi Hariri

Kotlin Expert at JetBrains

Erik Doernenburg

Head of technology at Thoughtworks and contributor of several books

Russ Olsen

Author of "Getting Clojure" and "Eloquent Ruby"

Daniel H Steinberg

Daniel will bring his cutting-edge Swift knowledge straight from the source (WWDC in June). #swift

Anjana Vakil

Independent Developer Educator & Software Engineer

Eamonn Boyle

World-renowned masterclass teacher with 15+ years' experience as a developer, architect and team lead

Ulf Wiger

Erlang old-timer and opera singer (tenor)

Priyanka Vergadia

AI and ML strategist at Google

Nicolas Frankel

Developer Advocate at Hazelcast

Feynman Liang

Creator of BachBot

Jiaqi Liu

Leader in bridging the gap between data science and engineering

Ana-Maria Mihalceanu

Developer Advocate at Red Hat

Woody Zuill

Senior consultant, agile expert and coach

Talia Nassi

Senior Developer Advocate

Willem Meints

Microsoft MVP & Chief AI Architect at Aigency

Burr Sutter

Global director of developer experience at Red Hat & Java Champion

Paulien van Alst

Passionate Software Engineer at OpenValue Teaching Kotlin

Daniel Stenberg

Creator of Curl and Receiver of the Polhem Prize

Stefan Judis

Senior team manager on developer relations at Contentful

Dave Karow

Continuous Delivery Evangelist at Split

Bernd Rücker

Co-founder & chief technologist at Camunda

Maarten Breddels

Independent developer and consultant, co-founder of vaex.io

Jovan Veljanoski

Machine learning specialist at Cloud Technology Solutions and co-founder of vaex.io

Josh Long

Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal, Java Champion and author of 6 books

Naomi Ceder

Chair of Python Software Foundation

Ronnie Mitra

Co-Author of Continuous API Management

Thomas Anagrius

One of the very first and early adopters;rocking Elm since 2016; Principal Engineer at Humio

Kirk Pepperdine

Kirk knows more about the JVM than most of the engineers that actually build it do. Let him take you to the secrets and dark corners of the JVM. #java

Joy Heron

Senior Consultant at INNOQ

Channing Benson

Driving Experimentation Results & Culture

Nate Barbettini

Co-founder and CTO at Cobbler; OAuth and OpenID expert

Tod Golding

Architect at Amazon Web Services immersed in cloud-optimized application design and architecture

Bruce Lawson

Author of "Introducing HTML5" and editor of the W3C’s HTML5.3 specification

Ayesha Mazumdar

Senior UX Engineer, Optimizely

Stuart Langridge

Member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force, podcaster, developer and author

Niels Sthen Hansen

Business Unit CTO & Team Lead at Trifork

Oleg Šelajev

Developer Advocate at Oracle

Safia Abdalla

Software engineer at Microsoft, author and blogger

Devon Estes

Senior Elixir/Erlang Consultant

Michael Hunger

Director Neo4j Labs

Dan Callahan

WebAssembly Contributor at Mozilla

Jon Skeet

+34,000 answers on Stack Overflow

Jacob Ideskog

Identity Specialist and VP at Curity

Tjeerd In't Veen

Author of Swift in Depth

Nikolas Burk

Created the Popular Online Tutorial "How to GraphQL"

Darrel Miller

OpenAPI Technical Steering Committee member and spec contributor

Ellen Shapiro

Mobile Engineer at ApolloGraphQL

Jason Taylor

Solution Architect at SSW

José Paumard

Java Champion, JavaOne Rockstar, Architect, Coach & Trainer

Maurice Naftalin

Java Champion & Author

Julie Lerman

Software Coach, Pluralsight Author, .NET & DDD

Anu Srivastava

Developer Programs Engineer at Google

Franziska Hinkelmann

Working on Node.js for Google Cloud

Raul Hernandez Lopez

Sr Software Engineer (Android) @ Twitter

Steve Smith

Collaborative data and hit'n'run ops at Atlassian

Florian Gilcher

Founder of Ferrous Systems, Music Addict, Rubyist, Rust Trainer & Backend Programmer

Kief Morris

Author of O'Reilly's "Infrastructure as Code" & Cloud Practice Lead at ThoughtWorks

Corina Pip

Test & Automation Leading Expert & Creator of "The Little Tester" Comic

Mikael Vidstedt

Director of Software Engineering, Java Virtual Machine at Oracle

Huyen Tue Dao

Android Developer at Trello & Co-creator of Android Dialogs

Sean McQuillan

Android Developer Advocate at Google

Josh Humphries

Roman Elizarov

Kotlin Libraries Team Lead at JetBrains

Stephen Magill

World-recognized expert on program analysis

John Napier

Works with Developers on Software Fundamentals for DRW

Tilde Ann Thurium

Engineer working on Atom Editor. Destroyer of binaries.

Verónica Lopez

Former Physicist and Sr. Software Engineer at Red Hat

Ashley Williams

A specialist and core contributor to Rust, the most loved dev-driven language. #rust

Lars Grunske

Software Engineering Professor at Humboldt University of Berlin

Lin Clark

Code Cartoonist and Engineer at Mozilla

Matt Godbolt

Low-level Latency Geek

Aaron Bedra

Security expert and Senior Engineer at DRW

Michael Green

Machine Learning Expert and Artificial Intelligence Evangelist

Mark Seemann

Functional programming and object-oriented design with Haskell, F# and C#

Charlie Hunt

JVM Engineer at Oracle and lead author of “Java Performance”