We have assembled a fantastic roster of individuals who represent a broad spectrum of companies focused on the challenges Node.js addresses. Keep checking back as new speakers are announced and added to the page.
These individuals will share their insights and experience with a focus on real-world challenges and real-world solutions that leverage Node.js. The use of Node.js today is much broader than people realize, and after hearing from the speakers at Node Summit you will begin to have a sense for how significant the impact of Node.js already is, as well as the impact it will have in the future.
Subbu is a coder at eBay currently building ql.io (see http://ql.io), a nodejs based platform. The goal of this platform is to make consuming APIs cheaper, faster, more performant and scalable. Prior to eBay, Subbu was at Yahoo! and BEA Systems. Due to his RESTful Web Services Cookbook, he is often mistaken as a REST Guru, but he is not.
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Chris is an international speaker, software inventor and entrepreneur based in Boston. He co-founded the open source server Red5, where he and his team of volunteers reverse engineered Flash’s RTMP protocol. He started the company Infrared5, a technology services company, in 2007 where he served as its President and CEO until 2011. He now serves as CEO of Brass Monkey, a company that turns smartphones into game controllers for a browser based video game console.
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Dion Almaer is a technologist who loves to code and build. He and his long time partner-in-crime Ben Galbraith recently brought their team to Walmart to power the mobile engineering efforts. He enjoys sharing his passion for software production across various communities, including the new FunctionSource.com. Dion has been writing Web applications since it took over from Gopher. He has been fortunate enough to speak, publish articles, a book, and blogs at almaer.com/blog.
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Sachin Anand is the founder of WebMobi, an innovative mobile startup focused on providing a cloud based App platform that enables rapid creation of mobile apps. Prior to WebMobi, Sachin has served various software development, product management and technology strategy roles at companies including Motorola, Sony and mobile startup. Sachin is passionate about HTML5 and web as a enabler for creating great mobile experiences for consumer and enterprise.
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Jonathon grew up in Wyoming, California and Colorado. He spent his 20s in Chicago, where he met his wife, Angeline Gragasin. They are currently living and raising an army in Los Angeles, city of many intersecting highways. Together, and with myriad collaborators, they do NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS dot org.
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Channel9.msdn.com, Bing Mobile maps and GPS, Linq, physics of racing, Biztalk, Microsoft Crypto and NT security, Time Warp Operating System, GPS for Geodynamics, PhD Astrophysics Princeton.
Eric oversees business development for Node.js and similar projects at Joyent, and is currently focused on Node for the enterprise. More specifically, Eric is gaining an insider’s perspective into the vast array of Node use cases and working with enterprises on production applications and field readiness. Before Joyent, Eric was responsible for establishing enterprise payments at PayPal and was Director of Product at Commerceflow amongst other entrepreneurial pursuits.
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Bryan Cantrill is VP, Engineering at Joyent. Previously a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Bryan has spent over a decade working on system software, from the guts of the kernel to client-code on the browser. Bryan led the team that designed and implemented DTrace and co-founded the Fishworks group at Sun. He was named one of the top 35 technologists under 35 by MIT’s Technology Review, and an Innovator of the Year by InfoWorld.
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Luc Castera is a software developer and entrepreneur. He is the lead developer of GroupDock. He organizes the Washington DC Area Erlang Meetup and co-organized the ErlangDC conference in 2011. Previously, Luc co-founded a venture-funded startup called ShareMeme / messagepub. Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Luc spends most of his time in Washington DC. However, in the winter months, he likes to escape to South America.
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As the CTO of Vungle, Bryant presides over the architecture and design of its core backend ad server technologies. Prior to joining Vungle, he was a founding engineer of Intuit Brainstorm and an independent Android developer. As a developer, Bryant recognized an opportunity for mobile apps to be discovered through rich media and videos. Bryant has also worked in various engineering and operational roles at Qualcomm India, Symantec, and Websense.
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Derek is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience, specializing in high performance distributed systems. With tenures at Google and TIBCO Software, he specializes in Distributed Systems Architecture, High Performance Messaging Systems, and Event-Driven Systems. His current focus is Cloud Foundry and the Open PaaS at VMware Inc.
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Ryan Dahl is an engineer at Joyent, where he is continues to lead the open source project he created, Node.js, the server-side JavaScript runtime environment. He has also authored other projects including libuv, http-parser, and the Ebb web server. Ryan is interested in building scalable server systems and believes there is still an order of magnitude of optimizations for concurrency and throughput to be given to web developers.
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Cofounder and CEO of Storify.com – Developed the first version of Storify using Node 0.2 back in May 2010. Passionate about media and technology and how we can change the world by enabling people to surface the voices on social media that matter.
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As CEO of Cloud9 IDE, Ruben focuses on sculpting a sustainable vision and fast forward strategy at a company that helps developers create collaborative web applications. Built on top of Node.js, the open-source IDE has changed the way developers build applications worldwide. From over a decade of professional work experience, Cloud9 IDE is at the forefront of development-as-a-service. Ruben lives between the most amazing and open cities in the world: San Francisco and Amsterdam.
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“Delk”, as folks call him, is the Director of Platform Architecture & Development within Sprint’s Product Development division. As a prolific inventor, strategist, and self-pronounced “app junkie”, he has been a key contributor at Sprint for over 13 years with experience operating in strategy, technical R&D and product capacities. Today his team is chartered with developing Sprint apps and services across multiple mobile operating systems including Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS, and others. He also leads the developer team that supports Sprint’s public facing Application Developer Program.
Originally trained as a network engineer, Paul has worked in the software industry for over fifteen years in a range of sales, business development and product management roles. This includes managing sales for Avid/Softimage in Europe and N.America before moving to Autodesk’s Games Technology Group where he worked in business development and product management on animation, data pipeline and AI technologies.
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Rafi is a software architect, developer and an entrepreneur with expertise in creating and delivering well designed business solutions for the enterprise market. He excels in creating technology solutions to solve intricate business problems that result in better organizational performance and impact. As an ex-Microsoft architect he delivered high value collaboration, workflows, integration and analytics solutions to Fortune 50 companies. He has an Engineering degree from Indian Institue of Technology and MBA from SMU, Dallas.
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Brendan Eich is CTO of Mozilla and widely recognized for his enduring contributions to the Internet revolution. In 1995, Eich invented JavaScript (ECMAScript), the Internet’s most widely used programming language. He also co-founded the mozilla.org project in 1998, serving as chief architect. Eich helped launch the award winning Firefox Web browser in November 2004. Today, as the CTO of Mozilla, Eich’s central focus is guiding the future technical work to keep Mozilla vital and competitive.
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Kelsey is a designer from the University of Notre Dame obsessed with considered product (both tangible & web). She is founding Markover, the most intuitive way to have a conversation about online media and hopes to bring about a new era of opensourced design through public conversation around design work. She previously worked at Coca-Cola in branding and Saks Fifth Avenue in men’s fashion design and loves Cuban coffee.
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Jeff Ferber is a founder of ProxV, Inc. Jeff enjoys building highly interactive web apps and experimenting in social commerce (and before ProxV, when no one was watching, working on lolcat apps). Other career highlights include co-founding a Y Combinator-backed company, product management for AppleWorks and .Mac (MobileMe/iCloud) at Apple, and robotics software engineering at Adept Technology. Jeff received both his masters and undergrad degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz leads the technical and strategic direction of Yahoo!’s Platform teams. He is focused on building a new technology stack that creates rich, interactive and personalized experiences optimized for connected devices. Previously, he worked on the technology powering Yahoo!’s Publishing Platform and Content Optimization and Relevance Engine (C.O.R.E.). Prior to Yahoo!, Bruno worked for Accenture’s Technology Labs where he co-founded Accenture’s Claim Solutions and led the creation of Meridea’s Mobile Application Framework with Nokia.
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Olivier is a computer engineer, entrepreneur and advisor to several technology companies. He is CEO and founder of Cloud Mobile Games, an independent gaming studio launching in early 2012. Cloud Mobile Games will be publishing iOS and Android titles powered by bitbot, an internally built mobile gaming engine that leverages NodeJS to provide enhanced analytics and multiplayer data support. When not working, Olivier enjoys cycling and learning new languages.
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Ben forms half of the “Ben and Dion” duo that founded Ajaxian.com, put in stints at Mozilla nd Palm, and is now running mobile engineering at Walmart.com after being acquired with their start-up team in early 2011. A code since age six and entrepreneur at 10 years old, Ben’s has written books, sold three companies, and held CEO, CIO, CTO, and Architect positions in the medical, publishing, media, consumer electronics, advertising, software and internet industries.
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Jonathan was the original architect of Adobe Flash, and led its development as it became a ubiquitous tool for multimedia, video and rich interactivity on the Internet. He also led the development of Flash Communications Server, which provides a server side JavaScript programming model for real time multiuser Flash applications. He was subsequently a co-founder of Greenbox Technology, exploring the use of networked devices to help consumers minimize their energy usage.
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Stephen is President of RedfishGroup, an R&D consultancy based in Santa Fe. His work centers on visualization, modeling, and the design of self-organizing systems. He lectures on agent-based modeling and artificial life as a faculty member of Santa Fe Institute’s Complex Systems Summer School. Stephen is founder of the Santa Fe Complex, a non-profit research lab and inventor of the Simtable, an interactive sandtable.
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Travis Glines is the CEO and co-founder of Shopaboo, a Burbank, California based startup bringing the real world social shopping experience online. As a jack of all trades developer Travis has joined and founded multiple startups based on the latest web technologies. Previously, he studied physics at UNH, before leaving to found Shopaboo.
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Ilya Grigorik is a developer, an open-source and Ruby evangelist, a data-geek, and a proverbial early adopter of all things digital. Now living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ilya is working on Social Analytics @ Google. Prior to joining the Google Analytics team, Ilya was founder and CTO of PostRank, a social web analytics company which was acquired by Google in June 2011.
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Krishna Guda, CEO and founder of the company comes with a history of building start-ups. Earlier he worked with IBM as a technology architect in the Rational Labs. Krishna has worked with several customers in the last 10 years and his commitment in the adoption of practices and technologies both in house and with customers enables syntacticE deliver results and acquire new opportunities. He has earned Mathematics and Electrical Engineering degrees at BITS, Pilani India.
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Eric coordinates product development for MapBox, the platform that let anyone make fast and beautiful maps and share them anywhere. MapBox’s open source design studio, TileMill, is powered by Node.js. Eric is passionate about open data and building open source data visualization tools that focus on speed and hot design. He’s also the co-founder of Development Seed, a creative data visualization team based in Washington, DC.
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Scott Guthrie is a corporate vice president in Microsoft’s Server and Tools division. A founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the Microsoft developer space since 1998. Today, Guthrie manages the development teams that build the developer platform for Windows Azure, Windows AppFabric Server, BizTalk Server, IIS, ASP.NET, WCF, WF and the Web, and Web Service and Workflow features of Visual Studio.
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Brett Hellman is the CEO of HALL.com. Brett joined his first startup at age 14, graduated from Purdue University in 2005, and spent time at Yahoo! and WPP before he joined Intuit. At Intuit, Brett led new product development, winning Intuit’s top innovation award. Brett left Intuit in 2010 to create HALL.com, a single platform built on top of Facebook where people within and between companies can easily work in one place and in real-time.
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Dr. Herrod helps drive the company’s technology strategy and works with the engineering teams towards continued delivery of innovative products. Steve provides leadership around technology collaborations between VMware engineering and our partners and customers. He plays an integral role in VMware’s acquisition strategy as well as in strategic partnerships. Steve holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Sean cofounded i.TV, where as CTO he is responsible for the architecture and engineering of i.TV’s second screen platform. Prior to i.TV, Sean was VP of Engineering at AmberAlert.com. He hold a BS in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University.
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Jeff is a General Partner at El Dorado Ventures where he focuses on investing in early-stage technology companies in the IT infrastructure and software markets. He is currently and investor in Ampulse, Enstratus, Lockpath and TST Media. Jeff’s prior investments include Algety Telecom, Broadsoft, Compellent, ITKO, NuSpeed, and Sistina.
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Jason is the founder and CTO at Joyent, where he is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of Joyent’s cloud computing technology. His specialties include bioinformatics, grid computing, cloud computing, distributed systems, collaborative applications and deploying and scaling web applications. Jason earned a BS and MS in Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA, and a PhD in Molecular Pathology at The Burnham Institute and UCSD School of Medicine.
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Jeff is the co-founder of Observe.It, the Node.js Knockout winner that tracks Web visitors in real-time. He is passionate about squeezing the most information out of enormous amounts of data. He has published academic papers on information retrieval and data mining and is finishing a Ph.D. at the University of Washington. In a previous life, Jeff co-founded a Techstars-backed company and is the record-holder for software and research internships at companies like Microsoft and Google.
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In 2010 Jonas moved from Germany to the US to do research at Berkeley. He soon dropped out of his technology management program and joined the startup campfirelabs as first engineer. In late 2011 Groupon acquired campfirelabs and Jonas briefly enjoyed the merits of big company life before joining the Ark founding team. Jonas worked as a management consultant in Munich and studied Math and CS. In his free time he helps organize the StartupBus.
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Tom Hughes-Croucher is the Principal at Jetpacks for Dinosaurs, a consultancy specializing in high-performance web sites. Tom has had a long career in Web technology including writing W3C web standards, and working with the likes of Yahoo!, NASA, Walmart, Tesco to name a few. Tom spent a year at Joyent with the Node.js team and co-authored the book “Up and Running with Node.js” published by O’Reilly.
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John Hurliman is co-founder and CTO of Cull TV. A veteran of peer-to-peer, large scale networking, massively multi-person simulations, machine learning, and consumer web technology, his work has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Forbes. His research has been presented at the Internet Engineering Task Force, at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture, and as the keynote of Supercomputing 2009.
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Geek. Open-source enthusiast. Shaping the future of node.js platforms @nodejitsu. Founder @expensecat & @thenodefirm. Likes dinosaurs, and funny hats.
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Baz has over 24 years of IT, business development, software engineering and professional services experience in North America, Europe and Asia. He joined Avocent, a $1.2 billion Emerson acquisition in March 2010, transitioning from his role as Chief Architect, Emerson IT. During his five years as Chief Architect for Emerson IT, he lead the architecture and design of Emerson’s Private Cloud Global Data Center, Integration Center of Excellence, using Oracle’s Fusion middleware technologies, Oracle eBusiness.
Nathan began his journey as an entrepreneur at the age of 15 in Alabama when he began making money from playing games and has been creating companies ever since. He is passionate in his belief that most parts of life should be more fun like games and that Gamify will be the one to make that happen. During his early 20′s he traveled Asia and studied Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan.
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As EMC’s Chief Strategy Officer for IIP, Mark Lewis is responsible for maintaining a focused and differentiated strategy across all EMC product lines and businesses. Mark is also President of EMC Ventures, which was formed to accelerate EMC’s innovation capabilities though focused, thematic investing in disruptive technologies. Mark holds eight U.S. patents in storage technology.
Hunter is a JavaScript junkie and director of engineering for startups at Skookum Digital Works in beautiful Charlotte, North Carolina. He co-organizes the Charlotte JavaScript meetup group and founded the 291-member Skookum TechTalks. He has lived, worked, and studied software development in Charlotte, Germany, and Australia. His team has launched two production node.js deployments: Clickdummy and GTG Golf, with more in development. Prior to Skookum, Hunter worked as a Senior UX Architect at Ally Bank.
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As Founder of Colingo, Lowenstein leverages dual backgrounds in neuroscience and software development to solve the problems of language-learners worldwide. Built on top of Node.js, Colingo is a revolutionary platform for online language-tutoring based around instant speaking sessions structured with SpeakAssist learning tools. SpeakAssist allows learners to extract meaningful data and analytics from their conversations, giving them the feedback they crave and providing a clear path towards fluency. Lowenstein lives and works in San Francisco.
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Glen Lougheed has been involved in the tech industry since he coded his first website for the television series he co-developed called “The Electric Playground”. This was one the first series to cross from the web to television. More recently Glen founded OMI which created a self-publishing solution that enabled game developers to deploy and monetize across the social web. After he sold out his stake in this organization he went on to co-found NodeFly Systems
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Specialized in High Transaction Processing and Mobile Application development on both the server and client sides. Architected the Visa payment system and made the technology strategy for the Mobile application at Sabre by utilizing web application (HTML5/Javascript/ CSS3) methods. Propagating the knowledge of NodeJS and how it can be leveraged in an Enterprise environment. Currently using NodeJS in prototyping highly-available and high-speed travel application services.
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As a principal engineer in Mozilla’s innovation group, Mark works on identity and compute platform projects. As the former CTO of Joyent, Mark helped incubate the Node.js project. Before joining the startup race in 2007, Mark spent 4 years as the Director of Grid Computing for Nobel Prize laureate Michael Smith’s Genome Sciences Center. Mark did time at telcos in the 90s, and holds a BSc in Comp Sci from the University of Guelph.
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Brian McKelvey is the founder and CEO of Worlize, Inc. Brian has over a decade developing and deploying cutting-edge technology within the entertainment industry. McKelvey has led, designed and deployed gaming and web technologies for a multitude of leading companies including Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, GSN and Live Nation. McKelvey is currently based in Los Angeles, Ca.
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John is the CTO of News Corporation. John is a successful creator/investor in early stage companies, with recent exits to Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Symantec and others. His latest startup project is SaferAging, a company creating innovative technology solutions to allow an aging loved one to live independently longer. This comes on the heels of the sale of another senior care business, OurParents.com, a site that helps over 6MM families a year find better senior care providers. John has also been CTO at Merrill Lynch, GE Capital and AOL.
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According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Meijer), Erik Meijer may refer to: Erik Meijer (politician) (born 1944), Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament Erik Meijer (computer scientist) (born 1963), Dutch computer scientist Erik Meijer (footballer) (born 1969), retired Dutch soccer player I am the computer scientist.
Cade Metz is the editor of Wired Enterprise (www.wired.com/wiredenterprise), a brand new Wired blog that looks at the how Google, Facebook, and the other giants of the web are changing the technology of big business. Previously, he was the US editor of worldwide technology news site The Register, and a senior writer and editor at PC Magazine.
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Tim is Director of Engineering at Twilio, where he manages the teams responsible for building Twilio’s simple, powerful telecommunications API. He is passionate about building great products, growing engineering teams that exceed expectations, and creating nimble, scalable engineering processes. Before Twilio, Tim spent 12 years at cloud-computing’s polar opposite: Pixar, where high-performance desktop-computing is king, and where Tim led teams that did everything from film production to internal tools development.
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Node.js and iOS developer apart of the awesome #VegasTech. I am working on a startup I Co-Founded, Rumgr. Rumgr is an app that helps you buy and sell used stuff with people nearby you. Prior to that, I worked at Zappos.com as a front end and mobile developer.
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Dr. Vish Nandlall is Head of Strategy, Marketing and CTO for Ericsson’s North American region. He is responsible for identifying Ericsson’s long-term vision, defining overall company strategy and driving business value creation for Ericsson’s customers in North America. He is distinguished member of technical staff for Nortel Carrier Networks. Nandlall has led architecture and standards direction for product portfolios ranging from GSM, CDMA, WiMAX, LTE, metro DWDM, carrier routing and switching and carrier VoIP portfolios.
Jolie O’Dell is a technology reporter for VentureBeat. Previously, she wrote for Mashable and ReadWriteWeb.
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FeedHenry is a spinout company from Telecommunications Systems and Software Group (TSSG) at the Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland. Dr. Mícheál Ó Foghlú was Executive Director of Research in the TSSG prior to spinning out with the company. He is Director of the Irish National IPv6 Centre, chair of the Irish National IPv6 Task Force, and on the Advisory Committee of the Word Wide Web Consortium. He loves DevOps, scripting, mobile and cloud.
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Stephen is a Principal Analyst and co-founder of RedMonk, the open source industry analyst firm. He focuses on infrastructure software such as programming languages, operating systems and databases, as well as covering horizontal industry trends such as open source and cloud computing. Regularly cited in publications such as the New York Times, BusinessWeek, the Boston Globe, and the Wall Street Journal, and a popular speaker and moderator on the conference circuit, Stephen’s advice and opinion is well respected throughout the industry.
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Todd Papaioannou is currently an EIR at Battery Ventures, where he is focused on opportunities in the Cloud, BigData and Digital Media markets. Todd has over 15 years of Internet and Enterprise software experience covering a variety of senior leadership roles at companies such as Yahoo!, Teradata and Greenplum. Todd likes to think he has been doing BigData since before it was even called BigData!
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Stephen S. Pawlowski is an Intel Senior Fellow, CTO for the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group, and GM for Datacenter and Connected Systems Pathfinding. He is responsible for ensuring architectural consistency across all Intel® Architecture and implementation of initiatives such as security and manageability across Intel® Core™ and Intel® Atom™ product lines. Pawlowski joined Intel in 1982. He led the design of the first Multibus I Single Board Computer based on the 386 processor.
Working on mobile products for over 10 years have given Kiran Prasad a unique perspective on the growth of mobile. He led ground breaking products like the PalmOS Treo 600, Windows Mobile Treo 700w and most recently application development for Palm WebOS. Working on LinkedIn’s Mobile products, Kiran uses a combination of web based and native client technologies with light server technologies like Node.js to build stunning and simple user experiences.
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Prior to joining Shasta Ventures, Jason was an early employee at Walmart.com where he served as vice president of strategy, business development and operations, and helped build the business into a leading commerce site on the Web. Before Walmart.com, Jason was an investment banker at Alex. Brown, advising start-ups on financings and mergers and acquisitions. Jason holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in finance from University of Maryland.
Paul Querna is an Architect at Rackspace, and former Chief Architect at Cloudkick. Paul has participated in many open source projects and is a committer to the Apache HTTP Server and Apache Libcloud, the open source library for developers to build portable cloud applications. Paul also previously served as VP of Infrastructure for the Apache Software Foundation.
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Gianugo Rabellino is the Senior Director for Open Source Communities at Microsoft. He is also a Vice President of the Apache XML Project Management Committee and Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Sourcesense. Gianugo has a deep understanding of open source technologies and platforms, and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the group of passionate and committed individuals who share his same enthusiasm for interoperability and openness between Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms.
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Matt is a founder and the CTO of Voxer, probably the largest and busiest deployment of node.js to date. He has a computer science degree which has come in handy in a career of mostly network engineering, operations, and analytics.
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Naval Ravikant is the CEO and co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com (where he is currently Chairman). He is an active Angel investor, and has invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Docverse and Jambool (both sold to Google), and Mixer Labs and Fluther (both sold to Twitter).
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Greg is a self-proclaimed ‘hacker-idealist’ among other oxymorons. Ask him what a ‘hacker-idealist’ does and he would tell you ‘whatever it takes’. At age 20 he founded his first company, Fusion Creations. In 2006 he began working on iPod software, pre-touch, at PodFitness.com. Afterwards he co-founded seekmobileinteractive.com, building games including Tapulous’ #1 top-grossing game Riddim Ribbon (Apple 2009 Fall Keynote). He and his team at FeZo are looking to revolutionize how mobile products are built.
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Sascha is shifting the bits and bytes behind the scenes of doctape, a file management service powered by node.js. Driven by his passion for large-scale networks and his deep knowledge covering “proven” to “bleeding-edge” technology, Sascha always strives to find the best solution to solve complicated tech challenges. While Sascha loves abstractions and simple APIs, he never hesitates to go deeper – from upper layers, down to the wire.
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Stephen is a recent graduate of the Web Design & Development degree from Full Sail University, a single dad from the Orlando area, and a Node.js enthusiast. He and a few classmates conceptualized and built Host Kit as a Node.js powered startup to help empower next-gen web professionals.
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Veteran of the enterprise software world, Charlie previously worked for Microsoft and consulted at several large financial institutions. After discovering Javascript and node.js, he left Wall Street to co-found Nodejitsu in 2010. He spends his free time making hot sauce, coding, contributing, and evangelizing open-source software in New York City. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from McGill University and is a Masters Candidate at Columbia University.
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Luis works with cloud computing, software, and enterprise companies. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2010, Luis was a Senior Product Manager at VMware where he helped build out various product and operations initiatives. Previously, he was involved with other Silicon Valley start-ups. Luis has BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Mikeal is CEO and Co-Founder at Pouch and Curator of NodeConf. A common name in the node.js community Mikeal held prior positions at Yammer, CouchBase and Mozilla.
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Chris is the original badass code monkey and passionate inventor of the Geeklist idea. He focuses his time on building out the product, coding like a madman and rallying geeks to join our initiative. Before Geeklist he was CTO @storify, CTO & VP at Deca.tv, built Break.com 1.0, and served at Disney Online, Go.com and Loopnet. Chris enjoys spending his weekends hanging out with his wife Denise, and their 2-year old son Diego…oh and coding some more.
As President of 10gen, Max is responsible for building and extending 10gen/MongoDB’s market leadership. Prior to joining 10gen, Max spent 7 years at MarkLogic, where he played a variety of executive roles including Chief Operating Officer. Before joining MarkLogic, Max spent 9 years at Oracle. Max enrolled to study Mathematics at UC Berkeley at age 14 but in classic Silicon Valley fashion left for the technology industry without a degree.
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Since 1997, Theo has built OmniTI as the go-to technical consulting organization for the world’s most highly-trafficked web sites. As CEO, he leads research and innovation activities that harness the experience and learnings across the organization into new market opportunities. To achieve relevancy, Theo still manages an executive/engineering balance that allows him to write code on a daily basis.
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Darshan is the founder and CEO of Flotype, a Berkeley, California company building enterprise-grade infrastructure. He is an open-source evangelist and contributor, having coauthored popular libraries such as NowJS. Previously, Darshan was at CardMunch (acquired by LinkedIn), and he studied computer science at UC Berkeley, before leaving to start Flotype.
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John is the Product Manager for Developer Experience at Twilio. Twilio provides simple HTTP APIs for sending and receiving phone calls and text messages from your web and mobile apps.
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I’m lucky enough to work at ngmoco:) in San Francisco where I use node.js daily to build games that make people happy. I’ve previously worked at Sony, Wired Digital, Dreamworks Animation, and as a freelancer. My education is in Computer Science and Communications.
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Sriram is passionate about the internets ability to disrupt shopping and is transforming the coupon into a dynamic personal and social vehicle. He previously pioneered contextual commerce in 2000 with pop2it, performed due diligence for a small venture fund, played EIR at the Internet Archive, did the Executive Program for Growing Companies at Stanford’s GSB and bootstrapped a Wall Street technology company based on his risk management work at Salomon Bros.
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Chris Stone brings over 29 years of public and private technology company operational and entrepreneurial experience from engineering to executive management. Prior to joining EPIC Ventures as a Managing Director, Chris was CEO of SiCortex, makers of the world’s most energy-efficient high performance Linux computers. Prior to SiCortex, he was CEO of StreamServe (acquired by Open Text), a European-based document management company ($70m revenue). Chris is a director of iovation Software, BrightTag, Adaptive Computing, Ingeo Systems, Dotgo, Cloudveil Mountain Works and an Observer on investments in Joyent, Inc. He serves on philanthropic boards. Chris has a B.S in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire and an AMP/M.B.A from Harvard Business School.
Andrew Sutherland is the 22-year-old founder of Quizlet, a widely-used vocabulary and language learning engine. Andrew started Quizlet for his French class in high school, continued working on it while a student at MIT, and dropped out in May to work on it full-time. He is passionate about education and helping improve it on a scale of millions of people.
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Oren Teich is Heroku’s Chief Operations Officer. For over 12 years he’s been focused on making developing and deploying applications a better experience. Prior to Heroku, Oren led product groups and programs at Sun Microsystems, MontaVista Software (aquired by Covalent) and Cobalt Networks (acquired by Sun).
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Steve Tuck leads a team dedicated to helping many top companies in media, entertainment, and gaming achieve scale through the use of Joyent’s public cloud offering. Prior to joining Joyent, Steve spent 9 years at Dell where he rapidly expanded the channel business, developed the Web 2.0 offering, and led Dell’s involvement in the Facebook’s developer program launch. Steve attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he earned Bachelor’s Degrees in Economics and Political Science.
As President and CEO of Arista Networks, Jayshree Ullal is responsible for building the company’s business. Prior to Arista, Jayshree’s career at Cisco spanned more than 15 years. She led the direction of the modular Nexus and Catalyst Data Center Switching and Application/Virtualization services, where she oversaw about $15 billion of direct and indirect revenue. Prior to Cisco, Jayshree was Vice President of Marketing at Crescendo Communications. She has more than 25 years of experience.
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James Urquhart is Vice President of Product Strategy for enStratus, the enterprise’s cloud management software company. Named one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing by both the MIT Technology Review and The Next Web–and a popular blogger on the CNET Blog Network and GigaOM–Mr. Urquhart is a seasoned field technologist with 20 years of experience in distributed systems development and deployment, focusing on service-oriented architectures, cloud computing, and virtualization.
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James is the Group Manager of Ecosystem Development for VMware Cloud Foundry where he is responsible for growing out the network of partners and services consuming and integrated into the project. Prior to joining VMware he worked for Sun Microsystems for eight years in Strategy, Corporate development and sales roles.
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Chris Williams is the creator of amazing geek events like JSConf, CapitolJS, DojoConf, and NodeConf. VP of Product Development at SaferAging, a major beer geek, and he is the guy behind the code that allows Node.JS to control robots. He runs the MinuteWith and JSConf Live podcast series. He is on a valiant effort to change the tech world for the better, socially and technologically. He holds a MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.
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Rich joined Accel in 2006, with interest in software, mobile/internet services, and energy technologies. Rich led Accel’s investment in Angry Birds (Rovio) and serves on the boards of Atlassian, SunRun, MoPub, Qwilt, Getjar Networks, and Parature. Rich previously led Accel’s investment and served on the board of Admob (acquired by Google), and 3LM (acquired by Motorola). Rich holds a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT and his MBA from the MIT Sloan School.
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Founder/COO of GTG GOLF, Mr. Zeck spearheaded the development and proprietary process of delivering mobile enterprise applications to various mobile and non-mobile devices used by GTG Golf. Prior to GTG, Mr. Zeck Founded Mobile Execution, providing early mobile HTML5/JavaScript applications to organizations. Mr. Zeck was also a 10+ year member of the CME Group as a Eurodollar trader and broker, as well as involved with the successful IPO launch of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions.
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