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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Developer operating in the Software space. If you think a Developer is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Ivan Burazin
Chief Developer Experience Officer of Infobip
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About Codeanywhere, Infobip: Infobip specializes in omnichannel engagement powering a range of messaging channels, tools, and solutions for advanced customer engagement.
Lee Brimelow
iOS Interactive Developer of Adobe
Lee Brimelow is an iOS developer at [Adobe](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/adobe-systems). He designs and develops apps for Mac and iOS. Brimelow also publishes video tutorials at swiftvideotutorials.com.
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About Adobe, Adobe, Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Kerri Shotts
Developer Advocate of Adobe
Kerri Shotts is a Developer Advocate at Adobe. She is passionate about extending creative tools in new and innovative ways, as well as advocating for a fantastic developer experience. When not coding or writing documentation, she loves photography, reading, and sketching.
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About Adobe, Adobe, photoKandy Studios: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Carmen Sutter
Group Product Manager, Developer Ecosystem of Adobe
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Ash Ryan Arnwine
Group Manager, Developer Experience & Evangelism of Adobe
Developer Experience & Evangelism team lead for Adobe Creative Cloud Developer Platform.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Ash Ryan Arnwine
Group Manager, Developer Experience & Evangelism of Adobe
Developer Experience & Evangelism team lead for Adobe Creative Cloud Developer Platform.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Bill Sutherland
Software Quality Engineer / Business Systems Analyst / Web Developer of Adobe
I make sure the tech behind Picmonic supports the goals of the Product and Marketing teams, as well as the thousands of Picmonic Members who use our products every day to expand their knowledge and excel at their profession.
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About Adobe, Kirstie Alley’s Organic Liaison: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
John Barnette
Developer of GitHub
John Barnette is the Developer at GitHub.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Brian Douglas
Staff Developer Advocate of GitHub
Brian Douglas is the Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub.
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About GitHub, GitHub, GitHub, Heavybit: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Keenan Payne
Front-End Developer of Asana
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About Asana: Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity.
Keenan Payne
Front-End Developer of Asana
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About Asana: Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity.
Amanda Silver
CVP of Product for Developer Tools of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Lena Hall
Senior Cloud Developer Advocate of Microsoft
Lena Hall is a senior software engineer and developer advocate at Microsoft working on Azure, where she focuses on large-scale distributed systems and modern architectures. Lena has more than 10 years of experience in software engineering with a focus on distributed cloud programming, real-time system design, highly scalable and performant systems, big data analysis, data science, functional programming, and machine learning. Previously, she was a senior software engineer at Microsoft Research. She’s an elected member of the F# Software Foundation’s board of trustees, co-organizes a conference called ML4ALL, and is often an invited member of program committees for conferences like Kafka Summit, Lambda World, and others. Lena holds a master’s degree in computer science.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Abel Wang
Principal Cloud Developer Advocate of Microsoft
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Harish Kashyap
AI Developer Advisory Board Member of Microsoft
Harish Kashyap has a Masters from Northeastern University, Boston in Electrical Engineering. He received the Graduate Student Award, a research scholarship as a part of which he worked at the BBN Technologies in the area of Bayesian Machine Learning algorithms as applied to Speech Recognition. He has more than 15 years of experience in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Signal Processing and Software development. He has several publications and patents filed in the areas of ML. He has led various Data Analytics projects across US and Europe that led to organizational savings of $8M+. He has built out the curriculum for Machine Learning training platform, refactored.ai which is now part of SUNY Buffalo’s graduate ML course. He is currently the founder of Mysuru Consulting Group (MCG.ai) and Diagram.AI where he works on ML algorithms.
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Bryan Hughes
Senior Cloud Developer Advocate of Microsoft
Bryan Hughes is a technical evangelist at Microsoft, a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, and chairperson of the Node.js Community Committee. Bryan is also the creator of Raspi IO, a Raspberry Pi plugin for the Johnny-Five JavaScript robotics library. Outside of tech, Bryan is an amateur photographer, occasional writer, a once upon a time pianist, and a wine aficionado.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Doris Chen
Developer Evangelist of Microsoft
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Shobana Krishnamoorthy
Senior Software Developer of Microsoft
Shobana Krishnamoorthy is a Senior Developer in the Office division at Microsoft Corporation, USA. She has over 12+ years’ experience in the technology industry with a background education in Computer Science. As a Developer at Microsoft, Shobana and team are responsible for automating deployments, SharePoint feature management, SharePoint site reliability and security of cloud network end to end starting from requirement to release. She holds five patents in Cloud management and patching including Cross-Environment Orchestration of Deployment Activities, Patching Auto-stop and Policy driven flight management. She is a passionate stakeholder of the Women’s mentoring circle at Microsoft. Prior to her experience at Microsoft, Shobana was a Lead Developer and managed a team of developers to build & deliver a next generation Electronic patient record system (EPR). She served as an ambassador to many different corporate clients and was invited to travel to Netherlands for deploying the EPR solution and train 40+ engineers. She was an open source hackathon mentor for project “Preventing child abductions”, served as reviewer and Anita bee mentor for “Software engineering” track, SOL speaker for “Career path as software engineer” @GHC 2017, Technical workshop speaker for “Build a plane while flying on it” @ GHC 2018. She has also presented various technical topics on Devops, CI/CD, Dark deployments in Microsoft internal conferences and external @Women impact in tech and SWE(society of women engineers). Apart from work, she is an active volunteer @ “Sophia’s way”, a non-profit organization for assisting women from homeless to Independence, Mentor @ “Tech bridge for girls” – teaching computer science for young girls in middle and high school. Through her work in diverse work environments around the world – for tiny and giant organizations, in exploratory and in execution-focused teams, as a software architect and having worked in safe deployments, she has the insights for this topic.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Cassie Breviu
Cloud Developer Advocate of Microsoft
Cassie is a Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft and .Net Software Engineer. She got into development when she started automating her job with excel macros and realized coding is life. Now she enjoys working in technologies with two letter abbreviations: AI/ML, MR/VR/XR/AR. But really, she loves all the things tech and enjoys building with many technologies. Outside of programming she loves yoga, music, ukulele, biking, puppies, and whatever flavor of the month hobby has caught her attention. Please send warm thoughts and vibes as she resides in the cold city of Minneapolis, MN.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Daniel Egan
Developer Evangelist & Sr. Software Engineer of Microsoft
Originally from Chicago Daniel moved to California in the early 90′s right when the Bulls were scorching the NBA. He worked in a few different industries before finding his niche in the technology sector. Before joining Microsoft, Daniel held a variety of positions in the information technology and engineering fields. At his company, Odyssey Consulting Group, he served as Chief Architect and CEO. OCG did custom application development for Mid-Range companies in Southern California. He was fortunate enough to be a Microsoft Regional Director, a Microsoft MVP – ASP/ASP.Net , a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and an Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, as well as a .Net Insider for the Southern California Region. He has always been active in the developer community and was the Co-Founder of the SoCalDotNet Developers Group. In addition, he also had the unique opportunity to serve as President of INETA, the international .Net association and enjoyed my time there immensely.
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About ERGO Capital, Microsoft, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Nina Zakharenko
Senior Cloud Developer Advocate of Microsoft
Nina Zakharenko is a senior cloud developer advocate at Microsoft, focusing on Python. Previously, she was a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience writing software for companies like Reddit, Meetup, and HBO. In her spare time, she enjoys snowboarding, hiking, and tinkering with wearable electronics from her home base in Portland, Oregon.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Zachary Deptawa
Cloud Developer Advocate of Microsoft
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Amanda Whaley
Partner Director of Product, Azure Programmability, Management, and Automation Developer Experience of Microsoft
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John Papa
Principal Developer Advocate of Microsoft
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Neil Peterson
Developer Relations / Patterns and Practices of Microsoft
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Burke Holland
Principal Developer Advocate of Microsoft
Burke Holland is a Nashville-based developer advocate on the Azure team at Microsoft, where he works on behalf of JavaScript developers everywhere. A frontend developer, Burke enjoys JavaScript a lot because it’s the only way he Node to Express himself. Get it? Never mind. Burke blogs only slightly better than he codes and definitely not as good as he talks about himself in the third person.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Shayne Boyer
Sr. Cloud Developer Advocate of Microsoft
Shayne Boyer is a Solutions Architect with over 15 years experience working with Microsoft based solutions. He is an ASP.NET MVP, INETA community speaker, and Telerik Developer Expert. Over the past 10 years he has lead development teams working on enterprise solutions with a focus on productivity, performance and sustainability. Shayne often publishes content on ASP.NET, TypeScript, Node.js. JavaScript and Web API development
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Tomomi Imura
Developer Relations, Cloud Advocacy of Microsoft
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Kyle Pflug
Principal PM Lead (Edge Developer Ecosystem & Tools) of Microsoft
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Matthew Soucoup
Senior Cloud Developer Advocate of Microsoft
Matthew Soucoup is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft spreading the love of integrating Azure with Xamarin. Matt is also a Pluralsight author, a Telerik Developer Expert and prior to joining Microsoft a founder of a successful consulting firm targeting .NET and web development. Matt loves sharing his passion and insight for mobile and cloud development by blogging, writing articles, and presenting at conferences such as Xamarin Evolve, CodeMash, That Conference, and Mobile Era. When not behind a computer screen, Matt gardens hot peppers, rides bikes, and loves Wisconsin micro-brews and cheese. Follow Matt on Twitter at @codemillmatt and his personal blog at codemilltech.com.
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Jared Parsons
Principal Developer on C# Language Team of Microsoft
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Erik St. Martin
Cloud Developer Advocate of Microsoft
Erik St. Martin spent the last decade building distributed systems for large enterprises such as cable providers, credit bureaus, and fraud detection companies, and now works for Microsoft as a Cloud Developer Advocate. He co-authored a book on the Go programming language, podcasts with GoTimeFM, and co-organizes GopherCon, the annual conference for the Go community.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Brandon Minnick
Senior Developer Advocate, .NET + Xamarin + Azure of Microsoft
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Jared Parsons
Principal Developer on C# Language Team of Microsoft
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Brandon Minnick
Senior Developer Advocate, .NET + Xamarin + Azure of Microsoft
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Scott Addie
Senior Content Developer of Microsoft
Scott Addie is an avid blogger, a Telerik Developer Network author, and a technical evangelist of the modern web. Scott has reached masses of developers through blog posts, articles, and speaking engagements at user groups, code camps, and conferences across the globe. With a strong emphasis on JavaScript and the Microsoft web technology stack, Scott holds numerous industry-recognized Microsoft development certifications and has been named a Microsoft MVP twice in the award category of Visual Studio and Development Technologies. His thought leadership in the .NET community has also earned him a seat in the Telerik Developer Experts program. As a firm believer in giving back to the community, Scott is a frequent open source contributor to high-profile GitHub projects in the Microsoft developer ecosystem. In his day job as a “blue badge”, Scott produces ASP.NET Core content for docs.microsoft.com.
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Jeremy Likness
Cloud Developer Advocate of Microsoft
Jeremy Likness is an experienced entrepreneur who has worked with companies to catalyze growth and leverage leading edge development technology to streamline business processes and support innovation for two decades. He speaks, blogs, contributes to open source and travels the world in his role as a cloud developer advocate at Microsoft. Jeremy is a prolific author with four published books and hundreds of articles focused on helping developers be their best. Jeremy has years of experience speaking at conferences and meetups around the world and covers topics related to cloud development and Azure. Jeremy lives near Atlanta with his wife of 20 years. His hobbies including hiking, climbing mountains, shooting 9-ball, and regularly jogging while maintaining a 100% plant-based diet.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Joshua Birk
Senior Director & Developer Evangelism of Salesforce
Joshua Birk is the Senior Director & Developer Evangelism at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Christophe Coenraets
VP, Developer Relations of Salesforce
Christophe Coenraets is a Developer Advocate for Salesforce.com where he focuses on mobile application development. Prior to joining Salesforce.com, Christophe was a Developer Advocate for Adobe where he worked with the PhoneGap and Cordova team to help Enterprise customers design, architect and implement their strategic mobile applications. Prior to Adobe and Macromedia, Christophe managed Java and J2EE Evangelism at Sybase and Powersoft, and held different software development and architecture positions.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Kris Chant
Director – Developer Relations of Salesforce
Kris Chant is Director of Developer Relations at Salesforce, where he helps developers build apps their customers love. He focuses on developer learning, engagement and enablement through the Salesforce Developers website, developer.salesforce.com.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Mary Scotton
Principal Developer Evangelist of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Kris Chant
Director – Developer Relations of Salesforce
Kris Chant is Director of Developer Relations at Salesforce, where he helps developers build apps their customers love. He focuses on developer learning, engagement and enablement through the Salesforce Developers website, developer.salesforce.com.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Seth Lippman
Senior Principal Cloud Automation Developer of Oracle
Seth is a productivity aficionado who loves his work in software development and process automation design (think The Elastic Stack and The Chef Infrastructure Suite). His career started in Hollywood visual effects, creating simulation based animation; then transitioned into developing software to manage cross-location data set replication, distributed data processing, and infrastructure orchestration. Seth also spent many years considering the finer points of database design and workflow methodologies. These days, he prefers to direct his algorithmic thinking towards custom Cloud automation by way of implementing Python APIs, writing Chef Cookbooks, and designing application provisioning pipelines.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Leslie Robertson
Vice President, User and Developer Experience, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure of Oracle
Leslie Robertson (VP, User and Developer Experience) leads all aspects of the Oracle CloudInfrastructure (OCI) user and developer experience, including the administrative front-end OCIConsole, programmatic interfaces (APIs, SDKs, CLI, Terraform, and Ansible), the UI platform intowhich all OCI services plug, the Search and Announcements services, and the content platform andproduct documentation for all OCI services. As an early member of the OCI team, Lesliebootstrapped both product documentation and content infrastructure as well as multiple initiatives todrive a cohesive engineering culture within the OCI organization, including writing our OCI corevalues, spinning up weekly onboarding and engineering bootcamps for new hires, and founding theWomen of OCI program geared at mentoring and driving professional growth for women in OCI.Leslie graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with University Honors, and holds a double BA inProfessional Writing and Creative Writing.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Daniel McGhan
Developer Advocate of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Daniel McGhan
Developer Advocate of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Richard Chen
Web Application Developer of B&H Photo
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About B&H Photo: B&H Photo offers its users with an online platform to get information and buy photo, video, pro audio, and digital imaging equipment.
Richard Chen
Web Application Developer of B&H Photo
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About B&H Photo: B&H Photo offers its users with an online platform to get information and buy photo, video, pro audio, and digital imaging equipment.
Taylor Krusen
Developer Evangelist of Dropbox
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About Dropbox: Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
Taylor Krusen
Developer Evangelist of Dropbox
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About Dropbox: Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
Daniel Feichtinger
Developer Advocate of Digital Asset
Founder of hyperledger.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Del Brown
iOS Software Developer of ParkHub
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About ParkHub: ParkHub is a technology company that provides software and hardware for the destination industry.
Brent Langston
Sr Developer Advocate of Amazon Web Services
Brent Langston is a senior developer advocate for the containers team at Amazon Web Services. He focuses on highlighting the developer community that has embraced Kubernetes and Amazon ECS and connecting new developers to open source projects that can help them succeed at using Kubernetes and ECS. Prior to working at Amazon, Nathan was a platform architect at a number of startups, including CloudPassage, Oscar Insurance Corp., Spotify, and Tumblr.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Damon Cortesi
Principal Developer Advocate of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Chris Munns
Principal Developer Advocate of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Jim Quanci
Senior Director, Autodesk Developer Network of Autodesk
With more than 25 years of engineering and design experience, Jim Quanci has spent the past 20 years developing relationships for Autodesk with leading technology partners around the world. He oversees an international network of over 4000 software partners – third-parties who customize, complement and extend Autodesk Cloud, Mobile and Desktop technologies. Along with founding the “Autodesk Developer Network”, and current worldwide responsibility for software partnerships at Autodesk, Jim has experience partnering worldwide including stints directly managing partners in the Americas and Asia. Prior to Autodesk, Jim worked at Sun Microsystems and General Electric. With a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in International Marketing, Jim is a frequent presenter and consultant to leading design and engineering software firms on software development technologies applied to design and engineering.
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About Autodesk: Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
Brian Ekins
Principal Developer Consultant of Autodesk
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About Autodesk, Ekins Solutions, LLC: Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
Adam Nagy
Developer Consulting Specialist of Autodesk
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About Autodesk: Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
Eric Farkas
Developer of Chargify
Software developer, specializing in Ruby on Rails.
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About Chargify, TalentSoup: Chargify is a subscription billing software service that offers a recurring billing and subscription management space.
Eric Farkas
Developer of Chargify
Software developer, specializing in Ruby on Rails.
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About Chargify, TalentSoup: Chargify is a subscription billing software service that offers a recurring billing and subscription management space.
Raghavan Srinivas
Architect & Developer Evangelist of Dell EMC
Raghavan Srinivas works as an Architect & Developer Evangelist for EMC CODE goaled with helping developers build highly scalable and available systems. As an OpenStack Advocate and Solutions Architect at Rackspace Raghavan was constantly challenged from low level infrastructure to high level application issues. Raghavan’s general focus area is in distributed systems, with a specialization in Cloud Computing and Big Data. Raghavan worked on Hadoop, HBase and NoSQL during its early stages. Raghavan has spoken on a variety of technical topics at conferences around the world, written for developer portals, conducted and organized Hands-on Labs and taught graduate and online classes in the evening. Rags brings with him about 20 years of software development including about 10 years of technology evangelism experience at Sun Microsystems. Rags worked for Digital Equipment Corporation before joining Sun. Rags has worked on several technology areas, including internals of VMS, Unix and NT. Rags has evangelized a number of technology areas including the early releases of Java, Java EE, Java and XML, Java ME, AJAX and Web 2.0 and so on. Raghavan holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Center of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Raghavan likes to hike, run and generally be outdoors but most of all loves to eat.
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About Dell EMC, InfoQ: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
James Wagoner
Lead Developer & Cofounder of CarNinja, Inc
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About CarNinja, Inc: CarNinja is a software company led by enthusiasts that are passionate about connecting all things automotive.
Christian Jensen
Director, Developer Experience of Sinch
Christian Jensen works as the Director of Developer Experience at Sinch.
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About Sinch: Sinch is a cloud communications company that connects businesses and customers through tools that enable personal engagement.
Yefim Plutov
Sr. Software Developer of RelPro Inc.
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About RelPro Inc.: RelPro offers businesses with leads, insights, and advisory services to establish and develop professional relationships.
Michael Stowe
Developer Relations Manager of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft, MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Theodore Dziuba
Co-Founder, Developer of Milo
Ted Dziuba co-founded at [Milo](/organization/milo), an online/local shopping company acquired by eBay in 2009. He worked on several “internal startups” at eBay before leaving to join Oak Labs as the Vice President of Engineering, to build a software team to tackle retail innovation. After Oak, he co-founded Event6, an online marketplace for event planning. Today, he lives in Placerville, California and is a candidate for California State Senate, District 1.
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About Milo: Milo, a product search space, enables shoppers to research products online and buy locally while tracking real-time availability and price.
John Hawley
Open Source Developer of VMware
John ‘Warthog9’ Hawley led the system administration team on kernel.org for nearly a decade, leading a team including four other administrators. His other exploits include working on Syslinux, OpenSSI, a caching Gitweb, and patches to bind to enable GeoDNS. He’s the author of PXE Knife, a set of interfaces around common utilities and diagnostics tools needed by an average systems administrator, as well as SyncDiff(erent) a state-full file synchronizer and file transfer mechanism. He currently works for Intel working on Open Hardware, and the Minnowboard. In his free time he enjoys cooking extravagant meals and watching bad movies.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Eric Knauft
Software Developer of VMware
Eric Knauft is a software developer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Fletcher Dunn
Software Developer of Valve Software
Fletcher has been making video games since 1996. He was the principal programmer at Terminal Reality in Dallas and the technical director at Disney Wideload Games in Chicago. He has been at Valve since 2011 and has contributed to Dota 2, Team Fortress 2, CS:GO, and Steam. During the last two years he has led the charge to develop Valve’s solution for denial-of-service protection of our most popular games, and downtime from DDoS is now nearly zero. Fletcher is also the author of 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Games Development.
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About Valve Software: Valve is an American entertainment software and tech company developing video games and other related technologies.
Aditi Bhandari
Data Visualisation Developer of Thomson Reuters
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About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.
Anna McDonald
Principal Software Developer of SAS
Anna McDonald is a Principal Software Developer for SAS Institute. She specializes in integration architecture and her love of all things technical is matched only by her love of math puns.
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About SAS: SAS provides advanced business analytics and business intelligent software and services to enable companies to optimize their operations.
Ben Tomlinson
Principal Software Developer of SAS
Ben Tomlinson is a Principal Software Developer in SAS Business Intelligence R&D working on both user interfaces and mid-tier services. Ben received a Master’s in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and has been a SAS employee for 14 years. Past projects have included SAS Management Console, SAS Drug Development and SAS Visual Statistics. Currently Ben is a lead developer on a project focused on integrating natural language understanding and natural language generation to provide easier access to data and analytics.
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About SAS: SAS provides advanced business analytics and business intelligent software and services to enable companies to optimize their operations.
Jason Roche
Senior Developer Advocate of Slack
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About Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Elizabeth Kinsey
Developer Marketing Manager of Slack
Elizabeth Kinsey serves as a developer marketing manager at Slack. Most recently, she was a marketing director, director of community, and senior manager at Branch. Elizabeth is also a former marketing programs manager at Hawk Ridge Systems.
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About Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Bear Douglas
Director, Developer Relations of Slack
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About Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Bear Douglas
Director, Developer Relations of Slack
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About Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
David Pon
Founder & Developer of RiskIQ
David has been developing service provider-scale web applications for more than 15 years. He is responsible for the development and delivery of new innovations at RiskIQ. Previously, David held key application development positions with some of the Internet’s leading employment, digital marketing and hosting platforms including Monster, iCrossing.com and Bigstep.
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About iCrossing, RiskIQ: RiskIQ is a security company that provides digital threat management solutions for software vendors.
Joshua O’Connor
Lead iOS Developer of ClickUp
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About ClickUp: ClickUp offers a customizable workplace productivity platform that serves all departments across an organization.
Kevin Wang
Software Developer of Crocodoc
He has a B.S. and M.Eng. in Computer Science from MIT.
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About Crocodoc: Crocodoc is used in converting Microsoft Office and PDF documents to HTML5, and enabling users to view and collaborate with any web app.
Michael Katz
Developer Alliance Manager, Radeon Technologies Group of AMD
Michael is a Developer Alliance Manager for the Radeon Technologies Group, and he works with software companies in the professional graphics market segment to enable, optimize, and promote AMD-based technologies. Michael earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, and has worked in a wide variety of software segments, including: GIS, media delivery, consumer/gaming graphics, consumer & professional media editing, game engines & middleware, and most recently CAD. Michael is based in Bethesda, Maryland, where he is known personally as an avid runner, cyclist, and tree hugger.
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About AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Dominik Baumeister
Developer Tech Engineer of AMD
Dominik Baumeister is a member of AMD RTG’s Game Engineering team in Europe, helping developers across the region make their games look great and run blazingly fast on AMD Radeon GPUs and Ryzen CPUs.
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About AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Rachel Pedreschi
Vice President Community and Developer Relations of Imply
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Tushar Mathew
NLP Software Developer of Capacity
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About Capacity: Capacity is an AI-powered helpdesk that automates support for customers and employees.
Michael Polzin
Software Developer of Josh.ai
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About Josh.ai: Josh.ai is an AI platform that provides smart home automation space services.
Paul Russo
Software Developer of Josh.ai
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About Josh.ai: Josh.ai is an AI platform that provides smart home automation space services.
Paul Russo
Software Developer of Josh.ai
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About Josh.ai: Josh.ai is an AI platform that provides smart home automation space services.
Carlos Sierra
Full-stack Developer .NET of Ciklum
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About Ciklum: Ciklum is an software development outsourcing company specializing in Client owned software development centers in Eastern Europe.
Patrick Byrne
Developer of Dribbble
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About Dribbble: Dribbble is a global community where the world’s top designers share, grow, and get hired.
Patrick Byrne
Developer of Dribbble
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About Dribbble: Dribbble is a global community where the world’s top designers share, grow, and get hired.
Zach Collier
Product Manager for APIs and Developer Experience of Ping Identity
Zach brings an appreciation for developers’ coding challenges to his role as Ping’s Product Manager for APIs and Developer Experience. He’s ready to help your company overcome technical hurdles, achieve business aspirations, and have fun doing it.
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About Ping Identity: Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations.
Zach Collier
Product Manager for APIs and Developer Experience of Ping Identity
Zach brings an appreciation for developers’ coding challenges to his role as Ping’s Product Manager for APIs and Developer Experience. He’s ready to help your company overcome technical hurdles, achieve business aspirations, and have fun doing it.
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About Ping Identity: Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations.
Rachel Appel
Developer Advocate of JetBrains
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About JetBrains: JetBrains is a software vendor specializing in the creation of productivity-enhancing tools for software developers and teams.
Wade Wendorf
Cofounder/Senior Developer of Engage
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About Engage: Engage provides a real-time sales management platform for communication and live chat.
Vanessa Towers
Principal Developer Consultant of Thoughtworks
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Karen Lee Rigg
Senior Consultant Software Developer of Thoughtworks
Karen has brought agile and microservices transformation and delivery to organisations across the public sector, FinTech and publishing industry. Karen is passionate about the intersection between tech, people and leadership and believes in building a successful team synergy you need a group of talented, diverse individuals who always try to raise their peers. Find out more information about Karen here and watch Karen’s ThoughtWorker story to find out what motivated her to become a developer.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Sarah LeBlanc
Consultant Developer of Thoughtworks
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About Carleton College, Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Grace Francisco
VP Developer Relations Strategy and Experience of Cisco
I’m a unicorn developer relations leader with 15+ years of experience across enterprise, smb, consumer, gaming and fintech. I’ve worked in the smallest startups to some of the biggest, global companies. Specialties: developer relations, web, cloud, open source.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Eric Thiel
Global Head of Developer Experience of Cisco
Eric is the Global Head of Developer Experience at Cisco, focused on building and supporting a community of over 650,000 passionate developers and engineers who innovate with Cisco platforms and solutions. His team advocates on behalf of developers to help improve APIs and ensure the best tools and resources, like documentation, learning materials, sample code, labs, and developer support, are available to them. Prior to joining the Cisco DevNet team, Eric spent many years supporting Cisco customers as a Systems Engineer and Customer Solutions Architect, as well as leading programmability strategy for the Enterprise West area. Eric holds two CCIEs in Security and Data Center, a DevNet Professional and is a member of the DevNet 500 and DevNet Class of 2020. He is an active member with the YMCA Adventure Guides, a program created to strengthen the father-child relationship through activities that allow fathers to spend quality one-on-one time with their children. When not out camping with his son, Eric enjoys cruising the streets and local trails on a mountain bike, or enjoying sushi with friends.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Rossen Stoyanchev
Spring Framework Developer & Senior Staff of Pivotal
Rossen is a committer on the Spring Framework team with a strong focus on web development including Spring MVC and WebSocket messaging. Previously Rossen consulted and trained Spring teams for several years. He has been involved with Java and web development in various industries and domains since the mid 90s.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Josh Long
Spring Developer Advocate of Pivotal
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Stephanie Kim
Senior Developer Solutions Engineer of Algorithmia
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About Algorithmia, Algorithmia: Algorithmia is a machine learning model deployment and management solution that automates the MLOps for an organization.
