2023’s Speakers


Alex Finnarn

Engineer at CivicActions
Alex has always been a pragmatic contrarian experiencing his first case of JS fatigue debugging the ...

Amanda O'Mara

Ohio Regional Manager - Microsoft TEALS Philanthro...
Amanda O'Mara is the Ohio Regional Manager for the Microsoft TEALS Philanthropic Program, which plac...

Andrew May

Cloud Lead and Senior Solutions Architect at Leadi...
Andrew has been consulting as an architect for Leading EDJE for 15 years, and has specialized in Cl...

Bekah Hawrot Weigel

Virtual Coffee, Creator and Maintainer | Frontend ...
Bekah graduated from the Flatiron School Software Engineering program in May of 2019 and since then ...

Brendan Enrick

Mentoring, Training, and Coaching Developers
I've been speaking about coding for over a decade. Everything changes, but everything is the same. ...

Brian Gorman

Microsoft Azure MVP, Speaker, Author, Trainer, and...
Brian is a Microsoft Azure MVP and is an experienced speaker, author, trainer, and .Net developer wi...

Brian Riazzi

Insight Senior Software Developer
Brian is a software engineer out of Columbus OH. He has 10 years experience with a focus on JavaScri...

Brooke Sargent

Software Engineer @ honeycomb.io
Brooke is currently a software engineer working on observability at Honeycomb. Previously, she worke...

Burton Smith

Senior Software Engineer, Bunzl North America
I am a technical lead at Microsoft working with design systems and web components. I am also the ...

Chris DeMars

Developer Advocate at Split Software
Chris DeMars is a Developer Advocate at Split Software. He has over 20 years of technical experience...

Chris Gardner

Coder
Chris Gardner is a Senior Products and Platform Engineering Manager for Accenture, the Chairman of t...

Damian Synadinos

building better software, and building software be...
For more than 25 years, Damian Synadinos helped “build better software and build software better”. N...

Dave Klein

Senior Developer Advocate at Quix
Dave is a Senior Developer Advocate with Quix, where he helps Python developers take advantage of st...

Debbie Levitt

CXO of Delta CX
Debbie Levitt, MBA, is the CXO of Delta CX, and since the mid-1990s has been a CX and UX consultan...

Diana Pham

Developer Advocate at Vonage
Diana joined Vonage’s DevRel team shortly after completing her master's in computer science at North...

Eldert Grootenboer

Senior Program Manager @Microsoft | #Azure Service...
Eldert is always enthusiastic about embarking on new journeys with the Cloud, and Azure in particula...

Georgia Loper

Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems
Georgia Loper loves the web. She champions frontend excellence at Upstart by empowering teams to eng...

Glenn Harmon Jr.

VP Engineering Decision Desk HQ
I'm a Father, Husband, Cyclist, Software Engineer, and Champion of Tough Conversations.

Guy Royse

Developer Advocate at Redis
Guy works for Redis as a Developer Advocate. Combining his decades of experience in writing software...

Heath Murphy

Director, Consulting Services for CGI
Architect, Developer, PM and Pumpkin Ale expert but not necessarily in that order. Heath has been a ...

Homer Gaines, CPACC

Staff UI Engineer and Certified Accessibility Prof...
Front-end Dev by day, maker of music by night with over 27 years in the field, I'm a Staff UI Engine...

Jason Turan

Senior Software Engineer - Daugherty Business Solu...
Senior software engineer working in the field since 2009. I've been working with Daugherty Business ...

Joel Lord

Developer Advocate at MongoDB
Joel Lord (@joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes t...

Jonathan "J." Tower

Partner & Principal Consultant, Trailhead Technolo...
Jonathan, or J as he's known to friends, is a husband, a father, and the owner of Trailhead Technolo...

Jordan Thayer

AI Practice Lead for SEP
Jordan Thayer received their PhD in Artificial Intelligence in 2012 from the University of New Hamps...

Joseph Guadagno

Senior Director, Technology at Rocket Mortgage, .N...
Joe Guadagno is a Senior Director of Engineering at Rocket Mortgage, the nation’s largest mortgage l...

Josh Goldberg

Open Source Developer
Hi, I'm Josh! I'm a frontend developer with a passion for open source, static analysis, and the web....

Kat Fairbanks

Staff Engineer
Kat Fairbanks is a software engineer who loves to experiment and tinker with a wide range of technol...

Kathryn Grayson Nanz

UI Designer & Front-end Developer
In 2013, I graduated with a BFA and took my first job as a Junior Graphic Designer at a small, bouti...

Krista Campbell

Principal Software Engineer and Technical Coach at...
Hi! I’m Krista Campbell. Thank you for taking the time to learn a little bit about me! I’m a Soft...

Mark Noonan

Cypress
Mark is a senior engineer on the Component Testing team at Cypress.io. His background before Cypress...

Matt Eland

Instructor at Tech Elevator, Microsoft MVP in AI
After several decades as a software engineer and engineering manager, Matt now serves as a software ...

Matt "Kelly" Williams

Renaissance Person in Training
Matt Williams always wanted to be a Renaissance Person. Maybe one day he will be. In the meantime, h...

Michael Meadows

Cloud Architect, Meme Master, and King of Rants
Don’t talk to him about distributed databases, bad password policies, bad UX, bad frameworks, or the...

Michele Parsley-Lanning D.O.

CAS, Data Engineer, Content Engine
After completing both a Java Full Stack Web Development and Data Analytics Bootcamp through Tech Tal...

PJ Hagerty

Founder of DevRelate.io and Chief Community Office...
PJ is the founder of DevRelate.io and a board member of Open Sourcing Mental Illness (OSMIhelp.org)....

Rhia Dixon

Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack Dev - Tech Con...
Kansas City native, Rhia Dixon is a lead software engineer at VMLY&R, a global agency focused on cre...

Robert Herbig

AI Practice Lead at SEP
Robert Herbig is passionate about leading teams to deliver products users love. He is a Lead Soft...

Ryan Booz

Developer Advocate at Redgate
Ryan is an Advocate at Redgate focusing on PostgreSQL. Ryan has been working as a PostgreSQL advocat...

Samuel Shaw

Software Developer - CoverMyMeds
Sam has been in the technology space professionally for seven years after dabbling as a developer wh...

Scott McAllister

Developer Advocate at ngrok
Scott McAllister is a Developer Advocate for ngrok. He has been building web applications in several...

Seth Petry-Johnson

Pointy-haired boss by day, coder by night
Seth spent 21 years as a professional developer/architect before finally joining the dark side of ma...

Sierra OBryan

Android @ Clubhouse
Sierra is a Software Engineer at Clubhouse, based in Cincinnati, OH, USA, focused primarily on nativ...

Steve Smith

I Help Teams Deliver Better Software
Steve Smith (@ardalis) is an entrepreneur and software developer with a passion for building quality...

Taranjeet Kaur

Software Developer/Architect / Technology Manager
I am Technology Manager, Architect , Software developer and active member of Tech Community. In my c...

Tasha Penwell

Pretty Nerdy, Founder/Developer
Tasha Penwell is the founder and developer of Pretty Nerdy where she provides digital marketing serv...

Tim LeMaster

Pangea Money Transfer, Principal Engineer
Tim is a Principal Engineer at Pangea Money Transfer. He has 28 years of software development experi...

Todd Gardner

CEO and founder at TrackJS and Request Metrics | ...
Todd Gardner is a software entrepreneur and developer who has built multiple profitable products. He...

Vitaliy Matiyash

Senior Software Engineer, Builder, Problem Solver,...
Vitaliy Matiyash is Software Engineer from Columbus, Ohio, working on both front end and back end te...